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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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.
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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.
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30-04-2021
Stratolaunch flies world's largest airplane on 2nd test flight
Stratolaunch flies world's largest airplane on 2nd test flight
The Roc stayed aloft for 3 hours and 14 minutes today (April 29).
Stratolaunch's Roc carrier plane performed its second-ever test flight on April 29, 2021.
(Image credit: Stratolaunch)
The biggest airplane ever built now has two flights under its belt.
Stratolaunch's Roc carrier plane, which is being groomed to haul hypersonic vehicles aloft, conducted its second-ever test flight Thursday morning (April 29).
The giant aircraft, which features a wingspan of 385 feet (117 meters), took off from Mojave Air and Space Port in southeastern California at 10:28 a.m. EDT (1428 GMT; 7:28 local California time) on a data-gathering shakeout cruise that lasted three hours and 14 minutes.
Roc, which Stratolaunch will use to air-launch hypersonic vehicles, stayed aloft for more than three hours on the April 29 flight. (Image credit: Stratolaunch)
Roc reached a maximum altitude of 14,000 feet (4,267 m) and a top speed of 199 mph (320 kph) during Thursday's test flight, which Stratolaunch deemed a success.
"We're very pleased with how the Stratolaunch aircraft performed today, and we are equally excited about how much closer the aircraft is to launching its first hypersonic vehicle," Stratolaunch chief operating officer Zachary Krevor said during a postflight news conference today.
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen established Stratolaunch in 2011 with the idea that Roc would be used to launch satellites in midair. But Allen died in October 2018 without seeing that vision become reality, or even seeing the twin-fuselage Roc get off the ground. The plane didn't make its first — and, until today, only — test flight until April 2019.
The company was sold in October 2019 to its current owners, who recast Roc's role. The plane will now serve as a mobile launch platform for hypersonic vehicles, maneuverable craft that travel at least five times faster than the speed of sound.
Stratolaunch is developing its own family of hypersonic vehicles, including a reusable 28-foot-long (8.5 m) craft called Talon-A, which will be the first to fly with Roc. But that won't happen for a while yet; Roc needs to make a number of additional solo flights first, company representatives said today.
If all goes according to plan, the first drop tests with Roc and a Talon-A test article will occur early next year. An expendable version of Talon-A will reach hypersonic speeds later in 2022, and the first flight with the reusable Talon-A variant will follow in 2023, said Stratolaunch chief technology officer Daniel Millman.
The data gathered during Talon-A flights might be of interest to the U.S. military, which has been developing its own hypersonic vehicles for years now, though none are operational yet. (Hypersonic vehicles are good weapon-delivery systems, because their maneuverability makes them tougher to counteract than traditional ballistic missiles.)
"One of the areas that we're looking at is, how can we help the Department of Defense in mitigating risks for a lot of their expensive flight testing?" Millman said. "Our testbed has the ability to carry payloads. It has the ability to test materials. It has the ability to fly a variety of profiles that are of interest to folks across the spectrum both offensively and defensively in terms of hypersonics."
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity (lower right, photographed by the Perseverance rover) didn't get off the ground as planned on April 29, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity was supposed to get a real workout this morning (April 29), but things didn't go as planned.
The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper was scheduled to lift off from the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater today around 10:12 a.m. EDT (1412 GMT), kicking off its fourth flight on the Red Planet. That didn't happen.
"Aim high, and fly, fly again. The #MarsHelicopter's ambitious fourth flight didn't get off the ground, but the team is assessing the data and will aim to try again soon. We'll keep you posted," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which manages Ingenuity's technology-demonstrating mission, said via Twitter today.
Tests here on Earth suggested that fix would be effective about 85% of the time, Ingenuity team members said. It's possible that the same issue cropped up today, and the latest attempt just fell into the unlucky 15% slot. But we'll have to wait until Ingenuity's handlers have performed the requisite analyses to find out more.
Ingenuity landed with NASA's Perseverance rover on Feb. 18 inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero, which hosted a big lake and a river delta in the ancient past.
Ingenuity deployed from Perseverance's belly on April 3 and began prepping for its flight campaign, which is designed to show that aerial exploration is possible on Mars.
The helicopter has performed three flights to date, one apiece on April 19, April 22 and April 25. Those sorties have gotten increasingly ambitious, with the solar-powered chopper traveling 330 feet (100 meters) at a top speed of 4.5 mph (7.2 kph) during April 25's 80-second flight.
The fourth flight was designed to push those boundaries even more. Today's plan called for Ingenuity to cover about 872 feet (266 m) of ground and reach a top speed of 8 mph (13 kph) while staying aloft for 117 seconds, NASA officials said.
Ingenuity's flight window is coming to an end. The campaign is capped at five flights over a one-month stretch from the April 3 deployment date, because Perseverance needs to start focusing on its own mission, which involves hunting for signs of long-gone Mars life and collecting samples for future return to Earth.
(Perseverance has been documenting and supporting Ingenuity's work; for example, communications to and from the helicopter must go through the rover.)
It's unclear at this point if Ingenuity will be able to squeeze five flights in before its time is up, but the helicopter team members have said they will do their best to make that happen.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
Selene IV crewmembers focus on their research projects at their workstations in the HI-SEAS habitat.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Jack Bryan)
Dr. Michaela Musilova is the director of Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) program, which conducts analog missions to the moon and Mars for scientific research at a habitat on the volcano Mauna Loa. Currently, she is in command of the two-week Selene IV lunar mission and contributed this report to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Commander's report for the Selene IV moon mission at HI-SEAS
Lunar day 6 (March 18, 2021)
The alien dust machine — that is what the Selene IV crew has been blaming for the bad weather that we have been having during our analog lunar mission. Today is our sixth day on mission and we have barely been able to see anything outside our window due to the massive dust storm raging outside the habitat (aka a thick fog outside the HI-SEAS habitat on the volcano Mauna Loa in Hawaii).
The crew quickly became skeptical that such storms would occur naturally on the moon, so instead they blame aliens for this activity.
Selene IV crewmembers pretend to be "airlocked" by mission Commander Musilova for misbehaving. (Image credit: Courtesy of Monica Parks)
Personally, I'm rather happy that the "aliens" are accused of complicating the conditions of our mission instead of me. A number of previous crews used to joke that I'm turning on a hidden fog machine to challenge them and make them deal with being stuck indoors for long periods of time.
During our analog missions, crews can't leave the habitat during bad weather. This is both for their safety to not get lost and hurt in the "dust storms," but also because our simulated spacesuits would get damaged in such conditions. This year, the weather has definitely been keeping the crews on their toes during our missions! Or is it really aliens that are torturing us?
The Selene IV crew decided to take the offensive and requested that our volunteers from the Mission Support team on Earth ask the U.S. Space Force to destroy the aliens' dust machines. Funny enough, a local military base in Hawaii, which we have nicknamed "Space Force," has actually started testing their artillery near our HI-SEAS habitat. While they have not yet "destroyed the dust machines," we appreciate their efforts to help us — at least that is what my crewmembers tell themselves to find comfort from both the dust storms and the constant bombing noise that we hear coming from "Space Force."
The Selene IV crew celebrates St. Patrick's Day during their lunar analog mission at HI-SEAS with green and clover shaped pancakes. (Image credit: Courtesy of Lori Waters)
All jokes aside, the real comfort that we have experienced during our mission has been from one another. The crew has been keeping themselves busy with their research projects and fun group activities, such as celebrating St. Patrick's Day. The entire habitat transformed into a forest of clovers within a couple of hours and so did our food. Everything was either green or clover-shaped. Even though I teased my crewmembers for their enthusiasm to celebrate this occasion in style, I was very happy that it cheered them all up and that they worked so well together to make our time on mission even more special.
The great teamwork and "taking one for the team attitude" also manifested itself when it was time to do chores. At HI-SEAS, we have a urinal that everyone needs to use, regardless of gender. In this way, we protect the compost toilets from being "drowned" by too much liquid from the crew's urine. After a few months, the urinal filter needs to be replaced and that's definitely not the most pleasant job to do. Our Crew Engineer Jack Bryan kindly took on this unpleasant duty and I volunteered myself to empty the compost toilets halfway through the mission. It's a necessary chore and I don't mind doing it, as I know that most crewmembers struggle to deal with the views and smells that are involved with that duty.
Officers Lori Waters and Jack Bryan with freshly harvested salad from our LettuceGrow hydroponics greenhouse. (Image credit: Courtesy of Lori Waters)
These crew interactions have been a great source of inspiration for Science Communication Officer Monica Parks. She prepares the social media text and pictures, which Mission Support volunteers then post on the HI-SEAS social media pages. Monica has also been observing the crew for her research study. She has found that there are many similarities in the way each one of the crewmembers has reacted to rejection and obstacles in life. The spirit of perseverance is very strong with this group of analog astronauts. For the remainder of our time here, Monica will be having more in-depth conversations with the crew to confirm her various observations about our resilience and drive.
Growing different types of plants has been another source of distractions and positive energy for the crew. These include the Mission to Mars growing spinach using human hair experiment that the Selene III crew started, as well as our long-term hydroponic greenhouse Lettuce Grow experiment in the habitat. Crew Operations Officer Lori Waters has been taking care of these experiments together with Jack. Lori's personal project is also focused on food crop production methods to produce nutrient-dense clovers and microgreens. The clover seeds in the ExoLab experiment, which is paired with the Magnitude.io experiment aboard the ISS, have germinated. They have a first set of leaves showing strong development in this extreme environment at HI-SEAS.
Spinach growing using human hair as fertilizer, as part of the Mission to Mars competition in Slovakia organized by Dr. Michaela Musilova. (Image credit: Courtesy of Lori Waters)
In situ resource utilization (ISRU) Mission Specialist Cameron Crowell's research relies on gathering samples from the surrounding analog regolith during a moonwalk, which hasn't been possible yet due to the dust storms. In the meantime, he has been preparing his techniques for acquiring the geologic samples, since we may only get a very short window between dust storms to perform a moonwalk. Cameron has been documenting life in the habitat for outreach purposes as well, such as for the Space Frontier Foundation that he's on the board of directors for.
Our Crew Systems Engineer Bill O'Hara has completed much of his data gathering tasks in support of a habitat design and operations case study. This project on HI-SEAS is for the Sierra Nevada Corp., where he's a lead systems engineer. Bill has also completed preparations for evaluating lava tubes for habitability, pending the opportunity to execute moonwalks. Like Cameron, he has prepared all of his equipment to be as easy to use in the field as possible, despite the time constraints for moonwalks and the restrictions of our analog spacesuits.
Jack is yet another crewmember that has been limited by the dust storms that are raging outside. He thus focused on an initial catalog of the habitat's waste materials for combination with in situ harvested materials during moonwalks. Jack has been surprised by the results to date, which is why he is reevaluating his preliminary hybrid material composition estimates. The crew generates a considerable amount of paper waste, but significantly less plastic waste than he anticipated. For these reasons, he is looking into the possibility of adding some of the fibrous paper waste into the hybrid material to add toughness, which would be similar to how fiberglass works with resin.
Commander Musilova signing off to another night of keeping our fingers crossed that the alien dust machines will be destroyed. "Space Force" may have more luck tonight so that we'll be able to venture on our first moonwalk of the mission tomorrow. If not, I'm sure that the crew will come up with yet another fun way to keep ourselves from becoming lunatics on the moon.
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This week, a Long March 5B rocket is expected to take off from the Wenchang spaceport. If all goes well, the rocket will insert the 22-ton Tianhe module into low-earth orbit.
Tianhe, the first of three modules forming the core of China's third space station, is designed for three "taikonauts" at a time. The first batch is scheduled to arrive in orbit in June.
Between now and the end of next year, China plans to launch 11 rockets to complete construction of the CSS, as the Chinese space station is now called. China's station will be about one-sixth of the mass of the International Space Station (ISS), which has been circling the earth since 1998.
China also plans to put its Xuntian optical module, a Hubble-size telescope with 300 times the field of Hubble's view, into orbit only a few hundred kilometers from the CSS.
Moscow is also busy in space. This month, Russian television quoted Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov as saying Russia will pull out of the ISS in 2025. The aging station, the only one now in orbit, is unsafe, Moscow claims.
Moreover, Dmitry Rogozin, the chief of the Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, posted a video on Telegram last week, stating that "work is already underway on the first basic module for the new Russian orbital service station." The module will be launched in 2025.
The ISS has been one of the most visible cooperative ventures between Russia and the U.S. in recent years, so the withdrawal is seen as symbolic.
Symbolic or not, Moscow will now go on its own. With the fate of the ISS in doubt—it is in fact nearing the end of its useful life—there could be a "space station gap," as radio talk show host John Batchelor said this week. China's CSS has been built to last more than a decade.
A cold war in the cold domain of space is fast approaching. Chinese ambition and money and Russian technology are teaming up to take on the United States. The pair could be on the verge of dominating the high ground, especially if it can attract other nations to participate in planned joint ventures.
China, in particular, will undoubtedly try to entice international partners away from the American-led ISS. As Brandon Weichert, author of the recently released Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower, told Newsweek, if Beijing is successful there will be "massive tech transfers from those countries to China." This and other developments, he says, will "make Chinese space firms more competitive against American ones, which means that the vital infrastructure supporting human space operations could very well become Chinese rather than American."
Chinese Long March 5B launchSTR/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Because China's space program is run by the People's Liberation Army, Beijing's cooperation with Russia looks dangerous. For instance, Weichert, also publisher of the Weichert Report, notes that the Chinese space station will have a laser. Beijing has said the laser will be used for zapping stray meteors and space junk threatening the orbiting facility, but the weapon is "dual use" and can also be aimed at other countries' satellites.
Richard Fisher of the Virginia-based International Assessment and Strategy Center tells Newsweek that a planned module for the CSS could be used to store weapons and, perhaps, bomb the earth from orbit.
China may end up operating two space stations. Fisher, an expert on China's military, reports that a Chinese source at the 2014 International Astronautical Congress told him that Beijing is thinking of a larger "second-generation" station. He says the plans for a bigger one make sense when the Long March 9 space launch vehicle enters service next decade.
China has other programs that suggest an intent to dominate space. For instance, it plans a 12,992-satellite "mega-constellation" to compete with SpaceX's proposed Starlink constellation. If China succeeds and Elon Musk's company does not—SpaceX faces opposition from both regulators and rivals—Beijing will almost certainly end up dominating 5G and 6G communications on earth.
At the moment, U.S. law imposes severe restrictions on working with the Chinese space program, and many in the scientific community are chafing under those prohibitions—including the Biden administration's NASA. Tricia Larose of the University of Oslo askedScientific American recently, "When are we going to stop looking at our differences and start focusing on our similarities?"
China has made it clear it wants cooperation from scientists around the world. Beijing has even branded its space station with attractive names. The first module is named Tianhe, which translates as "Harmony of the Heavens." The two other main modules are Wentian ("Quest for the Heavens") and Mengtian ("Dreaming of the Heavens").
How nice.
China named its Mars rover Zhurong. The Xinhua News Agency explains Zhurong is the god of fire and tells us "Zhu" means "well wishes" and "rong" translates as "integration." China's official media outlet does not mention, however, that Zhurong is also a god of war—and the god of the South China Sea.
South China Sea? "The universe is an ocean, the moon is the Diaoyu Islands, Mars is Huangyan Island," said Ye Peijian, the head of China's lunar program, in July 2018. Huangyan is Beijing's name for Scarborough Shoal. Scarborough is in the South China Sea, and Beijing has already seized that reef from the Philippines.
"Zhurong," unfortunately, is a hint of what Beijing has in store for us in space.
Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China. Follow him on Twitter: @GordonGChang.
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own.
MUFON CASE : 114965 Vancouver, Washington ( April 28, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Fleet of 8-10 RED LIGHTS Long Description of Sighting Report
I was out doing my nightly walk in Wyeast Communty Park with my dogs when 8-10 RED lights came out and under the cloud layer in some sort of formationrs what caught my eye was they were all red lights, using my IPhone XMax I recorded what I was seeing but it barely showed the lights but by adjusting the filter they show up as wmy nightly walk with my dogshite lights coming out under the clouds in some sort of formation toword my stationary position from the North going South. They shortly disappeared back up into cloud layer an no longer visible.
Date Submitted : 2021-04-28 Date of Event : 2021-04-27 / 8:00PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 42721UAP8pm.mov
MUFON CASE : 114966 Wildwood, Missouri ( April 28, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : TWO NIGHTS - RING CAMERA CAUGHT OBJECT Long Description of Sighting Report
THIS THING CAME 2 NIGHTS SO FAR. IT HAS 6 LIGHTS AND WHAT LOOKS LIKE MATERIAL BETWEEN THE LIGHTS AND EXTENDING OUT TO THE SIDES. THE HOME IS NEAR AN AIRPORT AND DRONES ARE RESTRICTED HERE. THE LIGHTS DO TAKE TURNS BLINKING. BACKS UP BUT THE LIGHTS NEVER TURN.
Date Submitted : 2021-04-28 Date of Event : 2021-04-28 : 2021-04-25
Debris from crashed object caught by Perseverance Mars Rover
Debris from crashed object caught by Perseverance Mars Rover
On April 28, 2021, the Perseverance Mars Rover captured something what looks like distorted metallic-looking debris from a crashed object.
The object compared to the many rocks shows that it does not belong to the surrounding landscape.
The clearly visible distorted parts of the object, which may be debris from a crashed craft, indicates that it is artificially and that the Jezero crater on Mars has been visited by an intelligent race in the past.
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A SpaceX Rocket Nearly Collided with a UFO, NASA Says
A SpaceX Rocket Nearly Collided with a UFO, NASA Says
Can you imagine being advised that you’re about to collide with a UFO? A team of astronauts made up of Akikho Hoshide, Thomas Pesquet, Shane Kimbrough, and Megan McArthur was told that they’re about to collide with an unidentified flying object. According to reports from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a SpaceX rocket came close to colliding with an unknown object.
NASA decided to warn the crew because there would be insufficient time to execute an evasion maneuver, as the US space agency explained. As a precautionary measure, the team donned their pressurized suits.
Fortunately, the collision did not happen as the UFO was 45 kilometers from the spacecraft. The astronauts reached their destination at the International Space Station (ISS) safe and sound on April 24 to join the Crew-2 mission.
We Could Detect Alien Civilizations Through Their Interstellar Quantum Communication
We Could Detect Alien Civilizations Through Their Interstellar Quantum Communication
Since the mid-20th century, scientists have been looking for evidence of intelligent life beyond our Solar System. For much of that time, scientists who are engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have relied on radio astronomy surveys to search for signs of technological activity (aka. “technosignatures“). With 4,375 exoplanets confirmed (and counting!) even greater efforts are expected to happen in the near future.
In anticipation of these efforts, researchers have been considering other possible technosignatures that we should be on the lookout for. According to Michael Hippke, a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley SETI Research Center, the search should also be expanded to include quantum communication. In an age where quantum computing and related technologies are nearing fruition, it makes sense to look for signs of them elsewhere.
The search for technosignatures, and what constitutes the most promising ones, has been the subject of renewed interest in recent years. This is due in large part to the fact that thousands of exoplanets are available for follow-up studies using the next-generation telescopes that will be operational in the coming years. With these instruments searching for needles in the “cosmic haystack,” astrobiologists need to have a clear of what to look for.
In September of 2018, NASA hosted a Technosignatures Workshop, which was followed by the release of their Technosignature Report. By August of 2020, NASA and the Blue Marble Institute sponsored another meeting – Technoclimes 2020 – to discuss concepts for future searches that would look for technosignatures beyond the usual radio signals. As someone who has dedicated his professional life to SETI, Hippke has many insights to offer.
The Search Thus Far
As he noted in his study, modern SETI efforts began in 1959 when famed SETI pioneer Giuseppe Cocconi & physicist Philip Morrison (both of Cornell University at the time) published their seminal paper, “Searching for Interstellar Communications.” In this paper, Coccini and Morrison recommended searching for signs of intelligent life by looking for narrow-band signals in the radio spectrum.
But as Hippke notes, six decades and more than one hundred dedicated search programs later, surveys that have looked for these particular technosignatures have yielded nothing concrete. This is not to say that the scientists have been looking for the wrong signatures so far, but that it could be useful to consider casting a wider net. As Hippke explained in his paper:
“We are looking (and should keep looking) for narrow-band lighthouse blasts, even though we have found none yet. At the same time, it is possible to expand our search… It is sometimes argued in the hallways of astronomy departments that we ‘just have to tune into the right band’ and – voilà – will be connected to the galactic communication channel.”
Photo of the central region of the Milky Way
Credit: UCLA SETI Group/Yuri Beletsky, Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory
A Quantum Revolution
While virtually all attempts to create quantum processors are relatively recent (occurring since the turn of the century), the concept itself dates back to the early 1970s. It was at this time that Stephen Weisner, a of professor physics at Columbia University at the time, proposed that information could be securely coded by taking advantage of the principle of superposition.
This principle states the “spin” of an electron, a fundamental property that can be oriented “up” or “down,” is indeterminate – meaning that it can be either one or both simultaneously. So while an up or down spin is similar to the zeroes and ones of binary code, the superposition principle means that quantum computers can perform an exponentially greater number of calculations at any given time.
Beyond the ability to perform more functions, Hippke identifies four possible reasons why an ETI would opt for quantum communications. These include “gate-keeping,” quantum supremacy, information security, and information efficiency. “They are preferred over classical communications with regards to security and information efficiency, and they would have escaped detection in all previous searches,” he writes.”
The use of computers has evolved considerably over the past century, from isolated machines to the worldwide web, and possibly to an interplanetary network in the future. Looking to the future, Hippke argues that is not farfetched to believe that humanity may come to rely on an interstellar quantum network that enables distributed quantum computing and the transmission of qubits over long distances.
Based on the assumption that humanity is not an outlier, but representative of the norm (aka. the Copernican Principle) it is logical to assume that an advanced ETI would have created such a network already. Based on humanity’s research into quantum communications, Hippke four possible methods. The first is “polarization encoding,” which relies on the horizontal and vertical polarization of light to represent data.
The second method involves the “Fock state” of photons, where a signal is encoded by alternating between a discreet number of particles and vacuum (similar to binary code). The two remaining options involve either time-bin encoding – where early and late arrival is used – or coherent state of light encoding, where light is amplitude-squeezed or phase-squeezed to simulate a binary code.
Security and Supremacy
Of the many benefits that quantum communications would present for a technologically advanced species, Gate-Keeping is especially interesting because of the implications it could have for SETI. After all, the disparity between what we assume is the statistical likelihood of intelligent life in our Universe and the lack of evidence for it (aka. the Fermi Paradox) cries out for explanations. As Hippke puts it:
“ETI may deliberately choose to make communications invisible for less advanced civilizations. Perhaps most or all advanced civilization feel the need to keep the “monkeys” out of the galactic channel, and let members only participate above a certain technological minimum. Mastering quantum communications may reflect this limit.”
The idea of quantum communication was first argued by Mieczyslaw Subotowicz, a professor of astrophysics at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (Poland), in 1979. In a paper titled “Interstellar communication by neutrino beams,” Subotowicz argued that the difficulties this method presented would be a selling point to a sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial civilization (ETC).
By opting for a means of communication that has such a small cross-section, an ETC would only be able to communicate with similarly advanced species. However, Hippke noted, this also makes it virtually impossible to detect entangled pairs of neutrinos. For this reason, entangled photons would not only provide for gate-keeping, but they would also be detectable by those meant to receive them.
Similarly, quantum communication is also preferable because of the security it allows for, which is one of the main reasons the technology is being developed here on Earth. Quantum key distribution (QKD) enables two parties to produce a shared key that can be used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. In theory, this will lead to a new era where encrypted communications and databases are immune to conventional cyber attacks.
In addition, QKD has the unique advantage of letting the two parties detect a potential third party attempting to intercept their messages. Based on quantum mechanics, any attempt to measure a quantum system will collapse the wave function of any entangled particles. This will produce detectable anomalies in the system, which would immediately send up red flags. Said Hippke:
“We do not know whether ETI values secure interstellar communication, but it is certainly a beneficial tool for expansive civilizations which consist of actions, like humanity today. Therefore, it is plausible that future humans (or ETI) have a desire to implement a secure interstellar network.”
Another major advantage to quantum computing is its ability to solve problems exponentially faster than its digital counterparts – what is known as “quantum supremacy.” The classic example is Shor’s algorithm, a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for factoring integers that a conventional computer would take years to solve, but a quantum computer could crack in mere seconds.
In traditional computing, public-key encryption (such as the RSA-2048 encryption) employs mathematical functions that are very difficult and time-consuming to compute. Given that they can accommodate an exponentially greater number of functions, it is estimated that a quantum computer could crack the same encryption in about ten seconds.
Last, but not least, there’s the greater photon information efficiency (PIE) that quantum communications offer over classical channels – measured in bits per photon. According to Hippke, quantum communications will improve the bits per photon efficiency rating by up to one-third. In this regard, the desire for more efficient data transmissions will make the adoption of a quantum network something of an inevitability.
“Turned the other way around, classical channels are energetically wasteful, because they do not use all information encoding options per photon,” he writes. “A quantum advantage of order 1/3 does not seem like much, but why waste it? It is logical to assume that ETI prefers to transmit more information rather than less, per unit energy.”
Challenges
Of course, no SETI-related pitch would be complete without mentioning the possible challenges. For starters, there’s the matter of decoherence, where energy (and hence, information) is lost to the background environment. Where transmissions through interstellar space are concerned, the main issues are distance, free electrons (solar wind), interplanetary dust, and the interstellar medium – low-density clouds of dust and gas.
“As a baseline, the largest distance over which successful optical entanglement experiments have been performed on Earth is 144 km,” notes Hippke. Since the mass density of the Earth’s atmosphere is 1.2 kg m-3, this means that a signal passing through a column 144 km (~90 mi) in length was dealing with a column density of 1.728×105 kg m-2. In contrast, the column density between Earth and the nearest star (Proxima Centauri) is eight orders of magnitude lower (3×10-8 kg m-2).
Another issue is the delay imposed by a relativistic Universe, which means that messages to even the closest star systems would take years. As a result, quantum computation is something that will be performed locally for the most part, and only condensed qubits will be transmitted between communication nodes. With this in mind, there are a few indications humanity could be on the lookout for in the coming years.
What to Look For?
Depending on the method used to transmit quantum information, certain signatures would result that SETI researchers could identify. At present, SETI facilities that conduct observations in the visible light spectrum are not equipped to receive quantum communications (since the technology does not exist yet). However, they are equipped to detect photons, obtain spectra, and perform polarization experiments.
As such, argues Hippke, they would be able to tease out potential signals from the background noise of space. This is similar to what Professor Lubin suggested in a 2016 paper (“The Search for Directed Intelligence“), where he argued that optical signals (lasers) used for directed-energy propulsion or communications would result in occasional “spillover” that would be detectable.
In much the same way, “errant” photons could be collected by observatories and measured for signs of encoding using various techniques (including the ones identified in the study). One possible method Hippke recommends is long-duration interferometry, where multiple instruments monitor the amplitude and phase of electromagnetic fields in space over time and compare them to a baseline to discern the presence of encoding.
One thing bears consideration though: If by listening in on ETI quantum communications, won’t that cause information to be lost? And if so, would the ETI in question not realize we were listening in? Assuming they were not aware of us before, they sure would be after all this went down! One might conclude that it would be better to not eavesdrop on the conversations of more advanced species!
Did Nikola Tesla Unintentionally Detect Signals From Another Civilization?
Did Nikola Tesla Unintentionally Detect Signals From Another Civilization?
An eccentric genius and a man in every respect extraordinary was born on the night of 9/10 of July, 1856 in the Croatian village of Smiljan, a village near Gospic Lika, (the Krajina, a military district of Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in the Republic of Croatia)
“A purpose was behind these signals… They are the results of an attempt by some human beings, not of this world; to speak to us by signals.”
– Nikola Tesla
According to messagetoeagle.com, this event took place at the stroke of midnight “with lightning striking during a summer storm”. Because of the unusual moment of his birth, the midwife commented that “He’ll be a child of the storm,” to which his mother answered: “No, of light.”
Nikola Tesla
The great man is gone but… he will be remembered forever!
Those who knew him say he was not a normal human, but a superman, either a reincarnated master – or even an ET with superior mental powers placed here to assist in Earth’s technological development!
Nikola Tesla could have gone down in history as the man who invented the 20th century. Instead his theories were ridiculed and he died alone in a hotel bedroom.
Mostly, he did not improve on already existing technology, but created prototypes and sometimes entire new industries.
Many of his pioneer inventions he carried with him to his grave. But he believed in the destiny of man who, in his words, “searches, discovers and invents, designs and constructs, and covers with monuments of beauty, grandeur and awe, the star of his birth.”(Velikovsky)
Tesla was the first to attempt to communicate with neighboring worlds using radio waves.
In 1899, he was at his laboratory in Colorado Springs, driving monstrous surges of power into the Earth and also beaming energy outward from the 280-foot tower he’d built. He had instruments to record electromagnetic disturbances anywhere within a radius of 1,100 miles. It was an experiment of Frankensteinian proportions.
During the tests, Tesla began picking up odd data on his instruments. He was sure that this was a signal of some sort.
The signals came periodically, and with such a clear suggestion of number and order that they were not traceable to any cause then known to man.
“I was familiar… with such electrical disturbances as are produced by the sun, Aurora Borealis and earth currents, and I was as sure as I could be of any fact that these variations were due to none of these causes…”
“The nature of my experiments precluded the possibility of the changes being produced by atmospheric disturbances. . . . Although I could not decipher their meaning, it was impossible for me to think of them as having been entirely accidental . . . a purpose was behind these signals. . . . They are the results of an attempt by some human beings, not of this world; to speak to us by signals…”
“I am absolutely certain that they are not caused by anything terrestrial…”
“The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.”
“I am absolutely certain that they are not caused by anything terrestrial…”
(N. Tesla)
In Collier’s Weekly dated February 9, 1901, Tesla wrote in “Talking with the Planets” as follows:
“I can readily demonstrate that, with an expenditure not exceeding two thousand horse-power, signals can be transmitted to a planet such as Mars with as much exactness and certitude as we now send messages by wire from New York to Philadelphia. These means are the result of long-continued experiment and gradual improvement…”
He claimed he had detected an artificial signal from Mars, or possibly Venus, using high-voltage equipment he had set up at Colorado Springs, Colorado. He also predicted that interplanetary communication would “become the dominating idea of the century that has just begun.”
After informing the world of these signals, he would neither discuss the devices he used nor the signals any further. However, the issue was further researched, according to a report entitled “A Historic Report on Life in Space: Tesla, Marconi, Todd.” mentioned by Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist and the best-known scientific ufologist in North America and probably the world, in his book Captured!: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience“.
The purpose of the paper was to examine the original data of Tesla, Marconi and Todd to determine whether or not current science was duplicating the effort made by these men to detect radio frequency communication from extraterrestrial life forms on some distant planet.
“I am absolutely certain that they are not caused by anything terrestrial…”
(N. Tesla)
“Communication once established, even in the simplest way, as by a mere interchange of numbers, the progress toward more intelligible communication would be rapid.
Absolute certitude as to the receipt and interchange of messages would be reached as soon as we could respond with the number “four,” say, in reply to the signal “one, two, three.”
“The Martians, or the inhabitants of whatever planet had signalled to us, would understand at once that we had caught their message across the gulf of space and had sent back a response. To convey a knowledge of form by such means is, while very difficult, not impossible, and I have already found a way of doing it.
“What a tremendous stir this would make in the world! How soon will it come? For that it will some time be accomplished must be clear to every thoughtful being.
“Something, at least, science has gained. But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth…”
Did Tesla’s experiments transmit radio signals to some of our nearer planets?
According to Su-Shu-Huang of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, stars nearly identical to the sun are most likely to have developed life,” Stanton Friedman writes in his book.
Had Tesla unintentionally detected signals from another civilization or did he simply make an error?
Last photo of Nikola Tesla
Probably, we’ll never know. Because of his financial problems, (he was not a good businessman, but a true scientist) a large part of his research notes and other papers were auctioned off after his death.
What happened to his other research papers? How much of Tesla’s work remains hidden and confiscated?
It’s unknown and thus, much of his scientific work of great value has been lost for ever.
A great mystery still surrounds him and his genius work! He will never be forgotten!
Tianhe will be the central piece of the T-shaped Chinese Space Station.
The construction of China's space station is underway.
The core element of the Chinese Space Station launched to Earth orbit tonight (April 28), lifting off at 11:23 p.m. EDT (0323 GMT on April 29) atop a heavy-lift Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the island of Hainan.
The 54-foot-long (16.6 meters) module, known as Tianhe ("Harmony of the Heavens"), is the first space station component to launch. It will be joined in low Earth orbit later by two slightly smaller elements, forming a T-shaped space station that China aims to complete by the end of 2022.
But Tianhe will see considerable action far before then: A Chinese cargo spacecraft is expected to visit the module next month, and three astronauts will come aboard in June, if all goes according to plan.
A Long March 5B rocket launches Tianhe, the core module of China's new space station, on April 28, 2021. (Image credit: CASC)
The road to Tianhe
China began laying the foundation for today's launch a decade ago. In September 2011, the nation launched a prototype space lab called Tiangong 1, to continue building its human spaceflight skill set and test the technologies needed to assemble and maintain a large space station in Earth orbit.
The uncrewed Shenzhou 8 spacecraft docked autonomously with Tiangong 1 in November 2011. Then, in June 2012, Shenzhou 9 carried three astronauts to the space lab for a two-week stay. A year later, three more crewmembers visited Tiangong 1 for two weeks on the Shenzhou 10 mission. (The Shenzhou program had three crewed orbital human spaceflights under its belt before the Tiangong 1 visits, sending astronauts aloft in 2003, 2005 and 2008.)
No crewed craft darkened Tiangong 1's door after that. But China launched a second space lab,Tiangong 2, in September 2016. The next month, Shenzhou 11 sent three astronauts to Tiangong 2, and this time they stayed aboard for a month.
In April 2017, the uncrewed Tianzhou 1 cargo vessel docked with Tiangong 2 and refuelled the space lab. Tianzhou 1 repeated this docking-refueling dance two more times over the next five months, showcasing capabilities that come in quite handy for space station operators.
Neither Tiangong 1 nor Tiangong 2 remains aloft. The first space lab fell to Earth in an uncontrolled fashion in April 2018, burning up over the southern Pacific Ocean. But China maintained control over Tiangong 2 to the end, guiding the craft to its demise in July 2019, also over the South Pacific.
China's Tianhe space station core module is seen during launch preparations. (Image credit: CMSA)
When it's up and running, the Chinese Space Station will be just 20% as massive as the International Space Station (ISS), which would tip the scales at about 460 tons here on Earth. And, whereas the ISS routinely accommodates six or seven astronauts at a time, China's version is expected to host three-person crews.
But China plans to cram a lot of research activity into this smaller package. For example, the station will feature 14 internal experiment racks and more than 50 external docking points for instruments designed to gather data in the space environment, Scientific American reported recently.
The Chinese station's managers have already selected about 100 experiments to conduct on the craft, and some of them could start gathering data as soon as next year, Scientific American reported.
Not all of these investigations will be performed by Chinese scientists. Nine international experiments have already been selected to fly on the station through a program run jointly by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the China Manned Space Agency, and more such solicitations are expected in the future.
None of those nine research projects are based in the United States, which isn't terribly surprising. U.S. law prohibits NASA and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from cooperating with their Chinese counterparts on space-related activities, unless Congress has granted approval of such cooperation in advance. This prohibition, which has been in place since 2011, is known as the Wolf Amendment after its champion, former Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Virginia).
And China is not a partner in the ISS consortium, which is led by the space agencies of the U.S., Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada.
China also plans to launch a powerful space telescope in 2024. The observatory will occupy an orbit similar to that of the space station, Chinese officials have said, allowing the scope to be refuelled, upgraded and maintained relatively efficiently.
There's a precedent for such on-orbit work; NASA astronauts serviced the Hubble Space Telescope during five space shuttle missions from 1993 to 2009. But each time, they had to launch to Hubble from Earth; there was no nearby space station to serve as a staging facility. (Hubble flies about 90 miles, or 150 kilometers, higher than the ISS, which began hosting astronauts continuously in November 2000.)
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
The Library of the Great Silence will feature artifacts of transition, like this handaxe.
(Image credit: Jonathon Keats)
Intelligent aliens will soon have a space here on Earth where they can share how they made it through their technological adolescence.
We haven't yet heard from any such beings, of course. Some researchers find this "Great Silence" puzzling, given how old the universe is and how many potentially habitable worlds dot its vast expanse.
One possible explanation is that civilizations tend to destroy themselves once they become "advanced" enough to explore the cosmos in a meaningful way. Such power is inherently hard to control and can burn you to the ground more easily than it can fuel an outward push, the idea goes.
Another potential piece of the Library collection — dosimeters, which measure radiation levels. (Image credit: Jonathon Keats)
Indeed, it's unclear if humanity will make it over this developmental hurdle; we had some close calls with nuclear armageddon during the Cold War, after all, and we may be in the process of offing ourselves (and many other species) right now via anthropogenic climate change.
So we could probably use some advice from other creatures who managed to get over the hump — and a new art project aims to foster such cosmic cultural exchange. Experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats is developing a "Library of the Great Silence," which will be based at the Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California.
Keats wants the library to be universally accessible, and we can't assume that beings from across the universe will understand any languages spoken here on Earth. So the facility will house not books but artifacts of transition — stuff like handaxes, fossils of extinct species and shards of trinitite, the greenish glass forged by the intense heat of the first-ever atomic bomb blast, at New Mexico's Trinity Site in July 1945.
If all goes according to plan, the collection will eventually become an interstellar research center, incorporating ideas sent in by creatures across the cosmos.
"Although interstellar exchange could take time, a material archive of transformations will have immediate global value that may be sufficient to extend the lifespan of human civilization in the interim," reads a description of the project, which is a collaboration with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. (Keats is currently an artist in residence there, and Hat Creek is the site of the Allen Telescope Array, which SETI Institute researchers use to scan the skies for possible signals from ET.)
"Manipulating existentially significant objects without the use of words — and without the underlying assumptions of language or limitations on who participates in the conversation — may facilitate comprehension of human behaviors that has previously eluded us, or even directly encourage beneficial practices such as cooperation," the description adds.
Hat Creek may not be the only repository of such artifacts, either.
"We're starting to reach out to libraries that already exist about whether they would host, potentially, branches," Keats told Space.com. "And, simultaneously, we're actually looking off the planet and starting to look at what it would take to have a branch on the moon, for instance."
You can learn more about the Library of the Great Silence here. And the project is getting a formal kick-off of sorts this afternoon (April 29), via a conversation between Keats and his chief advisor on the project, SETI Institute senior astronomer Seth Shostak. The 30-minute discussion starts at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT), and you can watch it live online.
Our failure to make contact with ET may actually reflect a Great Deafness rather than a Great Silence, given how brief and sketchy the search has been to date, Shostak told Space.com. But he sees real value in Keats' library project, and in such artistic efforts generally.
"It may seem strange at first that an organization like the SETI Institute, which is mostly about research, would have an artist in residence, and, in fact, a whole bunch of artists in residence. What good is that?" Shostak said.
"I think it's because it gives you a different point of view," he said. "Artists give you another way of looking at the world — they look at the world completely differently than scientists do."
That's certainly true of Keats, whose projects — many of them space-themed — tend to inspire us to reassess our views of the universe and our place in it. The new library fits this pattern, seeking out an enlightening shift of perspective.
"The Library of the Great Silence is one of these instances where so many of the questions that we seem incapable of addressing — and that we actually are not asking, I don't think, in the way that we need to be asking — can potentially be asked by imagining how they might be asked if those in the conversation were not only us," Keats said.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
Australian Pilot Followed By Large UFO & Mysteriously Disappeared 43 Years Ago, Never Found
Australian Pilot Followed By Large UFO & Mysteriously Disappeared 43 Years Ago, Never Found
There are many stories about people missing in strange and sometimes inexplicable circumstances. Most of them are rather fascinating and close to sci-fiction. But a story of the disappearance of Australian pilot Frederick Valentich is documented in detail and at the same time baffles the reasoning of everyone who comes across it.
Since his childhood, Valentich had a great passion for aviation and flying. In 1977, at the age of 18, after he sat in the cockpit of a helicopter, he decided to become a pilot. He lived in Melbourne with his parents and a younger brother named Richard who was only 12 when Frederick vanished. It is said that he had about 150 total hours’ flying time and was also certified to fly at night under special conditions. Nevertheless, he failed flying tests twice and during the performance of the test exercises, at least four times created dangerous situations on the ground and in the air.
Frederick Valentich disappeared in 1978 while flying a Cessna over the Bass Strait
On October 21, 1978, Valentich (20) planned a date with his fiancee Rhonda Rushton to fly in his light-engine Cessna 182L aircraft from Moorabbin to King Island. Somehow, the plan failed as Rhonda could not leave work earlier and also unable to call him. Due to the tight schedule of the flight, Valentich had to leave her behind, began his flight at 18:19 and flew at an air level of 1500 m.
The plane flew to the island, not over the shortest distance, but making a broken line to minimize the duration of the flight over the Bass Strait, a sea strait separating Tasmania from the Australian mainland. At the 41st minute of the flight, the plane reached Cape Otway and turned towards the strait.
At 19:06, Valentich informed the ground control service of Melbourne that he had seen an unidentified aircraft flying higher and faster. The controllers did not know anything about the planes flying in that area, and the radars showed that Valentich was flying all alone. Nevertheless, Frederick insisted that there was a large aircraft next to him, which appeared and disappeared from his view. Over the next 5 minutes, he continued to talk about the spaceship flying around him, however, he did not give any detailed description of it. The only significant information related to the appearance of the UFO given by him was that it had four landing lights.
Frederick Valentich and his younger brother Richard at an open house at Edinburgh Air Force Base, South Australia (1970)
During his communication with the controller, Valentich said that he began to fly in a circle. The next minute, he said that the object was approaching him from the southeast and that it was not an airplane. Over the next several seconds, signal disturbance was heard on the radio, after which they lost communication.
It has been over 43 years since Valentich’s plane disappeared. The search operation carried out in the Bass Strait and on King Island had no result, although it continued until October 25. The investigation carried out by the Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development, lasted for 3.5 years. On April 27, 1982, it ended with a laconic verdict and the reason for the disappearance of the aircraft has not been determined.
Richard Valentich said there was no family fixation on UFOs. “The concept of a UFO taking my brother is very far out there,” he said.
Did he encounter UFO that made him crash or was he abducted by aliens?
The people in authority tried to destroy all records of his flight. It was done ostensibly in order to announce that on October 21, 1978, there was no such flight at all. Moreover, the original audio recording of Valentich’s conversations with the control room has disappeared. In 2008, BBC officials formally requested the original audio recording from the Australian Ministry for Infrastructure but never received it.
At the end of 1978, dozens of reports were received about strange objects and incomprehensible optical phenomena in the sky over the western part of the Bass Strait. In 1998, it became known about the existence of three witnesses, who on October 21, 1978, watched from the shore a flight over the Bass Strait of a light-engine aircraft, which was pursued by green lights.
Roy Manifold’s photograph
Interestingly, there was a witness on the ground who claimed to have seen a green light just above Valentich’s plane. The last piece of audio recording with a duration of 17 seconds, in which strange grinding sounds are heard, was examined by researcher Richard Haines. According to him, this audio fragment contained 36 sound signals (bursts) of different frequency spectrum without a clear rhythmic pattern.
UFO researchers have made great efforts to find possible witnesses of the incident with Valentich. According to them, they managed to find more than 20 people who were near the coast in the area of Cape Otway before, during, and after the sunset on October 21, 1978, and who had seen an unidentified object or incomprehensible optical phenomena in the sky.
Richard Valentich is still convinced that his brother was abducted by aliens. In all his interviews, he invariably declared that what had happened to his brother cannot be staged and has no rational explanations. Frederick Valentich is still officially listed as a missing person, and his family members still hope that one day, his disappearance mystery will be solved.
Cash-Landrum Alien Craft Encounter: Diamond-Shaped UFO Caused Burns To 3 People
Cash-Landrum Alien Craft Encounter: Diamond-Shaped UFO Caused Burns To 3 People
The UFO incident that happened to Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum, and Colby Landrum is the most horrific UFO encounter ever recorded that includes not only sighting but the witnesses suffered from the severe health conditions after it. They had never thought that one night of their holiday would turn into a nightmare.
The incident happened on December 29, 1980, when Betty Cash (51) was returning home in a car with her friend Vickie Landrum (57) and her 7-year old grandson Colby after having dinner at a restaurant, in Dayton, Texas.
In an interview with USAF Capt. John Camp that was held on August 17, 1981, Betty said they headed out to Cleveland on that Monday night to play Bingo. But due to the holiday season, it was closed. They decided to go to New Caney to play the game there but unfortunately, there was also no Bingo. Then they stopped near some restaurant.
Colby Landrum, Betty Cash, and Vickie Landrum
At around 9 p.m., while driving through the Piney Woods in Texas, they noticed a bright light above trees. As the Houston International Airport was only 36 miles from their location, they thought it was just the airplane. They were on Farm Market Road 1485 between New Caney and Huffman. When the object approached closer to them, they saw that it was of a diamond shape, the size of the water tower and emitting a very bright light.
According to them, the bottom of the object was emitting flames and intense heat. Betty said that the object lit the entire sky that could be seen 50 miles away. She stopped the car and decided to go out of it to look at the object.
“But tell you the truth, we thought the end of the world was coming. I mean I’d never in my life gone through such a situation. But I knew that there was no way we could go under it the way the fire was shooting out the bottom of it,” Betty said.
The object was hanging down over the pine trees which were almost burned due to heat flames. Betty opened the car door and walked a few steps away. She could not walk further as the heat was so strong that she decided to turn back and get into the car. When she touched the door’s handle, it was hot as fire. She was wearing a leather jacket which she used to open the door. Vickie stayed in the car to accompany her frightened grandson.
Artistic view of the Cash-Landrum UFO incident
When the woman got back into the car, the object made a whooshing sound and seemed to go up. It was very hot inside the car, and the radio was playing on the low volume. Betty felt that her car went dead. She was so afraid that at one point, she wanted to go under it. Then Vickie screamed for her and put her fingers on her car’s dash. The heat was so intense that her fingerprints imbedded to dash, according to Betty.
The witnesses said that the object was about 60-80 feet above the ground and they were 130 feet away from it. Betty noted that they had been seeing the UFO for only 15 minutes or more, but it seemed to them like hours. The incident affected the trio not only mentally but physically. They started experiencing symptoms of acute radiation sickness: headaches, burns, blisters on the inside of the eyelids, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Betty even had worse health conditions as she was the only person who got out of the car.
Betty drew a sketch of the craft
Betty said:
“I was too sick, by the time I got home, I had blisters all over my head, my face, my back, my neck, I was burning… from the inside out. Vickie is the one that called everybody and tried to get help for me. Because she couldn’t get a doctor to see me at the time, and a policeman in Dayton is the one that gave her the number to call, wasn’t it Vickie?”
Betty’s skin was all red like she had a sunburn. Besides, her neck, face, and eyelids were all swollen. Her condition became so critical that she was hospitalized in three days. Her facial appearance changed a lot and could not be recognized by her friends. She also suffered hair loss due to radiation.
John Schussler, a MUFON founder, and former NASA aerospace engineer investigated the case. He said: “We had done several interviews with Betty and Vickie, and then we went out to the location where this happened. Several weeks after we went to the spot and saw this burned area, someone dug up the road and hauled it away, and replaced it with new asphalt. Some of the witnesses that watched this happen said people brought in unmarked trucks, dug up the road, put the material on the trucks, covered it with a tarpaulin, and drove away.”
According to him, at least 10 people had seen a similar object, while some others claimed to have seen helicopters. Among them was a police officer named L.L. Walker, who saw a helicopter searching for something, followed by other helicopters on the incident night. He noticed they were military helicopters, flying very low, and headed towards the location where Betty and Vickie stopped.
John Schussler in Talk with Betty, Vickie, and her grandson
After this, the two women were convinced that the military was involved in it. The Air Force agreed to meet them, and they were invited to Bergstrom Air Force Base where the interview was conducted. But in the end, the military denied any operation that had happened in the location during that night.
Schuessler said:
“One is that it was an experimental craft of some kind, probably from our government. The other, it was an unidentified flying object, possibly extraterrestrial.”
Vickie Landrum who did not believe in aliens and UFOs said that it had to be the government spacecraft. They even filed a lawsuit against the US government but did not succeed. What’s more, in the 2008 UFO Hunters episode “Alien Fallout,” it was shown that the section of highway where the trio had witnessed the horrific incident was replaced. Betty was treated with cancer every year and died 18 years later at the age of 69.
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Grey Aliens Killed 60 US Soldiers And Civilians In Underground Battle In New Mexico
Grey Aliens Killed 60 US Soldiers And Civilians In Underground Battle In New Mexico
American engineer Philip Schneider was born on April 23, 1947. He is known as a person who worked for many years in collaboration with special services of the United States, had access to information of the 3rd level of secrecy, but at some point decided that people should know that they are kept in ignorance or are grossly deceived about everything happening to UFOs and aliens.
Few people had taken the stories of Phil Schneider seriously until he was found dead. At the same time, the circumstances of his death indicated that Phil had been brutally dealt with.
Phil got higher education at an engineering school and later became a geological engineer. He is also known as a civil engineer for the military and aerospace industries.
Phil had his own family, a wife and a child. Oscar Schneider, Phil’s father, was a physician and military officer, who, according to some information, served in a submarine and at the same time managed to fight both for Germany and for the United States. Phil was able to take part in the construction of at least two underground bases for the so-called “secret government,” as well as in the construction of 13 deep-seated military bases underground.
Seeing how such projects are financed, for whom they are being built, and that the basic rights of the people, as well as the US constitution, are violated, in 1994, Phil broke off relations with the American intelligence services and returned all his awards. After that, Phil began working as an ordinary geologist, combining work with revelatory performances. He talked about underground bases, top-secret alien technologies, and the threat togrey humanity that those who seek to establish a New World Order in the direction of aliens hostile to people carry with them.
To popularize the information disclosed in the last two years of his life, Phil spoke a lot in public traveling around the USA and Canada and visited England and Japan. He criticized the government which keeps its citizens in the dark.
Phil Schneider
In 1995, at a regular lecture, Schneider said that over the past 22 years, 11 of his best friends had died, they knew something about the so-called government “conspiracy theory.” At the same time, eight out of 11 episodes were officially recognized as suicides.
Phil said that he was one of three people who survived the shootout that occurred in 1979 at an underground military base in Dulce between representatives of American intelligence services and aliens. As a result of the influence of an alien weapon, Schneider got a dose of radiation and subsequently fell ill with cancer.
Phil Schneider also claimed that there had been repeated attempts to kill him after he told what he knew. These were attacks with weapons, attempts to push him onto the highway, and even attacks during street fights.
On January 17, 1996, Phil Schneider was found dead in his house in Wilsonville, Oregon. He was lying on the floor next to the piano, and a tube from his own catheter was wound around his neck. However, according to the report, Schneider was shot dead by police officers who came to deal with a large number of unpaid taxes and fines, and during the dialogue, Phil began to behave menacingly, grabbed his weapons, and thus left the law enforcement officers with no choice.
Whatever happened, but by the time of his death, Phil Schneider was very poor in health due to a serious illness (oncology). Suicide was called the official cause of death, although, according to some reports, there were signs of torture on the body. Many ufologists believe that representatives of US intelligence simply removed Schneider because he knew too much.
Gordon Duff, an editor-in-chief of the Veterans Today magazine, called Phil Schneider a UFO witness, believing that he was strikingly deeply aware of the US government’s contacts with aliens.
Schneider worked as a demolition specialist to help build secret underground bases for the US government.
He openly accused the US government and intelligence agencies of covert acts and direct crimes. Some of them deserve special attention:
The American government entered into an agreement with the Grey aliens in 1954. This mutually beneficial cooperation agreement is called the “Greada Treaty”. Aliens do not comply with it.
The shuttle made special alloys in orbit. A vacuum is needed to create these special metals, and thus the mandate for the ongoing support of the manned space station is justified.
Most of the aircraft technology with Stealth technology was developed due to the study of an alien ship that crashed in the United States.
AIDS was invented at the National Ordinance Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois, and developed as a virus to control the human population.
It is a secret that the US government has a device for causing earthquakes. The San Francisco earthquake in 1989 and the Kobe earthquake in 1995 did not have a pulse wave, which confirms their artificial origin.
The bombing at the World Trade Center (09/11/2001) and the bombing in Oklahoma City (04/19/1995) were carried out using miniature nuclear devices. This is indicated by the melting and pitting of concrete with the displacement of metal rods that make up the frame of concrete structures (it is worth recalling that Phil was an engineer and explosives were one of his strengths).
Bikini Atoll was destroyed by nuclear weapons due to the fact that there was an underwater base of aliens.
The strategic defense initiative (SDI) was actually conceived as a defense against alien invasions.
A large number of underground military bases have been built in the United States (~ 130), up to 2 km deep, and they are similar in size to cities. Bases were built in case of a declaration of war. The bases are interconnected by high-speed monorails, on which trains move at a speed of 2 Mach (~ 2380 km/h) on a “magnetic cushion”, hovering 3/4 inch (~ 2 cm) above the rail.
The secret plan of the high Grays to establish on the planet a New World Order, managed by the UN, which they secretly control.
The UFO problem was dealt with by an organization specially created by the order of the US government back in 1933. According to the research of this organization, in 1935, the presence of aliens on Earth became a recognized fact. Over the next 20 years, employees tried to find out the intentions of space aliens and establish contact with them. And this happened in 1954: on February 20-21, President Dwight Eisenhower met with representatives of an alien civilization.
The first meeting was unsuccessful: the aliens refused to transfer any advanced technologies to earthlings (represented by the Americans), but they demanded to stop the development of certain types of weapons. The United States did not agree to stop its military projects and, of course, could not vouch for the rest of the world.
Contacts continued and, as a result, the so-called “Greada Treaty” was concluded. What the contracting parties agreed on:
The aliens do not interfere in the affairs of earthlings.
Earthlings (represented by the US government) keep secret the fact of the presence of aliens on Earth.
Aliens help in technical development. This applies only to the American nation.
Aliens can take people and animals for scientific purposes. People after research should come back, and memories of contacts with aliens should be deleted from their memories.
The consequence of this agreement was the creation of numerous underground bases on which earthlings mastered extraterrestrial technology, and aliens conducted their experiments on “human material”.
Gray aliens are employees of a powerful extraterrestrial civilization, the existence of which earthlings had to face in their historical past. The presumptive basis of the alien ideology is the unification of intelligent species of the Universe into a single Union, and regardless of the form of life itself (biological, ethereal, or other)
Judging by past events, alien political principles imply the non-violent conversion of planets to their ideology. The mail idea of aliens about a single type of intelligent life form is reduced to the fact that the population of the planets loses memory of the past and turns into beings with the given characteristics. To implement this program, aliens use advanced bioengineering technologies. The final stage of their mission is to implement the necessary information, while information about the past of the subordinate culture does not matter anymore.
There was a time when the Senate majority leader spent more time behind the scenes than in front of the camera … a time when the majority leader was just as concerned about unexplained mysteries as explaining the obvious. That majority leader was former Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, who became known after leaving office as a politician so concerned about UFOs that he formed a secret study to investigate them – a study that became the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), then the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and today the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force, which is in the news because it has promised a report to Congress in June on what our government knows about UFOs. That’s why Harry Reid is in the news again, and he gave his insights and opinions recently to George Knapp atMystery Wire. Let’s look at a few of Reid’s more interesting and revealing comments.
Harry Reid
“He should at least have the ability saying I’ve been briefed on the subject. I have no opinion on whatever he wants to say. But yes, I think that the topic of UFOs is not going away. It’s becoming more pronounced for a lot of different reasons. So he can’t ignore the subject. Even if he wanted to.”
Reid believes President Biden, who he worked with when he was Senator Biden, needs to be well-briefed on the subject of UFOs and the contents of the report well before it comes out … assuming it does — backing out for security reasons is always a possibility.
“The federal government no longer, including people at the Pentagon, no longer criticize or harass or stop promotions of people who report these occurrences. In fact, they have done just the opposite in recent months, they now tell their pilots, (inaudible), to report these unusual circumstances. And I appreciated the honesty of the Pentagon. Because when asked, what were these things, they say we don’t know. Rather than try to say they were balloons from some kind of a weather experiment. They say we don’t know.”
Reid is impressed at how much has changed in the Pentagon’s response to UFO sightings by the public and especially by military pilots since he first got involved – referring to one of the “weather balloon” responses given after the Roswell UFO Incident that has become the jokey, skeptical response to many sightings. He thinks the improvements in recording equipment and commercial pilots using cell phones has resulted in a substantial improvement in backup evidence for these sightings.
Reid believes both China and Russia have very sophisticated drones that fly in swarms and this could explain some of the recently released Navy sightings, although he seems to dislike the term “drones” because it’s too generic and the UFOs reported are often unique. When asked what he thought would happen if materials recovered after a UFO sighting were not of Earth, he said this:
“I don’t know how the public will react. But I think as long as we understand that, we need to make sure that we are scientifically driven, that we’re going to be okay. And if it’s coming from places we don’t understand, that’s still okay. As long as we understand that there’s stuff coming from other places. I have no problem whatsoever with it.”
Harry Reid
Reid places a high degree of confidence in science – if scientists say this is true, then he believes the public will believe it or at least better accept it. That’s a lot different than the attitude of many current Washington politicians who question science relentlessly. That includes people like Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who is a champion of UFO disclosure but questions science in other areas. Let’s hope Reid is not alone in this. He’s always been very open to the mainstream press about UFOs and he closes with his reason why.
“Here in Vegas I’ll go into an elevator, someone will see me, “Are you Harry Reid?” “Yes.” “Thank you very much.” And they’ll usually say for your work on flying saucers. So people are aware that we’ve been doing things on the subject of interest to the American people. I’m going to continue doing that. And I’m not going to be repressed by people saying why the hell would you spend your time on something important? I think this is important.”
In my previous article I wrote about the late Mac Tonnies’ theory that the UFO phenomenon just might be based right here, on Earth. And that the Cryptoterrestrials – as Tonnies termed our presumed aliens – may have always lived on Earth, masquerading as ETs to hide their true origins and agendas. In that same article, one of the things I mentioned was that on more than a few occasions, the Cryptoterrestrials camouflage themselves to hide their real appearances that are slightly different to ours. With that said, I’ll share with you a few examples of this particularly creepy side of Ufology. In 2015, Dr. David M. Jacobs’ book, Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Control Humanity, was published. As the title alone suggests, this is an extremely controversial book. Although it is heavily focused on so-called “alien abductees,” it is not actually about abduction events, at all. Rather, its focus is on how human society is being nothing less than infiltrated. And, yes, that word “infiltrate” is intended to suggest that nothing good can come from all of this. We’re talking about the ways in which potentially hostile creatures – with no real regard for us, the Human Race – are doing what they can to roam around and without being noticed as something strange. In Walking Among Us, some of these entities are described as looking “sickly,” and as having extremely smooth, and very pale, skin.
Just like the Women in Black (WIB). Jacobs talks about one particular creature being “greatly overdressed for the summer and his slicked-down hairstyle was wrong.” That, too, is reminiscent of so many WIB and MIB reports. They often arrive at the homes of people in vintage, black cars. They are often described as wearing wigs, and particularly so female hybrids who wear their fake hair black and long. Here’s another aspect to the story: Karen Totten is an artist and sculptor who has had a wealth of anomalous experiences throughout her life, one of which was with an entity that falls definitively into the Woman in Black category. She says of one case in the 1970s: “…when I was 17 I was working in a small convenience store, when a ‘woman’ came in to buy cigarettes. At first I didn’t pay any attention to her until I saw her hand (when she handed me the money) – it was not like a normal human hand. This startled me so I looked up and saw a very pale entity, wearing a thin black coat (like a rain coat) with collar turned up to cover her neck, a heavy long haired wig, and very large black glasses. This did not entirely hide her strange face: a very pointed chin, scant lip and nose. She did not speak. Took her cigarettes and left! I was kinda stunned. Oddly I cannot remember the details of her hand (though it was the first thing I noticed). Nor do I think she left in a car which was odd since most patrons drove up the store (it was somewhat isolated).” Totten continued: “…whether this entity is a ‘gray’ or a ‘hybrid,’ I can only guess.” Now, onto the 1980s.
In early 1987, a very bizarre incident occurred at a Manhattan bookstore. Bruce Lee – who worked as a senior editor at a New York publishing house, William Morrow & Co. – walked into a bookstore on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It was the now-closed-down Womrath’s, on Lexington Avenue. Also with Lee was his wife. Womrath’s had a large display set up for Communion and they also stocked a couple of Lee’s own books. That was not the only unusual thing about that fateful, Saturday afternoon. Both the man and the woman were barely five feet in height – maybe even slightly smaller. They had scarves that covered their chins, hats pulled tightly down, and huge, black sunglasses. They also appeared to begin speed-reading the book, noting out loud – one might even suggest for Lee’s benefit – where Strieber had “got this wrong” and “got that wrong.” The woman suddenly looked up, at which point Lee was able to see through her sunglasses that her eyes were not just large, but huge, and shaped like almonds. Lee, by his own admission, felt the hackles on the back of his neck rise, and got a “mad dog” feeling emanating from the woman. And, finally…
Both the WIB and the MIB are noted for their distinct awkwardness around food – both preferring to ingest nothing more than pills. Jacobs’ book is packed with accounts of these creatures being baffled by food, how it should be eaten (with or without utensils), what should be eaten cooked and what should be eaten raw, and so on. Men in Black expert Gareth Medway notes of this issue in relation to a summer 1967 case: “A man in a black suit with a pointed chin, ‘thyroid eyes’ and ‘long, tapering fingers’ went into Max’s Kansas City, New York, and ordered ‘food,’ being apparently unable to read the menu, and not knowing how to use a knife and fork. He told a waitress he was from ‘another world.'” Are we really being infiltrated by beings that can pass among us with just a few changes to their appearances? Don’t bet against it.
“The residents of the Monteagudo neighborhood in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, are convinced that a few nights ago an alien with an appearance similar to the mythical “chupacabra” visited the area.”
“The being has very large eyes, but they claim that it lacks vision, and that it has hands with three fingers. Prior to its appearance, the neighbors observed a UFO shaped d in the sky . halo of light that landed on the spot.” (Google translation)
Telemundo and other media sites are reporting on a recent UFO sighting in Bolivia with numerous witnesses who took photos and videos of the craft, which some said emitted a thunderous noise and spewed or ‘threw’ fire. They also claimed to have observed an alien from the ship whose characteristics convinced them it was a Chupacabra, the legendary bloodsucking cryptid. Is Could this finally solve the mysteries of the Chupacabra, UFOs and aliens all at once?
“According to the residents, after the outbreak the alleged alien was seen wandering the streets and they say that he had a resemblance to the legendary ‘Chupacabra’, frightening children and young people. According to the same neighbors, minutes after his supposed disappearance, the light in the sky went out, leaving traces in the form of circles in the grass.”
Those up on their Chupacabra lore know that the ‘real’ goat-sucker was first reported in Puerto Rico in 1995 after goats and other small livestock were found dead in the towns of Morovis and Orocovis with strange marks on their necks and allegedly drained of blood. Some looking for a plausible cause or explanation connected this to a widespread report in 1984 of a UFO crashing in Puerto Rico’s El Yunque rainforest – a circular UFO that allegedly contained chupacabras which NASA, the U.S. Air Force, and the CIA allegedly picked up along with the crashed UFO. Other connected it to an incident in 1957 when a UFO reportedly crashed in Canovanas, and the dead and alive Chupacabras found at the site were taken to the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Ceiba.
“Aliaga, who is dedicated to paranormal issues, asked scientists for help to study what happened, but a psychologist suggests that it is a collective stress and that the inhabitants should receive attention in the face of what happened.”
Javier Aliaga, identified as a ufologist, may have heard about the origin story of the Chupacabra, but whatever he said to local authorities was not enough to convince them to call in the Bolivian Air Force or their equivalent of the CIA or NASA. Instead, it seems a psychologist attributed the stories to mass hysteria – despite the videos and photos of UFOs and the drawings of the creatures (see them here) made by witnesses, who described the ‘alien’ as approximately 30 centimeters (12 inches) tall, with an oval head, large eyes and three fingers on its hands.
Marks left by the UFO landing. Inset: drawing of the alien made by one of the witnesses.
Three fingers?
Has Puerto Rico’s alien Chupacabra returned? There’s far from enough evidence to confirm this or identify the flying objects in the videos and photos. More investigation is obviously needed. In the meantime, the witnesses on the news report look and sound like they saw something they won’t soon forget and would probably like some answers. Good luck with that.
In a new article at his UFO Conjectures blog titled “Something almost odd…” Rich Reynolds touches upon Mac Tonnies’ 2010 book, The Cryptoterrestrials. Its subtitle: A Meditation on Indigenous Humanoids and the Aliens Among Us. Tonnies’ third book happened to be his last one. He died in 2009. Given that the book, and its theories, are now being discussed again, I thought I would give you my thoughts on Tonnies’ particularly controversial theory on UFOs and aliens. Namely, that our presumed visitors are really the vestiges of an ancient race of beings that have always lived right here on planet Earth. In other words, the ETs – that so many people believe in – are really from here and nowhere else. But, to protect themselves from being exposed, they present themselves as aliens from faraway worlds. It’s certainly not a new theory, but Tonnies gave the whole thing a good spin. He also presented some thoughts and ideas that, admittedly, made a lot of sense. On the other hand, though, the scenario has its flaws, too. With that said, let’s have a look at the scenario of the “aliens that actually aren’t” and try and figure out what the truth might really be.
Certainly, one of the things that really got Tonnies thinking was the undeniable “staged” nature of some UFO events. The Contactees of the 1950s caught Tonnies’ attention. He wondered why the so-called “Space Brothers” and “Space Sisters” of that long gone era warned so many people that we needed to lay down our atomic weapons. If not, the end of our civilization would soon be looming on the horizon, said the long-haired wise ones. Tonnies thought it was very strange that beings from a faraway world would take so much interest in – and have so much concern for – our world. If the aliens really were from a faraway galaxy, a good, solid case could be made that they wouldn’t care for us. Why should they? But, suggested Tonnies, if the very human-looking Space Brothers really secretly live on our world (and always have) then that just might explain their deep concerns. In other words, if we destroy our world, then the Space Brothers will be obliterated, too.
Tonnies also had his suspicions about the Betty and Barney Hill “alien abduction” of September 1961. Tonnies noted that the technology “the aliens” used seemed to be barely ahead of ours. Maybe a few decades or so, but that was pretty much it. He also brought into the story the matter of the so-called “star map” the alleged aliens showed to Betty and Barney while on-board the “spaceship.” The idea that aliens from light-years away would need to navigate the universe with maps is fucking ridiculous. Totally crazy. We can navigate just about anywhere with our phones. And yet, the aliens, back in the Sixties, had to resort to maps? Come on! Also on the alien abduction issue, Tonnies mused on the possibility that being from Earth all along – but now on a dangerous, evolutionary decline – the Cryptoterrestrials might take eggs, sperm, DNA and so on from us to try and “beef up” their society, and particularly so if they weren’t in great condition. Using us, because we are the closest thing to them, makes a great deal of sense. But, for our visitors to come from countless light-years away, and for them to be near-perfect compatible when it comes to splicing us and them, so to speak. is just not feasible.
Betty Hill, Barney Hill and Delsey their dog
Now, we come to the creepiest part of the story. Namely, the numerous accounts Tonnies came across of strange beings “infiltrating” our society. Tonnies had a lot of cases of people encountering what were assumed to have been aliens, but that seemed to be something else. And by wearing wraparound sunglasses, pulled-down hats, collars placed high, and mainly coming out at night, they were able to worm their way into our world and not be overly noticed. This reminds me of the reports of the strange-looking Men in Black – pale, skinny, and with bulging eyes – that have been around for decades. So, it has to be said that Tonnies did present some interesting material – and equally interesting scenarios. There was, however, one big issue that he wasn’t able to tackle fully. It revolves around the matter of where the Cryptoterrestrials live. It’s all very well to address the nature and agendas of the Cryptoterrestrials, but where are they when they’re not abducting us or warning us of nuclear destruction?
Tonnies touched on the matter of the likes of “underground bases” and so on. But, not to a degree that really worked on a worldwide scale. Is it feasible that an entire civilization of Cryptoterrestrials could live deep underground, and all across the planet? If so, why don’t we see them regularly soaring out of ancient caves and huge tunnels in their craft? Back to Rich Reynolds. He has been looking at the idea of an indigenous race living not on land, but in the oceans of our world. I can’t say that if we put all of the above together it gives us a perfect scenario; it doesn’t. However, it could be said that the Cryptoterrestrial angle has at least more than a few things going for it. Maybe, it’s time for someone to carry on with the work that Tonnies did up until 2009. There may be some incredible surprises to be found. And those same surprises just might come from right here.
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In a new article at his UFO Conjectures blog titled “Something almost odd…” Rich Reynolds touches upon Mac Tonnies’ 2010 book, The Cryptoterrestrials. Its subtitle: A Meditation on Indigenous Humanoids and the Aliens Among Us. Tonnies’ third book happened to be his last one. He died in 2009. Given that the book, and its theories, are now being discussed again, I thought I would give you my thoughts on Tonnies’ particularly controversial theory on UFOs and aliens. Namely, that our presumed visitors are really the vestiges of an ancient race of beings that have always lived right here on planet Earth. In other words, the ETs – that so many people believe in – are really from here and nowhere else. But, to protect themselves from being exposed, they present themselves as aliens from faraway worlds. It’s certainly not a new theory, but Tonnies gave the whole thing a good spin. He also presented some thoughts and ideas that, admittedly, made a lot of sense. On the other hand, though, the scenario has its flaws, too. With that said, let’s have a look at the scenario of the “aliens that actually aren’t” and try and figure out what the truth might really be.
Certainly, one of the things that really got Tonnies thinking was the undeniable “staged” nature of some UFO events. The Contactees of the 1950s caught Tonnies’ attention. He wondered why the so-called “Space Brothers” and “Space Sisters” of that long gone era warned so many people that we needed to lay down our atomic weapons. If not, the end of our civilization would soon be looming on the horizon, said the long-haired wise ones. Tonnies thought it was very strange that beings from a faraway world would take so much interest in – and have so much concern for – our world. If the aliens really were from a faraway galaxy, a good, solid case could be made that they wouldn’t care for us. Why should they? But, suggested Tonnies, if the very human-looking Space Brothers really secretly live on our world (and always have) then that just might explain their deep concerns. In other words, if we destroy our world, then the Space Brothers will be obliterated, too.
Tonnies also had his suspicions about the Betty and Barney Hill “alien abduction” of September 1961. Tonnies noted that the technology “the aliens” used seemed to be barely ahead of ours. Maybe a few decades or so, but that was pretty much it. He also brought into the story the matter of the so-called “star map” the alleged aliens showed to Betty and Barney while on-board the “spaceship.” The idea that aliens from light-years away would need to navigate the universe with maps is fucking ridiculous. Totally crazy. We can navigate just about anywhere with our phones. And yet, the aliens, back in the Sixties, had to resort to maps? Come on! Also on the alien abduction issue, Tonnies mused on the possibility that being from Earth all along – but now on a dangerous, evolutionary decline – the Cryptoterrestrials might take eggs, sperm, DNA and so on from us to try and “beef up” their society, and particularly so if they weren’t in great condition. Using us, because we are the closest thing to them, makes a great deal of sense. But, for our visitors to come from countless light-years away, and for them to be near-perfect compatible when it comes to splicing us and them, so to speak. is just not feasible.
Betty Hill, Barney Hill and Delsey their dog
Now, we come to the creepiest part of the story. Namely, the numerous accounts Tonnies came across of strange beings “infiltrating” our society. Tonnies had a lot of cases of people encountering what were assumed to have been aliens, but that seemed to be something else. And by wearing wraparound sunglasses, pulled-down hats, collars placed high, and mainly coming out at night, they were able to worm their way into our world and not be overly noticed. This reminds me of the reports of the strange-looking Men in Black – pale, skinny, and with bulging eyes – that have been around for decades. So, it has to be said that Tonnies did present some interesting material – and equally interesting scenarios. There was, however, one big issue that he wasn’t able to tackle fully. It revolves around the matter of where the Cryptoterrestrials live. It’s all very well to address the nature and agendas of the Cryptoterrestrials, but where are they when they’re not abducting us or warning us of nuclear destruction?
Tonnies touched on the matter of the likes of “underground bases” and so on. But, not to a degree that really worked on a worldwide scale. Is it feasible that an entire civilization of Cryptoterrestrials could live deep underground, and all across the planet? If so, why don’t we see them regularly soaring out of ancient caves and huge tunnels in their craft? Back to Rich Reynolds. He has been looking at the idea of an indigenous race living not on land, but in the oceans of our world. I can’t say that if we put all of the above together it gives us a perfect scenario; it doesn’t. However, it could be said that the Cryptoterrestrial angle has at least more than a few things going for it. Maybe, it’s time for someone to carry on with the work that Tonnies did up until 2009. There may be some incredible surprises to be found. And those same surprises just might come from right here.
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Photographer captured circular object, too fast for a drone.
Furthermore, UFO appears above helicopter. Stream of light appeared out of no where. Red glowing light turns into three lights. Source: https://www.mufon.com/
Ruimtesonde Voyager 1 zweeft na meer dan 40 jaar nog altijd rond, als verst van ons verwijderde object ooit door de mens gemaakt
5 september 1977. Voyager 1 wordt vanop Cape Canaveral gelanceerd. Bijna 44 jaar later zweeft de onbemande sonde nog altijd rond, inmiddels in de interstellaire ruimte, op 22,7 miljard kilometer van onze planeet. Voyager 1 blijft ook informatie doorsturen naar de aarde. De brandstof raakt nu wel stilaan op. Wetenschappers hopen dat Voyager 1 het nog tot zijn vijftigste missieverjaardag in 2027 kan rekken.
Hoe zou het nog zijn met Voyager 1, één van de oudste ruimtesondes en het verst van de aarde verwijderde door de mens gemaakte object ooit? Wel, na bijna 44 jaar dienst in de ruimte zendt de sonde nog altijd informatie door naar de aarde, ook al zoeft Voyager 1 verder en verder weg van ons en van de zon, aan een snelheid van 17 kilometer per seconde. Elk jaar legt de sonde zo 3,5 AE (astronomische eenheden) af. Eén AE is de gemiddelde afstand tussen de aarde en de zon en bedraagt ongeveer 149,6 miljoen kilometer.
In 1979 vloog de Voyager 1 voorbij Jupiter en maakte de sonde gedurende enkele maanden foto’s van de planeet. In november 1980 bestudeerde de ruimtesonde Saturnus. Daarna vond Voyager 1 geen planeten meer op zijn weg.
Nog voor de lancering van Voyager 1 was astrofysicus Bill Kurth (universiteit van Iowa) er al mee in de weer. Volgens hem wist in 1977 niemand zeker waar de heliopauze of de uiterste grens van ons zonnestelsel zich bevond. Maar in augustus 2012 vloog Voyager 1 het zonnestelsel uit en bereikte zo de interstellaire ruimte. Onder meer daaruit bleek de heliopauze op een afstand van zo’n 120 AE te liggen, een pak verder dan veel wetenschappers dachten.
Volgens Jon Richardson, astrofysicus aan het befaamde MIT, blijft Voyager 1 de uitlopers van de zon voelen, miljarden kilometers voorbij de heliopauze. “De zon heeft nog altijd een groot effect, ver buiten de heliosfeer”, aldus Richardson. De ruimtesonde zweeft ook nog altijd binnen het zwaartekrachtveld van de zon. Wetenschappers verwachten dat de Voyager 1 over ongeveer 300 jaar de Oortwolk zal binnendringen, die veronderstelde sluier van kometen die zich tot op enkele lichtjaren van ons uitstrekt. Van de Oortwolk is nog nooit bewijs geleverd en dat zal waarschijnlijk ook niet van Voyager 1 komen. De sonde leeft nu al in extra tijd. Tegen 2025 zal de sonde waarschijnlijk geen enkel instrument meer kunnen voorzien van stroom. Al hopen wetenschappers als Kurth erop dat Voyager 1 in 2027 zijn vijftigste verjaardag na de lancering zal halen. “Dat zou een mijlpaal zijn die geen van de ontwerpers van Voyager 1 ooit had kunnen voorzien”, weet Kurth.
UFO Sighted Over Rugby, England ( April 24, 2021 )
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He doesn’t run the Pentagon’s secret Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) UFO investigation program anymore, but former head Luis Elizondo still commands attention when he talks about anything having to do with unidentified aerial phenomena and the U.S. government’s involvement with them – whether it’s Navy pilots and crew members seeing them, the government refusing to talk about them and anything in between. That’s why he’s in the news this week – Elizondo is weighing in on the promised (by the Trump administration) release of evidence and reports about UAPs by US intelligence agencies in June.
“This isn’t a silly conversation. This is a conversation about someone, somewhere displaying beyond-next-generation technology in our controlled airspace, and there’s not a whole lot we can do about it. And what I would do is submit to you that if we just take the word UFO out of it, just say Russia or China has the ability to fly in our airspace unimpeded. And without detection, within minutes of taking off. That’s a real problem.”
Luis Elizondo
In a news conference this week, Elizondo answered reports’ questions about the national security implications of foreign – earthly or extraterrestrial – aircraft in U.S. airspace that not only show up undetected but outperform our own by an order of magnitude or more in speed and maneuverability.
“And therein lies part of the challenge. I’ve been privy to witness to many extraordinary things. Unfortunately, ones that are classified I I’m not going to elaborate or share. But I’ve said for the record before, we’ve had video, you know, some of these videos are 20, 25 minutes long. In other cases, these things are 50 feet away from the cockpit, very compelling.”
In segments published by Mystery Wire, Elizondo assures the reporters that investigators don’t jump to conclusions based on single videos or reports, and he’s seen many of them but can’t comment because they’re classified. Will he be able to after the June release? He didn’t say, but he did reveal one particular series of UAP incidents that concern him greatly.
“There seems to be a very distinct congruency between UAP, associated UAP activity and and our nuclear technology, whether it be propulsion or weapon systems or whatnot. And that’s concerning to the point where we’ve actually had some of our nuclear capabilities disabled by these things. So, you know, again, let’s put this into context of foreign adversarial technology if Russia or China had the ability to disable our nuclear strike capability or defense capability. That’s pretty significant.”
That’s interesting because many people in the UFO research field who believe they are extraterrestrial also think the alien civilization controlling them is a benevolent one trying to stop humans from destroying themselves with nuclear weapons – hence the sudden and unexplained facility shutdowns. Elizondo sees the cause as earthly bad actors, but he has no proof … at least none he’s willing to share.
“I don’t know the answer. frankly, I don’t think anybody does. And anybody who tells you they do, I would approach them very cautiously. The bottom line is we don’t know. And we need to ask all the questions.”
Excellent advice. In fact, Elizondo will be right there with the reporters asking questions, because he believes this will not be a final report but an interim, with more to come.
“So, you know, I don’t think it’s going to be anything more than a ‘Hey, yep, there’s something here. We don’t know what it is. It could be some sort of new super advanced drone technology, but it could be something else. And here’s our here’s our plan for trying to figure it out.’ That would be that would be my hope and suggestion. And I think that’s, that’s probably more or less what, what we can expect.”
That’s coming from someone who was once on the inside collecting this data. Is he bracing alien believers for no evidence in their favor … while at the same time hinting that, four years after he left AATIP where he saw UFOs pulling as many as 700 G-forces, flying at altitudes from 50 feet to 80,000 feet to underwater without a compromise in performance, having “no wings, no cockpits, no control surfaces, no rivets in the skin, no obvious signs of propulsion”, the government still has no idea what he saw or where they came from?
Is Luis Elizondo a brave whistleblower or an attention-seeker? We’ll know more in June.
Now and again, I’ve heard people in the UFO field claim that after the sensational story of the recovery of a “flying disc” by the U.S. Army Air Force outside of Roswell, New Mexico surfaced in early July 1947, everything went quiet. And that there was no more talk about Roswell until the mid-1970s. The seventies were when both Stan Friedman and Bill Moore (the latter being the co-author with Charles Berlitz of 1980’s The Roswell Incident) started to dig into the story. And, in doing so, uncovered a wealth of data that, collectively, strongly suggested what came down on the Foster Ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico, was not a regular balloon. A lot of people may not be aware, though, that there was a brief flurry of interest in Roswell in the mid-1960s. Had the UFO community decided to get deep into the case in the sixties, rather than wait until the mid-seventies, just maybe we would know far more of the legendary case than we do right now. All of this brings us to a man named Frank Edwards; a man with a fascination for the UFO mystery. In 1966, Edwards’ book Flying Saucers – Serious Business was published. Chapter four of the book is titled “Pick Up the Pieces.” It’s in that chapter you’ll see that Edwards turned his attention to the Roswell case that would eventually become known to just about everyone.
Before we get to Edwards, let’s see what the initial coverage on the Roswell event amounted to. On July 8, 1947, the public information officer at the Roswell base, Walter Haut, sent out a press release that told a startling story: “The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff’s office of Chaves County. The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff’s office, who in turn notified Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office. Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher’s home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters.” And, in just mere days the whole thing was dismissed by the media (when the military said the wreckage came from nothing stranger than a weather balloon) and the whole thing fell into obscurity. Now, let’s see what Edwards had to briefly say in 1966:
“There are such difficult cases as the rancher near Roswell, New Mexico, who phoned the Sheriff that a blazing disc-shaped object had passed over his house at low altitude and had crashed and burned on a hillside within view of the house. The sheriff called the military; the military came on the double quick. Newsmen were not permitted in the area. A week later, however, the government released a photograph of a service man holding up a box kite with an aluminum disc about the size of a large pie plate dangling from the bottom of the kite. This, the official report explained, was a device borne aloft on the kite and used to test radar gear by bouncing the signals off the pie pan. And this, we were told, was the sort of thing that had so excited the rancher. We were NOT told, however, how the alleged kite caught fire – nor why the military cordoned off the area while they inspected the wreckage of a burned-out kite with a non-inflammable pie pan tied to it.”
Kevin Randle said of Edwards’ version of events: “While the report was essentially correct in a gross sense, the details were nearly all wrong. But the point is that Edwards had exposed the Roswell case to a wide audience in 1966, when the book was published. Nearly everyone ignored the case because of the lack of detail, other than a location in the then small and anonymous town of Roswell.” Randle was correct. Edwards did get the key issues wrong. But, the important thing is that Edwards pursued a genuinely weird case that had been forgotten by so many for two decades. Had Edwards chosen to look deeper and further into what did or didn’t happen at Roswell back then, just maybe he would have found significant things concerning the case that still elude us to this very day.
Does this photograph and shock new evidence solve Rendlesham UFO mystery once and for all?
Does this photograph and shock new evidence solve Rendlesham UFO mystery once and for all?
EXCLUSIVE: The famous Rendlesham UFO did descend from the air and land in woods next to two US military bases 37 years ago - and this image that has surfaced proves it, it has been claimed.
Rendlesham UFO solved? Russ Callaghan (pictured) may have cracked the case.
UFO researcher Russ Callaghan believes he may have solved the case once and for all - and it has nothing to do with aliens, but a "UFO" capusule made by humans, he insists.
Mr Callaghan revealed his new theory at The Outer Limits Magazine's first ever UFO conference in Hull on Saturday to a stunned audience.
The Rendlesham legend, which happened around neighbouring bases RAF Woodbridge and RAF Bentwaters, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, has been dubbed Britain's Roswell, in a nod to the mystery of the UFO crash said to have taken place outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.
Rendlesham Forest UFO mystery: who, what, where?
United States Air Force security personnel John Burroughs and Jim Penniston were the first to report sightings of strange lights on 26 December 1980
Col Halt recorded a running commentary into a dictation device of their efforts to find the source of the lights
RAF Bentwaters was an airbase used by the United States Air Force during the Cold War until 1993
Other suggestions as to what was seen at Rendlesham include military project testing, a helicopter carrying a dummy Apollo capsule, light from the Orford Ness lighthouse and pranks by airmen
In 1983, the News of the World ran a front page story which proclaimed: "UFO LANDS IN SUFFOLK, And that's OFFICIAL"
The UK suspected alien event saw three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claim a "triangular-shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26, 1980.
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The capsule which Russ Callaghan says resembles the sketches made by witnesses of a triangular UFO.
The men first noticed lights and then a UFO "on the floor", and could not account for a 40 minute period while searching in the woods when their communication systems went "off air".
The three - John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston - later told of feeling "static" as they observed the object's flashing lights and hieroglyphic-like markings.
Former Colonel Charles Halt, 77, the most senior witness, who was base deputy commander at the time, was not present during the first encounter, but was told the next morning and investigated that night after officers shouted: "It's back, the UFO's back."
He went to investigate with a team who found three 1.5inch "impact holes," damage to the canopies of trees and "higher radiation levels" in the "landing" area.
He said they then saw a mysterious object in a field between the woods and a farmhouse with "a red light moving."
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A sketch made by John Burroughs of the triangular UFO he saw.
The ex-colonel said: ”It came towards us into the forest, moving, bobbing up and down in the trees. It was oval, about 100 to 150 yards away, with a dark centre and red around it.”
He claimed there were "sparks" coming from it and after a minute it "exploded and disappeared."
They then spotted objects in the sky, 3,000 to 4,000ft up.
Due to high interest in the case, the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) investigated the case and concluded the lights from Orford Ness lighthouse had been responsible for what was seen over the two nights in terms of lights.
However, this has not satisfied most UFO investigators, failing to explain claims of the UFO being on the ground on the first night.
Mr Callaghan also does not believe the lighthouse was fully responsible for what happened, although he did cast doubt on recent claims from Mr Halt, who insists a real UFO was probably involved.
Mr Callaghan said: "No, it wasn't the lighthouse in my opinion."
Some investigators claim the timing of the lighthouse rotations were in sync with the light sightings observed by Mr Halt on the second night.
But Mr Callaghan was not convinced, saying the old-style analogue recorder used may have had inaccurate timings.
He said: "I don't think they were recording the lighthouse as everyone on the base was aware of where the lighthouse was."
However, Mr Callaghan had spoken with the lighthouse attendant working that night who told him he had met with Mr Halt.
The lighthouse worker said the eyewitness accepted the lights he described did probably originate from the lighthouse.
Mr Callaghan believes if aliens were involved there would have been more mystery observations on the night.
He said: "We are talking about nuclear bases. If something invaded from space they would know about it and there would be a big reaction.
"There was allegedly photos and film taken of the UFO at the time, but we have never seen any of it."
The ARRS practiced on a mock up. This is the one that was at Bentwaters, it is in Florida now. What is interesting is it was on three legs.
Russ Callaghan
Now, he believes he may have obtained a photograph of what the men saw.
Mr Callaghan has discovered that the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron was based at RAF Woodbridge at the time of the incident.
The ARRS was a separate unit to Mr Halt's, and would not have to brief them on what it was doing, he said.
This squadron was involved in the recovery of the command module capsules used during the Apollo moon missions and, during the 1980s, the recovery of film sent back to Earth in capsules from spy satellites.
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Rendlesham UFO: Russ Callaghan giving his theory at the conference.
They were recovered by a helicopter once they landed back down, and the ARRS used a mock-up capsule for practice sessions.
Mr Callaghan produced images of the capsule that was actually used at RAF Woodbridge on the night in question.
He said documentary film makers in the Rendlesham case had always left out details about the ARRS crew and the capsule.
He said: "There was no Apollo in 1980, but satellite photographs were taken on film that made entry back to Earth on a mini capsule.
"The ARRS practiced on a mock up. This is the one that was at Bentwaters, it is in Florida now. What is interesting is it was on three legs."
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Colonel Charles Halt (left) believes aliens visited Rendlesham.
The three airmen who claimed to see the UFO on the first night said the craft was on three legs, and had sketched it as such."
Mr Callaghan said he discovered the ARRS did a practice run on Christmas Day night 1980, but that it had run into problems, and "the chopper pilot dropped the capsule in Rendlesham Forest”.
He said: "They came back the next night to recover it. This could explain what they men say, but nothing I am saying here is proof positive."
Mr Callaghan believes the recovery operation could explain the subsequent large military presence in the forest, and that the ARRS would not have had to brief Colonel Halt's squadron on what happened.
However, the theory does not explain why the MoD investigation report did not offer this up as an explanation for the sighting and just blamed it on the lighthouse.
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Questions also remain on why the US Veterans' Association agreed in 2015 to pay the medical bills of Mr Burroughs who claims exposure to high levels of radiation during the "UFO encounter" left him with heart problems.
UFO believers in the conference did not appear impressed by the theory.
In a question and answer session with Mr Callaghan, former policeman John Hanson, who recently published The Halt perspective, about the former colonel's involvement in Rendlesham, said: "It is strange colonel Halt would accept what he saw was the lighthouse, because what he was talking about was thousands of feet in the sky."
The Crop Circles are often believed to be created by aliens, as there is no proper explanation behind this phenomenon.
During a conference break another UFO researcher discussed the claims with Mr Hanson.
He said to him: "I'm an ex-cop, your an ex-cop, and we look at things in a balanced way.
"He's just rubbished everything.
"How do we know he’s not here just to discredit everything?"
ANOTHER ALIEN CRAFT PHOTO FROM THE FAMOUS RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT IN ENGLAND
ANOTHER ALIEN CRAFT PHOTO FROM THE FAMOUS RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT IN ENGLAND
DECEMBER 26, 1980…..RENDLESHAM FOREST ENGLAND
Hello my name is Richard, I am writing to see if you might be interested in my true UFO story regarding an encounter with a flying saucer back in 1980? With recent claims regarding the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident, I thought I would strike while the iron is hot, I have always intended to make my story available for public scrutiny before my death and I feel like the time is now right to do so.
Let me take you back to December 26TH 1980, a day that would ultimately change and ruin my life forever. It was a bitter cold night and as a serving police officer I was on duty. I was attending to a report of a possible domestic/disturbance/argument in the town of Woodbridge, located in Suffolk, 7 miles north-east of Ipswich in the East of England.
I was roughly about a quarter of a mile away from Woodbridge when for no apparent reason my police radio was suddenly swamped with interference, static electricity and crackling noises started to emerge from it, so I decided to pull my vehicle over to the side of the road and see if I could figure out what the problem was.
No sooner than I had stopped the vehicle there was an intensely bright flash of green light that lit up the whole interior of the car like a christmas tree. (see image)
Not sure what to make of what had just happened. I got out of the car to see if I could possibly figure out what caused it. Not really expecting to see anything I was completely shocked to discover a huge green-whitish, glowing, illuminated, phosphorescent disk/saucer shaped craft hovering directly above me in the sky, it was an incredible and unbelievable but frightening spectacle to witness, my skin started to tingle and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.
The saucer was huge, slowly rotating and was making a quiet/soft whirring noise. As a police officer I always carried a polaroid camera in the boot of the police vehicle whenever on driving duties, it’s just something that I did.
I rushed to the boot and obtained my camera, I fired off three shots, I then stood there somewhat shaken and continued to view this object. After what felt like an eternity, but was no more than just over a minute or so, the saucer suddenly and without warning soared up high into the night sky at breathtaking and phenomenal speed and was literally gone and out of sight in a nanosecond, I was left standing there thinking to myself what the hell just happened?
Two of the photos came out completely fogged and showed absolutely nothing, but luckily one came out almost perfect and showed the saucer in all it’s glory, I have included that original and untouched polaroid with my email.
The time of my sighting was precisely 1.55 AM. It really was like something out of a star trek movie, to be honest, words are inadequate to even begin to try and explain just how fantastic and how mind blowing this encounter was, and the colour of the saucer, it was like no other green I have ever seen, the photo really doesn’t do it justice, dont get me wrong it’s a wonderful polaroid but to see that saucer hovering in the sky and the sheer size of it, and the phenomenal speed at which it departed, the two simply don’t compare, it was a truly mind blowing experience that no photograph could ever capture.
I had a very difficult time coming to terms with what I encountered on that December evening. Back then in 1980 there was no one to turn to, it’s not like it is today, what with the internet and a simple click of a few buttons and you are instantly online talking to support groups etc, it just wasn’t like that back then, plus I never wanted to tell anyone anyway, I mean would you?
And especially being a serving police officer it just simply wasn’t an option, so I just filed it away in the back of my mind and tried to get on with my life. That wasn’t to be though, soon after my encounter I started suffering with anxiety and panic attacks and clinical depression, I suffered terrible and frightening nightmares also and it wasn’t long before things started to destroy my marriage.
I took time off work but it didn’t help, all I did was drink myself into oblivion and sleep all day. Eventually I confided in my wife and decided to seek professional help. I ended up in therapy, I had a psychiatrist, I was on antidepressants, this whole UFO encounter turned my life upside down and eventually I had to leave the police force on medical grounds and unfortunately I have never worked another day since.
I have suffered with terrible physical and mental health problems ever since this thing happened and I know for a fact that all my health conditions are a direct result of my encounter with a flying saucer, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, not even my worst enemy.
That wasn’t the end of it, I also received menacing and threatening telephone calls, even death threats a few weeks after my encounter and a couple of months later my home was subjected to an attempted arson attack, my wife believed at the time that this was an attempt by someone to try and destroy my photographic evidence and intimidate me into keeping my mouth shut, it certainly was a very unsettling and frightening time.
I can tell you this also, several days after my encounter a very good friend of mine who was a high ranking senior police officer told me that he was visited at home by 3 men claiming to be military intelligence, he said he was simply TOLD in no uncertain terms that if anyone mentions the word UFO then simply tell them that they probably saw the lighthouse and simply tell them it was faulty at the time, he said they gave him other information but he wouldn’t disclose it to me.
I also heard quiet a few strange tales from members of the public in the months that followed my UFO sighting, none of them were ever reported for fear of ridicule, they may sound far fetched to most people but not to me, not after what I saw.
One man told me that on the 28TH December at 3AM he was awoken by his dog barking furiously at the back kitchen door, he said he opened the door and there was a small glowing orb hovering around his back garden, he said the orb shot off and his dog chased after it, suddenly it went silent and when he got around the corner of his garden the orb had fled and all that was left of his dog was a gooey puddle, he claimed his dog had been vaporized, I asked him if he reported it, he just looked at me and laughed and asked me if I was mad.
One woman told me that on the 26TH December at 2.30 AM she woke up and found herself in a forest staring at a glowing pyramid surrounded by several small humanoid entities, within seconds she claims she was suddenly back in her bed. I could tell you more incredible stories I heard and maybe one day when I have more time I will.
For all those individuals out there who simply think that the Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident was nothing more than a flying lighthouse or can be explained away by some other ridiculous explanation, let me say this, spare a thought for all those who were caught up in this, it was real, it happened FACT, end of story.
Hopefully one day soon and especially within my lifetime, I hope that all the information the government have including photographic evidence is released and made available to the general public as we all have a right to know the facts and truth as to what really happened in Rendlesham Forest.
I can’t mention any names or say too much, but a very trusted source told me that there are still many witnesses to come forward with their evidence. That person also told me that everyone thinks that the visitors were looking for nuclear weapons, they told me that is complete nonsense and the true explanation is that the visitors had boots on the ground and were doing something in the forest, still yet unknown and one of their team was captured, killed, bagged and tagged by the military and shipped out to a secret location for analysis and to be studied and that’s the reason the visitors were seen for several days, at one point shining beams of light down as they were obviously looking for one of their own.
Makes perfect sense when you think about it, why would a biologically and technologically advanced race of extraterrestrials capable of interstellar and probably intergalactic space travel be interested in such things? That would be like NASA suddenly releasing a statement expressing their interest in caveman technology! I will leave you all with this thought…
THOSE WHO SPEAK DO NOT KNOW, THOSE WHO KNOW DO NOT SPEAK!!!!!
If you are interested in my true story and my photographic evidence and would like to use it for your publication/website etc, then you have my full blessing and permission to do so, all I would say is please keep my name out of the public domain and treat it with the strictest of confidence.
Brand new Interview with LUIS ELIZONDO – Must watch!
Brand new Interview with LUIS ELIZONDO – Must watch!
Luis Elizondo (Youtube)
Interview with LUIS ELIZONDO, controversial Pentagon whistleblower Luis Elizondo, former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which operated out of the secretive fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring.
US Navy 'showed 9 more UFO videos' during briefing – including a 'war zone' encounter
US Navy 'showed 9 more UFO videos' during briefing – including a 'war zone' encounter
EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell's release of a video showing "pyramid-shaped" UFOs swarming around a US Navy destroyer hit headlines around the world. But it could be just the beginning
The explosive footage of "pyramid-shaped" UFOs swarming a US Navy destroyer may just be the beginning, with the filmmaker behind the leaks claiming there are “nine” more videos.
Three photos of a “spherical” craft which was observed “descending into the water” by the crew of the USS Omaha in July 15, 2019, were also published on his website extraordinarybeliefs.com.
And he has since shared a fourth image of the Omaha craft to Instagram, which he says is a screenshot from the video.
The incredible images were taken, Jeremy says, from a classified UFO briefing conducted by the Office of Naval Intelligence on May 1, 2020. But the material the filmmaker released were unclassified aspects of the briefing.
One of the pyramid-shaped UFOs captured by the US Navy(Image: Jeremy Corbell)
“There are [a total of] 10 videos and 10-12 photos,” he explained, meaning there are a further nine videos yet to be released. “A lot of them are FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared), just like the tic-tac [seem in the infamous Nimitz encounter].
“There are objects that are clearly visible, I say objects I mean UFOs. That’s why this report was put together because everything they’re showing you is yet to be identified.
Jeremy released a fourth image of the USS Omaha UFO on April 21(Image: Jeremy Corbell)
“There is more evidence. There is some footage in a war zone, in an active war zone through FLIR camera.
“This is what has been conveyed to me and I have been able to verify this content with numerous sources.”
Jeremy, who has produced numerous documentaries for Netflix, explained the purpose of the briefing where the UFOs were discussed was to educate high-ranking officials.
“This footage represents educational material that our Department of Defense, intelligence agencies and armed services use to educate individuals and these agencies of the UFO presence on Earth,” he told Daily Star.
Three screengrabs from the US Navy's video of pyramid UFOs(Image: Jeremy Corbell)
“I’m not saying I know what is in these videos, that is job of the Department of Defense. I know UFOs are real and they represent a technology that is so far advanced from anything that human beings have been able to demonstrate that it leads one to this place of mystery and wonder.”
The 44-year-old, based in Los Angeles, US, published the material just two months before the Pentagon’s eagerly-anticipated report on UFOs will be released.
In a mammoth appropriations bill in 2020, the US government called for the release of an unclassified and all-sources report on unidentified aerial phenomena on June 1.
Jeremy Corbell spoke to Daily Star about his explosive release(Image: Daily Star)
And Jeremy hopes his incredible story will help the wider public to “push for UFO transparency” with governments around the world.
“Right now is the time, globally, for everyone to push for UFO transparency because we actually have a chance to make a difference to get more information,” he continued.
“It’s an astounding time, it’s an exciting time and we’re just all lucky to be a part of it.”
As well as his website, you can keep up to date with all of Jeremy's work on his Twitter and Instagram pages.
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity broke new ground during its latest Red Planet flight, as video of the sortie shows.
Ingenuity took off early Sunday morning (April 25) on its third and most ambitious Martian mission yet. The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper traveled a total of 330 feet (100 meters) laterally, stayed aloft for 80 seconds and reached a maximum speed of about 4.5 mph (7.2 kph), smashing the marks set on its previous two flights.
"Today’s flight was what we planned for, and yet it was nothing short of amazing," Dave Lavery, the Ingenuity program executive at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement Sunday. "With this flight, we are demonstrating critical capabilities that will enable the addition of an aerial dimension to future Mars missions."
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity takes its third flight on the Red Planet in this photo from the Perseverance rover taken on April 25, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Perseverance rover watched the action from about 210 feet (64 m) away on Sunday morning, capturing high-resolution video with its powerful Mastcam-Z camera system as it did on the previous flights. Ingenuity stayed in frame during those first two sorties, but it leaves the scene in the new footage, staying off-camera for about 24 seconds as it explores Wright Brothers Field, the name team members gave to its designated flying zone.
Perseverance and Ingenuity landed together on the floor of Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. The technology-demonstrating rotorcraft deployed from the rover's belly on April 3, starting the clock on Ingenuity's month-long flight campaign.
That campaign will include two more flights, if all goes according to plan. And flight number three could be just a warm-up act for what's to come: Ingenuity team members have said they intend to really push the helicopter's limits on the final two hops.
Perseverance is a crucial part of this work, which is designed to show that aerial exploration is possible on Mars. In addition to serving as mission photographer, the car-sized rover is a relay station for Ingenuity, transmitting all communications to and from the little chopper.
But Perseverance needs to start focusing on its own mission soon, which is why Ingenuity gets just one month to fly on Mars. The rover has two main tasks: hunting for signs of ancient Mars life on Jezero's floor, and collecting and caching several dozen samples. A joint NASA-European Space Agency campaign will haul that pristine Red Planet material to Earth, perhaps as early as 2031.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
Douze nouvelles « croix d’Einstein » découvertes par Gaia
Douze nouvelles « croix d’Einstein » découvertes par Gaia
Nathalie Mayer - Journaliste
Les astronomes parlent de croix d’Einstein pour désigner un mirage gravitationnel. Le dessin produit lorsque la lumière d'un quasar lointain est déviée par des galaxies de premier plan, formant quatre images disposées en croix du même quasar. Et c'est quelque chose de rare. La première croix d'Einstein n'a été observée qu'en 1985. Depuis, une cinquantaine de plus, seulement, avaient été découvertes.
Cette infographie montre comment se forme une croix d’Einstein. À l’arrière-plan, la lumière d’un quasar se dirige vers la Terre. Sur son chemin, des galaxies jouent le rôle de lentilles gravitationnelles. Et lorsque la lumière du quasar arrive à nous, elle semble venir de quatre sources différentes.
Pour observer des croix d'Einstein, il fallait, jusqu'alors, une imagerie à haute résolution spatiale. Mais la mission Gaia a changé la donne. Car l'observatoire sillonne le ciel tout entier tous les quelques mois, avec une résolution spatiale inégalée. Et c'est ainsi que les chercheurs du Gaia Gravitational Lenses working group (GraL) viennent juste d'annoncer la découverte de pas moins de douze nouvelles croix d'Einstein.
Les douze nouvelles croix d’Einstein nouvellement découvertes grâce à la mission Gaia.
Une bonne nouvelle lorsque l'on sait que ces objets sont des outils uniques lorsqu'il s'agit de mesurer des paramètres cosmologiques fondamentaux. La constante de Hubble, par exemple. Grâce aux variations naturelles de la luminosité des quasars. Et aux moments différents où elles se montrent dans chaque image après que la lumière a parcouru un chemin différent dans l'Univers.
En 2011, le télescope spatial Hubble avait permis de découvrir cette belle croix d’Einstein formée par un quasar situé à 11 milliards d’années-lumière de notre Terre, dans la direction de la constellation de Pégase.
Possible Cryptid “Nightcrawler” Appears On Highway Near Sydney
Possible Cryptid “Nightcrawler” Appears On Highway Near Sydney
Mitch Kuhne was driving back to the Gold Coast along the Hume Highway near Bardia, Sydney just before 8pm on Sunday when he claims to have spotted a small child standing on the road, reports
Mr Kuhne reported and claims he was later told by an officer that the child had been found but police have since said that while a search was conducted no child was discovered in the area.
When we take a closer look at the “ghost” child then the shape of the figure resembles that of the so-called Nightcrawlers.
These peculiar creatures drift eerily through the night, leaving many wondering if their origins are earthly or extraterrestrial.
According to Native American folklore, these creatures, strange upright standing thin creatures with no arms, have existed for hundreds of years and have lived along-side humans peacefully.
Despite there is very little evidence to prove that these so-called Nightcrawlers are real undiscovered cryptids, in 2011, there have been multiple CCTV camera sightings of strange upright standing thin creatures with no arms walking endlessly at night.
The first appearance of a Nightcrawler took place in Fresno, California and the second appearance took place in Yosemite National Park.
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Turned Martian CO2 Into Oxygen
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Turned Martian CO2 Into Oxygen
It's the "first instrument to produce oxygen on another world."
Image by NASA
A toaster-sized scientific instrument attached to NASA’s Perseverance rover just sucked up a bit of carbon dioxide from the surrounding Martian atmosphere and converted it into oxygen.
It’s a groundbreaking first that could lead to a future in which space travelers are not only able to generate air to breathe, but rocket fuel to get them back to Earth as well — while still on Mars.
The instrument, called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE), is a technology demonstration that could eventually be scaled up to produce enough propellant to enable a crew of astronauts to take off from the surface of the Red Planet.
“This is a critical first step at converting carbon dioxide to oxygen on Mars,” said Jim Reuter, associate administrator of NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD), in a statement. “MOXIE has more work to do, but the results from this technology demonstration are full of promise as we move toward our goal of one day seeing humans on Mars.”
“Oxygen isn’t just the stuff we breathe,” he added. “Rocket propellant depends on oxygen, and future explorers will depend on producing propellant on Mars to make the trip home.”
To get a crew of four astronauts off of the Martian surface, you would need about 15,000 pounds of rocket fuel and 55,0000 pounds of oxygen, according to NASA. To breathe, though, you’d only need about a metric ton for a crew of four for an entire year, according to MOXIE’s principal investigator Michael Hecht.
Schlepping all that oxygen all the way to Mars would be complicated and costly. That’s why scientists are considering extracting oxygen in situ.
To convert the carbon dioxide, MOXIE had to heat up the gas to about 1,470 degrees Fahrenheit. It managed to produce about five grams of oxygen, which is about 10 minutes worth of breathable oxygen. It generates up to ten grams of oxygen per hour.
Hecht is now planning to “push the envelope” and have MOXIE try new operating modes or attempt to extract oxygen at varying temperatures.
“MOXIE isn’t just the first instrument to produce oxygen on another world,” said Trudy Kortes, director of technology demonstrations within the Directorate. It’s also the first to lay the groundwork for future missions that could make use of in situ resources.
First, we had NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity perform the first ever controlled flight on the surface of another planet — and now this. Hats off to NASA’s tremendous efforts to bring Mars nearer to us than ever before.
MOXIE Being Installed in Perseverance: Technicians at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory lower the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) instrument into the belly of the Perseverance rover.
Workers installing MOXIE into the chassis of the Perseverance Mars rover at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on March 20, 2019.
After a two-hour warmup period, MOXIE began producing oxygen at a rate of 6 grams per hour. The rate was reduced two times during the run (labeled as “current sweeps”) in order to assess the status of the instrument. After an hour of operation the total oxygen produced was about 5.4 grams, enough to keep an astronaut healthy for about 10 minutes of normal activity. Credit: MIT Haystack Observatory
Illustration of the MOXIE instrument, depicting the elements within the instrument.
An abduction case from Australia has resulted in what may be the world’s first DNA test of abduction-related biological material.
The intriguing results raise many questions about the physical nature of abduction and also illustrate the need for more intensive scientific research on this worldwide mystery.
The full case report by leading Australian researcher Bill Chalker was published in the Spring 1999 edition of International UFO Reporter, the quarterly journal of the Chicago-based J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). The following summary is published with Chalker’s permission and assistance.
Peter Khoury, the subject of this case, was born in Lebanon in 1964 and moved to Australia in 1973. There he met his future wife Vivian at school in 1981. Peter and Vivian were married in 1990 and now have two children. They live in Sydney. Peter works in the building trades and has owned his own business in cement rendering.
Peter and Vivian had their first UFO experience in February 1988, a simple sighting of unusual moving lights. But in July of that year, Peter had a deeply disturbing, consciously remembered contact experience that, he says, changed his life. While lying on his bed, he felt something grab his ankles. He suddenly felt numb and paralyzed, but remained conscious.
Then he noticed three or four small hooded figures alongside the bed. He experienced telepathic communication with one or more of these beings; he was told to relax and not be afraid because “it would be like last time.” He then saw that they were about to insert a long needle into the side of his head, whereupon he blacked out.
He jolted awake some time later, leaped out of bed and ran into the living room where he found his father and brother apparently dozing. Both he and his brother felt that only 10 minutes had passed since they had last been awake, but they soon realized that an hour or more had passed. The next morning, Peter and Vivian noticed that there was an obvious puncture mark on the side of his head, with a trace of dried blood.
At this time, Peter had never heard of alien abduction. His memories were vivid and alarming, but he could find neither answers nor comfort from friends and acquaintances. Then, some months later, he and Vivian drove by a roadside billboard with an image of Whitley Strieber’s book “Communion,” and they immediately got the book. Peter found numerous details in Strieber’s account that matched his own strange experience.
Peter’s subsequent attempts to connect with local UFO groups and experiencers proved frustrating. Eventually, in April 1993, he resolved to found a new group in Sydney, the UFO Experience Support Association (UFOESA), dedicated to helping people understand and cope with their unusual encounters. He remains the coordinator of that group today.
In July 1992, Peter had the experience that became the focus of this case study. Because the experience had disturbing sexual aspects, Peter was very reticent to talk about it.
He first mentioned it to Bill Chalker, one of Australia’s leading researchers, in 1996. He showed Chalker that he had recovered an unusual strand of hair from the encounter.
At the time, Chalker felt he could not do anything with the physical evidence, but over the next several years, he assembled a group of scientists and forensic investigators willing to work on UFO-related cases.
With his “invisible college” associates, Chalker discussed the possibility of doing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and sequencing of mitochondrial DNA that might be recovered from Peter Khoury’s hair sample.
In early 1998, these researchers — now calling themselves the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group — agreed to do the DNA testing on the hair sample.
Chalker points out that “alien” beings are most often described by experiencers as having no visible hair. But one type — sometimes called “Nordic” — is described fairly often as having distinctly human-like features including hair, often (though not always) blond in color.
A number of well-known abduction cases have involved human-looking beings with hair, including the 1975 abduction reported by Travis Walton in Arizona, and the 1957 Brazilian abduction reported by Antonio Villas Boas. Peter Khoury’s case has some similarity to that of Villas Boas, who said he was forced to have sex with an aggressive humanoid female aboard a landed UFO.
Antônio Vilas Boas
Khoury told Chalker that his encounter of July 23, 1992 began at 7:30 in the morning while he was in bed. He had recently been injured at work and was taking pain medication. Earlier that morning, he had driven his wife to work, then returned home and went back to bed for a short while. Suddenly, he bolted wide awake and sat up. There were two humanoid females sitting on the bed, both entirely naked.
These two women looked human in nearly every way. They had well proportioned adult bodies. One looked somewhat Asian, with straight dark shoulder-length hair and dark eyes.
The other looked perhaps Scandinavian, with light-colored (“maybe bluish”) eyes and long blond hair that fell half-way down her back. Her hair was especially notable to Peter Khoury. “I had never seen a hair style like that. It was curled something like Farrah Fawcett, but to an extreme… It just looked really exotic in a way,” he told Chalker.
But Khoury felt that these women were not exactly human. Their faces were somewhat odd — not unattractive, but too chiseled, with very high cheekbones and eyes that were two or three times larger than normal. Khoury took special notice of the blonde. Her face was too long, he felt. “I have never seen a human looking like that,” he said.
The blonde, who was sitting in a kneeling position on the bed, seemed to be in charge. Khoury thought she was communicating telepathically with the dark-haired woman, who was sitting with her legs partly folded under her. There was something stiff, almost blank, in the expressions of the women, Khoury thought.
Though stunned by the sudden appearance of the women, Khoury had only a few moments to consider how they could possibly have arrived in his bedroom before the blonde reached out with both her hands and cupped the back of his head, drawing his face toward her chest. He resisted. She pulled harder.
He kept pulling back. “She was pretty strong,” he told Chalker. “She pulled me over and my mouth was basically on her nipple. And I bit.”
Khoury said he doesn’t know why he bit the woman, but even though he felt a small piece of her nipple come away in his teeth, she did not cry out. But “the expression on her face was like, ‘this isn’t the way.’ In a way it was shock or confusion… She looked at the Asian one… and looked at me like, this isn’t the way it’s supposed to happen. You’ve done this wrong.”
Involuntarily, Khoury swallowed the small fragment in his mouth, and it caught in his throat. He went into a coughing fit. Suddenly, the two women simply disappeared.
Once he realized the women were gone, he tried to clear his throat by drinking water. It didn’t work. Then he had an urge to go to the bathroom. He realized that his penis felt very painful. Standing in the bathroom, he pulled back the foreskin and found two thin blond strands of hair wrapped tightly around.
He struggled to unravel the pieces of hair as the pain became an intense burning sensation. Finally he managed to removed the two pieces of hair and immediately put them in a small sealable plastic bag.
“The reason I did that was because I knew that there was no way, no way at all, that a hair that size and wrapped around the way it was should have been there…. Thinking of these women, the thing in my throat, the hair, something bizarre had just happened.” Khoury resolved to keep the hair sample in case it should ever prove useful in shedding light on his experiences.
The thing in Khoury’s throat stayed there for three days. He coughed constantly. He tried clearing his throat with water, bread, anything he could think of, but nothing helped. On the third day, the feeling in his throat just went away.
He did not want to tell his wife how his coughing fit had come about, but two weeks later he decided to tell her. “I was shocked,” he told Chalker. “She accepted it better than I did.”
The pieces of hair, carefully stored away since the encounter, became the subject of the first openly-reported scientific DNA test on a possible abduction-related sample.
The blond hairs were extremely thin and almost clear in color. It was determined that the hair was not chemically treated, because if it had been, little or no mitochondrial DNA could have been recovered. However, using the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) process, good quality DNA was recovered.
For comparison, samples were also taken of Peter Khoury’s hair and that of his wife Vivian. DNA was successfully extracted from Peter’s hair, but no usable DNA was recovered from Vivian’s hair, possibly because of chemical treatment.
After thorough testing of the hair samples, the scientists of the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group arrived at a startling conclusion. The thin blond hair, which appeared to have come from a light-skinned caucasian-type woman, could not have come from a normal human of that racial type.
Instead, though human, the hair showed five distinctive DNA markers that are characteristic of a rare sub-group of the Chinese Mongoloid racial type.
A detailed survey of the literature on variations in mitochondrial DNA, comprising tens of thousands of samples, showed only four other people on record with all five of the distinctive markers in the blond hair. All four were Chinese, with black hair.
Mitochondrial DNA is passed only from mother to child and therefore offers a means of tracing ancient ancestry on the mother’s side. The findings suggest that all four of the Chinese subjects share a common female ancestor with the blonde woman. But there is no easy explanation for how this could be.
Testing for nuclear DNA, if such could be recovered from the blond hair, would be more complex and expensive than the tests run so far, but might show that the lineage of the blonde’s father was even stranger than that of her mother.
But such testing must await funding that has yet to be found. So far, the members of the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group have financed all their work themselves.
Without the blond hair sample, the story told by Peter Khoury is but one more in an almost endless sequence of wrenching, but unprovable, abduction accounts. The hair, however, changes everything.
It undeniably exists, and thorough forensic testing shows that it is anomalous. It seems likely that no person with blond hair and an exact DNA match to Khoury’s blonde could be found in the city of Sydney, nor on the continent of Australia, nor — probably — anywhere in the world.
Who then was the being whose blond hair inexplicably became wrapped around Peter Khoury’s penis?
“Are we dealing with ‘humans’ from elsewhere, namely those with human DNA, albeit very rare and somewhat anomolous?” asks Bill Chalker.
“This case raises all sorts of issues, such as human ‘panspermia'” — the theory that human-like beings may have migrated to Earth in the fairly recent past from elsewhere in the galaxy, perhaps giving rise to the sudden appearance of modern homo sapiens sapiens, a species not directly descended from their immediate predecessors, the Neanderthals.
“Also, given the Asian mongoloid connection, we looked at the problem of European-like rare Asian types in the past,” Chalker says. “The controversial saga of the Taklamakan mummies in remote Western China is turning the early history of China on its head.
These mummies include people who are quite tall, some 6 feet or so, and some are blond. I’m not suggesting a connection here, but you can understand this investigation has opened up all sorts of interesting possibilities about the biological nature of some of the beings implicated in abduction cases.”
These questions will not be easy to answer. But supporting the work of the Anomaly Physical Evidence Group could help. Those able to offer financial assistance are urged to contact Bill Chalker at bill_c@bigpond.com for more information.
Written by Bill Chalker, Originally published: 1999 edition of International UFO Reporter (CUFOS quarterly)
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Filer’s Files 17 2021 - UFOs Over Vietnam War - PART I
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Filer’s Files 17 2021 - UFOs Over Vietnam War - PART I
Captain George A. Filer III Intelligence Officer Vietnam 1968
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
There is a new world coming
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In special reports, this week’s files cover: Brian O´Leary PhD Apollo Astronaut, UFOs Over Vietnam War, COVID bill stipulates release of UFO documents, Missile Attacks UFO, NASA Rockets Hit the Moon, Astronomers Admit to Triangles Traversing the Moon, Possible Appeal of Policeman’s Conviction, and The Book Secrets.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Italy, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book;and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Brian O´Leary PhD Apollo Astronaut There Is Life Out There
Brian O´Leary PhD former Apollo Astronaut states, “The technological implication of UFOs is one reason for the secrecy that surrounds them. The way they can stop on point and move any direction they choose brings up a big question; what type of propulsion systems and operating characteristics are involved? If we know UFOs are real, one of the questions to ask is how they operate and how they get to where they need to be.
Given all of the official documentation and credible witness testimonies, we are able to question further and make reasonable connections. With the amount of effort and time spent to cover up the reality of UFOs, it is logical to assume that the ones responsible for the cover up have the same questions that we do. How do they operate? Maybe more exists beyond the secrecy, maybe some questions have been answered and seized by those who control the money supply. Anti-Gravity, clean energy, the list goes on and on. Even without UFOs, human beings have the scientific and technological capability to change our planet. It’s time to start asking more questions, if we have alternative and more efficient ways of operating on planet Earth that could benefit everybody, why are they not being implemented and who is responsible?” Former Apollo Astronaut Leaks Info on Mars NASA Leaking
Brian O´Leary stated regarding Mar’s Ancient Civilization , it looks like we do have life out there and I think the public is ready to accept it.
MYSTERY WIRE — Military and intelligence officials say they remain baffled by UFOs that at have been encountered in recent years off both coasts of the United States. Many of the objects have been referred to as drones, but that is not what Pentagon investigators have said. Mystery Wire published the images which have since been reported by major news organizations USS Russell with UFOs above
The Pentagon has confirmed that the three photos, taken by Naval aviators off the coast of Virginia two years ago, are considered to be unknowns. Months later, ships on the west coast were repeatedly buzzed by other unknown intruders including what appear to be flying pyramids above the USS Russell, and multiple untraceable objects around the USS Omaha including a dark sphere that shadowed the ship for an hour, then vanished into the ocean. Aircraft from Naval Air Station Oceana is the center of airpower on the east coast of the United States has been chasing UFOS/USOs for. It is for years..
Since at least 2014, F-18 pilots flying into the zone designated W-72 off the coast of Virginia have reported encounters with a bizarre array of unknown, unidentified objects and aircraft, positioned directly in their daily flight path Thanks to: George Knapp
UFOs Over Vietnam War
Bill Cooper,
One aspect of the Vietnam War that has long slipped under the radar of the mainstream consciousness is that amongst the fighting and violence the conflict was absolutely rife with reports of UFOs in the sky.
Another comment on the matter was made by a Patrol Craft Fast (PCF), also known as Swift Boats, that could reach 239 to 30 mph were all-aluminum, 50-foo long boats Bill Cooper, who served in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969. During a UFO conference in 1989, Cooper would say of his own experiences:
After about five months I was sent up north to the DMZ, to a place called Qua Viet on the Ben Hai River. It was while there that I discovered that there was a tremendous amount of UFO and alien activity in Vietnam. It was always reported in official messages as ‘enemy helicopters’ but they were UFOs. Now any of you who know anything about the Vietnam war know that the North Vietnamese did not have any helicopters flying south especially after our first couple of air raids into North Vietnam Even if they had, they would not have been so foolish as to bring them over the DMZ, because that would have ensured their demise. Air Force F-4s were over the DMZ regularly.
Whatever the lights were that caused so much chaos continued to be sighted sporadically for months afterwards along the DMZ, furtively skirting around the area, wandering back and forth over the line, and baffling those who saw them. They were often sighted by radar roaming up and down the coast, and apparently no one could quite figure out what they were. They appeared on radar to be low, slow moving objects just like helicopters, but often there would be no visible confirmation or they would not look at all like helicopters. They were also prone to just disappearing into thin air, and jets scrambled to intercept the objects would arrive to find nothing there. Troops on the ground would sometimes witness the lights appear and disappear out of nowhere, and in one such case American artillerymen reported seeing a group of mysterious lights along the Ben Hai River, but when they had opened fire on them the objects had suddenly vanished as if they had never been there at all. At no point did anyone report seeing an actual helicopter, and the strange objects were always described as moving lights, often hovering erratically or moving in sudden bursts of speed inconsistent with a helicopter.
. There were theories at the time that somehow a misreading of radar signals had occurred, which had then made other friendly vessels appear to be slow moving flying blips, or that the North Vietnamese had more helicopter power than had been previously assumed. Patrol Boats reported firing on the enemy helicopters but it seemed the bullets were returned from the firing boats.
Captain Filer in Vietnam by Swift Boat
Editor’s Note : In Vietnam I briefed the Air Force Generals daily and took trips to visit veracious units such as the Navy Patrol boats and was warned that at a fork in the river there was a large concentration of Communist forces that always fired on their Swift boats. I arranged to fly over the area in one of our helicopters and sure enough at the River’s fork we were fired on from the ground. Returning to 7th Air Force Headquarters in Saigon I went into the Command Post and asked if there was any spare missions that I had a good target. Suddenly I was very popular since they didn’t have any good targets at that time and plenty of armed aircraft airborne. I gave them the coordinates and then the Navy personnel also wanted the target for a destroyer just off the coast. The next morning I briefed General Brown we had numerous secondary explosions probably hitting an ammunition dump at Communist Base at the Fork in the River.
Patrol Boat Action With UFOs
Swift Boat or PCF 12
By all accounts it seems that troops in the Vietnam War were absolutely plagued by UFO activity, and some of the most spectacular reports of alien encounters during the Vietnam War have to do with actual military engagements with UFOs. One such incident occurred on June 15, 1968, along the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Vietnam, where a Swift patrol boat known as PCF-12, commanded by a Lieutenant Pete Snyder, was on a routine night patrol near Cua Viet. PCF-12 commenced a running gun battle, firing its .50 caliber machine guns and zig zagging at high speed for well over an hour. During this battle, PCF-12 continuously radioed that it was under attack by an unidentified hovering aircraft. Response from command was “no friendly aircraft in the area”. In order to isolate the problem, U.S. Forces suspended all flying operations within PCF-12′s area of operation. Despite this measure, PCF-12 continued to be engaged with the enemy.
At 12:30AM, PCF-12 reportedly received a frantic distress call from another patrol boat in the vicinity, PCF-19, claiming that they were being attacked by unidentified lights they were calling “enemy helicopters,” which seemed odd because the North Vietnamese enemy were not known to utilize combat helicopters at the time. It is thought the UFOs had an electromagnetic Tesla shield that could somehow returns the bullets or missiles fired at them.
Snyder ordered the PCF-12 to head for PCF-19’s position to offer assistance, and they as they closed in reported spotting in the sky two circular bright lights immersed in a “strange glow” hovering over PCF-19’s position.
As they approached, one of the strange lights reportedly emitted a bright flash of light, after which PCF-19 exploded in a cascade of water and flying debris. Directly after the destruction of PCF-19, the two enigmatic lights were described as rapidly accelerating away towards the sea as PCF-12 scouted the area for any possible survivors of the carnage they had just witnessed. Two wounded men were found and recalled that the two UFOs had been trailing them for miles along the river. The survivors then claimed that they had decided to fire upon the threatening, mysterious objects, and that was when one of them had issued a piercing blast of light to obliterate the boat. PCF-19 was resting right side up on the bottom, with damage consistent with being hit by two rockets, with two entry holes in the forward berthing compartment and no exit holes. Three U.S. crewmen in the compartment were killed, and the South Vietnamese liaison was killed in the main compartment. At first it was thought by officials that the PCF-19 had been the victim of an enemy missile fired from shore, but a later AP dispatch from Saigon would quote a military spokesman as having attributed the loss of PCF-19 to an “unidentified object,” and not enemy coastal batteries or missiles.
The PCF-12 continued its patrol up the river and were soon approached by the same two unidentified lights, which took up positions hovering on the port and starboard sides around 300 yards away and 100 feet above the water. PCF-12 called in to headquarters to try and get an idea of what they were dealing with, but were met with the response that there were no aircraft in the area at the time. Realizing that these craft were not friendly, Snyder ordered his men to open fire on the lights, which apparently did little to faze or even slow them down, and PCF-12 began to retreat at full speed as the two mysterious aircraft tailed and stalked them, flickering in the night the whole time. Second engine man Jim Steffes would later claim that he got a good look at the craft and described them as having “a rounded front like an observation halo,” and what looked like “two crewman sitting side by side.”
Strangely, although no weapons could be seen mounted on the unidentified aircraft, PCF-12 nevertheless found itself being fired upon. Steffes remembered seeing tracer rounds piercing up into the night from the nearby base Point Dume, with their targets being what he said were other far-off blinking circular lights whizzing about in the sky above. Eventually, a group of Phantom F4 fighter jets arrived to converge upon and chase off the strange lights that were plaguing PCF-12 out to sea, leaving the crew to wonder what in the hell had just happened. Air Command repeatedly claimed no U.S. Aircraft was not in the area of the sinking of PC-19 on the night of this tragedy. This quick, 160 page read is packed with facts, evidence, maps and photos that will truly make you ruminate as to what the truth was with PCF-19 and question why even today this is still wrongly classified as a “friendly fire” incident. Unquestionably, Swift Boat Down: The Real Story of the Sinking of PCF-19 by James Steffes informs it was not friendly fire that destroyed the craft. Thanks to Brent Swancer
Editor’ Note: Actually you could get control of missiles with an alternating magnetic field. UFOs have taken control of intercontinental missiles as early as 1962, so it’s likely air to air missiles could also be controlled. The 2018 release of a Navy patent provides a compelling answer to what had happened during the recall. The carriers were secretly equipped with powerful electromagnetic “Tesla” shields that could neutralize all hypersonic and ballistic missile threats.
Another American ship was not directly attacked, but nevertheless allegedly had a very intimidating and threatening encounter with an Unidentified Underwater Submersible, or USO. In 1974 the ammunitions ship the USS Kilauea was operating in the Indian Ocean along with a destroyer and a carrier, and the witness claims that one evening at around 9PM he had been on deck with two friends looking up at the brilliant array of stars in the night sky. Their attention was drawn to the eerie beauty of the shifting light trails formed by phosphorus algae in the wake of the ship in formation in front of them, yet as they watched this light display of nature something else began glowing in the depths, becoming brighter and brighter until it became a blinding orange/yellow ball just under the surface. The mysterious blazing orb then spectacularly burst forth from the water to arch right over the top of the destroyer, just missing smashing into it, before crashing back into the ocean on the other side and sinking back into the dark depths. Where its base was likely located. The witness would say of the puzzling, frightening incident:
We all just stared at each other with our mouths open. We could not believe what we saw, but I asked friends of mine who were on watch on the bridge if they saw it and they all did. There was nothing ever reported that I know of though and we just quit talking about it. I bet the destroyer got a good look at it. It went right over the bridge of that ship and it was big. Maybe 150 to 200 feet in diameter. That was my close counter.
Huge: Trump COVID bill stipulates release of UFO documents
Triangle Over New Jersey
Bill signed into law last year by former President Trump could finally provide answers about the UFO phenomena.
A little known provision in a COVID relief package signed into law last year by former President Donald Trump could finally provide answers to important questions Americans have been asking for decades:
Are UFO sightings real? Do aliens exist? The $2.3 trillion dollar appropriations bill, which provided the American public with a much needed COVID financial boots, also contained a rider which may open the door to UFO disclosure. A stipulation in the bill’s Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2021 mandates, under the heading “Advanced Aerial Threats,” that the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense draft a report outlining everything the American government knows on the subject of little green men.
The report must be made available to the public, according to the stipulation, and must include details analysis of the UFO phenomena, including data and intelligence from the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the FBI.
At the Pentagon, it’s called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), and it has been ordered to prepare a detailed overview of the UFO mystery for submission to Congress. However, as Senator Rubio mentioned, there are already challenges to meeting this deadline.
Editor’s Note: I have sent an email to Senators Warner and Rubio concerning the Ft. Dix McGuire shooting of an alien in 1978.
Missile Attacks UFO
Video Of UFO Been Shot Down With A Missile
We are showing you this video of a UFO been shot down with a missile to show you that our missile defenses are getting a lot better. Our defense against UFOs is working and our earlier posts where we said that there’s a secret war going on with UFOs in the skies is been proved correct with this video.
It’s not decisive or conclusive proof that an Alien war is being waged in the skies of Earth but when we see videos like this, it proves that UFOs are been targeted, locked on and shot down.There is a secret war going on with UFOs and humans in our skies of which both sides are been shot out the skies. When it’s them, recovery teams move in and pilfer the contents and we all get a new iPhone or a new gadget to annoy the neighbors with. The technology to do this is all back or reverse engineered from the “very thing” that some people say started all this war in the first place! The UFO in this video is well and truly shot with a missile
The list is endless, because nowadays the brains in all the above mentioned countries are so far ahead that if Einstein was alive – he would probably not only have to contend with amazing “super computers” but geniuses, the likes of which are deliberately bred that way.
Genetically modified super humans are a reality, because in the US, you can order a designer baby!
Depiction of crashed UFO
And that’s according to MIT Technology Review. That is for real as the I.Q, hair color, athleticism, eye color, build, height – you name it there’s a doctor in the US who offers this..
NASA Rockets Hit the Moon
NASAs Moon Bombing Fizzles, the Public Yawns, Scientists Celebrate
After gearing up for the space agency’s much-hyped mission to hurl two spacecraft into the moon, the public turned away from the sky anything but dazzled. Photos and video of the impact showed little more than a fuzzy white flash. This mid-infrared image was taken in the last minutes of the LCROSS flight mission to the MOON on October 9, 2009, at a cost of $79 million Dollars. The small white spot (enlarged in the insets) seen within the dark shadow of lunar crater walls is the initial flash created by the impact of a spent Centaur upper stage rocket. Traveling at 1.5 miles per second, the Centaur rocket hit the LUNAR surface at 4:31 am UT, followed a few minutes later by the shepherding LCROSS spacecraft. Before crashing into the lunar surface the LCROSS spacecraft’s instrumentation successfully recorded close-up the details of the rocket stage impact, the resulting crater, and debris cloud. In the coming weeks, mission data will be used to search for signs of water in the LUNAR material blasted from the surface. Yet scientists involved in the project were downright gleeful. NASA’s much-anticipated ‘moon bombing’ mission in order to collect frozen water, may have literally hit a ‘dry hole’, as there were no billowing plumes of dust and ice visible after the impact. The dim impact suggests sandy soil was hit rather than rock The LCROSS spacecraft included nine individual science instruments. Planetary geologist Carle Pieters of Brown University in Rhode Island said, Widespread water has been detected on the surface of the moon.”
Moretus crater (top right) not far from the LCROSS crash site at Cabeus A (bottom center) allegedly had building like structure
This suite of instruments consisted of one visible camera, two near-infrared cameras, two mid-infrared cameras, a visible light spectrometer, two near-infrared spectrometers, and a photometer. All nine of those instruments were gathering data simultaneously and streaming that data back to Earth.
Last photo before impact close up suggest LCROSS rockets crashed into site at Cabeus A. Credit: NASA, LCROSS Mission Team You can view the crash
at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndZ483ztduE an hear the NASA Mission team stating, We can see very small craters within the large crater. Women voice states, We confirm a Thermal signature of the craters with our cameras; over.
W. Travis a DOD employee writes, The NASA video shows HD thermal pockets on the moon where the LCROSS rocket was supposed to hit. However, NASA says the selected area was chosen due to the extreme cold temperatures where the Sun would not have melted any ice. The thermal camera shows clear pockets of circular hot spots that are in unlighted areas on the moon. Experts claim the explosion would have been a very bright white spot on impact. There was not even the slightest hint of heat at the impact point even though NASA commentators said there were definite signatures from the explosion.
Other anomalies in the posted NASA video: The second stage of the rocket ends transmission clearly before impact, when NASA switches to the control room you can see a PC in the foreground still recording live images that we did not get to see. Shortly after the Mission is over, some congratulations were in order for everyone, except for the gentleman in the middle desk. He abruptly stands up, packs his laptop, and walks over to unplug his power pack. Another employee attempts to high five him; he sternly makes a remark and then exits quite quickly. Hmmmm! Thanks to W. Travis DoD Employee. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndZ483ztduE
LCROSS crash site at Cabeus A has building like structures. The image is an enlarged close up image of Moretus Crater structures at right image arrow that may have caused the infrared heat indications.
Moon Structure found under arm of NASA Technician
Is it possible that NASA bombed the moon in order to destroy an Alien base? According to many people around the world, the answer it’s a possible. According to a set of images and alleged reports, there are alien structures on the surface of the moon, and NASA launched kinetic weapon to destroy them, despite international laws clearly prohibiting it.
While seeing UFO’s on Earth and videos from space isn’t something new, in the last couple of years, a lot of attention has been drawn to Earth’s moon. There, on the surface of the Moon’s natural surface lay numerous ‘Alien’ Bases. The fact that many believe NASA and governments around the world have covered up information on these alien bases has become a widely accepted ideology in the last decade among ufologists and believers.
Astronomers Admit to Triangles Traversing the Moon
When it comes to The Great Taboo, everyone has an angle. Few are as unique as David Marler’sspecialization bonanza — “Triangular UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation” — which came out in 2013. Initially intrigued by the 1989-91 Belgian UFO wave, Mailer plunged headlong into the controversy following the Southern Illinois sightings of January 5, 2000, which became famous for among other things, igniting radio chatter among multiple police departments? His family also has a riveting personal back-story that no doubt greased the skids for his curiosity. Anyhow, recently at a
Florida MUFON meeting in Valrico, Marler made his pitch for a centralized and accessible digital database. Marler states the first documented discussion of observable triangles appears in an 1882 edition of Scientific American. More than a century ago, astronomers claimed to have detected “triangular luminous appearances” traversing the glow of the moon. Marler fleshes out additional 19th century references, as well as 20th-century triangle encounters observed generations before stealth designs were factored into the U.S. arsenal. Almost as amazing as the voluminous compendium of incidents is the mind’s-eye image of Marler’ sifting through reams of ancient newspaper, magazine, and journal articles to stitch these narrative threads together.
Triangle at high altitude :
An International News Service piece about 300 West Berliners reporting triangles above the divided city in 1953; Texas sheriff’s deputies reconstructing a highway game of cat-and-mouse for the Houston Chronicle in 1965;
Law enforcement agents relating tales of a “pyramidal UFO” to the Memphis Press-Scimitar in 1977; multiple witnesses, including a named FAA air traffic controller, detailing how a delta-shaped object followed a major freeway in 1978; “hundreds of residents” from Kansas to Missouri witnessing a triangle event in 1980 and chronicled in Missouri’s Express and News daily; Fort Worth’s, Texas Cross Country News recording how “hundreds of sightings” of triangle- shaped objects erupted across Florida, Georgia, Ohio and Michigan during two days in 1975 — this stuff goes on and on and on. In short, said Marler, “We don’t see an evolution in the technology of triangular UFOs . . . We’re dealing with a tangible phenomenon that’s been around for a long time.” The licensed hypnotherapist offered some broad characteristics about triangle-class UFOs: The overwhelming majority are nocturnal and silent. Landing cases are virtually non-existent. More often than not, they’re seen cruising speeds at below-radar altitudes, but they can rapidly accelerate. They are large, averaging 200-300 feet in length. They can hover and make sideways right-angle turns without banking. They can move in non-aerodynamic fashion, broad edges forward, tapered edges aft.
Editor’s Note: Early 1973, multiple sightings occurred around Piedmont, Missouri where my boss Bob Woods from Scott Air Force Base Military Airlift Command Headquarters Intelligence would go to investigate, Numerous branches broken from trees when a triangle landed.
Superstructures are sometimes observed, as well as shape-shifting properties. In fact, according to unfiltered National UFO Reporting Center surveys, categorically speaking, triangles trail only “lights” in eyewitness volume. Reports at night. In a 2012 listing of configurations, in fact, flying-saucer discs don’t even rate a bronze. “What we need,” Marler said in an appeal for more volunteer investigators, “are more bodies in the field” to gather data..
In his book, “The Hunt for Zero Point,” Jane’s Defense Weekly analyst Nick Cook writes “there has been speculation since the late 1980s about the existence of a secret replacement for the Blackbird, a mythical plane called the Aurora that supposedly flew twice as fast and on the edges of space” (p. 14). Other whistleblowers such as Edgar Fouche, a former contractor with the Department of Defense, have come forward to claim that the Blackbird’s replacement, the Aurora actually comprises two types of hypersonic aircraft used for space flight. He said: “The Aurora comprises the SR-75 capable of speeds above Mach 5, and acts as a mother ship for the SR-74 that can travel at speeds of Mach 18 or more into space to deliver satellites.”
More significant is the large triangular vehicle, the TR-3B that Fouche claims generates an intense magnetic field that reduces its weight by 89 percent. He says that the TR-3B uses the Biefeld-Brown effect (created by large electrostatic charges) to reduce its weight so that more conventional propulsion systems such as scramjets can give it amazing speeds. This would be well above Mach 18 (13,340 mph) that he claims is the speed of the SR-74. Fouche claims the TR-3B is 600 feet across which would make it similar in size to an aircraft carrier.
Possible Appeal of Policeman’s Conviction
Judge Peter Cahill blasted Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday for her threatening comments to jurors and inciting violence making a fair trial virtually impossible.
The judge overseeing the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd on Monday called recent comments by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters “abhorrent,” saying they could lead to a verdict being appealed and overturned. She asked for more violence if the policeman is not convicted. Democrats in Congress have refused to sensor her. Biden had also weighed in on the case before the verdict was announced, telling reporters that he was “praying that verdict is the right verdict” and that “I think it’s overwhelming, in my view.”
Chauvin’s lawyer, Eric Nelson, asked the judge to declare a mistrial. Derek Chauvin could get is conviction tossed out on appeal because no one could agree that it was not a fair trial with Minneapolis giving Floyds family 27 Million dollars during jury selection.
Judge Cahill denied the motion high ranking Democratic officials for threatening the jurors even before they heard the evidence. There is no justice for anyone accused if high ranking people threaten the jurors. I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function.”
SECRETS, by Fred Ellis Brock,
The third novel of The Seven trilogy, is out
A cross-genre thriller involving kidnapping, murder, and UFO conspiracies, it brings to a climax the struggle of Bill Sanders and Morgen Remley to stop The Seven, a super-secret group trying to overthrow the U.S. government. From New Mexico to the White House, the action is nonstop. The first two novels, THE SEVEN and SHADOWS, are available wherever books are sold. The publisher is Wyatt-MacKenzie. More information is at www.fredellisbrock.com.
(Note: Amazon has hundreds of books with “seven,” “shadows,” and “secrets” in the title. Search for the author’s name. The books will pop right up.)
From a review of THE SEVEN in the Arizona Daily Star:
“Is the idea of extra-terrestrial visits really as far-fetched as we think? In this debut novel, Fred Ellis Brock speculates on just how far government intelligence might go to keep an unsuspecting populace in the dark. Journalist and best-selling author Bill Sanders didn’t reach the top of his profession by being gullible, so he’s understandably skeptical when a boyhood friend claims his daughter has been abducted by aliens. But old loyalties run deep, so Bill reluctantly agrees to check it out — digging up the facts is his specialty, after all — and to his surprise they simply don’t add up. Even more disturbingly, people connected with his investigation are inexplicably turning up dead.
“In a lively plot that gallops across a landscape of disinformation and treachery, Brock’s hero peels away layers of artifice to arrive at the shocking heart of the intrigue. This is the first volume of a planned trilogy featuring Bill Sanders and his close encounters with “The Seven.”
“Like his protagonist, Brock is a journalist who has worked for major dailies including the Wall Street Journal, the Houston Chronicle and The New York Times, and has authored best-selling books on financial planning.” https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secrets-fred-ellis-brock/1139107376
(Note: Amazon has hundreds of books with “seven,” “shadows,” and “secrets” in the title. Search for Fred Ellis Brock, the author’s name.
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In special reports, this week’s files cover: Brian O´Leary PhD Apollo Astronaut, UFOs Over Vietnam War, COVID bill stipulates release of UFO documents, Missile Attacks UFO, NASA Rockets Hit the Moon, Astronomers Admit to Triangles Traversing the Moon, Possible Appeal of Policeman’s Conviction, and The Book Secrets.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, France, Italy, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book;and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Disc
Phoenix— on April 30, 2020, I was photographing sunset and noticed UFO in photo. Went back to see visually but could not as it was gone
California Object
Santa Monica– on April 14, 2021, I recorded videos while at the pier then the next day when I saw the blue orbs in the videos. I know it’s not normal, and want to know if you can explain what I’m looking at. Also my partner took a picture of my mother in-law and there was a giant black circle right behind her, we didn’t notice any of this till we say the videos and picture today.
Florida Object
Port Charlotte– on April 14, 2021, we were fishing and it came out of almost nowhere.
Illinois Object
Mount Vernon – October 22, 2020, took a picture and didn’t see the object until the next day although it could be a plane.
New Jersey Light
Hewitt– on April 17, 2021, The object was way too far to tell its distance, and much higher than a commercial airliner. My fiancée and I had just stepped outside when I looked up and noticed a very bright red/orange light far in the horizon coming in our direction, very high in the sky and extremely fast. I noticed that there was no possibility that it was a jetliner. We quickly pulled our phones and started recording this orb, the object would maneuver and change direction in ways I’ve never seen.
New York Lights
Deer Park – October 20, 2017, I’m sitting in my car waiting for my son to get out of work, as people are walking out there looking up so I look up and I see reddish orange round orbs. There is 10 and then another 10 and they’re going east. I call my daughter over as I only took a couple of pictures because my phone died. My son wanted to get home, and as I’m driving I see 30 maybe 40. When I get home, I look at the pictures and there’s two white objects with lights right where I took the picture. but I never saw them there. If I saw those objects I’d still be standing there . There was a helicopter in the distance, where they were coming from.
North Carolina Light
Taylorville – on April 9, 2021, I saw these objects on multiple nights with absolutely no sound. but chose to video this night.
Pennsylvania Cylinder
Broomall – on April 14, 2021, was at softball game and looked skyward at a jetliner and a light at 1000 feet above it. Trailing the jetliner was a bright cylinder.
Cranberry Township– on April 21, 2021, I was sitting in a drive through at a local fast food place and noticed 2 lights in the sky that looked like 2 north stars directly next to each other. I took a picture and noticed a disc shaped craft. I pulled out the drive through and broke eye contact for 30 seconds and it was gone without a trace.
Texas Lights
Gatesville – on April 4, 2021, I saw what looked like a string of Christmas-lights going across the sky. They were completely silent, higher than helicopters fly, but lower than a jet would fly. They were moving quickly and disappearing behind a cloud, but never came out the other side.
Note: The lights in the video are likely Star-Link communication satellites. However, normally the satellites are too dim to show up on most video recorders. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Virginia Object
Lynchburg – on April 11, 2021, object that reflected light passed over on video and appears to break into multiple objects that disperse in different directions. The objects did not have contrails like a planes and appear to be dispersing light or it’s reflected light.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Victoria Point — on April 17, 2021, was filming the sky and when playing back I glimpse something so played it frame by frame and saw orb drop from the sky through a cloud, then turned right and disappeared. Another orb appears hen I zoomed in
Canada Objects
Saint John— on April 20, 2021, have a photo and video of it.
Ottawa— on April 11, 2021 at 5:19pm. I was located downtown – behind Parliament Hill building. This thing flew right over top of Parliament and continued on its straight path, when I grabbed my camera and got this footage. Very limited aircraft are legally allowed to fly in this airspace, and this thing was completely silent. Didn’t look like a plane, or drone. I can’t figure out what it is?
Costa Rica Object
Poas Volcano — on November 1, 2016 snapped some of the landscape as we left the Doka Estate Coffee Plantation. I did not see or hear anything but when I went thru my photos, I noticed dark spots. In one photo, there are 4-5 objects in the same photo. Another photo, I believe I caught one near the Poas Volcano..
El Salvador Light
San Salvador – On December 15, 2020, orange-yellow fireball, moving from west to east, without anti-collision lights.
France Object
Lantignié — on May 7, 2020, I was use filming nature with my cell phone I saw the UFO. I mean I don’t know what it is. Can you help me as I am not good with phones and computers.
Paris –on December 31, 2020, I did not notice or observe the object directly but I was able to locate it after developing the 35mm negatives taken with a Pen tax analog camera. The object appears between the buildings. The photos I show are scanned from the printed photos.
Italy Object
Trento—on April 14, 2021, first an object remains stationary for 15 minutes in the sky (photo). then an object flies at high speed to that area (video)
UK/England Light
London– on February 4, 2021, was walking down Talgarth road in Kensington in the snow storm and somehow caught a glimpse of bright orange light in the sky. It was like a huge, fire – bright orange orb. It was moving forward but also spinning in very tight circles. I grabbed my phone and was only able to record 2 minutes of video as it was heading away. My camera definitely doesn’t do the brightness of the orb any justice. But it was as bright as fire .
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The flare was around 100 times more powerful than those emitted by the sun.
Artist's conception of a violent flare erupting from the star Proxima Centauri.
(Image credit: NRAO/S. Dagnello )
Scientists have spotted one of the largest stellar flares ever recorded in our galaxy. The jets of plasma shot outward from the sun's nearest neighbor, the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. The flare, which was around 100 times more powerful than any experienced in our solar system, could change the way scientists think about solar radiation and alien life.
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf — the smallest, dimmest and most common type of main sequence stars in the galaxy — located approximately 4.25 light-years from Earth. Its mass is only one-eighth of the sun's, and it is orbited by two exoplanets. One of these planets, Proxima Centauri b, is considered to be Earth-like and lies within the star's habitable zone — the distance from a star that could support the development of life, according to the researchers.
In a new study, researchers used nine ground and orbital telescopes — including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — to closely monitor Proxima Centauri for a total of 40 hours over several months in 2019. On May 1, 2019, the team captured the mega flare, which shone for just 7 seconds and was mainly visible in the ultraviolet spectrum.
"The star went from normal to 14,000 times brighter when seen in ultraviolet wavelengths over the span of a few seconds," lead author Meredith MacGregor, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder, said in a statement.
The power of this flare and type of radiation it emitted could change what we know about red dwarfs and the chances of life developing on the planets that orbit them.
A humongous flare
Stellar flares are the result of a star's strong magnetic fields. These fields — which are created by large amounts of electrically charged gas — can get twisted together and suddenly snap back into place to release an enormous amount of energy in the form of radiation, kind of like firing an elastic band at someone with your fingers.
The flare on Proxima Centauri was extremely powerful compared with those emitted by the sun. Unlike flares from the sun, this one also emitted different kinds of radiation. In particular, it produced a huge surge of ultraviolet light and radio waves — known as "millimeter radiation."
Artist's conception of a stellar flare as seen from the planet Proxima Centauri b, a potentially Earth-like world. (Image credit: NRAO/S. Dagnello )
"In the past, we didn't know that stars could flare in the millimeter range, so this is the first time we have gone looking for millimeter flares," MacGregor said in the statement.
This finding was possible only because the team monitored the star using such a wide variety of telescopes, each focused on a different part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
"It's the first time we've ever had this kind of multiwavelength coverage of a stellar flare," MacGregor said in the statement. "Usually, you're lucky if you can get two instruments."
The new findings suggest that stellar flares given off by red dwarfs are much more violent than previously expected and could reduce the likelihood of alien life developing around them.
Bad news for aliens
The type and amount of radiation given off by Proxima Centauri could make it very hard for life to survive on its orbiting exoplanets, which likely have no real atmosphere due to the powerful flares, according to the researchers. But it's not impossible for alien life to exist there.
"If there was life on the planet nearest to Proxima Centauri, it would have to look very different than anything on Earth," MacGregor said in the statement. "A human being on this planet would have a bad time."
Other red dwarfs likely give off equally powerful flares, thus decreasing the chances that red dwarf-hosted planets could support life. They also flare "much more frequently" than the sun, further reducing the chances of finding life in that star system, according to the researchers.
"Proxima Centauri's planets are getting hit by something like this not once in a century, but at least once a day, if not several times a day," MacGregor said in the statement.
The researchers now hope to use the wide variety of telescopes to focus on other stellar flares across our galaxy.
"There will probably be even more weird types of flares that demonstrate different types of physics that we haven't thought about before," MacGregor said in the statement.
Scientists detected one of the largest flares ever recorded in our galaxy and it came from our sun’s closest neighbor. A humongous flare erupted from Proxima Centauri and that could be bad news if there was any alien life near the star.
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star that is located about 4.25 light-years away from us. It is quite small and dim, measuring in at just one-eighth of our sun’s mass. There are two planets orbiting the star that includes an Earth-like world called Proxima Centauri b that is located in the habitable zone which means it could possibly host life.
However, the gigantic stellar flare that was emitted from the star was approximately a hundred times more powerful than the ones from our sun. This could have had major repercussions if there was life on Proxima Centauri b.
Flares on Proxima Centauri are about a hundred times more powerful than the ones from our sun.
Scientists studied about 40 hours worth of information on the star based on data gathered in 2019 by nine ground and orbital telescopes that included the Hubble Space Telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, and NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The flare was detected on May 1, 2019 and lasted seven seconds. “The star went from normal to 14,000 times brighter when seen in ultraviolet wavelengths over the span of a few seconds,” explained Meredith MacGregor, who is an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and the lead author of the study.
The flare contained a different type of radiation compared to our sun. It emitted a large amount of ultraviolet light and radio waves called “millimeter radiation”. In a statement, MacGregor went into further details, “In the past, we didn’t know that stars could flare in the millimeter range, so this is the first time we have gone looking for millimeter flares.”
The fact that they had so many different types of telescopes gathering data on the star definitely helped them as she stated, “It’s the first time we’ve ever had this kind of multiwavelength coverage of a stellar flare.”
A solar flare on our sun.
Since such a powerful flare was found emitting from a red dwarf star as well as the type of radiation, this could change the theory regarding exoplanets in their habitable zone. These flares would make it very hard for any type of life to survive on these planets and they probably wouldn’t have much of an atmosphere. Furthermore, these flares occur “much more frequently” than those emitted from our sun. “Proxima Centauri’s planets are getting hit by something like this not once in a century, but at least once a day, if not several times a day,” MacGregor said. And it’s quite probable that other red dwarfs emit the same types of flares which lowers the possibility of life thriving on planets close to them.
But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t some type of alien life on the exoplanet as MacGregor explained, “If there was life on the planet nearest to Proxima Centauri, it would have to look very different than anything on Earth.” “A human being on this planet would have a bad time.” The study was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
An artist’s rendition of Proxima Centauri’s flare can be seen here.
This is an artist's illustration of the violent stellar flare from Proxima Centauri.
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Artist's conception of a stellar flare as seen from the planet Proxima Centauri b, a potentially Earth-like world. (Image credit: NRAO/S. Dagnello )
Some UFO witnesses come with an impeccable pedigree, and really serve to bolster the claims that something weird is going on in our skies. When talking about a credible witness, the credentials of U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. are beyond reproach. A politician from the state of Georgia, he served 38 years in the Senate, becoming one of its most powerful and influential members during his service from 1937 to 1963, and also served as the Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933, as well as chairman of the Armed Services Committee from 1951 to 1969, even seeking the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1952 unsuccessfully, and at the time of his death in 1971 he was one of the most senior and influential senators of all time. He would certainly seem to be an incredibly qualified witness, and he would have a UFO sighting that would be covered up and show that even the highest up can have such experiences.
In 1955, Russell was the chairman of the Armed Services Committee and was on a fact-finding trip through Russia along with his military aide Lt. Col. Hathaway and interpreter Ruben Efron. On October 4, 1955, they were travelling by train through the remote Transcaucasus region when Russell looked out the window and spotted two disc-shaped UFOs taking off from a spot near the tracks. He immediately called for his aide and interpreter, who also saw the strange sight. Col. Hathaway would later say of the incident:
I doubt if you are going to believe this, but we all saw it. Senator Russell was the first to see this flying disc we’ve been told for years that there isn’t such a thing, but all of us saw it. One disc ascended almost vertically, at a relatively slow speed, with its outer surface revolving slowly to the right, to an altitude of about 6000 feet, where its speed then increased sharply as it headed north. The second flying disc was seen performing the same actions about one minute later. The take-off area was about 1-2 miles south of the rail line.
U.S. Senator Richard Brevard Russell, Jr.
The three men reported the sighting to the U.S. Air Force, being interviewed by a Lieut. Col. Thomas Ryan, who was the air attaché at the U.S. embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia, shortly after the incident, with Ryan saying, “The three observers were firmly convinced that they saw a genuine flying disc.” They were also interviewed by the CIA, who also interviewed a fourth unnamed witness whose name would be redacted, and who said the objects had a “slight dome” and a “white light” on top. The CIA found that the three witnesses described visibility as excellent during the encounter, that they had seen no sign of a trail or heard any discernible noise from the craft, which had a pinkish glow, and that the objects “rose vertically with the glow moving slowly around the perimeter in a clockwise direction, giving the appearance of a pinwheel.” The Air Force then went about putting it completely under wraps, as did the Russian government, and it was labelled top secret. Senator Russell also refused to go public with the matter, keeping tight-lipped about it all in the aftermath of the sighting. He refused to talk about it any further, and when approached by the Los Angeles Examiner’s Tom Towers Russell in 1956 he told him:
Permit me to acknowledge your letters relative to reports that have come to you regarding aerial objects seen in Europe last year. I received your letter, but I have discussed this matter with the affected agencies of the government, and they are of the opinion that it is not wise to publicize this matter at this time. I regret very much that I am unable to be of assistance to you.
It seems as if the whole affair was being subdued by the government, and it would all remain top secret until it got out into the open in 1985 when it was declassified after numerous Freedom of Information Act requests by Dr. Bruce Maccabee, of the Fund for UFO Research. Maccabee was very excited about the release of these documents, saying:
These long secret documents are of major importance because they show for the first time that one of the most powerful U.S. Senators witnessed and reported a UFO. Because they were no doubt advised not to talk. These documents provide startling new evidence that UFOs exist.
It is a curious case, in that the witness is so traditionally reliable, and the object was seen by others within his entourage, making it difficult to fully write off. There seems to be no reason why such a respectable politician would want to make up such a tale, and further making it curious are the efforts made to keep it all hush hush, prevent Russell from talking about it, and hide it from the public eye. What is the meaning of this encounter and what place does it have in the UFO phenomenon? There seems to be no further information, and it will probably remain another compelling, if ultimately frustrating account that we will never get to the bottom of.
During the course of the events that occurred in and around Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in December 1980, rumors circulated suggesting that radar tapes were taken from the Royal Air Force Watton base by U.S. Air Force personnel, who wanted to examine the alleged UFO evidence and see what, exactly, the tapes showed. This part of the story began in January 1981 with a writer named Paul Begg. It turns out that Begg knew a serviceman who was aware of something of the UFO incidents. It wasn’t long before Jenny Randles was able to speak with this particular source. Not wanting to jeopardize the man’s career, Randles chose to refer to him as “David Potts.” It was Potts who was able to put the pieces together. Potts told Randles that it was on December 29 when the Americans turned up at RAF Watton. Jenny learned that they took not just the radar-based data, but even the logbook for the relevant time. There was a very strange facet to all of this: the U.S. agents openly stated to their Royal Air Force counterparts that they needed the material because a craft from another world had come down in Rendlesham Forest. And they had orders to secure and scrutinize whatever material was available. While there is no reason at all to think that Potts was lying, the fact is that U.S. intelligence operatives simply would not stroll into a U.K. military base and loudly spout off about a crashed UFO. That’s not how the military works. And it’s certainly not how secrets are kept.
Clearly, and obviously, the Americans were there to further sow the seeds of the UFO story that had been created to hide the truth of the December experiments. No doubt, they knew that those who worked at RAF Watton, and who had been told the story by their American colleagues, would have a hard time keeping quiet on a hot potato like that! And, as history has shown, David Potts did not stay quiet. He went on to become a significant figure in the radar-based angle of the story. While the more sensationalized RAF Watton story has never been vindicated, there is proof that the base was involved to some degree. For example, in October 1988 I was directly informed by Squadron Leader E.E. Webster of RAF Watton: “Our log book for the period does indeed say that a UFO was reported to us by RAF Bentwaters at 0325 GMT on 28 December 1980 but that is all the information we have.” There is, however, more to come. On October 2, 1983, the News of the World newspaper reported that, “The first sighting of the craft over England was recorded on a radar screen” at RAF Watton. The NOTW added that, “Radar operators followed the progress as it flew over the East Coast until it disappeared.”
Moving ahead, in July 2015 the BBC took a look at the radar-driven side of all this. They told their readers: “New evidence has been gathered to back up claims a UFO landed near a U.S. airbase in Suffolk, a former deputy commander has claimed. Col. Charles Halt told the BBC he saw unidentified objects at Rendlesham Forest in December 1980. He says he now has statements from radar operators at RAF Bentwaters and nearby Wattisham airfield that an unknown object was tracked at the time.” The BBC got to the heart of the matter, as it relates to radar. They quoted Charles Halt as saying: “I have confirmation that (Bentwaters radar operators) … saw the object go across their 60 mile (96km) scope in two or three seconds, thousands of miles an hour. He came back across their scope again, stopped near the water tower, they watched it and observed it go into the forest where we were,” said Col Halt. At Wattisham, they picked up what they called a ‘bogie’ and lost it near Rendlesham Forest. Whatever was there was clearly under intelligent control.”
As fascinating as all of the above sounds, I’m still of the opinion that the “crashed UFO” story that circulated in the wake of the Rendlesham affair (and at Royal Air Force Watton) was deliberately created to hide something more down to earth: a top secret military experiment. In the next part of the story, I’ll demonstrate how easy it would have been for the team that ran the experiment to have made it look like UFOs were being monitored by radar, when in reality, the whole thing was a brilliant ruse.
Browns’ Quarterback on Recent UFO Sighting: ‘It’s real. I saw it. I believe’
Browns’ Quarterback on Recent UFO Sighting: ‘It’s real. I saw it. I believe’
Baker Mayfield’s offseason activities have included lifting, running, getting a guaranteed $18 million, and a close encounter he won’t forget.
Mayfield doubled down on spotting a UFO last month in Texas when he was driving home from dinner with his wife, Emily, on March 4 in Austin when he tweeted about witnessing a UFO.
The Browns quarterback knows the truth is out there. No it wasn’t a hoax or a Progressive commercial. Mayfield’s early March UFO sighting wasn’t taken seriously by everyone from Tampa Buccaneers Tom Brady to Fox Sports Radio Host Colin Cowherd. Still, during a Zoom call with the Cleveland media on Monday, nothing has changed his mind.
“I’m a firm believer on UFOs and Sasquatch,’’ Mayfield said Monday on a Zoom call with reporters. “It’s real; I saw it. He’s glad the Navy finally confirmed some more pictures. “Now everybody doesn’t think I’m as crazy. I believe.’’
Mayfield said the mysterious event took place while he and his wife Emily were driving home and had the music going from dinner in Austin, Texas. Emily was in the passenger seat looking at her phone at the time, Mayfield said. It was nighttime, and everything is dark around when looking at the phone screen, Mayfield added.
The UFO was bright enough that it caught even his wife’s attention. They looked at each other and asked if either of them saw it. “Other people in that area confirmed, too.”
Mayfield described the UFO via Twitter as a very bright ball of light going straight down out of the sky towards Lake Travis.
The strange tale of our first interstellar visitor keeps getting weirder.
The first known visitor from interstellar space, 'Oumuamua, was likely a pancake-shaped chip off a Pluto-like world, researchers say.
These findings may shed light on the stuff a new class of planet, an exo-Pluto, is made of, scientists added.
Astronomers first detected the mysterious visitor named 1I/'Oumuamua — meaning 'scout' or 'messenger' in Hawaiian — in 2017. 'Oumuamua's speed and trajectory revealed it originated outside the solar system, making it the first known interstellar object.
The second known interstellar object, 2I/Borisov, was detected in 2019. Borisov was very clearly a comet, spewing out gases and possessing a composition much like comets long seen in the solar system.
An interstellar comet? Asteroid? Something else?
An artist's concept of the 'Oumuamua interstellar object as a pancake-shaped disk. A new study suggests it was once part of a Pluto-like exoplanet. (Image credit: William Hartmann)
In a number of key ways, 'Oumuamua resembled a comet. For example, scientists could not explain its movements through space by the force of gravity alone. This suggested 'Oumuamua was jetting out gas from its sunlit side that was pushing it like a rocket, study co-author Steven Desch, an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at Arizona State University in Tempe, told Space.com.
However, if 'Oumuamua was a comet, it was unlike any previously seen in the solar system. It lacked any detectable escaping gas, unlike the big tails typically spotted streaming from comets. In addition, its shape — resembling either a cigar or a pancake — was unlike any known comet. Moreover, the rocket-like push seen from 'Oumuamua was stronger than what researchers expected from comets.
"Everybody is interested in aliens, and it was inevitable that this first object outside the solar system would make people think of aliens," Desch said in a statement. "But it's important in science not to jump to conclusions."
Now scientists find 'Oumuamua might not be a piece of alien technology, but a chip off a Pluto-like world.
A strange new object
Researchers speculated that 'Oumuamua was not made largely of water ice like known comets, but perhaps of other kinds of ices. They calculated how quickly such ices would sublimate — convert from a solid directly to a gas — as 'Oumuamua flew by the sun, and the rocket-like push it would get from these escaping gases.
The scientists also noted some ices are far more reflective than often assumed. If 'Oumuamua was made from these shiny ices, it might be smaller than previously estimated based on the light that astronomers detected from it. A tinier size for the interstellar visitor would mean any push from sublimating gases would have a larger effect than usually seen with comets, helping explain the unexpected speed with which it zipped away from the sun.
The researchers found one ice in particular — solid nitrogen — could explain all of 'Oumuamua's features and behavior. Solid nitrogen ice is seen on the surface of Pluto and Triton, suggesting this interstellar visitor could be made from the same material. "It was very satisfying to refine our calculations and see everything fall into place," Desch said.
Any nitrogen gas escaping from 'Oumuamua would have proven very difficult for astronomers to detect with the telescopes used to monitor it. "In essence, there was a tail like one would expect for a comet, it is just that because of what it is made of, we didn't detect it," study co-author Alan Jackson, an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at Arizona State University in Tempe, told Space.com.
An interstellar flapjack
An artist's illustration of the evolution of the interstellar object 'Oumuamua, whose weird, elongated shape may have come from tidal forces. (Image credit: YU Jingchuan from Beijing Planetarium)
These new findings suggest 'Oumuamua was shaped more like a pancake than a cigar. It may also be smaller than previously thought — just 147 by 144 by 24 feet (45 by 44 by 7.5 meters) in size when astronomers first detected it. In comparison, prior estimates suggested 'Oumuamua was about 1,300 feet (400 m) long.
The researchers suggested that 'Oumuamua likely wasn't flat when it first entered the solar system. However, the light from the sun ultimately eroded it to a sliver, wearing away more than 95% of its mass.
"The same thing should happen with water-ice comets, but at a much smaller level," Jackson said. Water ice sublimates much slower than nitrogen ice, Desch explained. In addition, Jackson noted 'Oumuamua may have stayed together as one piece as it sublimated because it was made all of the same material — in contrast, most comets in the solar system are mixtures of rock, water ice and other ingredients, "so they tend to evaporate unevenly. This is partly why comets often break up when they pass very close to the sun."
These findings suggest interstellar objects such as 'Oumuamua may give us our first view of a hitherto unknown type of planet — an exo-Pluto. All in all, 'Oumuamua may be the first known sample of an exoplanet brought into the solar system, the researchers said.
"The thought that what we saw could be a chunk of an actual exoplanet is thrilling," Desch said.
Piece of an exo-Pluto
Based on 'Oumuamua's speed and trajectory, the researchers suggested this fragment of nearly pure nitrogen ice was slung away from a young star system about 400 million to 500 million years ago, possibly from the Perseus arm of the Milky Way. When it comes to what to call this potentially new class of objects, Desch suggested exo-Pluto fragments or Pluto-like fragments, whereas Jackson suggested nitrogen-ice comets.
The scientists calculated the rate at which cosmic impacts would have knocked chunks of ice off the surfaces of Pluto and similar bodies over the course of the solar system's history. They estimated such collisions might have generated 100 trillion fragments, about half of which are water ice and the other half nitrogen ice. All in all, "about 1 in 1,000 comets in our solar system must be objects like 'Oumuamua," Desch said. One such example may be the comet C/2016 R2, discovered in 2016, he noted.
The researchers also calculated the chances that a nitrogen-ice comet from another star would reach our solar system. Their findings suggested "the outer reaches of a lot of planetary systems look very much like our own," Jackson said. "It is difficult to get information about the outer reaches of exoplanetary systems with the methods that we usually use to look for planets, so this gives us a unique way to get a sense of what exoplanetary systems are like."
Future telescopes such as the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile could help regularly scan huge swaths of the sky and detect even more interstellar objects to learn more about them. In addition, "there has also been some work on concepts for space missions that could intercept a future object like 'Oumuamua," Jackson said. "That to me is an incredibly exciting prospect — an up close look at something that originated from outside our solar system."
The scientists detailed their findings online March 16 in a study divided into two papers, which you can find here and here, in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, and at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference.
FBI Met Aliens From Other Dimension In 1947, Who Just Wanted Peace With Humans
FBI Met Aliens From Other Dimension In 1947, Who Just Wanted Peace With Humans
The FBI has always paid great attention to the UFO phenomenon. By the way, this confirms the old suspicions: many science fiction films are actually based on real events, whether it’s leaked that the FBI purposely made to raise public awareness, or to recognize agents – existing or former – who consider it unfair to deprive the public knowledge opinion about these secrets.
Of course, one cannot believe that Edgar Hoover, a director of the FBI, during those events that we are talking about, was very worried about justice or respect for the right of society to know the facts.
Aliens From Other Dimension in 1947
He was the ultra-conservative and reactionary who thought differently. But the fact is that in 2011, it became known from the FBI’s The Vault page that the agency included in the category of declassified a report prepared in July 1947 by a special agent of the FBI. He was a lieutenant colonel, whose identity was in the interests of “national security” and, at the direction of the almighty Hoover, erased a report based on an interview with a witness of the appearance of a UFO. The witness shared his own experience of contact with a non-human mind and could tell quite a lot.
According to the report, among other species, we are visited by creatures not only from other planets but from other dimensions as well. In particular, they are from the etheric plane coexisting with our physical Universe, materialized entities appeared as translucent giants.
FBI secret document
Here is a transcript of some of the most important details of the report:
1. Part of the disks carry crews; others are under remote control
2. Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane
3. These visitors are human-like but much larger in size
4. They are not excarnate Earth people but come from their own world
5. They do NOT come from a planet as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us
6. The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter
7. The disks posses a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace
8. The region from which they come is not the “astral plane”, but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric matters will understand these terms.
9. They probably can not be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar. if a signal system can be devised for that (apparatus)
Addendum:The Lokas are oval shape, fluted length oval with a heat-resistaning metal or alloy is not yet known the front cage contains the controls, the middle portion a laboratory; the rear contains armament, which consists essentially of a powerful energy apparatus, perhaps a ray.
The first thing that comes to mind when reading the document is that we are dealing with a story of a dreamer, but it should be borne in mind that this fact must have enough consecutive moments to initiate an investigation of the FBI, and this must be recognized when it comes to justifying financial injections and expenses of his resources.
The narrator further goes on to explain that these creatures use energy vectors to translate, which are interpreted as flying saucers. Their goal is peaceful, if one can consider peaceful the task that they transmitted (probably telepathically) to the witness: to stay living on this planet without disturbing us.
Although the UFO reports, as anyone who looks at the FBI can make sure, were then (as they are now) very common, we don’t know if such a specific description of “interdimensional aliens” was only in this report or there was some continuity further.
Let us note that the reports of 1947 were declassified in 2011. If there were subsequent or later additions to the investigation, they would be released, and their contents or results are not considered to be influential to “national security.”
If you see something, say something … or, if you’re a cow, moo really loud.
That’s how desperate law enforcement officials are feeling in Oregon – especially in Crook County in the center of the state – after months of mysterious cattle mutilations continue with no clues as to their causes. Skeptics are quick to debunk extraterrestrials as the cause and generally point to predators, while a growing number of people wonder if this is the work of a cult … in particular, the greatest cult of all time – the U.S. government. And yet … the mystery continues.
“There were no apparent animal or human tracks immediately surrounding the carcass, and only minimal blood in the area. I know from personal experience that, if an animal is killed or scavenged by predators, there is typically a large bloody messy area surrounding the carcass.”
Any news?
Crook County Sgt. Timothy Durheim is one of many local law enforcement officers to investigate a recent increase in cattle mutilations and he told the Blue Mountain Eagle the latest one he encountered at the McCormack Ranch on Southeast Bear Creek Road was like so many others reported — straight incisions, udder removed, circular cut around the anus, reproductive organs removed without puncturing the gut, left cheek, left eye and tongue removed, puncture wound between the neck and shoulder but bite marks … and no blood. Casey Thomas, manager of the GI Ranch on Lister Road in Paulina, two mutilations within a week. One was a Black Angus cow with hair removed near the stomach, all four teats cut off, left cheek, tongue and sex organs removed, and a mysterious prick mark. The second had a left cheek removed and a 2-inch patch cut into the hair on its neck. Photos were sent to Prineville veterinarian Taylor Karlin.
“I wish I had an answer. We’re kind of at a loss.”
Karlin told the Blue Mountain Eagle she is hoping for some fresh samples of flesh, hair, blood, etc. – anything she can analyze in a lab. While she’s at a loss, podcaster and skeptic Brian Dunning isn’t. He explained to the Blue Mountain Eagle:
“This is almost certainly the same kind of bird predation we’ve seen in so many similar cases.”
“Most particularly birds, and also some insects, will always go first for the exposed soft tissue: eyes, tongue, lips and mouth area, genitals. The animal is dead with zero blood pressure so there is never significant bleeding from postmortem wounds. The body is in the process of drying and decaying, so skin pulls tight from around the excised area, giving the impression of a perfect surgical cut.”
That sounds logical, although it would seem a cattle veterinarian would also know this and local vet Karlin doesn’t think these mutilations are natural. While Dunning debunks the aliens and religious cults causes, Nick Redfern points out that internal files show government interest in cattle and their diseases – particularly when suspected to have been caused by foreign biological agents – have been going on for decades, and the UFOs sometimes reported coming after the mutilations may be government black helicopters. Crook County Undersheriff James Savage, who has been involved in many of these cattle mutilation investigations, told Oregon Public Broadcasting he’s tired of it and wants answers and resolution … but he needs help.
What can we do?
“Don’t be afraid to call. If you see something, a suspicious vehicle or person in the area, also report it to us so we can try to run that down.”
On the warm summer evening of August 4, 1943, 18-year-old, Ronnie Austin had been having a great time. He had gone to a drive-in theater to catch a flick with his girlfriend Phyllis Bruce, and shortly before midnight they began their drive home in Wayne City, Illinois. As they drove, they noticed something very strange up ahead in the sky at about treetop level, which looked like a bright, round light with “fuzzy edges,” and estimated as being about “the size of a washtub.” They at first thought that it might be an aircraft, but whatever it was had no flashing lights and was perfectly round, leading them to suspect this was something else. They marveled at it for a few minutes, but the encounter would get stranger still when they noticed that the object seemed to be following them. And so would begin a wild high speed chase along rural country roads by a mysterious UFO.
Ronnie Austin
The two noticed as they drove by that the mysterious light seemed to approach to keep pace with them, speeding up or slowing down when they did, and when they brought the car to a full stop the light also stopped to hover there with inscrutable intent. Austin decided to just try to ignore it and drive home as quickly as possible, but the object would allegedly follow them the whole way, always keeping the same distance from the vehicle and at one point crossing from one side of the car over to the other. They tried to convince themselves that this was just a coincidence and some sort of illusion, but this would be disproven when the object suddenly approached at great speed to hover a few hundred feet away, before pausing over an electronic relay tower and then taking up a position about 500 feet away from the car and its increasingly frightened occupants.
Austin kept driving, pulling onto the lonely gravel road that led to Phyllis’ home, and when they reached the house, her sister also came outside to witness the anomalous object. The three of them watched the light for a few minutes before the two spooked girls went inside after the thing got closer, and Austin decided to get out of there, setting out in his car for the trip home. The object then continued to follow him, along the way making several threatening displays and increasingly aggressive maneuvers, such as speeding over the car, cutting him off, and changing color from a bright white to a more ominous darker orange glow. At one point the object shot off to hover over a barn about a mile away, before speeding back, and by this time Austin was really gunning it down the dark road, later estimating that he had been going about 120 mph, but the object easily paced him and did circling maneuvers and passes around him, causing the radio to crackle with static and make a “whining sound” whenever it passed overhead, as well as causing his engine to sputter. The thing got so close that Austin could now see that it was about the size of a small car. It continued to make these threatening displays all the way to Austin’s house, where he stopped and ran inside like his life depended on it, which for all he knew, it did. In the meantime, the mysterious light took up a position over a nearby farmhouse around 300 yards away and hovered silently.
Austin rushed into the home and woke his parents, sister, and brother, and they all saw the object as well through the window, the whole thing spooky enough that his father even grabbed a shotgun for good measure. They noticed that when they turned the lights on, the thing would begin to move towards the home, but when the lights were turned off it returned to its position above the nearby barn, suggesting it was attracted somehow to the light. They called the police in a panic, and when officers showed up, they also saw the strange light, as did several neighbors who had come outside to see what all of the fuss was about. As they all looked on, the object would then begin ascending upwards into the sky until it was out of sight. The event soon made the press and attracted the attention of UFO investigators, with the researchers from the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) arriving the following day to interview the many witnesses, and they were interviewed by several news sources as well, and there was an Air Force team who arrived on the scene as well, consisting of Lt. Col. Robert J. Friend, then the Director of Project Blue Book; Capt. Hector Quintanilla, and Sgt. Charles R. Sharp. Readings were taken of the car, the results of which have never been released, and oddly Austin was instructed to wash it right away, while they “decontaminated” the interior, all while they tried to dismiss talk of UFOs and try to explain it all away. The presence of the Air Force was curious, and NICAP investigator Francis Ridge would say of it:
The AF must have considered this case important. They had flown in the special team of physicists from Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. Normally, when investigating a case, they would send the local “UFO officer” from the nearest airbase. In this case it would have been Scott AFB at Belleville, Illinois (near St. Louis). Something strange was going on in the Midwest, and AF Intelligence was interested in something that “didn’t exist.” A quick check would have eliminated a refueling operation and the need for an onsite.
Newspaper clipping of the UFO car chase
Does the image on the left show a UFO
What in the world was going on here? With around a dozen witnesses including police officers it certainly seems that something weird was going on, but what? Why would this object want to so aggressively toy with this young man in his car? What did it want? Interestingly, this incident coincided with a spate of UFO sightings around Illinois at the time, so did this have perhaps some part to play? Whatever the answers may be, it is a curious little incident that can be added to the pile of the many bizarre UFO encounters out there.
New Information on the Kalahari Desert Asteroid Impact
Lunar meteorite Kalahari 008. Impacts on the Moon can eject lunar material, which may then fall to the Earth. Kalahari 008 is an approximately 600g meteorite from the Moon that was collected in 1999 in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana.
On June 2, 2018, residents in Botswana were shocked to see a huge fireball explode in the sky. In fact, the white glow of the asteroid exploding in the air was so bright that it was about 20,000 times brighter than the full moon. Researchers went to the Kalahari Desert to look for pieces of the asteroid and they found 23 fragments.
A team of experts located a fragment of the asteroid 2018 LA in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in the southern African nation of Botswana. The asteroid fell from space on June 2, 2018, and the team found this fragment three weeks later on June 23.
(Image credit: Peter Jenniskens)
Interestingly, the asteroid – which has been named 2018 LA – was spotted by the University of Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey team approximately eight hours before it reached our planet but since it was only six feet across, they didn’t think it was dangerous so they didn’t alert anybody.
And now, almost three years later, scientists have revealed more information regarding the 2018 LA asteroid – more specifically, its 22-million-year journey to Earth. First of all, the asteroid, which weighed approximately 5.7 tons, exploded 27 kilometers above the ground (17 miles) while traveling at a speed of about 60,000 km/h (just over 37,000 mph).
Scientists were able to precisely map out the journey the asteroid took through space – this is the first time it’s ever been done. “I could hardly believe my eyes when I came upon an object that appeared to be moving across images taken by SkyMapper,” said astronomer Christopher Onken. SkyMapper is a 1.35-meter wide-field survey telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales.
They were able to pinpoint its origins to the second biggest asteroid in our Solar System named 4 Vesta. This asteroid, which has a diameter of approximately 525 kilometers (326 miles), is occasionally “…bright enough to be sometimes visible to the unaided eye,” Dr. Onken noted.
It is believed that around 22 million years ago, 2018 LA broke off of 4 Vesta because of a massive impact with another asteroid that made Vesta’s Veneneia basin. Astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix went into further details, “Analysis of the meteorites from 2018LA indicate it was deeply buried under the surface of Vesta prior to being ejected all those years ago.” After it broke off from the larger body, it began its 22-million-year journey towards Earth, ending up in the Kalahari Desert.
Image of the asteroid 4 Vesta.
After the fragments of 2018 LA were found, they were analyzed and experts found zircon grains that date back over 4.5 billion years. This means that the asteroid dates back to when our Solar System was first forming. Pictures of the 2018 LA fragments can be seen here.
De NASA-helikopter Ingenuity heeft voor de derde keer een vlucht gemaakt op Mars en die was opnieuw succesvol. Marsrover Perseverance heeft beelden doorgestuurd naar de aarde.
Ingenuity bewoog zich verder en sneller dan tijdens zijn vorige uitstapjes. Hij legde in totaal 50 meter af in 1 minuut en 20 seconden en bereikte een maximumsnelheid van twee meter per seconde of 7,2 kilometer per uur. “De vlucht van vandaag verliep zoals gepland, maar dat maakt hem niet minder ongelofelijk”, zegt Dave Lavery, programmamanager van het NASA-hoofdkantoor in Washington.
Perseverance, die de kleine helikopter van 1,8 kilogram aan boord had toen hij op Mars arriveerde, maakte beelden van de derde vlucht. Daarop is te zien hoe Ingenuity links in beeld opstijgt en zijdelings naar rechts wegvliegt tot hij verdwijnt. Even later vliegt hij weer het beeld in en landt hij op dezelfde plaats als waar hij even daarvoor vertrokken was. De komende dagen zullen nog meer beelden naar de aarde worden gestuurd.
Image Credits: NASA
Vierde vlucht
Het ruimteagentschap kondigde intussen al de voorbereiding aan van een vierde vlucht. De vluchten zullen naar verwachting steeds moeilijker worden en Ingenuity tot het uiterste drijven.
Hoe die vluchten ook aflopen, na hooguit een maand stopt het Ingenuity-experiment. Dan zal de Perseverance-rover zich wijden aan zijn hoofdtaak: het zoeken naar sporen van vroeger leven op Mars.
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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS
LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS
MUFON CASE : 114921 Canberra, Australia ( April 25. 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS :
2 unusual shaped flying vehicles with no visible wings or tail fins that would resemble aircraft or lights there in.no sound or visual propulsion.
Long Description of Sighting Report
walking from carport from vehicle a to vehicle b reflection of light made me look up to see two bazaar vehicles flying in tandem as seen in the evidence provided.
Date Submitted : 2021-04-25 Date of Event : 2021-04-25 - 5:11PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILES :
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UFO Sighted Over Switzerland ( April 24, 2021 )
STATEMENT :
Habe Heute etwas komisches beobachtet. Sah so aus als würde es aus dem Baum herauskommen machte 2-3 drehungen 15 m vor mir
Ich sah eine disc mit Ball förmigem Objekt in der mitte es war komplet chrom am glänzen. In diesem Moment nahm ich das Handy und schaltete auf Aufnahme. In dieser zeit war es schon zwischen den Wolken. Nach 2-3 Drehungen flog es schnell nach oben da blieb es 1-2 Minuten und verschwand... Durchmesser zirka 70cm-120cm
TRANSLATE :
Saw something strange today. Looked like it would come out of the tree made 2-3 turns 15 m in front of me I saw a disc with a ball-shaped object in the middle, it was completely shiny with chrome. At that moment I picked up the cell phone and switched to recording. At that time it was already between the clouds. After 2-3 turns it flew up quickly, there it stayed for 1-2 minutes and disappeared ... diameter about 70cm-120cm
UFOs Sighted Over Bundesautobahn 27, Germany ( April 24, 2021 )
STATEMENT : What do you think? Filmed it yesterday in Germany on the Autobahn A27.
LOCATION : Highway system: Autobahn : Bundesautobahn 27 branches off the A 7 at Autobahndreieck Walsrode to the northwest, crossing A 1 at the Bremer Kreuz and continuing eastwards of Bremen, toward Cuxhaven. It also serves as European route E234, a B Class road on the International E-road network.
credit : Jörn Schmidt
UFOs Sighted Over Rugby, England ( April 24, 2021 )
UFOs put on a amazing display over Rugby, a market town in eastern Warwickshire, England on April 24, 2921 STATEMENT : Ｓｔｒａｎｇｅ Ｓｋｉｅｓ: What is that.... Rugby, England 🇬🇧 : April 24th, 2021
credit : Valerie Jackson : Vorapon Patcharasilatong
UFO Sighted Over Barcelona, Spain ( March 21, 2021 )
6:45 AM : STATEMENT :
I got this month ago and i want to share to all of you because maybe is a satellite? something like that? : Grabe esto un mes atras y queria compartirlo debido a que no se que podria ser, quizas un satellite?
published : Apr 26, 2021 : Samsung Galaxy S9 ORIGINAL VIDEO OWNER : Mantrepido Rustico ORIGINAL VIDEO URL : https://youtu.be/EWU9ZI1j2Rc
UFOs Sighted Over Malgrat de Mar, Barcelona, Spain ( April 1, 2021 )
UFOs sightedd over Malgrat, Barcelona, Spain : April 1, 2021 STATEMENT :
Muy sospechoso, vienen tan lento Además de controlar, monitorear, inspeccionar el terreno, supervisar la ciudad, En apariencia, son aviones ...¿Pero en medio de la noche ???
TRANSLATE :
Very suspicious they come so slow In addition to controlling, monitor, inspecting the land, overseeing the city, In appearance, they are planes...But in the middle of the night???
Possible Cryptid "Nightcrawler" Appears On Highway Near Sydney
Possible Cryptid "Nightcrawler" Appears On Highway Near Sydney
Mitch Kuhne was driving back to the Gold Coast along the Hume Highway near Bardia, Sydney just before 8pm on Sunday when he claims to have spotted a small child standing on the road.
Mr Kuhne reported and claims he was later told by an officer that the child had been found but police have since said that while a search was conducted no child was discovered in the area.
When we take a closer look at the "ghost" child then the shape of the figure resembles that of the so-called Nightcrawlers.
These peculiar creatures drift eerily through the night, leaving many wondering if their origins are earthly or extraterrestrial.
According to Native American folklore, these creatures, strange upright standing thin creatures with no arms, have existed for hundreds of years and have lived along-side humans peacefully.
Despite there is very little evidence to prove that these so-called Nightcrawlers are real undiscovered cryptids, in 2011, there have been multiple CCTV camera sightings of strange upright standing thin creatures with no arms walking endlessly at night.
The first appearance of a Nightcrawler took place in Fresno, California and the second appearance took place in Yosemite National Park.
The Scientific Coalition for UAP, which is composed of a team of analysts focusing on unidentified aerial phenomena, has examined thermal, visual and sensor data showing the unidentified flying object hurtling through the sky then skimming through the water and splitting into two.
There have been theories on the phenomenon, with some speculating a Chinese lantern and others saying a Mylar balloon. However, Rich Hoffman, a co-founder of SCU, says none of these ideas could be proven. The team at SCU has been working their best to find an explanation and testing these theories but has come up with nothing.
They looked to see if there was any propulsion system but found nothing. They then consider the balloon theory, but the object’s thermal did not match a balloon. Additionally, the object in question has split.
They then looked into the possibility it could be a bird, but the thermal result also did not match that of a bird. Also, the bird would not split into two identical pieces.
In Search of Varginha’s UFO – “Aliens” in the Amazon or Collective Insanity?
In Search of Varginha’s UFO – “Aliens” in the Amazon or Collective Insanity?
Today we are going to review one of the most famous UFO files in all of Brazil , the Varginha Incident . Celebrated as the Amazonian Roswell , the event that occurred in 1996 continues to divide the world ufological community. Let’s get the facts.
Year 1996. UFO Invasion in the Amazon
“Varginha, January 20, 1996. It would be a normal day in the quiet city of 100,000 inhabitants south of Minas, but the report of three girls changed everything. They said they saw a strange, short, red-eyed creature that did not appear to be from this world. Overnight, investigators and countless witnesses started talking about the ‘Varginha ET. Samantha Silva and Régis Melo. Varginha’s ET: case turns 20 with mysteries and uncertainties , 2016.
In January 1996 the municipality of Varginha , located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais , witnessed an unusual event.
According to reports from the time, on 20 January of 1996 at 15:30 hours, residents of the area complained, the collision of unknown flying objects, and subsequent recovery of two occupants, kidnapped, as was rumored, by military personnel. The news shocked Brazil , being covered by countless media.
The case from its inception was surrounded by much controversy, especially due to government silence, which did its best to discourage any investigation. But the attention remained, and 25 years later, what happened in Varginha , continues to generate furious counterpoints. The truth is, unlike other incidents, Varginha has many witnesses, both local and military, who even today defend their positions on what happened so many years ago. Let’s get back to the case.
Perhaps one of the most astonishing testimonies is that provided by three witnesses, young women who claimed to observe an alien presence.
Those beings were baptized as the Etzinhos , according to the newspaper La Tercera, in its article, ” Varghina case: two decades for the Brazilian Roswell” :
“One meter tall, red eyes, shiny brown skin. They had three bumps on their forehead, a very small mouth-like opening, bulging veins on their neck, shoulders, and arms. They produced a strange sound as if they were bees, and they had very thin bodies ”.
In another paragraph it stands out:
“Another important event within this experience was that several inhabitants of Varginha witnessed the presence of a strange flying sphere on January 22, 22 and 23, who even said that it gave them the impression of acting like a mother looking for to his children. In those same days they caught the two beings and transferred them to the state of Sao Paulo for their examination and study ”.
In 1995 the world was shaken, when a supposed short film was revealed, showing the autopsy performed on an alien recovered in Roswell. A week before the event, an aviation pilot Carlos de Souza , while flying in the interior of Minas Gerais , claimed to observe a huge ship-like object. In the book published by ufologist Ubirajara Rodrigues , O Caso Varginha , 2001 , Souza delivers a shocking version, stating that he saw the ship crash somewhere between Varginha and Três Corações .
Writes Ubirajara Rodrigues :
“He went into a side road to see if he was (and helped) in the crash of what appeared to be an aircraft. Once there, he was surprised to see that the Army and the Military Police were already surrounding the remains of that indefinable object. Gray chunks of what looked like metal were scattered across the ground. He saw no victims. Some time later, one of the soldiers brusquely invited him to leave the scene. He shouldn’t say anything about what he had seen. “
His testimony coincides with the version given by the Freitas couple , both residents asserting that they observe a gigantic steel-gray ship, which silently glides, surrounded by a lot of smoke, as if it were going to crash.
Other mind-boggling facts point to a strange storm shaking Varginha , and the reported existence of a toxic scent that is even noted as the cause of death for animals, and even a soldier.
The matter suffered heavy censorship, and many wondered if Varginha was just the product of a collective psychosis. Let’s see.
Alien autopsy, and the shadow of Roswell
In August 1985, the ufological world was amazed at the irruption of a strange short film, denouncing the recreation of a supposed alien autopsy. The film was said to show the body recovered from a ship crashed in Roswell during 1947 . Although the controversy would later erupt, revealing a monumental fraud, the media explosion was unstoppable, re-staging the extraterrestrial discussion . It is curious that the film appeared two years before, the forty-seventh birthday of the events that occurred in Roswell.
Many ufologists felt the infamous images presented by Ray Santilli , a mentor of its commercialization, influenced in trying to dirty the case, seeking to ridicule it.
The US military breathed a sigh of relief, and later issued a statement, denying their involvement in some kind of cover-up, and making it clear, Roswell, was part of a popular myth. It had never happened.
When the Varginha file is studied , we see certain parallels with what is narrated here. It is undeniable that the Autopsy of Roswell , generated an impact on the public imagination difficult to assess. Many critics argue, Varginha’s birth is intertwined with the Roswell case .
And as I say the intricacies is disturbing. But as we will see next, the answers are not so easy. Let’s examine a few points.
Varginha case , and the mystery of NORAD
“The memorable event occurred on the night of January 19-20, 1996 in the vicinity of the small Brazilian town of Varginha. On the night in question, the CINDACTA air surveillance center received radar data on a flying object from American colleagues at NORAD. The North Americans identified the southern zone of the state of Minas Gerais as the point of impact ”. Andreas. UFO crash in Brazil: Roswell incident, 2017.
Those of us who live in South America know about the relationships, sometimes close, sometimes complex, that the United States has with the countries of the region. In the case of Brazil , this link is long-standing, established during the Second World War .
That is why it is not easy to decipher, Brazil plays a key role as an ally, maintaining close communication with the United States , especially with regard to military cooperation between the two countries. This brief reference allows us to understand certain aspects that will now be analyzed.
It happens while I deepen Varginha , highlights as the first spicy data, the mention of NORAD , ( North American Aerospace Defense Command ). This body was created in 1958, during the Cold War , with the objective of providing surveillance to North American airspace, especially with regard to ballistic missiles. NORAD currently focuses its operations on combating drug trafficking. Its base is in the Cheyenne Mountains , Colorado . One of the most iconic films of the eighties, War Games , was filmed there .
Well, regarding Varginha , we are told at dawn on January 20, 1996, NORAD alerted the Brazilian Air Force through the CINDACTA ( Integrated Center for Air Defense and Air Navigation Control ) , that unknown objects were penetrating the southwestern region of Minas Gerais . The data provided by NORAD , would have had SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) as emitter, station located in New Mexico . Once notified, the Brazilian military would have deployed F17 fighters, and V2 bombers , which took off from their air bases, on patrol mission.
In this report we are discussing unofficially, some researchers speculate, parallel to the movements carried forward by his counterpart from Brazil , the United States would be sent to the South American country, a specialized team, nothing less Boinas Verdes .
The story continues, with alien bodies recovered from the Varginha crash , evidence later transferred to the United States . When questioned any Brazilian military , he will emphatically deny any point of this story, arguing confusion, exaggeration, and fraud in its construction. It is also interesting to note, until a few years ago, these same soldiers denied having UFO records in their files.
However, in 2017 , there was a small declassification, and to greater surprise, a report of a sighting recorded in Varginha appeared , dated from 1971 . There it is said an oval silver-colored object was sighted by a multitude of witnesses that includes among others, military personnel. The UFO would have been parked on the roof of a house, emitting a loud noise, causing the resident to faint. He was also reported, prowling the facilities of the School of Sergeants of Arms , an Army unit in Três Corações ( Minas Gerais) , a municipality near Varginha that is 287 km from Belo Horizonte.
UNICAMP. Small Area 51 of Brazil?
“In the second semester of 1996, Dr. Badan, after giving a lecture at a law school in Campinas, was interrogated by a student with the question:“ Is it true that they did an autopsy on the creatures captured in Varginha? ? ”. To which the doctor replied: “If this question were asked in a few years, perhaps he could answer it with greater freedom and precision.”
Clauder Covo. The First Anniversary of the Varginha Case , 1997.
In another twist of the case, there is the presumption that a being from another world was the subject of an autopsy, after being captured in Varginha . The popular UNICAMP ( Campinas State University ) study center, based in São Paulo , is mentioned as the site that received the body of the space creature. Information widely rejected by the prestigious academic house, founded in 1966, focused on promoting science and technology.
Unicamp Central Library. (Wikimedia Commons) According to rumors, in a sector of the university campus an underground laboratory would operate, nicknamed, Pavilion 18 where extraterrestrial life would be studied. All the occupants of the UFOs, living or dead rescued in Brazil , would be taken there.
The ufologist Ricardo Roehe , maintains that its construction underground prevents the received aliens from being able to communicate telepathically with other companions, as well as controlling their mental powers. Apparently the United States would use it as a parallel center, to also conduct its own studies of captured UFO occupants.
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THE FUTURE OF EARTH IS 5 OTHER PLANETS
THE FUTURE OF EARTH IS 5 OTHER PLANETS
And one bonus prize.
SO YOU’VE GONE AND DESTROYED THE PLANET YOU CALLED HOME.
It was inevitable. Climate change reached the tipping point. Famine and disease ravaged humanity. A noxious information ecosystem sent society into a conspiracy-fuelled death cycle. To survive, we gotta get out of Dodge.
To crib from Blade Runner,a new life awaits on off-world colonies. Maybe your fresh start is in Elon Musk’s Mars city. Maybe it is on the Moon with NASA’s lunar base. Or maybe a Zefram Cochrane-like figure has invented faster-than-light travel. Or, well, near-light speed travel if we are really patient. Who needs the Solar System if we don’t have Earth, am I right?
You’ve got one ticket off Earth. Where do you go? There are a few possible planets we can go to and some are definitely better than others. There’s surviving — where we can make it work with a lot of sacrifices, but it won’t be easy — and then there’s thriving: finding a truly new home for humanity instead of a stopgap.
Here’s a guide to going off-world. At the end of the day, it will make you appreciate Earth.
Welcome to FUTURE EARTH, where Inverse forecasts 100 years of possibilities, challenges, and who will lead the way.
We know, we know. Venus. Some might say it is toxic, hot, and inhospitable. And they are right. But Mars is deadly too, albeit in the opposite direction. Just as Venus is extremely hot, Mars is frigid cold. Venus has a thick, poisonous atmosphere, but Mars has a paper-thin one. Mars has all that radiation exposure to boot, which doesn’t sound that nice.
For Empire Strikes Back fans irresistibly drawn to the idea of living in a Cloud City, NASA has a plan. Storm IV Twin-Pod cloud car not included. Meet HAVOC — or the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept. HAVOC is basically a blimp and a fleet of other buoyant vehicles designed to explore Venus with humans on board.
“VENUS... CAN PLAY A ROLE IN HUMANITY’S FUTURE IN SPACE.”
The truly inhospitable region of Venus lies far below, near, and at the surface. About 30 miles above the surface, temperatures are actually Earth-like. At this altitude, atmospheric pressure is also similar to Earth at sea level. There’s also similar radiation protection at that level. The air isn’t breathable, but the other factors mean spacesuits for venturing outside — like on an observation deck — wouldn’t be overly bulky affairs. HAVOC is still on the drawing board, but the preliminary design calls for a craft that would allow two astronauts to live on Venus for 30 days. Or above it, at least.
The paper introducing HAVOC as a concept reveals ambitions for the world. HAVOC phase I is to send robots to Venus’ clouds. Phases II through IV are composed of increasingly ambitious human missions of increasingly long stays. The goal for Phase V? Permanent human habitation of a Venus cloud city.
“Ultimately, the authors conclude that Venus, with its relatively hospitable upper atmosphere, can play a role in humanity’s future in space,” the authors write in the paper.
Who are we to argue?
The Inverse analysis: Steampunk fans may love living on an airship, and Earth-like pressure at high altitudes could make for less clunky spacesuits. But one small failure could spell major doom for would-be Venusians.
“There are three reasons underlying the case for Mars,” Robert Zubrin tells Inverse. “For the science, for the challenge, and for the future.” Zubrin should know — he is the founder of the Mars Society, which advocates for moving humans to Mars as soon as possible.
To understand Zubrin’s passion for the Red Planet, let’s break those three elements down — the science, the challenge, and the future. The science refers to the question we could soon answer: if there was life on Mars. If there islife on Mars, even. The challenge is a throwback to the space race that led to Apollo, and a sort of knock-on effect that draws more dreamers to the sciences. The future is the idea of humanity staking a permanent future off-Earth.
Zubrin says has all the resources we need, if we can harness them correctly:
Water: while surface water is only found seasonally and in small amounts laden with toxins, recent discoveries could make potable water possible by looking underground
Soil: The soil of Mars is laden with iron and nasty salts, but experiments with growing crops in Mars-like soil have found some success.
Lava tubes: Rather than building expensive structures or risking inflatable habitats, a la The Martian, a series of caves on Mars built by long-dormant volcanoes could create a radiation-shielded environment. Just add oxygen.
Humanity’s transition to Mars is inevitable, as far as Zubrin is concerned. It will happen in four phases, he says: exploration is the first step before we set up a Mars base, which we can springboard into cities somewhere in between Musk and Total Recall, and from there, entire societies can flourish. Zubrin doesn’t see human movement on Mars as monolithic. Like Earth, different groups will settle in, and pursue different values and goals. The planet will bring them new opportunities to practice the forms of governance and beliefs they wish they could on Earth, he says.
Ultimately, Mars offers a chance for renewal and a clean slate. And it is a mere six-month flight away. Deliverance has never been so handy.
“THE GOAL IS THE STARS.”
The resources of Mars could also be a launching pad for further exploration, Zubrin says. Methane and water on the planet can be used to create rocket fuel. After Mars, the next jump is the asteroid belt. And after that?
“The goal is the stars,” Zubrin says. “As humans become spacefarers, we’re going to learn a lot more about the stars, about the planets orbiting the stars.”
What if there’s already life on Mars, and it is still alive? Zubrin says that most of the arguments for current life on Mars are easily refuted, so humanity can rest easy there. One of the biggest criticisms of potential human settlements on Mars is the idea of cross-contamination: Either that humans will incidentally kill off whatever life there is on the Red Planet, or conversely, that that life could threaten us instead.
But one way we know about the conditions on Mars is because chunks of it frequently fall to Earth, products of impacts ejected across interplanetary distances. “The issue of back contamination which is the one that gets the biggest headlines is nonsense,” Zubrin says. “We’ve been getting materials from Earth every year for four billion years.”
Carl Sagan once said, "If there is life on Mars, I believe we should do nothing with Mars. Mars then belongs to the Martians, even if they are only microbes." But Zubrin calls this an “aesthetic issue.” He says, for instance, that on Earth, we happily murder microbes all day, every day — mouthwash, antibiotics, household cleaners — our poisons are as varied as they are effective. And yet, we don’t regard these acts of destruction on our own planet as an ethical issue. “I think that Sagan got carried away in a poetic fit when he made that statement,” Zubrin says.
“The idea that an entire planet — the whole potential of a new biosphere of not only people but of an entire assortment of wonderful plants and animals that could grow in flourish on Mars — should be abluted because there are microbes on Mars is absurd and I would say unethical to say that people should not exist on Mars so that it can be safe for microbes.”
The Inverse analysis: Despite sub-Antarctic temperatures, space radiation, and other hazards at least there’s terra firma (martis ferma?) to stand on and a gateway to the rest of the Solar System and points beyond. Just hope nothing goes wrong.
When it comes to planets in the solar system to use as humanity’s ark, the pickings are slim. We’ve got Mars. We’ve (sort of) got Venus. Beyond that, the only terrestrial planet left — Mercury — is too hot on one side and absolutely frigid on the other. It’s also notoriously hard to get to thanks to the gravity of the Sun. Jupiter’s out — we would fry in a bath of radiation. The other gas planets aren’t hospitable either.
So maybe we just build a generation ship or pray for a warp drive and punt ourselves a star system over. And where better to aim than Proxima Centauri?
Abel Mendez is the director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) at the University of Puerto Rico Arecibo. Mendez has maintained the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog for 10 years. At the time the catalog began, the number of potentially habitable exoplanets was scant: Back then, it was made up of just Gliese 667 C f, and the contentious and ever-evolving planets in the Gliese 581 system. (Gliese, in this case, refers to a star catalog — while the stars are 20 and 23 light-years away from Earth, respectively, they’re not close to each other.)
Since then, the number has beefed up to 60 potentially habitable worlds if we’re lucky, or 24 if we’re being realistic. Mendez uses a rubric to rate these worlds using a few factors:
Are they close enough to their star to be warm, but not too hot, or too cold? This would mean water could exist in its liquid state.
Are they somewhere in between Mars and an Earth-and-a-half in radius? This would probably place them close to Earth-mass, and thus likely rocky.
If we don’t know the radius, are they less than five times the mass of Earth? This would again make for a planet that, at the upper limit, would be a very heavy but still rocky planet, rather than a gaseous mini-Neptune.
Of the 4,375 known exoplanets (as of April 16, 2021, according to NASA), this rubric means only 24 of them are potentially habitable. But the right size and distance are only two of the things we need for habitability in reality. Beyond these traits, we don’t have much other information to go on.
This is why Mendez says if we had to go somewhere beyond the Solar System, we should go somewhere close.
“Otherwise we cannot tell, but assuming that information there is right … I think the planets I would prefer to visit are the nearby ones,” he says. And there’s no habitable planet closer than Proxima Centauri b.
Alpha Centauri A and B are pretty well known. They’re the closest stars the size of the Sun to Earth. But they aren’t quite the closest star. The two stars orbit each other. But about .12 light-years out — around 7600 times the distance of the Sun to Earth — they have a faint companion. Alpha Centauri A and B have been known since antiquity and known to be two separate stars since 1689. Their companion, Proxima Centauri, is so small and faint that it wasn’t discovered until 1915.
“I THINK THE PLANETS I WOULD PREFER TO VISIT ARE THE NEARBY ONES.”
And while the Alphas Centauri are 4.37 light-years from Earth, that smidge of difference in distance puts Proxima Centauri just a fraction closer to Earth.
We’ve looked time and time again for planets around one of the Alphas Centauri, usually coming up short. But in 2016, astronomers working as part of the Pale Red Dot project used decades of data on Proxima Centauri to draw out the existence of a possible planet, Proxima Centauri b. This planet is likely around the mass of Earth, and orbits in a tight 11-day loop around its star.
While such a close orbit sounds like a recipe for disaster — Mercury, after all, orbits the Sun in 88 days — the small size and mass of Proxima Centauri and its lower temperatures mean that the planet could be habitable, under the right conditions. The star Proxima Centauri is only 20 percent larger than Jupiter and is just 12 percent the mass of the Sun. It’s classified as a red dwarf, also called an M-dwarf star. These stars are the least massive and most common types of stars in the universe. Not surprisingly, many of the planets on PHL’s index are M-dwarf stars. Only three are not.
But — and there’s always a but — that doesn’t mean Proxima Centauri b is much like Earth. With that close an orbit, the planet faces the same side of the star at all times, the same way we only see one face of the Moon. This process is called tidal locking, and it is part of why Mercury is so inhospitable.
“I think that most of these planets are probably tidally locked because there are around M-dwarf stars, and even if they have an atmosphere, water will be locked as ice on the dark side, and the dayside will be a desert,” Mendez says.
But in between the two sides is a little sliver of liminal space that’s neither day nor night — a place of perpetual twilight. That’s where liquid water might exist, and life might flourish.
There’s also the problem of atmospheres. Red dwarfs are small stars, but early in their history, they thrash around violently with flares — which can blow away the primordial atmospheres of planets out into the cosmos. So we have to hope that Proxima Centauri b was able to regrow an atmosphere and that it’s something like Earth, and not, say, Venus or Mars.
The Inverse analysis:It’s close and in the right place to have life, but a lack of known details and a potentially hazardous star mean we shouldn’t go quite yet.
In 2015, Belgian astronomers working on the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) project announced a new star, dubbed (entirely by coincidence and not for promotion reasons, we are sure) TRAPPIST-1.
It’s small — about the size of Jupiter — and less massive even than Proxima Centauri. In fact, at 8.9 percent the mass of the Sun, it’s barely over the threshold of having enough mass to ignite. TRAPPIST-1 wasn’t alone — the astronomers announced three Earth-sized planets in orbit. And all three are potentially habitable.
It was big news at the time. Three worlds a sneeze of a distance apart, all temperate enough to hold water, all around a fairly calm, tiny star. But subsequent studies pulled a real “hold my beer” and hit us with four more planets in orbit around TRAPPIST-1. All of them were close enough to be temperate too. Tiny but mighty, indeed.
Suddenly, we have a very tantalizing system on our hands. The PHL index lists TRAPPIST-1d as the likeliest of all of them to have Earth-like conditions. But it’s not a one-one comparison. The planet is thought to be somewhere in between Mars and Earth in size. It’s got an Earth-like amount of radiation from its star and thus, likely, similar temperatures, too.
So let’s go there!
Or not. It might be just a little too hot, according to a 2018 study. "We are modeling unfamiliar atmospheres, not just assuming that the things we see in the solar system will look the same way around another star," a statement from the authors reads. In short, they say TRAPPIST-1d may be more Venus-like than we might like for habitability.
They also argue:
TRAPPIST-1b may be far, far too hot — maybe even too hot for an atmosphere at all.
TRAPPIST-1c and TRAPPIST-1d have thick atmospheres which create intense greenhouse effects.
TRAPPIST-1f, TRAPPIST-1g, and TRAPPIST-1h might be too icy.
They conclude that TRAPPIST-1e may be the real world we should look to. The answer isn’t definitive though. And we likely won’t know anything until we can get a close look at the system via next-generation telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope.
“IF ONE PLANET DOESN’T WORK, YOU JUST MOVE TO ANOTHER PLANET.”
But if we go to TRAPPIST-1 and any one planet isn’t quite right, we could just jump to the next one — most of them are less than a million miles apart. If we don’t like TRAPPIST-1d, then TRAPPIST-1e is a mere 650,000-mile journey. Earth is 238,000 miles from the Moon. It took three days for Apollo astronauts to get to the Moon.
It’s not the six-month trip to Mars humans would experience — it’d be more like an extended business trip.
“You have seven planets, some in the habitable zone,” Mendez says. “You have in one system everything possible, and multiple planets with those conditions, hot or cold.”
The term Goldilocks Zone is sometimes used in place of the habitable zone. Not too hot, not too cold, just right. But TRAPPIST-1 plays with that by making for a Goldilocks system where, in a few days, we can make our way in between the planets. Even the farthest out of the planets is only 1,400,000 miles from its home star.
“If one planet doesn’t work, you just move to another planet,” Mendez says.
And what’s more, it’s only 40 light-years away. Sure, that’s 10 times the distance of Earth to Proxima Centauri. And sure, even going half the speed of light makes for an 80-year one-way trip. But can you really put a price on the future of humanity?
The Inverse analysis: Don’t like one planet? Hop to another. Heck, if they’re all habitable, choose your own adventure. If none are … good luck.
Habitability rating:🔥❄️😎🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
BUT … what if red dwarfs don’t have the right stuff?
Aside from pillaging the PHL list of worlds, you eliminate the potential for robust life in the universe. You have to stick to stars like the Sun. And suddenly, we don’t have a lot of places nearby to go. Two of the remaining planets around non-M-dwarf stars on the PHL index aren’t an easy shot. Kepler-442 b is nearly 1200 light-years away. Kepler-62f is 980+ light-years away. We can’t get there.
Tau Ceti f is a hefty world. We haven’t seen it directly, but it’s at a minimum four times the mass of Earth. Gravity there would be high — not a lot of fun for those who like calisthenics. It’s also likely 1.8 times the radius of Earth (though we haven’t seen it pass in front of its star, so that’s a rough estimate). It has a 642-day orbit — one of the longest period known habitable exoplanets.
But it has a lot of things in its favor. Tau Ceti is a Sun-like star, about 78 percent the mass of the Sun, and burns at similar temperatures. (Both are classified as G-stars.) At 12 light-years away, we could get there in 24 years going half the speed of light — just in time for babies leaving Earth to have a quarter-life crisis on arrival.
Its Sun-like qualities have made it a popular destination for science fiction, including Dan Simmon’s Hyperion and Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama series. The star system also makes an appearance in Star Trek, Barbarella, Doctor Who, The Expanse, and … uh … Earth: Final Conflict. It’s the nerd connoisseur's Sun-like star, to all you Alpha Centauri-loving plebes.
It’s not exactly high on the list of the 24 most habitable planets on the list. In fact, it’s 22 on a list of 24. It’s not graduating with honors. It’s only listed as having a .58 Earth Similarity Index (.99 is the highest possible, and Proxima Centauri b has .87 and TRAPPIST-1d .90, sitting at #4 and #6, respectively.)
So maybe Tau Ceti f isn’t quite what we want there, either — especially with the gravity and potential to be more of a small Neptune than a large Earth. There could be moons. We might find an elusive candidate, Tau Ceti PxP-4, that (if it exists) is in the habitable zone too. In other words, it’s still worth the trip — especially if the red dwarf stars are out.
The Inverse analysis:Earth-like temperatures could make this a great place to go, and if the planet isn’t so great, maybe it has an ok moon … or even another planet waiting for us.
Okay, okay. We know. Not a planet — it’s Jupiter's outermost large moon. But hear us out.
Let’s say astronomers realize Proxima Centauri b isn’t habitable. Fine. There are other potentially habitable planets within the same distance as Tau Ceti, including Teegarden’s Star b (the most potentially habitable planet by PHL standards), Ross 128b, and Luyten’s Star, which we’ve already beamed a message to. We could just go there, but being that they’re all M-dwarf planets, the journey seems iffier.
But let’s say Proxima Centauri b is very habitable. So habitable, in fact, that it’s rife with intelligent life. We aren’t going to be welcomed with open arms. We would, after all, be invaders — the kinds of aliens sci-fi has taught us to fear. (If you want to know how first contact can go very wrong, get out of hand if you will, read The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.) Then we can’t go there either.
And if Mars and Venus are non-starters, there are still places we can go. They’re just not planets. They’re the water worlds of our Solar System, places like Ceres in the asteroid belt, Europa and Ganymede circling Jupiter, and Enceladus spewing oceanic water out into space. Even Titan looks like a cold version of early Earth — lakes of ethane and methane dotting the surface while an entire ocean of water is trapped deep below. Pluto might have a subsurface ocean.
But we might not want to go down this path. Jupiter, for example, has some of the most deadly radiation in our solar system. When the Pioneer 10 probe passed it in 1974, NASA hadn’t correctly predicted just how much radiation it would emit. Even passing what they thought was a “safe” point, the probe was damaged by the radiation.
And while Europa and Ganymede are watery ocean worlds underneath an icy crust, they’re within those radiation belts. The ice may protect life below but would endanger or flat-out fry humans above.
There has to be a better way.
And maybe there is. In 2003, NASA Langley researchers suggested a solution to the Ganymede / Europa problem. Just go a world over, to Callisto.
Why is Callisto so promising?:
It’s outside the most dangerous parts of the radiation belts
It’s the size of the planet Mercury (Ganymede is slightly larger, Callisto slightly smaller)
Its heavy cratering gives places to land
It’s also made of water ice. This water could be used for drinking after some processing, sure, but it could also be refined into hydroxyzine for rocket fuel.
What’s so tantalizing about Callisto (in the more immediate) is the chance it could be home base while we send robots off to Europa to explore. We could set up shop on the relatively safe far side of the moon and wait for the data to come back.
Maybe it’s our new home, maybe it’s our new research station. Ultimately, the worlds beyond Earth seem pretty inhospitable. While humans are tough, you’re asking all of humanity to participate in the Shackleton Expedition.
OR MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST STAY HOME and stay put, fixing our problems on Earth instead of running away to another planet. (But if we don’t, dibs on a condo on Tau Ceti f.)
US government 'gearing up to share information about UFOs' after latest sighting
US government 'gearing up to share information about UFOs' after latest sighting
Following confirmation a video showing "pyramid-shaped" objects flying above a US Navy ship is genuine, the US government may release more information about UFOs, an expert claims
The US government is gearing up to share information about the "reality" of UFOs, an expert has claimed.
Luis ‘Lue’ Elizondo claims to be the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (ATTIP), a secretive Pentagon unit that reportedly studied UFOs, between 2007 and 2012.
This groundbreaking programme, which reportedly had a budget of £16.5million allocated to it annually by the Department of Defence, is said to have been run from the fifth floor of Pentagon’s C RING in Washington DC and was tasked with investigating UFO sightings in the US and the rest of the world.
He now claims that a bombshell secretive new document slated for release in June touches down on the unexplainable.
The Pentagon has confirmed a number of UFO sightings in recent times(Image: Jeremy Corbell)
“I think the government has acknowledged the reality of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP),” Elizondo told The New York Post, despite signing what he refers to as a “lifelong” NDA before he resigned from the Pentagon in 2017.
He added: “I think they all want answers and I think they are all willing to ask the hard questions.”
During a press conference this week, Elizondo described vessels flying at 11,000 miles-per-hour and being able to turn “instantly.”
He also revealed details of vessels that can fly 50-feet above the Earth’s surface or 80,000 feet in the sky and even submerge underwater without a compromise in performance: “When you see that, you recognize you are dealing with a technology more advanced than ours.”
The incredible clip, which was captured in July 2019, shows a triangle or pyramid-shaped object hovering high above the missile-carrying destroyer USS Russell.
It was recently made public by documentary-maker Jeremy Corbell, who claims the mysterious objects were definitely not either a US military secret project or any known man-made technology.
The UAPs were initially described in the clip as "drones" but Corbell says their bizarre pyramidal shape didn’t conform to any known aerodynamic principles.
Part of an unclassified video taken by Navy pilots showing interactions with "unidentified aerial phenomena"
He says the material he's released are from unclassified aspects of the briefing.
UFO hunters are now desperate for the authorities to release more information from the sightings, with Elizondo saying they should do so sooner rather than later.
“This is not a conversation like fine wine where the longer we keep a cork on it, the better it gets,” Elizondo said. “This is a conversation like rotten fruit or vegetables in the refrigerator. And the longer it stays in there, the more it’s going to stink.”
Four-Legged Dark Creature Was Spotted On Mars by NASA’s Rover
Four-Legged Dark Creature Was Spotted On Mars by NASA’s Rover
As the title suggests, this photo was taken by the Mars Opportunity Rover, and right off the bat you can see why it got so much attention to say the least.
This four-legged animal turned up out of nowhere and as it brushed past the camera experts couldn’t help but compare it to a bear from our planet.
Of course, we know that this is virtually impossible, but it is interesting to see if such similarities did occur between life on Mars and life on Earth.
We know that for the most part, the aliens that lived on Mars were humanoid so why wouldn’t creatures similar to bears actually live on Mars too?
The photograph itself is quite good too, unlike most others out there you can clearly see its outline and the fact that it isn’t just a random camera glitch too. Of course, there were some skeptics that called this just another typical case of the pareidolia effect but that’s inconsequential, to say the least as we could give these people an actual alien being and they’d still find reasons to complain at the end of the day.
A lot of experts have stated that this could actually be one of the last remnants of the Red Planet although that’s very unlikely considering just how many encounters we found so far to this day on Mars.
So, which is it? Is it our imagination or is there more to this picture than meets the eye?
When it comes to black holes, does size really matter? Would you be afraid if astronomers discovered one of the tiniest black holes ever? Would you change your mind if they told you it was also the closest black hole to the Earth ever found? How close? Ah, all of sudden, size DOES matter!
Tharindu Jayasinghe is a doctoral student in astronomy at The Ohio State University and part of a team of researchers looking for tiny black holes – a new class of black holes discovered in 2019 at The Ohio State University. They were scanning data on a red giant star in the constellation Monoceros – so named because it resembles the mythical steed – when they noticed something was causing the light from the red giant to periodically change in intensity and appearance. The changes were so drastic that they signaled the orbiting object was massive enough to change its shape – a phenomenon called tidal distortion – but not large enough to block it completely from view. Knowing what they know at OSU about tiny black holes, they suspected (and hoped) that’s what was circling the red giant.
“When we looked at the data, this black hole – the Unicorn – just popped out.”
The data showed a black hole a mere three times the mass of our Sun that was distorting its companion into a football shape – how appropriate for Ohio State! Even better, it’s only 1,500 light years from Earth – giving the researchers a double-black-hole-score for the closest and nearly the tiniest ever found. They nicknamed it the Unicorn because of its uniqueness and location in the constellation Monoceros (Latin for unicorn) and their study was accepted for publication in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
“What we’ve done here is come up with a new way to search for black holes, but we’ve also potentially identified one of the first of a new class of low-mass black holes that astronomers hadn’t previously known about. The masses of things tell us about their formation and evolution, and they tell us about their nature.”
As Todd Thompson, a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, study co-author and lead author of the 2019 study announcing the discovery of tiny black holes, pointed out in 2019, The Ohio State University has become a leader in finding them with the KELT (Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope) system — developed by an OSU graduate student – and the ASAS-SN (All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae), which is run out of Ohio State. They’ve done so well in finding them, they’re now becoming the leader in mapping them.
“I think the field is pushing toward this, to really map out how many low-mass, how many intermediate-mass and how many high-mass black holes there are, because every time you find one it gives you a clue about which stars collapse, which explode and which are in between.”
The Ohio State University – from football to astronomy powerhouse. Make room in the trophy case.
There’s no doubt that radar has played a large role in the study of the UFO phenomenon. For decades, strange and mysterious craft have been recorded on radar-screens by personnel at numerous military facilities. But, we get further, though, here’s a bit of background on radar: As the people at ExplainThatStuff! state: “An airplane’s radar is a bit like a torch that uses radio waves instead of light. The plane transmits an intermittent radar beam (so it sends a signal only part of the time) and, for the rest of the time, “listens” out for any reflections of that beam from nearby objects. If reflections are detected, the plane knows something is nearby—and it can use the time taken for the reflections to arrive to figure out how far away it is. In other words, radar is a bit like the echolocation system that “blind” bats use to see and fly in the dark.” With that said, now let’s take a look at some fascinating cases. In September 1952, NATO held a large-scale military exercise in the North Sea and English Channel. Its name: Operation Mainbrace.
During the week-long exercise numerous UFO sightings were made by military personnel. One of those was William Maguire, whose encounter occurred on September 17. At the time, he was stationed at RAF Sandwich, Kent, England. Maguire speaks of his memories of how staff at the base tracked on radar the movements of a gigantic UFO hovering over the sea: “My memory was that everything was in a complete flap. Normally, in a military situation everything is ordered, regular and set out. But here was a situation that was plainly out of control. Mechanics were flying about all over the place. The mechanics were being blamed for not calibrating the instruments properly; we were being blamed for not interpreting the readings correctly. Every single instrument on the base was showing this enormous object sitting up at an unbelievable height. It was the size of a warship and it just stood there.”
Moving on: According to the late UFO researcher James McDonald: “An Air Force RB-47, equipped with ECM (Electronic Countermeasures) gear, manned by six officers, was followed over a total distance in excess of 600 miles and for a time period of more than an hour, as it flew from near Gulfport, Miss., through Louisiana and Texas, and into southern Oklahoma. The unidentified object was, at various times, seen visually by the cockpit crew (as an intense white or red light), followed by ground-radar, and detected on ECM monitoring gear aboard the RB-47. Simultaneous appearances and disappearances on all three of those physically distinct ‘channels’ mark this UFO case as especially intriguing from a scientific viewpoint.”
An FBI document of September 21, 1951, and captioned “Flying Saucers,” reads as follows: “On September 20, Andrew J. Reid G-2 [Army Intelligence] Ft. Monmouth, NJ, provided following report of unconventional aircraft observed by radar at above Army installation. On Sept 10, fiftyone [sic], an AN/MPG-1 radar set picked up a fast moving low flying target, exact altitude undetermined at approximately 11:10 a.m., southeast of Ft. Monmouth at a range of about twelve thousand yards. The target appeared to approximately follow the coast line, changing its range only slightly but changing its azimuth rapidly. The radar set was set to full aided azimuth tracking which normally is fast enough to track jet aircraft, but in this case was too slow to be resorted to. Target was lost in the N.E. at a range of about fourteen thousand yards.” The story gets even more controversial, as the next part of the report makes very clear: “This target also presented an unusually strong return for aircraft[,] being comparable in strength to that usually received from a coastal ship[italics mine].”
An FBI teletype of October 13, 1950 refers to the radar detection of a definitive squadron of unknown objects tracked over the Oak Ridge installation at 11:25 p.m. on October 12. The documentation states: “USAF radar installation at Knoxville…picked up indications of eleven objects and perhaps more traveling across controlled area of Atomic Energy installation at Oak Ridge.” The report continued: “Altitude of objects varied from one thousand to five thousand feet…and density from reading made by light aircraft equal in size to C-47, speed from one hundred to one hundred twenty-five miles per hour…” Then we have the following from the same document: “No reasonable explanation for radar readings yet developed although operators are experienced reliable personnel and radar set is in perfect operating condition. Bureau will advise of further developments.” Four days later, the FBI received the details of yet another alarming incident, this time involving the visual sighting of a UFO over Oak Ridge.
The so-called “Kinross Case”” focuses upon the strange – and still-unresolved – disappearance of a US Air Force F-89C jet fighter that was scrambled late on the night of November 23, 1953, on an “active air defense mission” to intercept an “unknown aircraft” over Lake Superior. Kinross Air Force Base, which was closest to the scene where the “unknown”” was initially tracked, quickly alerted the 433rd Fighter Interception Squadron at Truax Field, Madison, Wisconsin, and the F-89C gave immediate chase. Available USAF records demonstrate that the F-89 was vectored west-northwest, then west, climbing to 30,000 feet. While on its westerly course, the crew received permission to descend to 7,000 feet, turning east-northeast and coming steeply down on the target from above. Alarmingly, as the aircraft closed-in on the “unknown” it subsequently vanished into oblivion, along with its two crew-members. The last radar contact placed the interceptor at 8,000 feet, 70 miles from Keeweenaw Point, and about 150 miles northwest of Kinross AFB, which, today, is called Kincheloe AFB.
An extract from the official USAF Aircraft Accident Report outlines further details of the official story: “Aircraft took off at 2322 Zebra 23 Nov 53 on an active Air Defense Mission to intercept an unknown aircraft approximately 160 miles Northwest of Kinross Air Force Base. The aircraft was under radar control throughout the interception. At approximately 2352 Zebra the last radio contact was made by the radar station controlling the interception. At approximately 2355 Zebra the unknown aircraft and the F-89 merged together on the radar scope. Shortly thereafter the IFF signal disappeared from the radar scope. No further contact was established with the F-89. An extensive aerial search has revealed no trace of the aircraft. The aircraft and its crew are still missing.” For both ufologists and the Air Force the matter of the Kinross affair remains wide open.
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Elon Musk admits 'a bunch of people will probably die' during SpaceX's initial voyages to Mars - but insists it will be a 'glorious adventure and amazing experience'
Elon Musk admits 'a bunch of people will probably die' during SpaceX's initial voyages to Mars - but insists it will be a 'glorious adventure and amazing experience'
The SpaceX founder was speaking Thursday when he made the stark prediction
Musk has already said he hopes to get humans on Mars by 2026
But a barefoot Musk warned Thursday: 'Going to Mars reads like that advert for Shackleton going to the Antarctic. You know it is dangerous, it's uncomfortable'
'You might not come back alive but it is a glorious adventure,' Musk added
He said: 'Yeah, honestly a bunch of people will probably die in the beginning'
SpaceX brought spaceflight back to America last May, launching NASA astronauts from Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station
On Saturday SpaceX's third crew capsule in less than a year arrived on the ISS
NASA plans to put humans on Mars by 2033 as part of its Artemis program
Elon Musk admits 'a bunch of people will probably die' during SpaceX's initial voyages to Mars - but has insisted it will be a 'glorious adventure and amazing experience'.
The SpaceX founder was speaking with Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize Foundation, when he made the stark prediction.
Musk has already said he hopes to get humans on Mars by 2026 – seven years before NASA aims to land astronauts on the Red Planet.
But a barefoot Musk warned Thursday: 'Going to Mars reads like that advert for Shackleton going to the Antarctic. You know it is dangerous, it's uncomfortable and it's a long journey.
'You might not come back alive but it is a glorious adventure and it will be an amazing experience.
'Yeah, honestly a bunch of people will probably die in the beginning.
'It's tough going over there.'
Elon Musk and Peter Diamandis in conversation about the launch of the largest incentive prize in history, the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition. During the chat Musk admitted 'a bunch of people will probably die' during SpaceX's initial voyages to Mars
The Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts from three countries launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral Friday. Musk has already said he hopes to get humans on Mars by 2026 – seven years before NASA aims to land astronauts there
SpaceX brought spaceflight back to America in May last year by launching NASA astronauts from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the to the International Space Station (ISS) – an event that has not happened in nearly a decade.
Dubbed 'Launch America,' it was also the first time a private company has put astronauts into space.
In February Musk told the Good Times Show his goal was to establish a self-sustaining Martian civilization.
SpaceX brought spaceflight back to America in May last year by launching NASA astronauts from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the to the International Space Station (ISS) – an event that has not happened in nearly a decade. Astronauts are pictured Friday
NASA plans to put the first humans on Mars by 2033 as part of its Artemis program that will see the next man and first woman land on the Moon in 2024.
Although Musk hopes to achieve his goal of landing humans on the Red Planet by 2026, he was realistic and said it isn't a hard deadline due to the technical hurdles.
Musk says there are a number of technological advances that need to be made between now and 2026 before humans can travel to Mars on Starship.
These include ensuring Starship is fully reusable and that it can reach orbit where it is able to refuel ready for the long six month trip to Mars.
Musk says there are a number of technological advances that need to be made between now and 2026 before humans can travel to Mars on Starship
SpaceX Starships SN9 and SN10. After a series of successful test flights, Musk hopes to send an uncrewed Starship to Mars and back at some point in 2024 - before a crewed flight in 2026
After a series of successful test flights, Musk hopes to send an uncrewed Starship to Mars and back at some point in 2024 - before a crewed flight in 2026.
'For the first time in the four and a half billion year history of Earth it has been possible to extend life beyond Earth and make life multi-planetary,' he said.
'Humanity is the agent of life and we have an obligation to ensure the creatures of Earth continue even if there is a calamity on Earth, whether it is man-made or a natural calamity - if you look at the fossil record there are many mass extinctions.
'It is about ensuring we pass that threshold where it is self-sustaining if some calamity prevents the ships from going there.
'What comes first - a self-sustaining city on Mars or World War Three?'
He said it would be a tiny, dangerous outpost to start with requiring a lot of hard work, a 'frontier environment' with far more ways to die than there are on Earth.
'It will be fun and a great adventure, but it will not be a luxurious thing to start'.
He said the propellant plant, solar power, food production, iron ore refinery are all 'fundamentals of industry' required to make Mars self-sustaining.
On Saturday the International Space Station's population swelled to 11 with the jubilant arrival of SpaceX's third crew capsule in less than a year. It's the biggest crowd up there in more than a decade.
All of the astronauts - representing the U.S., Russia, Japan and France - managed to squeeze into camera view for a congratulatory call from the leaders of their space agencies.
A recycled SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts arrived at the space station a day after launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
On Saturday the International Space Station's population swelled to 11 with the jubilant arrival of SpaceX's third crew capsule in less than a year. It's the biggest crowd up there in more than a decade. All of the astronauts - representing the U.S., Russia, Japan and France - managed to squeeze into camera view for a congratulatory call from the leaders of their space agencies
Although this was SpaceX´s third crew flight for NASA, it was the first to use a vehicle that´s flown before, an essential part of a plan by SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk to push to the moon and Mars.
The Dragon capsule was used for SpaceX´s first crew launch last May, while the Falcon rocket soaring Friday hoisted crew two in November.
It was the first time two SpaceX crew Dragons were parked there at the same time - practically side by side.
And earlier this month NASA picked Musk's SpaceX to build the spacecraft that take the first woman and next man to the moon. The Musk-owned firm beat out Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Dynetics.
The officials statement from NASA confirms SpaceX will be the only one to take humans back to the moon for the first time since the Apollo mission 48 years ago.
Hitting The Vaulted Dome: Elon Musk To Mars "Bunch Of People Will Die"
Hitting The Vaulted Dome: Elon Musk To Mars "Bunch Of People Will Die"
By Lee Austin
When Elon Musk was asked about why his Tesla in space looked fake, he replied ” “It looks so ridiculous and impossible,” the SpaceX CEO told reporters after the Falcon Heavy megarocket launched a car into space February 6h, 2018. “You can tell it’s real because it looks so fake, honestly.” Nothing quite like a moment of clarity in a sea of lie.
It appears Elon just had another honest revelation. He was asked about man travelling to Mars Musk admitted that “a bunch of people will probably die. You might die, it’s going to be uncomfortable and probably won’t have good food. Honestly, a bunch of people will probably die in the beginning,” he said, while adding will also be “a glorious adventure and it will be an amazing experience. Not for everyone. Volunteers only!”
Actually it’s impossible to visit and any heavenly body because the rocket would hit the vaulted dome. Just like the movie “The Truman Show” we live under a dome and no one is going anywhere. Although the moon and sun are below the dome, both are plasma lights and impossible to land on.
Here’s another example of the cosmos hiding in plain sight. We’ve been indoctrinated to believe the sky and ocean get their blue color from the white sunlight reflecting off the oceans. In truth… I love that word… in truth, the sky and oceans get their blue color from the localized sun illuminating a singular, encased, sea firmament dome thirty-five hundred miles above the surface of the flat earth. Spanning three-hundred and sixty degrees around the flat earth.
The sun and moon are positioned below the water firmament dome, rotating in a clockwise motion above the flat earth. The water firmament dome divides the mortal first heaven and third dimension from the eternal second heaven of the fourth dimension. The second heaven of the fourth dimension is the abode of my dark angels, and principalities. These dark powers govern the first two heavens and hell deep under the surface of the flat earth.
The Book of The Secrets of Enoch 1 &2 says, “And those men took me and led me up on to the second heaven, and showed me darkness, greater than earthly darkness, and there I saw prisoners hang, watched, awaiting the great and boundless judgment, and these angels were dark-looking, more than earthly darkness, and incessantly making weeping through all hours.” “And I said to the men who were with me: “Wherefore are these incessantly tortured?” They answered me: “These are God’s apostates, who obeyed not God’s commands, but took counsel with their own will, and turned away with their prince, who also is fastened on the fifth heaven.”
Genesis Chapter 1 Verses 6-8 says, “And God said, ‘Let there be space between the waters, to separate water from water.’” And so it was. God made this space to separate the waters above from the waters below. And God called the space sky.
Genesis Chapter 7 Verse 11 says, “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” These windows of heaven are the water gate-portals affixed to the water firmament dome. You live below a sealed dome that contains a vast ocean.
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 53 Verses 8-11 says, “All the waters, which are in the heavens and above them, shall mix together. The water which is above heaven shall be the agent; And the water which is under the earth shall be the recipient; and all shall be destroyed who dwell upon the earth, and who dwell under the extremities of heaven. By these means shall they understand the iniquity which they have committed on earth: and by these means shall they perish.”
Job 34 verse 18 says, “Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass.”
Another NASA deception is the fiction of planets. Millions of spinning balls, rotating around millions of burning star balls. Actually, the planets and stars are a collective habitation of angelic beings known as luminaries and stones of fire. Flickering, sentient, intelligent orbs contained within the sea firmament dome. If you want to see extraterrestrial beings, just look up into the night sky.
Through the lens of a telescope, luminaries appear to have ripples; a natural occurrence, since my stones of fire are encased within the sea firmament dome. The sun and moon don’t display water ripples because they are below the water firmament dome, rotating clockwise above and around the flat earth, within the third dimension of the first heaven.
Seven of these luminaries left their preordained courses and are known as the wandering stars. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon are the seven rebellious luminaries. Thirty-five-hundred miles above the surface of my flat earth, the sea firmament dome acts as a translucent lens, revealing the luminaries in the second heaven, revolving clock-wise around the flat earth. Again, it is the refraction of the luminaries through the hardened lens of the sea firmament dome that creates the illusion of ripples. Your eyes are not deceiving you.
The “stars” rotate around Polaris the North Star. Perception is reality. Polaris and the flat earth are the only two immovable center points in the universe. Polaris is true north and the direction of the third heaven. In sum, there are ten heavens. The Ancient of Days rules the universe from the tenth heaven. Contained within the first heaven of the third dimension, the sun and moon move from the east to the west around a geocentric, motionless, flat earth. The host of luminaries are divinely positioned above within the sea firmament dome.
The Book of The Secrets of Enoch, Chapter 3 says, “It came to pass, when Enoch had told his sons, that the angels took him on to their wings and bore him up on to the first heaven and placed him on the clouds. And there I looked, and again I looked higher, and saw the ether, and they placed me on the first heaven and showed me a very great sea, greater than the earthly sea.”
Planeta is Latin for planet or wandering star. Neither the planets nor stars are comprised of terra-firma and therefore impossible to land on. These stones of fire are illuminated through sonoluminescence, which is sound creating light. These are short bursts of light emitting from imploding bubbles through a liquid within an intense acoustic frequency. When displaced in water, these sound waves create heat in the form of light. Yes, sound creates light. In fact, every animate and inanimate object in the universe is energy, corresponding to its own unique vibrational frequency. The Ancient of Days created every physical and material object from his light. Infused at the speed of thought. To see is to be. It was good because he looked at it. He doesn’t build. The material world is formed out of his creative desire.
Haven’t you ever wondered why rockets always curve after lift-off? Otherwise they’d crash into the water firmament dome. Outer “space” is the beginning of the second heaven and fourth dimension. No astronaut has ever penetrated the sea firmament dome.
Again, man cannot land on the moon because it’s a light. Actor-nots have only ascended to a maximum low earth orbit (LEO) earth orbit of twelve hundred miles. High earth orbit, (HEO) is unobtainable. Twenty-two-thousand, two-hundred-and-thirty-six miles is the fictitious distance a geosynchronous satellite orbits the fictitious planet. Unfortunately, such an altitude would submerge all satellites in the vast ocean positioned above the sea firmament dome. Images refer to this layer of the atmosphere as the thermosphere. Temperatures in this part of the second heaven can reach four-thousand degrees. Yet somehow twenty-five thousand satellites and three hundred and seventy-thousand pieces of space junk haven’t melted or crashed, all while simultaneously orbiting the earth ball at twenty-two thousand miles per hour. Satellites only circumvent the first heaven of the third dimension below the sea firmament dome. Everything is to scale. Because the sun and moon are in close proximity to the flat earth, satellites orbit from an altitude of twelve hundred miles, twenty-three-hundred miles below the sea firmament dome.
The moon is a hollow, flat, translucent, crystalline, self-illuminating disc. One that generates a unique type of cold light. During a full moon cycle, the luminaries can been seen shining through the moon’s disc, confirming its translucent composition. On Earth, the temperature of radiate moonlight is always colder than its adjacent moon shadow. If moonlight was the result of sun rays reflecting off earth, then the illuminated moonlight reflecting back onto the earth should be warmer. Moonlight is colder, proving it projects its own light.
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 77, Verses 4-5 says, “In the orb of the sun there is a seventh portion of light, which is added to it from the moon. By measure it is put in, until a seventh portion of the light of the sun is departed.
A new Technique Could use Quasars to Directly Measure the Expansion Rate of the Universe
A new Technique Could use Quasars to Directly Measure the Expansion Rate of the Universe
One of the biggest challenges to measuring the expansion of the universe is the fact that many of the methods we use are model-dependent. The most famous example is the use of distant supernovae, where we compare the standard brightness of a Type Ia supernova with their apparent brightness to find their distance. But knowing the standard brightness depends upon comparing them to the brightness of Cepheid variables which is in turn determined by measuring the distances of nearby stars via parallax. Every step of this cosmic distance ladder depends upon the step before it.
Various methods of cosmic distance measure. Credit: Wikipedia user Brews O’Hare
This doesn’t mean our distance measurements are necessarily wrong, but it makes them more vulnerable to systematic errors. In recent years it has become clear that our various measures of cosmic expansion don’t quite agree, so either a systematic error has crept into our data, or something is wrong with our cosmological model. One way out of this mess would be to find new ways of measuring cosmic expansion. Preferably methods that aren’t model dependent. We’ve made quite a bit of progress in this area. Methods using phenomena such as astronomical masers and gravitational waves have shown a lot of promise. And a recent study in Physical Review A introduces a method using quasars and gravitational lensing.
Gravitational lensing can make one quasar create many images. Credit: NASA/ESA/D. Player (STScI)
Quasars are incredibly bright and distant objects. They are powered by active supermassive black holes in young galaxies. The light we see from quasars has traveled for billions of years to reach us, and so it is redshifted by the expansion of the universe during that time. Rather than trying to measure the distance of these quasars, this new method looks at quasars that are gravitationally lensed by closer galaxies.
When a galaxy is between us and a distant quasar, the gravitational mass of the galaxy bends quasar light around the galaxy. As a result, we can often see multiple images of the quasar rather than a single image. Each of these images is the result of a different path of light as it is lensed by the galaxy. Because of gravitational lensing, the light paths of these images can differ in distance by dozens of light-years. So the quasar images we see can differ in age by decades. Since the universe is always expanding, a younger quasar image will be redshifted less than an older one.
The idea behind this new work is wonderfully simple. Just compare the redshifts of the lensed quasar images near a galaxy, and you can determine how much the universe expanded over a decade or century. Do this with galaxies at various distances, and you can determine not only the rate of cosmic expansion but whether that rate has changed over time.
The broadening of spectral lines. Credit: Swinburne University of Technology
In practice, comparing these redshifts is very difficult. The redshift difference between two quasar images is extremely small, and since the light has traveled so far its spectral lines are blurred by the gas it has passed through to reach us. It’s an effect known as Doppler broadening. So we can’t compare the redshifts directly.
To overcome this problem, the team proposes a method called intensity correlation speckles. The method takes the Doppler broadened light of a quasar image and compresses it into an average line. Since two lensed images will have a similar Doppler broadening when compressed their main difference will be their difference in redshift. The two images can then be compared by the way they interfere or speckle. It’s an optical effect similar to the way two slightly different musical notes can interfere to create a warbling tone.
In principle, this method could give us a detailed measure of the evolution of cosmic expansion, and might settle the tension of modern cosmology. The next step is to create a detector for ground-based telescopes that could make such a measurement.
Artist's rendering of the accretion disk in ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a supermassive black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun.
In Search of The Ark of the Covenant - What Could Happen if We Really Found It?
In Search of The Ark of the Covenant - What Could Happen if We Really Found It?
Why do some people want to keep the Ark of the Covenant hidden? Ken Hanson walks us through some of the holy sites in Jerusalem, including the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, while discussing how archeology in the Holy Land is affected by current geopolitics.
As we follow along with his journey, we learn new details in the search for the Ark of the Covenant and the routes it may have been taken to keep its whereabouts clandestine. Noting the import placed upon this artifact and the effect it’s discovery could have on the world, Dr. Hanson reveals recent actions taken by geopolitcal leaders to prevent the Ark’s unearthing.
Navy Flight Encounters A Hugh Alien Craft In 1956 Over The Atlantic
Navy Flight Encounters A Hugh Alien Craft In 1956 Over The Atlantic
1956 ………FLIGHT OVER THE ATLANTIC
It had happened in 1956. Cruising at 19,000 feet, a Navy R7V-2 transport – a four-engine Super-Constellation – was flying west across the Atlantic Ocean. The next stop was Gander, Newfoundland. Final destination, Naval Air Station, Patuxent, Maryland.
The night was clear, visibility unlimited. In the senior pilot’s seat, Commander George Benton was checking the dim-lit instruments. At thirty-four, Benton had a decade of Navy flying behind him. He had made the Atlantic crossing more than two hundred times. Back in the cabin were two extra Navy air crews, en route home from foreign duty.
Most of these men were asleep. Including Benton’s regular and relief crews, there were nearly 30 airmen-pilots, navigators and flight engineers aboard the Constellation. As Commander Benton finished his cockpit check, he glanced out at the stars. Then he leaned forward, puzzled. A few minutes before, the sea below had been dark. Now there was a cluster of lights, like a village, about twenty-five miles ahead.
Benton looked over at his co-pilot, Lieutenant Peter W. Mooney. “What do you make of those lights?” Mooney peered down, startled. “Looks like a small town!” “That’s what I thought.” Benton quickly called the navigator, Lieutenant Alfred C. Erdman. “We must be way off course. There’s land down there.” “It can’t be land.” Erdman hurried forward from his map table. “That last star sight shows…” He broke off, staring down at the clustered lights. “Well?” said Benton. “They must be ships,” said Erdman. “Maybe a rendezvous for some special operation.”
“They don’t look like ships,” said Benton. He called Radioman John Wiggins. No word of any unusual ship movements, Wiggins reported. And no signals from the location of the lights. If they were ships, they were keeping radio silence. “Wake up those other crews,” Benton told Erdman. “Maybe somebody can dope it out.” In a few moments, two or three airmen crowded into the cockpit. Benton cut off the automatic pilot, banked to give them and the men in the cabin a better view.
As the transport began to circle, the strange lights abruptly dimmed. Then several colored rings appeared, began to spread out. One, Benton noticed, seemed to be growing in size. Behind him, someone gave an exclamation. Benton took another look. That luminous ring wasn’t on the surface – it was something rushing up toward the transport. “What the devil is it?” said Mooney. “Don’t know,” muttered Benton. He rolled the Constellation out of its turn to start a full-power climb. Then he saw it was useless. The luminous ring could catch them in seconds.
The glow, he now saw, came from the rim of some large, round object. It reached their altitude, swiftly took shape as a giant disc-shaped machine. Dwarfing the Constellation, it raced in toward them. “It’s going to hit us!” said Erdman. Benton had known normal fear, but this was nightmare. Numbed, he waited for the crash. Suddenly the giant disc tilted. Its speed sharply reduced, it angled on past the port wing. The commander let out his breath. He looked at Mooney’s white face, saw the others’ stunned expressions.
Watching out the port window, he cautiously started to bank. He stopped as he saw the disc. It had swung around, was drawing abreast, pacing them at about one hundred yards. For a moment he had a clear glimpse of the monster. Its sheer bulk was amazing; its diameter was three to four times the Constellation’s wing span. At least thirty feet thick at the center, it was like a gigantic dish inverted on top of another.
Seen at this distance, the glow along the rim was blurred and uneven. Whether it was an electrical effect, a series of jet exhausts or lights from opening in the rim, Benton could not tell. But the glow was bright enough to show the disc’s curving surface, giving a hint of dully reflecting metal. Though Benton saw no signs of life, he had a feeling they were being observed. Fighting an impulse to dive away, he held to a straight course. Gradually, the strange machine pulled ahead.
Tilting its massive shape upward, it quickly accelerated and was lost against the stars. Commander Benton reached for his microphone, called Gander Airport and identified himself. “You show any other traffic out here?” he asked the tower. “We had something on the scope near you,” Gander told him. “But we couldn’t get an answer.”
“We saw it,” Benton said grimly. “It was no aircraft.” He gave the tower a concise report, and back at Gander teletype messages were rushed to the U.S. Air Defense Command, the Commanding Officer, Eastern Sea Frontier, the Director of Air Force Intelligence and the Air Technical Intelligence Center.
When the Constellation landed at Gander, Air Force intelligence officers met the transport. From the start, it was plain they accepted the giant disc sighting as fact. For two hours, Benton and the rest were carefully interrogated[debriefed], separately and together: How close did the object come? What was its size… estimated rate of climb… any electrical interference noted… what happened to the other luminous rings?
From the answers to scores of questions, the majority opinion emerged. The flying disc was between 350 and 400 feet in diameter, and apparently metallic. No interference with ignition noted; instruments not observed and radio not operating during this brief period. Time for the giant disc to climb to the transport’s altitude, between five and eight seconds, indicated speed between 1,400 and 2,200 knots; the disc had accelerated above this speed on departure.
Not all the men in the cabin had seen the luminous rings. Of those who had, most were watching the huge disc approach and did not see the “rings” disappear. If they, too, were flying discs, in a rendezvous as some suggested, they apparently had raced off while the other one was checking on the Constellation. At one point, an Intelligence captain asked Benton if he had seen any indication of life abroad the disc.
“No, but it was intelligently controlled, that’s certain. Benton looked at him closely. “That size, it would hardly be remote-controlled, would it?” “I couldn’t say,” replied the Air Force man. Nor would he tell what the Gander Airport radar had shown about the disc’s speed and maneuvers. “What’s behind all this?” demanded Mooney. “Up to now, I believed the Air Force. You people say there aren’t any flying saucer…”
“Sorry, I can’t answer any questions,” said the captain. “Why not? After a scare like that, we’ve got a right to know what’s going on.” The Intelligence officer shook his head. “I can’t answer any questions,” he repeated. As quickly as possible, intelligence reports with full details were flashed to the four Defense commanders already notified, with an extra message for the Director of Naval Intelligence.
After the Constellation reached Patuxent, the air crews were interviewed [debriefed] again, by Navy order. Each man made a written report, with his opinion of what he had seen. Five days later, Commander Benton had a phone call from a scientist in a high government agency. “I’m informed you had a close-up UFO sighting. I’d like to see you.”
Benton checked, found the man was cleared by the Navy. Next day, the scientist appeared, showed his credential, listened intently to Benton’s report. Then he unlocked a dispatch case and took out some photographs. “Was it like any of these?” At the third picture, Benton stopped him. “That’s it!” He looked sharply at the scientist. “Somebody must know the answers, if you’ve got photographs of the things.”
The other man took the pictures. “I’m sorry, Commander.” He closed his dispatch case and left. At the time when I (Donald Keyhoe) learned of this case, I had served for two years as Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena.
It seems from comments here that each of us has an interest in some aspect of the UFO phenomenon, or preference for certain types of UFOs and related accounts or reports about them.
For instance, Daniel likes UFO stories that have an ET patina.
Jerry C appears fascinated by UFOs but especially those with an amorphous sheen: the Hessdalen Lights for example.
Dominick prefers, I think, accounts or stories that reflect solid, tangible objects with a serious provenance (solid, credible reportage or renditions).
Ron goes for witness or UFO enthusiast credibility, and is open to a variety of UFO accounts from them.
Martin is fascinated by the meta-paranormal surround of the phenomenon.
Nick Redfern’s interest is saturated by anything outside normalcy, UFOs only a part of that.
Kevin Randle prefers to augment UFO reports with only credible, reputable reportage.
Bryan Daum is just happy that UFOs of all kinds are rampant.
We all know what José C believes.
Anthony Bragalia is obsessed with Roswell, and only UFOs connected to that mischievous incident.
A few returnees or long-time lurkers, here, are open to anything that is out of the ordinary, including my pontifications, no matter how loony.
Me? I’m polluted by the psychological element of UFO witnesses and the oddity of UFO encounter reports. (All the rest is backwash.)
[And no one here seems particularly interested in the “abduction” stories.]
That’s part of the UFO (UAP?) problem: only José is immersed in his preference, the rest of us mucking around with no real or aggressive pursuit of our interest.
We’re flailing around for any whiff of UFO authenticity, any!
(Some UFO enthusiasts I see on Facebook appear to be immersed in “research” of an iffy kind or just playing footsie with other UFO enthusiasts only for the camaraderie, nothing more than social propinquity.)
Let’s all try to buckle down and present worthwhile input, here and elsewhere, without the mangle of flotsam we, including me, keep putting forth as viable UFO information or conjecture.
UFO Sighted Following Helicopter Over Hamburg, Germany
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UFO Sighted Over Miami, Florida ( April 21, 2021 )
UFO Sighted Over Miami, Florida on April 21, 2021 :
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Mulitiple UFOs Sighted Over Colombia ( April 23, 2021 )
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Contact with Aliens Will Happen by the end of Century
Contact with Aliens Will Happen by the end of Century
Dr Michio Kaku
A scientist believes that humanity will make contact with extraterrestrials by the end of the Century. Dr Michio Kaku of the US Tv series “Ancient Aliens” has stated that following the recent leak of US military UFO footage, it’s likely that extraterrestrials do exist.
The 74-year-old physicist said the footage is either the proof of secret government weaponry or evidence of life beyond Earth.
He said that alien visitation was attributed to crackpots, hucksters, and people who saw something not real because they were in a drunken haze but could no longer be ruled out today.
As a physicist, he believes in testable, reproducible, and falsifiable things. Extraterrestrial visitations in the past could not be tested, and it was just an eye-witness account. Now we have videos from the US military, and physicists have analysed these graphs frame by frame, Kaku said. We now realize that no known military or commercial vehicle can reproduce the gyrations and the velocity of UFOs. Either they’re secret military weapons, or they’re from outer space, Dr Kaku explained.
Dr Kaku also pointed out that with the rapid advancements of our technology in recognizing signs of life, it’s only a matter of time before we come into contact with an alien civilisation.
He explained: “I think that there’s a good likelihood that, in this Century, we’ll make contact with an alien civilisation. And how do we know this? Because we’re getting better at scanning planets in outer space for radio signals.”
Dr Kaku expects advanced alien civilisations could reach Earth from outer space as they’re probably thousands of years ahead of humankind in technology, in which case we are like squirrels to them.
“What do we have to offer? Gold? No, gold is a rather useless metal for an extraterrestrial. We really have nothing to offer them, and if anything, they’ve been observing us for many years, and if they wanted to make contact, they would have done so decades ago.”
Dr Kaku called those people who beamed up by an extraterrestrial craft to steal something next time as there’s no law against stea
ling from an alien civilisation, and you’ll have bragging rights that can be tested in the laboratory.
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Filer’s Files 16 2021 European Space Agency Finds Huge Lakes on Mars - PART I
Birkdale Close, England, UK on April 10, 2021
Filer’s Files 16 2021 European Space Agency Finds Huge Lakes on Mars - PART I
Lt. George A. Filer III ret. USAF, my first military photo
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: General L.M. Chassin UFOs Are Real, European Space Agency Finds Huge Water Supply on Mars, 1976 Life Found on Mars, Tubes or Canals on Mars, Defense of the Moon and Mars Star Wars, Solar Warden – The Secret Space Program, This is what the Communist Chinese leadership really think about us, and Secrets Book.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington D.C.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, 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.
General L.M. Chassin, NATO coordinator of Allied Air Service, who became Commanding General of the French Air Force warning that “The number of thoughtful, intelligent, educated people in full possession of their faculties who have “seen something” and described it, grows every day.
We can say categorically that mysterious objects have indeed appeared and continue to appear in the sky that surrounds us.”
“If we persist in refusing to recognize the existence of the UFOs, we will end up, one fine day, by mistaking them for the guided missiles of an enemy – and the worst will be upon us.”
There is a serious and growing danger that UFOs may be mistaken for Soviet missiles or jets, accidently setting off war. Several Air defense scrambles and alerts already have occurred when defense radar-men mistook UFO formations for possible enemy machines”. NICAP agrees with the sober warnings by General L. M. Chassin, recent NATO Coordinator of Allied Air Services (to recognize UFOs before a case of mistaken identity causes a global tragedy *).
* See Appendix A, Congressional Record entry, for text of General Chassin’s statement.
There is an increasing danger–as the NICAP Board has warned the AF–that Russia or China could exploit the muddled UFO situation at any time. If successful, this trick would greatly increase tension in the United States and allied countries. It could be planned to upset the 1960 campaigns, * or at any desired time to increase fear of USSR attack power.
These concerns were taken seriously enough to be incorporated into the 1971 US-Soviet “Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Outbreak of Nuclear War.”
Note:Direct communication 24 hours a day was set up from the Pentagon to the Soviet Command Headquarters to prevent nuclear war. US and Soviet aircraft often jointly track and chase UFOs.
European Space Agency Finds Huge Water Supply on Mars
The European Space Agency using Mars Express Radar Satellite has discovered underground water lakes all over Mars.
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft has discovered several ponds of liquid water buried under the ice in the south polar region of Mars. The spacecraft’s radar instrument, MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding), revealed one underground reservoir in 2018, buried about 1.5 km below the ice. Now, taking into account more data and analyzing it in a different way, three new ponds have been discovered. The largest underground lake measures about 20 x 30 km, (12.4 X 20 miles) and is surrounded by several smaller ponds. The water is thought to be salty in order for it to remain liquid at cold temperatures.
Mars was once warmer and wetter with water flowing across the surface, much like early Earth. It is possibly that an entire system of ancient lakes and rivers might exist underground, perhaps millions or even billions of years old. They would be ideal locations to search for evidence of life on Mars. It is generally believed water means life on Mars.
The 82-kilometer-wide Korolev crater, found in the northern lowlands of Mars.
The European Space Agency has shared an incredible composite image showing a 50-mile wide crater on Mars that is filled with water ice all year long. Some ice may melt when ground temperatures reach 90 degrees Fare height in the summer according to seldom released NASA data.
Budding future colonists hoping for a white Christmas on Mars will be somewhat disappointed as the ESA has confirmed that sitting in the Korolev crater is, in fact, a thick block of water ice, not snow. The enormous, 82-kilometer-wide, 2-kilometer-deep “ice trap” could still be good for ice skating though.
On June 7, 2018, NASA announced Mars could have building blocks of life, Curiosity rover has revealed the latest results from its Curiosity rover gathering samples from the surface of Mars. NASA the US space agency announced Mars has the building blocks of life, in a discovery that could suggest the planet was once inhabited – or even still is today. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists noted that the molecules provide fresh insight into Mars.
Jen Eigenbrode“
“We found organic molecules in rocks from an ancient lake bed,” explained Jen Eigenbrode, research scientist at Goddard. A variety of molecules were identified in rocks billions years old, she added.
“Organic compounds are fundamental to our search for life,” said Paul Mahaffy, director of the Solar System Exploration Division at Goddard. . Thanks to NASA
1976 Life Found on Mars
Green Lichen on Mars Rock in 1976
Similar Landers reached Mars in 1976, with Labeled Release (LR) experiments developed for NASA’s Viking Landers 1 & 2, by Dr. Gilbert Levin who states, “The scientific process forces me to my conclusion, the Viking LR experiment detected living microorganisms in the soil on Mars”.
1976 Mars Viking Lander’s Labeled release microbial life signs detectors … the two devices which BOTH gave positive signs for Martian Life, back in 1976. Note: The discovery of life is classified Secret anywhere except Earth.
The LR test was one of three performed by the Lander. JPL used the results of another test, the gas chroma/to/graph which was designed to test for the presence of organic chemicals. The LR test was designed to look for life. NASA has claimed these experiments approved by them were in error when they actually found life.
Summer Photo of Mars with Lichen rowing Every Year
Watch photos of Mars each Summer when it turns green proving tremendous amounts of lichen is growing/
All of the multiple rationales attempting to explain the Mars LR results of life on Mars as chemical or physical in origin have now been effectively refuted, but their impact remains
I spoke with Dr. Levin who is convinced life exists on Mars and his experiments and Mars Photographs of Moss or lichen of many of the rocks are proof. The color film coming back from Mars showed blue skies and only some red soil and grey rocks. The red color was increased to delete the blue sky.
Argument is made that each of the vital links in the chain of life connecting Earth and Mars has a probability of one. Today’s knowledge makes it very difficult to conceive of a sterile Mars. Indeed, it now seems that Earth and Mars form one biosphere. This sheds new light on the results of the Viking LR experiment on Mars.
While the case for life on Mars has strengthened in recent years, many will require additional proof before accepting such a major change in paradigm. It has been proposed that this important confirmation can be obtained by a simple modification of a miniaturized version of the original LR experiment[34].
Meteorites from Mars arriving on Earth contain microorganisms. Earth and Mars were hospitable over epochs that would have permitted infection of Mars by Earth microorganisms—and from other sources.
It is now more difficult to propose a sterile Mars than a live one.
Tubes or Canals on Mars
Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who in 1877 reported the appearance of certain long, thin lines he called canali, meaning channels in Italian. He was followed by Percival Lowell an American the wealthy astronomer who ‘discovered civilization’ on Mars.. His widely read books included “Mars” (1895), “Mars and Its Canals” (1906), and “Mars As the Abode of Life” (1908).’
Lowell ‘s Map of Mars about 1898
To pursue his obsession, Lowell founded and funded one of the world’s great observatories on a 7,200-foot (2,195-meter) mountain peak he named Mars Hill, near Flagstaff, Arizona. There he scrutinized Mars, with, his own custom-built 24-inch refracting telescope, built in 1894, which became a marvel of the age.
Captivated by these observed tubes Lowell spent many years attempting to elucidate and theorize about them. The lines, he thought, must “run for thousands of miles as far actually as from Boston to San Francisco.” What Lowell was likely seeing were a series of tubes under construction a hundred years ago. A large network of tubes actually exists today on Mars.
On Mars there are a series of tubes several miles wide that show up within several craters and natural low valleys where they are exposed they are similar in size to Manhattan, New York and could actually contain skyscrapers as shown. According to the MSSS supplied statistics, the strip above is 2.98 km wide or 1.85 miles wide and as tall much too large for lava tubes.
Tube with Manhattan inserted for size.
As NASA suggests. Remember that the tubes extend from one edge of the craters to the other side of a crater with no signs of diminishment in size. These tubes within the craters are 8.92 km or 5.54 miles of tube length. However, we can also reasonably assume that there is still plenty of tube system unseen off the left or west edge of the E12-03186 strip and off the right or east edge of the E11-03408 strip that appear to go underground.
Note that the dark area spread on the crater floor that is mostly the tube mass tends to confirm a much greater mass size beyond the limitations of the strip views and therefore probably substantial more tube length. So, we’re talking about a colossal tube system substantially longer than 5.5 miles and in fact many kilometers or miles longer than that. Much smaller tubes are found in Tubes exposed in valleys where the soil has been blown away.
Besides the giant tubes that have been found in the Mars crater photographs, there are much smaller “tubes” often referred as glass or Plexiglas tubes because they are translucent or even transparent. There are miles and miles of them … mostly buried … a few completely exposed as in these photos probably by the winds. The diameter of the smaller tube is 20-50 meters (66 to 164 feet) in general. That’s about big enough to put two interstate highways through. Supposedly, they are exposed through the mechanism of geological weathering of the surface soil. It does not appear that these tunnels or tubes are geologic or natural construction. This leaves us with the awesome conclusion that they have another origin of which there are only two possibilities … they are organic … or … they are artificial.
Possible Split in Tube
I should point out NASA claims these tubes are actually sand dunes. While the European Space Agency feels many of the tubes are lava flows. I spoke with NASA scientists who claim much information on Mars is highly classified. I flew over sand dunes in Saudi Arabia for three months, Prevailing winds form sand dunes from in one direction, while the tubes run in many directions.
We can speculate a Mars civilization may have decided to go underground due to being hit repeatedly by meteorites or radiation from space. The tubing appears somewhat transparent and likely allows some light to penetrate while stopping the radiation. Underground water appears to seep in on the sides of the craters and dams collect the water. There is oxygen, water, and the building blocks of life found on Mars indicating life likely exists. There’s no magnetic field on Mars so the ceaseless hazard of ionizing radiation could result in shortened lifespan for Martians, Using absorber materials such as Plexiglas for beta particles and lead for X-rays and gamma rays is an effective way to reduce radiation exposure.
. I have seen too much evidence of tampering of photographs on such a fine level and small scale to convince me that this could have been done daily only with much larger closer in views.
Defense of the Moon and Mars Star Wars
Star Trek Symbol found on the Mars by Space.com
President Trump tweeted from Air Force One while returning from a visit to Europe:
“For all the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon – We did that 50 years ago,”They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!” Trump said.
Note: President Trump may have slipped mentioning that there is a possible defense system in place for the Moon and Mars called Solar Warden. e has also started a new military service called the Space Force. “Under my administration, we are restoring NASA to greatness and we are going back to the Moon, then Mars,”The single most significant action in the Missile Defense Review is the endorsement of a program to build a new network of early warning and tracking satellites, which the Pentagon calls a Space Sensor Layer. The nation will have advanced missile defense capabilities, he said, “with the Space Force leading the way.” Space is “going to be a very big part of our defense and offense,” Trump said.
M.S. Michael Salla, PH.D. Writes, R.C. Randy Cramer (Capt, USMC) claims he went to Mars in 1987, and help defend bases formed by several nations. In the interview, Cramer’s described his training as a child super soldier to serve as a member of an elite Marine Corps unit that provides personnel for a secret space program with military bases on the Moon, Mars and other parts of the solar system. Cramer describes how he traveled to a secret Moon base to sign papers committing him to a 20 year tour of duty.
Alleged Mars Base
The Mars Defense Force (MDF) defended the Mars Colony Corporation that had five civilian settlements on Mars from indigenous Martians. He flew to Forward Station Zebra and spent the next 17 plus years of his life as a member of the special tactical operations division. The Mars Colony Corporations mission is to extract minerals and his job was to defend the operation from Martians.
He fought a native Reptoid species and a native Insectoid species that don’t necessarily live in the same areas, but have their own nests and hives.
There is evidence of mining on Mars and possible bases. The Martians have bases and cities hundreds of feet underground.. There was an invasive Reptoid species; they were Draconians, Alpha Draconians. He was promoted all the way up to Sergeant-Major after 17 years.
Mining on Mars with YHWH sign
Mars Mining with the mining area marked by huge signs at the upper right probably showing ownership. The symbol ý, like the Latin Y and possibly an H can be made out on the mining sign. A wild guess is that this could mean YHWH, “to create or Yahweh the national God of Israel.” these images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, show the depression of Juventae Chasma and the open pit mine with an apparent sign, cut into the plains of Lunae Planum on Mars. Located 5° South and 297° East. ExoNews.TV at https://youtu.be/YCTYkYcYuI0
Note:Navy hospitals have numerous personnel claiming they were part of Solar Warden.
US Naval Network and Space Operations Command photo
UK News Darren Perks reports since 1980, a secret space fleet code named ‘Solar Warden’ has been in operation unknown to the public that allegedly includes key world governments. While conducting an FOI (freedom of information) request with the DOD (department of defense) in 2010, I had a much unexpected response by email from them which read:
“About an hour ago I spoke to a NASA rep who confirmed this was their program and that it was terminated by the President Obama. He also informed me that it was not a joint program with the DOD. The NASA rep informed me that you should be directed to the Johnson Space Center FOIA Manager.
The program not only operates classified under the US Government but also under the United Nations authority. So you might be wondering how do I know this information? Well there are a few people and many others that have tried hard to find out the truth, and have succeeded by leaked information or simply asking questions and have government departments slip up and give away information freely, just like what happened when Darren Perks asked the DOD. One notable contributor is Gary Mckinnon.
When Gary McKinnon hacked into U.S. Space Command he found out about the ships or craft within Solar Warden. It is said that there are about eight cigar-shaped Motherships (each longer than two football fields end-to-end) and 43 small “scout ships. Gary McKinnon claims to have stumbled upon a secret list of Navel officers and up to ten space warships after breaking into NASA computer databases. A couple ships were named the USSS Curtis Lemay and USSS Roscoe Hillenkoetter. He claims it points to a secret American space program.
Note: Navy hospitals have numerous patients claiming they were part of Solar Warden.
The Solar Warden Space Fleet will likely transfer to the new Space Force.
The Obama Administration was forcing the UK to extradite Gary McKinnon to face trial in the US with a possible seventy years in prison. Teresa May refused to allow McKinnon to be sent to the U.S.
Typical Spaceship Filmed from Ground
The National Archive Records Admonition made available 250,000 pages of documents from President Reagan’s administration. The entry for June 11, 1985 page 334) reads:
’Reagan’s Lunch with 5 Top Space Scientists
President Reagan Diary states, “It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction, except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.”
Note: This would indicate a space ship at least as large as a 747-8 aircraft that is 250 feet long. It is likely much bigger to accommodate sleeping quarters, kitchen facilities, bathrooms, storage radar and weapons. The now grounded Space Shuttle held a maximum of eight people and only five were built for space flight.
Even if all five took off fully loaded it would be impossible to place and maintain 300 astronauts in orbit. Apparently President Reagan revealed the existence of a highly classified space program that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit. These comments by two Presidents indicate we have large space ships defending Earth.
Note:This would indicate a space ship at least as large as a 747-8 aircraft that is 250 feet long. It is likely much bigger to accommodate sleeping quarters, kitchen facilities, bathrooms, storage radar and weapons. The now grounded Space Shuttle held a maximum of eight people and only five were built for space flight. Even if all five took off fully loaded it would be impossible to place and maintain 300 astronauts in orbit. Apparently President Reagan revealed the existence of a highly classified space program that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit. These comments by two Presidents indicate we have large space ships defending Earth.
According to Ted Twietmeyer, there is circumstantial evidence for the existence of antigravity vehicles with advanced particle beam weapons that could remove orbital debris from the path of NASA vehicles. These space ships must be armed with particle beam or quantum weaponry, chemical lasers or electrically excited reactor powered lasers and other weaponry. These weapons could also be used to destroy objects in the path of the space station or space shuttle. There were several eyewitness reports of hovering black triangles firing at targets in Iraq during the early days of the war.
The Photo is effected by anti-gravity and atmosphere
There is a massive anti-gravity energy field surrounding these vehicles which interferes with all electronic devices, making it unlikely anyone could ever get good images of them. War has historically been the best proving ground for all new weapons.
Important clues may emerge from the recently released Reagan records about Strategic Command’s classified space fleet. More significantly, the public may soon learn about the advanced antigravity technologies that have been secretly developed and used for decades to fly military astronauts into deep space. Many of the Paperclip scientists worked at the (Air Material Command’s) Foreign Technology Division at Wright Field, Ohio?
Two Paper Clip German scientists at Wright Field were Dr. Hans Amtmann and Dr. Alexander Lippisch who designed the ME 163 Rocket aircraft and swept wing designs. One was named Siegfried Knemeyer was a former Nazi Luftwaffe Pilot and RLM Director of the German Air Ministry that helped create the V-1 and V-2 rockets. They allegedly helped in back engineering the Roswell and Socorro UFOs.
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground- and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The Strategic Defense Initiative was set up in 1984 becoming the most expensive weapons system ever, and “was widely criticized as being unrealistic. It was soon derided and called Star Wars.
According to William Tomkins Star Wars exists and several countries in the United Nations have joined together to fight off negative extra terrestrials. It appears that the billions spent to develop an effective system may now exist.
Rumors that the U.S. has a highly classified fleet of antigravity vehicles have circulated for years. On March 23, 1993, at an engineering conference in Los Angeles, Dr. Ben Rich former CEO of Lockheed’s Skunkworks, showed a slide with a black disk headed for space and said: “We now have the technology to take ET home”.
This is what the Communist Chinese leadership really think about us
From Jack Sarfatti.
Genera Chi Haotian writes,” To Communist China solving the ‘issue of America’ is the key to solving all other issues. First, this makes it possible for us to have many people migrate to the United States and even establish another China under the same leadership of the CCP. America was originally discovered by the ancestors of the yellow race, but Columbus gave credit to the White race. We the descendants of the
Chinese nation are ENTITLED to the possession of the land! It is historical destiny that China and United States will come into unavoidable confrontation on a narrow path and fight. In the long run, the relationship of China and the United States is one of a life-and-death struggle. Of course, right now it is not the time to openly break up with them yet.”
The Chinese Communist media tells the people they are now at war with the US. Our reform and opening to the outside world still rely on their capital and technology. We still need America. Therefore, we must do everything we can to promote our relationship with America, learn from America in all aspects and use America as an example to reconstruct our country. Only by using special means to ‘clean up’ America will we be able to lead the Chinese people there. Only by using non-destructive weapons that can kill many people will we be able to reserve America for ourselves.” Thanks to Chi Haotian, Vice-Chairman of China’s Military Commission
Chinese-made products have accounted for more than 60 percent of recalls this year, said Scott Wolfson, spokesman for the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission. So far they have recalled 338 products overall this year, Wolfson said. Most companies are run by military generals all hoping to kill Americans. China’s current food and drug safety situation is not very satisfactory.
Photo provided by Jeff Rense Radio. Magnification approximately 5600x.
Notice internal generally circular structures. Strongly indicative of a biological nature at this point. These structures measure on the order of 1 micron (virus size). Increasingly complex internal nature of the original sample fiber is now evident.
Additional budding structure is visible on the edge of the primary fiber. Translucent encasement that is indicative or suggestive of reproductive capability. This virus size structures can spread various forms of the corona virus in your foodor masks. Because nanotechnology deals with tiny particles that are about as big as individual atoms and molecules, that means you basically can’t tell which types of foods, packages or products contain nano particles.
It is very odd that the states keeping people home like New Jersey and New York have the highest number of deaths while those open states have less COVID-19 . Blue states only allow people out to purchase food. Speculating it seems something other than human contact may spread the disease. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said communities of color were severely impacted by the pandemic and were facing higher case counts and deaths compared to other races. Generally Chinese food is a very available to people of color. The Chinese often use/nano technology in producing food that is the size of atoms and viruses.
Examples of these types of potentially dangerous nano particles include nano-silver and titanium dioxide, which research suggests can get “stuck” in the digestive system (especially the small intestine), possibly leading to leaky gut syndrome and autoimmune disease symptoms. The autoimmune disease can likely make it easier to develop COVID-19. Ii it possible the virus is n our food since allegedly it came from bats then animals? “Viruses require a living host to grow and reproduce but food coughed or sneezed on can carry the virus.
Brian Ronholm, Consumer Reorts director of food policy. Ronholm sent a letter to USDA, on March 31 outlining CR’s concerns.
“We aren’t worried about the meat becoming contaminated with the new coronavirus,” he says, “but we want to continually monitor the overall safety of the meat and poultry supply.”
We know no travel was allowed from Wuhan within China but hundreds of thousands traveled all over the world carrying the COVID-19
Don’t drink Chinese Wine, fish, Soy, since some food contains sharp minute virus size nano structures that can cause intentional problems, Toxic dog food some with US labels, White Rabbit Creamy Candy, contained deadly melamine, Toxic toothpaste and Radioactive drywall.
So far the US has recalled 338 Chinese products overall this year.
NOW AVAIABLE: THE SEVEN TRILOGY’S THIRD NOVEL
SECRETS, by Fred Ellis Brock
The third novel of The Seven trilogy, is out. A cross-genre thriller involving kidnapping, murder, and UFO conspiracies, it brings to a climax the struggle of Bill Sanders and Morgen Remley to stop The Seven, a super-secret group trying to overthrow the U.S. government. From New Mexico to the White House, the action is nonstop. The first two novels, THE SEVEN and SHADOWS, are available wherever books are sold. The publisher is Wyatt-MacKenzie. More information is at www.fredellisbrock.com.
(Note: Amazon has hundreds of books with “seven,” “shadows,” and “secrets” in the title. Search for the author’s name. The books will pop right up.)
From a review of THE SEVEN in the Arizona Daily Star:
“Is the idea of extra-terrestrial visits really as far-fetched as we think? In this debut novel, Fred Ellis Brock speculates on just how far government intelligence might go to keep an unsuspecting populace in the dark. Journalist and best-selling author Bill Sanders didn’t reach the top of his profession by being gullible, so he’s understandably skeptical when a boyhood friend claims his daughter has been abducted by aliens. But old loyalties run deep, so Bill reluctantly agrees to check it out — digging up the facts is his specialty, after all — and to his surprise they simply don’t add up. Even more disturbingly, people connected with his investigation are inexplicably turning up dead.
“In a lively plot that gallops across a landscape of disinformation and treachery, Brock’s hero peels away layers of artifice to arrive at the shocking heart of the intrigue. This is the first volume of a planned trilogy featuring Bill Sanders and his close encounters with “The Seven.”
“Like his protagonist, Brock is a journalist who has worked for major dailies including the Wall Street Journal, the Houston Chronicle and The New York Times, and has authored best-selling books on financial planning.”
(Note: Amazon has hundreds of books with “seven,” “shadows,” and “secrets” in the title. Search for the author’s name. The books will pop right up.)
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Filer’s Files 16 2021 European Space Agency Finds Huge Lakes on Mars - PART II
Birkdale Close, England, UK on April 10, 2021
Filer’s Files 16 2021 European Space Agency Finds Huge Lakes on Mars - PART II
Lt. George A. Filer III ret. USAF, my first military photo
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: General L.M. Chassin UFOs Are Real, European Space Agency Finds Huge Water Supply on Mars, 1976 Life Found on Mars, Tubes or Canals on Mars, Defense of the Moon and Mars Star Wars, Solar Warden – The Secret Space Program, This is what the Communist Chinese leadership really think about us, and Secrets Book.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Virginia, and Washington D.C.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Object
Mohave Valley – on February 20, 2019, Iwas taking pictures of an ultra light plane flying just west of our house. When I checked out the pictures this object was in one of the photos. Not sure what it is but I didn’t see or hear it.
California Object
Fowler – on August 14, 2014, after midnight saw a large flashing light over in grape vine fields to the NE. So I videotaped this craft through the telescope to get a closer look. To my surprise I saw what was a huge multi colored silent hovering craft that changed shape. It was a beautiful clear starry night.
Florida Clouds and Object
Rivera Beach– on April 9, 2021, observed 3 cigar shaped objects flying east to northeast in formation. Glowing orange like on fire totally silent
Winter Park– on March 14, 2021, at 6:04 am Elon Musk rocket launched during a “new moon” cloud-free sky w/o winds. At 6:20am my neighbor and I with my dog were walking due east 75 miles from Cape Canaveral . My neighbor saw the Rocket launch 20+ minutes earlier n a clear sky. As I walked only moments later to her I was shocked by the most intense blue triangle shape and I snapped 6 iPhone pictures. As we walked about 700 feet’ down my street I continued snapping pictures (one shown) of a possible UFO or gasses from the rocket? A news report a weird green light object above the wormhole shape; and yellow and white orbs.
Illinois Lights
Normal– on April 12, 2021, I was only able to maintain visual on the object for 5-10 seconds. The wind was blowing between 15-25mph g from southwest to northeast. As I was driving to work, I turned Northbound on veterans Parkway and noticed moving right was a bright white, cylindrical/cigar shaped object about./4-1/2 mile away and a few hundred feet in the air. In 35 seconds I parked and the object was gone so I made my way back to work, and saw a very large military propeller plane appear to be searching for the cylinder.
Indiana Object
South Bend– Jul 23, 2017, spotted this in the sky after a round of golf with two of my sons. The object frequently changed shape so I don’t know what it was
Kentucky Objects
Louisville— March 24, 2021 taking out his trash he saw an object with tangerine-orange lights coming towards him. The silent object was at an altitude of about 400 feet flying at 70 MPH and was 1.5 miles away. The diamond shaped craft banked east but then appeared to be rectangular and gun metal gray and had railing on the bottom. There were orange lights on the ends and a yellow light in the middle. The craft was the size of a city bus and had a height of six to eight feet. He went to call his wife and when he returned the object was gone. He called the police and they forwarded his sighting to the county. He hasn’t received a response from the county.
Update – April 14, 2021:The witness provided sketches of the object from two vantage points and he also described what he saw. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Michigan Lights
Warren– on July 9. 2014, the massive object moved extremely slowly and silent in a straight path west. The object was solid and had several “fixed” large lights and several smaller lights. At the rear, there was an opening with an amber/red light and mist. I have witnessed several UFO’s since I was a young child.
Missouri Lights
Piedmount– on March 16, 2021, I was driving home and saw a glowing orb ball like ufo and got my phone out and tried recording while driving. It’s not the first time I have seen one.
Kansas City– on April 16, 2021, I found this odd sacred geometric shape above the trees.
New Jersey Lights
Pennington on April 14, 2021, saw flying object projecting light that looked like it was a Chemtrail, but beam looked like it was coming from flying object
North Carolina Object
Durham– on February 18, 2021, I was driving and looked up and saw in the distance an object that looked like a white Tic Tac. Similar object was seen over Waynesville on April 9, 2021.
Virginia Lights
Richmond– on April 1, 2021, unusual object captured by all-sky camera (Malincam) with meteor detection software (Handy Cam AVI). Object was captured in four AVI videos. A composite image is automatically generated at the end of each AVI. The object changed direction, paused, accelerated and changed brightness. It was bright enough to cast light on my house.
Washington D.C. Discs
District of Columbia on July 4, 1981, we’ve held on to this for 40 years and hardly shared it with anyone because it seems so far-fetched. I can still visualize it as the Beach Boys had performed on the Mall all 3 summers, of which my friend Bruce and I attended. So either 80/81 or 81/82. We sat on the west lawn of the Washington Monument, soberly watching the concert. It was during the fireworks that evening when I saw “them.” I happened to notice a plane, heading east along the river, when I saw 2 UFOs appear from behind the Memorial. The crafts paused, hovered, then after just a few moments backed up and disappeared out of view. I was frozen, could not do anything but stare. The photo is my rendition of exactly what I witnessed.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Light
Rraglen Yarra Valley, Victoria — on March 20, 2021, attending sons wedding in Yarra Valley Saturday object in the sky when taking photo.
Canada Cylinder Light
Niagara Falls– on September 20, 2020, I observed a glowing fireball shaped object that was hovering at a slight angle directly above me. I noticed it was not moving in any direction and was just hovering in the same position. I captured some photos and video and observed it for about 15 minutes..
Ireland Light
Shahrekord– on July 22, 2015, at 9 PM as soon as I reached the roof, I saw a ball of light east, which was fixed. It shone with different lights and there was a green halo around the object that was twice the size of Venus. Suddenly, the object became brighter and larger, about the size of a full moon. Then a black tunnel came out of the object, twisted, and moved forward in the sky. Then suddenly the object jumped in the tunnel and went through the whole tunnel at high speed. Then it made another 45 degree jump and disappeared.
Papua New Guinea Light
Port Moresby – on March 3, 2020, it appeared always at the same time in the evening, maybe 4/5 time on a period of 2/3 months. It’s a big white round orb with an outside circle that moves fast.
UK/England Object
Birkdale Close – on April 10, 2021, a UFO that shone bright as if reflecting the sunlight before turning black. The photo shows a circular craft with angled wing like protrusions, and lights or propulsion flare along the top edge. It does not appear to look like a conventional aero plane.
St Monans – on April 3, 2021, while photographing some shots of the shoreline in the Fife town. I think I may have caught a UFO ascending, fast in he steepness of the ascent was far too steep for an aircraft and there would have been some sound. It could have been some sort of rocket .t.
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Animation Shows how Saturn’s Rings Move at Different Speeds
Animation Shows how Saturn’s Rings Move at Different Speeds
Saturn’s rings are one of the most recognized and revered celestial objects known to the human race. From a distance, they look like a disk of layered crystal or multicolored disks within disks that wrap around Saturn’s hazy umber face. When viewed up close, we see that these rings are actually particles of water ice (from microns to icebergs), as well as silicates, carbon dioxide, and ammonia.
Saturn's rings, imaged based on radio data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Green indicates regions with particles smaller than 5 centimeters; purple is where no particles are that small. The white area is so dense that it blocked radio signals.
We would also noticed that the rings have some interesting orbital mechanics. In fact, each ring has a different orbit that is the result of its proximity to Saturn (i.e., the closer they are, the faster they orbit). To illustrate what this complex system look like, NASA Fellow Dr. James O’Donoghue created a stunning animation that shows how each of Saturn’s major ring segments (A-Ring to F-Ring) orbit together around the planet.
Born in the UK, Dr. O’Donoghue is a planetary researcher and scientist currently working with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) who lives outside of Tokyo. Previously, he worked as a NASA Fellow at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center where he specialized in the research of Saturn (and its ring system), Jupiter, and their atmospheric phenomena (aurorae, the Giant Red Spot, etc.)
Dr. O’Donoghue related what inspired this animation with Universe Today via email:
“Over the years I’ve received a lot of questions about what the rings are made of and how they move. People are often surprised that the rings are made of shards of frozen water ice ranging in size from dust to icebergs and that they orbit the planet at different speeds depending on what “lane” they’re in!By the way, the rings are made of almost pure water. If they were pure water ice though, they’d look white!“
As you can see from the animation, Saturn’s major rings are designated based on the order of their discovery and orbit their parent planet in the order of D, C, B, A, and F (innermost to outermost). Between the A- and F-Rings is the mysterious E-Ring, which orbits between Mimas and Titan and is extremely wide. This ring is composed of microscopic icy particles, which makes it hard to discern among the others.
The recording simulates what takes place around Saturn during the course of 30 hours. “The image of Saturn was made by images collected by the Cassini spacecraft which had been stitched together,” explained O’Donoghue. “Rendering can take a lot of time, so I thought the minimum useful animation would be to show the slowest ring lapping the planet twice.”
Saturn’s rings and moons have been the subject of scientific debate. A 2019 study showed that the migration of Saturn’s moons has widened the Cassini Division in Saturn’s rings. Credit: Cassini, Dante, Baillié and Noyelles
The orbital velocity and period of each ring is timed to illustrate the resonance the system of the rings. “The Cassini Division, the widest gap within Saturn’s rings, is caused by the resonance between a small moon called Mimas and ring particles,” said O’Donoghue. “Funnily enough, I was looking for some images on that and found something cool at UT.” (shown above).
Saturn’s own spin is indicated in white, which illustrates its rotational velocity relative to its ring system. Also visible is the persistent and rotating hexagonal vortex located around Saturn’s north pole. The animation not only presents a beautiful view of the orbital dynamics of Saturn’s rings. It also honors the Cassini mission, which ended its mission Sep. 15th, 2017, after thirteen years around Saturn.
The data collected by the probe is still being analyzed and leading to exciting new discoveries about Saturn, its rings, and its system of moons. Before plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere, Cassini conducted its “Grande Finale,” where the probe plunged into the unexplored region that lies between Saturn’s atmosphere and its rings.
The footage of Cassini’s final months, and its final descent into Saturn’s atmosphere, earned NASA an Emmy nomination.
In addition to being incredibly fast-moving, Saturn's rings are very long and thin. If you unfurled them — as O'Donoghue did in the image below — all the planets would fit comfortably within their length.
James O'Donoghue
But in total, the rings have just 1/5,000th the mass of our moon.
"In other words, our moon could be used to make 5,000 Saturn ring systems," O'Donoghue told Insider. "This highlights how extremely thin and fragile the rings of Saturn are."
This fragility is a subject of O'Donoghue's scientific research. In studying Saturn's upper atmosphere, he and his colleagues found that the rings are slowly disappearing. Thousands of kilograms of ring material rain onto the planet every second. At that rate, the rings shouldn't last more than 300 million years in their current "full" form, he said.
"Saturn's ring system is not exactly stable, appearing to be more like a temporary debris field of some ancient moon or comet which got too close and broke apart, rather than a permanent feature," O'Donoghue added. "We can count ourselves lucky we live in a time when Saturn's rings have such an enormous presence in the solar system."
The Legacy of Colonel Philip J. Corso - UFO and ET Technology
The Legacy of Colonel Philip J. Corso - UFO and ET Technology
Over 2-Hours of Amazing Information. One of the most important milestones since the UFO disclosure process began with the publishing of the book “The Day After Roswell” by Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso (ret), with (co-author) UFO Magazine publisher – William Birnes.
The allegations in this book rocked the foundations of the cover-up by revealing how Col. Corso, acting on behalf of the the US government, directly over saw the harvesting and reverse engineering of crashed spacecraft of ET origin, which led to the development of laser technology, fiber optics, polymers and anti-gravity technology.
Lt. Col. Corso was a decorated officer who believed the public should know the truth about the extraterrestrial reality and not long before his death, he documented his experiences with ET and Above Top Secret Technology, for future generations.
MUFON CASE : 114890 Orlando, Florida ( April 23, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Long Description of Sighting Report Tv coverage of today's rocket launch showed ufo Date Submitted : 2021-04-23 Date of Event : 2021-04-23 6:01AM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.EF6EF67F587A4987B957DB13FE964794.MOV
MUFON CASE : 114891 Attapulgus, Georgia ( April 23, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Two glowing objects with the smaller object pulsating Long Description of Sighting Report The video doesn’t show the intensity of the smaller objects pulsating to the right in crescent moon shapes and then pulsating toward the ground with same shape Date Submitted : 2021-04-23 Date of Event : 2021-04-23 5:50AM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.5132595BF28C4810A760275F42DD79D7.MOV
UFOs Sighted By Mexican Air Force Pilots
Mexican Air Force Pilots capture amazing unidentified flying objects or UFOs in Mexico. STATEMENT : OVNIs divisados por pilotos de la fuerza aérea mexicana :
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MUFON CASE : 114902 Cookeville, Tennessee ( April 24, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : UFO? Long Description of Sighting Report Saw this from my backyard a couple years ago; someone told me to post it here. The thing was going very fast, and was out of sight in less than 30 seconds. Date Submitted : 2021-04-24 Date of Event : 2019-04-24 6:40AM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.9F345D33C4774F669528A7383B0DFB0C.MOV
While searching for anomalies in Antarctica, using Google Earth, I found several unnatural looking structures, including some that resemble possible remnants of ancient settlements.
Coordinates:
Shadow Ancient Settlement: 78°42'19.86"S 86° 4'57.09"W
Metallic gold rotating object filmed over Christchurch, New Zealand 22-Apr-2021
Metallic gold rotating object filmed over Christchurch, New Zealand 22-Apr-2021
This unknown object was filmed over Christchurch, the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, on 22nd April 2021.
Witness report:
Object came from the east drifting toward the west. Appeared to have two parts that were rotating kind of like bike pedals. There was no sound that I could hear but it reflected the sunlight as it was a very sunny morning. Eventually it just disappeared from view. If I hadn’t been on my way to work I would’ve chased it for longer. People are saying it’s probably balloons but it didn’t look like balloons to me!
Atlantis and “the ships that made humans fly in ancient times”
Atlantis and “the ships that made humans fly in ancient times”
For decades, researchers have raised their voices to accept the theory that flying ships existed in ancient times. Different ancient texts and stories would reveal the existence of airships from Atlantis.
Atlantis continues to be a mystery to archeology and science.
The technological level of our ancestors has been discussed by archaeologists and historians. Some claim to have discovered that the technological principles of humanity come from Atlantis , thousands of years ago.
The evidence of flying machines of antiquity, we can find them in the different ancient cultures around the world.
The “Nazca balloons”
The ancient town of Nazca is one of the most important archaeological centers in the world. In its plains you can see in the Nazca lines , gigantic geoglyphs that present different figures.
Among them are huge hot air balloons , which have confused historians. Researcher Jim Woodman is convinced that the construction of these aircraft was possible with the tools that the natives of Nazca had.
Skeptical, Nott listened to Woodman’s theory and helped him build a hot air balloon out of materials that may have been used in ancient times . Against all odds, the balloon flew.
“While I don’t see any evidence that the Nazca civilization will fly, it is beyond question that they could have flown.”
Julian Nott
The Vimanas of India
Perhaps the greatest evidence of flying ships in ancient times comes from ancient Hindu culture . Specifically from the Veda .
The most recent research has yielded evidence of an advanced civilization , which existed before the end of the last Ice Age . This civilization inhabited part of the region that is now India and it is believed that it could have rivaled other equally advanced regions.
Ancient Sanskrit writings suggest that the stories, considered fantasy by experts for hundreds of years, could be true .
Support for this theory is based on the discovery of strange artifacts and additional texts that supplement the records kept in museums and universities.
In these stories you can read detailed descriptions, not only of flying ships , but of complex aeronautical processes and mechanical parts that exist today.
In fact, experts consider it an ancient guide to aerospace engineering .
The Vedas also mention an air war and an atomic war , which took place between a region in northern India and an unknown region, located in the Gobi desert.
It should be noted that there is a section of the Gobi desert , which has shown signs of radioactivity and several sections of the sand are melted, transforming into greenish glass .
The radioactive sands of Mongolia could be yet another proof of this war. In the same way, the remains found of an ancient city in northern India, showing signs of radioactivity .
It is thanks to these findings that the Aiud wedge , discovered in 1973 , was seen from another perspective; a machined piece of metal made from an aluminum alloy.
At first it was believed to be 400 years old . However, the new analyzes determined that it comes from the year 18,000 a. C. , almost 20,000 years before the discovery of aluminum.
Many experts have stated that this artifact could be part of an aircraft landing gear .
William Scott-Eliot and Remote Viewing
William Scott-Eliot was the first person to speak of Atlantean technology.
Atlantis has been one of the most controversial stories of humanity. Many ancient cultures make mention of a lost continent, however, it is thanks to the Greek philosopher Plato , that the legend became known.
He described it as an ancient city , still to his day, similar to a gigantic island that was located beyond the columns of Hercules .
More current researchers suggest that its location was off the coast of Spain , near the Bimini Islands in the Caribbean.
Although some experts believe that Atlantis is located at the South Pole , because this region is located “beyond the columns of Hercules”, as Plato mentioned.
There is no doubt that Atlantis is a mystery, however, nothing worries more than its ancient technology . Many historians assure that this continent had large submarine ships and an enigmatic crystal of power, which supplied electrical energy to the continent.
However, little has been said about the aircraft that traveled the skies, exploring the world .
The first text that touched on this theme was “The History of Atlantis and the lost Lemuria”, by William Scott-Elliot , published in 1909.
Scott-Eliot described a navigation aircraft technology based on a technology lost in ancient times.
Although many experts ignored the writer’s statements, since he was not based on any type of evidence, but on what he calls “Remote Viewing”.
Although historians did not take Remote Viewing into account , this ability was used by the CIA and the Pentagon on different occasions. In fact, these agencies took it into account years before, thanks to the work of experts, such as the genius in electronics, Michael Faraday.
The Aircraft of Atlantis
Using this process, Scott-Eliot was able to observe how society worked in Atlantis and Lemuria. Thus he discovered that both civilizations possessed flying ships . The writer described his experience as follows:
“The material from which the aerial ships were built was made of wood or metal. The previous ones were built of wood.
The platforms used are extremely thin, however the injection of a substance that did not add material to the weight, gave it toughness like leather, provided the necessary combination of lightness and resistance.
When the metal was used it was generally made of an alloy, two white metals and one red were included in its composition. The resultant was white in color, like aluminum and lighter in weight.
A large sheet of this metal was spread over the rough structure of the ship, which was then beaten into shape and electrically welded where necessary.
However, if it was constructed of metal or wood, its outer surface was perfectly smooth and seemingly without problems, and it glowed in the dark as if it were coated with luminous paint.
They were ship-like in shape, but invariably covered, because if she was going full speed it couldn’t have been convenient, even safe, for anyone on board staying on the upper deck. Its propeller and steering mechanism could be set in motion at either end. “
Although William Scott-Eliot did not rely on any evidence or ancient accounts for his research, there is some material that could be considered as evidence.
In the Library of Alexandria there are certain scrolls that survived the destruction, which speak of the lost history of mankind .
Other experts have argued that Atlantis existed at the same time as the “super state” of ancient India, known as the Rama Empire , some 15,000 to 20,000 years ago .
They may even have had commercial agreements through the Vimanas and the airships of Atlantis.
It is obvious that for skeptics, everything related to Atlantis, especially its airships, is nothing more than a myth. However, the evidence indicates that other cultures did possess flying machines which, possibly, were inherited from the lost continent.
On the eighth anniversary of its occurrence, a UFO captured on video over Puerto Rico by a U.S. Homeland Security plane isback in the news because it still hasn’t been resolved, and scientists who think a UAP that is seen traveling at 120 mph through both the air and the ocean before splitting in two should be investigated until it is identified and, if it’s not from Earth, the three-minute video is the “most compelling” evidence in existence of an alien spacecraft. In the wake of statements by Pentagon on other similar UFO videos recorded by military aircraft and the open policies on UFO data by other governments, this seems like a reasonable request.
“The SCU believes that all government data regarding unidentified aerospace objects should be made available to the public to be openly investigated by the broader scientific community, provided that such data does not compromise sources or methods of data collection. A full scientific investigation of such data would be able to uncover valuable information relating to both national security and advancement of our understanding of physics, aerospace engineering, and our world.”
In a letter, signed off by 55 concerned scientists, to Senators Marco Rubio and Mark Warner (read it here), the Scientific Coalition for Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (SCU) urged that the upcoming promised unclassified report on UFOs by the Director of the National Intelligence and the Department for Defense due for release in June contain more evidence on recent military encounters — evidence the SCU has been requesting without success. They hope it will include information on the 2013 UFO recorded on April 25, 2013. According to SCU spokesperson Jonathon Lace, the object was first seen over a runway at Rafael Hernandez airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Shortly after that, Homeland Security (Customs and Border Protection (CBP)) pilots of a DHC-8 Turboprop spotted a red light over the ocean, were told by air traffic controllers they could not identify it, and too the three-minute video with an infrared camera. That video was later leaked to SCU, which conducted its own investigation.
If only the video were this clear
“They (the pilots) wanted (the video) to be scientifically looked at, not UFO related, because again, the stigma that goes along with UFOs. So we pull the team together.”
“The object witnessed by CBP and tower personnel and recorded on the CBP DHC-8 aircraft’s thermal imaging system is of unknown origin. There is no explanation for an object capable of traveling under water at over 90 mph with minimal impact as it enters the water, through the air at 120 mph at low altitude through a residential area without navigational lights, and finally to be capable of splitting into two separate objects. No bird, no balloon, no aircraft and no known drones have that capability.”
Rich Hoffman, one of the co-founders of SCU and an experienced UFO investigator, told Mystery Wire the SCU investigation was thorough and refuted all of the alternatives proposed by skeptics. (The full SCU report can be seen on their website.) What looks like the ability to travel in both air and water – known as “trans-medium travel” is especially intriguing and sets this UFO video apart from the recently disclosed photos of UFOs seen by Navy ships off the coast of California in 2019 and the Tic Tacs seen by Nimitz pilots and personnel in 2004.
Still image from the footage of the “tic-tac” UFO
“This video is the best documentation of an unknown aerial and submerged nautical object exhibiting advanced technology that the authors of this report have ever seen.”
Why doesn’t the military or the government feel the same? According to Hoffman, the video kept getting passed between departments with none of them wanting to take ownership. Will the SCU Letter to Senators Rubio and Warner help? Both have expressed interest in UOFs/UAPs, but it remains to be seen if they’re able to stand up to whoever internally is applying the longstanding and extremely powerful pressure to conceal this data.
While UFO enthusiasts in the U.S. are applauding the few tidbits coming out from government authorities on sightings by military or commercial pilots, Canadian commercial pilots have been logging them for years in a public database that is searchable in a variety of ways and accessible to anyone with a computer, time and interest. That description fits Vice.com, which recently dug into the data and found many close encounters of the commercial aircraft kind that makes one wonder if Canada is just more open about UFO sightings or if the Great White North is hotspot for aliens looking for beer, polar bears and hockey games. Let’s take a look at a few of the most interesting recent ones.
CADORS (Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Reporting System) is the Canadian national ATS (Airline Technical Support) safety data reporting system which collects information about operational occurrences within the Canadian National Civil Air Transportation System. Reporting by pilots is mandatory, but details of the occurrences are often brief and leave out details that come up in subsequent investigations.
Nonetheless, it’s an excellent starting point for incidents like the one on January 6, 2019, when the crew of the medical transporter Vanguard Air Care reported “an inexplicable bright light followed them… at the same altitude and speed” over northern Manitoba and “no aircraft were reported in their vicinity.” Civilian air traffic controllers alerted the 21 Aerospace Control and Warning Squadron Air Force unit at the CFB North Bay military base in northeastern Ontario. Their investigation was reported to the Government of Canada, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), and NORAD (part of their responsibility area). That report shows the incident occurred in the Mystery Lake region (coincidence?) near Thompson, Manitoba, and the analysis was “another A/C” (aircraft). The end result is disappointing UFO-wise, but this shows that the Canadian government has a UFO investigation department that works with their military and that of the U.S. … a department that seems to be thorough and somewhat open to the public.
Another interesting encounter occurred on April 30, 2018, when a Kalitta Charters Boeing 747 cargo flight flying over the Northwest Territories reported “an object flying sporadically, estimated at (60 to 80 thousand feet) and moving at Mach 4” – a speed that exceeds the capability of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird. Vice.com notes that the CADORS report wasn’t filed for a year-and-a-half and, while it doubted the crew’s judgement of the speed, could not identify the speedy object.
SR-71
One that made the Canadian news happened on November 14, 2016, over Lake Ontario when a Porter Airlines Dash 8-400 turboprop dove to avoid hitting an unidentified object that “appeared to be solid… and shaped like an upright doughnut or inner tube.” Two flight attendants were injured so the incident was reported by the Toronto Star and other media outlets, forcing the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) to investigate. According to CADORS, it found the object was “approximately 5 to 8 feet in diameter” and implied that the pilot could have just flown past it but chose instead to override the autopilot and take a nosedive evasive action. Vice.com notes that TSB never did identify the object.
More incidents such as these can be found by searching the CADORS database. The amount of unusual events makes clear that there’s unexplained stuff going on in Canadian airspace where thousands of passengers fly (at least until the pandemic) every day – and that means the same thing is occurring in the U.S. UFO investigator Chris Rutkowski told Vice.com that everyone, not just UFO enthusiasts, should be concerned about this. Former Royal Canadian Air Force pilot John “Jock” Williams plainly states the frustration everyone outside of the military or the government has when looking into these events:
“Any aviator who goes through the trouble of reporting something like this deserves to have it investigated. I don’t see that happening in Canada.”
Nor the U.S. … yet. Kudos to Vice.com for bringing this and many other ‘mysterious lights’ to light.
Located on the New England Highway in northern New South Wales, Australia, about 250 miles north of Sydney, is the rural township of Guyra. It is perched high on a volcanic uplift of the Northern Tablelands, and in fact the town is one of the highest in Australia at 4,364 feet above sea level, and is known for being one of the coldest places to live in Australia, comparatively speaking. It is a quaint place full of natural beauty, but not a place where a whole lot typically happens, yet this would change in December of 1999, when a mysterious object fell from the sky to smash right into the local water dam. So would begin a mystery that would cause hysteria in this small town, and which has not ever been concretely explained.
On December 8, a local council employee was carrying out routine maintenance work at the Guyra Water Supply Dam when he noticed an unusual sight. There was a crater at least 6 feet across and area of reeds measuring 50 feet by 20 feet that had been flattened in a semi-circular pattern, as if something had plunged down from the sky to smash into the ground there right at the edge of the dam. When police were notified, it would turn out that locals had been calling in actual sightings of an object coming down, described as a “green light” that had caused a loud boom about 30 seconds after being sighted. However, rather oddly, space agencies and meteorological experts and authorities in Canberra had no record of a meteorite or space junk coming down in the area at that time. No one had a clue what it could have possibly been, but just to be safe, authorities quickly moved to shut down the water supply and carry out an investigation. It was quickly found that radiation levels in the vicinity were normal, but in the absence of any more information the water supply was cut while divers got to work to check out the bottom.
Guyra, New South Wales
As this was going on, the incident was hitting the news in a major way, featured prominently on all of the major television networks, radio stations and newspapers. Newspapers were covered with sensationalist headlines such as “There’s an alien in Guyra’s drink!”, “Guyra hit by mystery flying object,” “UFO splashdown – Divers search dam for mystery object,” “Does Guyra Have a UFO in its Dam?” and others like these. Such headlines stirred up much intense interest, with people flooding into the normally quiet town in droves and rumors going around that a UFO had crashed at the dam. It was a minor hysteria and the theories were flying, with some saying that it was a meteorite or space junk, while others said it was aliens, and this captured the attention of the Australian UFO Research Network, who contacted the RAAF base at Amberley Ipswich. One of the team’s researchers, Martin Studer, would say of this:
I spoke to office staff at Amberley RAAF and they told me they had heard it wasn’t a meteorite, that it was an object of some kind. It was funny they were having a laugh with me saying maybe it was a space ship, ha! I was told that people have been sent to measure radiation. I was asked to hold the line and they would transfer me to someone who could help me with my inquiry. I got transferred to the, RAAF base at William Town NSW. The police divers are in the lake looking for what may have landed. William’s Town RAAF are waiting for the Police to report back before moving. It was still not clear what had come down, it could have been space junk or meteorite or a plane.
In the meantime, police divers were searching the water, and they found a subterranean cavern or tunnel, which was suspected to have been caused by the object drilling deep into the ground, but at first the object itself could not be located. Over several days of searches, the water was found to not be contaminated, and there were some mysterious fragments found on the bottom, but whatever the mystery object was, it could not be retrieved because it was speculated to have buried itself about 13 feet down into the soft granite down in the earth. The official cause of the impact was now being seen as a meteorite, which was thought to have been about the size of a grapefruit, but there were no further efforts to retrieve it. The General Manager of the Guyra Shire Council, Geoff Brooks, dismissed any talk of trying to actually dig up the object, saying:
Bearing in mind its location in the dam, I think it’s unlikely that Council will commit any more resources to it. Certainly it’s difficult to get to and it causes a fair bit of disruption to the water supply. So I think it will actually remain one of life’s marvelous mysteries.
As far as officials were concerned, that was that. It was a meteorite, pure and simple, move along. However, this was not known for sure, and no object had been produced to prove that it had been a meteorite, so conspiracies were going around that officials were trying to cover up what had really gone down, with accusations that the object actually had been dug up and whisked off, and that it was no meteorite but rather a UFO. This was further fueled by the fact that the RAAF base contacted by the Australian UFO Research Network had quite clearly stated that it had not been a meteorite. Things got even more mysterious when two researchers from Phenomena Research Australia (PRA) by the names of John Auchettl and Ron Barnett went to investigate, who also speculated that it might have been a meteorite, but also found some odd details that did not fit into this theory. Auchettl would say:
We did find the site interesting. Normally, we would not travel to such sites, but the information sent to us from DoD warranted a look. So yes, the impact has some strange aspects to it that need to be looked at. For example, the angle of entry to the dam was very shallow less than 45 degrees. The surface has burn marks; this is very unusual for a meteorite impact. I had a good look at the reeds on the bank. They are down in a strange shape not quite like an explosion but have the characteristics of a compression wave. The mud splash is also interesting as it lets us know how much energy was in the impact but the sting in the tail, with this impact, is on the other side [bank], the object may have skipped on the water. There was no witness to the impact.
Indeed, one of the problems is that no one seems to have seen the actual impact, making it hard to tell just what came down to earth here. Also making things more difficult are the discrepancies in some of the reports from eyewitnesses. For instance, some witnesses mentioned a green glow or light before the object apparently came down, while others said it was blue, and some witnesses described a loud boom like an explosion, while others made no mention of a sound. It all makes for a compelling mystery, and while the official explanation is that this was nothing more than a crashed meteorite, there are plenty of people who think it could have been something far more mysterious. What came down at the Guyra Dam that day and what happened to it? We may never know for sure.
Many people with an interest in Ufology will recall how, beginning in November 2005, a controversial stash of UFO-themed papers surfaced. They collectively became known as “The Serpo Documents.” The source of the documentation, to this day, remains unknown. She, he or them chose to use the very appropriate alias of “Anonymous.” For some saucer-sleuths, the papers are leaked, highly secret files. For others, the entire thing is nothing but a big joke that has spun wildly out of control. Others suggest disinformation to muddy the ufological waters. The Serpo papers cover a huge amount of ground, but the primary focus is on controversial claims of an “exchange program” between us and the representatives of an alien race, one which began in the 1960s. Anonymous said: “I am a retired employee of the U.S. Government. I won’t go into any great details about my past, but I was involved in a special program. As for Roswell, it occurred, but not like the story books tell. There were two crash sites: one southwest of Corona, New Mexico and the second site at Pelona Peak, south of Datil, New Mexico.”
Anonymous added: “The crash involved two extraterrestrial aircraft. The Corona site was found a day later by an archaeological team. This team reported the crash site to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s department. A deputy arrived the next day and summoned a state police officer. One live entity was found hiding behind a rock. The entity was given water but declined food. The entity was later transferred to Los Alamos. The information eventually went to Roswell Army Air Field. The site was examined and all evidence was removed. The bodies were taken to Los Alamos National Laboratory because they had a freezing system that allowed the bodies to remain frozen for research. The craft was taken to Roswell and then onto Wright Field, Ohio. The second site was not discovered until August 1949 by two ranchers. They reported their findings several days later to the sheriff of Catron County, New Mexico. Because of the remote location, it took the sheriff several days to make his way to the crash site. Once at the site, the sheriff took photographs and then drove back to Datil.”
There was more to come: “Sandia Army Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico was then notified. A recovery team from Sandia took custody of all evidence, including six bodies. The bodies were taken to Sandia Base, but later transferred to Los Alamos. The live entity established communications with us and provided us with a location of his home planet. The entity remained alive until 1952, when he died. But before his death, he provided us with a full explanation of the items found inside the two crafts. One item was a communication device. The entity was allowed to make contact with his planet. Somehow, I never knew this information, but a meeting date was set for April 1964 near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The Aliens landed and retrieved the bodies of their dead comrades. Information was exchanged. Communication was in English. The aliens had a translation device. In 1965, we had an exchange program with the aliens. We carefully selected 12 military personnel; ten men and two women. They were trained, vetted and carefully removed from the military system. The 12 were skilled in various specialties.”
And, finally, there is this from the man or woman with no known name: “Near the northern part of the Nevada Test Site, the aliens landed and the 12 Americans left. One entity was left on Earth. The original plan was for our 12 people to stay 10 years and then return to Earth. But something went wrong. The 12 remained until 1978, when they were returned to the same location in Nevada. Seven men and one woman returned. Two died on the alien’s home planet. Four others decided to remain, according to the returnees. Of the eight that returned, all have died. The last survivor died in 2002. The returnees were isolated from 1978 until 1984 at various military installations. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) was responsible for their security and safety. AFOSI also conducted debriefing sessions with the returnees.” Despite the outrageous and unlikely tale that the documents told, Serpo very quickly became a sensation within certain ufological quarters and provoked massive debate – in magazines and journals, on radio shows, and at online forums. There is, however, one issue that has, for the most part, been overlooked, ignored and forgotten. In early 2006, a source that used the named “Chapman,” and who maintained they had a background with the British Ministry of Defense, claimed to know all about the Serpo files and what they really represented.
Chapman explained: “Interesting reading. However, these are NOT real events that are being described here, although the document they come from IS REAL. I saw this information in 1969 or ’70 in Whitehall. Originally it was a CIA document authored by a lady named Alice Bradley Sheldon. Its main purpose, if you will pardon the phrase, was to ‘scare the crap out of the Soviets’ in response to them scaring the crap out of us.” Admittedly, it’s fair to say that “Chapman” was as much an unknown whistleblower as was “Anonymous.” But, what’s the most likely scenario in this strange story? That “Anonymous” told an incredible truth of alien contact? Or that this was all a Cold War-based plot designed to disrupt the Russians? I say the latter. Here’s why: Alice Bradley Sheldon was born in 1915 and, in the immediate aftermath of the horrific events that occurred at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in December 1941, chose to do whatever she could for her government. It wasn’t long before she was working in the heart of U.S. military intelligence. She ultimately rose to the rank of Major. In 1945, she married Huntington D. Sheldon.
The two decided to relocate to Washington D.C. and both accepted new and exciting careers in the CIA. Alice took part in espionage operations and worked on photo-analysis projects, such as studying imagery of Soviet military installations and then-new Russian aircraft. She remained with the CIA until 1955. As for Huntington, he rose to the position of the Director of the Office of Current Intelligence of the CIA. He held that same position until 1961. In 1967, Alice decided to turn her hand to an area that she had a great love for: that of science-fiction. She did so, however, under the alias of James Tiptree, Jr. In 1973, a collection of her short stories hit the stands. It was entitled Ten Thousand Light Years from Home. Then, in 1975, Warm World and Otherwise were published to high acclaim. More books appeared: 1981’s Out of the Everywhereand Other Extraordinary Visions and 1985’s Brightness Falls from the Air. Barely a handful of people knew, during her lifetime, that Alice and Tiptree were actually one and the very same.
The final years for Alice and her husband were sadly not good; not at all. Both were suffering from ill-health. Huntington finally became bed-ridden. The end was getting closer and closer. It finally arrived. On May 19, 1987, Alice shot and killed her sleeping husband, and then took her own life. Her secrets from that time spent in the employ of the CIA went with her. Unless there is a significant development in the matter of Alice Bradley Sheldon, the Serpo papers, and a plot designed to terrify the Russians, we may never get to see the full picture. But, I cannot think of a better, and more qualified, source than Sheldon –a sci-fi writer and a CIA employee – to have whipped up the saga of Serpo, as a means to freak out the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Unknown UFO Impacted The International Space Station! NASA What Happened? 2021
Unknown UFO Impacted The International Space Station! NASA What Happened? 2021
Unknown UFO Impacted The International Space Station! NASA What Happened? 2021
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Giant Planet is Found at an Extreme Distance From its Star
Giant Planet is Found at an Extreme Distance From its Star
One of the best things about the sheer number of exoplanets that astronomers are currently finding is how some are just very different. Those differences can sometimes undermine standing theories, and prompt scientists to start considering new theories that account for the new information. That is undoubtedly what will happen to accommodate a new massive planet found by a team led by Dutch scientists. This planet is unique in one very special way – it is about 110 times farther away from its star than the Earth is from the sun.
The star and accompanying planet are located in the southern constellation Musca about 360 light years away from Earth. Known as YSES 2b, the planet was found by the Young Suns Exoplanet Survey (YSES) which uses data from the Very Large Telescope to search for young stars. The one YSES 2b is orbiting is only 14 million years old, but resembles what our own sun would have looked like at that age.
Video discussing the finding. Credit: Learning Academy YouTube Channel
There is no planet like YSES 2b around our current sun though, and its existence has some interesting implications for models of the early solar system. Three potential explanations were put forward as to how such a massive planet could form so far out from the star.
First would be that it simply grew out of the protoplanetary disc, which is the most common method of planetary formation. However, models of those early stage discs suggest that not enough material would be available in the disc to form a planet six times the size of Jupiter that far away from the parent star.
UT Video discussing the search for exoplanets.
Another possible explanation is that there was some gravitational instability in the planetary disc, causing material to collect at the planet’s distant location. For that to be the cause, there would have to be lots of material out in that space in order to cause the instability. Right now there doesn’t appear to be enough of it to do so.
The final explanation is that the planet formed much closer to the star, and then migrated out to its extreme distance over the last few million years. A similar thing is posited to have happened with the gas giants in our own solar system known as the Grand Tack Hypothesis. Scientists would expect some other force to cause that migration though. Most usually that force would be caused by a second planet, but scientists don’t see one that could have caused the gravitational disturbance to send the planet out far enough to end up where it is now.
More raw data from the telescoping showing the YSES 2b exoplanet. Credit: ESO / SPHERE / VLT / Bohn et all
While all three processes have arguments against them, it is still possible that one or more did in fact create YSES 2b. But a more interesting prospect is that there was some other process that created it, and which would be new to science. More study is needed, including seeing if the planet is indeed moving or potentially increasing in mass, which could shed more light on the finding. Until then astronomers, including the ones running the YSES survey, will continue to search out wonderfully bizarre exoplanets.
New Steve Quayle: Human Extinction Accelerated on The Hagmann Report
New Steve Quayle: Human Extinction Accelerated on The Hagmann Report
New Steve Quayle: Human Extinction Accelerated on The Hagmann Report
Steve Quayle is a researcher and author of over a dozen books dealing with advanced ancient technology and civilizations. His documentary film production company Gensix Productions films the “True Legends The Series” all over the world in search of the Lost Cities and the giants of history who were the builders of the great megalithic structures of the ancient world.
Steve is a former talk radio show host who has been warning against genetic armageddon and the end of the human race for decades. He claims transhumanism and the hybrid age is the most dangerous advancement in the technological war against humanity in history.
MUFON CASE : 114885 Christchurch, New Zealand ( April 23, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Metallic gold rotating object Long Description of Sighting Report Object came from the east drifting toward the west. Appeared to have two parts that were rotating kind of like bike pedals. There was no sound that I could hear but it reflected the sunlight as it was a very sunny morning. Eventually it just disappeared from view. If I hadn’t been on my way to work I would’ve chased it for longer. People are saying it’s probably balloons but it didn’t look like balloons to me! PUBLIC STATEMENT : Whytney Parker : Does anyone know what this is? Filmed yesterday morning in Christchurch at rush hour.
Date Submitted : 2021-04-23 Date of Event : 2021-04-22 8:30AM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.FC2D4D15C5B846078C22BC1B86E55588.MOV
Cylinder UFO Sighted Over Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil ( April 22, 2021 )
Cylinder UFO sighted over Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil on April 22, 2021 :
STATEMENT : Filmado agora, em Foz do Iguaçu-PR.
TRANSLATE : Filmed now, in Foz do Igua çuu-PR.
credit : Elvio Golin
UFO Sighted Over Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia ( April 20, 2021 )
STATEMENT : ANOTHER “CRAFT” UFO DRONE BURSTING LIGHT same night : Taken just prior to the weird face UFO entry... is this the same craft? : All vids are taken from Gold Coast, Queensland Australia : I honestly do not know what that was, it was there at the same time as the other craft ... too much activity in such a small time
ORIGINAL VIDEO OWNER : Lily White aka Conspiracy Realist
Pentagon’s UFO Investigation Spotlighted In New Photos And Video
Pentagon’s UFO Investigation Spotlighted In New Photos And Video
New information is emerging about a series of mysterious sightings over U.S. Navy warships in California. Video shows a strange object hovering over one of those ships, and now the Pentagon confirms it was taken by the Navy. NBC’s Gadi Schwartz reports for TODAY.
An instrument on Nasa's Perseverance rover on Mars has made oxygen from the planet's carbon dioxide atmosphere.
It's the second successful technology demonstration on the mission, which flew a mini-helicopter on Monday.
The oxygen generation was performed by a toaster-sized unit in the rover called Moxie - the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment.
It made 5 grams of the gas - equivalent to what an astronaut at Mars would need to breathe for roughly 10 minutes.
Nasa's thinking is that future human missions would take scaled-up versions of Moxie with them to the Red Planet rather than try to carry from Earth all the oxygen needed to sustain them.
Oxygen (O₂) is also an integral part of the chemistry that propels a rocket. Thrust is achieved by burning a fuel in the presence of an oxidiser, which could be simple oxygen.
IMAGE COPYRIGHTNASA - image caption
The Perseverance rover landed on Mars in mid-February
Mars' atmosphere is dominated by carbon dioxide (CO₂) at a concentration of 96%. Oxygen is only 0.13%, compared with 21% in Earth's atmosphere.
Moxie is able to strip oxygen atoms from CO₂ molecules, which are made up of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. The waste product is carbon monoxide, which is vented to the Martian atmosphere.
The Nasa team behind Moxie is running the unit in different modes to discover how well it works.
The expectation is that it can produce up to 10 grams of O₂ per hour.
“Moxie isn’t just the first instrument to produce oxygen on another world, it’s the first technology of its kind that will help future missions 'live off the land', using elements of another world’s environment, also known as in-situ resource utilisation,” said Trudy Kortes, director of technology demonstrations within Nasa’s Space Technology Mission Directorate.
"It’s taking regolith, the substance you find on the ground, and putting it through a processing plant, making it into a large structure, or taking carbon dioxide – the bulk of the atmosphere – and converting it into oxygen. This process allows us to convert these abundant materials into useable things: propellant, breathable air, or, combined with hydrogen, water."
Nasa will attempt to fly its Ingenuity helicopter again on Thursday.
The mini-chopper made history this week by performing the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft on another world.
For its second sortie, the drone will raise itself to 5m above the ground, move sideways by 2m, swivel and take some pictures, before reversing back to the take-off spot to land.
The huge area of Nevada that now houses Area 51 had decidedly humble origins. In the pre-World War II period, portions of the land were designated to the Department of the Interior. The reason was to create a large reservation and sanctuary for animals. Things all changed, however, not long after crazed Adolf Hitler began flexing his muscles in Europe – something which led to the start of the Second World War in September 1939. America would join the war in 1941, after the terrible, deadly attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on December 7. The U.S. Government recognized that it was now all but inevitable that the nation would eventually have to enter the war, chiefly because Hitler’s forces were overrunning significant portions of Europe at an alarming pace. And, it was suggested in some quarters, the United States just might be next on Hitler’s list. Only the U.K. – as an island – managed to avoid being invaded, although it suffered massively from nightly bombing missions by German pilots. Pearl Harbor, though, was the key event which quickly set the wheels in motion for the U.S. to enter the Second World War. But, it’s important to note that the fear of potential war had already led the government to take certain, secret steps to ensure that if the worst scenario really did occur – which, as history has shown, it did – America would be ready to strike back in a decisive fashion.
As a result of the above developments in the war, various new facilities of the military were constructed all across the country. One of those very same new facilities was the Tonopah Bombing Range, based in Nevada. Today, there is a great deal of controversy concerning how much land previously in the public domain has now been handed over to Area 51, all in the name of national security. People have been forced to leave their homes. Land that one could once walk and drive through is now government land – and don’t even think about straying onto it. There is a very good reason for mentioning this: as history has shown, there is absolutely nothing new about any of this. In fact, on October 29, 1940, the U.S. Government quietly grabbed a significant amount of Nevada land to allow for the construction of the aforementioned Tonopah Bombing Range. In the immediate years ahead, there were name changes, new designations, and additional facilities: the Tonopah General Range, the Tonopah Gunnery and Bombing Range, and the Las Vegas General Range. In quick-time fashion, the desert land of Nevada was morphing at a startling rate – and it was morphing into what would ultimately become home to one of the most mysterious, notorious and important installations in the world. You know the one.
As the Second World War progressed, and as it became bleakly clear that defeating Adolf Hitler and his Nazi cronies was not going to be achieved overnight, further development of military facilities in Nevada were created. They included the Fourth Air Force Bombing and Gunnery Range, the Tonopah Army Air Field, and the Indian Springs Auxiliary Army Airfield. When the Nazis were finally, and thankfully, defeated in 1945, matters took a turn out in the desert. While some of the facilities that had played significant roles in the Second World War were shut down, or at least trimmed in terms of their work, a new lease of life and a change in direction was ultimately to begin. In the immediate post-war era, both Tonopah Air Force Base, and what was called the Las Vegas Air Force Base, both took on new roles. It was very much thanks to the work of the Atomic Energy Commission, which pushed for the area to become a central hub for the training of personnel in the fields of bombing, gunnery activity and more. The U.S. Government nodded approvingly at the plans of the AEC and, as a direct result of the AEC’s recommendations and forward thinking, it was on December 18, 1950 that the old Nellis Air Force Gunnery and Bombing Range was transformed into the Nevada Proving Grounds. Close to 700-square miles of local land was given to the NPG, to allow for work to go ahead at full-speed, and to ensure that the public had no access to the facility. Thus began the careful and slow confiscation of countless square-miles of the American landscape.
In terms of important events in the history of the development of Area 51, the next time period of note was 1955: that was when Area 51 really began to come to fruition. But, before we get to that, let’s continue with our study of the work of the overall Nevada Test and Training Range. It was also in 1955 – specifically in July of that year – that the legendary U-2 spy-plane flew at the NT&TR’s huge runway at Groom Lake, thus cementing the range’s undeniable role in aviation history. Further land was soon grabbed, such as that which surrounded the Tonopah Test Range. As a result, and just before the dawning of the 1960s, plans were made for what became known as the Tonopah Test Range Airport. They were plans for the construction of a runway close to 20,000-feet in length. Just about anything – terrestrial or maybe even extraterrestrial – could fly out of the facility. And, largely, no-one would ever know.
Area 51 site map, as depicted in declassified CIA documents released via its CREST program
The land-grabbing didn’t end there. In fact, it had barely begun. In this case, the grabbing was internal: in 1961 a wealth of land previously used by the U.S. Air Force was handed over to the Atomic Energy Commission, something which not all of the higher echelons of the Air Force were particularly happy about. They suddenly found out how the locals felt. From the 1960s though to the 1970s, the Nevada Test and Training Range performed a major role in the training of pilots destined to go into battle during the Vietnam War. By the late 1970s, the range’s staff were working on some deeply, secret programs. And “deeply” is a very apt term. One of the primary tasks of the personnel was to bury the wrecks of some of the ill-fated “stealth” aircraft tested out on the range. It was imperative that Soviet space-satellites didn’t take pictures of the crashed planes – and, in the process, secure significant data on America’s growing research into the field of stealth-based technology. So, in many cases, the crashed planes were buried – using bulldozers to ensure the aircraft and their remains were hidden deep below the desert floor. Ironically, given that the Russians were trying to figure out what was going on at the range, one of the aircraft which crashed and was buried – in 1984 – was a captured Russian MiG-23 aircraft.
Today, as well as being home to Area 51, and to the S-4 facility that Bob Lazar claimed he worked at briefly in the late 1980s, the Nevada Test and Training Range houses the Tolicha Peak Electronic Combat Range, the Eastman Airfield Target, and the Point Bravo Electronic Combat Range. That’s quite a history!
Among the many, many UFO reports out there, some of them have truly stood the test of time and proven to be even more unexplainable than most. These are the cases that have come from very credible witnesses, with corroborating evidence to show that they are not making all of this up, and it is cases like these that truly inspire wonder and awe. One such UFO encounter happened in the skies of Australia, and has served to incite debate and discussion to this day.
On August 31, 1954, a Lieutenant J.A. “Shamus” O’Farrell was returning to Royal Australian Navy Air Station Nowra, in New South Wales, aboard his Sea Fury aircraft. It had been a routine standard night-navigation exercise at dusk, and at 7:10 PM O’Farrell contacted the air base with a routine radio communication. Up until that point everything had been going smoothly and without issue, but things were about to get very strange. Shortly after this radio contact with the base, O’Farrell allegedly saw a very bright light closing in on him fast from his 1 o’clock position. This anomalous light then crossed in front of his aircraft to take up a position on his port side, where it appeared to match his speed. He then noticed a second bright light approaching from his 9 o’clock position, which passed the plane about a mile in front of it and then returned to the position of the original light. He would later describe each object as a “vague cigar shape with the bright light situated centrally on top.” He would say of what happened:
I was just over 12,000ft. It was a fine dark night. The stars were all out with no moon, no clouds, no bad weather and good visibility. A pleasant night for night flying. I had been airborne for about two hours and was somewhere in the Goulburn region, near Canberra. When I left Nowra, the radar there was not working, but they were hoping to get it on line by the time I returned. The operators asked me to call so that they could do a check-tune on me as I came in. I was surprised when I saw two aircraft, on either side of me, each with a single bright light above it, but with no navigation lights. In fact, it was quite a shock because everything was going well. I was keeping a lookout, constantly scanning from one side of the aircraft to the other. They came from astern and I looked out to one side and thought, ‘Gee, what is that?’ I continued to look around and there, on the other side, was another one. They were in formation with me, and holding their station with me and they were about the same distance out on either side. And then I thought about it for some time to make sure I wasn’t seeing things that weren’t there. But sure enough, I could see two dark cigar-shaped objects – not very long, about the size of a Dakota – but their central bright lights made their outline quite distinct. I could see no other details, no other lights – just one bright centrally placed light over the top of each mass.
Sea Fury aircraft
The two mysterious objects would be reported as approaching and later leaving extremely fast, much faster than his own aircraft, later estimated as having been moving at 1,000 mph or more, and the shocked O’Farrell contacted Nowra to see if their radar was online yet and whether they were seeing this. After telling the base what had happened they confirmed that they had two objects on their radar that matched the position he described, after which the two lights fell into the 9 o’clock position and sped off to the northeast. The radar team would lose track of the objects after that, and at the time there was no rational explanation for what they could be. In an interview with ufologist Bill Chalker, O’Farrell would later say of the incident and his conversation with the base:
I said, “Nowra, this is 921. Do you have me on radar?” “And a few seconds later they came back and said, “Affirmative 921. We have you coming in from the west. We have another two contacts as well. Which one are you.” “I said, “I think I’m the central one.” And so they said, “Do a 180…for identification.” So I did a quick 180 and then continued on around and made it a 360 back to where I was going. “They said, “Yes, we’ve got you. You’re the centre aircraft.” I said that’s correct. They then said to me, “Who are the other two aircraft,” and I said, “I don’t know. I was hoping you would tell me, because I didn’t think there was anyone up here. They said, “Well there shouldn’t be, and they certainly shouldn’t be that close to you.”
So the conversation went on like this and I was very pleased to be talking to somebody because it gave me a lot of reassurance. With that these two aircraft came in quite close to me and I could really see the dark mass and that they were quite big, but I couldn’t make out any other lights or any other form of an aircraft. With that they took off and headed off to the north east at great speed. I was about to press the button and tell them at Nowra that the two aircraft were departing when Nowra called me up and said, “The other two aircraft appear to be departing at high speed to the north east. Is that correct?” and I said, “Yes!”. And they said, “Roger, we’ll see if we can track them.” They tracked them for a while and then lost them. I came in and landed at 7.30 (1930) and when I got there there were quite a few people waiting for me. I thought it was a bit strange and so they came over, and they said, “You sure you had aircraft out there!” and I said yes.
Upon landing, he was met by the Surgeon Commander, who would give him a full medical check-up to find nothing physically wrong with him. Although the Directorate of Naval Intelligence deemed O’Farrell to be a seasoned, well-respected pilot and “an entirely credible witness,” and despite this and the corroboration from the base radar, he would claim that the main attitude around the base was that no one completely believed it. After this, the case was quietly kept secret until it began to leak into the news in December of that year. Before long there were headlines all over the papers talking about the “Sea Fury Incident,” forcing the Royal Navy to make a statement. Incredibly, the Navy Minister would be quite forthcoming about what had happened, while stopping short of saying that these had been aliens from outer space. He would say:
It is a fact that on a night cross-country flight from Nowra on August 31, at 13,000 feet above Goulburn, a pilot in a Sea Fury observed two lights on his radar, with vague shapes underneath. The lights passed ahead of him at a very fast speed as he flew at 220 knots (just under 250mph). The pilot made contact with Nowra and advised them. It was later ascertained that the only other aircraft in the vicinity was a TAA Convair. This was passed by Naval Intelligence to RAAF Intelligence.
The news brought a great amount of unwanted attention to O’Farrell, who was afraid that this was going to ruin his career. He was approached by numerous news agencies who constantly harassed him, even as the military tried to distance itself from the whole affair and sweep it under the carpet. As this was going on he also faced a good amount of ridicule from those who didn’t believe him, including close colleagues. The other pilots thought he had lost his mind, and it all took its toll of O’Farrell, who continued to insist that he was telling the truth but just wanted to leave it behind him. He would say:
I was bit ashamed about it all. People thought that I had flipped my lid, lost control, done something silly. And it was a bit of a joke by the rest of the aircrew. People would have a few drinks and say to you, ‘Have a drink O’Farrell and tell us more about the flying saucers.’ As the years went by I became more embarrassed and I just wiped it out of my memory and never worried about it again. It has always intrigued me. It has always worried me. To this day I am as certain as I was then that I saw two objects flying in close formation with me. And I am convinced that they weren’t aeroplanes that come from the Navy, Army or the Air Force, or Civil aviation. Whatever they were, they were very fast craft and they very, very good performance. I saw no explanation, but I didn’t see any need to tell anybody else about it or talk about it.
However, he would never really be able to escape it. Over the years, O’Farrell’s case would be pursued by several UFO researchers, including Australian ufologist Bill Chalker and American UFO researcher Dr. Allen Hynek, who interviewed him and could find no rational explanation for what he had experienced. In particular, O’Farrell would remember how when he had met Hynek in 1973, the researcher had been very interested in the case, in that it was in his opinion one of the stronger cases he had come across. O’Farrell would say of this:
The interesting thing he (Hynek) said was that all of these sightings had been made by professional people in aviation. By that he meant they were military pilots, military aircrew, civil aviation operators, air traffic controllers, and the like, or airline pilots. These were the ones he was now (1973) going around meeting the people themselves and investigating. All the others he had written off and had been able to explain down to some other phenomena. It came to the point where he said, “Your sighting cannot be explained away.” And he left it at that. To this day I wouldn’t know where it came from or where it went.
Interestingly, the official files on the case would be classified for decades, and it was only after they were declassified that it would be learned that O’Farrell had not been as nuts as many had made him out to be. It would turn out that there had actually been two further independent witnesses to the event. One was an officer from the Department of Aviation who had been out repairing a navigation beacon when he had visually seen the two lights streak past shortly after the incident, and the objects had also been detected by an air traffic controller in the tower at Sydney’s Mascot Airport, who had logged in two strange fast-moving lights passing to the south of the city. Why had these reports been kept under wraps while O’Farrell was being lambasted by everyone as being a liar or a kook? Also rather odd is that the original tape of O’Farrell’s communication with the base during the incident has disappeared, as have several official files on the matter. Without those files, it is hard to say what is really going on here, but Chalker is convinced that this is a very credible account that deserves serious consideration, saying on the TV program The Extraordinary:
One has to bear in mind the credentials that come with the sighting. You have a highly qualified and experienced pilot, you have confirmation from the ground from the radar operator. You have two separate ground witnesses all confirming the presence of two unidentified aircraft of some description. And doing things that were apparently inexplicable beyond the capabilities apparent at that time.
The Sea Fury case has gone on to be considered one of the most credible unexplained UFO encounters out there, and there are many questions still lingering about it. What did O’Farrell see out there? Was this some kind of experimental aircraft or something else? Why were the other witness accounts covered up and why were the files doomed to be classified or to go missing entirely? It is hard to say that he could have possibly just been seeing things because there are other corroborating reports, such as the radar evidence and the other sightings, so what was going on here? Whatever the case may be, the Sea Fury UFO incident has managed to become a classic case that has continued to elude understanding.
Over the years (decades, in fact) there have been claims to the effect that more than a few people in the UFO field have been murdered for what they knew. We’re talking about those who allegedly got too close to “the truth,” and who just had to be exterminated by the likes of the Men in Black and hired assassins. There’s no doubt this is one of the most controversial angles of Ufology. For that reason, it’s a topic that should be examined carefully. Very carefully. Today, I’m going to share with you a number of such cases that, as I see it, are worth addressing. For example, there was the jump (or, maybe, the ruthless push) of the first Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal from the 16th floor of the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland on May 22, 1949. It has been rumored that it was top secret knowledge of UFOs and aliens that led to Forrestal’s breakdown. Ufologists will tell you that Forrestal – a man with a mind filled with swirling secrets – was overwhelmed by the dark, alien secrets he suddenly found himself burdened with. The only thing we know for sure is that just a couple of months before Forrestal’s life was no more, he told his long-time friend, William O. Douglas, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court: “Bill, something awful is about to happen to me.” Something awful did happen. Death came for Forrestal. The very first fatal victim of a UFO cover-up? Maybe.
James V. Forrestal
Now, let’s take a look at a now-dead writer, Danny Casolaro. From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Casolaro claimed he was hot on the trail of what he called “The Octopus.” It was said to have been a worldwide organization with tentacles all across the world (hence the term “Octopus”) that manipulated major events, made murders look like suicides, and even sought to have us all under some kind of “New World Order” in the years ahead. The Octopus also had a connection to the UFO subject, said Casolaro. It was the summer of 1991 – specifically August 1 of that year – when the body of a middle-aged man was discovered in a hotel room in the Martinsburg, West Virginia Sheraton Inn. His body was lying in the shower. It was a grim sight for the maid that made the discovery. The man, it seemed, had committed suicide: his wrists were cut deep, something which effectively meant that without anyone to help him, the man was doomed. And, he was. It didn’t take more than a few moments for hotel staff to figure out who, exactly, the man was. He was identified by the person on the front-desk as none other than Danny Casolaro. He was an investigative journalist of the Woodward and Bernstein variety. Casolaro’s death was a big tragedy for his family and friends. Suicide is always a terrible tragedy – and not just for the victim, but also for those left behind who have to pick up the pieces. But, was Casolaro’s death really just the suicide that it appeared to be?
Danny Casolaro
Many people in the field of conspiracy theorizing doubted the official theory for Casolaro’s death. More were fascinated by the UFO angle to it all. Casolaro said he had proof of the existence of the so-called secret group known as Majestic 12. Supposedly, it oversaw Area 51, and the wreckage and alien bodies said to have been found in New Mexico in the summer of 1947 – the legendary Roswell affair, of course. For the record, the Majestic 12 issue has been an integral one to the field of Ufology for decades. For some UFO investigators, Majestic 12 is the real deal. For others, though, it’s nothing but government disinformation designed to confuse the Roswell incident even further. By early 1991, Casolaro’s head was spinning – which is hardly surprising. Unfortunately, Casolaro did not live to see the truth of the Octopus unveiled – by himself, he hoped. The matter of his death in August 1991 ensured that. While Casolaro’s death could have been due to suicide – certainly, that’s what it looked like – there were solid and valid reasons to suggest that his death was due to something very different. At the time of his passing, Casolaro was certainly not in a state of woe or depression. It was the exact opposite: he was energized by new leads, and new revelations, in his quest to find the truth of the Octopus, its activities, and its motivations.
Now, onto the matter of the infamous Roswell “UFO crash” affair of July 1947. Miriam Bush was someone who knew exactly what happened just outside of Roswell in early July of 1947. Not only that, she may well have paid for that knowledge with her life. Miriam has, at times, been incorrectly described as a nurse who worked at the military hospital at the Roswell Army Air Field. She was not: Miriam was actually an executive secretary at the facility. The distinction may sound small, but the fact is that Bush’s position meant that she would have been in a prime position to see the mangled bodies when they were secretly brought to the base. It’s hardly surprising, given the circumstances and the subsequent warnings issued to Bush and others in the base hospital at the time, that Miriam Bush became deeply paranoid and even in fear of her life. Although she had been told by high-ranking personnel at the base never, ever to discuss what she had seen, Bush secretly chose to confide in her family, but warning them to never tell anyone what had happened and what she knew. For Bush, though, the Roswell affair came to dominate her life: she became even more paranoid, entered into a loveless marriage, and soon started hitting the bottle to a serious degree. Miriam would soon be a full-blown alcoholic. Such were the effects of what can happen when finds oneself tangled in a conspiracy as disturbing and dark as the Roswell event surely was.
For Miriam Bush, matters came to a head – and to a shocking and suspicious end – in the late 1980s. Without warning, and on a particular day in December 1989, she took off for San Jose, California and checked into a local motel under her sister’s name – a strange action, and which further suggests that she was concerned she was being watched. After all, why would she try and obfuscate her real identity, if she had nothing to hide? The very next day, Bush was found dead in that very same motel room: a plastic-bag was around her neck. It had been tied tightly. Marks on her arms were indicative of a scuffle having occurred at some point after she checked in the motel. Despite the evidence suggesting she was murdered, the official conclusion was that Bush had taken her own life.
Morris K. Jessup
In 1955, one of the most controversial of all the many and varied UFO books published in the fifties was released – and, for the UFO field, to a distinct fanfare. Its title was The Case for the UFO. The author was Morris K. Jessup. His book was a detailed study of the theoretical power-sources for UFOs: what was it that made them fly? How could they perform such incredible, aerial feats, such as coming to a complete stop in the skies, hovering at incredible heights? Jessup believed that the vitally important answers lay in the domain of gravity. Or, as he saw it: anti-gravity. Jessup may well have been onto something, as it wasn’t long at all before the world of officialdom was on Jessup’s back – specifically senior figures in the U.S., Navy. And it was one particularly intriguing office of the Navy that was watching Jessup – a “special weapons” division. Clearly, someone in the U.S. Navy was interested in, and perhaps even concerned by, Jessup’s findings and theories. Maybe, that same office of the Navy was worried that Jessup just might stumble onto the same technology that was being used to fly Uncle Sam’s very own UFOs – those UFOs which the military were very happy for the public to perceive them as alien spacecraft, as it all helped their long-term plan to fabricate an alien invasion. Just like Miriam Bush, Jessup became deeply worried – paranoid, even – that he was being spied on by certain elements of the U.S. government. In the early evening of April 20, 1959, the lifeless body of Morris Jessup was found in his car, which was parked in the Matheson Hammock Park in Miami, Florida. The car’s engine was still running and a hosepipe, affixed to the exhaust, had been fed through the driver’s side window. Jessup was dead from the effects of carbon-monoxide. Jessup’s body was found by a man named John Goode, who worked at the park. Shocked at the sight before him, Goode quickly called the police, who arrived in no time at all. The verdict was suicide. Not everyone in the UFO field at that time agreed.
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In any endeavor, the person(s) experiencing it, comes away – usually – with something satisfying (besides their effort).
Whether it’s winning a race, climbing a mountain, drinking an exceptional wine, obtaining a dinosaur bone, obtaining an object (or person) that one loves, growing a tasty, ripe tomato, et cetera, et cetera.
But within the UFO world, what does anyone bring back that is substantive, worthwhile, or satisfying as part of their experience?
Has anyone brought to the UFO table a photo or film/video that provides proof of a tangible thing that removes the “unidentified” label, replacing it with an “identified” sobriquet?
Has a UFO abductee (experiencer) brought home something from their “experience” that convinces others that they were “abducted” (kidnapped) by entities outside our normal reality?
Have UFO researchers/investigators enlightened anyone about a supposed UFO reality?
That is, has anyone made a case for a UFO reality, a case that withstands scrutiny or withering opprobrium of even the faltering kind (like that from obtuse skeptics)?
Nope.
Like the search for The Fountain of Youth or the gold of El Dorado or even Moby Dick, no one with a UFO interest, even a serious interest, has brought anything resembling an explanation or supposition of a tangible UFO reality, even though the circum- stantial overlay indicates that there is something there.
Very Credible Alien Craft Video Of A High Flying Ufo Over Texas
Very Credible Alien Craft Video Of A High Flying Ufo Over Texas
APRIL 20, 2021………HENDERSON TEXAS
We’ve got an object that appears every night around the same time, hovering stationary but moves in several directions at short distances and always returns back to its original location. It appears to blend in with the star light, staying stationary for several minutes before it starts to move. It changes colors, but it seems to have a blinking strobe light. It will stay there for several hours before it eventually moves below the tree line. It cannot be a drone since no drone can hover that high in the sky, nor can it hover for more than 3 hours. It seems to be in orbit with the earth and stays equilaterally distant with the moon as well. When looking at it through my telescope, it actually orbits about the same speed as the moon’s orbital speed, almost as if it were pacing it.
This object has appeared every night for several years and we cannot figure out what the hell it is. I called Barksdale AFB in Bossier City, LA, and they hung up on me every time. I must sound like a loon, but I’m telling you it’s real. I had my wife witness it for several nights, as I also had an old Army buddy visit me from Oregon, and he witnessed it as well. Whatever it is, it’s not going away anytime soon. The first time I noticed it was in 2019 August. It also had a secondary object cross its path as if it were a shooting star, but it travelled much slower. It was also much fainter. Video was taken using a Cannon DSLR Rebel Ti3 hooked to a Celestron PowerSeeker 80mm f/11 EQ Refractor Telescope. The video shows the object moving up to the left but in reality, it is actually moving down and to the right behind the tree line. The setup did not move at all, so the object did move back and forth a little in that particular shot as it was moving along its apparent orbital path.
KENS NOTE:The two photos above were extracted from the video.
This was recorded a few weeks ago in Swindon. It was extremely bizarre to see a black triangle shaped object floating in the sky. There wasn’t really anything to indicate the size or proximity of the object. It just gave me that weird unsettled feeling when you genuinely have no idea what something is and what it’s doing.
It’s not a drone and it’s not something that’s being held in place or bobbing about like a balloon.
This was filmed in the summer of 2020 but it was just today submitted to me through ourFacebook page.
Witness report:
This is by fort ripely there were 9 all together I think. One stayed way up while all the other ones landed some were falling slowly like flairs but others were flying side ways and up and down. When they show up it’s like they just pop up out of thin air and flash real bright white light for one second then turn into a yellow. They are totally silent! I was definitely close enough to hear them if they were helicopters
The truth is up there! Canada reveals DOZENS of UFO reports made by commercial airline pilots including a floating 'donut', a bizarre hovering strobe light and a speedy shiny metal object
The truth is up there! Canada reveals DOZENS of UFO reports made by commercial airline pilots including a floating 'donut', a bizarre hovering strobe light and a speedy shiny metal object
Sightings are kept in the CADORS database maintained by Transport Canada
The database is also home to almost 300,000 incident reports in the air
One potential UFO sighting in 2016 resulted in a plane rapidly descending to avoid the object, resulting in injuries to two of the flight attendants
Many of the incidents, however, have little detail and scant explanation
Pilots may not report potential UFO sightings for fear of career repercussions
Meanwhile, a survey showed a 46 percent increase in UFO sightings in Canada from 2019 to 2020, likely brought on by the coronavirus pandemic
There have been over a dozen UFO sightings reported by commercial airline pilots in Canada in recent years.
One too-close encounter even forced a plane to dive to avoid it, injuring two flight attendants, while a 'shiny, silver object' was seen over Toronto, and one pilot spotted an aircraft in 2018 that appeared to be moving at Mach 4 - making it faster than any known aircraft in the world.
The revelation comes shortly after the CIA declassified two thousand documents on UFOs over America, dating back to 1970s.
The XXXX dossier with nearly 3,000 pages of documents about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) - the US government's official term for what are commonly called UFOs - was published on The Black Vault in January.
A DailyMail.com review of the files uncovered a bevy of perplexing - yet unverified - accounts of mysterious disks tracking across the sky, spewing beams of light across small towns, causing explosions and even a few claims of military officers confronting aliens that come out of outlandish vehicles.
Other documents show correspondence between CIA officers about the UFO sightings. Sometimes the officers brush off observers' stories as purely superstitious, even when another explanation isn't clear. But in several instances the officers show genuine concern that perhaps something XXXXX is at play.
In Canada, the Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Report System (CADORS), operated by federal department Transport Canada, has a database of almost 300,000 incident reports, which include any event involving an aircraft, not just UFO sightings.
UFOs don't necessarily confirm the presence of aliens, as some believe, but simply demonstrates there are objects in the sky that are hard to identify.
Airline pilots in Canada have reported dozens of run-ins with potential UFOs (stock)
CADORS is searchable, although knowing the correct terms to search with is tricky - for instance, a search back to 2000 looking for 'UFO' populated just one result.
Nevertheless, there are dozens of reports of potential UFO sightings hidden deep in the CADORS archives.
There were several notable incidents, most of them happening in recent years, although one intriguing one took place in 2005.
On October 21, 2005, local air traffic controllers 'received reports from four aircraft flight crews of a shiny, silver object over Toronto.'
It was reported to be 30,000 feet above the ground, at which point it suddenly turned and moved quickly southeast to Lake Ontario.
Another incident happened on January 10, 2015, 'multiple aircraft reported a very large object with a small white light in the middle, surrounded by a halo' as it appeared to come down from 41,000 feet in the air.
That incident reportedly took place before dawn.
One of the images from an unrelated sighting in the United States appears to be a pyramid-shaped object (pictured) hovering over the USS Russell
The Pentagon has confirmed that images and videos showing unidentified flying objects buzzing over Navy warships off the coast of California 'were taken' by branch personnel. Critics have said that this image appears to show a balloon but it's classified as unknown
On May 30, 2016, an Air Canada Express flight traveling from Montreal to Toronto reported an 'unidentified flying object, round in shape,' which was traveling at more than 550km/h.
Arguably the most significant incident came in November of the same year.
On November 14, 2016, a Porter Airlines flight at over 8,000 feet dove to avoid an object that was 'solid…and shaped like an upright doughnut or inner tube.'
Initially, the object was described only as not likely being a balloon, but two crew members were injured, prompting a Transportation Safety Board (TSB) investigation into the incident.
The TSB report, which came two weeks after the incident, claimed the object was 'approximately 5 to 8 feet in diameter.'
It also stated that the 'captain overrode the autopilot in order to quickly descend the aircraft under the object,' which is how the two flight attendants were injured as they were securing the aircraft.
None of the 54 passengers were hurt in the incident, though.
'TSB was not able to positively identify the object,' the agency said to VICE World News.
Another incident happened on March 16, 2017, when two WestJet flights near Okanagan Valley in British Columbia saw a 'bright, white strobe-type light' above them at night.
The vague details in the CADORS and the low number of reports over the years suggests many potential UFO sightings are going unreported.
Roswell, New Mexico is famous for the rumored UFO sightings that happen annually
Former Royal Canadian Air Force pilot John 'Jock' Williams believes many more sightings never make official reports.
'Pilots are probably not reporting about 90 per cent of the things they're seeing, because they know it could have lengthy career implications. For most pilots, it's not worth it,' Williams continued.
'That's why I believe that each of these guys saw what they reported.'
Transport Canada chose not to comment on the individual observations made by airline crews.
'The events that are entered into CADORS are entered as they are reported to Transport Canada,' a spokesperson for Transport Canada said to VICE World News.
'Transport Canada endeavours to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the data contained within CADORS. However, the information within should be treated as preliminary, unsubstantiated, and subject to change.'
The photos were leaked from a Pentagon investigation of UFOs by the UAP Task Force, which has been gathering evidence for a comprehensive report for Congress that's due in June. The USS Omaha observed this spherical shape moving towards the surface of the water
The photo was previously described as depicting an 'unidentified silver 'cube-shaped' object' hovering over the ocean at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000
Some of the events recorded do have explanations, such as the flights that saw 'up to two dozen evenly-spaced bright objects in a line' on December 26, 2019, with it later being identified as SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites.
A UFO investigator told VICE World News that the sightings of these potential UFOs are concerning.
'CADORS clearly shows that these types of incidents are occurring in airspace where thousands of passengers are potentially travelling every day,' Chris Rutkowski said.
'Regardless of one's belief or disbelief in UFOs, this is certainly a concern from a flight safety and public welfare perspective.'
Perhaps no incident was harder to explain than what a Kalitta Charters Boeing 747 cargo flight saw on April 30, 2018.
The plane was travelling above the Northwest Territories as it was traveling from New York to Alaska.
Suddenly, a member of the crew saw 'an object flying sporadically, estimated at (60 to 80 thousand feet) and moving at Mach 4.'
There was no way for the crew to accurately measure the speed, but Mach 4 would make it the fastest moving object in aviation history.
That mark previously belonged to the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, which traveled at speeds just above Mach 3.3 before being retired in 1999.
The report of that sighting took over a year and a half to add to CADORS, suggesting that the moment left a long-lasting impression on the flight's crew.
Rutkowski helped lead a survey recently that noted a marked increase in UFO sightings in 2020.
According to CTV News, there was a 46 percent increase in UFO sightings in Canada in 2020 - a total of 1,243 sightings - likely spurred by the coronavirus pandemic as more people stayed home and turned their attentions upwards.
Rutkowski claimed that 13 percent of the sightings had no explanation at this point.
Reports of the Canadian sightings come a year after the Pentagon confirmed the authenticity of three videos captured by U.S. Navy fighter jets that appeared to show UFOs.
In late February, the FBI confirmed it was 'aware' of an American Airlines flight which had a close encounter a fast-moving, 'long cylindrical object' on a trip from Cincinnati to Phoenix.
This FlightAware map shows the path of a plane in the US that had a near run-in with a UFO earlier this year just west of Des Moines in February
The encounter, which occurred at 36,000 feet above the remote northeast corner of New Mexico, west of Des Moines on Sunday, involved AA Flight 2292, an Airbus A320, according to The Drive.
The apparent encounter shares various similarities with another incident that occurred in the same area just under three years ago.
In that incident, two pilots on different aircraft – a Learjet and an Airbus – reported having close encounters with a mysterious object flying above them.
Last week, the Pentagon confirmed that a set of images and videos showing unidentified flying objects buzzing over Navy warships off the coast of California in 2019 'were taken' by branch personnel.
Last week, the Pentagon confirmed that a set of images and videos showing unidentified flying objects buzzing over Navy warships off the coast of California in 2019 'were taken' by branch personnel.
The photos were leaked from a Pentagon investigation of UFOs by the UAP Task Force, which has been gathering evidence for a report for Congress that's due in June.
The images, obtained by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, show unidentified objects flying above four US destroyers, including the USS Kidd Navy destroyer, in 2019.
One of the images appears to be a pyramid-shaped object while others were thought to be drones or balloons; however, the Navy has listed them as unknown.
The confirmation comes a week after Admiral Michael Gilday, the chief of naval operations, admitted that he has no idea where the swarm of mysterious Tic Tac-shaped drones that menaced four US destroyers in July 2019 originated.
When the Pentagon declassified the three Navy videos last year, they admitted they didn't know what was seen in them.
'The Department of Defense has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017,' said Susan Gough, a Defense Department spokesperson in a statement.
The statement added that the videos were released after a 'thorough review' which determined that the unclassified videos do 'not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.'
One of the clips shows the 2004 'Tic Tac' incident that was recorded over the Pacific Ocean. A second video was captured off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, in 2015.
Lawmakers have been calling for the Pentagon for years to open up its classified records about the encounters, citing national security concerns.
In January, as part of a COVID-19 relief package, Congress set a deadline of June 1 for US intelligence agencies and the Defense Department to release UFOs and unidentified aerial phenomena.
Also in January, the CIA declassified around 2,000 documents related to UFOs dating back to the 1970s.
A dossier with more than 700 files about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) was published on The Black Vault website.
One of the reports describes how seemingly urgent UFO information was hand-delivered to the CIA's deputy director for science and technology in 1976.
Most details about the information were redacted in the document on The Black Vault website.
A second document from June 1976 appears to request an update on the review, but there is no record of the ordeal after that moment.
In 1976, there was also a sighting of a UFO in Morocco, although that document is also heavily redacted.
The full-page report is covered in 25 black lines that appeared to have been made directly with a pen.
In another report, CIA officials discuss the possibility that UFOs were behind a 'mysterious blast' in the small Russian town of Sasovo in 1991.
In that report, residents reported seeing a 'fiery sphere' drop from the sky before a shockwave tore through the town, leveling an entire block.
The report said investigators had failed to come to a conclusion about the cause of the explosion.
Commercial Airline Pilots Keep Reporting UFOs Over Canada
Commercial Airline Pilots Keep Reporting UFOs Over Canada
VICE World News has uncovered dozens of recent UFO reports from Air Canada, WestJet, Porter, and other airlines in a government aviation incident database.
A PORTER AIRLINES PLANE TAKES OFF FROM TORONTO'S ISLAND AIRPORT ON NOVEMBER 13, 2015. THE FOLLOWING YEAR, TWO CREW MEMBERS WERE INJURED WHEN A PORTER AIRLINES PLANE FLYING OVER LAKE ONTARIO DOVE TO AVOID HITTING AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT.
PHOTO BY CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
On the morning of May 30, 2016, an Air Canada Express flight from Montreal to Toronto reported it had “crossed an unidentified flying object, round in shape, flying at an approximate speed of 300kts,” or more than 550 km/h. Over 8,000 feet above Lake Ontario on Nov. 14 of that year, two crew members were injured when a Porter Airlines plane dove to avoid hitting an “object” that “appeared to be solid… and shaped like an upright doughnut or inner tube.”
By combing through thousands of reports in a government flight incident database, VICE World News has uncovered dozens of recent UFO sightings from Canadian and international airlines.
They include a pair of WestJet flights near B.C.’s Okanagan Valley that allegedly saw “a bright, white strobe-type light” above them on the night of March 16, 2017, and a pre-dawn Jan. 10, 2015 encounter outside Regina, Saskatchewan, when “multiple aircraft reported a very large object with a small white light in the middle, surrounded by a halo” that “appeared to descend from above” 41,000 feet.
The sightings come from the Civil Aviation Daily Occurrence Report System (CADORS), a searchable digital archive operated by Transport Canada, the federal department that oversees road, rail, marine, and air transportation. With over three decades of data, CADORS contains nearly 300,000 aviation incident reports on everything from mechanical failures to rowdy passengers to bird strikes. It also provides a fascinating record of UFO sightings by professional aviators in Canadian airspace.
“Pilots are probably not reporting about 90 per cent of the things they’re seeing, because they know it could have lengthy career implications,” former Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) pilot John “Jock” Williams told VICE World News.
Williams is an aviation consultant, television commentator, and civilian pilot who spent 36 years in the Canadian military, including over two decades flying fighter jets. He also worked as a flight safety officer at Transport Canada for more than a dozen years.
“For most pilots, it’s not worth it,” Williams said. “That’s why I believe that each of these guys saw what they reported.”
Although brief, CADORS cases can still be enigmatic, such as a single-sentence entry from the morning of Oct. 21, 2005, when air traffic controllers “received reports from four (4) aircraft flight crews of a shiny, silver object over Toronto at roughly (30,000 feet), which turned sharply and moved rapidy [sic] to the southeast over Lake Ontario.” Many are scant on detail, like one from the night of Nov. 12, 2015, when an undisclosed flight 34,000 feet above Saskatchewan reported “a bright white light high above the aircraft and advised it was not a meteorite or other aircraft.” Very few explicitly use terms like “UFO,” such as a Qatar Airways flight south of Grande Prairie, Alberta, that “reported an unidentified flying object” in broad daylight on Dec. 18, 2016 in an account that offers no visual clues.
In a statement to VICE World News, a Transport Canada spokesperson said it is “not in a position to discuss individual aviators’ observations.”
“The events that are entered into CADORS are entered as they are reported to Transport Canada,” the spokesperson said. “Transport Canada endeavours to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the data contained within CADORS. However, the information within should be treated as preliminary, unsubstantiated, and subject to change.”
One case where information changed dramatically was the 2016 Porter event over Lake Ontario. An initial one-sentence entry in CADORS states the Nov. 14 morning flight from Ottawa to Toronto’s downtown island airport “reported ‘flying by’ an unidentified object, not likely a balloon.” But because two flight attendants were injured that day, the incident made a few headlines and prompted federal Transportation Safety Board (TSB) investigators to take a closer look.
Uploaded to CADORS on Nov. 29, 2016, the TSB report describes a doughnut-like object “approximately 5 to 8 feet in diameter” that was “directly ahead on their flight path.” But instead of just “flying by” it, the TSB revealed the “captain overrode the autopilot in order to quickly descend the aircraft under the object.” The plane’s two flight attendants, who “were in the process of securing the cabin for arrival… received minor injuries when they were thrown into the cabin structure.” None of the 54 passengers were hurt.
At the time, a TSB spokesperson stated, “The description and size of the object does not match any known commercial or consumer available unmanned aerial vehicle.” In an email to VICE World News, a current spokesperson confirmed, “TSB was not able to positively identify the object.” Porter—like Air Canada, WestJet, and others—declined to comment on specific reports.
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Several veteran aviators were able to explain some, but not all, of the CADORS files captured in our investigation. One involved separate Air Canada and Air Canada Jazz flights over B.C. that “reported sighting up to 2 dozen evenly-spaced bright objects in a line, travelling quickly at an altitude above their aircraft” on the night of Dec. 26, 2019. While seemingly extraordinary on first glance—could it have been Santa returning home?—it was quickly identified as an earlier sighting of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites, which travel in groups in comparatively low orbits.
Others proved more difficult to explain, like a Kalitta Charters Boeing 747 cargo flight that reported “an object flying sporadically, estimated at (60 to 80 thousand feet) and moving at Mach 4,” or four times the speed of sound, as it travelled above the Northwest Territories on its way from New York to Alaska early on April 30, 2018. The fastest known aircraft in the world, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, had a maximum speed of just over Mach 3.3, but was retired by the U.S. in 1999. Doubts were raised about the 747 crew’s ability to measure the object’s speed, but there was no question that they saw something unusual. While most reports are uploaded to CADORS within a few days of an incident, this one took over a year and half.
CADORS also has lights that hover, dart, blink, or change shape and colour, like a “solid bright light” spotted by air traffic controllers in Fort McMurray, Alberta, on the morning of Dec. 15, 2009 that “appeared too fast to be any commercial aircraft” as it “moved in a southerly direction initially then continued eastbound until it disappeared into the sunrise.” An Air Canada Jazz flight was even “delayed on departure for about 4 minutes until the object was well east of the aircraft's departure path.”
Another comes from early on Jan. 6, 2019, when crew with medical transporter Vanguard Air Care claimed that “an inexplicable bright light followed them… at the same altitude and speed” over northern Manitoba when “no aircraft were reported in their vicinity.” An unclassified intelligence report on the case previously published by VICE World News, proves Canada’s Armed Forces are being alerted when civilian pilots encounter flying objects and lights they can’t identify. Of the 11 reports mentioned in this story, at least seven of them were forwarded to the military by air traffic controllers.
In a statement to VICE World News, an RCAF spokesperson acknowledged that they receive such reports, but cited Transport Canada as their “primary investigative authority.” A Transport Canada spokesperson said, “Reports of unidentified objects can rarely be followed up on as they are as the title implies, unidentified.”
One recent U.S. case involved the crew of an American Airlines flight over New Mexico that radioed air traffic controllers after they saw “a long cylindrical object... moving really fast right over the top of us” on the afternoon of Feb. 21, 2021. In a statement, the FAA said it “did not see any object in the area on (its) radarscopes.”
According to researcher and filmmaker Matthew Hayes, there is a “very high degree of consistency” between the reports found in CADORS and the ones he uncovered for his 2019 doctoral dissertation on Canada’s Cold War UFO records.
“Canadians have been reporting the same types of things, unabated, since the 1940s,” Hayes said. “Historically, it’s also been incredibly challenging to get the Canadian government to talk about this. Compare that with the U.S., where officials seem much more eager and ready to discuss the topic.”
Last April, the Pentagon confirmed the authenticity of three UFO videos captured by instruments on U.S. Navy fighter jets, which had previously been leaked to the New York Times: the newspaper that also broke the story on the Pentagon’s UFO-tracking program in 2017. Since then, several prominent American politicians have spoken candidly about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), including the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s current heads, Democratic Senator Marc Warner of Virginia and Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. In December 2020, the U.S. even passed a bill that requires intelligence and defence officials to submit a report on “Advanced Aerial Threats” by the middle of this year.
Veteran UFO investigator Chris Rutkowski has collected more than 22,000 UFO reports over the past three decades and has long included data from CADORS in his annual Canadian UFO Survey.
“CADORS clearly shows that these types of incidents are occurring in airspace where thousands of passengers are potentially travelling every day,” Rutkowski told VICE World News. “Regardless of one’s belief or disbelief in UFOs, this is certainly a concern from a flight safety and public welfare perspective.”
That sentiment is echoed by Williams, the former RCAF pilot.
“Any aviator who goes through the trouble of reporting something like this deserves to have it investigated,” Williams said. “I don’t see that happening in Canada.”
If you know the history ofthe Men in Black phenomenon, you’ll also know that the whole thing began in the early 1950s with a guy named Albert Bender. He found himself on the wrong side of the creepy MIB. It was something that altered his life forever. And also something that led to the coining of those three, memorable words: Men in Black. But, what about Bender’s life before that trio of menacing, strange characters were on the scene? Not many people – even in Ufology – are aware of those earlier years; a time when, for Bender, the nightmare had yet to begin. With that said, let’s have a look at what went down in that pre-MIB period. It all began in a dark, eerie attic in a three-story, old house at 784 Broad Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut. And it revolved around a young man (Bender, of course), who was an undeniable eccentric and someone with a fascination for the realms of monsters, the supernatural, alchemy, the paranormal, and the occult. And with a significant degree of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and an obsession with clocks. Without him, they (the Men in Black) may never have left the terrible marks – or, perhaps, more correctly, the ugly scars – on society they most assuredly have. But, I’m getting a little bit ahead of myself. Read on…
The early years of Bender’s life were nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, quite the opposite was the case. Born in 1921, Bender lived in Duryea, Pennsylvania, where he worked in a factory. In the aftermath of the terrible attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941, Bender joined the United States Army Air Corps, stationed at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. He served from June 1942 to October 1943 – as a dental technician – and was given an honorable discharge. Bender, his mother Ellen, and his stepfather, Michael Ardolino, made a home for themselves in Bridgeport, Connecticut. And, that’s when things started to get weird. Very weird. Too weird, some might say. Michael J. Bielawa – a poet and the author of Wicked Bridgeport – states that Bender “…was employed as chief timekeeper at Acme Shear Co., the world’s largest manufacturer of scissors. The factory was located across the Pequonnock River from downtown at Hicks and Knowlton Streets. Perhaps it was Bender’s sense of humor, but in an ironic salute to his job Bender filled his living space with an assortment of twenty chiming clocks. Every fifteen minutes, half hour and on the hour, 784 Broad Street resounded with the din of bells, bells, bells.” The strangeness had well and truly begun. It was followed by Bender’s decision to convert the attic room in which he lived into what can accurately be termed as his “Chamber of Horrors.”
Artwork of bloodsucking bats, monsters, ghouls and skulls adorned the walls. There was barely a space for wallpaper. Imagery of vampires, the Moon, a horse’s head, and black cats could be seen. Interestingly, Bender painted a picture that showed a cloaked man wearing a fedora hat while prowling around an old, tree-shrouded cemetery after sunset. Both the cloak and the hat were, of course, black in color. Does that mean the MIB were already getting their claws into Bender? I should stress there’s no evidence of that, but who knows? Fedoras were, and still are, part and parcel of the outfits of the MIB. In light of that, just maybe there’s a part of the story that has been lost forever. Bender was very much a loner (he would marry later, though). Girlfriends were nowhere in sight. Much of his spare-time was taken up watching sci-fi movies and horror flicks on Saturday nights. By Bender’s own admission, his visits to the local cinema were always made alone. As were the late-night walks back home. When the few friends Bender had called on him, he would entertain them with spooky sound-effects that boomed around the room. It was all good fun – albeit undeniably odd. And, it surely cannot have been healthy to have lived in such a claustrophobic situation. Even Bender himself had to admit: “Late at night the attic became a creepy place.” No shit!
Interestingly, Riley Crabb – the director of Borderland Sciences Research Associates and who followed the Bender affair – went on record as saying of Bender that, for years, he had: “…dabbled in magic, with no success in table-tipping, and surprising success with a yes-or-no technique using the Holy Bible. There was a history of psychic phenomena in his family.”
Researchers identify five double star systems potentially suitable for life
Researchers identify five double star systems potentially suitable for life
By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer
Credit: 213688585 / Shutterstock.com
New mathematical framework predicts that systems Kepler-34, -35, -38, -64 and -413 with circumbinary giant planets have stable Habitable Zones
Almost half a century ago, the creators of Star Wars imagined a life-sustaining planet, Tatooine, orbiting a pair of stars. Now, scientists have found new evidence that five known systems with multiple stars, Kepler-34, -35, -38, -64 and -413, are possible candidates for supporting life.
A newly developed mathematical framework allowed researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi and the University of Washington to show that those systems – between 2,764 and 5,933 light years from Earth, in the constellations Lyra and Cygnus – support a permanent ‘Habitable Zone’, a region around stars in which liquid water could persist on the surface of any as-yet undiscovered Earth-like planets. Of these systems, Kepler-64 is known to have at least four stars orbiting one another at its center, while the others have two stars.
All are known to have at least one giant planet the size of Neptune or greater. This study, published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, is proof-of-principle that the presence of giant planets in binary systems does not preclude the existence of potentially life-supporting worlds.
“Life is far most likely to evolve on planets located within their system’s Habitable Zone, just like Earth. Here we investigate whether a Habitable Zone exists within nine known systems with two or more stars orbited by giant planets. We show for the first time that Kepler-34, -35, -64, -413 and especially Kepler-38 are suitable for hosting Earth-like worlds with oceans,” says corresponding author Dr Nikolaos Georgakarakos, a research associate from the Division of Science at New York University Abu Dhabi.
The scientific consensus is that the majority of stars host planets. Ever since 1992, exoplanets have been discovered at an accelerating pace: 4,375 have been confirmed so far, of which 2,662 were first detected by NASA’s Kepler space telescope during its 2009-2018 mission to survey the Milky Way. Further exoplanets have been found by NASA’s TESS telescope and missions from other agencies, while the European Space Agency is due to launch its PLATO spacecraft to search for exoplanets by 2026.
Twin stars and giant planets pose special conditions on life
12 of the exoplanets discovered by Kepler are ‘circumbinary’, that is, orbiting a close pair of stars. Binary systems are common, estimated to represent between half and three quarters of all star systems. So far, only giant exoplanets have been discovered in binary systems, but it is likely that smaller Earth-like planets and moons have simply escaped detection.
Gravitational interactions within multi-star systems, especially if they contain other large bodies such as giant planets, are expected to make conditions more hostile to the origin and survival of life. For example, planets might crash into the stars or escape from orbit, while those Earth-like exoplanets that survive will develop elliptical orbits, experiencing strong cyclical changes in the intensity and spectrum of radiation.
“We’ve known for a while that binary star systems without giant planets have the potential to harbor habitable worlds. What we have shown here is that in a large fraction of those systems Earth-like planets can remain habitable even in the presence of giant planets,“ says co-author Prof Ian Dobbs-Dixon, also at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Georgakarakos et al here build on previous research to predict the existence, location, and extent of the permanent habitable zone in binary systems with giant planets. They first derive equations that take into account the class, mass, luminosity, and spectral energy distribution of the stars, combined with the added gravitational effect of the giant planet. Also considered are the eccentricity (ie degree of ellipticity of the orbit), semi-major axis, and period of the hypothetical Earth-like planet’s orbit, plus the dynamics of the intensity and spectrum of the stellar radiation that falls upon its atmosphere. Another factor is the Earth-like planet’s ‘climate inertia’, that is, the speed at which the atmosphere responds to changes in irradiation.
They then look at nine known binary star systems with giant planets, all discovered by the Kepler telescope, to determine whether Habitable Zones exist in them and are ‘quiet enough’ to harbor potentially life sustaining worlds.
The authors show for the first time that permanent habitable zones exist in Kepler-34, -35, -38, -64, and -413. Those zones are between 0.4-1.5 Astronomical Units (au) wide beginning at distances between 0.6-2 au from the center of mass of the binary stars.
Not all systems with circumbinary giant planets are suitable
“In contrast the extent of the habitable zones in two further binary systems, Kepler-453 and -1661, is roughly half the expected size, because the giant planets in those systems would destabilize the orbits of additional habitable worlds. For the same reason Kepler-16 and -1647 cannot host additional habitable planets at all. Of course, there is the possibility that life exists outside the habitable zone or on moons orbiting the giant planets themselves, but that may be less desirable real-estate for us,” says coauthor Dr Siegfried Eggl at the University of Washington.
“Our best candidate for hosting a world that is potentially habitable is the binary system Kepler-38, approximately 3,970 light years from Earth, and known to contain a Neptune-sized planet,” says Georgakarakos.
“Our study confirms that even binary star systems with giant planets are hot targets in the search for Earth 2.0. Watch out Tatooine, we are coming!”
Sarah Westall & Dr. Steven Greer: Pentagon UFO Disclosure! Do You Trust They Have Humanity's Needs in Mind?
Sarah Westall & Dr. Steven Greer: Pentagon UFO Disclosure! Do You Trust They Have Humanity's Needs in Mind?
Sarah Westall & Dr. Steven Greer: Pentagon UFO Disclosure! Do You Trust They Have Humanity’s Needs in Mind?
Dr. Steven Greer joins the program to discuss the U.S. Governments slow disclosure. Most of us do not trust the government and their motives after seeing so many coverups and lies for decades. So, what should we expect this time?
Dr. Greer arranged the first disclosure movement which reached over 1 billion people worldwide. Because of its success, Greer believes that the real disclosure has already happened. Whats left is for the governments to come clean and admit it.
BUCKLE-UP! CAR CHASES UFO And Filmed Something Incredible! 2021
I wanna know who that lady was saying “Its a Lantern, Its a lantern!” -Like wth lady? Its literally 100 feet in the air probably more. And who in the right mind would just have two lanterns just chilling in the middle of the cities sky? -Not to mention it would of had to been some BIG A&& Lanterns (LMAO) Some people r just “Wow” Rfilms
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UFO Sighted Over Mexico City ( April 18. 2021 )
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This possible sighting of a flying saucer was filmed over Houston, Texas. This was filmed back on 15th February 2019 but it was just today published on MUFON’s website.
One crater on Mars shows signs of an ancient glacier that melted from the top down.
A colored topographical map of the southern highlands Martian basins from the Brown University study. The raised ridges are colored dark yellow and the low-lying areas where water pooled are colored in white. (Image credit: Brown University/NASA)
One strange Mars crater could offer a new possibility about what ancient Mars was like.
Mars' ancient history interests scientists because if the arid planet was once warm and wet, it may have been habitable to life. One new study about an unnamed Martian crater suggests a new possibility about Mars' past.
A spacecraft orbiting Mars captured incredible images of the calloused floor of a crater located in the southern highlands of Mars. This 33.5 mile-wide (54 km) crater dates back 4.1 to 3.7 billion years ago to the Noachian period, when Mars may have been much warmer and may have been home to bodies of water and ice, ingredients that are key to life as we know it on Earth.
In a new study, scientists at Brown University took a look at the peculiar ridges and geological features of this crater that were visible in imagery from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
According to their paper, published March 12 in the Planetary Science Journal, the team noticed that these formations are different from those found in other craters. While all the craters in the scope of their comparative analysis had signs that water once flowed within them, the unnamed crater showed no signs that water breached the wall of the crater to get inside. There was also no evidence that groundwater was the source of the ridges inside the crater, they found.
This puzzled the team, and they arrived at a fascinating explanation: the source of the liquid water was a glacier that melted from the top down.
There's little doubt that the Martian climate was once warmer and wetter than the frozen desert the planet is today. What's less clear, however, is whether Mars had an Earthlike climate with continually flowing water for millennia, or whether it was mostly cold and icy with fleeting periods of warmth and melting.
Ben Boatwright, Ph.D. student at Brown University, led a study about an unnamed Martian crater's ancient source of water. The team concluded that top-down snowmelt from an ancient glacier created the ridges at the crater's floor. This is a map of how the snowmelt may have moved throughout the basin. (Image credit: According to their paper, published March 12 in the Planetary Science Journal, the team noticed that these formations are different from those found in other craters. While all the craters in the scope of their comparative analysis had signs that water once flowed within them, the unnamed crater showed no signs that water breached the wall of the crater to get inside. There was also no evidence that groundwater was the source of the ridges inside the crater, they found. This puzzled the team, and they arrived at a fascinating explanation: the source of the liquid water was a glacier that melted from the top down. There's little doubt that the Martian climate was once warmer and wetter than the frozen desert the planet is today. What's less clear, however, is whether Mars had an Earthlike climate with continually flowing water for millennia, or whether it was mostly cold and icy with fleeting periods of warmth and melting.)
This finding has implications beyond just this one individual crater. For this glacier to exist in the first place, Mars may not have been continuously balmy during the Noachian period. It may have, instead, been a frigid place populated with many other glaciers, and the liquid water that leaves its fingerprints in many places across the Red Planet might be from snowmelt that formed after brief moments of planetary heating.
"This [explanation] would favor a colder, potentially subfreezing Noachian climate with only transient warming. Some global climate modeling studies support ambient Noachian temperatures well below freezing... with cold-based glaciation occurring in the southern highlands ... Thus, the nature of the ambient Noachian martian climate is currently debated," the study's authors wrote in their paper.
"The cold and icy scenario has been largely theoretical — something that arises from climate models," lead author and Brown Ph.D. student Ben Boatwright stated in a press release about the study. "But the evidence for glaciation we see here helps to bridge the gap between theory and observation. I think that's really the big takeaway here."
Missions like NASA's Perseverance rover may find clues that continue the discourse about Mars' ancient past. The type of lake described in this study, however, is quite different from Jezero crater, where Perseverance is currently exploring.
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China is preparing for a space telescope and its own space station.
(Image credit: CSNA)
China could launch the first module for its own space station this month as the country also prepares to send a large space telescope to join it in orbit within the next few years.
The Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), which is set to launch in 2024, will operate as a space optical observatory for Chinese scientists to carry out sky surveys, according to Xinhua.The telescope, sometimes called "Xuntian," which literally translates to "survey the heavens," will have an impressive 6.6-foot (2 meters) diameter lens, making it comparable to the Hubble Telescope Scope. However, it boasts a field of view 300 times greater than that of 31-year-old Hubble while retaining a similar resolution.
The wide field of view will allow the telescope to observe up to 40 percent of the sky over ten years using a huge 2.5 billion pixel camera.Notably, the telescope will co-orbit Earth along with the Chinese space station and will be able to periodically dock with the future crewed outpost.
"The telescope will be set up in an optical module that can fly independently in orbit for a higher efficiency of space probe," Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's human spaceflight program, told China Central Television in March.
"Meanwhile, we will make it fly approximately in common orbit with the future space station. This will help us refuel the telescope and carry out in-orbit upgrade[s] for it, so as to always keep it on the level of an international frontier," Jianping added.
This could be a big advantage for the CSST, as Hubble required a number of missions to repair, upgrade and replace a variety of components and systems.
Meanwhile, on the ground, four astronomy research centers are being built across China to work with data from the space telescope, Xinhua reported last year.
The CSST will observe near ultraviolet and visible light. Notable cosmological and astronomical objectives include investigating the properties of dark matter and dark energy, the large-scale structure of the cosmos and galaxy formation and evolution, according to a 2019 paper from members of the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The CSST will also be expected to make contributions to detecting and surveying trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and near-Earth asteroids.
Additionally, in preparation for the nation's new space station, Chinese astronauts are currently undergoing intense training for the first crewed missions to construct the future station.
China is preparing for 11 launches across 2021 and 2022, including four crewed missions, for the construction phase of the project. The core module, named "Tianhe," meaning "Harmony of the Heavens," is expected to launch from Wenchang in April, based on previous Long March 5 preparations.
Contrary to Neil Sedaka, breaking up doesn’t seem to be hard to do at the Russian space program Roscosmos – it announced over the weekend that it is breaking off all relations with the International Space Station by 2024. Was it something NASA said about that pesky leak on the Russian side it took them over a year to find?
“We have agreed with our ISS partners the term of operation at the station – 2024. After this period, the decision will be made based on the technical condition of the station modules, which have mostly expired their service life, as well as our plans to deploy a new generations. When we make a decision, then we will start negotiations with our partners on the conditions and forms of interaction after 2024.”
After Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov appeared on the Sunday program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” and spilled the beans, Roscosmos quickly issued a press release confirming it. Interfax.ru added that this contradicts Vladimir Soloviev, Flight Director of the ISS Russian Segment, who said in early April that the life of the ISS could be extended until the 2030s and beyond, and Russia would be there for the duration. That is NASA’s plan as well — the Leading Human Spaceflight Act to extend operations of the ISS to 2030 was confirmed by Congress in December 2018.
Buh-bye!
The Roscosmos announcement also confirms that Russia is not abandoning the idea of a permanent space base – it plans to build its own. The new Russian National Orbital Service Station (ROSS) was announced a week ago and early estimates put its cost at $6 billion. That seems highly optimistic – the estimated total cost for the ISS is $150 billion – and it’s also disappointing to China’s space program, which was hoping Russia would provide cooperation for its own space station that is expected to be operational by 2022. That could still happen, possiblly while Russia builds its own station.
This announcement comes as Russia celebrates the 60th anniversary of the launch that made Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin the first human in space, NASA astronauts made their last trip in a Russian space capsule as SpaceX takes over taxiing to the ISS, and Russia announced its plans to send a lander to the Moon for the first time since 1976. This latest announcement is probably just another step in Russia’s plan to return to space dominance in a race that has grown from two to a very crowded field. It remains to be seen if Roscosmos can catch up on its own. If the recent problems on the Russian side of the ISS are any indication, it has a lot to improve upon.
Я думал, ты принес изоленту! (I thought you brought the duct tape!)
What would Neil Sedaka say?
Do do do Down dooby doo down down Comma, comma, down dooby doo down down Comma, comma, down dooby doo down down Breaking up is hard to do
Out in the cold, gray expanse of the Arctic Ocean, north of mainland Europe, is the remote Norwegian archipelago of Spitzbergen, now mostly known as Svalbard. It is a frigid, somewhat hostile domain once used as a base of operations for whalers and miners, with most of the land covered by glaciers and intersected by numerous fjords, and enveloped in a near eternal night during the frigid winter months. It is a sparsely inhabited, largely untouched and unspoiled realm of majestic natural beauty, and it is also the location of a series of very bizarre supposed UFO crashes.
The first of two supposed UFO crashes in the area of Spitzbergen supposedly begins in 1946, when a General James H. Doolittle was allegedly sent to the region by the Shell Oil Company for the purpose of investigating aerial phenomena in the area that were being called “ghost rockets.” Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen would then claim that a crashed UFO had been recovered in the area by the British and U.S. governments, claiming that sailors serving aboard the U.S.S. Alabama had told her that the mysterious craft had been recovered by Doolittle in Spitzbergen and whisked away to the U.S. for study. The story would basically end here, with her taking the truth to her grave when she died in 1965, but it would not be the last time something like this would be reported from the region.
Settlement in Spitzbergen
In June of 1952, a squadron of six Norwegian jet planes had just started summer maneuvers over Spitsbergen. As they sped over the Hinlopen Straits their radios began crackling and emitting static before anomalously cutting out entirely to leave them with no way to communicate with each other. In the meantime, radar showed that an unidentified object was fast approaching, but the pilots themselves could see nothing visually. The fighters circled the area for some time, when Air Captain Olaf Larsen purportedly looked down to see a metallic disc lodged into the snow frosted landscape down below, measuring 40 to 50 meters in diameter and shiny and bright enough to stand out in the snowy landscape. Further inspection would reveal that machinery and cables could be seen, as well as a series of jets around the side and what appeared to be a broken cockpit protruding from the icy ground. When they were finally able to get back to base and report what they had found, an expedition was sent to the apparent crash site, and a report in the German newspaper, Saarbrücker Zeitung would say of what was found:
A precise inspection of the remote-controlled flying disc that landed on the Nordaustlandet of Spitsbergen due to interference problems, led to the following indisputable information. The flying object, which has a diameter of 48.88 meters and slanting sides, is round and was unmanned. The circular steel object, is made out of an unknown metal compound, resembles a silver disc. After ignition, 46 automatic jets, located at equal distances on the outer ring, rotate the disc around a plexiglassed center ball, that contains measuring and control devices for remote control. The measuring instruments (gauges) have Russian symbols. The action radius of the disc seems to be more than 30.000 km, and the altitude over 160 km. The flying object, which resembles one of the legendary “flying saucers”, has sufficient room for high explosive bombs, possibly nuclear bombs.
In the wreck of the apparatus an expert is said to have discovered a radio piloting transmitter with a nucleus of plutonium transmitting on all wavelengths with 934 hertz, a measure that has been unknown so far. The investigation has also shown that the flying saucer crashed because of a defect in its radio piloting system. The saucer which carried no crew. The steel used in the construction is an unknown ally. It consists of an exterior disc provided at its peripheral with 46 automatic jets. This disc pivots around the central sphere which contains the measurement and remote-control equipment. The Norwegian specialists assumed that the disc had started from the Soviet Union and had gone down over Spitsbergen due to a mistake in transmitting or receiving, being incapacitated because of the hard landing. The strange, remote-controlled, unmanned jet plane will be brought to Narvik on board a ship for further investigation.
OK, so although weird, this was obviously just some sort of Russian experimental aircraft of some sort, right? Well, that is what it would seem to be at first, yet the story would continue to pick up new information and evolve. As the story got out into the open it would pick up new details, such as that of a report that supposedly came forth from a Colonel Gernod Darnhyl, of the Norwegian General Staff, who supposedly made the statement:
The Spitsbergen crash was very rewarding. True enough, our science still faces many riddles. I am sure, however, that they can soon be solved by these remains from Spitsbergen. A misunderstanding developed, some time ago, when it was stated that the flying disc was probably of Soviet origin. It has – this we must state emphatically – not been built by any country on earth. The materials are completely unknown to all experts, either not to be found on Earth, or processed by physical or chemical processes unknown to us. We must tell the public what we know about the unknown flying objects. A misplaced secrecy may well one day lead to panic! We now have material at hand, on which we can start. That means laboratories can start the work right away and they might give us preliminary results shortly. Norwegian scientists think that the material from Spitsbergen can only give away its secrets by nuclear crushing; this because it does not change either at absolute zero, when air is liquified, or at the highest temperatures technically possible with our technology. Also, every chemical treatment has been tried. Scientific results will only be released subsequent to a UFO conference in London or Washington.
So now it is not a Russian aircraft? Curiouser and curiouser. Before long, there were ever more fantastical stories surrounding the purported UFO crash, such as a report in Uruguayan newspaper El Nacional, of Montevideo. In the report, it is claimed that the Norwegian scientist Hans Larsen Løberg had made clear that the craft had actually come down at the German island of Helgoland, in the North Sea, and was definitely not Russian, having no discernible engine, nor any rivets, fuses or bolts, and speculated to have operated on “magnetic forces.” Løberg also apparently stated that the craft had some sort of “beam weapon” on board, as well as the remains of actual alien bodies. The report reads in part:
The material used was as light as aluminum, but very much harder, and probably much heat-resistant. Of the things found in its interior, they noticed some water that was three times as heavy as normal water, and a few pills which were taken to be food. There was also an apparatus which probably was a radio. It was quite small and had no antenna. They also found some books, probably navigational instructions, in a completely unknown writing. The doors of the spaceship were open. Just inside of the doors were 7 bodies, burned beyond recognition. Scientists are of the opinion, according to Larsen Løberg, that the bodies were of men at the age of between 25 and 30 years, about 1,65 m tall. All had perfect sets of teeth. The reason for the crash of this saucer, he thought, had to be that it was affected by the American hydrogen-bomb explosions. The material of the spaceship, and its apparatus, resisted the enormous heat, but the crew burned to death.
And just like that, the story has gone from a mysterious crash that could be anything or nothing at all to a downed alien spaceship with dead aliens on board. After this the whole story becomes hazy and there is not much to corroborate any of it, with many different versions offered up over the yeas that only further serve to muddy the waters as to what is going on. Indeed, there seems to be little to link any of this to an actual factual basis, and it lurks within the realm of strange cases that will probably be discussed over and over again, but which have no concrete evidence that can ever lead us in the direction of a real answer. The verdict of many in the UFO field is that this is an obvious hoax that has gotten out of control to take on a life of its own, with Norwegian ufologist Ole Jonny Brænne coming to the conclusion:
The conclusion therefore has to be that the Spitsbergen story (and the Helgoland story too, for that matter) is nothing but a classic H-O-A-X! The original authors, mainly J.M.M. and Sven Thygesen (if that was their real names), had a cursory knowledge of Norwegian military aircraft, but far from good enough. Even if this case does not hold any water, I will venture my way with a little prophecy: This story will, with great certainty, continue to be the subject of books as well as magazines during the 1990s. There will always be “researchers” who think this story deserves their enthusiastic attention, and cannot settle down with factual arguments which clearly show the story to lack any basis in reality.
Was this a hoax, or was there something more to it? Opinions seem to be divided on this case, which only further fuels speculation and debate. Did something crash out there in that snowy wilderness and was it covered up? Why has it evolved to add new details over time? It this the truth slowly coming out or the result of mere embellishment? Just what happened out there in the wilds of that remote place? The mystery remains, and we may never know for sure.
When a local famer was conducting land improvement work in the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland, he stumbled upon an ancient tomb that archaeologists have described as being “untouched”, “highly unusual”, and a “significant” find.
After a big stone slab was turned over, that’s when the farmer found a slab-lined chamber underneath it. Upon further inspection, there was a sub-chamber located off of it which is believed to be the front part of the tomb. So far, a very smooth oval-shaped stone as well as what appeared to be a human bone have been found. It is believed that the tomb dates back at least to the Bronze Age (between 2000 BC and 500 BC) and could possibly be even older than that.
Archaeologists from the National Monuments Service and the National Museum of Ireland went to the location in order to perform the first survey of the area. While it is thought to be a Bronze Age tomb, there are several notable features that have archaeologists thinking it may be older as Mícheál Ó Coileáin explained, “But the design of this particular tomb is not like any of the other Bronze Age burial sites we have here.” “This is a highly unusual tomb. It’s possible that it’s earlier but it’s very difficult at this early stage to date it.”
Dr. Breandán Ó Cíobháin, who is an archaeologist and place names expert, went into further details on the significance of the discovery, “This tomb appears to be completely untouched and in its original state and contains human remains.” “That is very rare. It is an extremely significant find as the original structure has been preserved and not interfered with, as may have occurred in the case of other uncovered tomb.”
He went on to describe how the tomb’s layout may provide very important details, “In the south-west of Ireland we have a significant number of wedge tombs, in Cork and Kerry in particular.” “The majority are generally orientated to the west and south-west. It is not clear why but it may represent celestial or lunar alignments.” He added that this particular tomb in the Dingle Peninsula is different from the others, “Wedge tombs are usually visible above ground, this one is completely concealed.” “It is very well built and a lot of effort has gone into putting the large cap stone over it. It’s not a stone that was just found in the ground. It seems to have some significance.” He said that it could have been a ritual site with a burial.
(Not the tomb found in the Dingle Peninsula.)
He added that since the tomb is underground and hasn’t been fully explored yet, it’s hard to confirm its layout.
Authorities have stated that they won’t be commenting any further on the discovery until a full survey of the site has been completed. Pictures of the tomb can be seen here.
The tomb was uncovered in recent days during land improvement works being carried out by a farmer
The wild is a scary place. Filled with so many predators, a day out in the real wilderness is a game of survival. Luckily, we are tucked away from the dangers of these wild animals but occasionally one might skip the fence and make its way to our neighborhood. Though fatalities from such encounters are usually very rare, it does happen. But we aren’t here today talking about animals which eat other animals, but something quite surprising. Meet the 10 plants that eat animals and some of them can be grown in your own garden.
Meteorites Hold Early Atmospheres From Across the Solar System
Meteorites Hold Early Atmospheres From Across the Solar System
Since they were formed in the early solar system, many meteorites offer an unadulterated view into what that solar system was made out of, or what happened to it as we reported before. Recently a team of researchers led by Maggie Thompson at University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) took a look at the chemical composition of three different chondritic meteorites, which have largely been untouched since before the planets were formed. Their composition was different than current models predicted, and could lead to a better understanding of early planetary atmospheres.
Previous models of solar system formation used different processes to account for the formation of atmospheres on gas giants and rocky planets. Gas giants were thought to be formed primarily of the hydrogen and helium that the sun was made out of. Alternatively, the atmospheres of rocky planets such as Earth were though to be caused by outgassing of the collected asteroids that they were formed of. The problem was so far no one had actually looked to see if asteroids contained the right material to confirm this theory.
Presentation from the authors describing some of their research. Credit: Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz YouTube Channel
To check for that material, the team used a technique similar to what Perseverance is currently doing on Mars with its laser – they baked the meteorites in order to outgas their constituent chemicals and then analyzed the released gases with a mass spectrometer. In this particular case, they heated the meteorites to 1200 C – much hotter than most conventional ovens would go. Many of the materials they found being released at these high temperatures are common on Earth today – carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen / hydrogen sulfide. But importantly the most common molecule was water.
The type of meteorite obviously matters a lot when analyzing these gaseous outbursts, and the team analyzed pieces of three different chondritic meteorites – Aguas Zarcas, which was found in Costa Rica in 2019, Murchison, which was found in Australia in 1969, and Jbilet Winselwan, which was found in the Western Sahara in 2013. Chondritic meteorites are important because they are the best approximation for the material available when the sun and planets formed. They are also considered stable as they likely were not melted during their early years.
Pictures of the three meteorites used in the study. Credit: Maggie Thompson
A few models were confirmed by this series of experiments. First, the idea that outgassing of asteroids played a major role in the formation of early planetary atmospheres was at least partially confirmed. In addition, chemical equilibrium models of what was thought to be in the meteorites did predict the observed outgassing. Other researchers had also used the same methodology of testing meteorites in an oven before. But this was the first time the focus of the research had been on the implications of outgassing for planetary and early solar system formation.
Lead author Maggie Thompson (right) and co-author Assistant Professor Myriam Telus in the lab at UCSC where they baked the meteorites. Credit: Jeremy Colvin
It won’t be the last time however. The team at UCSC plans to do some more testing on “a wide variety of meteorites” says Thompson. The more data is collected the better constraints scientists can put on those formation processes. There are still plenty of meteorites to hunt down and study.
A visit to the beach is something we often look forward to. There’s nothing quite like letting off some steam by just sitting on the coastline and enjoying the view of the sea and the waves crashing. But sometimes, an innocent wave might drop off something unexpected and take you by surprise. Here are 10 strangest recent beach discoveries from around the world and you won’t believe it.
A Travel Channel show, in its series Aliens in Alaska on 4/19/21, presented accounts by people, in their own words and images, of UFO sightings.
The people are credible, insofar, as what they are reporting: “what they saw with their own eyes” is how it generally goes with them.
But I also noted that almost every sighting was of two lights or “objects” that made no noise and “all of a sudden” disappeared.
“All of a sudden” is remarkably present in every account; the “no noise” aspect also.
José Caravaca, along with Jacques Vallee, and a few others, think that witnesses may be the important ingredient in UFO accounts; that is, the persons experiencing the UFO sighting or encounter may be the important aspect of the experience.
How that is has not been worked out by either man or their conjectural cohorts.
And I am hesitant to agree, although with trepidation.
However, what is noteworthy – and don’t let me be thought of condescending or hoity-toity about this – is that the persons, in the show, and among almost all UFO accounts over the years, reporting or having the visuals/experience are from the lower economic class or lower stratum of society.
They are not unintelligent, but almost always lack any kind of sophistication, as their surroundings and conversations indicate.
What does this mean? I’m not sure, but a recent piece in the 4/19/21 issue of The New Yorker – The Politics of Feelingby Merve Emre [Page 64 ff.] give a clue or two.
The article is mostly about the often errant but significance of “Emotional Intelligence” and the popular 1950s book with that title by Daniel Goleman.
I won’t get into the innards of the book or concept, except to say, it does impart some idea about how most UFO witnesses come to express their sighting or experience.
And I see it as a matter of economic and societal influence, and the vicissitudes of being among that class of people known, curtly and with consideration, as the masses or the “great unwashed.”
[Sorry, but there it is, and let me note that I’ve had three UFO sighting over the years, and the newspapers report that I’m hardly in the lower-economic class.]
So, what would it be about common people seeing UFOs? Do they stand out because upper class persons are loath to report UFO sightings? Or because the upper crust do not see UFOs as an integral part of their existence, even when the appearance or inter-action of the phenomenon is pronounced or traumatizing?
Or are the citizens of Alaska just a subset of society: non-dependent, individualistic, and ornery by nature (because of their environment)?
What about non-Alaskans who report UFO sightings much like their Alaskan counterparts? And how is it that many ufologists or UFO enthusiasts have the appearance of rough-necks and people-of-the-woods demeanors: scruffy, ill-kempt, and not highly educated or classy, certainly not cultured?
Are UFOs a kind of phenomenon that afflicts the lower classes, mostly? Or do the intellectually indigent create a mental or neurological mind-set that opens the door to their experience?
The matter should be researched by someone inclined to get down and dirty with the lower rung of society, which leaves me out. But I know plenty of UFO enthusiasts who fit the bill.
RR
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The war against the Draco controllers, is part of the war against the Cabal. Thomas explains what is happening with the bases, most people hear noises coming from underneath cities and mountains. This could likely be the reason.
China planning to release Chang e-2 moon images. The mysteries of the moon, may soon be revealed/disclosed?
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LAST UFO SIGTINGS AND VIDEOS
LAST UFO SIGTINGS AND VIDEOS
UFO Sighted Over Swindon, England ( April 19, 2021 )
Amazing UFO Sighted Over Swindon, Wiltshire, England :The original videos were published on April 19, 2021 : WITNESS STATEMENT : UFO Swindon :. It was extremely bizarre to see a black triangle shaped object floating in the sky. There wasn’t really anything to indicate the size or proximity of the object. It just gave me that weird unsettled feeling when you genuinely have no idea what something is and what it’s doing.
It’s not a drone and it’s not something that’s being held in place or bobbing about like a ballon.
If any knows what it is please let me know. VIDEO 2 : UFO Swindon 2 : This was taken approximately 20 minutes after the first video. The UFO was still there, possibly moved positions but still no clarity on what it was.
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A local believes he might have recorded on video a line of UFOs descending slowly from the night sky in rural China. The footage was shot near Fujin City in the Heilongjiang Province of China at around 3 am on April 14, 2021. In the video, a bright light leading the pack descends from the sky while a string of smaller lights followed.
The witness zooms in and is surprised to notice that it doesn’t look like a single, fast-moving object, such as a meteor. Instead, he observes a slow-moving line of what he believes might be a possible alien spaceship.
The cameraman, identified as Mr Liu, said that what appears the white lights in the clip were actually colourful to the naked eye.
He added that the descending mysterious objects stayed in the sky for around 30 seconds, but he’s unsure where they landed.
Mr Liu said he initially spotted a string of firelights in the dark sky, which he thought were from a meteorite but soon realized it was colourful. The front end was relatively huge, followed by ever-decreasing lights.
He said the unidentified flying object was much slower than failing meteorites, which typically descend fast and burn up before hitting the surface.
He further observed that the line of spherical lights slowly moved at a uniform speed.
The video was filmed near the city of Fujin in the Heilongjiang province of China at around 3am on 14 April. In the footage, a bright leading light is seen descending from the sky while being followed by a string of smaller lights.
Other netizens suggested it was a fireball formed after a meteorite burned up in the atmosphere.
Jiamusi Kite Association's Vice President Li Zhi told a Chinese outlet that it was not a UFO but a kite, although it was unclear why he was so confident that it was not anything else, or whether the Jiamusi Kite Association had been flying the kite that he was referring to.
Funnily enough, a scientist has recently explained that we will make contact with aliens by the end of the century - maybe it won't take that long if Mr Liu is on the case.
Dr Michio Kaku, of US TV series Ancient Aliens, said: "I think that there's a good likelihood that, in this century, we'll make contact with an alien civilisation. And how do we know this? Because we're getting better at scanning planets in outer space for radio signals."
Canadian Military Documents UFO Sightings, Intelligence Report Reveals
Canadian Military Documents UFO Sightings, Intelligence Report Reveals
An unclassified intelligence report links the Royal Canadian Air Force, NORAD, Transport Canada, and air traffic controllers—and is official confirmation of a Canadian UFO alert system.
THE CANADIAN MILITARY IS BEING NOTIFIED WHEN PILOTS SPOT UFOS.
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Canada’s military is being notified when pilots spot UFOs in Canadian airspace, VICE World News has found.
According to an aviation incident report viewed by VICE World News, the crew of a medical transport flight over northern Manitoba “reported that an inexplicable bright light followed them… at the same altitude and speed” well before sunrise on Jan. 6, 2019.
That morning, civilian air traffic controllers alerted the 21 Aerospace Control and Warning Squadron, a nearly 200-strong Air Force unit at the CFB North Bay military base in northeastern Ontario. The unit’s mission is to protect Canada under NORAD, the joint Canada-U.S. air defence pact. It then faxed an unclassified intelligence report to Ottawa.
The intelligence report, obtained by an access to information request, is official proof the Canadian military is documenting unidentified aerial phenomena—a significant finding that puts Canada in line with other countries. The existence of a U.S. UFO-tracking program was revealed in 2017 by the New York Times.
“The document confirms to me that the Government of Canada, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), and seemingly NORAD have a process for reporting sightings of both unidentified and identified flying objects,” professor Timothy Sayle told VICE World News. Sayle is the director of the University of Toronto’s International Relations Program and a historian whose research focuses on intelligence, security, and declassified records.
“It concerns me that there is so much secrecy around this,” he said.
Emblazoned with a pair of prickly thistles and the motto “Intruder Beware,” 21 Squadron’s badge appears on the fax’s cover page with the words “No threat CIRVIS Report.” CIRVIS stands for Communication Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings. According to a Canadian aviation incident reporting manual, vital intelligence sightings include “airborne and ground objects or activities that appear to be hostile, suspicious, unidentified, or engaged in possible illegal smuggling activity,” like “suspicious ground parties in Polar regions” and “unidentified flying objects.”
The report itself, which cites the Winnipeg Air Control Centre (ACC) as its source, describes a “light moving parallel” to the twin-turboprop plane in a “partly cloudy” night sky for three minutes as it travelled at more than 425 km/h and at an altitude of 7,500 feet.
Coordinates listed in the report show the incident occurred over rugged forests in a region aptly called Mystery Lake as the flight approached the small city of Thompson, Manitoba.
The report does not describe the colour, size, or shape of the light, nor does it say how it arrived or disappeared. In a section for “preliminary analysis,” its author writes, “ACC assumes report is of another A/C,” or aircraft. It does not say if the incident was analyzed further.
An RCAF spokesperson said Transport Canada is the primary investigative authority for CIRVIS reports. “The RCAF and NORAD take all credible threats seriously,” they told VICE World News in a statement. “Neither the Royal Canadian Air Force, nor the Canadian NORAD Region track CIRVIS reports, as they are referred to NAV Canada.”
NAV Canada is the private company that owns and operates Canada’s civilian air navigation infrastructure, such as radar installations and air traffic control centres like the Winnipeg ACC. The company is also the source of Canada’s CIRVIS reporting procedures.
In an email to VICE World News, a NAV Canada spokesperson confirmed in certain cases, it provides data on “instances of unauthorized or unknown aircraft in NAV Canada managed airspace” to the military, NORAD, and Transport Canada.
According to a Transport Canada spokesperson, CIRVIS “reports are infrequently reported to Transport Canada as the reports received are a result of natural phenomena such as fireballs, weather balloons, and meteors.”
“Reports of unidentified objects can rarely be followed up on as they are as the title implies, unidentified,” they added.
That, Sayle argued, is precisely why they should be investigated.
“With today’s defence capabilities, any unidentified object in our airspace should be treated as a matter of concern,” Sayle said. “They should be tracking identified and unidentified objects in Canadian airspace and determining what they are and if they pose a threat.”
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In the U.S., high-ranking officials and politicians have openly admitted to studying UFOs, including Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s current head, Democratic Senator Marc Warner of Virginia.
In December, the U.S. even passed a bill that requires intelligence and defence officials to create a report on “Advanced Aerial Threats” by June 1.
“While not common—I judge that there are maybe a handful (of CIRVIS reports) filed each year—they are indications that pilots do observe and report UFOs in North American airspace,” Winnipeg-based UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski told VICE World News.
Canada’s leading expert on the topic, Rutkowski has collected information on more than 22,000 UFO sightings over the past three decades and has included data from CIRVIS reports in his longstanding annual Canadian UFO Survey.
“The fact that NORAD and the Canadian Forces pass these reports to Transport Canada as unclassified documents suggests to me that the Department of National Defence is indeed not interested in these cases,” Rutkowski said. “In fact, it implies that they do not regard them as security or defence issues.”
As recently as last August, a spokesperson from Canada’s Department of National Defence told the Globe and Mail it “wouldn't really comment on speculative matters” like UFO reports. Winnipeg-based Vanguard Air Care, which operated the Jan. 6, 2019 flight, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Correction, Apr. 13, 2021: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that the 21 Aerospace Control and Warning Squadron at CFB North Bay boasts CF-18 fighter jets.
NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity took this shot of the martian surface during its first flight on 19 April.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA has pulled off the first powered flight on another world. Ingenuity, the robot rotorcraft that is part of the agency’s Perseverance mission, lifted off from the surface of Mars on 19 April, in a 39.1-second flight that is a landmark in interplanetary aviation.
“We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet,” says MiMi Aung, the project’s lead engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
Ingenuity’s short test flight is the off-Earth equivalent of the Wright Brothers piloting their aeroplane above the coastal dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903. In tribute, the helicopter carries a postage-stamp-sized piece of muslin fabric from the Wright Brothers’ plane. “Each world gets only one first flight,” says Aung.
The flight came after a one-week delay, because software issues kept the helicopter from transitioning into flight mode two days ahead of a planned flight attempt on 11 April. Today, at 12:34 a.m. US Pacific time, Ingenuity successfully spun its counter-rotating carbon-fibre blades at more than 2,400 revolutions per minute to give it the lift it needed to rise 3 metres into the air. The US$85-million drone hovered there, and then, in a planned manoeuvre, turned 96 degrees and descended safely back to the Martian surface. “This is just the first great flight,” says Aung.
This video, captured by the Perseverance rover, shows Ingenuity's 40-second flight.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Four further flights, each lasting up to 90 seconds, are planned in the next two weeks. The next one is tentatively scheduled for 22 April. In it, Ingenuity will aim to rise 5 metres above the surface, fly laterally for about 2 metres, then fly 2 metres back and land at the same place it took off. Eventually the helicopter may fly faster and farther, travelling up to 300 metres from its take-off point. Each successive flight will push Ingenuity’s capabilities to see how well the drone fares in Mars’s thin atmosphere, which is just 1% as dense as Earth’s. "We will be pushing the envelope," says Aung — probably to the point that Ingenuity will ultimately crash, by design.
Space agencies have sent drifting aircraft to other planets before; for example, the Soviet Union’s Vega 1 and Vega 2 missions sent balloons into Venus’s atmosphere in 1985. But Ingenuity’s flight is the first controlled flight on another planet. "I'm just thrilled with the way it has turned out," says John Grunsfeld, a former astronaut who approved the Ingenuity programme when he served as NASA's associate administrator for science.
The Perseverance rover used one of its cameras to take a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter (behind and to the left) on 6 April.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Ingenuity's purpose is to test whether helicopters could be used to explore other worlds. As it flies across the terrain, it snaps black-and-white images of the surface below, and colour images looking toward the horizon. Future helicopters could help rovers, or even astronauts, to make their way across the surface, by scouting for interesting areas ahead and relaying images of what the landscape looks like.
Big rotorcraft could also get into areas that are inaccessible to rovers rolling across the ground, says Anubhav Datta, an aerospace engineer at the University of Maryland in College Park who has been working on Mars helicopter concepts for decades. “If we are serious about human missions to Mars we should be serious about sending large helicopters to truly explore what awaits there,” he says. “The most interesting places we want to explore are not on flat land but up the slopes, on the cliffs, down the craters and into the caves.” Cameras and other instruments aboard helicopters could capture information about such places.
NASA is already building a car-sized octocopter named Dragonfly that it plans to send to Saturn’s moon Titan. Set to launch in 2027, the copter would explore Titan’s atmosphere, which is four times denser than Earth’s and is rich in primordial organic compounds. That’s a very different environment from the one that Ingenuity is experiencing on Mars. But the early flight lessons from Ingenuity will inform Dragonfly’s design. “We’re looking forward to learning from the Ingenuity team’s experience flying in an extraterrestrial sky,” says Elizabeth Turtle, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, who is Dragonfly's principal investigator.
A close-up of Ingenuity sitting on the Martian surface, ready for its first flight test.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Ingenuity arrived in Mars’s Jezero Crater in February, nestled under the belly of the Perseverance rover. From its landing site, Perseverance drove to a flat ‘airfield’ in the crater that is relatively free of rocks, and deposited Ingenuity there. The rover then rolled to a slight rise 65 metres away, a vantage point from which it watched and videotaped Ingenuity’s first take-off and flight.
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The biggest challenge in designing Ingenuity was making it small and light enough to be carried under Perseverance’s belly, while still being capable of flight, says Aung. The helicopter ended up weighing just 1.8 kilograms. Engineers tested it on Earth in a special chamber at JPL from which nearly all the air had been sucked out, to simulate the thin Martian atmosphere.
Compared with a similar-sized helicopter on Earth, Ingenuity has larger blades that spin much faster, to lift it into the thin Martian air. Datta says that he will be anxiously awaiting information on how much power the helicopter takes to hover; this knowledge will help engineers to better understand the aerodynamics on Mars.
The Perseverance rover dropped Ingenuity (shown here with its legs deployed) from its belly on 30 March.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Another researcher, William Farrell at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is crossing his fingers that Ingenuity will help scientists to gain a better idea of the electrical properties of the Martian atmosphere. To do this, it would need to fly — or at least spin its blades — near dusk on Mars. Farrell and his colleagues recently calculated that the moving helicopter blades could become electrically charged through contact with the dust in the surrounding air1, much as helicopter blades on Earth can build up charge in sand storms. That could cause a faint blue-purplish glow along the blades, best visible in the dim light of dusk. Farrell has asked the Ingenuity team if it could rotate the blades during dusk at some point — and if that happens, he will be watching closely.
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The thin Martian atmosphere means that winds there are not particularly strong. Ingenuity can handle winds of a little over 10 metres per second while flying, and stronger winds when it’s sitting on the ground. It is powered by solar panels to keep it warm during the freezing Martian nights, when temperatures can sink to -90 ºC at Jezero Crater.
Ingenuity is designed to last just 30 Martian days, which end on 4 May. After that, team scientists will turn their attention back to the rover on which it travelled to Mars. Ingenuity will rest in perpetuity in Jezero Crater as Perseverance trundles off on its main mission to collect rock samples for eventual return to Earth.
Historische vlucht van NASA-helikopter Ingenuity op Mars geslaagd
Historisch! NASA-helikopter Ingenuity is voor het eerst op Mars de lucht ingegaan. Dat is vanochtend rond 9.30 uur onze tijd gebeurd zijn, maar door de vertraging in de communicatie tussen de rode planeet en de onze, kwam de bevestiging pas even voor 13 uur - zo’n 3,5uur later - bij ons op aarde door. Een eerdere poging van de eerste gemotoriseerde en gecontroleerde vlucht op een andere planeet dan de onze werd uitgesteld wegens technische problemen.
“De hoogtegegevens bevestigen dat Ingenuity de eerste vlucht van een gemotoriseerd toestel op een andere planeet heeft uitgevoerd”, aldus het Jet Propulsion Laboratory van de NASA. Dat is het labo dat de robotmissies beheert.
“Het klopt, het klopt echt”, aldus MiMi Aung, projectmanager in het controlecentrum in Pasadena in de VS, nadat de gegevens van de helikopter op aarde waren aangekomen en geanalyseerd. Dat gebeurde ongeveer drie uur nadat de vlucht had plaatsgevonden. “We kunnen nu zeggen dat mensen een rotorvliegtuig op een andere planeet hebben gevlogen.”
De minihelikopter van bijna een meter hoog en 1,8 kilo kreeg de naam Ingenuity (Vindingrijkheid). Het drone-achtige toestel reisde 480 miljoen kilometer mee naar Mars in de buik van NASA’s rover Perseverance (Volharding). Op 18 februari landde die na een reis van 203 dagen succesvol in het gebied van de Jezerokrater op de rode planeet. Bedoeling van zijn reisgenoot Ingenuity was om de ijle lucht van Mars te doorklieven. Dat zou een primeur zijn: de eerste gemotoriseerde, gecontroleerde vlucht op een andere planeet dan de aarde.
En dat lukte ook. Ingenuity steeg vanochtend (onze tijd) op, zweefde even op 3 meter hoogte en landde vervolgens weer op het oppervlak van de planeet. Om zich te oriënteren boven het Marsoppervlak, neemt de Ingenuity 30 beelden per seconde.
Ingenuity stuurde een zwart-witfoto door waarop de schaduw van het toestel te zien is op het Marsoppervlak. Een dag na de vlucht, eens de batterijen opnieuw zijn opgeladen, zal de helikopter een kleurenfoto van de horizon doorsturen. Die is genomen door een andere camera. De Perseverance maakte een opname van de vlucht. De volledige video zal de komende dagen worden doorgestuurd, aldus Elsa Jensen, die verantwoordelijk is voor de camera’s van de rover.
‘Landingsbaan’
Na het neerstrijken van Perseverance op Mars met Ingenuity in de buik in februari, was de robotjeep naar een ‘landingsbaan’ ongeveer 20 meter verder gereden. Daar werd Ingenuity neergelaten op de grond en werd een selfie van beide toestellen gemaakt. Vanochtend is de miniheli dan eindelijk opgestegen, maar omdat de eerste gegevens over het helikopterexperiment pas ongeveer drie uur later weer op aarde aankwamen, was de bevestiging er pas even voor 13 uur onze tijd. De informatie moest eerst worden doorgegeven via de Perseverance-rover en een satelliet op Mars, die de gegevens vervolgens naar het Jet Propulsion Laboratory van NASA stuurde. Daar werd alles gedecodeerd en vrijgegeven. Perseverance en Ingenuity stonden op het moment van de vluchtpoging zelf dus niet live in contact met NASA. De twee ruimtetuigen deden alles zelfstandig, op basis van instructies die ze gisteren hadden gekregen. Ingenuity vloog autonoom en analyseerde zelf zijn positie tegenover het oppervlak.
Om een technisch probleem te verhelpen had de vluchtleiding de afgelopen dagen nog een software-update geïnstalleerd die eerst op aarde was getest. Daardoor moest de vlucht, die eigenlijk gepland was op 11 april, worden uitgesteld.
Vrijdag konden de twee in tegengestelde richting draaiende rotorbladen van maar liefst 1.20 meter lang uitgetest worden op de hoogste snelheid van 2.500 toeren per minuut. Dat is zo’n vijf keer sneller dan bij een standaardhelikopter. “Ingenuity heeft voldoende energie en kracht om deze vlucht op Mars uit te voeren”, klonk het zelfverzekerd. Na de geslaagde poging vandaag staan er in principe nu voor de komende dagen nog vier andere vluchten van Ingenuity op de rode planeet gepland. De Marshelikopter zou telkens wat verder vliegen. “Wanneer we aan de vierde en vijfde vlucht komen, zullen we plezier hebben”, aldus projectleidster MiMi Aung. “We willen ons toestel echt tot zijn limieten duwen” en “risico’s nemen”.
De levensduur van de Marshelikopter zal bepaald worden door de manier waarop die telkens opnieuw landt, aldus MiMi Aung. Wat zoveel betekent als: of het toestel erin slaagt niet te crashen. Donderdag hoopt het team een tweede vlucht te ondernemen, zegt Aung. De volgende vluchten zullen steeds sneller, hoger en verder zijn, afhankelijk van de omstandigheden en wat de helikopter aankan, vertellen Aung en haar collega’s tijdens de persconferentie.
De onderneming is een huzarenstukje. De lage luchtdruk op het oppervlak van Mars is te vergelijken met de druk op 30 kilometer hoogte op aarde. Zo hoog kunnen aardse helikopters niet vliegen. Ook de batterijen opladen is moeilijk. Mars krijgt overdag ongeveer de helft van de zonne-energie op aarde. ‘s Nachts worden de onderdelen aan boord blootgesteld aan temperaturen tot 90 graden onder nul, wat de doodsteek kan betekenen voor batterijen en andere elektronica.
Na zijn eerste vlucht verkeert de Ingenuity alleszins nog in uitstekende toestand, klinkt het op de NASA-persconferentie. Hij heeft wat stof afgeschud en alle onderdelen, waaronder de camera’s, zijn in prima staat.
De atmosfeer op Mars is extreem dun: ongeveer 1 procent van de dichtheid op onze eigen planeet. Dat maakt het Ingenuity moeilijker om “zich vast te bijten” in de lucht. De zwaartekracht is dan weer minder op Mars dan bij ons, wat in het voordeel is van de helikopter, maar de ingenieurs hebben die heel licht (1,8 kilogram) gebouwd. Ook de winden hadden de Ingenuity parten kunnen spelen, omdat die tot 20 meter per seconde kunnen waaien, wat sneller is dan bij de testen met de helikopter op aarde. Maar de ingenieurs gingen ervan uit de Ingenuity dat wel aankon en ze kregen gelijk.
Unieke beelden
We moesten dus wachten tot de beelden ons op aarde bereikten, wat uiteindelijk ongeveer 3,5 uur in beslag nam. Ingenuity had zelf twee camera’s aan boord. De zwart-witcamera was naar de grond gericht en was een hulp voor de navigatie, de hoogresolutiecamera filmde dan weer de horizon in kleur. Ook Perseverance bleef in de buurt en zorgde voor beelden vanop ongeveer 65 meter afstand. De Marsjeep zoomde daarbij met telelenzen in op de actie. Er liepen ook videobeelden binnen bij JPL.
Bobby Braun, directeur voor planetaire wetenschap bij JPL, omschreef het enorm spannende gebeuren eerder al als een “gebroeders Wright-moment”. Voor de symboliek werd daarom onder het zonnepaneel van de kleine helikopter een lapje stof van het eerste gemotoriseerde vliegtuig van de gebroeders Wright uit 1903 verborgen. De Amerikaanse luchtvaartpioniers Wilbur en Orville Wright waren op 17 december 1903 in North Carolina de eersten die erin slaagden een vlucht met een gemotoriseerd vliegtuig uit te voeren. De landingsplaats van de Ingenuity op Mars werd het ‘Wright Brothers Field’ gedoopt.
Nu was het dus de beurt aan Ingenuity. Deze nieuwe vliegtechnologie op Mars kan helikopters in de toekomst helpen om een buitenaardse bestemming veel sneller te verkennen.
De ontwikkeling en de bouw van de rover Perseverance duurden acht jaar en kostte ongeveer 2,2 miljard euro. Op Mars moet de rover naar sporen van vroeger microbieel leven zoeken en ook het klimaat en de geologie van de planeet onderzoeken.
Vlucht van NASA-helikopter Ingenuity op Mars geslaagd
Historisch! NASA-helikopter Ingenuity is voor het eerst op Mars de lucht ingegaan. Dat is vanochtend rond 9.30 uur onze tijd gebeurd zijn, maar door de vertraging in de communicatie tussen de rode planeet en de onze, kwam de bevestiging pas even voor 13 uur - zo’n 3,5uur later - bij ons op aarde door. Een eerdere poging van deze eerste gemotoriseerde en gecontroleerde vlucht op een andere planeet dan de onze werd uitgesteld wegens technische problemen.
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The Pentagon Confirms UFOs Exist Again! Is It What It Seems? 2021
The Pentagon Confirms UFOs Exist Again! Is It What It Seems? 2021
The Pentagon Confirms UFOs Exist Again! Is It What It Seems? 2021
Since 2008, THIRDPHASEOFMOON has changed the way people look up at the skies and wonder, “Are we Alone?” With over 773,000 subscribers and millions of views, our goal is simple! We speak with UFO EYE WITNESSES from around the globe, including ground reporting with Experts and Professionals, such as Astronauts, Scientists, Government Officials, ETC. With permission granted, THIRDPHASEOFMOON, will share, discuss, enhance and analyze UFO videos.
And along with our research and opinion of the evidence, THIRDPHASEOFMOON also produces 100% Original Documentaries in regards to the UFO PHENOMENON happening everyday! Our Aim is to bring Truth and Evidence in the field directly to the Public!
“You Wouldn’t Believe What I Just Saw:” Ingenuity Helicopter Flies Successfully on Mars
“You Wouldn’t Believe What I Just Saw:” Ingenuity Helicopter Flies Successfully on Mars
NASA pulled off a Wright Brothers moment on Mars early today by successfully flying the tiny Ingenuity helicopter for approximately 40 seconds.
“We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet,” said MiMi Aung, Ingenuity’s lead engineer, speaking to her colleagues gathered at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California to execute and monitor the flight.
The solar-powered helicopter took advantage of the midday Sun on Mars and took flight at 12:33 Local Mean Solar Time (Mars time), 3:34 a.m. EDT (12:34 a.m. PDT) back on Earth. Altimeter data relayed back to Earth via the Perseverance rover indicated Ingenuity climbed to a maximum altitude of 10 feet (3 meters) and maintained a stable hover for 30 seconds. It then descended, touching back down on the surface of Mars after logging a total of 39.1 seconds of flight. This is the first ever powered, controlled flight on another world.
Perseverance was able to take images and video of the flight, and NASA says additional details on the test and more images are expected in upcoming downlinks.
Ingenuity’s downward facing navigation camera captured the lead image, showing the helicopter’s shadow on the surface of Mars.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken by the WASTON camera on the rover’s robotic arm on April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.
The flight came after a one-week delay, after tests indicated an issue with the flight computer as it transitioned from the ‘Pre-Flight’ to ‘Flight’ mode. New software was uploaded to the helicopter, and tested over the weekend.
Today’s flight demonstration was autonomous – piloted by onboard guidance, navigation, and control systems running algorithms developed by the team at JPL. NASA explained that Ingenuity can’t be flown with a joystick like drones on Earth, since Mars is so far away, there is an approximate 12-minute delay of when data sent from Earth is received on Mars, and another 12 minutes to receive data back again.
Video from the JPL flight control room when engineers received data indicating Ingenuity had flown successfully.
Ingenuity stands about 48 cm (19 inches) and has counter-rotating carbon-fiber blades that span about 1.2 meters (4 feet). The blades spun at more than 2,400 revolutions per minute to give the helicopter enough lift in the thin Martian atmosphere.
“Now, 117 years after the Wright brothers succeeded in making the first flight on our planet, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has succeeded in performing this amazing feat on another world,” said NASA Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen. “While these two iconic moments in aviation history may be separated by time and 173 million miles of space, they now will forever be linked.”
Zurbuchen said as an homage to the two innovative bicycle makers from Ohio, this first “airfield” on another world will now be known as Wright Brothers Field.
MUFON CASE : 114784 Lantignié, France ( April 17, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : quelque chose sur ma vidéo : something on my video
Long Description of Sighting Report
Bonjour je ne cherchais pas a filmer ca . J'ai donc filmer avec mon téléphone portable. Je filmait juste la nature . En rentrant chez moi je visionner les vidéos pour faire du tris . Et j'ai vu l'ovni. J'entends par la que je ne sais pas se que c'est . Je ne m'avance sur rien . Pouvez-vous m'aider merci j'espère que c'est la bonne vidéo je ne suis pas douée avec les téléphones et ordinateurs. J'ai quand même partagé sur des groupes de fb . Il m es plus facile de l'envoyer par mail au cas ou ce ne soit pas la bonne vidéo. Merci.
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Hello I was not trying to film this. So I filmed with my cell phone. I was just filming nature. In Returning home I watch the videos to sort. And I saw the UFO. I mean by that I don't know wherethat it is. I'm not getting ahead of anything. Can you help me thanks i hope this is the right video i am not good with phones and computers. I still shared on fb groups. It is easier for me to send it by email in case it is not the right video. Thank you. Date Submitted : 2021-04-17 Date of Event : 2020-05-07 6:28PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : inbound8435284612654917179.mp4
MUFON CASE : 114790 Port Charlotte, Florida ( April 17, 2021 )
Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Hard to explain have video, keep in mind please it was moving against the wind as the video will show Long Description of Sighting Report
We were fishing and it came out of almost nowhere Date Submitted : 2021-04-17 Date of Event : 2021-04-12 6:15PM MUFON SUBMITTER FILES : 04122021.mp4 : video1618271849.mp4
Sighted Over kiev, Ukraine ( April 17, 2021 )
UFO ? This was sighted over the Kyiv or Kiev, Ukraine on April 17, 2021 : STATEMENT : Ukraine 17/04/2021
credit : Miran Abdulrahman
VIDEO 2 : Berxwedan Akreyi --------- Kurdish Astronomy From micro to macro
credit : Berxwedan Akreyi : heylookthatsme.com
UFO Structure Sighted From ISS ( 17 April 2021 )
UFO structure Sighted from the ISS (International Space Station) 17, April 2021 : 19:00 hrs.
STATEMENT : The UFO stayed for more than five minutes, there was a cut from the broadcast and then returned again.
Credit : Cristiansen Germany.
note : no audio
Strange Light Sighted Jacona, Mexico ( April 18, 2021 )
Strange light : UFO ? sighted in Jacona de Plancarte, Michoacán, Sierra de Patamban STATEMENT : Algo nos vigila desde la Beata TRANSLATE : Something is watching us from the Beata
The Book of Enoch, its descriptions of space travel and other heavenly dimensions
The Book of Enoch, its descriptions of space travel and other heavenly dimensions
The Book of Enoch narrates Enoch’s travels outside the Earth, supernatural and heavenly places inaccessible to other human beings!
The impressive and fantastic Book of Enoch is one of the most important ancient texts , sadly it was excluded from the Bible . In this writing, the antediluvian patriarch and prophet Enoch made supernatural trips, managing to fly over the Earth, the celestial bodies and reaching the dimension of the Heavens .
The Book of Enoch was almost introduced into the Bible, but it was rejected as “apocryphal . ” Nevertheless, Enoch is a respected patriarch and is mentioned several times by other biblical and Christian authors. He was the great-great-grandfather of Noah and father of Methuselah .
The holy book says that Enoch passed the texts to Noah, so it is likely that he took them with him in the Ark during the worldwide Flood (an antediluvian writing?).
The first section of the book chronicles the fall of the Watchers , the angels who had sex with human women and spawned the Nephilim . Then the ascent of Enoch towards the dimension of the Heavens is described , with the objective of interceding before God (for the Watchers).
Enoch’s Space Journey to the Heavens
The first ascent appears from chapters 17 to 36. The prophet made the journey with the help of other Watching angels . He is “elevated” with mysterious forces that included natural elements: clouds, winds, lightning, and shooting stars.
The Sky was formed with gigantic glass or ice houses surrounded by fire . The visions are amazing and scary, the sky is extreme! With matters as different as ice and fire in harmony . Also, it is noted that this celestial dimension has a lot of energy , with its movement of lightning and shooting stars.
Enoch finds a house or abode made entirely of fire. In it, a high throne is seated , made of a material that looked like ice or crystal and surrounded by a shining star and fire:
20 The Great Glory was based on the throne and her dress was brighter than the sun and whiter than any snow; 21 no angel could enter to see his face due to the magnificent Glory and no being of flesh could look at him. – Book of Enoch, chapter 14 ». This is God’s vision !
Filer’s Files 15 2021 Prince Phillip Had a Strong Interest in UFOs - PART I
Disc captured in Riverside, California on April 4, 2021
Filer’s Files 15 2021 Prince Phillip Had a Strong Interest in UFOs - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Prince Phillip Had a Strong Interest in UFOs, Moon landing: NASA deleted evidence of UFOs in Apollo 11 mission, Star Wars Peru – Crashed UFO Was Likely Shot Down, Judgment Day, Strange Craft, and Carbon 60
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, South Dakota, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Italy, Poland, Serbia, England in the United Kingdom and Venezuela.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Special Projects
Prince Phillip Had a Strong’s Interest in UFOs
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Buckingham Palace confirmed the death of the prince, who was married to the Queen for 73 years, on Friday afternoon.” It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Prince dies at 99 on April 9, 2021. He was admitted to hospital in February and later undergoing a procedure for a pre-existing heart condition and died peacefully in Windsor Castle. Born on June 10, 1921.
Queen Elizabeth who is now 94 and Prince Phillip who has been Royal Concert for 73 years passed away just two months before his 100th Birthday.
While I was stationed in England in 1962, in the US Air Force after intercepting a huge UFO. I had the privilege of dining with Prince Phillip at the Officer’s Club at Sculthorpe RAF Base at his request. The Prince told four of us officers about his keen interest in UFOs and that he and some of his relatives had seen them. He reiterated what he had stated much earlier in the press, `There are many reasons to believe that they (UFOs) do exist. There is so much evidence from reliable witnesses.’ Sunday Dispatch, London. March 28, 1954. In our discussion of our sighting that was both visual and on radar the Prince had apparently been informed by London Radar Control. He had chase a UFO has a pilot and talked like he had met an extraterrestrial regarding their concern with prevention of a nuclear war. After talking to dozens or airmen he was very convicting in his discussion that we are being vested by aliens.
Meeting him and talking for over an hour is one of my greatest memories. He was an “extraordinary man who lived an extraordinary life.” I
Join with the Royal Family and with people around the world in mourning his loss.”
Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley
In his fascinating autobiography, “Sounds From Another Room“, Sir Peter Horsley who was equerry (advisor) to Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Phillip for seven years devotes a lengthy chapter to the subject of UFOs, including details of his investigations into sightings reported by pilots; details which he relayed to Prince Phillip.
Horsley claims he personally met with an extraterrestrial humanoid who wanted to meet with Prince Philip. Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley, former Deputy Commander in Chief of Strike Command, a war hero who flew Mosquitoes against the Germans, held one of the highest ranks in the RAF. The top British Brass such as General Martin and Admiral Mountbatten believed that flying saucers were extraterrestrial vehicles from another planet whose inhabitants were trying to warn us of the perils of nuclear war.
Although it may seem surprising that a member of the royal family would his uncle had a keen interest in UFOs, Prince Philip is not the first. I asked Prince Phillip why he was he interested in UFOs? He stated, In fact his uncle, who raised him Lord Mountbatten, had similar interests and they often discussed UFOs and their purpose in being here. Prince Philip told us that Admiral Earl Mountbatten who became First Sea Lord and Admiral of the British Fleet was Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet in the 50s and he and most other sailors had personally seen UFOs up close. Mountbatten had the highest rank in the Royal Navy from 1954 until 1959. Many of the highest ranking personnel in the military devoted study to the problem.
Mountbatten shown here with President Kennedy on February 6, 1963 was one of the three Supreme Allied Commanders of World War II (the others were Eisenhower and MacArthur) with a quarter million personnel under his direct command. Later he was the last Viceroy of India, who orchestrated its independence from England. Mountbatten had a keen interest in UFOs and likely discussed UFOs with the President.
In a biography by Philip Ziegler in 1985, he wrote [We were] both convinced that they come from another planet but we mutually and independently came to the conclusion that they were not ‘airplanes’ with silly little almost human pilots but are themselves the actual inhabitants: Martians, Venusians, Jupiterians or what have you. Why should life in another planet with entirely different conditions in any way resemble life on our planet?
In 1955 Lord Mountbatten investigated a UFO incident in his own back yard, literally, that put his theory to the test.
In Timothy Good’s great book, “Above Top Secret,” there is a report written by Mountbatten on his investigation of a sighting on the grounds of his Broadlands Estates. Frederick Briggs, a retired British Army Sergeant, was working on the grounds, when he says he saw a large craft that looked like a child’s top hovering over a field. He says a column came down from the center of the craft, and there appeared to be a humanoid figure descending with the pillar. Mountbatten states he personally interviewed Mr. Briggs and “he did not give the impression of being the sort of man who would be subject to hallucinations, or would in any way invent such a story.” Thanks to Open Minds.tv
Moon landing: NASA deleted evidence of UFOs in Apollo 11 mission
Six UFOs on edge of crater Next to Apollo Landing site
NASA deleted evidence of aliens from the 1969 Moon landing, and astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong knew of the extraterrestrials activity, according to William Tompkins who had designed the NASA Control Center. Tomkins claimed when Apollo 11 craft landed six UFOs were e lined up on the edge of the crater that NASA wanted to hide
Six UFOs parked near Apollo 11 Lander from Selected by Exterrestrials Volume 2
When Apollo 11‘s Eagle lunar module landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to do something hard: On the nearby crater were six UFOs. They were filmed and sent back to Earth but the transmission was deleted for the public during a minute blackout. It is not known how the aliens knew the exact landing spot of the Eagle to be waiting for them.
NASA wanted to keep the public from seeing the UFOs and previously prepared film taken near Great Lakes, Illinois in a huge hangar was supplemented for some of the footage to avoid seeing the UFOs. This fake footage has caused many to believe the Apollo 111 never landed but was cleverly inserted within the real video.
However those at NASA saw the UFOs according to William Tomkins and appeared like his drawing he made for Selected by Exterrestrials Volume 2. . They were scheduled to open the door of their lunar Lander and step onto the unknown surface of a completely different world. But for now, seeing the UFOs their mission ordered them to take a pause before the big event.
And so Aldrin spent his time doing something unexpected, something no man had ever attempted before. Alone and overwhelmed by anticipation, he took part in the first Christian sacrament ever performed on the moon—a rite of Christian communion. We can assume he called on God for protection.
Adrian’s lunar communion has since become shrouded in mystery and confusion, but the rite itself was relatively simple. The astronaut was also an elder at Webster Presbyterian Church; he to ask for forgiveness from his sins and had bread and wine with him to give himself communion.
The mood on the module was sober. Both Armstrong and Aldrin knew how important their mission was. “I was certainly aware that this was a culmination of the work of 300,000 or 400,000 people over a decade and that the nation’s hopes and outward appearance largely rested on how the results came out,” Armstrong recalled in an oral history.
As the men prepared for the next phase of their mission, Aldrin got on the communication system and spoke to the ground crew back on Earth. “I would like to request a few moments of silence,” he said. “I would like to invite each person listening in, wherever and whomever he may be, to contemplate for a moment the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his own individual way.”
Then he reached for the wine and bread he’d brought to space—the first foods ever poured or eaten on the moon. “.
Aldrin felt that the service should be broadcast to the entire world. Apollo 8 astronauts read the Book of Genesis during a broadcast made on Christmas Day 1968, when they became the first humans to orbit the moon.
Aldrin wasn’t the only astronaut to experience religious rituals in space. In 1994, three Catholic astronauts took on board Space Shuttle Endeavor. Israeli astronaut Ian Ramón reportedly the Jewish Shabbat Kiddush prayer in space (he later died when Space Shuttle Columbia exploded in 2003). And Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov took a relic of St. Serafim of Sarov, a Russian Orthodox saint, to space in 2017.
The first space communion was only experienced by two men, but it hasn’t been forgotten by the wider world. Lunar Communion Sunday is still celebrated annually at Webster Presbyterian and elsewhere to commemorate the event, and Aldrin spoke and wrote about the experience later in life.
Aldrin wrote. “But at the time I could think of no better way to acknowledge the Apollo 11 experience than by giving thanks to God.”
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell told me privately that almost all the Apollo astronauts saw UFOs after we were on a BBC TV broadcast together…. The first people stepped foot on the Moon on July 20, 1969, some are claiming there is more than meets the eye. Conspiracy theorists first began claiming that NASA knew of aliens on the Moon when the space agency supposedly deleted 40 rolls of film from the Apollo 11 mission. The claim has credit as it was made by Bob Dean, a United States Army Command Sergeant Major, who also served at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) of NATO Sgt. Dean said: “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, 40 rolls of film of those events.”
However, it was Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), who added fuel to the alien theory fire, as he claimed to have had secret discussions with close acquaintances with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
Aldrin Claims UFO Followed Apollo 11 near the Moon and he had first Communion
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC .
Allegedly Buzz Aldrin ‘saw a UFO’ during 1969 Apollo 11 flight Second man to walk on moon convinced life exists elsewhere in space. Buzz Aldrin claims a UFO flew near them on the way to the moon but could have been debris from Apollo.
Days before the 45th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, astronaut Buzz Aldrin explained his experience with a so-called UFO in an online discussion. “On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us,” Aldrin said during a Reddit AMA (ask me anything) session according to the Huffington Post.
Photo provided by Sgt. Bob Dean
There were many explanations of what that UFO could be that followed the Apollo 11 , other than another spacecraft from another world . It could be 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. And I feel absolutely convinced that we were looking at the sun reflected off of one of these panels or maybe a UFO. Which one? I don’t know. So technically, the definition could be ‘unidentified.'”
In an interview on the Science Channel in 2005, Apollo astronaut “Buzz” Aldrin said that the crew of the famous Apollo 11 mission had seen a UFO on their way to the moon. In a NASA, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program – the flight to the Moon, and flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there,” Dean said, according to Express.
Moon landing: NASA deleted evidence of aliens in Apollo 11 mission –
NASA deleted evidence of aliens from the 1969 Moon landing, and deleted evidence of alien’s structures on the Moon when 40 rolls of film from the Apollo 11 mission were deleted. One story is they actually allegedly sold accidently to a collector.
It seems logical if NASA was not hiding data including structures on the moon the 40 rolls of film would be available for the world to see. After all it was probably on the most
Important historical moments in the history of Earth As NASA marks 51 years since the first people stepped foot on the Moon on July 20, 1969, some are claiming there is more than meets the eye. Conspiracy theorists first began claiming that NASA knew of aliens on the Moon when the space agency supposedly deleted 40 rolls of film from the Apollo 11 mission Dr Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and The Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), who added fuel to the alien theory fire, as he claimed to have had secret discussions with close acquaintances with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
Dr. Greer claimed in a blog post that people close to the first Moon lenders admitted that the duo did see evidence of aliens while on the historic missions.
Dr Greer wrote: “Close friends and very close family members of both Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have separately told me that indeed there were numerous, large UFOs around the crater where the Lunar Module landed and that these were seen by both Armstrong and Aldrin.
“I have also spoken to military officers that have seen the footage of this event- but it has never been made public.” However, Buzz Aldrin has directly addressed claims he saw UFOs saying he saw lights, but did not think they were of alien origin. Dr Aldrin said in a 2014 Q&A: “On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us.
When Apollo 11‘s Eagle lunar module landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to do something hard: On the nearby crater were six UFOs.
They were filmed and sent back to Earth but the transmission was deleted for the public during a minute blackout. Six UFOs parked near Apollo 11 Lander from Selected by Exterrestrials Volume 2
However those at NASA saw the UFOs according to William Tomkins and appeared like his drawing. They were scheduled to open the door of their lunar Lander and step onto the unknown surface of a completely different world. But for now, seeing the UFOs their mission ordered them to take a pause before the big event. Frankly, they were scared at what the aliens might do, kill or capture them?
Then he reached for the wine and bread he’d brought to space—the first foods ever poured or eaten on the moon. “.
Aldrin felt that the service should be broadcast to the entire world. Apollo 8 astronauts read the Book of Genesis during a broadcast made on Christmas Day 1968, when they became the first humans to orbit the moon.
Aldrin wasn’t the only astronaut to experience religious rituals in space. In 1994, three Catholic astronauts took on board Space Shuttle Endeavor. Israeli astronaut Ian Ramón reportedly the Jewish Shabbat Kiddush prayer in space (he later died when Space Shuttle Columbia exploded in 2003). And Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov took a relic of St. Serafim of Sarov, a Russian Orthodox saint, to space in 2017.
Buzz Aldrin plants the flag in Moon
The first space communion was only experienced by two men, but it hasn’t been forgotten by the wider world. Lunar Communion Sunday is still celebrated annually at Webster Presbyterian and elsewhere to commemorate the event, and Aldrin spoke and wrote about the experience later in life.
He wrote. “But at the time I could think of no better way to acknowledge the Apollo 11 experience than by giving thanks to God.” Thanks to Sean Martin
.Star Wars Peru – Crashed UFO Was Likely Shot Down
Lance Corporal John Weygandt,
I personally had a long talk with Marine Corps Lance Corporal John Weygandt, who was part of the Disclosure Project, who was sent to Peru in March 1997, to provide perimeter security for a radar installation that he was told tracked drug traffic aircraft in Peru and Bolivia.
He States, “About midnight, while I was on guard duty, Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson told me, an aircraft crashed and they need us to go and secure the crash site.” Early that morning we drove six Hummers close to the crash site just when it started to get light. Well, we found the area real easy because there was a huge gash in the land where something had crashed. Everything was burned and it was like something had almost cut warm butter with a knife. It was like something on fire or had some kind of energy like a laser had cut it. It was really strange. I was in the front with Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson and we were ten or twenty meters ahead of everyone else. We were the first ones to see this thing. It had gone up t he hill and then off in the side of the ravine and ridge. This was a 200-foot ridge, of solid rock. A huge craft was buried at a 45-degree angle in the side of the cliff there at the ridge. It was straight up and down.
The craft was dripping a greenish-purple syrup-like liquid. The liquid was everywhere and fluctuated like it was alive and changing to a different shade of greenish purple. The craft was humming like a bass guitar and had a slowly turning light. Most of the craft seemed buried into the cliff but vents, like a fish gill were on the back. The liquid got on my clothes and ate holes in them and burned off some the hair on my arms. There were three holes in the ship that may have been hatches that were not flush with the main body of the craft.
Depiction of crashed UFO
There was another hatch the same width and diameter of the top hatch and it was kind of crooked to the side and it was half open. I didn’t see any lights or anything coming out of it but I felt this… presence. It is real strange. I think the creatures calmed me. It was weird and I think they were trying to communicate with me, telepathically. The Corporal estimated the craft was ten meters in width and about 20 meters in length and shaped like something between an egg and a teardrop. The skin of the craft had bumps and notches and appendages on it. It was really organic and almost like art. It looked like something that could be made in a shop.
It looked like it could have been handmade but out of what materials I do not know. It was definitely nothing like titanium. It looked like metal but there was no reflection. The sun was shining on it and I could see the different shades of the craft and it didn’t reflect anything. Suddenly the Sergeants were yelling at me to get the hell out of there.
After we climbed back up, the Department of Energy people were there. I was arrested and cuffed, both hands down. I had all my gear taken from me by men in black cammies who threatened me and subdued me and put me on a cot. They had no name tags. At the crash site there were about thirty of these guys wearing hazard suits.
THAAD Anti-Missile System may have Downed the UFO
I had been told craft were flying in and out of the atmosphere at Mach ten plus. When you have objects that reenter the atmosphere and then stop on a dime and then turn around and go exactly the opposite direction – that is kind of strange. Meteors don’t do that. The craft was not from Earth. I knew that when I looked at it.
Futuristic Command Post
I was taken to a large very modern Command Post and I wondered if those facilities were built for the intent to track UFO’s and their cover was to track drug aircraft. They had laser range finders and all kinds of high tech stuff that I have never seen before. I couldn’t really explain it other than it was ultra modern technical equipment. They [the laser range finders] that looked like big telescopes and some sort of Command Center manned by a multi –national force. Everything was exceptionally modern and looked like a Star Wars movie.
So these craft were tracked from this particular radar and were logged. I’m confident that when I saw the aircraft, it had been hit by something, perhaps by a Patriot Missile System or laser weapons. Something had taken it out that was greatly advanced to anything I had seen in the Marines.
It was like walking into the future at least a hundred years, there were people of various nations including Russian and Asians that had joined together to destroy some of the UFOs entering our atmosphere. I got the impression we must have aliens on our side that provided the advanced weapons.
Editor’s Note: Corporal Weygandt described a space ship damaged by enemy action, either ours or by an opposing alien force. His testimony on Page 274 of “Disclosure: Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets” by Steven Greer M.D. is excellent and indicates modern lethal deadly force was being used against alien intruders during the Clinton Administration. President Reagan announced at the UN , the nation’s o f the world would unite to fight off alien invaders. The Control Room was at least a hundred years ahead f our time. We can assume this war continues against the invaders. An enemy force of Reptilians are allegedly planning to take over the world. I have been told many times a few aviation companies and advanced military units are a hundred to a thousand years ahead of what you assume. I’m hearing from too many different sources to ignore the truth.
Judgment Day
Editor’s Note: During my operations at Debora Hospital I almost died when the surgeon accidently cut main artery. My body was filled with blood before he could stop the internal bleeding. During the operation I had an experience or dream that I was at the final judgment jury where it was decided I was not worthy to continue to live.
I accepted the decision when I heard the song “Onward Christian Soldiers” and a loud powerful voice stated “George can live if he helps stop the murder of millions of babies”.
Abortion Is Not Beneficial to Women’s Mental Health
The new appointees to the Supreme Court will likely trim the slaughter of over a million babies each year in the United States.. A study, conducted by David C Reardon since Roe vs.
Wade decision by the Liberal Supreme Court sixty one million (61,000, 000) innocent and defenseless babies have been killed. Ten times greater than Hitler; concentration camps. All US officials have the responsibility it to protect unborn living babies. Destiny has taken Ruth Ginsberg’s life and given the Supreme Court a Conservative new member in Amy Barrette to stop or limit the Genocide. In addition, twenty percent of woman who have abortions actually attempt suicide’.
“Planned Parenthood bragged a million three hundred thousand babies were murdered in 2019. And they appeared under oath in court on September 4, 2019, admitting to supplying the cut up body parts in the womb to for-profit brokers like Stem Express. But a 2011 study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that 10 percent of mental health problems among women, including 35 percent of suicidal behaviors, may be attributable to abortion. Reardon found that women who aborted were six times more likely to attempt suicide than women who gave birth.
Another survey cited by David Reardon in his book Aborted Women, Silent No More (Springfield, IL: Acorn Books, 2002) stated, “Up to 60% of women who had abortions had subsequent suicidal feelings, with 28% actually attempting 364,000 suicide ‘per year… Help stop one million women from attempting suicide in the next four years!- Elliot Institute is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to research, education and outreach regarding the effects of abortion on women, men, families and society.
One of the new President’s first executive order is allowing millions of US funds to go for global abortions. But according to public-opinion polls, most Americans don’t want the US to fund abortions in other countries. A new poll out from Marist and the Knights of Columbus found that more than three-quarters of Americans oppose using US aid money to fund abortions overseas. Most abortions are not white babies. These actions will enrich Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry at are paid 500 million dollars at the taxpayers’ expense while endangering the most vulnerable he United States should not be promoting a radical abortion agenda throughout the world, we should be leading the fight to protect the unborn and all life, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy also criticized Biden’s move, “Killing unborn children isn’t health care, and violating the rights of conscience of millions of Americans by using taxpayer money to help promote abortions isn’t freedom of choice. “Pray we are able to save the lives for all those dying.
Kevin McCarthy Republican California
Strange Craft
The True Story of an Air Force Intelligence Officer’s Life with UFOs S.
Air Force Major George Filer belongs to the generation of pilots and airmen who first became aware of the strange aircraft showing up in the Earth’s atmosphere after World War II. These men – military professionals who flew planes, served as radar operators and air traffic controllers at air fields around the world – began to whisper amongst themselves about encounters with suspected extraterrestrial aircraft.
During secret debriefings at U.S. bases, pilots and air crew told their commanders of seeing UFOs off their plane’s wings. Award-winning investigative author John Guerra spent four years interviewing Filer, a decorated intelligence officer.
From objects in the skies over Cold War Europe to a UFOs over during the Cuban Missile Crisis to lights over the DMZ in Vietnam Filer leaves nothing out about his Air Force UFO encounters,
Filer’s most memorable case – the shooting of an alien at Fort Dix Army Base in 1978 – is fully recounted for the first time in this book. As a member of the Disclosure Project, military experts, astronauts, and scientists urge the U.S. government to release all it knows about UFOs to the public.
Filer describes his UFO encounters in this incredible book. By John L. Guerra. https://amzn.to/2SK3SIQ
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Filer’s Files 15 2021 Prince Phillip Had a Strong Interest in UFOs - PART II
Disc captured in Riverside, California on April 4, 2021
Filer’s Files 15 2021 Prince Phillip Had a Strong Interest in UFOs - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Prince Phillip Had a Strong Interest in UFOs, Moon landing: NASA deleted evidence of UFOs in Apollo 11 mission, Star Wars Peru – Crashed UFO Was Likely Shot Down, Judgment Day, Strange Craft, and Carbon 60
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New Jersey, South Dakota, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Italy, Poland, Serbia, England in the United Kingdom and Venezuela.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Objects
Riverside – on April 4, 2021, my wife and I were in our backyard in on Easter Day at 6:16 PM when my wife suddenly noticed an odd bright gold disc like object flying at a fast rate of speed several thousand feet in the air and moving eastward. Below it was another cylinder like object with green, red, and black that at first appeared to be carried by the bright golden disc but it flew and moved in parallel and was not attached. The object made no sound as it flew across the sky. I quickly took four two second videos before it disappeared off to the east in about 6 seconds. The area we are in is about 8 miles from March Air Reserve base and the within the flight path of LAX and ONT Airports. We regularly see C-17s, KC-135s, F-15s takeoff.
Tustin– on March 28, 2021, “driving north on the 55 Freeway from the Irvine area toward the I-5 Freeway, I noticed what appeared to be an elongated object with a raised top, something like a disc with a dome on top, perhaps 20 to 30 feet in length. After merging onto the I-5 Freeway, in Santa Ana, I observed a second object like the first northeast of my position over the city of Orange and a third similar object over the Garden Grove/Anaheim area. None were visible without polarized lenses on. Finally, after turning west onto the 91 Freeway, I saw a fourth similar object Fullerton. All were flying low motionless and appeared silver/gray and white and reflective. The above is a report I am submitting on behalf of the witness who is a UFO skeptic. I have cropped a uploaded an object that is exactly what he saw.
Delaware Light
Lewes–March 3, 2021 at 6:35 PM, photos taken about 1/2 hour after sunset. The objects appeared to be moving right to left in 3 pictures.
Note:It is believed (but not known) that the red object was not seen, but later discovered in the photos. (The update below strongly suggests that the witness saw the object and that is why photos were taken.) I don’t believe that the object is a cloud or a meteor.
Update – April 6, 2021:The pictures were taken by a neighbor of my sister. I know the date is correct because the next day was my birthday. The white marks are reflection from her car. I haven’t found anyone who knows what it is. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Florida Objects
Lake Whales – on January 29, 2019, I was in the swamp land with three friends on a hog car. I saw a cylinder shaped craft in the sky, moving slowly that looked like 2 tic tags glued together with a black thing in the middle. It would ascend and descend quickly and then move slowly to the east. Alll of a sudden we saw two F-14 fighter jets chasing the cylinder craft that picked up speed and disappeared.
Idaho Smoke
On March 2, 2021, it looks like a cloud shape like a black egg. Then it’s bigger so I got my camera out an took 4 photos and the News said that it was in Idaho.
Kentucky Objects
Salyersville— on March 29, 2021, it’s not the airplane that you hear in the background. It is over by the tree. This is weird as it’s changing blue, green, yellow. I see that all time right here. You can see the plane. I am going to zoom in with my phone. Yes, this is a UFO that looks like a rainbow. It is gorgeous red, blue, yellow, and green. It is spectacular 15 to 20 miles from me. This is something that has been over my house. The airplane is coming from Johnson County Airport toward Lexington. I am standing on Route 40 right now looking west towards Magoffin County close to the Liberty Line. Thanks to Will Pucket/www.ufosnw.com/newsite/
Louisiana – Rocket-Like Object
St Landry Parish,– November 19, 2019, I saw a bright light and saw some spaceship beyond anything I have ever seen. The footage was sent to the Pentagon. Time of Sighting: 3:04 PM CST
Note: This is good footage of a rocket. I don’t know what type of rocket it was and the location from where it was launched is not known. The time of the report is suspect as the footage shows that it was dark. The witness may have edited the background to make it dark.
Michigan Lights
Canton — on June 6 2019 , while traveling home from a friend’s house at midnight, I witnessed very large white lights about 300 feet. off of the ground, covering and shining down on a well-known freeway. Suspecting these lights were too high to be construction lights got out my iPhone XS camera to begin taking video. After beginning to film, I remember feeling really uneasy being I was the only vehicle driving eastbound away from the observed lights and felt I was being watched. During this 25 to 30 minute commute back to my home I observed very low-hovering, unusual and out of place lights in the sky. Upon reaching my exit off of the freeway, I regained some of my courage to continue filming four very small, greenly illuminated UFOs, each with four perfectly symmetrical lights on the bottom, flying closely just above the height of the power lines.
Nebraska Object
Belleville– on June 20, 2018, I was s work and went outside for my break and saw this giant oval thing in the sky floating, circling, and hovering in the sky. I could clearly see the craft at that time. I didn’t have a good phone with a good camera that can zoom, but I caught it on camera. It was an amazing experience.
New Jersey Black Brown Sphere
Hillsborough — on February 28, 2021, I am a private pilot have never seen anything like this before , no wings , no landing gear just a sphere with large flashing strobes, no sound at all. Square strobe section with multi strobe lights flashing every 3 seconds.
South Dakota Lights
Hot Springson April 7, 2021, looking at the stars when a tic tack like object with two red orbs appeared. It was moving east at a slow steady pace for a few seconds then it just disappeared like someone turned a light off.
Texas Light
Austin– on April 7, 2021, I went outside to take my brother his kneepads and it’s dark out and we’re talking about SpaceX and I looked up at a craft at least a quarter-mile long moving slowly across the sky. It had lights all the way down it and my brother, his wife, and her friend were out there and we all looked up and saw this thing together.. We probably had our eyes on it for a good 15 seconds my brother yells out ,”Everybody get a camera.” He runs back to his truck as the light started to fade. Even though the lights were fading you could still see the silhouette of this giant grayish cigar-shaped ship blocking out the stars.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Objects
Adelaide– on April 4, 2021, I don’t know what’s happening in the sky above Adelaide South Australia at the moment. But once again I witnessed something strange in the sky. This time I saw three disc shaped objects travelling west to east at speed. I was lucky enough to get a photo of the objects before they disappear.
Adelaide– on April 5, 2021, this morning at 11.00 am I noticed a disc shaped object pass over my house. It appeared to be grey in color and travelling at a great speed. It was travelling from the west to the east in a cloudless blue sky. There were no other aircraft or objects to be seen. I managed to get a photo of the object as it passed overhead. This is becoming a regular event in the skies over Adelaide.
Canada Rosary
Scarborough, Ontario — on February 25, 202,1 I went outside my workplace for a smoke. Once outside with camera in my pocket I had that feeling that I would see something. I felt an urge to look straight up and I witnessed this very long white object at about a 1,000 feet or more? It looked at least hundred feet long and moved across slow and within seconds I started to film it 4:35 PM.
I am totally shocked by another one of these bizarre sightings. You can see the shape of a necklace with the cross at the bottom is astounding to say the least. Again it appears to be an image of a Rosary.
Note: The witness took other video clips of the object. Only one of the clips is included in this report. Who knows what this object is? Perhaps it is a balloon train.
Italy Light
Priolo Gargallo – on April 17 2021, the light was inside a cloud of fog, even though the sky was perfectly clear you could see the stars on the background. There was a second silent light flying next it, always at the exact same distance, as if it were attached to the main body. The main light was bigger and oval, while the smaller one was kind of like a stick. It was rather close to me and moving straight towards one direction. The light slowly faded inside its own cloud of fog slowly after its sighting.
Poland Light
Warsaw – on April 7, 2021, You must look left on the light.
Serbia Lights
Belgrade– on February 28, 2021, I was taking a evening stroll with my friend around 19:00, I noticed an orange orb about 1-1.5km away from us and moving at a speed of 50km/h. It isn’t a lantern or a flare since that comes from the ground, we observed it for about minute and a half
I filmed it when another object appeared nearly at the same spot, this time a triangle for 40 seconds to a minute then disappeared. Have to admit, UFO’s are not strangers to the town we live in, this time we’ve been lucky enough to capture it on tape and urge people from Serbia and Balkans to post their sightings here as well..
UK/England Object
London – on April 7, 2021, I was driving with my daughter and saw a big light burst on the sky . I asked my daughter, what is that a second sunand asked her to make pictures. After blast we have seen like part of rainbow on the middle of the sky. Then appeared kind of cloud inside rainbow and after few seconds everything was gone. My impression was like UFO teleported from somewhere to here….
Venezuela Moon
Caracas– April 12, 2014 , I was taking a series of photographs of the moon late at night when it was closer to the earth and the object got captured on one of the images. I did not realize it until several months later.
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Is there an alien world buried WITHIN Earth? Mysterious blobs of dense rock lurking deep in the mantle could be remnants of the ancient planet Theia, study finds
Is there an alien world buried WITHIN Earth? Mysterious blobs of dense rock lurking deep in the mantle could be remnants of the ancient planet Theia, study finds
Researchers use seismic waves to track the size of 'strange blobs' in the mantle
They are hundreds of miles tall and thousands of miles across near the core
New theories suggest they were part of an ancient planet that collided with Earth
Named Theia, the collision resulted in the creation of the moon, the core of the two early worlds merging, and the depositing of these blobs in the mantle
Blobs of rock lurking deep inside the planet could be the last remaining pieces of Theia, an early world that collided with Earth billions of years ago, a new study claims.
The moon is thought to have formed from a 'giant impact' early in the evolution of the solar system when a Mars-sized planet called Theia collided with the Earth.
Deep within the Earth are a number of strange, huge blobs of dense rock called large low-shear-velocity provinces (LLSVPs) and a team from Arizona State University believe these massive regions may be parts of that long-destroyed proto-world.
One of these LLSVPs is buried under Africa and another deep below the Pacific Ocean, both so large they are involved with the weakening of Earth's magnetic field.
Qian Yuan, author of this theory, suggests the blobs, which 'straddle the Earth's core like headphones' are denser and chemically different to the rock surrounding them.
This artist's concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming into a body the size of Mercury in a scenario that could be similar to Theia colliding with Earth
ASU scientists believe Theia and the proto-Earth came together to form not just the moon but also a new, larger core, with Theia leaving 'blobs' of rocks in the Earth's mantle
LARGE LOW-SHEAR-VELOCITY PROVINCES 'STRADDLE THE CORE'
Large low-shear-velocity provinces are large regions of the Earth's mantle that straddle the core 'like headphones'.
They have only been detected by seismic waves, but are believed to be denser than the surrounding rock.
They stretch up to 600 miles high into the 1,800 mile deep mantle, spreading thousands of miles across on either side of the world.
One sits deep below the Pacific ocean, the other buried under Africa.
The mantle itself makes up 84% of the total volume of the Earth, with these regions combined making up 8% of the volume of the mantle.
Recent theories suggest that they are the remnants of the proto-planet Theia that is thought to have collided with the Earth 4.45 billion years ago.
It had a denser core and mantle, which sank to the bottom of Earth's mantle.
Some theories suggest other remnants of ancient proto-planets also sit within the mantle, shown as pockets of denser rock.
Yuan said Theia's mantle was denser than that of the Earth, and so when the world's collided parts of the smaller planet sank deep inside the mantle of our world.
The mantle is a mostly-solid 1,800 mile thick interior of the Earth that lies between the core and the crust. It makes up 84 per cent of the total volume of the Earth.
The 'Great Impact' theory aligns well with some of the physical aspects of the Earth-moon system, according to the team, but no proof of Theia has been found.
This event happened between 20 and a 100 million years after the solar system itself first began to form around the Sun - about 4.5 billion years ago.
Some supporters of the theory have suggested that the cores of the two primordial worlds 'fused into one', possibly releasing chemicals needed to support life.
The latest theory by Yuan, a PhD student at Arizona State, draws in the LLSVP blobs to the Earth/Theia merger concept - suggesting they are evidence of the collision.
These blobs are up to 620 miles tall and thousands of miles wide, making up the 'largest single thing' inside the mantle of the Earth, Yuan explained.
Several theories try to explain their existence, including the idea they crystallised out of the depths of Earth's early magma ocean, or actual parts of the mantle from proto-planet Theia that collided with the Earth, as Yuan and his colleagues suggest.
Yuan suggests that the blobs are ancient fragments of Theia's iron-rich and highly dense mantle which sank into Earth's own mantle when they came together.
'We demonstrate that Theia's mantle may be several percent denser than Earth's mantle,' he said in a presentation to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
His modelling revealed that Theia's rocks would be up to 3.5 per cent denser than those found in the Earth's mantle, allowing them to sink through the viscous rock.
Adding that this 'enables the Theia mantle materials to sink to the Earth's lowermost mantle and accumulate into thermochemical piles that may cause the seismically-observed LLSVPs.'
Over time these rocks would end up as piles near the Earth's core, which matches with the location of LLSVPs, he said, adding that only an impactor the size of the Theia could deliver rocks the size of the ones near the core.
Previous research has shown that the chemical signatures coming from the LLSVPs are 'at least as primitive' as the Theia impact - dating to early in the solar system.
Qian Yuan, author of this theory, suggests the blobs, which 'straddle the Earth's core like headphones' are denser and chemically different to the rock surrounding them
The moon is thought to have formed from a 'giant impact' early in the evolution of the solar system when a Mars-sized planet called Theia collided with the Earth
THE LAYERS OF PLANET EARTH
Crust: To a depth of up to 70km, this is the outermost layer of the Earth, covering both ocean and land areas.
Mantle: Going down to 2,890km with the lower mantle, this is the planet's thickest layer and made of silicate rocks richer in iron and magnesium than the crust overhead.
Outer core: Running from a depth of 2,890- 5,150km, this region is made of liquid iron and nickel with trace lighter elements.
Inner core: Going down to a depth of 6,370km at the very centre of planet Earth, this region is thought to be made of solid iron and nickel.
'Therefore, the primitive materials may be from the LLSVPs, which is well explained if the LLSVPs preserve Theia mantle materials that are older than the Giant Impact,' Yuan explained in the presentation.
The early solar system was a chaotic and violent place. Debris would slam into growing planets, smaller planetesimals were just forming and coming together from smaller rocks and sometimes these would completely destroy forming worlds.
In the case of Theia, it appears to have combined with Earth, possibly created a cloud of debris that went on to form our moon.
The LLSVPs have only been detected through monitoring seismic waves, which allows scientists to get a picture of their size and density.
This allows them to also predict the type of material that would be contained within the rock, with scientists finding a number of small, dense pockets of rock within the mantle that don't match the surrounding material.
This suggests if Theia really is at the bottom of the mantle, it may not be alone, with remnants of other proto-planets that once hit the young Earth buried alongside it.
'Theia, in fact, might be just one grave in a planetary cemetery,' said Jennifer Jenkins, a seismologist at Durham University, speaking to Science.
THEIA: AN ANCIENT PROTO-PLANET THAT MAY HAVE MERGED WITH THE YOUNG EARTH TO FORM THE MOOON
About 4.45 billion years ago, 150 million years after the solar system formed, Earth was hit by a Mars-size object called Theia.
The collision created the moon, but debate has raged exactly what happened during this event - and a mystery has persisted on why the moon and Earth are so similar in their composition.
The impact of Theia with Earth was so violent, the resulting debris cloud mixed thoroughly before settling down and forming the moon.
This cloud would have been composed of some Earth material, explaining the similarity between Earth and the moon, and other material.
The colliding body is sometimes called Theia, after the mythical Greek Titan who was the mother of Selene, the goddess of the Moon.
But one mystery has persisted, revealed by rocks the Apollo astronauts brought back from the moon - why are the moon and Earth so similar in their composition?
Several different theories have emerged over the years to explain the similar fingerprints of Earth and the moon.
Perhaps the impact created a huge cloud of debris that mixed thoroughly with the Earth and then later condensed to form the moon.
Or Theia could have, coincidentally, been isotopically similar to young Earth.
A third possibility is that the moon formed from Earthen materials, rather than from Theia, although this would have been a very unusual type of impact.
Earth’s Strange Blobs Could be Huge Pieces of Alien Planet
Earth’s Strange Blobs Could be Huge Pieces of Alien Planet
Many scientists believe that the Moon formed when a Mars-sized planet, called Theia, struck Earth around 4.5 billion years ago.
Now, a team of scientists theorize that Theia’s remains are what formed two mysterious, continent-sized blobs of rock buried deep in Earth’s mantle.
For decades, seismologists have puzzled over these two blobs, which sit below West Africa and the Pacific Ocean, and straddle Earth’s core like a pair of headphones.
Up to 1000 kilometers tall and several times that wide, “they are the largest thing in Earth’s mantle,” says Qian Yuan, a Ph.D. student in geodynamics at Arizona State University.
Seismic waves from earthquakes abruptly slow down when they pass through the layers, which suggests they are denser and chemically different from the surrounding mantle rock.
These blobs might simply have crystallized out of the depths of Earth’s primordial magma ocean. But based on new isotopic evidence and modeling, Yuan believes the blobs are the guts of the theoretical alien impactor planet.
The study is currently under review.
Learn more about the large blobs of material in Earth's mantle which could be remnants of protoplanet Theia at:
In 1961, astronomer and astrophysicist Frank Drake developed an equation to estimate the number of active extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy using factors such as rate of star formation, number of planets, length of time intelligent civilizations needed to release detectable signals into space and other obviously speculate but ‘intelligent’ guesses. The now famous Drake Equation, with Drake’s estimates, gave a range from a minimum of 20 to a maximum of 50,000,000. The equation has been debated and refined and has inspired many people to join the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Not James Benford. He has developed his own version of the Drake equation to look for signs of extraterrestrial artifacts (SETA) and it tells him we should find them on the Moon. Do lunar astronauts need to start carrying metal detectors?
This is going to get me to the Moon!
“The virtue of searching for artifacts is their lingering endurance in space, long after they go dead.”
In a study published in the journal in the journal Astrobiology and reviewed by Space.com,James Benford, a physicist at Microwave Sciences in Lafayette, California, outlines his justifications for SETA over SETI – specifically, that artifacts last far longer the signals, they can be left as static indicators of alien presence and observation by ETs who don’t want to be discovered until after they leave, and they can be found on planets and space bodies that don’t necessarily show signs of life, like the Moon.
“I construct a ratio of a SETA Drake equation for artifacts to the conventional Drake equation so that most terms cancel out. This ratio is a good way to debate the efficacy of SETI versus SETA. The ratio is the product of two terms: one is the ratio of the length of time that probes from extraterrestrial (ET) civilizations could be present in the near-Earth region to the length of time that ET civilizations transmit signals to the Solar System. The second term is the ratio of the respective origin volumes: the volume from which probes can come, which is affected by the long-term passage of stars near the Sun, to the volume of transmitting civilizations.”
Benford thinks SETA is more appealing because it involves an active search, while SETI is more of a passive sit-and-wait-for-a-signal approach. Also, artifacts are a better sign of an advanced intelligence capable of long-distance space travel, whereas we humans are capable of sending signals but not traveling too far or too fast in space. Who wants to find more beings who can only do that?
“You can see Neil Armstrong’s footprints on the moon in some photos, but only a handful of these images have been inspected by human eyes. We need to use AI [artificial intelligence] software to look for structures, for signs of artificiality, which could benefit sciences on Earth, such as archaeology.”
Benford argues that NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken about 2 million photos of the moon since 2009 but they haven’t been analyzed for signs of non-lunar artificiality – artifacts. He also proposes that the solar system could have been visited by ETs from stars that have passed near the Sun — Scholz’s Star came within 0.82 light-years of the sun just 70,000 years ago, and two stars came with 10 light years in the past 10,000 years. ETs from those stars could have sent robotic probes just as we do to Mars and the Moon – probes that can survive for millions of years in those types of environments.
If this isn’t Alan Shepard’s golf ball, I think I’m going to like these aliens.
Benford is not the first to propose looking for alien artifacts, but he’s the first to develop an alternative Drake equation for SETA. Searching for alien artifacts, even if it’s just on photographs, beats waiting around for contact or for humans to develop interstellar space travel.
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Linda Moulton Howe: Huge Non-Human Craft Attempts to Land at Iraqi Base
Linda Moulton Howe: Huge Non-Human Craft Attempts to Land at Iraqi Base
In the next video, Linda Moulton Howe talks about recent and upcoming events and continues with the infamous case of a huge non-human craft that attempted to land at Iraqi base in 2009.
2:27 – Saturday, March 13 – “Macron rehearses Star Wars”, “France runs satellite war games”
France carried out first ever military exercise in space
US, France, Germany take part in codename “Asterix”
wargame exercise practicing orbital defence
Mystery boom, shaking reported around San Diego, March 10, 2021
noise and shaking felt around Southern California – no information about the cause, even from USGS – eyewitness in South Park… “I knew it wasn’t an earthquake”.. “sudden impact”
Strange metal sounds coming from the sky in PA on March 13
Phoenixville, PA witness: “we heard a metallic sound ..”this was not the sound of a sonic boom”
15:48 – Interview with retired U.S. Any Chief Warrant Office 4
October, 2009 incident at USA forward operating base Sykes, outside Tal Afar, Iraq saw huge craft above the runway
no fuselage, boomerang-shaped, floating above the runway
“this thing is like 1/8 mile wide”…”covered the whole runway”
“pale white, eggshell color”
“hovering at the end of the airstrip”
“it was so big”…”it came straight down the runway…made a very gentle turn to the right and started rising…and then it was gone” – “they covered it up”
Leaked UFO Video Footage of "Pyramids Prowling the Sky" New Analysis of 'Pentagon Confirmed'
Leaked UFO Video Footage of "Pyramids Prowling the Sky" New Analysis of 'Pentagon Confirmed'
NEW Analysis of ‘PENTAGON Confirmed’ Leaked UFO Video Footage of “Pyramids Prowling the Sky”
We are living in very unique, changing times and during these times I have become more than intrigued by these changes and what is causing them. I’m referring to the earth changes, changes in our sun and how the earth’s atmosphere manages this what I believe to be a much different sunlight.
Over the last 10 years I have become very familiar with our planet, the mechanics of it and how it reacts to many different aspects of space weather and many other things as well. I monitor everything from the sea floor to the cosmos and everything in between. I am a full-time Watchman and as these uncertain times move forward I’ve got your back. When you really need to know…you’ll know. Your Earth Watchman, MrMBB333
Strange Biblical Prophecy Announces the End of the World And an Alien Invasion
Strange Biblical Prophecy Announces the End of the World And an Alien Invasion
Are you ready for the end of the world? Again? According to an evangelical theologian, the apocalypse is coming and the end of the world will around 2021, and our civilization is on the brink of being annihilated. The recently deceased evangelical theologian Dr. F. Kenton Beshore, president of the “World Bible Society” claimed that, according to a series of messages hidden deep within the Bible, the end of the world would take place before the year 2021 and would include a violent extraterrestrial invasion.
The World Bible Society is convinced that not only will the apocalypse occur very soon, but Jesus will return to Earth soon after. According to the World Bible Society the world will end on or before the year 2021, and Jesus will return to Earth in 2028 after the apocalypse. Beshore based his curious apocalyptic predictions on various verses of the Bible that predict the coming of strong voices and lights from the heavens announcing the second arrival of Jesus Christ to Earth. The theologian, in addition, liked to warn during his sermons, that before the arrival of Christ a series of catastrophes would happen on the planet that would include the rise of the Antichrist to power and numerous signs in the sun, moon and stars would generate panic among the world population.
In his book When:
When Will the Rapture Take Place?, the theologian writes: “The parable of the fig tree is a prophecy of the rebirth of the nation of Israel.” He explains: “The Greek phrase ‘panta tauta’ that is translated ‘all these things’ refers to the beginning of birth pains (Matthew 24:8).” “Jesus was saying, in effect, that when you see the birth pains – World War I and II and famines, pestilences and earthquakes – you will know that His return is drawing near. The Greek word genea is translated ‘generation.’” “It literally means ‘born one.’ Jesus said this ‘born one’ (nation of Israel) will be in existence when He returns.” Dr. Beshore explained: “Seven major signs have already been fulfilled, five major signs are currently being fulfilled, and 15 more major signs are yet to be fulfilled. “Those who are watching are the Lord’s obedient servants. The Lord Jesus commanded us to watch for his return.” However, skeptics and many others believe that nothing will happen by 2021 and none of the above should be taken seriously. Even the followers of Beshore have begun doubting the prophecies since the man claimed that these apocalyptic manifestations would begin in 2018, and –surprisingly– nothing has happened so far.
REDFIELD, S.D. — A young truck driver who said he “never held any stock in flying saucer stories” told Wednesday of seeing a huge object in the sky that changed colors and moved with tremendous speed.
Others, including three newspapermen, also reported seeing the object at great distance.
Marlen Hewitt, driver for a dairy here, told this story of wacthing the object as he drove a tank truck from Pelican Rapids, Minn., to Redfield:
“It was about 1:15 when I first spotted it as I drove along. At first I thought it was a star, I’ve never seen a star that bright. There were other stars out at the time, and only a few high clouds in the sky.
“As I went on down the road toward Graceville, it changed colors a couple of times. Near Graceville, it changed colors four times.
“I thought my eyes were playing tricks with me. I stopped, turned off the lights and got out of the truck to stretch my legs. As I rounded the back of the truck, this thing swooped down about a half mile to the east of me and stopped about 1,000 feet up.
“I was very frightened — I was terrified.
“If it had been on the ground, it would have covered about a square block. It looked to be about 12 feet thick. It was a slate gray color, and from the distance looked like it was metal. It was round, and at the base was an opening about 1/10th the size of the object from which a very brilliant light was shining.
“It would tilt around and back and forth, gaining maybe 3,000 or 4,000 feet in the flick of any eye.
“Around the edge of this thing was a lighted outline. I couldn’t tell if there were windows in the lighted part or if there was exhaust coming out all around it.
“It would change colors from a blue-white to orange to red. I wanted to get out of there, so I jumped back into the truck and turned on the lights.
“When my lights went on, the thing turned a bright cherry red and shot up into the high clouds. It moved faster than anything I ever saw.
“As I drove toward Ortonville, it dropped down and went to the southwest at a tremendous rate of speed. Then it stopped and hovered.
“I could still see the light in the cloud when I got to Ortonville, and some editors who were going hunting came out of an eating place and watched it with me.
“After I got to Big Stone City, it came down out of the clouds again, further away but still changing colors.”
Hewitt said the object disappeared about five hours after he had first spotted the bright light in the sky. He had traveled about 150 miles in the meantime.
He said the roads were “very deserted” at the time and that as far as he knew the only others to see the object were those at Ortonville.
Hewitt said the object mde no noise. He added there was a little wind at the time the object was at its lowest level and it seemed to move into and away from the wind with equal speed.
Among the hunters who saw the object at Ortonville were three newspapermen, Lem Kaercher of the Ortonville Independent and Don and Dick Olson of the Marshall Messenger. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
The two names most associated with Planet Nine are astronomers Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin of Caltech. In 2016, they published a paper about their simulation of Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects (ETNOs) to determine why these faraway space rocks share the same angle at perihelion, the point in their orbit that is closest to the Sun, and concluded this could be caused by a large planet not more than 10,000 astronomical units from the Sun – anything beyond that would be out of the gravitational pull of the Sun – that was somewhere in the Oort Cloud. The pair recently released a new paper based on new data and simulations which will help Planet Nine hunters, including Brown and Batygin, narrow their search. Before you buy a bigger telescope and a new star map, you may want to hear them out.
“Due to the long-term gravitational pull of Planet Nine’s orbit, inner Oort Cloud objects evolve on billion-year timescales, slowly getting re-injected into the outer solar system. So what happens to them? We have simulated this process, accounting for perturbations from the canonical giant planets, Planet Nine, passing stars, as well as the galactic tide, and have found that these re-injected inner Oort Cloud objects can readily mix in with the census of distant Kuiper belt objects, and even exhibit orbital clustering.”
On their Find Planet Nine blog, Brown and Batygin revise their thinking about the Oort Cloud based on new simulations which use the 19 now-known ETNOs rather than the original six used in 2016. Where they once assumed objects in the Oort Cloud were static, they now consider the possibility that some could have come from the Kuiper Belt, which is close enough to the Sun to contain Pluto and the other minor planets. Further, they propose that there is still movement going on in both directions between the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud, specifically in the inner Oort Cloud. Finally, that inner Oort Cloud was affected during its creation by both Saturn and Neptune flinging debris outward while nearby developing stars in the early formation of the galaxy pushed them back towards the Sun. The result is a dense – relative to the rest of the Oort Cloud – ring of space objects.
“However, the degree of clustering they show is prominently weaker, suggesting that a more eccentric P9 is required to explain the data. Another intriguing aspect of these calculations is that they produce a more radially extended distribution of long-period TNOs, providing an intriguing potential explanation for the abundance of highly long-period orbits, such as that of the Goblin.”
The Goblin – formally named 541132 Leleākūhonua – was the third ETNO discovered and is known for its extreme orbit around the Sun at a distance of 65–2000 AU once every 32,000 years with a very high eccentricity of 0.94 and angle of inclination relative to the standard planetry plane. All of that made both simulations digitally scream “Planet Nine!” with the more recent one adding “In the inner Oort Cloud!” Put it all together and it tells Planet Nine hunters to look for it in the inner Oort cloud at an orbital eccentricity and angle similar to the Goblin’s. That narrows the area down, but it’s still far beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. Needless to say, Brown and Batygin are excited.
“All in all, as scientists, our primary role is to continue hammering away at the hypothesis, and our new simulations indicate that there exists an intriguing additional mode of P9-induced dynamics affecting our efforts to pin down the orbit of Planet Nine. With each theoretical breakthrough, the observational search comes into sharper focus.”
Daytime UFO sighting over Great Doddington, UK 2021
Daytime UFO sighting over Great Doddington, UK 2021
This unidentified flying object that looks like a solid metal orb was filmed over Great Doddington, a village and civil parish in Northamptonshire in the United Kingdom. This happened on 7th March 2021.
Witness report:
A strange object that was silent and moved upwards like nothing I’ve seen before.
Prince Philip reportedly had a fascination with UFOs and collected books about aliens.
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In addition to his many earthly pursuits, the late Prince Philip also looked to the skies to watch for UFOs — and had amassed a large collection of books on the subject, according to reports.
The Duke of Edinburgh, who died Friday at age 99, was fascinated with close encounters and was a regular subscriber of Flying Saucer Review, a quarterly magazine established in 1955, according to the UK’s Metro.
He first developed an interest in UFOs from his uncle Lord Mountbatten, who wrote an official report about a spaceship that reportedly landed on his estate in Romsey, Hampshire, in 1955, the Sun said.
Philip had given his former assistant Sir Peter Horsley, a senior Royal Air Force commander who died in 2001 at age 80, “carte blanche” to collect stories about UFOs from the RAF, according to Metro.
In his 1997 autobiography, “Sounds From Another Room,” Horsley described his own fascination with UFOs, which began when he was Philip’s equerry, or royal attendant, from 1949 to 1956.
Prince Philip (right) meets a man in a spacesuit during a visit to the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, on March 14, 1966.Harry Benson/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Horsley, who wrote about a close encounter with an “alien” in London in 1954, said he was asked to bring witnesses to Buckingham Palace for private discussions with the Duke, Metro reported.
In 2019, Philip read “The Halt Perspective,” written by retired US Air Force Col. Charles Halt, a former deputy commander of RAF Bentwaters, who described how he led a patrol to investigate an alleged UFO landing in the Rendlesham Forest in 1980.
The incident was dubbed “Britain’s Roswell” after the famous 1947 crash of a US Army Air Forces balloon in New Mexico that spawned rumors that the wreckage came from a “flying disc.”
Prince Philip’s reported fascination with the extraterrestrial supposedly began in 1955 when his uncle wrote about a spaceship landing in Hampshire.Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Among the books about extraterrestrials in Philip’s collection was “Haunted Skies: The Encyclopedia of British UFOs,” whose author, retired West Midlands detective John Hanson, said the Duke had a dozen of his works, according to Metro.
“I’ve got about 12 letters from the Duke’s private secretary that say the prince found the subject interesting,” Hanson, who co-wrote “The Halt Perspective,” told I News.
“I’m quite proud of Prince Philip, why shouldn’t he have been interested in UFOs, because for goodness’ sake, that is something that we should treat seriously rather than flippantly. It is a phenomenon that has baffled mankind for millennia,” he said.
“Even Prince Charles is interested in it and Prince William,” Hanson added.
Prince Philip reportedly subscribed to the magazine Flying Saucer Review.PA Images via Getty Images
In his book, Horsley claims that in 1954, he had an encounter with an alien called “Mr. Janus,” who could read his mind.
“He didn’t say he was a visitor from another planet — but I had that impression,” he wrote. “I believe he was here to observe us. I never saw him again. I have no qualms about the reaction to my experience with Mr. Janus.”
He added that Janus wished to meet Philip, whom he described as a “man of great vision.”
The “What could possibly go wrong” file is so full, it may be time to give China its own manila folder for its experiments with human-animal chimeras that not only cross the ethical line – they wipe it out completely with genetically-altered erasers. The latest entry in the file is an experiment that attempts to reach the unholy grail of hybrids – human-monkey chimeras, created under the ‘good intentions’ guise of developing ways to address the severe shortage of human organs for transplants. Before you start pointing fingers at China’s Kunming University of Science and Technology, the leader of this experiment was an American from the Salk Institute in California who has also been involved in creating human-pig chimeras. Do we need to start TWO files?
“We studied the chimeric competency of human extended pluripotent stem cells (hEPSCs) in cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis) embryos cultured ex vivo. We demonstrate that hEPSCs survived, proliferated, and generated several peri- and early post-implantation cell lineages inside monkey embryos.”
Whoa!
In their new paper published in the journal Cell, American geneticist Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte and a team of researchers in China led by primate reproduction biologist Weizhi Ji announced they have successfully injected 25 human stem cells into developing five-day-old macaque monkey embryos, and of the 132 human-monkey chimera embryos created, 103 were still alive after 10 days and 3 survived for 20 days in lab dishes. That’s an impressive success rate when compared to Izpisúa Belmonte’s experiments with human-pig and other chimeras, and he tells Live Science it’s because “the evolutionary distance is smaller” between humans and monkeys.
“Generation of a chimera between human and non-human primate, a species more closely related to humans along the evolutionary timeline than all previously used species, will allow us to gain better insight into whether there are evolutionarily imposed barriers to chimera generation and if there are any means by which we can overcome them.”
In the press release, Izpisúa Belmonte even destroys the chalk used to draw the ethical line by revealing his experiments seek to hurdle the barriers to chimera generation. Right now, by doing the experiments in China, the only barriers he hasn’t hurdled are regulations in other countries. Alejandro De Los Angeles, a stem cell biologist at the Yale University School of Medicine who was not involved in the study, told Live Science:
“The embryos here were not transferred into a uterus, and thus could not lead to living chimeric animals or even fetuses. Implantation of human-monkey embryos would be ethically contentious and will need to be discussed by scientists, ethicists and the public before moving forward with such experiments.”
Right — just like the creation of these human-monkey embryos was … not. In fact, one of the big concerns about allowing human-monkey chimeras to live longer is that the human cells would migrate to the monkey brains and grow there, transferring humanness to them. Unfortunately, it appears some communications already occurred in the 20-day-old chimera embryos, according Izpisua Belmonte in the press release.
“From these analyses, several communication pathways that were either novel or strengthened in the chimeric cells were identified. Understanding which pathways are involved in chimeric cell communication will allow us to possibly enhance this communication and increase the efficiency of chimerism in a host species that’s more evolutionarily distant to humans.”
This is too much!
Even if we eliminate the more cinematic, sci-fi and dystopian scenarios from the “what could possibly go wrong” discussions, there are still plenty of other outcomes worth worrying about and preventing. As always, the reality is that these experiments are being conducted in China and those scenarios may have already played out, even though Izpisua Belmonte assures us that “it is our responsibility as scientists to conduct our research thoughtfully, following all the ethical, legal, and social guidelines in place.”
Sorry, Izpisua Belmonte. What if you’re in a place where there are no such guidelines? Isn’t that why you went to China?
How many more “What could possibly go wrong” files do we need? Is it time for a cabinet? A warehouse?
Pentagon Confirms Footage Of UFOs Over Navy Ship, Possible US Cover-Up, Raw Footage, UFO Sighting News.
Pentagon Confirms Footage Of UFOs Over Navy Ship, Possible US Cover-Up, Raw Footage, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 2019
Location of sighting: California Coast, USA
News source: US Pentagon
A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed that the photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel and the UAP Task Force has “included these incidents in their ongoing examinations.”
Now its clear when I look at this video that there are several triangle shaped alien craft flying above them. This screenshot I took confirms that UFOs are not always perfectly shaped objects, but instead are often uneven as if they were biologically grown. Imagine a living ship, grown and self sustaining yet in your control. The person recording them is using a type 1 or type 2 generation night vision scope. Also if you noticed when the sailer zoomed it...lots of white objects were recoded flying around. Those are tiny drones that come out of the UFO and surround all areas of the ship making the main UFO aware if any weapons or hostile actions are taking place on the Navy ship below. Before the UFO leaves, those tiny probes will return themselves. Now the Pentagon themselves confirmed these are 100% real UFOs. But...also know, the US military has had triangle craft that are different evolutions of the original TR3B, but now much more advance. These craft could be US Navy. Many top secret craft are given to the US Navy and if the video of a Navy TR3B was leaked by someone...then Navy would confuse the public by spreading disinformation about it saying its just a UFO. Thus, the public too will believe it. But very well could be a US military fleet of TR3B craft. Guys, I smell cover-up. This is 100% US Navy TR3B we have in this video!
It's time to take UFOs seriously. So says Alexander Wendt, a professor of international relations at Ohio State University, who believes researchers should fight the UFO taboo, investigate, and pursue an explanation for the unidentified objects as they would any other field of science.
In fact, the once-secretive U.S. government-funded $22 million program, known as the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which investigated UFOs from 2007 to 2012, shows that the U.S. government did take the issue seriously. And it wasn't the first program of its kind.
Here's a look at a few of recent history's most famous UFO sightings, and the government programs that were born from their investigations.
1. The Kenneth Arnold Sighting, 1947
On June 24, 1947, a private pilot called Kenneth Arnold was flying his CallAir A-2 airplane in the state of Washington when he saw a series of bright flashes coming from north of Mt. Ranier. When he later likened their movements to "saucers skipping on water," the press picked it up, and so began our modern fascination with flying saucers and UFOs.
The claims were taken seriously by U.S. officials as, ten days after Arnold's experience, they were corroborated when a United Airlines crew on a plane to Seattle spotted five to nine disk-like objects that kept pace with their aircraft for 10 to 15 minutes.
Other witnesses also came forward saying they had seen silver disks from the ground, and several sighting reports were filed by the U.S. government.
During his statement, Arnold claimed the objects were too fast to be any existing human aircraft, and that they easily darted in and out of valleys with impressive maneuvers.
Arnold's sightings directly led to to the formation of Project Sign at the end of 1947, the first publicly-acknowledged U.S. Air Force UFO investigation. Project Sign evolved into Project Grudge, which then became known as Project Blue Book.
2. The Roswell UFO incident, 1947
Only a few weeks after Arnold's sightings, came an event that has gone down as the most famous in UFO history to date. In the summer of 1947, rancher William Brazel discovered mysterious debris, including metallic rods, chunks of plastic, and unusual, papery scraps, in one of his New Mexico fields.
After Brazel reported the wreckage, soldiers from the nearby Roswell Army Air Force Base came to retrieve the materials. News headlines at the time claimed that a “flying saucer” crashed in Roswell.
The Kenneth Arnold and Roswell incidents sparked an obsession in the public consciousness, as seen in this 1957 edition of Amazing Stories magazine, Source: Wikimedia Commons
Though the U.S. Army Air Force eventually claimed the object was part of an experimental nuclear test detecting balloon technology made for the highly classified Project Mogul, Jesse Marcel, the officer who originally assessed the crash site, countered this with the following statement:
"It was not anything from this Earth, that I'm quite sure of... I was familiar with just about all the materials used in aircraft and/or air travel. This was nothing like that...It could not have been."
3. The Tehran UFO incident, 1976
The September 19, 1976, incident in Tehran, Iran, started with phone calls from concerned citizens reporting a bright light in the sky.
Iran's military sent out F-4 fighter jets to investigate. As they approached the object, their instruments started to malfunction. One pilot said he saw a bright light being released from the UFO. Thinking it was a missile sent his way, the pilot tried to open fire, but malfunctioning equipment didn't let him release any rounds.
Some believe the bright light may have been Jupiter, which was especially bright in the sky that night. The glowing object may have been meteors that were seen above Iran the same day. Others believe the object was a UFO.
4. Rendlesham Forest eyewitness accounts, 1980
The Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, which took place in the county of Suffolk in the United Kingdom, stands out as being one of the few cases where eyewitnesses said they saw a craft land after weaving through trees in a forest.
One USAF witness — the U.S. Air Force was stationed at a Royal Air Force base at the time — said, "I moved a little closer... I walked around the craft, and finally, I walked right up to the craft. I noticed the fabric of the shell was more like a smooth, opaque, black glass.”
While the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence claimed that the lights seen were caused by the nearby Orfordness lighthouse, eyewitnesses from the time claim, to this day, that they saw something that was not of this earth, that his since been covered up.
5. The Belgian UFO Wave, 1989-90
The Belgian UFO wave is especially notable because it involves approximately 13,500 people who claim to have witnessed the incident, which took place over the course of several months.
At the end of November 1989, citizens of Belgium reported seeing a large, triangular UFO hovering in the sky. In March of 1990, new sightings were confirmed by two military radar stations. Two F-16 fighter jets were sent out to investigate. Though the pilots could not see anything, they were able to lock onto an extremely fast-moving object, that quickly disappeared, using their radar.
The photo above was widely spread a few months after the incident took place, though someone later came forward to say he had faked the image. The Belgian Air Force has admitted to having no logical explanation for the activity.
6. The Phoenix lights, 1997
On March 13, 1997, between 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., thousands of people reported seeing strange, bright lights over Nevada, Arizona, and part of Mexico.
The first event to be seen was described as a V-shaped object flying through the sky, which was roughly the size of a commercial airplane.
A drawing of the triangular UFO object by witness Tim Ley recreated in an issue of USA Today, Source: Wikimedia Commons
According to Ktar.com, one witness said, "we don’t have anything that big,” he said. “It was totally silent. I’ve never seen anything even close to the colors from the exhaust that propelled that thing. It was as big as downtown Prescott and completely blocked out the stars."
7. The lights above the New Jersey Turnpike, 2001
On July 14, 2001, several drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike stopped for around 15 minutes just after midnight to gaze at strange orange and yellow lights that were shaped in a V formation over the Arthur Kill Waterway between Staten Island, New York, and Carteret, New Jersey. One of the witnesses was Carteret Police Department’s Lt. Daniel Tarrant.
While air-traffic controllers denied that any planes, military jets, or space flights could have caused the lights, a group, known as the New York Strange Phenomena Investigators (NY-SPI) claim they have FAA radar data that corroborates the UFO sightings from that night.
8. The USS Nimitz encounter, 2004
On November 14, 2004, the USS Princeton, part of the USS Nimitz carrier strike group, detected an unknown craft on its radar 100 miles off the coast of San Diego. Two weeks following the detection saw the carrier's crew tracking objects that appeared at 80,000 feet before diving to hover right above the Pacific Ocean.
When two FA-18F fighter jets from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived in the area they spotted a white Tic Tac-shaped object appear from the water. It had no visible markings to indicate an engine, wings or windows, and infrared monitors didn't reveal any exhaust. It accelerated away at twice the top speed of the fighter jets. Video from the encounter is one of the three UFO videos recently declassified by the U.S. Navy.
9. The O'Hare International Airport sighting, 2006
Flight 446 was getting ready to fly to North Carolina from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, on November 7, 2006, when a United Airlines employee on the tarmac saw a dark metallic craft hovering over gate C17. A total of 12 United employees, as well as a few witnesses outside the airport, later witnessed the disk-shaped craft.
The witnesses claim the saucer hovered for about five minutes before rapidly shooting up through the clouds, leaving a blue hole in the cloud cover. O'Hare controller and union official Craig Burzych humorously stated at the time that, "to fly 7 million light-years to O'Hare and then have to turn around and go home because your gate was occupied is simply unacceptable."
Others, the Chicago Tribune reported at the time, were upset that neither the government nor the airline investigated the incident and dismissed it as a "weather phenomenon."
10. The East Coast flying saucer sighting, 2015
Leaked in 2017 at the same time as news of the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, the video below reveals an encounter between an F/A-18 Super Hornet and an unidentified flying vehicle that was very similar to the craft spotted off San Diego in 2004.
No explanation ever emerged, though the video is one of the three that has been declassified and released to the public by the U.S. Navy "in order to clear up any misconceptions" about whether the video is real or not. The pilots tracked the object at 25,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean as it flew away while also rotating on its axis.
In March 1956, UFOlogist reports say that Air Force sergeant Jonathan P. Lovette and Major William Cunningham were searching for scattered debris from a recent rocket in the White Sands missile testing grounds near Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico when, as History writes, Cunningham suddenly heard a loud scream from Lovette.
Cunningham hurriedly crossed the dune he was on, thinking he'd find Lovette had been bitten by a snake. Instead, he claimed to have seen the officer with a long snake-like arm wrapped around his legs being dragged into a silver disk hovering above the ground. The craft then pulled Lovette inside, the officer claimed, and rose vertically into the sky.
After Cunningham reported the incident he was taken in for a psychiatric evaluation and searches were launched for Sgt. Lovette. After three days, Lovette's nude deceased body was found. All of his organs were missing. It was noted that they had been removed with extreme precision.
A newspaper clipping from a now-declassified FBI file on animal mutilation, Source: FBI
According to UFOlogists, this story accounts for report number 13 of the U.S. government's Project Grudge — reports 1 to 12 and 14 are now declassified, but 13 remains a secret. What's more, mutilations of the same unexplainable nature have been reported in animals as recently as last year.
As Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall suggest in a study titled 'Sovereignty and the UFO,' an authoritative UFO taboo exists due tothe fact that knowing could upend our society. What do you believe? Are UFOs, also known as UAPs, explainable if we just take the time to research them? Are they even worth researching in the first place?
UFOs Can Be Dangerous, and the Incredible Cash-Landrum Incident of East Texas Proves It
UFOs Can Be Dangerous, and the Incredible Cash-Landrum Incident of East Texas Proves It
One of the most terrifying and dangerous UFO encounters of all-time occurred in a place you might expect it to occur - the deep, dark, spooky woods. On December 29th, 1980, Becky Cash and Vicki Landrum, as well as Landrum's 7-year-old grandson Colby, were driving through the Piney Woods of East Texas when they spotted a large, diamond-shaped (but with no bottom or top) craft hovering overhead.
Becky, who was driving at the time, and Vicki stepped out of their vehicle to get a closer look, and as they were observing the ominous craft, which hovered in mid air and emitted flames before taking off, 20+ helicopters approached it. The sighting lasted an incredible 8-10 minutes. However, Becky and Vicki's decision to get a closer look at the UFO would soon prove to be a bad one.
When Betty and Vicki went back to re-enter their car, they noticed the door handles were hot to the touch! But that was only the beginning of their troubles.
All three witnesses ended up experiencing classic symptoms of radiation poisoning shortly after the encounter, including skin blisters, nausea and hair loss. Their medical ailments were so well-documented, in fact, especially for Betty Cash, that the witnesses sued the US government for their medical bills, claiming that it knew about the dangers of this UFO but were pretending to be ignorant about it. The US government denied any knowledge of the incident, however, and the suit was ultimately thrown out.
MUFON director Walt Andrus, Jeanne Andrus, Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum at the 1990 MUFON Symposium
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The only surviving witness of the Cash-Landrum Incident is Colby, the grandson of Vicki Landrum, and he has done an interview as an adult and shares the same basic memories of his grandmother.
As well, many UFO researchers and authors have tried to do the case justice and continue to investigate to this day.
Skeptics are hot on the trail, as well. One writer accused Betty and Vicki of hoaxing the incident, as it would be unlikely that the two would choose to watch the UFO (rather than flee the scene), and it would also be unlikely that the two would remember such great detail about the encounter (like the number of helicopters). None of this skepticism is warranted, if you ask me. If Vicky and Betty had continued driving and never stopped to observe the UFO, the same writer might ask "why didn't they stop to look at it or follow it?" Similarly, if Vicki and Betty didn't provide detail about their encounter, the same writer may accuse them of making it all up. Furthermore, the encounter lasted for several minutes, plenty of time to count up the number of helicopters in the sky.
As always, you be the judge about whether this amazing UFO sighting is real or not. If it is real, it's one of the more disturbing UFO cases ever on record.
Fun fact: the Cash-Landrum Incident occurred just one day after the Rendlesham Forest incident, a UFO case even more infamous!
On the night of September 12, 1952, something terrifying descended upon the small, West Virginian town of Flatwoods. Precisely what it was remains very much a mystery to this day. All that can really be said for sure is that it was hideous, fear-inducing and downright monstrous. It has, quite appropriately, become known as the Flatwoods Monster. Situated in Braxton County and dominated by a cool, picturesque, forested landscape, Flatwoods is a distinctly small town – that much is apparent from the fact that, today, its population is less than four hundred. Back in 1952, though, it was even less than that. On the night in question, however, the people of the town found themselves briefly added to by one visitor from…well…no-one really knows from where. It all began just as the sun was setting on what was a warm, still, September evening. A group of boys from Flatwoods were playing football in the town’s schoolyard when they were frozen to the spot by the sight of a brightly lit, fiery object that shot overhead, provoking amazement and wonder in the process. All that the boys could be sure of was that the object appeared to be either egg-shaped or circular. Its color fluctuated from orange to a fiery red.
As the stunned children watched in awe, they saw the object begin to descend – and at a high rate of speed, no less – and then appear to come down on one of Flatwood’s largest hilltops. Not surprisingly, being kids, they saw this as a big adventure looming large. The result: they, with a woman named Kathleen May and a recent U.S. Army recruit, Eugene Lemon, headed off for the scene of all the action. It wasn’t long before the group reached the hill in question – and with nightfall rapidly closing in. The first thing the group noticed, as they reached the darkened peak, was something brightly lit within the trees. What it was, no-one had a clue. But, it clearly wasn’t the lights of a farmhouse, truck, or car. Suddenly, the air was filled with a sickening odor – not unlike that of devilish brimstone. That was not a good sign. To their credit, however, they pushed on, determined to figure out the true nature of the source behind the lights. They soon found out: as the air became filled with a strange, sizzling sound, nothing less than a pair of self-illuminated red eyes could be seen getting ever closer. Kathleen May had the presence of mind to bring a flashlight with her and she quickly focused it on the eyes. In doing so, she also lit up the abominable creature that possessed those fiery eyes.
Looming before the now-terrified band of intrepid souls was an approximately ten-feet-tall, floating monster. It appeared to be humanoid in shape and had something almost like a large, black hood-like piece behind its head – that gave the entire thing an “Ace of Spades”-type appearance. Oddly, its lower half was ice-cream cone-shaped and had wires and cables running from it. This issue of the cone-shaped lower portion led flying saucer sleuths to later suggest the monster my actually have been encased within some kind of remotely piloted vehicle. As the creature then turned its attention to the group, and wildly fired laser-like beams from its eyes, the brave band was suddenly brave no more. They didn’t wait to see what might happen next. One and all fled, screaming – possibly for their lives. Mrs. May breathlessly shouted to the boys to follow her to her home, which they all did. On arrival, and possibly as a result of exposure to the noxious odor that hung around the hill, several of the boys became violently ill, feeling nauseous and even outright vomiting.
Kathleen May quickly called the local police, who, rather intriguingly, were busy responding to reports of what was described as an “airplane crash” somewhere in the area. It turns out that no such crashed aircraft was ever found – something that suggests the “airplane” and the brightly lit UFO that descended upon the high hill that night were, almost certainly, one and the very same. As a result of the fact that Flatwoods was, and still is, a very small town, word soon got out about what had happened. The local media was quickly on the scene, and even the U.S. Air Force sat up and took careful notice. Despite intense investigations by the press and the military, the mystery of the Flatwoods Monster was never solved to the satisfaction of everyone: the creature was long gone by the time anyone else was on the scene. It is, however, decidedly interesting to note that Flatwoods is only around 125 miles from the town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where, from 1966 to 1967, yet another red-eyed monster was seen. Its famous name is, of course, Mothman.
UFO Hiding In Clouds Visible From Space Station, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Hiding In Clouds Visible From Space Station, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 15, 2021 Location of sighting: Earths orbit Source: Live International Space Station Cam
I was watching the live cam from the space station and something passed below that should not have been there. I saw a rectangle UFO hiding near the clouds. Near the UFO is a crescent shaped trail which I believe it made as it was traveling to its current resting place. The object is huge, about a mile across and would easily old a thousand crew on it and have loads of room to spare. This object is really lit up and noticeable because the sunset has hit the UFO bringing out all its detail and shape. As I have said a hundred times before on this site...if you want to see a UFO, watch a hand full of sunsets. I guarantee you will see one.
Mysterious earthquake light appeared in the sky over Oriental Mindoro, Philippines
Mysterious earthquake light appeared in the sky over Oriental Mindoro, Philippines
On April 14, 2021, residents in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro witnessed a a rare sky phenomenon when an inexplicable colorful light appeared above a cloud formation.
According to meteorologists, this is called “cloud iridiscence”. Such a colorful light is the effect of the refraction of sunlight on water and ice in clouds.
But what if this mysterious sky phenomenon is a so-called Earthquake light, a sign of a potential earthquake?
Mysterious glows sometimes reported before, during or after a seismic shaking — Studies find that they happen most often in geological rift environments, where the ground is pulling apart.
Read more about earthquake lights: Mysterious sky phenomenon is sign of earthquake
Four days earlier, on April 10, 2021 such an earthquake light appeared after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 on the Richter scale (SR) rocked the area of Malang Regency, East Java in Indonesia.
A US Navy destroyer caught a bizarre night-vision video of mysterious flashing UFOs above it and another warship, the Pentagon admitted.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force gathered the green-tinged video and leaked it to filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, the same person behind the documentary “Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers,” and TV news director George Knapp.
Corbell claimed he verified the authenticity of the eerie footage after getting details from an intelligence briefing of the Pentagon, where officials confirmed the Navy shot the startling video but didn’t describe the contents.
The personnel aboard the USS Russell recorded the short clip. In it, three faint orbs are hovering over the warship. A triangular object is also seen in the footage.
Corbell also disclosed three images taken by the USS Omaha of a mysterious spherical craft. He said that the spherical craft was thought to be a transmedium craft and was seen descending into the water without destruction. He added that the spherical craft could not be located after entry to the water and that the submarine was used in the search.
The incidents were discussed during a classified briefing about the unidentified craft by the Office of Naval Intelligence on May 1, 2020.
Corbell said that he and George Knapp verified the materials and confirmed their authenticity and the narrative supplied to him when they were presented.
He also received details on a third sighting on March 4, 2019, from an F/A-18 pilot and his weapons systems officer (WSO).
He said these are authentic videos and photos from actual military encounters with mysterious flying objects generate to educate high-level intelligence officers within the military on the nature and presentation of this phenomenon.
Corbell added he hopes that these materials will represent our modern history, a possible turning point for the rational and transparent approach of exploring and investigating the mystery of the UAP-UFO phenomenon.
Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Gough confirmed the referenced videos and photos were taken by Navy personnel, and the UAPTF has included these incidents in their ongoing investigations.
She added that DOD doesn’t publicly discuss the information of either the examinations or the observations of reported incursions into their training ranges or designated airspace, including the UAP incursions. She explained that this is to maintain operations security and prevent disclosing details that may be useful to potential adversaries.
What might look like a scene from a science fiction film is actually a real-life image of dunes speckling the surface of Mars.
The gorgeous photo from NASA's Odyssey orbiter released April 8 reveals the extreme and varying temperatures in a sea of dunes at Mars' northern polar cap, which are formed into long and weaving lines by winds over time. The Red Planet does not actually have blue patches; the blue regions in this false-color image represent colder areas, and warmer features are seen as a yellowish-orange color, NASA officials said.
The image depicts an area about 19 miles (30 kilometers) wide, but the total scope of dunes at Mars' northern polar cap stretches out much farther, covering an area the size of Texas.
Blue dunes on the surface of Mars as seen by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)
Sand dunes can be found in various locations around the Red Planet. From the polar region depicted in this image to the floors of craters and more, Mars' dunes are fascinating features on the planet's surface. Some of the dunes on the planet have even been spotted covered in frost, which comes and goes with the seasons.
While NASA released the new image April 8, it is composed of images captured from December 2002 to November 2004 by the THEMIS (Thermal Emission Imaging System) instrument on board NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. The image is part of a set of photos released recently to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Odyssey, which launched on April 7, 2001 and began observing Mars in October of that year.
Odyssey is stilly studying the Red Planet; it holds the record for the longest active spacecraft continuously orbiting another planet. The craft's primary mission has been to study Mars' environment and collect data to inform and protect future Mars missions. Aside from THEMIS, the craft carries instruments called GRS (Gamma Ray Spectrometer) and MARIE ( Mars Radiation Environment Experiment).
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Plastic Is Falling From the Sky. But Where’s It Coming From?
Plastic Is Falling From the Sky. But Where’s It Coming From?
At any given time, 1,100 tons of microplastic are floating over the western US. New modeling shows the surprising sources of the nefarious pollutant.
PHOTOGRAPH: MIKE KEMP/GETTY IMAGES
IF YOU FIND yourself in some secluded spot in the American West—maybe Yellowstone, or the deserts of Utah, or the forests of Oregon—take a deep breath and get some fresh air along with some microplastic. According to new modeling, 1,100 tons of it is currently floating above the western US. The stuff is falling out of the sky, tainting the most remote corners of North America—and the world. As I’ve said before, plastic rain is the new acid rain.
But where is it all coming from? You’d think it’d be arising from nearby cities—western metropolises like Denver and Salt Lake City. But new modeling published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that 84 percent of airborne microplastics in the American West actually comes from the roads outside of major cities. Another 11 percent could be blowing all the way in from the ocean. (The researchers who built the model reckon that microplastic particles stay airborne for nearly a week, and that’s more than enough time for them to cross continents and oceans.)
Microplastics—particles smaller than 5 millimeters—come from a number of sources. Plastic bags and bottles released into the environment break down into smaller and smaller bits. Your washing machine is another major source: When you launder synthetic clothing, tiny microfibers slough off and get flushed to a wastewater treatment plant. That facility filters out some of the microfibers, trapping them in “sludge,” the treated human waste that’s then applied to agricultural fields as fertilizer. That loads the soil with microplastic. A wastewater plant will then flush the remaining microfibers out to sea in the treated water. This has been happening for decades, and because plastics disintegrate but don’t ever really disappear, the amount in the ocean has been skyrocketing.
COURTESY OF JANICE BRAHNEY
In fact, this new research shows there may now be more microplastic blowing out of the ocean at any given time than there is going into it. Put another way: So much has accumulated in the ocean that the land may now be a net importer of microplastic from the sea. “That's really highlighting the role of legacy pollution,” says Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University and co-lead author of the new PNAS paper. “The amount of plastics that are in our ocean is just overwhelming compared to anything that we produce in any given year in the terrestrial environment.”
These microplastics aren’t just washing ashore and accumulating on beaches. When waves crash and winds scour the ocean, they launch seawater droplets into the air. These obviously contain salt, but also organic matter and microplastics. “Then the water evaporates, and you're left just with the aerosols,” or tiny floating bits of particulate matter, says Cornell University researcher Natalie Mahowald, who co-led the work with Brahney. “Classically, we atmospheric scientists have always known that there are sea salts coming in this way,” she continues. But last year, another group of researchers demonstrated this phenomenon with microplastics, showing that they turn up in sea breezes.
This time, Mahowald and Brahney thought bigger, using atmospheric models to show how far marine microplastics might travel after they take to the air. They also looked at other sources of microplastic emissions, like roads, cities, and agricultural fields. They knew, for instance, how much dust is generated from fields and how much microplastic might be in that dust.
The researchers then combined this atmospheric modeling with real-world data. Brahney used air samplers scattered in remote locations throughout the American West, so at a given time she could say how many plastic particles had fallen out of the sky. Mahowald’s modeling could also say what the atmospheric and climate conditions were like at that time, allowing the researchers to trace where the particles had likely blown in from.
They found that agricultural dust only provided 5 percent of atmospheric microplastics in the West. And surprisingly, cities supplied only 0.4 percent. “If you were to ask anyone how plastics are getting into the atmosphere, they would say from urban centers,” says Brahney. “I like to think of it more as the roads that are leaving the cities that are the most important.”
COURTESY OF JANICE BRAHNEY
When a car rolls down a road, tiny flecks fly off its tires as part of normal wear and tear. This material isn’t pure rubber; it contains added synthetic rubbers and a slew of other chemicals. Tire particles, then, are technically microplastics, and they’re all over the place. One study in 2019 calculated that 7 trillion microplastics wash into San Francisco Bay each year, most of it from tires.
Cities actually do produce an astonishing amount of microplastic through road traffic and from litter breaking apart, but it doesn’t seem to get high into the atmosphere. That’s for two reasons, Brahney and Mahowald think: Buildings block the wind from scrubbing the surfaces of a city and propelling those bits away, and people drive cars slower in metro areas, so there’s less agitation of tire particles that end up on the roadway. But get out onto the interstate highways and there’s a lot more open space where winds can whip up debris. Plus, says Mahowald, “cars are moving at 60 miles an hour. That's a lot of energy. And little tiny particles can get in the atmosphere with that energy.”
But why did these scientists go through all the trouble of modeling the extreme complexities of the atmosphere, instead of just looking at the characteristics of the microplastics that landed in their traps to figure out where they originated? The sad reality is that these plastics have so thoroughly saturated the environment that, in a sense, they’ve homogenized. Particles from synthetic clothing and from degrading bottles and packaging seem to be moving between the air, land, and sea with such regularity—and enough intermixing—that it’s hard to pinpoint the source of a particular polymer.
“It's not quite hard—it's nearly impossible,” says University of Strathclyde microplastic researcher Deonie Allen, who wasn’t involved with this new research. (She coauthored last year’s study that documented microplastics in sea breezes.) “If you model it, you can figure out potentially where it might come from. But if you just look at the chemical signature of the types of plastics you've got in your bucket or in your filter, there's no way for you to tell where they may have come from.” Maybe if you can identify a piece of rubber, there's a good chance it came from a tire. “But the rest of them,” Allen adds, “they could come from anywhere.”
That’s why atmospheric modeling is critical to better understanding how microplastics are moving between environments. Researchers are just beginning to do this—there have been only a few dozen papers so far. Yet scientists need way more data on how much plastic is falling out of the sky, and where. This new research, for instance, concentrated on the American West, but the generation and distribution of particles might work differently elsewhere. The Western states are quite dry, so maybe it’s easier for cars to kick up microplastics there than it is in the soggy South. Also, in Europe, waste plastic is often incorporated into roads as a construction material, which is a noble idea, but it may mean that those roads shed even more plastics, mixing with the ones from tires.
But bit by bit, researchers are developing a clearer picture of how these particles are cycling all over the planet. A major driver appears to be the atmospheric transport detailed in this new research. “We live on a ball inside a bubble,” says University of Strathclyde microplastic researcher Steve Allen, who wasn’t involved in the research. (He and Deonie Allen are spouses.) “There's no borders, there's no edges. And this is clearly showing that microplastic is going into the sea and back out of the sea. It's raining on the land and then getting blown back up into the air again, to move somewhere else. There's no stopping it once it's out.”
“It could just be moving around the surface of the Earth endlessly,” agrees Brahney. “That's just really horrifying to think about.”
It’s not just the U.S. Navy that recorded UFOs over ships and military installations… a strange UFO was photographed recently over part of the Fort Tiuna Military Complex — one of Venezuela’s most important military installations. Is this a coincidence? A warning to the world’s militaries that someone is watching? Is it another foreign power … or aliens?
“On April 7, Agustín Prado was photographing the beautiful sunset of the city of Fuerte Tiuna, built within a military complex located in Libertador Municipality, Venezuela. When he reviewed the photos, the young man was surprised: he managed to identify a UFO (unidentified flying object) flying over the complex.”
Radio Mitre reports (with photos of the UFO – see them here) on the strange photo taken by Agustín Prado, a “young entrepreneur dedicated to the crypto-asset market” (who isn’t these days?), who says he snapped several photos in a few seconds but only one showed the UFO. Fuerte (Fort) Tiuna is a housing development contained within the Fort Tiuna Military Complex for military personnel stationed there.
The base, located in Caracas, is the headquarters of the Ministry of Popular Power for Defense, EFOFAC, The General Command of the Army, El Libertador Shooting Range, the Army Food Center, the Caracas Military Circle, Paseo Los Próceres, the Bolívar Battalion, La Viñeta Residence (Official Residence of the Vice President) and some units of the Venezuelan Military Academy (per Wikipedia).
Offices 1 and 2 of the Ministry of Defense of Venezuela in Fort Tiuna – Caracas
Before reporting his sighting to the military and submitting himself to whatever that might entail, Prado sent the photos to Héctor Escalante, an investigative journalist in the UFO field. Escalante posted his analysis and opinion on his blog and Instagram.
“When looking at the image, the first thing that comes to mind is a drone, but if so, why was its flight path not recorded in the rest of the images? Suppose it was a stain on the camera lens, that also usually happens a lot, although, in this case, the figure is quite obvious and defined, why does it not appear in the other photographs, if during the realization of the tomas, who handled the device never cleaned it? What if it was a bird? It can be seen that it is not so close, if we compare its size in proportion to that of the buildings and tower cranes that can be seen in the graph, in addition, it would have to have flown quite fast not to appear in the following photos.”
Escalante does a good job of eliminating the usual suspects – drone, lens problem, bird – with the logic that all would have appeared in all of the photos, not just one. So … what is it? Rather than speculating, he refers to a previous UFO sighting over Fort Tiuna in September 2020 which was also photographed – that one occurred at night and appeared to be a glowing ball, but the witness claimed it later it radiated flashes of “yellow and red” and after “moving all over the sky, it suddenly opened in two and took a triangular shape” before “disappeared into the distance” without leaving any trace.
No one else saw the UFO at Mission Housing in Fort Tiuna, Caracas?
It’s disappointing that Escalante does not reveal if he contacted anyone at Fort Tiuna or within the Venezuelan military about these sightings less than a year apart over one of the most important bases in the country. Both photos are blurred and beyond easy identification, but the most recent one has the crane in it to make the location easier to pinpoint. Since it doesn’t appear than there were any other witnesses in either case, it makes the usual suspects less suspect – even though the lack of its appearance in the other recent photos at least makes one go “Hmmm.”
Beyond that? We’ll have to wait and see if the Venezuelan military follows the U.S. Navy’s lead and admitting it doesn’t know either.
Months after my Roswell-themed-book, Body Snatchers in the Desert, was published in June 2005, I received an out-of-the-blue email from a well-respected Australian UFO researcher, Keith Basterfield. As Keith notes of himself: “I have been interested in the subject of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) since the 1960’s. Over the years I have held a variety of roles in numerous Australian state, national, and international organizations, studying the phenomena. My work has appeared in various state, national and international newsletters, magazine and journals. Between 2003 and 2008 I was involved in a search for Australian government documents relating to UAP with the Adelaide based AURA network.” Keith had a fascinating account to relate that dovetailed very closely with the data given to me by Al Barker, Bill Salter, the Black Widow, and the Colonel – four people who I interviewed for my 2005 book, Body Snatchers in the Desert. Notably, the information was provided to Keith well before Body Snatchers in the Desert was published and when the existence of the book – and the story it told – was still firmly under wraps in the offices of Simon & Schuster in New York. It was specifically after my book was published that Keith realized the data given to him some time earlier was eerily similar to that which I had uncovered. He wasted no time in getting in touch with me. I listened carefully to what Keith had to say.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005, Keith told me, was the date on which he received a story just about as shocking and controversial as the ones I had uncovered between 2001 and 2003. On the day in question, Keith was interviewed on Australia’s ABC 891AM radio station. The subject was the work of the Adelaide-based Australian UFO Research Association, specifically in relation to the issue of so-called “UFO disclosure.” Although Keith did not know it at the time, while he was taking part in the show, a caller phoned in, left his name and number, and asked for Keith to get in touch. He did precisely that. It was later in the day that Keith made the call, in which his source somewhat hesitantly revealed snippets of a dark and dirty secret concerning certain things that went down – as in quite literally down – in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1947. We’re talking about Roswell. Such was the potential dangerous nature of the information, Keith felt it was much wiser for the pair to meet up in-person, rather than discuss such matters over the phone. Keith was wise to follow his instincts; after all, one never knows who might be listening in.
When Keith related the account to me, he preferred not to use the informant’s name and gave him an alias instead: Martin. Echoing this, Martin said to me that if I ever told his story, his name should never be revealed. It should be noted, however, that both Keith and I know Martin’s real name. As Keith told me, he met Martin at the latter’s home in Adelaide on January 15, 2005 – roughly six months before Body Snatchers in the Desert hit the bookshelves. The story went as follows: Martin’s father – a Brit – had worked for a certain arm of British intelligence decades before Keith got the story. I would later learn that the agency was specifically MI5, which is the U.K.’s equivalent of the United States’ FBI. Martin’s father was sitting upon a secret of epic and grim proportions – one which he had already been silently keeping under wraps for years. Such were Martin’s concerns and worries about sharing the story with Keith, he insisted that the information not be revealed to anyone – at all – without his, Martin’s, specific permission. Or, until after Martin’s death; whichever came first. Keith agreed to the terms and sat back and listened as the dark and shocking tale came tumbling out.
Keith revealed that at the time Martin chose to share the secrets of his father, Martin’s health was far from good. He was seriously ill – with a heart condition. It was possible that Martin was not long for this world, although he was not quite on his deathbed, yet. The upshot was that Martin wanted to reveal to someone the story that his father had told him, while there was still time. Keith agreed to listen and also agreed not to place Martin’s real, full name into the public domain. According to Martin, he was told by his father of the truth of Roswell way back in 1959 – when Martin was only twelve years old. Such were his father’s concerns about imparting what he knew, he asked young Martin never to reveal the story until he was either very old or on his deathbed. Given his serious heart problems that were in evidence in 2005, Martin thought it was a case of possibly now or never – hence his decision to share what he knew with Keith.
Martin’s father had gotten all of the information on Roswell from a source working in the U.S. Intelligence community – who, exactly, we still don’t know. Martin’s father explained that the events which occurred out on the wilds of the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in July 1947 were born out of early, and highly secret, experiments that had a bearing on the formative years of what would ultimately become the U.S. space program. Keith, in a July 2011 online article, revealed what else Martin chose to share with him: “The Americans were working on getting into space. Their biggest concern was getting back to Earth and landing without killing the people inside the space vehicle. Landing in water was not considered, but a ground landing was the order of the day. The Americans were experimenting with craft they dropped from ‘aircraft’ flying in the stratosphere. Also, gigantic balloons were being flown in the stratosphere to drop craft fitted with retrorockets and a drogue chute. The retrorocket was fitted with an altimeter to fire them close to the ground. Lots of UFO sightings were of these craft. The U.S. released bogus flying saucer sightings and later discredited them.”
Martin recalled – to both Keith and I – how his father had informed him of a series of high-altitude experiments in the United States, in 1947, involving monkeys and pigs, specifically in connection with the prototype aircraft / balloon flights. On this particular occasion, however – the one that spawned the ever-enduring legend of Roswell’s crashed UFO – it was decided that a human crew was finally needed. Keith was told that “Prisoners could volunteer for dangerous missions in return for early release but were not used in these experiments.” This issue of prisoners used in experiments, specifically in relation to radical aircraft-based technology, is not a matter of doubt or a tale born out of folklore or conspiracy-theorizing. In 1948, staff of the Nuclear Energy for Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) program practically salivated at the idea of using prisoners in its aircraft-related trials. Official, now-declassified, records on this issue state: “The Committee is not in a position to make recommendations as to where these tests can be conducted other than that they should be carried out at some federal, state, or Armed Services prison, where life prisoners are incarcerated and where arrangements can be made with the prison authorities to cooperate in the experiment. The selection of the prison is a matter for top military consideration. Continued cooperation of the prison staff and prisoners for a matter of many years will be required [italics mine].”
That somewhat mirrored the words of my own informants in my 2005 book – namely, that prisoners were secretly offered reduced sentences if they were willing to engage in dicey and potentially missions for the military. On this occasion, however, it was not prisoners who were on-board the ultimately ill-fated craft, but physically and mentally handicapped people. As Keith recalled: “Two to three live people were needed. The government got people with hydrocephalus – water on the brain – from a facility.” From the interview with Martin, both Keith and I recalled much more too on the matter of the human guinea-pigs. Keith said that the people roped in had “big heads, tiny bodies, jaundiced color – one even had no eyes. They put these people in the craft – either the balloon ruptured early or blew off course and came down. Retrorockets went off and set fire to it. It landed and a farmer / rancher saw it and reported it.” That “farmer / rancher,” of course, was Mack Brazel; the man who let the Roswell cat out of the bag. Thus was born the legend of the “Roswell ‘UFO’ Crash” of 1947.
100-meter Asteroid Created a Strange Impact Event in Antarctica 430,000 Years Ago
100-meter Asteroid Created a Strange Impact Event in Antarctica 430,000 Years Ago
The effects of ancient asteroid impacts on Earth are still evident from the variety of impact craters across our planet. And from the Chelyabinsk eventback in 2013, where an asteroid exploded in the air above a Russian town, we know how devastating an “airburst” event can be.
Now, researchers in Antarctica have discovered evidence of a strange intermediate-type event – a combination of an impact and an airburst. The event was so devastating, its effects are still apparent even though it took place 430,000 years ago.
Researchers found small black spherules in the Sør Rondane Mountains of East Antarctica, which indicate an unusual “touchdown” event, where a jet of melted and vaporized meteoritic material impacted the ground at high velocity. This impact came as a result of an atmospheric entry and airburst of an asteroid measuring between 100 to 150 meters (330 to 490 feet) wide.
Scanning electron backscattered images of the spherules found in Antarctica. Credit: Matthias van Ginneken et al.
The research, led by planetary scientist Matthias van Ginneken from University of Kent in the UK, described the event as larger than an airburst, but smaller than an impact cratering event. While the density of the vaporized material was too low to form an impact crater, the tiny spherules made from igneous rock signal a high-energy event.
The team’s paper, published in Science Advances, indicates the vaporization of the asteroid during atmospheric entry would have created a cloud of superheated gas from which the extra-terrestrial spherules would have pelted the ground at high speeds, perhaps several kilometers per second.
This image of a vapor trail was captured about 125 miles (200 kilometers) from the Chelyabinsk meteor event, about one minute after the house-sized asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere. Credits: Alex Alishevskikh
The Chelyabinsk event, the largest witnessed airburst (except perhaps the Tunguska event in 1908, which flattened trees for miles), exploded with 20-30 times the force of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima at an altitude of just 14.5 miles (23 km). Before it detonated into thousands of mostly gravel-sized meteorites and dust, researchers estimate the incoming meteoroid was about 20-meters (66 feet) wide, about the size of five-story building. The shock wave from the explosion shattered windows and damaged buildings, injuring nearly 1,500 people.
The new findings in Antarctica indicate an impact much more hazardous than both the Tunguska and Chelyabinsk events. The researchers said this highlights the importance of reassessing the threat of medium-sized asteroids, as it is likely that similar touchdown events would produce similar particles and be destructive over a wide area. Between the hot gas and the hot jet of materials pummeling the ground, such an event could create a hellscape.
“While touchdown events may not threaten human activity if occurring over Antarctica,” van Ginneken said, “if it was to take place above a densely populated area, it would result in millions of casualties and severe damages over distances of up to hundreds of kilometers.”
Van Ginneken said their team recommends that future studies should focus on the identification of similar events on different targets across the planet – such as shallow ocean beds – because it would indicate how often events like this may have happened in the past.
UFOs Over Las Vegas, Nevada On March 5, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Over Las Vegas, Nevada On March 5, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 5, 2021
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Source: MUFON
In this video we get to see two unidentified flying objects over Las Vegas, Nevada. This area is very close to Nellis Air Force Base. These UFOs could be new military technology being developed over at the military base in order to keep up with Chinas constant aggressive moves to its neighbors. They could also be alien craft watching the military base and scanning the latest human technology in order to assess where America is in the big scope of things in case the US and China have to fight each other.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Two objects were noticed and appeared to be over the Las Vegas airport ( could have been further ) two separate objects slowly changing shapes and lighting up in daylight with no cloud cover. one started much higher and to the west and eventually disappeared how ever the lower second one was a much better video if you zoom in like I saw in person (not on iPhone) you can see it seems to change shape and will intermittently reflect or light up . I believe this was over airport airspace and drones, airplanes or any other object should not have been in the area, I view this area from work 5 days a week and several times a day (while smoking at work outside).
UFO activity filmed over Aurora, Colorado on 20th January 2021.
Witness report:
Saw 3 lights that looked like stars but brighter and bigger. I was starring at what I thought were 3 stars. I realized they weren’t stars once 1 of them moved. I also realized I had been starring for awhile almost in a trance. The bright objects did not look like any of the planes ascending and descending nearby and they had no sound. The first bright object that moved, I didn’t actually see it move it just appeared at a different spot in like seconds. Imagine 3 dots lined horizontally and the furthest to the right all of a sudden fades away and reappears diagonally. Then the furthest left disappears. The middle remains hovering. Then the one diagonal appears to be dimming and fading in and out and eventually all disappeared. I didn’t see them move or zip away just poof gone. Later I looked up at the stars and constellations noticing how small the real stars actually looked. The lights I saw has to be 20x bigger looking than the stars.
Marcahuasi: Vestiges of a Forgotten Global Civilization, or Just Weird Rocks in Peru?
Marcahuasi: Vestiges of a Forgotten Global Civilization, or Just Weird Rocks in Peru?
The world is full of difficult-to-explain wonders. In the last century, archaeologists have discovered many civilizations, such as the Hittites, which were previously not thought to exist. As a result, the discovery of a new civilization has become relatively commonplace today. One supposed example of this is the Marcahuasi rock forest.
Within the unusual rock formations, many visitors have claimed to have found what amounts to hundreds of carvings. But others say that these are just the result of natural erosion; meaning one possible explanation of this phenomenon is pareidolia.
One of the first modern explorers to visit Marcahuasi in Peru was the self-styled archaeologist and mystic Daniel Ruzo, who visited the site in 1952. He spent nine years exploring the region and claimed to have found hundreds of human sculptures, as well as figurines of animals such as camels, lions, seals, and frogs. He also claimed that some sculptures were made in such a way that they appeared to change their shape at different times of the day and year depending on how they were illuminated.
The ‘Monument to Humanity’ rock sculpture at Marcahuasi.
Ruzo also claimed that Marcahuasi had vortices of healing power, making it a deeply spiritual place. He believed that it was built by a civilization called the Masma, who, according to Ruzo, once maintained a globe-spanning civilization before they were destroyed in a cataclysm. He used this to explain why some of the figures appeared to imply an origin on different continents - such as animals not native to South America.
Ruzo’s tale of the Masma civilization has its origins in the beliefs of a Peruvian esotericist by the name of Pedro Astete, who had heard the name in a dream. Ruzo came to believe that the cataclysm that allegedly wiped out the Masma would one day happen again and that it was a part of a cycle spanning thousands of years.
Since Daniel Ruzo first made these observations in the 1950s, many people have gone to the Marcahuasi rock forest and have claimed to feel a spiritual presence there. Many have also said they experienced out-of-body experiences, visions of ghosts, and even encounters with UFOs. There are many stories of supernatural events involving these mysterious formations. One such tale is of a man who was paralyzed in a car accident being miraculously healed after meeting a mysterious man among the rock formations.
Although most archaeologists believe them to be natural formations, many fringe theorists and mystics have insisted that the rock formations are artificially modified. Among the more well-known sculptures are the ‘Monument to Humanity,’ two statues of queens (one of which is said to be African), and a feature that some believe resembles an Egyptian deity in the form of an anthropomorphic hippopotamus. There is also at least one statue that is said to resemble the face on Mars .
In addition to statues, explorers of the area say that they have found the remains of office buildings and residences, indicating that it was once a city. There is also a claim of a mummy having been found in the area.
Although this would be definitive proof of a sustained human presence in the area, it wouldn’t necessarily mean that the rock formations are indeed statues or that a city ever existed in the area. No serious archaeological surveys appear to have been done in the area, so it is hard to verify that a mummy was actually found at the site.
The man who is most often sourced in relation to Marcahuasi is Daniel Ruzo. His methods don’t appear to have been very rigorous. He was more of a mystic than scientific investigator. Most of the other studies of Marcahuasi suggest that there isn’t any evidence of a large human settlement having ever existed in the area.
If the location had been the site of a city, it is likely the tools, human remains, ornaments, figurines, middens, and other archaeological items would be found. From what can be gathered though, none of the hallmarks of a human settlement have been discovered, with the possible exception of a mummified body. If the rocks really are sculptures, then they are the only evidence of a complex society at Marcahuasi. In fact, this is probably why there hasn’t been much archaeological investigation at the site by mainstream archaeologists; they believe there isn’t much to be found.
Another problem with the alleged statues is that upon examination it is difficult to tell them apart from natural rock formations that have been eroded. Some people have claimed that the sculptures change their form in different light at different times of the year. At one time of the year a formation might appear to be a frog and at another part of the year it might be a bird.
Art is distinguished from nature by how clearly it represents something and is deliberately manufactured. If the form of a sculpture is so open to interpretation, it leaves one to wonder if there is anything there at all or if these statues are not simply the result of imagination.
This leads to another possible explanation for the apparent figures: pareidolia. Pareidolia is a tendency for humans to see patterns that are not really there. This is the reason why people have claimed to have seen things like a face on Mars or the face of Jesus Christ on toast. Our mind tries to make sense of all the sensory stimuli and puts together a pattern that is familiar to us, but it does not actually exist.
The reason that our brains are wired to see patterns even if they aren’t there is probably because there was no selective advantage against false positives. If a prehistoric human thought he saw a tiger in the grass and didn’t, he would run and still survive even though he was mistaken; whereas someone who wasn’t able to detect a pattern that actually was there, tiger stripes in this case, would be more likely to get eaten.
Because of pareidolia, we must be more careful to make sure that what we see is actually there. If we look long enough, our brain will discern a pattern whether or not one actually exists, especially if we want it to be there. As a result, it is important to be skeptical and discerning when it comes to encountering things in nature that look manmade. Is there a good reason to think it is? Is it likely? If not, it might just be pareidolia.
Top Image: Marcahuasi Stone Forest in Peru. Source: Adwo /Adobe Stock
Man Is Not The King – New Evidence Of More Advanced Earthly Civilizations
Man Is Not The King – New Evidence Of More Advanced Earthly Civilizations
From time to time, scientists find strange artifacts that are attributed to the property of other civilizations. A lot of things tell us that even before us, developed people lived on Earth who were able to come up with what we have reached quite recently. But why such confidence that the finds are the property of other civilizations that lived before humans?
Whose artifacts?
During the period that people needed to achieve “civilization”, other civilizations could well develop and improve. Archaeologists have repeatedly found strange artifacts that cannot belong to people in any way, the finds were well ahead of their time – how did they even appear?
In finds that are considered “not ours” there are many differences that do not fit into the usual history. They are called ‘out of place’ artifacts.
Take, for example, the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, which is approximately 2000 years old. It was used to calculate the position of celestial bodies: the sun, moon and planets. How was it known that there were other planets? This means that the civilizations that lived in those days were very smart, since they were able to find out and come up with such a complex mechanism.
In the middle of the 20th century, archaeologists found a hammer in Texas. After analysis, it turned out that this object is in no way less than 100 million years old. It was made of a very ancient stone, once its handle was made of wood, but over time it turned into coal. No less strange was the 500,000-year-old spark plug.
Something from the realm of fantasy
Not all scientists and archaeologists are sure that there were no civilizations on Earth before humans. In the scientific world, everything is divided into two camps and the controversy does not subside. Even more fuel is added to the fire by new finds, for which no one has ever found an explanation.
One of the most mysterious, is the Ayud artifact discovered in Romania and although they found it back in 1974, there is still no clear explanation for the find. This piece of metal lay at a depth of 10 m among the bones of long-extinct mastodons. The artifact is very similar to an axe without a handle and weighs over 2 kg. It turned out to be a complex aluminium alloy.
The find is strange and does not fit with people in any way, because its age is more than respectable. Aluminum was first obtained only in the middle of the 19th century. Therefore, the only version categorizes it to a different, technically advanced civilization.
There is of course the assumption that the shifts of the earth’s crust were sudden and abrupt and as a result of such shifts, and ordinary hammer could be found at a kilometer depth or any other depth! Ordinary analysis would give the ‘millions of years’ result.
A sudden sagging of the earth’s crust (more than a kilometer) would give an extremely sharp minus temperature that could instantly freeze not only mammoths, but even the air! (which otherwise explain permafrost at depths below 800 meters!). This explains the presence of the mining and geological disturbances themselves, there are many ensuing consequences.
There are although many such finds, the vast majority of them, perhaps, are the keys to unraveling the existence of civilizations before man.
If we accept that man is the most perfect being in the world and the king of creation is a pseudo-fact, then everything will become clear. Modern man could well be a degenerated and degraded being, the end of the stage of evolution.
The SpaceX Starship prototype, flying high above the launch facility in Boca Chica, Texas
SpaceX
In 2023, will civilians fly around the moon for the first time? According to Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa, the answer is yes. He is bankrolling the DearMoon mission, which is intended to take a group of eight people to the moon on SpaceX's still-in-development Starship and loop around Earth's natural satellite on a six-day mission.
The project, announced by Maezawa and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in 2018, originally planned to invite artists from around the world to experience. The criteria for "artists" was never clearly defined, but on Tuesday, in a new promotional video for the mission, Maezawa announced that DearMoon would be opened up to practically everyone across the globe.
"I began to think that maybe every single person who is doing something creative could be called an artist," he says in the video, which you can view below.
Maezawa outlines "two key criteria" for the civilian passengers. These seem fairly flexible, too.
"Whatever activity you are into, by going to space, I hope that you can push its envelope, to help other people and greater society in some way."
"You have to be willing and able to support other crew members who share similar aspirations."
In total, Maezawa says 10 to 12 people will be on board for the first flight around the moon. The billionaire entrepreneur had also begun to develop a "matchmaking" TV show around finding a girlfriend he could take to the moon on the mission, but Maezawa canceled the project shortly after its announcement.
Musk makes an appearance in the video to explain the mission expects to take people "further than any human has ever gone from planet Earth" because it will fly past the moon and loop around it to head back home.
Musk says he's "highly confident" that the Starship will have reached orbit "many, many times" before 2023 and that it will be "safe enough for human transport" by the time the mission is scheduled to launch. Musk has been prone to making these kinds of claims before and missing a deadline or too, and the Starship prototypes are yet to make a successful landing. The next prototype is scheduled to fly and land this week -- but that's a long way from getting to the moon and back.
We've reached out to the DearMoon team to clarify the details.
Another SpaceX mission aims to send civilians to space very soon. Known as Inspiration4, it plans to send humans to orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon, lifting off on top of a Falcon 9. It too is being bankrolled by a billionaire, Jared Isaacman, and it could fly before the end of the year.
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Though the explosion itself was obscured by dense fog, a weather radar detected a plume of gas that signalled an explosion in mid-air
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As in past tests, the SN11 showcased clean firing of three Raptor engines and autonomous control of the flaps that steer the craft back to land
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The landing attempt followed a clean liftoff and a demonstration of the rocket’s autonomous in-flight maneuvers
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A spectator holds a piece of debris which was blown 5 miles from the site where SpaceX test rocket SN11 exploded upon landing
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The finished Starship product will stand 165ft tall and boast six of SpaceX's powerful Raptor engines
Today, and for the last week, as you will have seen, I’ve been digging further into the angle of Roswell having nothing to do with aliens, but everything to do with shocking tests on people. And here’s a bit more of the story. The late Leonard Stringfield, who passed away in 1994, was a UFO researcher who firmly believed that, since the 1940s, the U.S. Government had secretly recovered a number of crashed UFOs and dead aliens, and which were stored and preserved a variety of military bases across the country – many at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Stringfield, too, however, was given a number of accounts relative to the issue of secret and shocking human experimentation on handicapped people; experimentation that was tied in with the Roswell affair. One of those stories came to Stringfield from a highly controversial figure in Ufology. His name: Timothy Cooper, a resident of Big Bear Lake, California and someone who, it has often been said, exited the field of UFO research years ago. Not quite so. Far more than a few people in Ufology have very little time for Cooper, suspecting that many of the documents he supplied to the UFO community in the mid-1990s were bogus, rather than the highly classified papers that they were purported to be. They were bogus; there is no doubt about that. But, Cooper himself was not the forger. It’s the “pre-documents” era we have to take a look at. It paints a very different picture of Cooper to that which many ufologists have accepted.
Tim Cooper said to Stringfield in 1990 that he had numerous sources of the old-timer kind – some of who assured Cooper that, yes, aliens really did crash outside of Roswell in the summer of 1947. Others, however, quietly hinted to Cooper that the truth was far more controversial: a scenario involving human guinea-pigs – Japanese and handicapped individuals – and the creation of UFO-themed disinformation programs and faked, pro-UFO documents to hide the down-to-earth truth of the Roswell enigma. Also in 1990, Cooper supplied Stringfield one specific story which Stringfield decided to firmly keep under wraps until the following year, 1991, when he published it in a lengthy report on tales of crashed and secretly retrieved alien spacecraft. The story concerned a woman who Cooper first crossed paths with in 1989. He described her only as a nurse, and gave her the pseudonym of “Mary.” Decades ago, Cooper’s informant allegedly worked at what is, today, the New Mexico-based Los Alamos National Laboratory.
In Cooper’s own words of 1990, and which Stringfield published: “She casually mentioned to me over coffee that ‘bodies’ were being flown to Los Alamos periodically from late 1945 to sometime in 1947. I asked her if she had seen these ‘bodies’ and she said no, but others had. I asked her where these ‘bodies’ were coming from. She said she did not know but it was rumored that they were human experiments for biological and nuclear medicine research. She thought they may have come from Japan after the war [italics mine]. I asked her why she thought that. She said that they were small bodies with deformed heads and limbs. The eyes were abnormally big, she was told. She did have some view of them in the morgue very briefly for a few minutes at some distance. I asked her why she was allowed to be present at the autopsies. She told me that she was asked to assist in the preparation and cleanup. I asked her again about the bodies. She said they were being flown in on special transport planes equipped with refrigerator units to keep the bodies from decomposing. The flesh was badly burned and charred. There was no hair on the heads and had a grayish-yellow color. That’s all she knew.”
It has to be said this is the part of Ufology that so many people in the UFO scene prefer to ignore. The reason: because it threatens their belief systems when it comes to the issue of what did or did not happen outside of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Some may dismiss all of this (or choose to forget about it), but the fact is there are so many threads of this type that push things down a “secret experiments” angle. Don’t close your eyes and ignore it all. Instead, follow the story and dig into it even more – as I have done – and you may well find something that might shock you, but that deserves to be shared with us all. Before, that is, the whole thing is hidden from us to such a degree that we will never know the truth.
Both inside and outside of the U.K., the death of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the age of 99 has provoked numerous news stories all around the world. That brings me to a UFO connection to Prince Philip, in a roundabout way. May 22 1955 was the date when an American journalist named Dorothy Kilgallen (who, some say, died under questionable circumstances) prepared an amazing story for the U.S. media, and specifically for International News Service (INS): “I can report today on a story which is positively spooky, not to mention chilling. British scientists and airmen, after examining the wreckage of one mysterious flying ship, are convinced these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or Soviet inventions, but are flying saucers which originate on another planet. The source of my information is a British official of cabinet rank who prefers to remain unidentified.”
Kilgallen’s informant – evidently, someone powerful in the U.K. government – agreed to talk to her and reveal what he knew. The man didn’t say much, but it was still enough to turn heads and open eyes. His words went as follows: “We believe, on the basis of our inquiry thus far, that the saucers were staffed by small men – probably under four feet tall. It’s frightening, but there’s no denying the flying saucers come from another planet.” Kilgallen wasn’t done: “This official quoted scientists as saying a flying ship of this type could not have possibly been constructed on Earth. The British Government, I learned, is withholding an official report on the ‘flying saucer’ examination at this time, possibly because it does not wish to frighten the public. When my husband and I arrived here from a brief vacation, I had no premonition that I would be catapulting myself into the controversy over whether flying saucers are real or imaginary.”
England’s Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, disembark from a British Airways Concorde supersonic transport aircraft upon their arrival for a royal visit.
So, who was Kilgallen’s anonymous informant? To answer that question we have to turn our attentions to Timothy Good, a longtime, and well-respected, UFO investigator and author; and to a man named Gordon Creighton who, for years, was the editor of Flying Saucer Review magazine. Good, who followed the Kilgallen story, said that the conversation “was alleged to have taken place during a cocktail party given by Lord Mountbatten, but I have been unable to substantiate this with Mollie Travis, Mountbatten’s private secretary at the time.” The theory is that Mountbatten was not only the host of the party; but, that he was also the man who had something sensational to say, to Kilgallen, about Flying Saucers. So, who, exactly, was Mountbatten? Town & Country provide a background on the lord: “A great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he was a distant cousin of the Queen’s as well as Prince Philip’s uncle. Philip’s mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was Louis’s sister…In August of 1979, Lord Mountbatten was killed at age 79 in a terrorist attack by the Irish Republican Army.” There’s another piece of the story to address.
Journalist Dorothy Kilgallen
Decades ago, Prince Philip just happened to develop a deep interest in the UFO subject, as UFO writer-researcher David Clarke says. That the prince spent time living with the Mountbattens makes it very possible – maybe, even, extremely likely – that Lord Mountbatten confided in Prince Philip what he, Mountbatten, knew about UFOs and alien life. If Mountbatten was comfortable speaking with a journalist about all of this – Dorothy Kilgallen – then there’s a strong likelihood he would have told the prince of what he knew, too. As for Gordon Creighton, he, also, was a person who moved in high circles. When he passed away in 2003, the U.K.’s Times newspaper ran an obituary on the man himself. An extract from that same obituary reveals:
“Government service occupied most of the working life of Gordon Creighton, but he perhaps made his greatest mark as an authority on unidentified flying objects. His conviction that extraterrestrials were visiting Earth seemed oddly at variance with the more orthodox worlds of diplomacy and Whitehall. His expertise took him into government research on maps in oriental and other languages with the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, and he spent eight years as an intelligence officer on Russian and Chinese affairs at the Ministry of Defense. It is said that in the intelligence post he worked directly below the secret Whitehall department where the Air Ministry and the RAF were studying information on UFOs.”
And there will be much more to all of this coming soon.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is 'healthy' but its maiden flight has been delayed and it will now not launch until at least next week due to a software update.
Ingenuity's trip, which is to be the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet, was set for April 11, was delayed until April 14 and is now delayed again.
A high-speed test of the four-pound (1.8 kilogram) helicopter's rotors on Friday ended earlier than expected due to an alert of a potential issue.
The US space agency has now determined the craft is physically healthy, but requires a software update, which takes time to upload, before it can safely fly.
As the upload has to travel 147 million miles to the Red Planet, its expected the whole process will take up to a week, with a new flight date due to be set next week.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter is 'healthy' but its maiden flight has been delayed and will now not launch until at least next week due to a software update
Ingenuity's trip, which is to be the first-ever powered, controlled flight on another planet, was set for Sunday 11, was delayed until April 14 and is now delayed again.
MILESTONES TO REACH BEFORE INGENUITY CAN FLY
NASA says there are a number of milestones the development team have to meet before Ingenuity can fly.
These include:
Diagnose the issue and develop potential solutions
Develop and then validate the software solution
Upload the software solution to the helicopter on Mars
Load flight software onto flight controllers
Boot Ingenuity on the new flight software
Throughout the issues Ingenuity has continued to send information back to Earth, reporting in that it is 'healthy'.
When it does eventually fly, the plan is to have Ingenuity fly for 30 seconds to take a picture of the Perseverance rover, which touched down on Mars on February 18 with the helicopter attached to its underside.
A command sequence issue was identified on April 9 by the NASA JPL team during a planned high-speed spin-up test of the helicopter’s rotors.
The craft has gone through a number of tests before it can fly on Mars, to ensure each stage is operating as expected.
Over the weekend, the team considered and tested multiple potential solutions to this issue in simulations on Earth.
They discovered that minor modification and reinstallation of Ingenuity’s flight control software was 'the most robust path forward.'
This software update will modify the process by which the two flight controllers boot up, allowing the hardware and software to safely transition to the flight state.
Modifications to the flight software are being independently reviewed and validated by NASA engineers, and will be rolled out to Earth-based testbeds before eventually being sent the millions of miles to Mars to be uploaded to the small 4lb helicopter.
A high-speed test of the four-pound (1.8 kilogram) helicopter's rotors on Friday ended earlier than expected due to an alert of a potential issue
Ingenuity is expected to soar at some point in the next few weeks from a 33-by-33-foot piece of Martian real estate that is the first airfield on a another planet
While the development of the new software change is straightforward, the process of validating it and completing its uplink to Ingenuity will take some time.
A detailed timeline for rescheduling the high-speed spin-up test and first flight is still in process, with NASA saying the plan is to keep a new flight date 'fluid'.
The process of updating Ingenuity’s flight control software will follow established processes for validation with careful and deliberate steps to move the new software through the rover to the base station and then to the helicopter.
Marshelikopter Ingenuity moet software-update krijgen, datum van eerste vlucht nog onbekend
De eerste buitenaardse helikopter vliegt voorlopig nog niet rond op Mars. Bij een laatste test voordat het onbemande toestel zou opstijgen, kwam vorige week een computerprobleem aan het licht. Daarom moet de vluchtleiding van 280 miljoen kilometer afstand nieuwe software aan boord installeren. Die moet eerst op aarde worden getest.
Het kost tijd om de nieuwe code te maken, te controleren en dan naar Mars te sturen. Veel is nog onzeker, maar hopelijk kan volgende week een nieuwe datum voor de vlucht worden vastgesteld, laat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA weten. De helikopter is in goede staat en alle onderdelen aan boord werken goed, benadrukt de organisatie.
De Marshelikopter heeft de naam ‘Ingenuity’ (Vindingrijkheid) gekregen. Ingenuity zou in de nacht van zondag op maandag (Belgische tijd) zijn eerste korte vlucht maken. Het was de bedoeling dat hij in drie seconden naar een hoogte van enkele meters zou gaan. Daar zou hij 30 seconden blijven hangen, om vervolgens gecontroleerd op dezelfde plek te landen.
Als voorbereiding op de eerste vlucht liet de vluchtleiding vrijdag de rotoren van de helikopter draaien. Tijdens die generale repetitie ging iets mis. Toen de software aan boord moest omschakelen van de fase voor het vliegen naar de zogenaamde vliegfase, en dus deed alsof de helikopter daadwerkelijk ging opstijgen, sloeg de computer aan boord alarm en werd de repetitie gestaakt.
Rondvliegen
Als de eerste vlucht slaagt, kan Ingenuity daarna een keer of vijf rondvliegen op Mars, telkens enkele honderden meters verder. De helikopter houdt het waarschijnlijk ongeveer een maand vol op de rode planeet. Gelijkaardige helikopters kunnen ooit misschien helpen om een buitenaardse bestemming veel sneller te verkennen.
Ingenuity werd in juli gelanceerd, als bagage in het laadruim van het Marskarretje Perseverance (Volharding). Samen landden ze half februari op Mars. Ruim een week geleden werd Ingenuity neergezet op het oppervlak. De helikopter is bijna een meter hoog en weegt ongeveer 2 kilo.
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Huge non-human craft attempts to land at Iraqi base
Huge non-human craft attempts to land at Iraqi base
In the next video, Linda Moulton Howe talks about recent and upcoming events and continues with the infamous case of a huge non-human craft that attempted to land at Iraqi base in 2009.
2:27 - Saturday, March 13 - “Macron rehearses Star Wars”, “France runs satellite war games”
France carried out first ever military exercise in space
US, France, Germany take part in codename “Asterix”
wargame exercise practicing orbital defence
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Mystery boom, shaking reported around San Diego, March 10, 2021
noise and shaking felt around Southern California - no information about the cause, even from USGS - eyewitness in South Park… “I knew it wasn’t an earthquake”.. “sudden impact”
Strange metal sounds coming from the sky in PA on March 13
Phoenixville, PA witness: “we heard a metallic sound ..”this was not the sound of a sonic boom”
15:48 Interview with retired U.S. Any Chief Warrant Office 4
October, 2009 incident at USA forward operating base Sykes, outside Tal Afar, Iraq
saw huge craft above the runway
no fuselage, boomerang-shaped, floating above the runway
“this thing is like 1/8 mile wide”…”covered the whole runway”
“pale white, eggshell color”
“hovering at the end of the airstrip”
“it was so big”…”it came straight down the runway…made a very gentle turn to the right and started rising…and then it was gone” - “they covered it up”
UFO experts confirm the origins of strange objects captured on camera by NASA during a 1996 mission in Puerto Rico, in this clip from Season 16, “The Space Travelers.”
Perseverance took its first drive on Martian soil on 4 March.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover has had a busy first month on Mars’s surface. From Jezero Crater, where Perseverance landed on 18 February, it has been doing as much geology as it can — snapping pictures of its surroundings and analysing the rocks nearby. Already, team scientists have determined that several of the rocks are chemically similar to volcanic rocks on Earth, and that wind and water have eroded some of them.
“Everything is going great so far,” said Kenneth Farley, a geochemist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the mission’s project scientist. He and others described Perseverance’s progress on 16 March at a virtual meeting of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
As planned, the rover’s main science experiments will have to wait a few more months, while engineers continue to test its scientific instruments and prepare for the first helicopter flight on another world. Eventually, Perseverance will deploy an arsenal of tools, including a drill bit, a close-up camera and multiple chemical sensors to hunt for signs of past life in Martian rocks.
In the meantime, team scientists are plotting how the rover might travel from its landing site — recently named after the late science-fiction writer Octavia Butler — to the 40-metre-high cliffs of the ancient river delta that was the reason for Jezero’s choice as landing site in the first place. The delta, deposited billions of years ago by a river flowing on Mars, would have been an ideal landscape for ancient microbial life, had such life existed. But a treacherous dune field, which the rover cannot cross, lies between Perseverance and the delta. Researchers are discussing whether to drive the rover clockwise or anticlockwise around the dune field; the latter would make for a shorter trip, but the former would take Perseverance past a greater variety of interesting rocks.
The rover has been snapping photos of the rocks surrounding it since it landed on 18 February.
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None of this is likely to happen, however, until June at the earliest. First, Perseverance must drive to a suitable spot for it to test Ingenuity, its helicopter. This place will probably be a rock-strewn area not too far from the rover’s current location. There, the rover will lower Ingenuity from its belly, drive off a safe distance and shoot a video as the helicopter takes to the Martian skies. “We’re looking forward to those historic, aviation-first movies,” said Jim Bell, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University in Tempe who leads one of the rover’s camera teams. The helicopter test comes first because Ingenuity will fly with the rover as it drives, helping Perseverance to navigate its way across the landscape.
Until that first flight test, which is expected no earlier than the first week in April, team scientists will continue to explore the rocks around the landing site. Immediately surrounding the rover are lighter-coloured rocks peeking out from dark soil. Perseverance has used a laser-based instrument to determine that several of these rocks, including two that team scientists named Máaz and Yeehgo, are chemically similar to basaltic rocks on Earth, which form from molten rock. The instrument zaps rocks with a laser to vaporize small portions and study their chemical make-up. Through this analysis, the scientists have seen that Yeehgo shows signs of having water locked up in its minerals, said Roger Wiens, a geochemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico who is head of the laser-instrument team. These discoveries fit with what scientists had expected from Jezero — that it might have volcanic rocks on the crater floor, which could have interacted with water over time.
Máaz is one of the rocks that Perseverance has so far studied with a laser-based instrument. The rover has determined it is chemically similar to basaltic rocks on Earth.
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Many of the rocks around the landing site seem to have been sculpted by strong winds; one of these rocks is a dark, odd-shaped object that scientists have dubbed the harbour seal, for its similarity to a seal perching on a rock. The winds seem to have scoured the rocks mainly from the northwest, a direction that matches the major wind patterns calculated by global circulation models for Mars, said Bell.
Another dark-coloured rock looks as if it has been weathered not by wind but by water, said Farley. That suggests it could have been tumbled around in running water — perhaps in the ancient river flowing into Jezero, or in its lake. “This is quite promising for our study,” he said.
Perseverance scientists have been giving informal names to rocks, craters and other objects around the landing site using the Navajo, or Diné, language, which is spoken by many Native Americans in the southwestern United States. Following a tradition from earlier Mars landings, the scientists are choosing themes for names based on geological maps of Jezero, which are divided into sections named after national parks on Earth. Perseverance happened to land in the section named after Canyon de Chelly National Monument, which is in Arizona on Navajo tribal lands. Aaron Yazzie, an engineer on the rover team, is a member of the Navajo Nation and has led the effort to coordinate the names. Máaz, for instance, means Mars, while Yeehgo is an alternative spelling of the word for ‘diligent’.
After the helicopter test, and before Perseverance sets off for the delta, the rover will probably drill its first rock sample into the dark, fractured rock that makes up much of the Jezero Crater floor. Scientists have not yet determined whether this rock is volcanic — but if it is, it could help to determine the age of the crater floor. That’s because molten rock traps radioactive elements that decay at a predictable rate and can be used as a clock to date when the material was originally molten.
During its mission, Perseverance will collect approximately 30 tubes full of Martian rock and soil, laying them down on the Martian surface for a future mission to retrieve and fly back to Earth for scientists to analyse. When this happens, no earlier than 2031, it will be the first time that a sample has ever been returned from Mars.
It seems like a Hollywood blockbuster but it’s actually a real and concerning story: catastrophic sea level rise could be on the way. Researchers analyzed ice core samples taken in the 1960s from a secret Arctic military base and found that the Greenland ice sheet – which has enough water to raise sea levelsby 20 feet worldwide – could melt much faster than previously thought.
Image credit: Flickr / Ting Chen
More than 60 years ago, US Army scientists dug up the ice core in northwestern Greenland as part of the Iceworm project – a mission to build a subsurface base to hide hundreds of nuclear warheads. The army created a research base called Camp Century as a cover story, but the base was eventually abandoned and the ice core lay forgotten in a freezer.
Researchers rediscovered the ice samples in 2017 and started investigating them in 2019. They found fragments of fossilized plants that could have bloomed a million years ago, which implies there was once vegetation in a spot now buried with ice. Greenland’s current ice cover was thought to be three million years old, but these fragments say otherwise.
Most of Greenland is now covered by the Greenland Ice Sheet, which spans 656,000 square miles (1.7 million square kilometers) – three times the size of Texas, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). If the new research is right and most of Greenland’s ice vanished relatively recently, this isn’t good news for the stability of the current ice sheet.
If all of Greenland’s ice were to melt, the seas would rise by about 24 feet (seven meters), according to a 2019 report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. This would be enough to flood most coastal cities around the world. While this won’t happen tomorrow, Greenland’s ice sheet is already melting now six times faster than it was in the 1980s and if things don’t change soon, we could face a worst-case scenario.
“Before humans added hundreds of parts per million of fossil fuels to the atmosphere, our climate was able to melt away the ice sheet. In the future as we continue to warm the planet at an uncontrollable rate, we could force the Greenland ice sheet past some threshold and melt it and raise sea levels,” Drew Christ, the study’s lead author, told Gizmodo.
The US Army started building Camp Century in 1959, followed by the extraction of an ice core measuring 11 feet (3.4 meters) from a depth of 4,488 feet (1,368 m) below the ice. The core went to storage after the army finished the project, first in New York and then in Copenhagen. Following an inventory of materials in 2017, researchers were called on to examine the core.
Christ and the group of researchers noticed “little black things” floating in the water. They placed them under a microscope and discovered fossil twigs and leaves in the frozen sediment. Such plants, probably from a boreal forest, could have only grown if Greenland’s ice sheet was mostly gone. So now the next step will be to figure out how recently that happened.
To date the plants, the researchers looked at isotopes of aluminum and beryllium, which accumulate in minerals when exposed to radiation that filters through the atmosphere. They determined that the soil and the plants last saw sunlight between a few hundred thousand and about a million years ago. The traces of leaf waxes resembled those now found on tundra ecosystems.
The researchers estimated that the present ice sheet persisted at more or less the same size for about 2.6 million years, using geological records and ocean geochemistry. However, the findings showed that ice vanished almost entirely from Greenland during at least one period in the island’s most recent deep freeze – a previously unknown threshold for ice sheet stability.
“This is important as we move forward into a warmer future,” Christ told Gizmodo. “Our climate system has a delicate balance to it. If it changes enough, you can melt away large portions of these ice sheets and raise sea levels — and that would inundate and flood large portions of the most densely populated areas on Earth.”
The study used measurements gathered from Mars-orbiting spacecraft, rovers and meteorites.
Researchers then developed a computer simulation of how water was lost from the planet over time.
More than four billion years ago, Mars was warmer and wetter - possibly with a thicker atmosphere. Water coursed through rivers, cutting channels in the rock, and pooled in impact craters.
The Red Planet could have held enough water to cover its entire surface in a layer measuring between 100m and one kilometre deep.
Around a billion years later, Mars had made the transition to the colder, desolate planet we recognise today.
"We have known for a long time that Mars was much wetter in its early history. But, the exact fate of that water has been an ongoing problem," said planetary scientist Dr Peter Grindrod, who was not involved with the latest study.
Dr Grindrod, from London's Natural History Museum, told BBC News: "We already know from studies of the atmosphere of Mars that some of that water was lost to space, and ice deposits on and just below the surface tell us that some water became frozen."
Escape to space
Earth has a magnetic shield, or magnetosphere, that helps prevent the atmosphere from escaping. But Mars' magnetic shield is weak and could have allowed elemental components of water to escape from the planet.
But the rate at which hydrogen - one chemical constituent of water - escapes from that atmosphere today suggests this can't be the whole story.
If it's assumed that the current loss rate for hydrogen was the same in the past, "it's a pretty small amount of water that you would have lost through this escape process", said co-author Eva Linghan Scheller, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.
In other words, most of the water must have gone elsewhere.
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image captionNasa's latest rover will explore a geological feature called a delta, laid down in the presence of flowing water
The results of the team's computer modelling work show that between 30% and 99% of Mars' initial water was incorporated into minerals and buried in the planet's crust.
Co-author Prof Bethany Ehlmann, also from from Caltech, explained that, "by studying data from Mars missions, It became clear that it was common - and not rare - to find evidence of water alteration".
She continued: "When the crust becomes altered, it takes water - like liquid water - and sequesters it in a hydrated mineral that has water in its structure so that it is effectively trapped."
The authors suggest that most of the water was lost between about 4.1 and 3.7 billion years ago - during a stretch of Martian history known as the Noachian Period.
Martian climate change
Dr Michael Meyer, lead scientist for Nasa's Mars exploration program, said: "The original overarching role of Mars exploration has been to follow the water, since it plays such a central role in the geology, climate and life of the planet.
"This is a very important paper to understand how much water was on Mars, how it might have been lost and where it might be today."
Dr Grindrod added: "What this new study tells us is that a lot of that water, possibly the majority, could have actually been locked into the rocks on Mars. This process of hydration is capable of storing large volumes of water, up to an amount equivalent to a global layer a kilometre deep."
"Although most of the liquid water had probably disappeared after about one and a half billion years after Mars formed, we see evidence of hydrated minerals at the surface today, in areas like Jezero Crater, which is currently being explored by the Perseverance rover.
"The early climate of Mars remains one of the most important topics in planetary science, and this study will help our understanding of the processes responsible for water loss."
Some early-bird skywatchers got a surprise before dawn Sunday (March 14).
This photo by Eduardo R. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Chesapeake Beach, MD. (Image credit: Eduardo R. )
"Is it a fireball?" "Is it a space jellyfish?" Nope, it's a SpaceX rocket.
Some observers along the U.S. East Coast saw a strange sight in the dark, early morning sky on Sunday (March 14): a bright object streaking across the sky, leaving a ballooning, illuminated trail behind it. The pre-dawn sky made this spectacle even more striking and the American Meteor Society (AMS) received about 120 reports about "an observed object in the sky," the AMS tweeted. However, the sighting was actually of a SpaceX rocket, not a fireball, the AMS confirmed.
At 6:01 a.m. EDT (1101 GMT) Sunday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying a fresh batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit. People all along the East Coast, from Florida up to Maine, saw the rocket's brilliant streak across the sky.
This photo by Warren L. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021, as seen from Front Royal, Virginia.
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This photo by Cory B. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Lebanon, PA.
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This image was taken by Monita S. of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on March 14, 2021, as seen from Pleasantville, NJ.
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This photo by Jonathan W. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Holly Springs, NC.
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This photo by Paul H. shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch on March 14, 2021 as seen from Frederick County, MD.
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Skywatchers sent the AMS photos of the "fireball," showing the striking image of the rocket midflight. Florida launches like this one are often visible along the East Coast. But this time, because the launch happened in the predawn hours, the sun illuminated the rocket's plume and created a unique atmospheric effect that only happens at dawn and dusk, where the light looks like a "space jellyfish" in the sky.
This sighting isn't the first time that skywatchers have mistaken a rocket launch for something stranger in the sky. SpaceX launches have sparked claims of UFOs, as they sometimes create strange, squiggly "clouds" in the sky.
As during SpaceX's other Falcon 9 launches, the reusable rocket's first stage fell back to Earth shortly after launch; it landed on SpaceX's drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You," which was posted in the Atlantic Ocean, the ninth time for this booster.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2021 in a brilliant pre-dawn liftoff.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2021 in a brilliant pre-dawn liftoff.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2021 in a brilliant pre-dawn liftoff.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX is working to launch the massive constellation of Starlink internet satellites to create global internet coverage and provide internet connectivity for those in rural or remote areas that otherwise don't have access.
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover in this image taken April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission by the WATSON (Wide Angle Topographic Sensor for Operations and eNgineering) camera on the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument, located at the end of the rover's long robotic arm.
Perseverance’s selfie with Ingenuity is made up of 62 individual images stitched together once they are sent back to Earth; they were taken in sequence while the rover was looking at the helicopter, then again while it was looking at the WATSON camera. The Curiosity rover takes similar selfies using a camera on its robotic arm. Videos explaining how the rovers take their selfies can be found here.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory built and manages operations of Perseverance and Ingenuity for the agency. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA. WATSON was built by Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, and is operated jointly by MSSS and JPL.
The Mars helicopter technology demonstration activity is supported by NASA's Science Mission Directorate, the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, and the NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate.
A key objective for Perseverance's mission on Mars is astrobiology, including the search for signs of ancient microbial life. The rover will characterize the planet's geology and past climate, pave the way for human exploration of the Red Planet, and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust).
Subsequent NASA missions, in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency), would send spacecraft to Mars to collect these sealed samples from the surface and return them to Earth for in-depth analysis.
The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is part of NASA's Moon to Mars exploration approach, which includes Artemis missions to the Moon that will help prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet.
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter does a slow spin test of its blades on April 8, 2021, the 48th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.
Since its founding in 1974, the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) has served as a non-judgmental hub where you can share—via hotline or written report—any potentially otherworldly experience you’ve had. The online archive contains thousands of these stories, which range from UFO and alien sightings to other unexplained phenomena. The NUFORC doesn’t question the veracity of the reports, and it doesn’t always speculate about possible causes, either. In fact, the organization encourages a healthy skepticism about what you read on its site.
Decide for yourself whether each eerie tale below is the result of extraterrestrial intervention, military experimentation, a scientific anomaly, or just a misunderstanding—that is, if you believe them at all.
1. TOO MUCH HAIR, TOO LITTLE TIME // 1969
On a weekend trip to Boulder, Colorado, in 1969, a young member of the Air Force was in bed when his motel room suddenly darkened, “followed by a bright flash of light.” The next day, he realized his half-inch-long hair was now almost two inches long, a mystery that his roommate “totally freaked out” about when he returned to the base in Aurora, Colorado. “He wasn’t sure what to think of my story, but did realize there was glaring physical evidence,” the airman recalled. Though he didn’t remember anything else from that night, he speculated in his report that he had been abducted (and presumably taken to a place where time passes more quickly than it does on Earth). “I still have trouble remembering many things, as it has always been very ‘foggy’ since that time,” he said.
2. THE LONG-ARMED COLLECTOR // 1971
At about 10 p.m. one summer night in 1971, two teenage girls crept from their houses in Sunnyvale, California, and met up for a neighborhood stroll. All was still and silent for an hour or so, until they came upon a 20- to 30-foot flying ship hovering as low as the streetlights “probably a full five-minute walk ahead” of them. The friends watched it drift toward some nearby apartment buildings and appear to survey them, bobbing slightly up and down. “It had these great enormous arms on the sides that slowly swiveled around and they had lines on the ends, like ropes, but they weren’t ropes,” one of the friends explained in her report.
It didn’t make noise or light up, and it looked more like wood than metal. She got the impression it was “collecting things,” though she couldn’t see what was inside. The girls fled in terror when the aircraft abruptly turned its attention on them, and they tried in vain to convince the one friend’s father that they had seen something truly extraordinary. “He dismissed it and said it was probably just a weather balloon,” the witness wrote. “If I am sure of anything, it is that that thing was no weather balloon.”
3. COWS GONE WILD // 1975
Scared now, brown cow?KMATIJA/ISTOCK VIA GETTY IMAGES
Two friends were driving along the quiet country roads of La Fontaine, Indiana, after a fishing trip one evening in 1975. About a quarter mile away, a flying disc “with white lights revolving around it” appeared and lowered itself gradually until it was completely obscured by a nearby house. They followed it behind the house, but found only “cows running all over the road, frightened and mooing.” The cows had apparently torn right through the electric fence, and a neighbor soon showed up to see what all the fuss was about. “He asked if we knew what had happened because cows just don't break down an electric fence for nothing,” the witness said. “We didn’t say anything about what we had just seen.”
4. THE VANISHING SILVER SHIP // 1979
From his front step in Wenatchee, Washington, a man watched a silver triangular aircraft with “no discernible fuselage, no wings or other protruding control devices” coast slowly over the tops of 150-foot-tall poplar trees. “A jet liner could not have stayed airborne at such a sedate rate of speed,” he recalled, and this was significantly larger than a Boeing 747. There wasn’t much time to wonder about the physics that kept the craft in flight, because it was drifting straight toward Burch Mountain. “My immediate thought was that a monstrous crash was imminent,” the witness explained, but it never came to pass. Instead, the UFO just disappeared.
The NUFORC actually vouched for this particular onlooker. “One of two excellent reports from [the] same witness,” they wrote in a note below his report. “We know this witness, and have spoken with him on several occasions. He formerly served in the U.S. military, and held a high security clearance.”
5. THE GLOWING GRAY NIGHTTIME VISITOR // 1982
A man in Leicester, England, awoke one night in 1982 to find a soft light illuminating his room. It was coming from the face of a 4-foot-tall gray creature that resembled the classic aliens from 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The witness, “overwhelmed with a feeling of calm and peace,” pinched himself several times to make sure he wasn’t simply dreaming and scanned the room in vain for some other explanation. Knowing he’d have a tough time convincing anyone he was telling the truth, he nudged his wife awake so she could bear witness, too. But as soon as she stirred, the room went completely black and the visitor vanished. “Did I imagine or dream the whole thing?” he wrote in his report. “Absolutely one million percent no.”
6. THE DISEMBODIED SEARCH BEAM // 1988
Three friends were on their way home from an INXS concert in Pittsburgh when they encountered a ball of light sweeping a “very bright beam of light” over the dark road and its surroundings. They promptly pulled over, and two of them exited the car so they could get a better look. (The third friend “remained in the car, screaming.”) Though the light resembled a helicopter’s search beam, “there was no hint of any craft or body emitting the beam, even when it faced away from us.” Furthermore, the whole scene was completely silent. They quickly returned to the car when the beam drew closer, and it suddenly darted away and disappeared into the night. When they resumed their journey, the radio played static before cutting out completely. “We heard a commentator say ‘…further evidence that there is life on Mars…’ and then it went back to static,” the witness reported.
7. A FIERY HOBERMAN SPHERE // 1991
A normal Hoberman sphere.MEMBIO/ISTOCK VIA GETTY IMAGES
Late one evening in 1991, a young man and his girlfriend parked the car in a peaceful spot overlooking the port of Olympia, Washington, and passed about half an hour “talking about life and random things.” Suddenly, what they thought was one abnormally bright star split into a sphere comprising roughly 20 points of light—much like a Hoberman sphere expands ("I found out many years later what a Hoberman Sphere is, and just about crapped myself the first time I saw one in motion its movement looked so similar," the witness noted)—and rotated rapidly before contracting back into a single bright light. That light then glowed red and spit out five identical red lights, one by one, which pulsated in a synchronized manner as they flew through the sky in a straight line and eventually vanished. The witness actually managed to capture video footage of the event, but the camera only showed “a blank screen with a few strange flickering whitish dots on it that seem to come and go.”
“I am (after seeing it) hard pressed to believe it to be anything of ‘known’ terrestrial technology,” he wrote. “I have resigned to the likelihood that I will never know what it was at all.”
8. THE IDES OF MARCH SIGHTINGS // 1995
On March 15, 1995, the NUFORC received an influx of calls across several states from witnesses who saw a bright object flying through the night sky. The first of these so-called “Ides of March sightings” was reported by two men in Florida, who described it as “luminous,” “white,” and “disc-shaped,” though subsequent descriptions from others varied. A Tennessee caller thought it was more of a “blue-green 'cloud of light'” that emitted sparks before vanishing, and a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant said it was a green light that turned yellow and suddenly snuffed out “like a light being switched off.” He also explained that many people called the patrol’s 911 dispatch line to report their own sightings, and one person claimed his cell phone and car radio both died when the UFO got close. Other reports came from Virginia, West Virginia, and Missouri.
“In summary, it appears that one or more egg-shaped objects, radiating intensely bright green, blue-green, and yellow light, and periodically spewing out a cloud of sparks, streaked over at least seven states, stopping from time to time, and the whole event occurred in a matter of minutes,” the NUFORC summarized in a case brief.
9. THE PHOENIX LIGHTS // 1997
In March 1997, Arizona played host to what the NUFORC dubbed “perhaps the most dramatic UFO sighting” reported in a few years. Dozens of people from all over the state phoned the hotline to report having seen a group of white or red lights in a V formation flying across the sky. One man with flight experience estimated that the lights were about 1000 feet from the ground, and multiple people claimed the display was totally silent—making it unlikely that airplanes were responsible. When that same observer phoned Luke Air Force Base about the event, the operator told him they had received calls from many other witnesses, too. But according to the NUFORC, the base later claimed that nobody had called them about it.
After these “Phoenix Lights” received national media attention several months later, the military finally offered an explanation: The lights were just leftover flares that the Maryland Air National Guard had dropped at the end of an operation in Arizona. But some people remain unconvinced.
10. ELK, ABDUCTED // 1999
Please do not beam up the elk.ERICFOLTZ/ISTOCK VIA GETTY IMAGES
Three foresters were planting seedlings in Washington’s mountains when a gently wobbly disc-shaped aircraft appeared and drifted toward a herd of elk. Nearly all the animals fled together, but one set off in a different direction. The UFO positioned itself over the lone elk and beamed it right off the ground, though the observers couldn’t discern any “visible means of support,” attached to it. The UFO wobbled more, seemingly struggling with the weight of its prey, and eventually rose so high that the witnesses couldn’t see it anymore. They assumed the elk had somehow ended up inside the aircraft.
When NUFORC director Peter Davenport traveled to Washington to conduct an investigation, he was shown the carcass of a pregnant elk that had been found dead just a few miles from the UFO sighting. As for whether that was the same sorry creature that the UFO had supposedly targeted, we’ll almost definitely never know.
11. HIGH-FLYING REAL ESTATE // 2000
Shortly after 4 a.m. one morning in January 2000, Ed Barton, a police officer in Lebanon, Illinois, heard a dispatch about a strange UFO sighting at a neighboring police station. He looked up and saw the object for himself: two extraordinarily bright lights that seemed to merge into one even brighter light. He sped off in the object’s direction until it was almost overhead, and ballparked its altitude somewhere between 1000 and 1500 feet. It was triangular, with a light on each corner and many more along one end. The object abruptly shot through the sky so fast that Barton concluded it couldn’t possibly have been created by humans.
Other Illinois residents witnessed it, too. A Millstadt police officer named Craig Stevens thought it was between one and two stories tall, and “perhaps three stories long.” Highland resident Melvern Noll also likened it to a house. “There were big windows, about two and a half feet wide and five or six feet high, two stories, one on top of each other,” he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2010. “I still believe it was something from another planet.”
Though a spokesman for the nearby Scott Air Force Base is said to have claimed that the base’s radar had been shut off at the time and nobody had seen the UFO, other reports allege that the government was involved. The NUFORC received one report from “a highly reliable source” who said the Air National Guard jets "may have been 'scrambled" to take a look at the object,'" and several other people even told the NUFORC that federal government employees visited police departments and citizen witnesses to ask that they “curtail all their statements to the press."
Space Mysteries: Before the cosmonaut orbited the Earth, rumors abounded that someone else already had.
Yuri Gagarin trains in the Vostok spacecraft in November 1960, five months before his historic flight.
(Image credit: Getty)
Everybody knows that Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon. Most are also aware that he wasn't the first to go into space. After all, Alan Shepard paved the way for American astronauts on May 5, 1961, while Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin stole a march by rocketing into Earth orbit a few weeks earlier on April 12. Or did he?
Today Gagarin's name is cemented in the record books, and he instantly became a national hero across the Soviet Union. Presented as a triumph of the fiercely fought Space Race against the U.S., the 27 year old, who had been chosen just three days before the mission, spent 108 minutes in space, orbited the Earth and returned fit and well following a drama-filled flight.
And yet, before he even embarked on his journey skywards, doubt was seeded in many a person's mind. For rumors had surfaced that the Soviets had successfully launched a man into space before Gagarin set foot in Vostok 1, and the talk was that one cosmonaut had done so on April 7, just five days earlier.
Dennis Ogden, the Moscow-based correspondent for the British Communist Party newspaper, Daily Worker, reported as such, his story splashed across the publication's front page with the headline: "The First Man In Space". It informed readers that the spaceman — "the test-pilot son of a top-ranking aircraft designer" — was "back alive, but suffering from [the] effects of his flight".
Had another cosmonaut beaten Gagarin to the punch and journeyed into space to circle the Earth? (Image credit: NASA)
A lost cosmonaut conspiracy theory begins
Gagarin's feet hadn't even left the ground when the paper hit the newsstands, and it caused something of a stir, sparking the first whispers of a conspiracy theory which has continued to this day. The Soviet Union denied the reports and instead alerted the press to Gagarin's subsequent feat. Ogden also reported this, his article again making the splash as he wrote of a "hero's welcome" and a Soviet Union "wild with joy at [the] first trip outside this world".
Ogden's article could have been seen as something akin to a correction; confirmation that he was initially wrong about the flight on April 7. But then French journalist Eduard Bobrovsky followed up on Ogden's claims and pointed to the man in question as being an accomplished test pilot called Vladimir Ilyushin, while also stating the flight actually took place on March 25.
Trouble is, this mission had — according to the press sources — not gone quite as well as planned. That is why, it has long since been claimed, Ilyushin's feat was cast aside in favor of Gagarin's successful launch and landing.
Ilyushin was a Soviet general and a test pilot of high standing. He had broken many speed and altitude records and his father was influential, having designed and built Second World War fighters and bombers. Ilyushin senior had also earned himself a place in government. To that end, his son would have been seen as the perfect person to send into space, his penchant for risk-taking such that the then-34-year-old pilot would have surely relished the task.
And so the story went that his journey outwards on board his spaceship was fine but, after three supposed orbits, Ilyushin's return went awry. Apparently, his landing was off-course, causing him physical harm and mental anguish. There was even a suggestion that the accident had put him into a coma.
Test pilot Vladimir Ilyushin has been rumored to be the first man in space. (Image credit: Alamy)
"The space vessel reportedly was recovered where expected, but Ilyushin was mentally unbalanced and is unconscious in a Moscow hospital," said a report in The Spokesman Review about the journalist's claims on April 12, 1961. The article adds that Bobrovsky said his information came from reliable sources that he could not name and that Russian officers denied the report.
The Soviet Union claimed Ilyushin was in hospital being treated for injuries he had received in a car accident. The Soviets were not the only ones blinking with disbelief at this. Even the Americans did not believe the journalists' claims. Indeed, Pierre Salinger, the press secretary to the White House at the time, told reporters that there was no evidence of a flight on April 7 and, we have to assume, nothing to have raised suspicion in March either. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) space tracking stations, it transpired, had not picked up on anything, and the U.S. was not about to leap in and heap embarrassment on the Soviet Union without proof.
And yet, even this wasn't enough to completely quell suspicion. Some journalists believed the claims of a car crash were a mere cover story, and it certainly wasn't beyond the wildest of imaginations to believe the Soviets would seek to bury a mistake since it had been done so many times in the past.
What's more, in the framework of the Space Race, conspiracists could surmise there was a valid reason for trying to bury such a failure: the Soviets would constantly pull out all the stops to present communism as the superior ideology.
Yuri Gagarin was hailed a hero upon his return from space, pictured here in Warsaw, Poland. (Image credit: Getty)
But is that, together with unknown journalistic sources, reason enough to believe that Gagarin's place in history was not quite what it was? Ogden would later claim that he saw a photograph of Ilyushin wearing space gear at the time of the supposed flight, but it has never subsequently surfaced. Meanwhile, Ilyushin himself — who died in 2010, aged 82 — never confessed to having flown into space. He lived to tell the claimed tale, but notably did not.
What has been seen, however, are rumours continuing to swirl long after the event, and they've even been fleshed out. One of the most notable was a 52-minute documentary in 1999 called "The Cosmonaut Cover-Up", released by Global Science Productions and directed by Elliott Haimoff who, in the following year, also helmed "Vladimir Ilyushin: The Real First Man in Space".
Widely broadcast, it claimed Ilyushin had failed to eject from his capsule, crashed in China and, after being captured, was eventually handed back to the U.S.S.R. in 1962. The documentary makers said Ilyushin wouldn't talk about the alleged incidents on camera, according to an article published on Sun Community News, and preferred to maintain his secrecy.
But was Ilyushin so fearful that, in verifying such claims, he would open himself up to a world in which he did not wish to boldly go? Given that the documentary was being made a number of years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when secrets were finally being divulged and historical events were being flung open, many would suspect not.
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In fact, the Soviets began to open up well before the U.S.S.R. ceased to be. In 1980 the West finally learned of the death of Valentin Bondarenko, who according to The New York Times, died ten days into a 15-day low-pressure endurance experiment in Moscow in 1961 when fire broke out — even though they had removed his image from an official subsequent training photograph.
It took longer to tell the world of a major launchpad accident that took place on Oct. 24, 1960, and officially killed 78, as eventually revealed to the rest of the world in 1989. There's talk of Gagarin being used for propaganda, but of all the confessions and documents seen since the Soviet Union collapsed, Ilyushin has never featured.
And yet there have been some peculiar pieces of "evidence". Two Italian former amateur radio operators, Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, claimed to have recorded audio from an orbiting capsule in the days before Gagarin made his flight, and it was actually the fourth slice of startling audio released by the pair.
The first was from May 1960 of a manned spacecraft reportedly going off-course; the second in November that year of an SOS Morse code from a troubled spacecraft leaving Earth's orbit and, most chillingly, a third in 1961 of a cosmonaut apparently suffocating to death. Should these be hard-and-fast evidence of spaceflights, then we would have to say that not only was Gagarin not the first person into space, Ilyushin was perhaps not first either. But given the supposition was that everyone involved in those three recordings had died, discovering the truth has been even more difficult. And yet theories still mount up.
Rumors circulated that Yuri Gagarin, pictured here being suited up for flight, died in a psychiatric ward in 1990. (Image credit: Alamy)
Who was the first man in space?
What could be made of claims by Mikhail Rudenko, a former Soviet senior engineer and experimenter with Experimental Design Office 456, formed in 1999 by members of the editorial staff of the oldest Soviet paper Pravda, that cosmonauts had been sent into space in 1957, 1958 and 1959?
"All three pilots died during the flights and their names were never officially published," he is quoted as saying in an article published on pravda.ru on April 12, 2001, having explained that the pilots involved were called Ledovskikh, Shaborin and Mitkov and took part in sub-orbital flights. "The cosmonauts were to reach space heights in the highest point of such an orbit and then return to the Earth," he added. But considering Pravda has also run with headlines such as "Aliens forced Americans out from the Moon'' and "Alien and human skulls found on Mars", it's a tough call.
Harder still to determine is Ilyushin's location in March and April 1961. The Soviets didn't help themselves in this regard either since they couldn't give a straight answer about the reason why he was seen to be injured — pinned down to that car crash — or when it actually took place. Neither could they offer up a suitable explanation for why he might have been in China. They also went as far as to say he was never actually a cosmonaut and, indeed, it would appear that he wasn't in the original cosmonaut team. No memoirs or declassified information put him there.
The Vostok-K (8K72K) rocket carried Gagarin and the Vostok 1 spacecraft to orbital altitude. (Image credit: Getty)
Yet it's also difficult to corroborate the Judica-Cordiglia recordings with any data from official sources. Listening stations did not pick up on what they claimed to have committed to tape, and radio astronomer Bernard Lovell, who established the Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, dismissed claims of earlier Russian manned space attempts in 1963.
Even that, however, isn't as clear cut as it sounds. Lovell paid visits to Russia around this time, and there have even been allegations that he was brainwashed. He fell ill that year following such a trip, and the U.K. Ministry of Defence said it might have been due to an attempt to remove his memory of a Soviet offer to build a telescope facility in the U.S.S.R. His son says he was merely ill from exhaustion, according to an article published in February’s edition of Physics World magazine. And that sounds more plausible.
This plaque was presented to the U.S.S.R. on Jan. 21, 1971, by NASA's acting administrator George M. Low in memory of Yuri Gagarin. (Image credit: NASA)
Besides, supposing Russia had suffered such terrible space attempts which resulted in deaths and crashes, would it really have announced Gagarin's flight in the way it did?
As James E. Oberg points out in a 1975 article he wrote in Space World magazine, the Russian news agency TASS — frequently used as a front organisation by the Soviet intelligence agency — released its first bulletin while Gagarin was still in-flight. If it was worried about the potential for bad news, wouldn't it have been better to wait until the mission was over and Gagarin's feet were firmly back on the ground, rather than risk Gagarin's spacecraft hitting the same problems as the one claimed to have taken place just days before?
Maybe we will never know. The two men who would have been directly involved are no longer alive — Gagarin was killed when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed on March 27, 1968, when he was 34. Given the evidence that has been made available, the smart money remains on Gagarin having been the first person on a manned spaceflight Russian space history can be murky and difficult to pick apart, but in truth there is no real reason to lie in instances such as this.
Leaked UFO video showing 'flying pyramids' buzzing US Navy ship is 'genuine'
Leaked UFO video showing 'flying pyramids' buzzing US Navy ship is 'genuine'
A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed the video showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" hovering above the USS Russell is not fake and is being investigated by a Defence Department UFO task force
Video showing one or more unidentified "pyramid-shaped" objects flying above a US Navy ship is genuine, a spokesperson from the US Department of Defence has confirmed.
The incredible clip, which was captured in July 2019, shows a triangle or pyramid-shaped object hovering high above the missile-carrying destroyer USS Russell.
It was recently made public by documentary-maker Jeremy Corbell, who claims the mysterious objects were definitely not either a US militarysecret project or any known man-made technology.
The "unidentified aerial phenomena" (or UAPs) were initially described in the clip as "drones" but Corbell says their bizarre pyramidal shape didn’t conform to any known aerodynamic principles.
The video appears to show a triangular object hovering high above the warship(Image: @JeremyCorbell/US Navy)
"This was taken on deployment from the USS Russell," Corbell told UFO news site Mystery Wire.
"It shows what they described as vehicles. They made sure in this classified briefing.
"They made a great distinction that this is not something that we own either a black project, this is not something of a foreign military, that these were behaving in ways that we did not expect," he added.
"And that they were you know shaped non aerodynamically. Like pyramids, these are flying pyramids!"
The video was captured by US Navy personnel aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Russell(Image: US Navy)
Department of Defence (DOD) spokesperson Sue Gough told Futurism that whatever the video shows, it’s not a fake, and the video is currently being investigated by the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF).
"The UAPTF has included these incidents in their ongoing examinations," she said.
"As we have said before, to maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information that may be useful to potential adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of either the observations or the examinations of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP."
The Pentagon has conformed that the footage is genuine(Image: @JeremyCorbell/US Navy)
Mick West, from the conspiracy-debunking website Contrail Science, believe that the flying pyramids are an optical illusion created by the night vision tech used to film them.
He says that the clip probably shows perfectly normal aircraft distorted by a photographic phenomenon called bokeh, which photographers often use to create dappled, out-of-focus backgrounds.
However the dappled bokeh effect usually creates circular or hexagonal blobs on film, and at present, there’s no commercially available lens that would create a "flying pyramid" bokeh background.
‘Mind-blowing’ Find in Egypt! Lost Golden City Discovered in Luxor
‘Mind-blowing’ Find in Egypt! Lost Golden City Discovered in Luxor
Thousands of years ago a fabulous settlement was buried under the sands. Now, an Egyptian mission led by Zahi Hawass has discovered the ruins of the so-called “Lost Golden City” that has been linked to such big names in ancient Egyptian history as Amenhotep III, Tutankhamun, Ay, and Akhenaton.
A post by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on the discovery says that the “Lost Golden City,” as it’s been dubbed, was the ancient Egyptian civilization’s “largest administrative and industrial settlement” on the western bank of Luxor (Thebes). In the ancient past the city was an industrial and royal metropolis, however its exact location has been something of a mystery, until now. According to Hawass, “Many foreign missions searched for this city and never found it. We began our work searching for the mortuary temple of Tutankhamun because the temples of both Horemheb and Ay were found in this area.”
Why is this Discovery So Important?
Their search was effective and the Egyptian mission teams announced they have discovered “the largest city ever found in Egypt.” The city was founded by Pharaoh Amenhotep III (who reigned circa 1386/1391 - 1353 BC).
Seals found at the Lost Golden City confirm it was active during the reign of Amenhotep III.
Betsy Bryan, a professor of Egyptology at John Hopkins University in the USA, who did not participate in the dig, but has seen the site firsthand, has even declared, “the discovery of this lost city is the second most important archeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun. ” Bryan also believes that the find will provide “a rare glimpse into the life of the Ancient Egyptians at the time when the empire was at its wealthiest” and “shed light on one of history’s greatest mysteries: why did Akhenaten & Nefertiti decide to move to Amarna?”
Archaeologist Salima Ikram, the leader of the American University in Cairo’s Egyptology unit, has also wandered through the site with its nine foot (2.7 meter) tall zigzagging mudbrick walls, and concurs on the immensity of this discovery, saying,
“It’s very much a snapshot in time—an Egyptian version of Pompeii […] It’s extraordinarily beautiful. I don’t think you can oversell it. It is mind-blowing.”
The site has nine foot (2.7 meter) tall zigzagging mudbrick walls.
Getting the Rare Glimpse into Ancient Egyptian Life
Finding the Lost Golden City was a surprise - originally the team was searching the area for Tutankhamun’s Mortuary Temple. The excavations, which have been ongoing since September 2020, are underway at a site located between Rameses III’s temple at Medinet Habu and Amenhotep III’s temple at Memnon. Hawass says “the city extends to the west, all the way to the famous Deir El-Medina.”
Soon after excavations began, the team were surprised to find mudbrick walls all around them. The rooms they found still contained ovens, tools for daily activities and crafts such as spinning and weaving, molds to produce amulets, clay seals, pottery, rings, and scarabs. Several of these artifacts bear hieroglyphic inscriptions which have enabled the archaeologists to date the site.
Many artifacts have been unearthed at the site since September.
One of the more unique finds is a vessel that contained two gallons of dried or boiled meat with an inscription saying it was made for the third Heb Sed festival in Year 37 by the butcher luwy and from the slaughterhouse of the stockyard of Kha. From an archaeological point of view, this a real treasure – it names two people who worked in the Lost Golden City and confirms that the city was active during the time of King Amenhotep III and Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten’s co-regency.
Clay pots bearing inscriptions have been uncovered in the newly discovered ‘Lost Golden City’ near Luxor in Egypt.
The team has also unearthed some strange burials – two contain cows or bulls and were made outside one of the rooms and another is the grave of a person with their arms at their sides and a rope wrapped around their knees. More analysis is underway to try to explain these graves.
Archaeologists are puzzled by strange burials at the Lost Golden City.
Overall, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities says the archaeological site is in such a good condition and contains so many remarkable finds that even though it’s been “untouched for thousands of years,” it was “left by the ancient residents as if it were yesterday.”
What’s Next at the Lost Golden City? Maybe Solving a Mystery and Finding Rich Tombs
The excavations have been underway for seven months and the team has uncovered several neighborhoods of the Lost Golden City. But it seems their work is far from done at the site. They’ve barely touched what they believe will be a large cemetery to the north of the city. According to the team, the rock cut tombs are likely “untouched tombs filled with treasures.”
Astounding discoveries have been made so far, but there is still more waiting to be unearthed at the Lost Golden City.
Plus, they still have a mystery that may be waiting to be solved within the Lost Golden City – the relocation of the capital to Amarna. They want to know if the stories are true, the reasons why, and if the settlement was inhabited again when Tutankhamun returned to Thebes.
These are big questions, which may or may not be answered at the site. Only time and the continued excavations will tell what secrets remain under the sands at the Lost Golden City now that it’s been found.
Is Bigfoot Real? Let’s Look at Emerging Scientific Evidence
Is Bigfoot Real? Let’s Look at Emerging Scientific Evidence
In 1967, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin spotted, and filmed, or so they claimed, a Sasquatch next to Bluff Creek in California. Dubbed an elaborate hoax by many, this image has become the universal symbol for Bigfoot throughout the United States. But, is Bigfoot real? A better question would be to ask why mainstream science has failed to put the question to the test when it comes to not only Bigfoot, but to other cryptids as well. Science is duty-bound by definition to explain the unexplained, yet some people are still debating the existence of Bigfoot rather than examining emerging scientific evidence, some of which has come to light in unexpected places.
Iconic frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film which gave a face to the now popular cryptid creature known as Bigfoot. Despite emerging evidence, people continue to ask: Is Bigfoot real?
New Bigfoot Evidence from Washington State: Tooth and Bite Marks
One of these places is Mount St. Helens in Washington State. In 2013 and 2014, along with one of my former college students, I located three different ungulate rib prey bone assemblages (elk and deer rib bones) that had seemingly inexplicable chewing marks left in them. We conducted a two year Zooarcheological field research project, which culminated at the 69th Annual Anthropological Research Conference on March 26, 2016.
At the conference I presented our conclusions to a room full of respected academic and governmental anthropologists and archeologists, in the form of incisor, molar and pre-molar dental signature evidence that we were able to very carefully link with current scientific literature describing historical and contemporary hominin chewing evidence. This published, peer-reviewed literature described a diagnostic framework for accurately separating and identifying hominin mastication evidence recovered from both pre-archaic sites and comparative contemporary chewing studies upon ungulate rib bones.
As part of Bigfoot-related evidence presented at the 2016 conference, Mitchel Townsend presented a new category of incisal dentition signature termed “a notch.”
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Hominin Mastication Activity Discovered on Bones
Furthermore, we proposed the evaluation of a new category of incisal dentition signature termed a “notch,” which consolidated the applicable literature and accurately described some of our field research evidence. The conference gave us a chance to demonstrate the links between the tooth marks that we recovered in the field, with current peer reviewed scientific research covering the same subject. This current research provided a framework by which we could compare our tooth mark descriptions. It also helped provide a very effective tool that enables scientists to re-examine other suspected human chewing evidence upon bones.
All three locations contained the same evidence profiles of ungulate (deer and elk) rib evidence with clear and measurable evidence of hominin mastication activity. The dentition of other known local ecosystem specific predators and scavengers was compared against Homo sapiens dentition. Of the 25 total hominin incisor measurements taken from all three sites, 92% are outside the average lateral incisors size range for modern Homo sapiens . In this same sample, 80% are outside the average measurement for central incisor. From this evidence, Upper Inter-Canine measurements can be accurately estimated. All of the comparative analysis demonstrated hominin dentition physio-morphology of at least two times the size of modern humans.
The evidence was clear and consistent across all three locations. The teeth marks and jaw shapes of bear, cougar, humans, porcupine, and wolverine along with every other potential species that might have been responsible was examined and eliminated or included. After identifying the teeth marks as Hominin, we measured the geometry of the individual marks and were able to determine that they were primarily outside the upper size range for current humans. From these measurements we were able to estimate mouth size, which again was over double the size of a modern human .
Fossil jaw of Neanderthal.
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Rib Peeling as Evidence of Hominin Mastication
The Pre-Molar and Molar dentition signature evidence analysis is perhaps the strongest indication of hominin mastication evidence that emerged from the field research. The current peer-reviewed scientific literature describes Rib Peeling as a clear hominin assigned bone surface modification diagnostic characteristic. The physical act of rib peeling entails putting a rib in a hominins mouth and using their hands as levers to move the rib in cooperation with using their pre-molars and molars to masticate the ends.
This specific force application procedure has been evaluated over several peer-reviewed studies both pre-archaic and contemporary as clearly diagnostic of hominin mastication activity. This process creates specific secondary dentition signatures in consistent hemispherical regions of masticated ungulate rib specimens. The pre-molar impressions were triangular in shape while the molar evidence is characterized by double arch shapes. The evidence recovered from all three sites demonstrated clear and consistent rib peeling evidence.
The physical act or process of Rib Peeling is very simple. It consists of using your hands to put a rib in your mouth and using those same hands to move the end of the rib around as you chew on the opposite end. This creates very specific damage and tooth marks in predictable locations on a rib. It also creates secondary tooth marks in expected locations. This predictable combination of damage and individual teeth mark impression evidence is clearly supported in current scientific research and is an accurate tool that enables the separation of hominin verses predator chewing evidence in bones.
Rib Peeling.
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Bone Stacking and Other Hominin Behavior
Behavioral evidence analyzed from each site supported the forensic evidence. A review of the applicable scientific literature also demonstrated that ungulate ribs were a central and connecting theme. We have proposed the addition of three behavioral manifestations or categories illuminated by the neoichnological analysis of the supplementary data. All three are fundamentally connected to ungulate rib mastication evidence.
The first is called Bone Stacking and has a very long history in hominin evolution. In the case of our data, bone stacking was present at all three locations. We propose and the literature supports the assertion that hands are required to accomplish this behavior. The second revolves around prey of choice. Ungulate ribs were statistically the most prevalent bone evidence preservation medium recorded in all of the literature examined. Contemporary chewing studies initiated to understand hominin mastication strategies have all produced ungulate rib evidence in alignment with pre-archaic studies. The overall prevalence of this type of bone evidence modification medium is a central theme throughout the literature and the field evidence recovered from Mount St. Helens.
The final behavioral expression that we illuminated centered upon the behaviors associated with Rib Peeling. Rib Peeling is a behavioral act that requires hands to accomplish. As previously described it requires putting a rib in a hominins mouth and using hands as levers to help apply additional forces during mastication activity. This association of hands and rib peeling is clearly supported in the literature and the analyzed field data. The central themes throughout that emerged were the statistically high incidence of ribs, the requirement of hands, and the assignment of associated dentition evidence coordinated with behavioral evidence as a reliable diagnostic framework for assessing potential hominin attributed mastication activity in bones.
Humans throughout time have behaved in certain predictable ways when selecting food and processing these foods. The accurate coordination of physical evidence with behavioral evidence is a well-developed field in criminal science. We were able to demonstrate a clear connection throughout our research with the physical evidence. This connection was clearly centered upon the use of hands, eating in a predictable manner, and selecting ungulate species as a primary food source.
Bone stacker evidence presented.
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What Does It All Mean? Is Bigfoot Real?
The conclusions generated by a careful analysis of the applicable peer reviewed literature and a cross comparison of the field data enable the construction of a currently unclassified hominin profile. The dentition evidence demonstrates hominin incisor measurements primarily outside the possibility of Homo sapiens. Evidence based reconstruction of inter-canine distances demonstrate a measurement that is over two times the size of a modern human’s mouth.
The statistically high presence of rib peeling and required associated supplementary regionally located evidence is perhaps the strongest indication of hominin dentition mastication evidence. The behavioral evidence mutually supported the forensic dentition evidence and is further confirmation of reliability across the applicable literature and field evidence profiles. When taken in totality both the Neoichnology and Taphonomy evidence is mutually supporting and grounded in applicable peer-reviewed literature. The data is mutually supporting and clearly illuminated in the current literature. The conclusions are accurate, well supported, repeatable, and construct physical and behavioral profiles of a currently unclassified hominin living ( Bigfoot) at Mount St. Helens.
The evidence and analysis that I presented at the 69th Annual Anthropological Research Conference represented an opportunity for mainstream anthropologists and archeologists to examine part of the credible evidence that is slowly emerging. The Zooarcheological field research project that we conducted used the most current scientific theories and analytical techniques to illuminate data that clearly constructs a profile of a hominin with associated dentition physio-morphology and definable behavioral characteristics. Our conclusions are based upon clear and repeatable data grounded in and supported by contemporary peer reviewed science. They refer too, build upon and expand currently accepted mainstream scientific theory.
The anthropological research conference gave those in attendance the opportunity to hear our conclusions and review the evidence we based them upon. They had a chance to analyze our process and framing theories. The audience’s reaction to our presentation was one of encouragement and astonishment. Attendees were very encouraged by our comprehensive efforts and broad based analysis. They were astonished by the results.
Conclusions image from Mills and Townsend 2016.
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Comprehensive Bigfoot Investigations Required
As we emerge full circle, once again we are faced with the central question of why mainstream science has failed to comprehensively examine the possible existence of what some people refer to as Bigfoot. Credible multi-disciplinary evidence continues to emerge from unlikely places, yet in general it has failed to attract the professional scientific attention it deserves. By conducting this type of transparent research, writing a paper, and presenting it at a prestigious academic conference we hope to encourage deeper analysis of our own conclusions as well as inspire further scientific attention into the questions that surround the possibility of a giant, unclassified hominin living and thriving in the Pacific Northwest .
Our research has provided a place to begin for those willing to take up the task and put credible evidence to the test. At the end of the day why are we still asking the same question: “is Bigfoot real”? We encourage the scientific community to move beyond their skepticism in order to conduct deep examination of our efforts as well as that of others in this emerging area of research. Science has an obligation by definition to explain the unexplained, whatever that may be. By presenting our conclusions at a prestigious anthropological research conference and authoring this article I hope to highlight a place where researchers can start.
Top image: Why is the scientific community still stuck on asking “is Bigfoot real” rather than conducting scientific analysis of the evidence.
Former CIA Director Believes In UFOs & His Friend’s Aircraft Stopped At 40,000 Feet In The Air
Former CIA Director Believes In UFOs & His Friend’s Aircraft Stopped At 40,000 Feet In The Air
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the USA is one of the secretive agencies that has access to highly classified information that the world cannot even imagine. Whether it is about Russian spies, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, or UFOs, the CIA has control over everything. They are also very good at manipulating the facts and evidence, but sometimes the truth finds its way to show up.
Former CIA director R. James Woolsey
The former CIA director named R. James Woolsey, who ran the agency from 1993 to 1995, has recently spoken about the most classified cases in the history of the United States. In an interview with the Black Vault, Woosley said that a lot of examination is going on the UFOs over years. He also shared one incident that happened to one of his friends, when his aircraft paused at 40,000 feet and stopped operating as a normal machine.
“But there was one case in which a friend of mine was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft,” Woolsey said. He was invited by the host of Black Vault on his YouTube channel, where he discussed the instances from his newly released book “Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin’s Secret War on America.” He talked about the Russian involvement in the continuation of the cold war, then he was asked about the assassination of JFK and also discussed the UFOs.
“I’m not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly. But something is going on that is surprising to a series of intelligent aircraft, experienced pilots,” he said. “And we will just have to see what it is.”
When a civilian sees the UFO, nobody cares about it, but things get serious when a triangle-shaped UFO is flying above the army. The Pentagon again leaked shocking footage of pyramid-shaped UFO, hovering 700 feet above a Navy destroyer, taken by naval officers using a night vision device. According to the American documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, the video was shot from the USS Russell.
Three pyramid-shaped objects hovering 700 feet above a Navy destroyer Image Credit: @JeremyCorbell
“They made sure in this classified briefing, they made a great distinction that this is not something that we own either a black project, this is not something of a foreign military, that these were behaving in ways that we did not expect. And that they were you know shaped non aerodynamically. Like pyramids, these are flying pyramids,” Corbell said.
Since the beginning of 2021, the Pentagon has been actively sharing the images and videos of UFOs, taken in the last two decades by naval and army officers after the Trump administration asked the Pentagon and spy agencies what they know about UFOs.
In the past, there were several officials who worked with the CIA and even held a high position in the agency talked about UFOs and alien encounters. One of the weird and shocking claims came from the ex-CIA pilot John Lear who said that Earth is a space prison and unlocked several moon mysteries. He also noted that in the universe, there are still a lot of inhabited planets of different levels of development. Besides, he said that NASA sent its astronauts to Mars in 1966.
Then comes Derrel Sims, a former CIA operative who investigated more than 2000 cases that involve alien abductions. He said that he knows seven types of humanoids, among which there are grays and other creatures that, according to their external data, are very similar to humans. Moreover, Derrel claims that some of the aliens were created on our planet with human DNA. He added that when he had been a CIA agent, he had access to highly classified information. He only investigated 2000 cases but thinks there are millions of people who are abducted every year.
There is no explanation for the rise of UFO sightings since the last year, but Woosley hopes that if humans ever make contact with extraterrestrials, it will be a friendly meeting.
Prince Philip was interested in ALIENS and spend decades building up library of books on UFOs
Prince Philip was interested in ALIENS and spend decades building up library of books on UFOs
Paul Sims
PRINCE Philip was an avid reader of books about UFOs and aliens.
The Duke of Edinburgh, 99, who died at Windsor Castle on April 9, spent decades building up his collection.
Prince Philip had a library of books about UFOs and aliens
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The Duke of Edinburgh was an avid reader of books about supernatural creatures like ET
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His interest was sparked by his uncle Lord Mountbatten, who wrote an official report about an alien in a silver spaceship landing on his estate.
Philip spent the summer of 2019 reading The Halt Perspective, revealing the inside story of Britain’s Rendlesham Forest incident.
Troops at two US airbases in Suffolk witnessed strange bright lights for three nights running from December 26, 1980.
Officers carried out sorties and one even claimed to have got close enough to touch a triangular spacecraft.
The book was co-written by retired US Air Force Col Charles Halt, who was the base deputy commander at the time, and retired West Midlands detective John Hanson.
Prince Philip's UFO and alien interest was sparked by his uncle Lord MountbattenCredit: Getty - Contributor
In a letter to Mr Hanson, the Duke’s former private secretary Brigadier Archie Miller-Bakewell wrote: "I am certain it will be read with close interest over the summer."
After receiving another book — Haunted Skies: The Encyclopedia of British UFOs — the Duke’s right-hand man replied: "His Royal Highness will add this copy to his collection.
"It will make a most welcome addition to his library."
Mr Hanson said: "Why shouldn’t any sensible person have an interest in a phenomena that has baffled mankind for millennia?"
The Duke spent decades building up his collectionCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
Lord Mountbatten kept his extraterrestrial interests a secret.
But after his death in 1979, a report he filed in 1955 was uncovered.
It told how his bricklayer Fred Briggs had a close encounter on his Broadlands estate in Romsey, Hants.
Lord Mountbatten kept his extraterrestrial interests a secretCredit: Hulton Archive - Getty
700 Years Of Ancient Alien Sightings: Medieval UFO Encounters
UFOs are not a new phenomenon at all. As soon as mankind began to describe the events, we can see that someone was visiting us.
1271
During a scheduled execution in Tasunokuchi, Kamakura, Japan, a UFO appeared and scared off the populace. According to reports, “There appeared in the sky an object like a full moon, shiny and bright.” The intended victim who was to be beheaded, a well-known priest named Nichiren, was spared.
1290
William of Newburgh’s Chronicle in Yorkshire, England contains this description: “The abbot and monks were at a meal, when a flat, round, shining, silvery object flew over the abbey and caused the utmost terror.”
1431
The entire population of the village of Angkor Wat mysteriously vanished. Large airships were seen in the area.
Angkor Temple
1453
Strange lights were seen circling over Constantinople the night before the Turks conquered it. Some of the lights flew straight up at high speed and then split into many smaller lights. 12
March 17, 1458
Five “stars” appeared over Japan. They circled the moon, changed colors three times, then disappeared. The citizens of Kyoto, Japan, were so distressed by this event that they ran and hid, expecting the arrival of horrible disasters.
November 1, 1461
The French Duke of Bourgogne wrote in his memoirs that “an object appeared in the sky over France on the night of November 1, 1461. It was as long and wide as a half moon; it hung stationary for about a quarter of an hour, clearly visible, then suddenly É spiraled, twisted and turned like a spring and rose into the heavens.” 13
1468
A large object making a “sound like a wheel” flies out of Mt. Kasuga. None of the citizens had seen anything like it before.
1479
A large “comet” is reported flying over Arabia. The comet is reported as having numerous windows on it.
1492
From the personal log of Christopher Columbus, during his famous voyage, comes this entry:
Saturday, 15 September, 1492
“And on this night, at the beginning of it, they saw fall from the sky a marvelous branch of fire into the sea at a distance of four to five leagues from them.” 39
August 7, 1566
In Basil, Switzerland, a large number of black spheres were flying all over the sky. They appeared to be fighting one another. This battle was witnessed by hundreds, if not thousands, of people.
In describing this activity, a newspaper article written by Samuel Coccius said, “Many became fiery and red, ending by being consumed and vanishing.”
Woodcut depicting alien battle over Switzerland in 1566
April 4, 1561
Over two hundred large cylinders, globes, and “spinning disks” flew over the skies of Nuremberg, Germany. People also reported seeing red, black, and orange globes, as well as “smoking spheres” coming out of the cylinders in the sky.
Woodcut by Hans Glaser in 1566 of alien air battle overNuremberg, Germany in 1561
October 24, 1593
In Manila, Philippines, a soldier completely vanishes. The next day he reappeared in Mexico City! The man was able to completely describe the previous day’s news from the Philippines. (Remember, there were no airplanes, no radio, no television).
1606
Large numbers of “spinning fireballs” are reported over Kyoto, Japan. A “whirling, red wheel” hovered over the Nijo Castle. The Samurai guards were put on alert.
August, 1666
A ball of light was seen by the citizens of Robozero, Russia, in the middle of a cloudless day. The ball was brighter than the sun. 19
July 9, 1686
A large ball flies across the sky in Leipzig, Germany and two smaller, glowing balls come out of it. 20
December 9, 1731
In Sheffield, England, Thomas Short described the following: “A dark red cloud, below which was a luminous body which emitted intense beams of light. The light beams moved slowly for awhile, then stopped.
Suddenly, it became so hot that I could take off my shirt even though I was out of doors.” Note: this event occurred in the middle of December.
A similar object appeared on the same day over Romania. Old manuscripts described it like this: “There appeared in the West, a great sign in the sky, blood-red and very large. It stayed in place for two hours, separated into two parts which then rejoined, and the object disappeared towards the west. 22
January 2, 1749
Three globes “like the moon” appeared over Japan. People were so frightened that riots broke out. To try and calm things down, the government ordered anybody rioting “because of the globes” to be executed. Later “three moons” appeared. Days after that, “two suns” appeared. 23
1766
In Sweden, three objects “like the moon” appeared in the sky and stayed for four days, then vanished never to be seen again.
In another incident that same year, a luminous globe appeared at night and projected beams of light out of it.
These seemingly minor incidents are quite remarkable because there was nothing in the skies in 1766 that could project a beam of light, except sunbeams coming through clouds.
TicTac UFO Over Germany On April 7, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
TicTac UFO Over Germany On April 7, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 7, 2021
Location of sighting: Germany
Here we have another white UFO seen agains a cloudless blue sky. The object is meant to blend into the sky, but its invisibility cloak is causing it to appear white. If it were closer, it would appear semi transparent, although it is solid. These white UFOs are the most common and come in all shapes and sizes. Sadly this eyewitness panicked and lost sight of the UFO. This actually happens a lot. But the UFO can clearly be seen at the beginning of the video. This video is still important because it shows us its color, shape, speed. This is 100% an alien craft. Its color and tictac shape confirm it.
White Craft over San Benito, Texas On April 6, 2021, Video. UFO Sighting News.
White Craft over San Benito, Texas On April 6, 2021, Video. UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 6, 2021 Location of sighting: San Benito, Texas, USA
This eyewitness was lucky enough to catch a diamond shaped craft. The UFOs surface is semi transparent and is reflecting the colors around it. That is why it appears white, but its not white. Its shields around it make it appear invisible but always takes on the colors of the object closest. The object is clearly trying to hide from the person by moving into the clouds. It really looks like UFOs are taking advantage of covid-19 lock downs and people just choosing to stay home rather than to travel. UFO sightings are increasing dramatically world wide.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
A helicopter was seen flying extremely low in residential area 10 min before I caught this on my phone. To the naked eye it was a metallic cube spinning like a top. There was even a point where my phone started to glitch when trying to focus. I've never seen my phone do such a thing . What's really weird is that when the glitch occurred , I instantly felt weak and a sharp pain in my chest followed by a dizzy spell . ANYONE IS WELCOME TO LEAVE A THOUGHT OR TWO AND LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK . ONE THING FORRR SUUURE .....IT WASN'T AN AIRPLANE
Drone caught UFO Fastwalkers flying over spinning light formation
Drone caught UFO Fastwalkers flying over spinning light formation
On April 4, 2021, a real estate videographer in Fairfield, CT. was shooting a real estate video and when he got home to check out his footage, he found some hard to explain things.
Two objects fly through the air very fast, and in the background a pyramid shaped formation can be seen drifting by.
It is remarkable that these UFO-fastwalkers and the spinning light formation appeared at the same time. Could there be a connection between these objects? Mufon case 114685.
“Flying tapeworm” recorded UFO over South Bend, Indiana
“Flying tapeworm” recorded UFO over South Bend, Indiana
This strange UFO video was filmed back in 2017 (July 23) but it was just today submitted to MUFON’s website. FIlmed over South Bend, a city in, and the county seat of, St. Joseph County, Indiana.
Witness report:
Strange shape changing object. It looked something like a flying tapeworm because it changed its shape. Spotted this in the sky after a round of golf with two of my sons. I have no idea what it was and am eager to hear what others think.
Life finds a way, the old saying goes. According to a new paper, that includes ‘living on a spaceship’.
Transmission electron micrograph of strain S2R03-9T Methylobacterium jeotgali, a relative of the new strains. Image via Wikimedia.
A team of researchers from India and the US working in collaboration with NASA report discovering four bacterial strains living on the International Space Station (ISS). Three of these were completely unknown to science until now. Three of these strains were isolated in 2015 and 2016 — one in an overhead panel in a research lab, the second in the station’s Cupola, and the third on the surface of the crew’s dining table. The fourth strain was isolated from an old HEPA filter that was brought back to Earth in 2011.
All of these strains belong to a ‘good’ family of bacteria found in soil and freshwater here on Earth. They’re involved in nitrogen fixation processes, plant growth, and in fighting plant pathogens.
Out of this world
These bacteria likely made their way onto the ISS when the crew first started growing a small number of plants aboard to supplement their diets. Plants don’t develop and live on their own, but generally rely on bacterial communities for several essential services; as such, finding plant-related microbes in their environment (the space station) isn’t very surprising.
However, only one of these was previously identified by researchers: the one from the used HEPA filter. This strain was identified as belonging to the species Methylorubrum rhodesianum. The other three were genetically sequenced and found to all belong to the same, new species. They were temporarily christened IF7SW-B2T, IIF1SW-B5, and IIF4SW-B5.
The team, led by University of Southern California geneticist Swati Bijlani, proposes the name Methylobacterium ajmalii for the species, after Indian biodiversity scientist Ajmal Khan. The new species is closely related to the already-known M. indicum bacteria. The genetic sequencing of these bacteria was meant to help us better determine how they relate to other bacteria, but also to help us determine the genetic elements that make them suited to life in the unusual conditions aboard the ISS.
“To grow plants in extreme places where resources are minimal, isolation of novel microbes that help to promote plant growth under stressful conditions is essential,” Kasthuri Venkateswaran and Nitin Kumar Singh from NASA’s JPL, two members of the team, explained in a press statement.
“The whole-genome sequence assembly of these three ISS strains reported here will enable the comparative genomic characterization of ISS isolates with Earth counterparts in future studies,” the team explains in their study. “This will further aid in the identification of genetic determinants that might potentially be responsible for promoting plant growth under microgravity conditions and contribute to the development of self-sustainable plant crops for long-term space missions in future.”
At least one of the strains, IF7SW-B2T, shows promise in our search for genes involved in plant growth, they add. Still, we’re only just beginning to understand the wealth of bacteria living aboard the ISS. Collecting samples isn’t hard, but taking them to Earth for proper examination is. The crew has taken over 1,000 samples so far, but they’re all still awaiting transport back to Earth.
The paper “Methylobacterium ajmalii sp. nov., Isolated From the International Space Station” has been published in Frontiers in Microbiology.
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Has the City of Atlantis Been Discovered in the Eye of the Sahara?
Has the City of Atlantis Been Discovered in the Eye of the Sahara?
By Paul Wagner
If you feel challenged by our relatively unconscious society, you may be one of the many dreamers who fantasizes about the lost city of Atlantis. Some believe the Eye of the Sahara in Mauritania holds the secrets we’ve long imagined to be true. Stretching 14.6 miles across, the Eye appears to be from another world. Considering Plato’s writings on the subject, it’s possible that this incredible structure is the final resting place of millions of Atlanteans.
While Plato’s descriptions of Atlantis are epic and mind-blowing, many believe he barely scratched the surface. He described Atlantis as a massive formation of concentric circles, alternating between land and water, similar to how the Eye is seen today. He emphasized that Atlantis was a wealthy, utopian civilization that created the basis for the Athenian democratic model. Plato went on to describe the land as rich in gold, silver, copper, other precious metals, and gemstones.
According to Plato, the story of Atlantis, first told by the ancient Egyptians, has all the elements you’d expect from a culture that was not only ahead of its time, but also wildly arrogant. Atlantis was a leader in academia, architecture, agriculture, technology, diversity, and spiritual empowerment, their navy and military were unmatched, and the Atlantean kings ruled with extreme authority. It’s no surprise that Atlantis fell in ways similar to Rome, and potentially in a similar way to how the United States could fall.
“This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean … an island larger than Libya and Asia put together … Now in this island of Atlantis, there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent.”
― Plato, Timaeus/Critias
Soon after waging an aggressive, unprovoked war on parts of Asia, the Atlanteans were defeated by the only army willing to defend the continent: the Athenians. Amidst the battles, the Gods thrust violent tsunamis, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, and floods upon the Empire of Atlantis. As if admitting its sins, Atlantis burst apart, dissolved into the ocean and desert, and was never seen again.
The Eye of the Sahara, also known as the “Richat Structure” and “Eye of Africa” is located in the Sahara’s Adrar Plateau in Mauritania, the Islamic Republic in Northwest Africa. This massive geologic, inverse dome contains rocks and sediment dating back to a time before life on Earth.
Visible from space, the Eye of Sahara resembles a massive bullseye, which began to form when the supercontinent Pangaea broke apart. The igneous rocks embedded in the Eye include carbonates and black basalts akin to Hawaii’s Big Island.
This is only part of the story and visual evidence pertaining to UFO / UAP incursions by Unknown Advanced Transmedium Vehicles (UATVs) – engaging US Navy warships.
On May 1st, 2020 a classified briefing was generated about the UFO / UAP presence, via the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI).
“Those familiar with the briefing articulated to me that the goal was to de-stigmatize the UAP problem and to promote more intelligence collection regarding UAP incursions and encounters with active military deployments”, wrote Jeremy Corbell.
“This UAP briefing was a build-on to a previous ONI briefing, generated October 18th, 2019. Both were distributed across a wide range of intelligence network platforms”, he added.
Jeremy Corbell was able to obtain information regarding these and other UAP related briefings – as well as – unclassified slides and some of the most intriguing military captured UAP footage he has ever seen.
The context surrounding this content is important to understand – as its evidentiary value is best demonstrated through the lens of provenance.
We want you to understand why this new evidence is worth your full attention and ask yourself whether these UAPs are made on earth and piloted and controlled by humans or not.
Corbell claimed that the mysterious UFO clip was received from an anonymous person, and added that he has access to some information on an alleged intelligence briefing conducted by the Pentagon into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
Earlier, Ben Rich – Lockheed’s Skunk Works said: “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.”
A crucial test to spin Ingenuity's blades at full speed ended abruptly due to a "watchdog" timer.
It's not clear what the issue was but NASA will have to redo the test before flying.
NASA has delayed the first flight of its Ingenuity Mars helicopter after a crucial test-spin of the drone's rotor blades abruptly stopped.
This was the last major test to make sure the helicopter would be ready for its first flight, which was originally scheduled for early Monday. Now NASA has delayed the historic liftoff — which would mark the first powered, controlled flight on another planet — to Wednesday.
For the test on Friday, Ingenuity was supposed to spin its blades at full speed while on the ground. The two pairs of blades should have spun in opposite directions at more than 2,500 rotations per minute — about eight times faster than an Earth helicopter. On flight day, they'll need that speed to lift the 4-pound drone into the thin Martian atmosphere. That air has just 1% the density of Earth's atmosphere, making Ingenuity's task the equivalent of flying three times higher than the peak of Mount Everest.
An artist's concept of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying through the Martian skies. NASA/JPL-Caltech
But that test spin was abruptly halted when a "watchdog" timer expired, NASA announced on Saturday. This timer ended the command sequence that was instructing Ingenuity to conduct each step of the test. The stop happened as the command sequence was trying to transition the helicopter's flight computer from "pre-flight" to "flight" mode.
"The watchdog timer oversees the command sequence and alerts the system to any potential issues. It helps the system stay safe by not proceeding if an issue is observed and worked as planned," NASA's announcement said.
It's not yet clear what the issue was, but NASA said the helicopter is "safe and healthy" and fully communicating with mission controllers on Earth. The agency's helicopter team is reviewing data from the test to diagnose the issue. NASA will have to reattempt the full-speed spin before Ingenuity can fly.
Ingenuity could fly up to 5 times on Mars
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Seán Doran
Ingenuity traveled nearly 300 million miles to Mars tucked inside the belly of the Perseverance rover. It has successfully unfolded itself from its underbelly hideaway, dropped to the ground, survived frigid Martian nights on its own, charged up with solar energy, and conducted a series of system checks.
All the checkouts and tests had gone well until Friday's full-speed spin.
"So far so good, knock on wood," MiMi Aung, the project manager for Ingenuity, said in a briefing before that final test on Friday.
For its first flight, Ingenuity is supposed to lift itself about 10 feet into the air, hover, then lower itself safely back to the ground. If that goes well, Ingenuity could attempt up to four more increasingly difficult flights.
"We're all kind of a little bit nervous and excited at the same time," Thomas Zurbuchen, the agency's associate administrator for science, told Insider on Friday. "We're all ready, but we'll all feel better when it's done — and successful."
This is a flight experiment, meant to prove that rotorcraft technology can work on Mars. If it succeeds, it could open the door for future space-helicopters to study regions that rovers can't reach — mountains, canyons, and rocky terrains — or even do reconnaissance for future Mars astronauts.
"Suppose that it does, in fact, work. What we will have proven is that we can add an aerial dimension to discovery and exploration on Mars," Zurbuchen said. "That aerial dimension, of course, opens up aspects of science and overall exploration that, frankly, at this moment in time, are only our dreams."
Linda Moulton Howe... Ancient Pyramid Power and Strange Discoveries in Alaska
Linda Moulton Howe... Ancient Pyramid Power and Strange Discoveries in Alaska
Who built the ancient pyramid in Alaska and is it an energy source? Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe shared her findings in an interview with Regina Meredith. Linda Moulton Howe is an American investigative journalist and documentary producer-writer-director-editor who is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She reports her findings on earthfiles.com.
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Reading the headline “World’s First Laser Developed to Shoot Space Junk Out of Orbit” probably makes many of you think that this is going to be about the military and this is just the ‘official’ version because they’ve undoubtedly been doing this – or at least testing it – for years. All of that may be true, but this recent announcement is actually about a non-military group in Australia and the laser isn’t blowing space junk to bits but pushing it out into deeper space where it can no longer fall to Earth. Let’s find out if it really works and if it’s indeed a good idea.
“More than 500,000 pieces of debris, or “space junk,” are tracked as they orbit the Earth. They all travel at speeds up to 17,500 mph, fast enough for a relatively small piece of orbital debris to damage a satellite or a spacecraft. The rising population of space debris increases the potential danger to all space vehicles, but especially to the International Space Station, space shuttles and other spacecraft with humans aboard.”
NASA has long been concerned about the junk it is leaving in space as it’s a danger not only to Earth but to other things NASA is putting in space. The US. Department of Defense is responsible for tracking space debris larger than 2 inches in diameter and has looked into various ways to remove objects that may pose a danger. Those methods generally involve moving junk to a lower altitude where it will burn up or blasting it into smaller pieces with another satellite. Electro Optic Systems Pty Ltd (EOS), which is already established as a leader in tracking space debris, has a different approach.
“Our expanding network of space sensors provides accurate, specialised catalogues for assessing collision risk in real time. Conjunction analysis is performed continuously, and the sensor network is re-tasked in real time to allow timely collision prediction using orbit errors smaller than 100m.
In some cases it is not possible to manoeuvre a satellite to avoid a near-certain collision. For these circumstances EOS is currently fielding a new type of laser tracker which can deliver sufficient laser power to move certain types of space debris to new orbits to avoid collision. This system cannot damage or fragment debris, but rather provides harmless radiation pressure to move the debris over many seconds of engagement.”
EOS Space Systems CEO Dr. Ben Greene described to 9News how the Guide Star Laser, a “real breakthrough for space technology,” will work. Installed on the top of Mount Stromlo at the EOS headquarters in Canberra, the Guide Star Laser’s first orange beam acts like a guidance light on a firearm to pinpoint the junk. Then a second, more powerful invisible laser is fired at the junk, slowly pushing it out of moving it out of its danger-causing orbit and deeper into space. This technology allows the removal of dangerous junk from much lower altitudes than satellites can, and with a much faster deployment time. The Guide Star Laser can also move much smaller debris at a fraction of the cost of other methods.
We still haven’t addressed the obvious – the Guide Star Laser ‘moves’ rather than ‘removes’ space junk. Unfortunately, neither does the EOS website not the9News interview. They do point out that it’s ready to go to protect satellites and ground infrastructure from pace junk – we assume that includes people too. Moving the junk deeper into space doesn’t seem to concern EOS nor its future customers – it’s expected to begin contracting out its services in 2022.
Will this just create a bigger area of junk farther out in space? Isn’t that like moving trash to more remote areas on Earth? How is that working out for us?
At the dawn of the atomic age, Truman became the first U.S. President to face widespread sightings, increased public interest in, and unrelenting press coverage of UFO’s following the 1947 Roswell crash incident.
Though he presented skepticism in public, Truman purportedly set into motion top secret investigations of the crash and related sightings and evidence.
Did Truman sign an executive order authorizing the formation of Majestic 12 (MJ-12) — an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials to facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft?
Is there any connection between the rise in U.S. atomic activity, and sightings of UFO’s? Let us know what you think in the comments below…
My previous article on the Roswell controversy of early July 1947 – at the Foster Ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico – focused on a portion of the Japanese part of the story. It’s a story that revolves around (A) Japanese documents captured at the end of the Second World War – on huge Japanese balloon arrays – and (B) Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, someone who was directly tied to both the Roswell event and Japanese balloons. I should stress (and I will in this article) that this is far from being the only Roswell-Japan connection. As you will see right now, a very curious UFO-themed story surfaced in the United States in May 1949. It caught the attention of the FBI, an agency that had been keeping a careful watch on the subject since the summer of 1947, when the flying saucer exploded on the world stage. On May 26, an FBI document – captioned “Flying Discs” – was written and revealed the facts concerning a strange saga. It stated: “Walter Winchell forwarded to the Director a Western Union telegram he had received from Robert Ripley [of ‘Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!’] which stated that he, Ripley, had the only authentic Japanese flying saucer ever recovered in this country. Mr. Winchell noted on the telegram, “To J. Edgar Hoover – True?” “This matter was discussed with Colonel [deleted], OSI-USAF, who advised on April 27, 1949 that he had interested himself in the flying saucers and related subjects and that in so far as could be determined by him through his sources in the Air Force, which are excellent, there is no authentic information available concerning the phenomenon of flying saucers. He advised he would check with the authorities at Wright Field to determine if any information is available concerning the recovery of a Japanese flying saucer.”
The document continued:
“Colonel [deleted] has now advised that there is no information available in any arm of the Air Force to the effect that any flying saucers of any kind have been recovered in the United States. Colonel [deleted] stated delay had been encountered in determining this fact inasmuch as inquiries had been directed through individuals known to him and trusted by him and not through the usual channels from which he possibly would receive a stock answer.” It turned out that this particular Japanese saucer was nothing of the sort. It was a good-natured hoax, mixed with a liberal degree of misidentification and exaggeration. Rather ironically, however, the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations became very worried by this prank. The OSI’s concerns were that (A) the truth of the Japanese link to Roswell might come tumbling out; and that (B) members of the public who might stumble on the remains of Japanese Fugo balloons – which were still being occasionally found across the United States, for years after the war was over – could mistakenly interpret them as flying saucers. And, in a worst case scenario, blow themselves to pieces if the bombswere still in working order. It’s most intriguing, therefore, that the OSI suggested it would be very wise to take seriously any and all reports of debris “remains of Japanese balloons [which] might cause flying disk hysteria.”
Nick Redfern
The FBI drew parallels between Fugo balloons and flying saucers midway through 1947. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz was up to his neck in those same balloons during the Second World War. Roswell fixture, Bill Rickett, hung out with LaPaz in New Mexico, as the good doctor sought to secretly solve certain aspects of the Roswell crash. And, we know that the Air Force was also making a Fugo-UFO connection in 1949. From the very earliest days of Ufology, Japan’s balloons and flying saucers were regular bedfellows. Now, let’s take a look at two more Japan-Roswell connections. One of those who saw the Roswell bodies was Melvin E. Brown, a man who was stationed at the Roswell Army Air Field at the time of the mysterious crash in early July 1947. Tom Carey and Don Schmitt reported that Brown’s father, Beverly, described the dead crew as having “big heads with slanted eyes.” In her interview with ufologist Tim Good, Beverly made a very intriguing and revealing statement. She said that the bodies her father saw back in ‘47 “…looked Asian [italics mine],” but had larger than normal heads and lacked any hair. “They looked a yellowy color.” There is also this from Beverly to Tim: “…they could have passed for Chinese [italics also mine].” It is one thing to say that the bodies looked somewhat Asian; however, specifically stating that the bodies which Melvin Brown saw “could have passed for Chinese” strongly suggests they were extremely human-looking.
One final thing: the Foster Ranch – where all of the drama went down – is located in Lincoln County, New Mexico. It so happens that also in Lincoln County is Fort Stanton, In the Second World War it held Japanese people. Over the years physically handicapped people were held at Fort Stanton. Japanese people and handicapped people are the key to finding the truth surrounding the victims of the Roswell incident. Although all of the documentation on Roswell has vanished, I know I’m right.
Over the last few days I’ve written articles on how and why the Roswell affair of July 1947 had nothing to do with aliens, but everything to do with secret experiments that involved huge balloon arrays, some of which were created by the U.S. military and others that were based on Japanese documents captured at the end of the Second World War. At this stage in the story, I am going to draw your attention to the fact that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI noted a parallel between the investigation of UFOs in the summer of 1947 and the Japanese balloon wave of a few years earlier, when the Second World War was still raging. The FBI document quoted from below – which surfaced thanks to Freedom of Information legislation – shows that in the summer 1947 there was a mindset that suggested “disk” sightings were not unlike the Japanese Fugo balloon sightings and investigations of a couple of years earlier – at least, in terms of how they should be investigated.
“It is felt that the situation regarding these flying saucers and flying disks is very similar to the situation which was previously encountered by the Bureau during the past war in handling complaints arising out of the sightings of Japanese balloons. You will recall that at the inception of these complaints the Bureau conducted considerable investigation and located numerous balloons as a cooperative measure for the Army then informed that these were military weapons and that they would take over the handling of these completely. This they did and in an extremely short time issued a big press release as to the splendid work of the Army in locating these Japanese balloons. From the information available thus far it does not appear that these disks should be treated other than as a military weapon. Certainly the Bureau has no way to determine what experiments the Army and Navy are conducting and whether such might be arising out of experiments being conducted by them, nor do we have any way of determining how far the Russians have progressed in certain experiments and whether such might be the results of experiments by the Russian Army.”
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the keeper of all secrets
As this memo reveals, the FBI was making certain investigative parallels between the Fugo balloons of the Second World War and the flying saucers of 1947. It is most eye-opening that the FBI also noted: “…the Bureau has no way to determine what experiments the Army and Navy are conducting and whether such might be arising out of experiments being conducted by them…” This strongly suggests there was a fair degree of belief, or suspicion, within the FBI that what was being seen was not from some faraway star-system, but from right here. On Earth. That the FBI also stated, “From the information available thus far it does not appear that these disks should be treated other than as a military weapon,” also speaks volumes about where the collective mind of the FBI was then-currently at. In view of what we have seen so far, we can make a good case that in the summer of 1947, the FBI knew – or at least strongly suspected – that UFOs were the product of Uncle Sam. Now, let’s take a look at a certain, central figure in the Roswell mystery who also had a link to…wartime Japanese balloons.
Master Sergeant Lewis “Bill” Rickett – of the Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) – was someone who many Roswell investigators believe knew exactly what happened on the Foster Ranch in July 1947. At the time of the mysterious event, Rickett was the Non-Commissioned Officer-in-Charge at the Roswell Army Air Field. Years after the event, Rickett admitted to UFO researchers his presence at the ranch site – along with Sheridan Cavitt, also of the CIC – on July 8. Rickett also shared a few other snippets of data, when the mood took him. For the most part, though, he remained very tight-lipped – even cagey at times – on exactly what took place. Rickett did, however, admit that approximately two months after the crash on the Foster Ranch took place, he liaised on the top secret matter with one Dr. Lincoln LaPaz. At the time, he was the Director of the University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics. He and LaPaz undertook a secret assignment to try and figure out “the speed and trajectory” of the craft that slammed into the heart of Lincoln County. Reportedly, the pair found a “touchdown” location just a few miles from the ranch, as well as a patch of ground that had been exposed to a significant amount of heat. According to Rickett, the object that hurtled to the ground on the ranch was somewhat bat-winged, but certainly not what anyone would call a flying saucer – which is an important point, given that all the talk at the time was of saucers and disks.
There are good indications that Rickett knew a great deal about the Roswell bodies, too. UFO investigator Stan Friedman had the opportunity to speak with Rickett back in the 1980s. It was an absolute cloak-and-dagger-like conversation that was noted not so much for what Rickett did say, but for what he didn’t say. Friedman recalled: “When I mentioned bodies, Rickett clearly reacted and indicated that this was an area he couldn’t talk about. He indicated there were different levels of security about this work; that a directive had come down placing this at a high level. He went on to say that certain subjects were discussed only in rooms that couldn’t be bugged.” Clearly, Rickett was a concerned man – as he certainly should have been. In other words, decades after the mystifying incident, Rickett was still fearful of saying too much to too many – and particularly so on the matter of the bodies. Nevertheless, it may have been a result of opening his mouth just one too many times that finally led Rickett to get what we might call a friendly warning. You know the sort: they are actually anything but friendly. From whom? From Sheridan Cavitt, formerly of the Counter-Intelligence Corps; the man who assured the U.S. Air Force in the 1990s that nothing stranger than a weather-balloon was the cause of all the sensational press-coverage way back when.
One particularly important fact that many Roswell researchers have either not realized or have carefully avoided highlighting, in case – shock, horror – it dares to support my conclusions, is Dr. Lincoln LaPaz’s connection to the issue of Japan’s Fugo balloons. In 1945, the University of New Mexico issued a press-release titled “New Mexican Had Lookout Job For ‘Japanese Germs.'” It revealed a certain, previously secret, aspect of LaPaz’s life, and it reads as follows: “Dr. Lincoln LaPaz of the University of New Mexico was in the thick of the fight against Japanese plans to send disease germs into America by balloon, said President J.P Wernette of the University today. Commenting on stories from the Navy in Washington revealing that use of germs and viruses in the Jap balloon-barrage was an enemy project as the war came to an end, Dr. Wernette said that Dr. LaPaz, head of the department of mathematics and the University’s Institute of Meteoritics, was with the government’s secret anti-balloon project during the war.”
University staff continued: “‘If the war had not ended when it did, in the opening stages of a full-scale balloon offensive which probably would have taken place between October 1945, and now, when the velocity of the west wind at high altitude is greatest, this country would have had unpleasant experiences,’ Dr. LaPaz said today. ‘People most concerned were trained scientists, and stockmen, too, he said. Anthrax spores could have been sent over in the paper balloons in great numbers, and Manchurian sheep pox could have easily struck the hooved animals of this country because the disease has not been found here and there would be no natural immunity, Dr. LaPaz went on.” LaPaz was quoted as saying: “But the Japanese, using radio devices to locate their balloons on the flight to this country, apparently did not realize that we could pick up the signals an find the balloons before they reached the mainland.”
A similar press release issued by the University of New Mexico – also in 1945 – details further information on LaPaz’s Fugo-themed work for the U.S. military: “Observers, watching for meteors, thought they had something when they saw some brilliant lights in the sky from February to May, 1945. And they did, said Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, mathematics department head at the University of New Mexico and director of its Institute of Meteoritics, today. The displays were actually made by Japanese balloons, Dr. LaPaz said, revealing the history of a scientific study of meteors which went on before and during the time that Dr. LaPaz was busy in secret government work of studying and combating the balloon offensive. Nevertheless, a few months later, on Nov. 29, 1945, a great meteorite fell slowly across northern California and Nevada, and observers mistook it for everything from a jet plane to a Hollywood publicity stunt. Members of the Society for Research on Meteorites and the American Meteor Society, thought at first that it was a new type [of] Japanese balloon bomb.”
If, as the interviewees in my The Roswell UFO Conspiracy book asserted, the key event that led to the legend of the UFO crash at Roswell involved a “next-generation of Fugo” balloon of huge proportions that was responsible for launching an experimental aircraft that catastrophically crashed, then who better to enlist into the study of how and why the experiment failed than an expert on those very same balloons? Namely, Dr. Lincoln LaPaz.
Egypt's 'lost golden city' is FOUND: Massive 3,500-year-old settlement founded by Tutankhamun's grandfather is unearthed in most significant discovery since the boy king's tomb
Egypt's 'lost golden city' is FOUND: Massive 3,500-year-old settlement founded by Tutankhamun's grandfather is unearthed in most significant discovery since the boy king's tomb
Archaeologists announced the discovery of a 3,500-year-old 'lost golden city' found in Luxor in, Egypt
The city was built by King Amenhotep III, who was the grandfather of the famous King Tutankhamun
The massive structure houses roads, neighborhoods, bakeries, workshops and even burials
Archaeologists dated the city using hieroglyphics found on pottery and King Amenhotep III's stamp on bricks
One area in the city is an administration area t surrounded by a zigzag wall with only one entrance
The design acted like a security system , allowing residents to to control entry and exit to enclosed areas
This may be most significant find since King Tutankhamun's lavish tomb was unearthed nearly a century ago
Archaeologists announced the discovery of a 3,500-year-old 'lost golden city' that was built by King Tutankhamun's grandfather and may be the most significant find since the boy-pharaoh's lavish tomb was unearthed nearly a century ago.
The ancient pharaonic city, known as Aten, was constructed by King Amenhotep III, who ruled around 1390 BC, and was later used by King Tutankhamun.
The settlement, discovered in Luxor, is the largest ancient city to be discovered in Egypt, and is complete with neighborhoods, streets and a security system.
Excavations uncovered bakeries, workshops and burials of animals and humans, along with jewelry, pots and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep III.
The team initially set out to discover Tutankhamun's Mortuary Temple, where the young king was mummified and received status rites, but they stumbled upon something far greater.
Within just weeks of digging, they uncovered 'mud brick formations in every direction,' Egyptian mission directed Zahi Hawass said in a statement.
'Many foreign missions searched for this city and never found it,' Hawass continued.
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Archaeologists announced the discovery of a 3,500-year-old 'lost golden city' that was built by King Tutankhamun's grandfather and may be the most significant find since the boy-pharaoh's lavish tomb was unearthed nearly a century ago
Luxor is famously known for its oldest and most ancient Egyptian sites, along with being home to the Valley of Kings. Pictured: tiny statuettes dating back around 3,000 years that were found in the 'Lost Golden City' of Luxor
Archaeologists unearthed the well-preserved city that had nearly complete walls and rooms filled with tools used in daily life along with rings, scarabs, colored pottery vessels (pictured) and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep's cartouche
Archaeologists unearthed the well-preserved city that had nearly complete walls and rooms filled with tools used in daily life along with rings, scarabs, colored pottery vessels and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep's cartouche, Luxor Times shared on Facebook.
'The city's streets are flanked by houses ... some of their walls are up to three meters high,' Hawass said.
Luxor is famously known for its oldest and most ancient Egyptian sites, along with being home to the Valley of Kings.
This area was once called the 'Great Necropolis of Millions of Years of Pharaoh,' as a number of mummies and massive structures have been discovered in Luxor since the 1800s.
Excavations uncovered bakeries, workshops and burials of animals and humans, along with jewelry, pots and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep III
The ancient pharaonic city, known as Aten, was constructed by King Amenhotep III (left), who begin his rule around 1391 BC, and was later used by King Tutankhamun (right)
Luxor is famously known for its oldest and most ancient Egyptian sites, along with being home to the Valley of Kings. This area was once called the 'Great Necropolis of Millions of Years of Pharaoh,' as a number of mummies and massive structures have been discovered in Luxor
Some of the rooms inside the structure show stunning hieroglyphics that could hold clues about the early inhabitants
Betsy Brian, Professor of Egyptology at John Hopkins University in Baltimore USA, said 'The discovery of this lost city is the second most important archeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun'.
'The discovery of the Lost City, not only will give us a rare glimpse into the life of the Ancient Egyptians at the time where the Empire was at his wealthiest but will help us shed light on one of history's greatest mystery: why did Akhenaten & Nefertiti decide to move to Amarna.'
The city sits between Rameses III's temple at Medinet Habu and Amenhotep III's temple at Memnon.
Excavations began September 2020 and within weeks, archaeologists uncovered formations made of mud bricks.
After more digging, archaeologists unearthed the site of the large, well-preserved city with almost complete walls, and rooms filled with tools once used by the city's inhabitants.
The first goal of the mission was to date the settlement, which was done using hieroglyphic inscriptions found on clay caps of wine vessels. 'Historical references tell us the settlement consisted of three royal palaces of King Amenhotep III, as well as the Empire's administrative and industrial center,' archaeologists shared in a statement
They unearthed the well-preserved city that had almost complete walls and rooms filled with tools of daily life along with rings, scarabs, colored pottery vessels and mud bricks bearing seals of Amenhotep's cartouche
WHAT IS EGYPT'S VALLEY OF THE KINGS?
The Valley of the Kings in upper Egypt is one of the country's main tourist attractions and is the famous burial ground of many deceased pharaohs.
It is located near the ancient city of Luxor on the banks of the river Nile in eastern Egypt - 300 miles (500km) away from the pyramids of Giza, near Cairo.
The majority of the pharaohs of the 18th to 20th dynasties, who ruled from 1550 to 1069 BC, rested in the tombs which were cut into the local rock.
The royal tombs are decorated with scenes from Egyptian mythology and give clues as to the beliefs and funerary rituals of the period.
The majority of the pharaohs of the 18th to 20th dynasties, who ruled from 1550 to 1069 BC, rested in the tombs which were cut into the local rock. Pictured are statues of goddesses at the site
Almost all of the tombs were opened and looted centuries ago, but the sites still give an idea of the opulence and power of the Pharaohs.
The most famous pharaoh at the site is Tutankhamun, whose tomb was discovered in 1922.
Preserved to this day, in the tomb are original decorations of sacred imagery from, among others, the Book of Gates or the Book of Caverns.
These are among the most important funeral texts found on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs.
The Valley of the Kings in upper Egypt is one of the country's main tourist attractions. The most famous pharaoh at the site is Tutankhamun, whose tomb was discovered in 1922
The first goal of the mission was to date the settlement, which was done using hieroglyphic inscriptions found on clay caps of wine vessels.
'Historical references tell us the settlement consisted of three royal palaces of King Amenhotep III, as well as the Empire's administrative and industrial center,' archaeologists shared in a statement.
Most of the sandy landscape was cleared from the area in just seven months, which showed neighborhoods with different facilities.
There was a bakery in the southern part of the city, with a kitchen complete with ovens and storage pottery.
'From its size, we can state the kitchen was catering a very large number of workers and employees,' archaeologists explained.
The team is still working on a second part of Aten and although partially covered, they believe it is the administrative and residential district, with larger and well-arranged units.
This area is surrounded by a zigzag wall and has only a single access point that leads to internal corridors and residential areas.
'The single entrance makes us think it was some sort of security, with the ability to control entry and exit to enclosed areas, researchers shared.
The team is still working on a second part of Aten and although partially covered, they believe it is the administrative and residential district, with larger and well-arranged units
A number of bricks still litter the landscape that bear seals of King Amenhotep III
Along with structural elements, there were burials found inside the city's walls. Pictured is either a cow or bull that was found buried in a room of a buildin
The remains of a person found with their arms stretched to the side and tattered rope wrapped around their knees
'Zigzag walls are one of the rare architectural elements in ancient Egyptian architecture, mainly used towards the end of the 18th Dynasty.'
Bricks were found with the name of a built by King Akhenaten at Karnak (pictured), who was King Tutankhamun's father
The third area appears to be workshops were located that constructed the mud bricks used to build the massive city.
A number of bricks still litter the landscape that bear seals of King Amenhotep III and others with inscriptions that can be read: 'gm pa Aton' that can be translated as 'The domain of the dazzling Aten', this is the name of a temple built by King Akhenaten at Karnak, who was King Tutankhamun's father.
In this part of the site, experts also uncovered large casting molds for making amulets and delicate, decorative objects.
'This is further evidence of the extensive activity in the city to produce decorations for both temples and tombs,' archaeologists said.
'All over the excavated areas, the mission has found many tools used in some sort of industrial activity like spinning and weaving.
'Metal and glass-making slag has also been unearthed, but the main area of such activity has yet to be discovered.'
Along with structural elements, there are also burials found inside the city's walls.
Two animal burials were unearthed of either a cow or bull, along with remains of a person found with their arms stretched to the side and tattered rope wrapped around their knees.
'As history goes, one year after this pot was made, the city was abandoned and the capital relocated to Amarna. But was it? And why? And was the city repopulated again when Tutankhamun returned to Thebes,' said the team in a statement.
A number of artifacts have been discovered inside the city, including ancient pots, jewelry and other trinkets
There are also large casting molds for making amulets and delicate, decorative objects
'This is further evidence of the extensive activity in the city to produce decorations for both temples and tombs,' archaeologists said.
Most of the ancient pottery is still intact after being hidden under the sand for thousands of years
'Only further excavations of the area will reveal what truly happened 3500 years ago.
To the north of the settlement a large cemetery was uncovered, the extent of which has yet to be determined.'
Tutankhamun's successor, King Ay, built his temple on a site which was later adjoined on its southern side by Rameses III's temple at Medinet Habu.
Egyptologists believe Ay's temple may formerly have belonged to Tutankhamun as two colossal statues of the young king were found there. The northern part of the temple is still under the sands.
Aten is said to be more significant than King Tutankhamun's tomb. In 1907, Lord Carnarvon George Herbert asked English archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter to supervise excavations in the Valley of the Kings. On 4 November 1922, Carter's group found steps that led to Tutankhamun's tomb and spent several months cataloguing the antechamber
King Tutankhamun's tomb is one of the most lavish to be discovered in history, filled with precious objects to aid the young Pharaoh on his voyage to the afterlife. The trove of grave goods included 5,000 items including solid gold funeral shoes, statues, games and strange animals
Amenhotep III inherited an empire that stretched from the Euphrates to Sudan, archaeologists say, and died around 1354 BC.
He ruled for nearly four decades, a reign known for its opulence and the grandeur of its monuments, including the Colossi of Memnon -- two massive stone statues near Luxor that represent him and his wife.
'The archaeological layers have laid untouched for thousands of years, left by the ancient residents as if it were yesterday,' the team's statement said.
Bryan said the city 'will give us a rare glimpse into the life of the Ancient Egyptians at the time where the Empire was at his wealthiest'.
The team said they were optimistic that further important finds would be revealed, noting they had discovered groups of tombs reached through 'stairs carved into the rock', a similar construction to those found in the Valley of the Kings.
'The mission expects to uncover untouched tombs filled with treasures,' the statement added.
'Discovering Tutankhamun', the story of the famous king
WHO WAS KING TUTANKHAMUN AND HOW WAS HIS TOMB DISCOVERED?
The face of Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, and ruled between 1332 BC and 1323 BC. Right, his famous gold funeral mask
Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, and ruled between 1332 BC and 1323 BC.
He was the son of Akhenaten and took to the throne at the age of nine or ten.
When he became king, he married his half-sister, Ankhesenpaaten.
He died at around the age of 18 and his cause of death is unknown.
In 1907, Lord Carnarvon George Herbert asked English archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter to supervise excavations in the Valley of the Kings.
On 4 November 1922, Carter's group found steps that led to Tutankhamun's tomb.
He spent several months cataloguing the antechamber before opening the burial chamber and discovering the sarcophagus in February 1923.
When the tomb was discovered in 1922 by archaeologist Howard Carter, under the patronage of Lord Carnarvon, the media frenzy that followed was unprecedented.
Carter and his team took 10 years to clear the tomb of its treasure because of the multitude of objects found within it.
For many, Tut embodies ancient Egypt's glory because his tomb was packed with the glittering wealth of the rich 18th Dynasty from 1569 to 1315 BC.
Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass (3rd L) supervises the removal of the lid of the sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in 2007.
Deze onaangeroerde schatten hebben archeologen al ontdekt in 3.000 jaar oude verloren stad in Egypte
Archeologen hebben een tipje van de sluier gelicht over de schatten die ze al gevonden hebben in een pas ontdekte, 3.000 jaar oude stad in Egypte. Het zou gaan om de grootste stad uit de Egyptische oudheid die ooit gevonden werd. Hoewel nog maar een deel van het terrein is opgegraven, werd al een ongekende rijkdom aan spullen opgegraven.
Het gaat onder meer om stoffelijke resten van mensen en dieren, kleren, sandalen, prachtig gekleurde oude potten, beelden, juwelen en amuletten. Ze lagen in resten van gebouwen, onder meer een werkplaats waar vlees gedroogd werd en enkele winkels. Bij de meer opmerkelijke vondsten waren de fossiele resten van een vis, bedekt met goud, die mogelijk vereerd werd.
De werken begonnen in september tussen de tempels van Ramses III en Amenhotep III, vlakbij Luxor, op zo’n 500 kilometer ten zuiden van Caïro. Volgens de bekende Egyptoloog Zahi Hawass was de stad verbonden met de zonnegod Aton en farao Amenhotep III. Getuige daarvan zijn onder meer stenen met het zegel van die laatste. “We hebben drie grote districten blootgelegd”, klinkt het bij het Franse persbureau AFP. “Eén voor de administratie, één waar arbeiders verbleven en één voor het bedrijfsleven.”
Tombes
Er is nog maar een deel van de stad opgegraven. Hij zou zich nog verder naar het noorden en het westen uitstrekken. De archeologen hebben er vertrouwen in dat er nog meer schatten aan de oppervlakte zullen komen. Ze verwezen daarbij naar de ontdekking van een aantal tombes, die bereikt kunnen worden door een trap die uitgehouwen is in de rotsen. Een constructie die doet denken aan de Vallei der Koningen, waar enkele van de bekendste farao’s uit de geschiedenis begraven liggen.
Amenhotep III - waarmee de stad verbonden is - erfde een rijk dat zich uitstrekte van de rivier de Eufraat in het huidige Irak en Syrië tot Soedan, onder Egypte. Hij regeerde bijna vier decennia en stierf in 1354 voor Christus. De periode is vooral bekend om haar weelde en de grootsheid van haar monumenten.
Volgens de Amerikaanse archeologe en kenner van Egyptische kunst Betsy Bryan van de Johns Hopkins University is de archeologische vondst de belangrijkste sinds de ontdekking van het graf van Toetanchamon door Howard Carter, bijna een eeuw geleden. “De archeologische lagen zijn duizenden jaren onaangeroerd gebleven. Ze liggen erbij alsof de bewoners van de staf ze gisteren pas achtergelaten hebben”, reageert ze.
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NASA ISS Captures Massive Triangular Craft! Can You Explain This? 2021
NASA ISS Captures Massive Triangular Craft! Can You Explain This? 2021
NASA ISS Captures Massive Triangular Craft! Can You Explain This? 2021
The “Screw” has no additional information about it what so ever. They haven’t given any indication as to what it is made out of nor any further information about/on it. SD
The New York “Tic Tac” looks like it’s moving alot faster than your typical jet liner would be .
Glowing UFO In Clouds Over Colorado On April 9, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO In Clouds Over Colorado On April 9, 2021, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 9, 2021 Location of sighting: Blackhawk, Colorado, USA Source: MUFON 114659
Here is a new report just in. Colorado mountains are notorious for their glowing huge glowing orbs which police, mayors and citizens have all witnessed over the last decade.
Here an orb was seen coming out of the clouds along the Rocky mountains. I have often said that the Rocky Mountains have an alien base 6km below ground level within the Colorado boarder area.
This orb is clearly seen behind the clouds at the beginning, with only 25% of it visible behind the cloud. Then in another photo you can see 50% and then all. This is proof that its not a reflection as some would believe. This is undeniable proof that aliens not only frequent the Colorado mountains, but have an alien base below it too.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness state:
The orb was stationary for 20 minutes seen through my canon telescopic lens. The Orb was observed over Niwot Ridge from my 4th floor tower room looking north at North and South Arapahoe Peaks. Niwot Ridge runs East below the peaks. I snapped a few shots till it disappeared. It diminished slightly before it vanished completely. I am still looking for a repeat performance. I have also observed a different sunlike orb that moved over caribou Ridge twice: May and June 2014. This orb moved in an L shape down a mountain east of caribou ridge very very slowly. In fact, in the beginning when it breached the mountain treeline one could see the orb silhouetted behind the trees. When it finished its course it moved again over the mountain and blasted out into space. The first sighting in May was witnessed by myself and another person. There was no sound from this sighting or the one mentioned today. Today's sighting that I photographed would be about 25 miles from the glowing orb.
Ex-CIA Director is the Latest Government Official to Suggest UFOs are Real
Ex-CIA Director is the Latest Government Official to Suggest UFOs are Real
CIA director under Bill Clinton is now the third former government official to suggest that UFOs are real, after saying an aircraft of a respected friend once paused at 40,000 feet. R. James Woolsey hinted at this possibility when he appeared on the YouTube channel ‘The Black Vault Originals’ to promote his upcoming book, ‘Operation Dragon.’
He claimed that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald at the direction of Soviet Russia.
The UFO subject eventually came into conversation with host John Greenwald Jr.
Woolsey claimed he had several stories of bizarre flying events run past him that left him open to the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
He also hinted at more details in the coming weeks.
He said there had been events over the years now of one kind of another, generally involving some sort of aircraft-like airframe.
He then said that an unnamed friend could have his aircraft stopped at 40,000 feet or so and stopped operating as a typical aircraft.
John Brennan, CIA director of Barack Obama, has also talked about this.
Brennan discussed this on the December episode of “Conversations with Tyler,” hosted by Tyler Cowan.
He believes it’s a bit arrogant and presumptuous for humanity to think that there are no other lifeforms anywhere in the entire universe.
On March 19, director of national intelligence during Donald Trump administration John Ratcliffe claimed on a Fox News show that the government had documented much more than the public knows regarding UFOs.
After three former government officials’ statements about UFOs and aliens, maybe we should be bracing for something.
Writer-director Neil Burger is well known for his provocative cinematic projects, most notably 2006's period-set magician movie "The Illusionist," 2011's psychological thriller "Limitless," and a trio of "Divergent" films adapted from author Veronica Roth's young adult sci-fi novels.
Now Burger has his eyes fixed on the stars with his new science fiction adventure flick, "Voyagers," which revolves around the perils inside a generation spaceship carrying 30 home-grown candidates on a one-way mission to settle an exoplanet 86 years from Earth.
Lionsgate will release "Voyagers'' nationwide on April 9. The film'syouthful cast includes Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp, Fionn Whitehead, Chanté Adams, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Viveik Kalra, Archie Madekwe, Quintessa Swindell, Madison Hu, and Colin Farrell. The premise finds the crew discovering that they're being drugged with an emotional suppressant called "The Blue," and centers on the heightened chaos that ensues when they stop drinking their medicine.
The long-haul spaceship of director Neil Burger's "Voyagers." (Image credit: Lionsgate)
Here's the official "Voyagers" synopsis:
"With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women, bred for intelligence and obedience, embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they're consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable hunger for power."
Space.comspoke with Burger on the genesis of "Voyagers," what sort of mood and visual style he hoped to attain, the origins of the azure-hued cocktail known as "The Blue," his inspiration for the plot, and visiting SpaceX to create a realistic set environment for his actors.
"Voyagers" director Neil Burger and actor Lily Rose-Depp inside their giant spaceship's gym.
(Image credit: Lionsgate)
A look behind the scenes of "Voyagers."
(Image credit: Lionsgate)
A scene from the sci-fi-thriller "Voyagers."
(Image credit: Lionsgate)
A scene from the sci-fi-thriller "Voyagers."
(Image credit: Lionsgate)
Space.com: What was the creative seed for writing and directing "Voyagers?"
Neil Burger: I was interested in human nature in a vacuum. We've seen other space movies that are going to a distant planet, but I wanted to delve into the idea of what's it really like to be confined on one of these ships if we were really going to go someplace and how does that work. It's not a shopping mall in space, you need to conserve weight and conserve fuel and it's all the bare minimum. It's tight quarters so we designed this set with these long narrow hallways leading to confined compartments. So then it's how do people hold up under that kind of pressure for their entire lives. And if things do start to break down what’s that look like?
Space.com:You've explored elements of human potential and limitations in other movies. How does "The Blue" operate as a narrative device in the screenplay’s framework?
Burger:Basically, they put these young people on the ship who are going to just live their lives and procreate on the ship and have the next generation and then the next generation, and that's how they're going to get there. The mission planners have accounted for everything, so they have them on what we call "The Blue." It’s like a sedative. It's something making them docile and dulled down so that they don't act out and procreate at the right time to conserve food. They don't know that's what it’s doing to them, they think it's some vitamin supplement.
But they're super smart and one of them hacks into a computer and stumbles upon the truth of what this is. So he and his friend go off of it and they suddenly awaken to this emotion and human sensation that they've never felt before. In a way, going off the drug is like being on a drug for them. It's intoxicating. Slowly the whole crew goes off of it and all hell breaks loose.
A scene from the sci-fi-thriller "Voyagers." (Image credit: Lionsgate)
Space.com: What were some of your influences and inspirations in creating a mood and tone for "Voyagers?"
Burger: Because I wanted it to be about human nature in a vacuum, I wanted to strip everything down with the ship. Which sort of makes sense they'd have a minimal craft to take them there. So simple rooms and simple corridors all in white. I like that because it featured the human aspect of it. Certainly the ship is a character but it's just white ceilings and white floors. And I also saw it, because of the confinement and claustrophobia, as a little bit like a submarine movie. So I looked a lot at "Das Boot" to see how those sailors were dealing with the stressors of being confined underwater. This is different, but it's a similar thing.
The young astronauts of the space thriller "Voyagers." (Image credit: Lionsgate)
Space.com: In your research, what were some shocking or surprising facts you discovered about colony ships and space travel?
Burger:Once I came up with the idea, for me it always has to be based in reality. I wanted it to all ring true. The most wonderful thing we did is spend time at SpaceX in California. [SpaceX's headquarters and rocket factory are in Hawthorne, Calif.] We went there and went through the whole design process and hung out with their engineers and got to sit in a capsule and see how their controls were done. So that was very informative, what they were working on, and to see how they were simplifying everything. You look at these old spaceships or even old airplanes and there’s a million different switches and toggles. They brought it all down to basically an iPad's worth of touchscreens. It was just inspiring to be there.
The poster for "Voyagers." (Image credit: Lionsgate)
Space.com: Would you climb aboard a starship and blast into space if given the chance?
Burger: I would go up in space, yeah. I think it would be amazing. People don't realize the stresses it puts on you. I would love to do it.
You live your life on Earth and get into all your petty concerns and worries. To be up in the heavens looking down would put it all in perspective.
"Voyagers" launches into theaters Friday, April 9. The PG-13 movie runs 1 hour, 48 minutes.
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With a little help from Gaia and Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
An artist's impression of the light emitted from the two quasars nestled in colliding galaxies.
(Image credit: NASA, ESA, AND J. OLMSTED (STSCI))
NASA's Hubble Space Telescopehas captured not one but two pairs of distant quasars that existed some 10 billion years ago, a new study reports.
According to the team leading the research, the discovery was like finding a needle in a haystack, as the chance of locating a double quasar compared to a single quasar is just one in 1,000.
Imagery captured by the long-serving space telescope shows that the quasars within each pair are only about 10,000 light-years apart. For comparison, our sun is 26,000 light-years away from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. The researchers, led by Nadia Zakamska of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, believe that the quasars are knitted so closely to each other because each pair lies at the center of two galaxies in the midst of a smashup.
A quasaris an intense emission of light from the center of a galaxy that's fuelled by the gluttonous supermassive black hole at its core. "Quasars make a profound impact on galaxy formation in the universe," Zakamska said in a statement released on April 6.
When two galaxies collide, their intense gravity causes the structures to become warped. More material is funneled into their respective black holes as a result, igniting their quasars. Over time, the intense radiation fuels galactic winds that strip away most of the gas from the merging galaxies.
This process results in the formation of an elliptical galaxy. A similar sequence is predicted to happen a few billion years from now when the Milky Way merges with its nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy.
More than 100 double quasars have been discovered in merging galaxies, though none are as old as the two pairs found in this study. The newly discovered quasars are from an era associated with an abundance of quasar formation, about 10 billion years ago. Astronomers had previously suggested there should be myriad dual quasars during that time, but none had been detected until now.
These images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal two pairs of quasars. The pair on the left are catalogued as J0749+2255 (taken January 5 2020) and the pair on the right as J0841+4825 (taken on November 30 2019). Both images were taken in visible light with Wide Field Camera 3.
(Image credit: NASA, ESA, H. Hwang and N. Zakamska (Johns Hopkins University), and Y. Shen (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign))
"This truly is the first sample of dual quasars at the peak epoch of galaxy formation with which we can use to probe ideas about how supermassive black holes come together to eventually form a binary," Zakamska said.
The discovery of these four quasars not only informs researchers on the merging of supermassive black holes in the early universe, but also highlights the benefits of employing a variety of techniques to detect and image elusive dual quasars, study team members said.
Although Hubble is the only telescope with a high enough resolution to distinguish these two close quasar pairs, its sharp eye wasn't quite good enough to locate them on its own. Astronomers needed to point Hubble in the right direction, and for that they enlisted the help of the European Space Agency's star-mapping Gaia satellite and the ground-based Sloan Digital Sky Survey to compile a list of possible candidates for Hubble to investigate.
Schematic representation of the technique used to probe the small-scale structure of the cosmic web using light from a rare quasar pair. The spectra (bottom right) contain information about the hydrogen gas the light has encountered on its journey to Earth, as well as the distance of that gas.
When the researchers then observed the first four targets with Hubble, they found that two of the targets were actually two pairs of close quasars. The researchers said it was a "light bulb moment" that reaffirmed their plans to use Hubble, Sloan and Gaia to search for quasar duos.
"The new technique can not only discover dual quasars much further away, but it is much more efficient than the methods we've used before," said Xin Liu of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who was also part of the study.
US military paid scientist to build 'physics-bending weapon for wars with UFOs'
US military paid scientist to build 'physics-bending weapon for wars with UFOs'
Pentagon chiefs, concerned that China may already have advanced UFO technology, commissioned Dr Salvatore Pais to build a new kind of aircraft that can travel at incredible speeds
The US Department of Defence has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the development of a 'Space-Time Modification Weapon' that will ensure battlefield supremacy by bending the laws of physics.
While the concept might seem like something dreamed up by tinfoil-hatted conspiracy theorists, the US military has a long history of dabbling in research that sounds like science fiction.
The radar-invisible F117A Nighthawk and its flying wing cousin the B2 Spirit still look like something from a Star Wars film despite both designs being around 40 years old.
This new initiative is based on the work of controversial scientist Dr Salvatore Pais.
The Stealth fighter remained a closely-guarded secret from its inception in the mid-70s until its exposure in 1988(Image: Getty Images)
Pais claims that artificially generated high energy electromagnetic fields can manipulate the "quantum vacuum" that underlies the entire Universe.
If Pais is correct, a craft surrounded by an electromagnetic "force field" of this kind could move through air – or water – with virtually no resistance.
This would allow incredible acceleration and produce a new kind of aircraft that – according to the enigmatic Dr Pais – would be able to "engineer the fabric of our reality at the most fundamental level".
But not everyone agrees with him.
Documents from the US Patent Office reveal the 'plasma compression fusion device' Pais designed
Dr. Salvatore Pais claims his invention would make a nuclear bomb 'look like a firecracker'
Science writer Brett Tingley argues that the so-called Pais Effect "has no scientific basis in reality" and added the patents related to it "were filled with pseudo-scientific jargon"
But it’s pseudo-scientific jargon that has convinced at least some US defence chiefs. Pais has been handed over $500,000 (£365k) to research the bizarre concept.
Defence department emails reveal that there was at least one experimental demonstration of the technology. UFO hunters will note that the schematics Pais drew up for his experimental craft look suspiciously like the "Black Triangles" sometimes spotted gliding silently over the southwestern United States.
Large 'black triangle' UFOs have been reported around the world since 1989(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
The US National Institute for Discovery Science catalogued sightings of so-called "Black Triangle" UFOs dating back to the 1990s, and concluded that the behaviour of the mysterious aerial objects "does not appear consistent with the covert deployment of an advanced DoD [U.S. Department of the Defence] aircraft".
In a recent publication, Pais describes his craft – which would operate as both an aircraft and a submarine – as a being shaped roughly like the point of a pencil: "The HAUC is conical in configuration with an elliptical cross-section, similar in geometry to a hypersonic glide vehicle [or] dart."
The hybrid craft, which would encase its crew in a Faraday Cage to shield them from the intense electromagnetic forces, would operate "as a submersible craft capable of extreme underwater speeds" as well as a supersonic or potentially hypersonic stealth aircraft.
US military bosses were thinking about the next generation of combat aircraft long before current stealth fighters were made public(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
Pais has filed several patents, with titles such as "Craft Using an Inertial Mass Reduction Device," "Piezoelectricity-induced High-Temperature Superconductor," "High-Frequency Gravitational Wave Generator," and "Ultrahigh Intensity Electromagnetic Field Generator".
He claims that they are all based on discoveries that will overturn the laws of physics as we currently understand them.
At least one of his patents was rejected by the US Patent Office in 2018 because it did not seem to be scientifically plausible, but then later resubmitted with further documentation that appeared to prove Pais’s wild claims.
The B2 Spirit's development began in 1974, and the ultra stealthy bomber entered service in 1993
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A Faraday cage inside the craft would protect its crew against the intense electromagnetic field
(Image: Getty Images/Science Photo Library RF)
According to The Drive, the US military is investing in these technologies because of concerns that China has already developed ultra-advanced aircraft of the type that reportedly "buzzed" the USS Nimitz in 2004.
Brett Tingley and Tyler Rogoway wrote: "The Chief Technical Officer of the Naval Aviation Enterprise personally wrote a letter addressed to the examiner claiming that the U.S. needs the patent as the Chinese are already ‘investing significantly’ in these aerospace technologies."
The claims made by Pais seem wild and implausible - but in a world where killer robots, pilotless aircraft and laser weapons are becoming commonplace, perhaps his reality-busting flying subs will one day seem as ordinary as the Stealth Bomber.
Scientist Warns: Contact With Aliens Is A “Terrible Idea”
Scientist Warns: Contact With Aliens Is A “Terrible Idea”
The famous theoretical physicist Michio Kaku warns mankind against attempts to establish contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, which are millions of years ahead of us in technical development.
A scientist considers it a “terrible idea” to contact aliens, and we cannot afford to take such risks.
Michio Kaku is Professor of Physics at the City College and City University of New York. He considers it unlikely that alien civilizations have previously visited Earth, but we must understand that there are civilizations that are millions of years ahead of us in technical development.
As an example, the scientist refers to the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs. The difference in technical development was very significant. For the same reason, it is not desirable for people to come into contact with highly developed civilizations.
However, if this happens, which is inevitable, then it must be done very carefully, even if the aliens behave towards us friendly.
According to Michio Kaku, each time humanity has more and more opportunities to establish contact. This is largely facilitated by new orbiting telescopes capable of penetrating deep into the Universe and seeing more stars and planets.
Despite thousands of possible UFO sightings over the years, Dr. Kaku is confident that alien civilizations have not visited Earth in the past.
Le rover a déposé récemment sur Mars le petit hélicoptère qui était attaché sous son ventre. Mais avant ça, il a beaucoup zigzagué sur la planète rouge pour trouver la zone idéale pour la tentative de vol propulsé de son compagnon.
Depuis que Perseverance a atterri sur Mars, il est possible de suivre son parcours sur un site très accessible de la Nasa, sobrement intitulé « Où est Peserverance ? ». On y trouve une carte interactive, sur laquelle ont été indiqués tous les arrêts marqués par le rover, avec le jour correspondant. Les points sont reliés par une ligne blanche, qui permet de remarquer combien l’engin a zigzagué depuis qu’il a posé les roues dans le cratère de Jezero sur la planète rouge, le 18 février 2021.
Mais pourquoi Perseverance a-t-il fait tant d’allers-retours sur Mars ?
Le rover a de nombreuses missions à remplir sur la planète, mais l’une des plus attendues — car spectaculaire et inédite — est liée à son compagnon de route, l’hélicoptère Ingenuity. Ingenuity, ou « Ginny » pour les intimes, est censé réaliser le tout premier vol propulsé sur Mars, dimanche 11 avril. S’il réussi, il s’agira tout simplement d’une première mondiale dans l’histoire de l’humanité.
Ce petit drone accompagne Perseverance depuis son départ de la Terre, le 30 juillet 2020 : il a été accroché sous son ventre, et a donc atterri sur Mars en même temps. C’est à cause de lui que le rover de la Nasa fait, depuis quelques jours, de nombreux zigzags sur Mars !
TROUVER LE BON ENDROIT POUR LA TENTATIVE DE VOL D’INGENUITY
Depuis un mois, l’engin se balade dans le cratère à la recherche du meilleur endroit possible pour poser Ingenuity, d’une part en toute sécurité, mais aussi dans une zone qui pourra donner les meilleures chances de vol réussi au petit hélicoptère. « J’ai continué à rouler pour repérer un endroit où je déposerai l’hélicoptère martien, si la zone est certifiée comme zone de vol. Jusqu’ici, il y a environ 70 mètres de traces de roue derrière moi », avait tweeté l’agence spatiale sur le compte officiel de Perseverance, le 9 mars 2021.
Le 23 mars, la Nasa a finalement dévoilé le site qui a été sélectionné pour la tentative de vol d’Ingenuity : il s’agit d’une piste ovale désignée comme « zone de vol », au sein de laquelle se trouve un carré appelé aérodrome, qui ne fait que 10 mètres de côté, et dans lequel le drone doit absolument décoller et atterrir.
C’est cette zone que l’on voit d’ailleurs en pointillés bleus sur la carte du trajet de la Nasa (ci-dessous) si l’on dé-zoome beaucoup. C’est donc pour trouver cet endroit « parfait » que Peserverance a tant manœuvré dans la zone, quitte à tracer un chemin, à première vue, plutôt étrange.
On observe en bleu la zone de vol d’Ingenuity, et en blanc le trajet passé de Perseverance // Source : Nasa
Maintenant qu’il est séparé du rover, Ingenuity est « livré à lui-même », notamment en termes d’autonomie — il doit désormais utiliser ses propres panneaux solaires pour fonctionner, et non plus prendre l’énergie de son grand compagnon.
Sur la carte, on voit que Perseverance est sorti de la zone ovale tracée en bleu : pourquoi s’en est-il tant éloigné ? Il s’agit avant tout de raisons raisons de sécurité : la Nasa ne peut pas risquer d’endommager son rover, qui est censé rester un an sur Mars, et sur qui repose le cœur de la mission Mars 2020 — les exploits aériens de Ginny n’en représentent qu’une petite partie.
Dans la documentation fournie par la Nasa en janvier 2021, on voit d’ailleurs que l’éloignement de Perserverance était prévu depuis le début : il devait atteindre une zone surnommée Twitcher’s Point. Il s’agit, en quelques sortes, de sa « place de parking » en attendant qu’Ingenuity fasse ses tentatives d’envol.
L’éloignement prévu de Perseverance de la zone de vol d’Ingenuity // Source : Nasa
La carte du trajet de Perseverance disponible sur le site de la Nasa a été créée à partir de deux couches, à savoir une carte du cratère en niveaux de gris et une autre carte en couleurs réelles, pour rendre le tout plus lisible pour les néophytes — la carte réelle est ici, et elle ressemble plus à un élégant patchwork qu’au plan lissé mis en avant sur le site officiel.
Depuis que l’arrivée de Perservance sur Mars a été un succès, la Nasa offre de nombreux outils aux fanas de l’exploration spatiale pour suivre ses aventures au plus « près » de l’action. Au lendemain de l’atterrissage, on pouvait déjà voir, sur un plan interactif, où se situait exactement le rover dans le cratère de Jezero, dont le diamètre est de 45 km.
The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence Of Extraterrestrial Intervention
The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence Of Extraterrestrial Intervention
The Allagash Abduction is a purported UFO sighting and alien abduction that is alleged to have occurred in 1976.
The witnesses said the incident started on August 20, 1976, when four men, all in their early-twenties, ventured on a camping trip into the wilderness near Allagash, Maine. The group consisted of twin brothers Jack and Jim Weiner, their friend Charlie Foltz, and their guide, Chuck Rak.
They say their first day went by without incident. However, on their second night, they noticed a bright light not far from their campsite which they first passed off as being a helicopter or weather balloon, but later noticed it displayed a strange quality of light.
Suddenly, the object imploded and disappeared. The following day went by without incident, as the first. The men were unlucky in their fishing so they decided to try it at night.
They set camp on the shore of Eagle Lake on August 20. As darkness settled, the men built a blazing campfire which they expected to burn for several hours to be used as a beacon for their campsite while out on the lake. They then headed out in a canoe.
Jack and Jim Weiner, Charlie Foltz, and Chuck Rak.
After a short time, Rak noticed the bright light they had seen two nights before in the distance above the tree line. He called the others’ attention to it. They watched the object intently and noticed it appeared to be much larger this time and made no sound. Foltz grabbed a flashlight and began flashing an SOS.
Suddenly, a bright beam of light shot out from the bottom of the craft and it quickly made its way towards the men. All men, minus Rak, began to paddle furiously back towards shore. Rak seemed entranced by the object as it closed in on them. Suddenly, the light enveloped the canoe and the four men.
The next thing the men knew, they were back on shore at their campsite. They stood at the edge of the water and stared blankly at the craft, which was hovering no more than a few dozen feet from them. After watching for several minutes, the craft suddenly imploded, as it had done two nights previous, and reappeared over the treetops on the other side of the lake. It then shot upwards into the sky.
The men suddenly all felt exhausted and decided to sleep for the night. The large fire they had made only minutes previous was now a pile of burnt embers. Without much conversation following the unusual incident which just took place, the men went to sleep. The next morning, the men spoke little of the incident and packed their belongings to move to a new campsite.
Jack Weiner was the first to start having nightmares. In these dreams, he saw beings with long necks and large heads. He saw the beings examining his arm while Jim, Chuck, and Charlie sat on a nearby bench, not able to intervene.
The beings had large metallic glowing eyes with no lids, and their hands were insect-like, with four fingers. The other three men were experiencing very similar dreams, with short, mental clips of that night on the lake. In 1988, out of curiosity, Jim Weiner attended a UFO conference hosted by Raymond Fowler.
Weiner met Fowler afterwards and related his strange encounter. The investigator was excited about Jim’s story, especially the fact that it was a multiple witness occurrence. Fowler suggested to Jim that he and the others undergo regressive hypnosis.
After the sessions it was revealed that all four of the men had memories of being abducted and subjected to humiliating physical examinations, including the taking of skin and fluid samples.
The description of the aliens was consistent. The four men – being artists – were able to make detailed sketches of the entities, the craft, and the examining instruments. Chuck Rak added that the aliens’ test area was similar to a vet’s office, with a silvery table.
He also related a strange fact: he had much difficulty in focusing on the aliens. When he tried, he could not put an exact image to them. He compared it to trying to tune in a fuzzy radio station.
After the psychiatric examinations, all four of the men were deemed to be mentally stable, and they all passed lie-detector tests.
Just a few weeks after it was revealed that U.S. Navy warships off the coast of Los Angeles were followed by UFOs on two consecutive days in 2019, and just days after its top admiral admitted publicly that neither he nor the Navy know what they are, an investigative filmmaker experienced in UFO research revealed and released “two unclassified slides and some of the most intriguing military captured UAP footage I have ever seen.” Yes – photos and videos of the UFOs the Navy can’t identify. Is this the smoking video? Can you help identify them?
“I obtained the materials quite some time ago in an anonymous data drop. Included was detailed written context to accompany each item. My challenge was in activating my network in an attempt to validate or disprove some of the claims and details provided. This is done both through mining the materials themselves for revealing metadata – as well as – finding those who would have knowledge of the events described or who are confirmed to be in a position to have direct awareness of the items I obtained. This took time – seemed ages to me – but it paid-off. George Knapp and I were able to verify the materials you are about to consider. I can confirm their authenticity – as well as – the narrative supplied to me when they were presented.”
Kudos to filmmaker Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell and George Knapp at Mystery Wire for the work they’ve done to bring these astounding photos and video to the public. (View and watch them here.) Briefly, The Drive (kudos have already been delivered to them) revealed that at least one and possibly as many as five other warships encountered mysterious long-flying UAVs off the coast of Los Angeles in 2019 using more sophisticated equipment than was available in 2004 during the famous Nimitz encounter on the east coast. In a speech at a Defense Writers Group event in Washington this week, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday, the U.S. Navy’s top officer, said the UAVs/UFOs have not been identified. This is especially shocking when taken with Corbell’s revelation that the materials he released came from a classified briefing on the incidents held on May 1st 2020, and that since then they’ve been distributed to “a wide range of intelligence networking platforms (such as SIPRNet, JWICS and various Intelink systems).” Do they not know anything or are they not saying anything?
“This intelligence briefing contains an estimated 10 videos (FLIR and HUD) and about 10-12 photos documenting some of these UAPs.”
On his website, Corbell describes the small subset of the videos and photos he was given. (Take a look again.) The video and some of the photos of a “pyramid” craft were taken by crew members on the USS Russell. The image of the spherical craft (another Tic Tac?) was taken from the USS Omaha, whose crew watched it “descending into the water without destruction” – a search by submarine found nothing in the spot. Three photos (revealed earlier by Mystery Wire — see them here) taken on the same cell phone by a Weapons Systems Operator show three different crafts taken on one F-18 sorti.
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USS Omaha / UAS = Unmanned Aerial System
“Collectively, this data drop represents a small section within a large mosaic of UAP awareness by our DoD. And its presence in a classified series of intelligence briefings – clearly demonstrates how the UAP subject is being viewed, pursued and handled by the United States defense industry.”
Hope you were seated when you read Corbell’s conclusion. It’s clear that something is pursuing U.S. Navy vessels and the Navy and DoD don’t know what they are or know but don’t want to reveal it to the public. In a Mystery Wire podcast, Corbell admits he can’t explain them. However, he sees this as a significant event.
“It is my hope that these materials will be representative of a unique moment in modern history; a possible turning point towards the rational and transparent approach of investigating and exploring the mystery of the UFO Phenomenon.”
Can you identify any of the UAVs? Will their true identity ever be known? Will it ever be released? Is this truly a turn towards UFO transparency?
Again, kudos to Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell and George Knapp.
Archaeologists unearthed a 3,000-year-old “lost golden city” in Egypt. Located on the western bank of the city of Luxor, the recently discovered lost city has been described as being the most significant Egyptian find since King Tut’s tomb was found.
The lost city, which is called Aten, was actually found by accident as archaeologists were excavating a site between the temples of Kings Ramses III and Amenhotep III in hopes of finding the mortuary temple of King Tut when they instead found remnants of an ancient city.
In a statement provided by the Egyptian mission, they explained how the city was discovered, “Within weeks, to the team’s great surprise, formations of mud bricks began to appear in all directions.” “What they unearthed was the site of a large city in a good condition of preservation, with almost complete walls, and with rooms filled with tools of daily life.” “The archaeological layers have [lain] untouched for thousands of years, left by the ancient residents as if it were yesterday.” In fact, some of the houses have walls that measure almost 10 feet tall.
Temple of King Amenhotep III
In addition to the houses, archaeologists discovered a bakery with a big kitchen that still had ovens and pottery. A workshop was unearthed with casting molds that would have been used for ornament and amulet production (perhaps for tombs and/or temples). They also uncovered a residential and administrative area that was fenced in with only one entrance/exit, leading experts to believe that it was used as a security measure.
As for the industrial areas, numerous tools used for weaving or spinning were found as well as glassmaking and metal leftovers. One of the most interesting items found was a vessel (it held two gallons of dried or boiled meat) with an inscription that read, “Year 37, dressed meat for the third Heb Sed festival from the slaughterhouse of the stockyard of Kha, made by the butcher luwy.”
A large cemetery and several tombs made from rocks were found. The graves of two cows or bulls were oddly discovered in a room in addition to a person who had his arms down to his sides and a rope tied around his knees. According to the statement, work is being conducted on the tombs and perhaps they’ll even find treasure in them.
Zahi Hawass, who is an Egyptian archaeologist and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs and led the mission, noted how significant this discovery was, “Many foreign missions searched for this city and never found it.”
The lost city is the most significant Egyptian find since King Tut’s tomb was discovered.
It is believed that the city was founded by King Amenhotep III (the ninth king of Egypt’s 18th dynasty) who ruled the country between the years 1391 and 1352 BC. It was then later used by King Tut, followed by King Ay.
The archaeologists were able to date the city around 3,000 years old based on hieroglyphic inscriptions that were discovered on wine vessels, pottery, scarabs, rings, and mud bricks that contained seals with King Amenhotep III’s cartouche.
Additional excavations should reveal much more about this ancient “lost golden city”. (Pictures of the city and some of the items found can be seen here.)
“Bacteriological Warfare in the United States” is a fascinating FBI document that was declassified into the public domain in 2006, via the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. It covers the years 1941 to 1950. Notably, of the file’s original 1,783 pages, no less than 1,074 were firmly withheld from declassification by the FBI (since 2006, however, more of those pages have surfaced). The file reveals a wealth of illuminating and disturbing data on animal disease and death, and their potential, theoretical links to bacteriological warfare and sabotage by enemy nations and individuals. In a strange and winding way, the story the file tells has a bearing on the theme of this book. Much of the dossier is focused on a series of mysterious and suspicious outbreaks of disease – and attendant death – in Lincoln County, New Mexico in the 1940s, which is the very same county where the Roswell event occurredin early July 1947. Not only that, as will soon become clear, there is even a Japanese balloon link to the Lincoln County outbreak.
In late 1950, the New Mexico State Public Health Laboratory sent a memo to the FBI which read as follows: “Possibly some of you saw headlines in newspapers published in the States during August, such as ‘Black Death Stirs Albuquerque,’ ‘Black Plague Hits Two in New Mexico,’ and ‘Dark Age Plague Found in Two.’ It is unfortunate that we must still seriously discuss plague, for we already know so much about its cause and mode of spread; but as long as such headlines do occur, it is necessary that we who are interested in Public Health and Preventive Medicine do seriously consider plague and acquaint ourselves with the plague of today, its prevalence, and its potentialities.”
Nick Redfern
The FBI was particularly worried about the New Mexico outbreaks and recorded the following: “The New Mexico Public Health Authority has been on the alert for cases of plague since 1938 when the U.S. Public Health Service first reported plague in the wild rodents of one of our counties. There was no suggestion of human infection until August 1, 1949, when the Laboratory received a request for aid in the diagnosis of two cases. A slide made from material aspirated from an axillary bubo [swelling of the lymph nodes] of a ten-year-old boy of Taos County was first received. Late on August 1, 1949, the pathologist at the Veteran’s Hospital in Albuquerque called stating that a man from Placitas, Sandoval County, had been admitted to the hospital and his clinical symptoms resembled plague. The cases were from areas 200 miles apart with no connection. The little boy of Taos probably received his infection from a bit of a flea escaped from the body of a prairie dog which he killed by throwing a stone. The man from Sandoval probably received his infection from fleas from ground squirrels that he had killed while working on his farm.
“These two New Mexico cases of human plague are good examples of what might be expected considering the reservoir of plague infection in the wild rodents of the western states. Very possibly there are undiagnosed human cases in New Mexico and other states with widely scattered population.” A further document from this particular collection of formerly classified papers provides this: “Since this report was written, a 7 ½ year-old-boy in Lincoln County died, possibly of plague. The boy was taken to a physician at Fort Stanton, November 4. Apparently he was not in a very serious condition and was sent home. He was returned to the Fort Stanton Hospital November 5 in the morning; his temperature was somewhat higher; by noon he was markedly worse, and by 2:30 he was dead. A post mortem examination was made and the doctor in charge diagnosed the case as being bubonic plague with pneumonic and septicemic complications. Portions of the organs were sent to [name deleted] at the Western Communicable Disease Laboratory in San Francisco; and he confirmed the child was probably infected by ectoparasites from tree squirrels. A clear history could not be obtained, but dead tree squirrels were found in the barn and near the dwelling of this child.”
As a result of all this disturbing activity, the FBI turned its attention towards securing as many newspaper articles as possible that had been published on the subject of plague and other, potentially fatal, conditions in New Mexico. There was, for example, “Lea Rabbits Suspected Bubonic Plague Carriers,” which appeared in the pages of the Albuquerque Journal on June 21, 1950. Now, we come to an even more eye-opening series of revelations on this issue. So concerned was the FBI by these various outbreaks of plague in New Mexico in 1949, J. Edgar Hoover took secret steps to share all of the pertinent medical data – and media articles, too – with a fistful of agencies of the government and the military. They included the U.S. Air Force’s Director of Special Investigations, the Director of Naval Intelligence, the Acting Director of the Division of Security of the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Director of the CIA. The most important point of all will now be revealed. It demonstrates precisely why a wide and varied body of intelligence agencies were carefully, and secretly, monitoring this situation.
Polyethylene hot air balloon
Additional files on this issue surfaced after the FBI’s release of material in 2006; this time, from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. There was a school of thought within certain factions of the AFOSI that while the plague deaths very likely resulted from flea bites and attacks by infected animals, the plague itself may have been deliberately released in Lincoln County, New Mexico, by nothing less than…a Japanese balloon. Probably in 1945, it was surmised – which was when the Fugo raids were at their height. The theory was that due to the small, isolated, human populations in some of the areas where plague broke out, it may have taken several years before the plague took hold in the animal population and then jumped to people – and also a couple of years for the wreckage to be found in the massive wilds of New Mexico. The shared, secret files also reveal that some authorities believed – years later and with the benefit of hindsight – that the initial outbreak in Lincoln County was caused by the Hantavirus, which was first acknowledged by the West in the early 1950s and at the height of the Korean War.
Of greatest importance, however, is a document titled “Japanese Balloon Raids – 1945” which was found in the archives of what, in the 1940s, was called Camp Detrick. Today, it goes by the name of Fort Detrick. Located in Maryland, the facility is at the forefront of research into bacteriological warfare, chemical warfare, and lethal viruses. The document postulates that in 1945 a Japanese Fugo balloon came down somewhere in Lincoln County and unleashed a deadly cargo of plague-infected insects – such as fleas – and which eventually took hold, leading to the unfortunate death of the young boy at Fort Stanton, four years later.
Now, we come to another aspect of the Fort Stanton connection. Moving into the 1970s and the 1980s, we have intriguing information from John A. Price, of the Roswell-based UFO Enigma Museum, and the author of a 1997 non-fiction book, Roswell: A Quest for the Truth. On one particular day in 1978, Price – who was employed as a roofer at the time – was working outside on a particular property in Hagerman. It’s a town situated approximately twenty-four miles from Roswell. The property held a number of physically handicapped children – this much was clear to Price, as several such children exited the property and stood on the patio, watching him as he worked. He thought, “this must be a home for the mentally impaired.” That was not all, however. Price had more to say: “Suddenly, I almost choked on my coffee as two more children, or at least I think they were children, walked out and stood behind the others.” According to Price, they were all around four- to four-and-a-half-feet in height. They had oversized, hairless heads, and their ears and noses were noticeably smaller than normal for a young child. Things came to a sudden end when, Price recalls, “a lady came to the door and ushered the kids back into the house.” He did not see them again.
More than a decade later, Price received a letter from “an acquaintance” who he had known for some time. Price said: ““In the letter he told me that the aliens I was looking for were at Fort Stanton.” For those who may not know, Fort Stanton is a facility that, during the Second World War, held a number of Japanese “enemy aliens” (as they were termed) and is barely spitting distance away from the Foster Ranch. As this, and the data in my 2017 book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, shows, there is a complicated connection between all of these issues: handicapped people; secret, high-altitude balloons; and top secret post-Second Wold War programs to bring German and Japanese personnel into the USA. A grim story is getting even more so.
Het Australische bedrijf EOS heeft een doorbraak bereikt om met lasertechnologie mee de problematiek van ruimteafval aan te pakken. Het ontwikkelde een laser waarmee ruimterommel uit zijn baan kan worden geduwd. Het zou de eerste laser zijn die effectief de koers van afval in de ruimte kan wijzigen.
Volgens de onderzoekers bij EOS, een technologiebedrijf dat actief is in de ruimtevaart- en defensiemarkt, is er zeven jaar aan de ontwikkeling van de laser gewerkt. Nu zou het in samenwerking met het Space Environment Research Centre gelukt zijn om een star guide laser te gebruiken om op ruimteafval te richten en vervolgens het object uit zijn baan te duwen.
De laser staat in Canberra en is onderdeel van het Mount Stromlo Observatorium. In een uitzending van Channel 9 is te zien hoe de laser wordt geactiveerd, al is de zichtbare laser slechts de laser waarmee de positie van het stuk ruimteafval wordt bepaald. Als het stuk afval dat moet worden weggeduwd is gevonden, wordt er een tweede laser geactiveerd. Die geeft het object een zetje.
Botsingen vermijden
EOS benadrukt dat ruimteafval een groeiend probleem is. Naar schatting zweven er bijna 130 miljoen objecten in een baan rond de aarde. Dit afval vormt een risico voor bijvoorbeeld satellieten en het internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Met deze laser zou afval dat lijkt te gaan botsen met een satelliet of het ISS uit zijn baan geduwd kunnen worden, om zo schade te voorkomen.
Opruimen
Er zijn nog initiatieven lopende om iets te doen aan de ruimterotzooi. Zo is het Europese ruimteagentschap ESA samen met de Zwitserse start-up ClearSpace bezig met de ontwikkeling van een soort takelwagen die de kosmische wegen boven de aarde schoon moet vegen. Nog een stap verder dus. Het is de bedoeling dat het bedrijf rond 2025 een eerste puinruimmissie kan lanceren.
Womans Boyfriend Is An Alien! Flying Away! Door Cam Proof! Video, UFO Sighting News.
Womans Boyfriend Is An Alien! Flying Away! Door Cam Proof! Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 27, 2019
Location of sighting: Porter, Texas, USA
Source: Email report
Now this just came in my email this week. A persons door cam caught something odd back in 2019. The guy walks outside and then suddenly he shoots up and away. This should not be possible, however there are two possibilities. First, the man was abducted by a UFO as he existed the house and it beamed him up. Or second, he himself is an alien.
Throughout history there have been stories handed down thorough the ages about gods and mortals creating children on earth. Well...they were not gods, but aliens with god like powers. This persons in the video...he is such an alien.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
This morning, my fiance and I were looking through our videos recorded by Ring and we found a weird glitch. She said, "Look Ring had you abducted by aliens or you just been part of the rapture! Either way, it was really funny!
The US Navy filmed “PYRAMID” shaped UFOs; here is that footage
The US Navy filmed “PYRAMID” shaped UFOs; here is that footage
In 2019 the US Navy photographed and filmed “PYRAMID” shaped UFOs and "SPHERICAL" advanced transmedium vehicles; here is that footage. This is only part of the story and visual evidence pertaining to UFO / UAP incursions by Unknown Advanced Transmedium Vehicles (UATVs) - engaging our US Navy warships.
Background:
On May 1st 2020 a classified briefing was generated about the UFO / UAP presence, via the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). Those familiar with the briefing articulated to me that the goal was to de-stigmatize the UAP problem and to promote more intelligence collection regarding UAP incursions and encounters with active military deployments. This UAP briefing was a build-on to a previous ONI briefing, generated October 18th 2019. Both were distributed across a wide range of intelligence network platforms.
Jeremy Corbell was able to obtain information regarding these and other UAP related briefings - as well as - unclassified slides and some of the most intriguing military captured UAP footage he has ever seen.
The context surrounding this content is important to understand - as its evidentiary value is best demonstrated though the lens of provenance.
I want you to understand why this new evidence is worth your full attention and ask yourself whether these UAPs are made on earth and piloted and controlled by humans or not.
Quote:
"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.” (Ben Rich - Lockheed's Skunk Works.)
A thrilling study of the UFO phenomenon and the people who dedicate their lives to it presents credible information for skeptics and believers alike. DIRECTOR: J. Horton STARRING: Nick Pope, L.A Marzulli, Nick Redfern, Dr. Lous Turi
Disappearing Planes, Bases In The Mountains And The Black Pyramid – Is There Any Truth In The Alaskan Triangle?
Disappearing Planes, Bases In The Mountains And The Black Pyramid – Is There Any Truth In The Alaskan Triangle?
The forty-ninth state of the United States, Alaska, features some of the most beautiful, yet deadly and unremorseful terrain and geology on the planet. It is also host to many strange tales of unusual phenomena, UFO sightings, and numerous disappearances – not only of people but in some cases of entire planes as well as the people on board them.
Is there a Black Pyramid buried beneath Alaska?
Forty-four people were on board the Douglas C-54-D US military passenger plane as it seemingly vanished into thin air, for example. The incident happened during its journey from Alaska to Texas on 26th January 1950. No wreckage or survivors were ever found. The last known communication with the plane had come while they were over the Yukon village of Snag in Canada. Shortly after, the sizeable aircraft just simply disappeared.
A search mission was launched, with both the American and Canadian Airforces contributing to the effort. The weather conditions were hazardous in themselves, and two planes crashed in the search for the C-54. On 20th February, after three and a half weeks of trying to locate any sign of the plane or the passengers, the search was called off.
There have been many theories as to what happened that evening. Some state that the pilot may have been forced to land due to the bad weather, and given the inhospitable terrain they would have been flying over, the only place perhaps to have done this was on an iced-over lake. It is thought if the people on board perished due to the elements, once the spring arrived, the ice would have melted and the plane would have vanished to the bottom of the water.
The Strange Disappearance Of Hale Boggs
Over two decades later, another strange plane disappearance captivated much of North America. In October 1972, Democratic congressman, Hale Boggs, appeared to vanish from the face of the Earth while being flown in a small plane over Alaska. Despite a huge rescue effort, the plane and its four passengers (including Boggs) have never been found.
Over the years, there have been numerous conspiracy theories surrounding his disappearance and assumed death, not least of which due to his connections to the 'Warren Commission' and the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963.
At the time of his death, Boggs was said to be putting pressure on whomever he could to have the investigation into President Kennedy’s death reopened. However, in 2004, his daughter, Cokie Roberts, denied this was the case during a radio interview, and that her father had no issue with the findings of the commission. This perhaps only added to the grim mystery.
Hale Boggs disappeared in 1972
There is information in the form of since-released FBI files that state a tip-off was given to them in the days following the incident. A man, who the FBI allegedly found very credible, stated that he knew where the crash site was. Although the FBI didn’t follow up this lead, at least publicly, the phone number where the mystery man rang from was contained in the files and subsequently traced to a Pro-life organization, named “Right To Life”. One of the people connected to this organization was also close to President Richard Nixon. Coincidence? Very probably, but it certainly adds yet another dimension to the whole affair. You can read in a little more details about the Boggs disappearance here.
Others, however, state the answer to what happened is more akin to theories about planes that have vanished in the Bermuda Triangle. There is a supposed vortex created by the relatively unusual magnetic fields present in the area, and it is this that caused the plane to vanish. The area where the plane last communicated from is said to be in what some refer to as the Alaskan Triangle.
It isn’t just planes that are said to go missing over the Alaskan Triangle – sometimes referred to as the Alaskan Bermuda Triangle. According to some reports, over 16,000 people have gone missing there since 1988 – both tourists and locals alike.
The Alaskan Triangle is said to run from a point in the upper north of Alaska, Barrow, right the way down to the capital, Juneau (which on its takes in the south-west of the Yukon), and then to the west at Anchorage.
The alleged Alaskan Triangle
The native Tlingit tribe, who inhabit the area close to Juneau, firmly believe that an evil spirit roams this area, who they call, Kushtaka. This spirit, or demon, is able to “shapeshift” and is said to kidnap those who become lost or venture too deep into the wilderness and takes them to his realm.
Others believe that there are unusual electromagnetic anomalies in the area that cause equally unusual phenomena. Theories range from this phenomenon causing hallucinations and disorientation in people to much more fringe theories that the unusual release of energy sometimes creates a vortex or stargate to another world or dimension.
More mainstream theories as to these all too real disappearances suggest that the area itself is some of the harshest and most remote parts of the planet. Should a person become lost or even injured here, they become a “needle in a haystack” as far as rescue efforts go, and an easy target for the elements, various dangerous animals native to the area or the geology of the terrain itself.
There have also been numerous UFO sightings throughout Alaska. Perhaps the most famous occurred in 1986.
Artists impression of the JAL Flight 1628 incident
The Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 Incident
While flying over north-eastern Alaska, on its way to Paris from Tokyo, the flight crew of Japan Air Lines Flight 1628, were witness to an event that would change their lives.
Just after 5 pm, Captain Kenju Terauchi, who was an experienced pilot, noticed two strange brightly lit craft below and to the left of the plane. As the cold war was still in full swing, and due to Alaska’s close proximity to the Soviet Union, Terauchi assumed these to be US military planes, who regularly patrolled the Alaskan skies. However, he soon came to the realization that the crafts were following him.
Several minutes later, the craft suddenly appeared dead in front of Flight 1628. Their light shone so brightly in the cockpit of the plane that Terauchi claimed he could feel their warmth on his face. Communications from the plane to the control tower on the ground were also affected periodically, becoming scrambled with interference, and despite the object flying steadily in front of the plane, radar operators could not see anything on their systems.
Then, as quickly as the objects had appeared in front of the plane, they moved back to the left of it. However, now the crew could see a much larger craft. Terauchi at first described it as a “flat pale white light” – but soon realized that he was looking at a “mothership” that he described as being as large as two aircraft carriers.
By the time Air Traffic Control aircraft had launched two planes to investigate the claims from Terauchi, the objects had disappeared.
Unlike many airline pilots who avoid reporting such experiences, Terauchi was eager to do so. So much so that when he did speak to the press, Japan Air Lines removed him from pilot duty and instead gave him a desk job. The official findings of the inquiry into the sightings were released the following year and stated that although the airline firmly believed the pilot’s descriptions of what they saw, there was not enough proof to “support” their version of events.
Check out the short videos below regarding the incident and you can read about this incident in a lot more detail here.
Alien Bases In The Mountains
The JAL Flight 1628 incident is just one of many alleged sightings in the region, and some people believe they know why the area is such a “hot-bed” of such activity. According to the alleged “remote viewer”, Pat Price, Mount Hayes, one of the most beautiful and arresting mountains in Alaska is, in fact, an alien base. Perhaps more chilling, if you subscribe to his theory, these aliens manipulate “thought transfer for motor control of us!”
They are apparently very human looking, although there are minor differences in their genetic makeup such as their heart and lungs, as well as their eyes. While many dismiss Price’s claims as pure nonsense, there are at least some circumstantial facts that lend a little credibility to at least the possibility of his claims being correct.
There have been numerous sudden faults reported from aircraft pilots flying over Mount Hayes. Recently declassified FBI reports also tell of how the government was carrying out very real and genuine investigations around the area, and Alaska as a whole, in the late 1940s and 1950s.
There were several reported cases from experienced pilots and military personnel that were fully documented in the released files. It is clear that the FBI was taking the reports of UFOs in the area very seriously.
This is picture is said to be of an alien in Alaska taken in 1931 - click on the picture to read about this incident in more detail.
According to the documents, in 1947 an experienced pilot witnessed what he described as a “flying wing” near the town of Bethel. Perhaps interestingly the pilot stated the object appeared to be traveling to the aforementioned town of Nome.
In January 1950, the US Navy had reported to the FBI of several unidentified objects being seen in the area of Kodiak. The incident lasted for two days and it was claimed that the interference with their radars was “a type never before experienced!” The region’s apparent UFO activity was exploited somewhat in 2009, in particular, the small town of Nome. Between 1960 and 2004 twenty-four people disappeared from the small town of Nome. The FBI investigated the area and the disappearances in 2005 and came to the conclusion that they were largely the result of “excessive alcohol consumption and a harsh winter climate!"
Perhaps though, some of these theories are due to the 2009 film 'The Fourth Kind', which appeared to tap into the belief of UFO activity and alien abductions. The film promoted itself as a documentary, even putting out supposedly real news stories from the town’s past to tap into the disappearances. They were later forced to remove them from the Internet when they were proven to be untrue.
These fake stories, however, had seeded the idea in many people’s minds, and despite the evidence suggesting that the disappearances probably were more in line with the FBI’s findings in their 2005 report, many still believe the area is a hot-bed of activity for extra-terrestrial visitors. In many ways, Nome is a good example of truth meeting fiction and creating legend and myth.
Others, however, firmly believe the disappearances are the result of alien abductions. There have been UFO sightings and claims of strange lights and orbs in the area for many years. You can view the trailer of 'The Fourth Kind' below.
Ancient Alien Presence And The Black Pyramid
Maybe one of the strangest legends of Alaska came to the public arena relatively recently in 1992, when Channel 13 Anchorage reported a news story regarding an apparent discovery of a huge pyramid buried underground, about fifty miles from Mount McKinley. The story stated that three scientists, in anticipation of a nuclear test by the Chinese government, had set up seismic recording equipment around the area. By pure accident, they discovered evidence for the massive structure below them.
The piece may have gone unnoticed, but the story goes that a retired military member had watched this on television, and twenty years later in 2012, he allegedly told what he knew of the structure to experienced ufologist and expert in cattle mutilation cases, Linda Moulton Howe.
Is this the Black Pyramid?
According to Moulton Howe, the ancient pyramid is an ancient structure that was built for the purposes of generating power. It was apparently buried by the same people who built it, but it is not known who this civilization was. Following Moulton Howe’s revelations, an abundance of stories and “information” on the site from alleged whistle-blowers, flooded into her.
Bruce L. Pearson, from New Jersey, stated that a pilot had informed his father that the pyramid “was not made by man” and that it was indeed a power generator that was thousands of years old. It could generate enough power to power not only all of Alaska but most probably much of Canada also.
Another person, referred to only as “the 46-year-old adopted son of a retired Western Electric engineer” claimed that his father had told him a “dark pyramid” did exist in Alaska, and what’s more, his father had worked on a “powerful electrical system” inside it in the early 1960s.
The existence of the pyramid is assumed a hoax by most, but there are those that are still determined to investigate and find the ancient structure.
Check out the videos below for some further information on the Black Pyramid and if it is real or not.
Amazonian Mummified Parrots Discovered in the Atacama Desert
Amazonian Mummified Parrots Discovered in the Atacama Desert
Researchers have made the curious discovery of mummified parrots in the Atacama Desert in northernChile. Between 1000 and 1460 BC, parrots and macaws were transported over 300 miles to one of the driest places on Earth. One of the most remarkable questions that co-author Jośe M. Capriles and his team posed was how they transported these birds without killing them. But also, why were these parrots mummified in this way?
Unlikely Animal Transportation: The Journey to Mummified Parrots
When the parrots were captured and brought to the Atacama, insane terrain and weather posed massive issues. The birds had to travel across the Andes, with some of the peaks reaching over 10,000 feet high. Natives to the Amazon, the birds would not have been used to such cold weather.
One of the most pressing questions was how did llamas carry them? There were no horses during this time (pre-Inca), and llamas are not usually used as packing animals. Researcher Jośe M. Capriles was left puzzled. “Llamas are not the best pack animals,” wrote the researcher in the science journal PNAS. “The fact that llama caravans brought macaws and parrots across the Andes and across the desert to this oasis is amazing.”
For birds native to humidity and heat, its remarkable that these birds stayed alive, enduring travel over 300 miles (482 km) and through cold temperatures. Their survival goes to show the importance and levels of care that went into making sure these precious birds remained alive.
The discovery of mummified parrots has let researchers down an unexpected path. In the image a live scarlet macaw from the Bolivian Amazonia.
(Carlos Capriles Farfán)
Life in the Desert for an Amazonian Parrot
After the harsh trip through the Andes, the birds were kept as pets but still lived a tough life. Wealthier society members brought the birds to produce feathers, and they would regularly be plucked out and used for different high-status ceremonies and burials. “They were kept to produce feathers and their feathers were plucked out as soon as they grew in,” explained Capriles in CNN.
With zooarchaeological analysis, radiocarbon dating, and DNA testing, the researchers determined many factors, including the bird’s diet, their species, and natural habitation in the hope, according to the PSU report, of determining how they arrived in the Atacama in the first place.
Researchers determined that the birds lived with humans based on their diet which showed that humans and the parrots were eating the same foods. “They were eating the same foods that people were eating enriched with the nitrogen from maize fertilized with marine bird manure,” explained Capriles explained to PSU.
The birds' food and diet study gave researchers insight into if the birds were alive or had died before their arrival in the Atacama. The rich marine fertilized soil that maize grew in was the critical factor in the question. So, where they alive upon arrival?
A mummified scarlet macaw parrot recovered from Pica 8 in northern Chile.
When the birds died, their bodies were mummified in unusual ways, their mouths were left open, and in some birds, their tongues were also sticking out. While some bird mummies had their wings stretched out to demonstrate their “last flight.” "We have absolutely no idea why they were mummified like this,” commented Capriles in relation to the manner in which the birds had been mummified.
The majority of the mummified parrots were found at Pica 8, an archeology site outside the community - which still exists today. Many birds were found near human burial sites, which helped researchers understand the purpose of the birds and their mummification with the limited number of birds to study, that is around 27 complete or partial birds from five different species.
It’s clear that these mummified parrots lived a rather unhappy life: being taken away from their homes and living as a pet while having their feathers plucked out. But, due to the care and preservation that went into preparing these mummified animals , researchers and scientists can now study and understand more about burial and ritual practices over 900 years later.
The archaeologist had found parrot and macaw feathers at burials before, but when discovering leather boxes containing mummified birds, it was a new chapter in learning about the Atacama. "They had to be transported across huge steppes, cold weather and difficult terrain to the Atacama. And they had to be kept alive," explained Capriles to PSU. With further studies and archaeological excavations at these sites, researchers hope to learn more about the mummified parrots and their journey from the Amazon to the Atacama desert.
Top image: The basis of the study was mummified parrots, such as this blue-fronted amazon recovered from Pica 8 cemetery in the Atacama Desert.
105,000-Year-Old Kalahari Crystals Challenge Cultural Evolution Story
105,000-Year-Old Kalahari Crystals Challenge Cultural Evolution Story
New research at a rockshelter on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa challenges the assumption that modern human origins and complex behaviors were limited to coastal environments. A collection of unusual artifacts that are more than 100,000 years old suggests that inland Homo sapiens were just as innovative as their coastal cousins.
There is a widespread belief that the origins of modern humans and modern human cognition can be located in southern Africa. Since many of the archaeological sites linked to early human activity are located on the coast, experts assumed that Homo sapiens evolved their technological and symbolic behavior in that region as well. But a new study published in the journal Nature paints a very different picture.
One of the stone tools excavated from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter.
(Credit: Jayne Wilkins)
The Oldest Proof for Modern Humans in the Kalahari Desert
An international team of scientists explored the Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, a site overlooking the savannah of the Kalahari Desert and more than 600 km (370 miles) inland. Study lead author, Dr. Jayne Wilkins of Griffith University's Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, explained the significance of the discovery in a University of Innsbruck press release, saying:
“Our findings from this rockshelter show that overly simplified models for the origins of our species are no longer acceptable. Evidence suggests many regions across the African continent were involved, the Kalahari being just one […] There have been very few well-preserved, datable archaeological sites in the interior of southern Africa that can tell us about Homo sapiens' origins away from the coast. A rockshelter on Ga-Mohana Hill that stands above an expansive savannah in the Kalahari is one such site.”
According to the press release, the scientists’ work has also provided “the oldest proof for modern humans in the Kalahari Desert in Africa.”
Archaeological excavations at Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter where early evidence for complex Homo sapiens behaviors was recovered.
(Credit: Jayne Wilkins)
Looking at “Miniature Clocks”
An analysis of the site and the artifacts found at the rock shelter provides evidence that the behavior patterns of Homo sapiens at the site paralleled what was happening at the coast 100,000 years ago. The primary evidence comes from a collection of calcite crystals and fragments of ostrich eggshell, which the researchers believe may have been used as a container for water storage.
By using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL), the team determined the age of the different archaeological layers in which the artifacts were found and dated the objects to 105,000 years old. Michael Meyer, the head of the OSL Laboratory at the Institute of Geology at the University of Innsbruck and the geologist who headed the OSL analysis, explained the technique:
“This method exploits natural light signals that accumulate through time in sedimentary quartz and feldspar grains. You have to think about each grain as a miniaturized clock. Under controlled laboratory conditions we can read out this natural light or so-called luminescence signal, which in turn informs us about the age of the archaeological sediment layers. The more light the older the sediment.”
The researchers also noted that the Kalahari Desert’s climate used to be much wetter – as evident from the tufa (a type of limestone) formations found around the rock shelter. Uranium-thorium dating of these features provide an age of between 110,000 and 100,000 years – the same time as the ancient humans were inhabiting the site.
A Collection of Kalahari Crystals – Symbols of a Very Ancient Sacred Palace?
At first the collection of 22 calcite crystals presented something of a mystery because, unlike the ostrich shell pieces, the researchers couldn’t see any obvious utilitarian purpose for them. Then they decided that was a clue. Dr. Wilkins said, “Our analysis indicates that the crystals were not introduced into the deposits via natural processes, but were deliberately collected objects likely linked to spiritual beliefs and ritual.”
Crystals collected by early Homo sapiens in the southern Kalahari 105,000 years ago.
(Credit: Jayne Wilkins)
Study co-author Dr. Sechaba Maape from the University of the Witwatersrand agrees and said that “This is remarkable considering that site continues to be used to practice ritual activities today.” The archaeological team is conscious of the fact that Ga-Mohana Hill still holds spiritual significance for local communities, and they say that they try to limit their impact on the local use of the rock shelter site. “Leaving no visible trace and working with the local community is critical for the sustainability of the project,” Dr. Wilkins noted, that this is also important “So that Ga-Mohana Hill can continue to provide new insights about the origins and evolution of Homo sapiens in the Kalahari.”
The archaeological site at a rock shelter in South Africa's Kalahari Desert. More than 100,000 years ago, people used the so-called Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter for spiritual activities.
(Credit: Jayne Wilkins)
The article, titled “Innovative Homo sapiens behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari,” is published in the journal Nature.
Top Image: Calcite crystal being excavated from 105,000-year-old deposits at Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter in South Africa's Kalahari Desert.
Astonishing new footage captures ‘pyramid UFOs swarming US Navy destroyer'
Astonishing new footage captures ‘pyramid UFOs swarming US Navy destroyer'
The amazing video and collection of photos of a "spherical" craft swarming a US Navy destroyer were allegedly part of a classified briefing conducted to "de-stigmatise the UAP problem"
Incredible footage supposedly taken by a US Navy destroyer has been leaked appearing to show several pyramid-shaped UFOs swarming above the ship at night.
On his Instagram @jeremycorbell and website, he claims he has been able to verify their authenticity having interviewed “those who would have knowledge of the events” as well as working with renowned investigative journalist George Knapp.
The 18-second clip taken onboard the USS Russell starts by showing what appears to be three faint orbs hovering in the sky.
The triangular UFO seen above the USS Russell(Image: Jeremy Corbell)
The camera then pans to show a fourth object before zooming in on it to reveal its apparent triangular shape.
It also seems to be flashing repeatedly and is surrounded by two other fainter shapes – although it is not clear if they are simply lens flares.
As well as the eye-opening video, Jeremy shared three photos taken by the USS Omaha of an unidentified “spherical” craft.
“It is noted that the ‘spherical’ craft was suspected to be a transmedium vehicle and was observed descending into the water without destruction,” he wrote.
The sighting has been 'verified' by Jeremy Corbell(Image: Jeremy Corbell)
“It is noted that the ‘spherical’ craft could not be found upon entry to the water - and that a submarine was used in the search.”
The two incidents appear to tally up with a previous story run by The Drive of multiple destroyers being swarmed by “mysterious drones” off California over a number of nights.
The producer was also sent information on a third sighting on March 4, 2019 from an FA-18 pilot and a Weapons Systems Officer.
He claimed the WSO took “personal mobile phone images of UAPs” out of the cockpit of the fighter jetThe three incidents were allegedly spoken about during a classified briefing conducted by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) about the UFO/UAP presence on May 1, 2020, according to Jeremy.
"Those familiar with the briefing articulated to me that the goal was to de-stigmatise the UAP problem and to promote more intelligence collection regarding UAP incursions and encounters with active military deployments," he said.
The 'spherical' craft spotted by the USS Omaha(Image: Jeremy Corbell)
Speaking on his website, Jeremy explained the lengthy process he went through to “verify” the materials he received, before adding: “George Knapp and I were able to verify the materials you are about to consider. I can confirm their authenticity - as well as - the narrative supplied to me when they were presented.
“These are authentic photos and video from actual military encounters with UFOs - generated to educate high-level intelligence officers within our military on the nature and presentation of the UAP / UFO phenomenon.”
He concluded that he hoped the materials “will be representative of a unique moment in modern history; a possible turning point towards the rational and transparent approach of investigating and exploring the mystery of the UFO Phenomenon”.
Daily Star has contacted the Department of Defense and US Navy for comment.
If an object has appeared in the sky, you can assume it's been mistaken for a UFO. It doesn’t matter if the culprit is as small as an insect or as familiar as the moon—under the right circumstances, almost anything can resemble an alien spacecraft. While we wait for evidence of visitors from outer space, check out these examples of identified objects mistakenly reported as UFOs.
1. THE GOODYEAR BLIMP
Goodyear’s blimp is iconic, but that didn’t stop it from being mistaken for a UFO in September 2020. While flying over MetLife Stadium during a football game, it caught the attention of many confused eyewitnesses on the ground. Videos from the incident show cars pulled over on the side of the highway as drivers gawk at the object. Shortly after the sightings went viral, the aircraft’s true identity was revealed.
2. VENUS
There isn’t just one case of our planetary neighbor being mistaken for an unidentified flying object. According to experts, Venus is one of the most common explanations for UFO sightings. As Discover magazine reports, the book UFOs: An Insider’s View of the Official Quest for Evidence includes an account of Georgia police officers chasing an object moving quickly about 500 feet off the ground that turned out to be the planet. Venus is the brightest celestial body behind the sun and moon, and it appears close to the horizon—two factors that may contribute to the regular cases of mistaken identity.
3. THE MOON
Mistaking Venus for a UFO is one thing, but this one is less excusable. In 2011, the Hertfordshire, UK, police received a call from someone claiming to see a bright, unidentified object hovering near their house. They were convinced the object was headed their way, though at one point they admitted “it’s stopped now.” A few minutes after the call ended, the caller phoned again to share the realization that they had actually been looking at the moon.
4. A SPACEX ROCKET
SpaceX’s groundbreaking projects sometimes get attention for the wrong reasons. When the Falcon 9 rocket took off over Southern California in December 2017, it created a ghostly shape in the evening sky. Residents were so spooked by what they believed to be a UFO that the Los Angeles fire department issued an alert identifying the “mysterious light.” SpaceX’s Starlink satellites also prompted a wave of UFO reports.
5. FROZEN PEE
When British astronaut Tim Peake spotted four lights moving in formation outside the International Space Station in 2015, he was prepared to have a close encounter. It didn't take long for him and the rest of the crew to figure out the UFO’s true origin: What he mistook for far-away lights were actually crystallized droplets of urine from a nearby Russian space probe floating past the window.
Lenticular clouds form when moist air flows over a protruding geological feature and hits the air current above it, creating a downward wave. The air from this wave evaporates into a large, lens-shaped cloud that looks like a flying saucer. The resemblance is so uncanny that they've been nicknamed "flying saucer clouds." Lenticular clouds are one of the most notorious culprits behind erroneous UFO sightings.
7. A GOOGLE BALLOON
The Roswell incident turned the weather balloon cover-up into a cliché, but there have been legitimate examples of people confusing balloons for UFOs. In 2017, a large balloon from the Google company X crashed in Colombia. Farmers who observed the downed object smoking and leaking “strange liquid” thought they were seeing a UFO. Local police were able to identify the wreckage as a balloon, which X was using to bring internet connectivity to the remote area.
8. AN ARMY PARACHUTE TEAM
A pyrotechnic, aerial display from the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team has become a tradition at the annual Sun Fun Festival in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The coordinated parachute jump is a dazzling spectacle for people who know to expect it. For many who don’t, the sight of glowing orbs falling from the sky looks like an alien invasion. After provoking numerous UFO reports during its first year, the festival organizers began putting out press releases to warn people of the event. This hasn’t stopped false sightings from becoming part of the annual tradition.
9. A BUG
What’s shiny, round, and capable of zipping through the air in multiple directions? Many insects fit these criteria, but the description also applies to plenty of UFO reports. In 2012, Fox affiliate KDVR in Denver shared a video of an alleged UFO that astronomer Phil Plait identified as a bug. The lack of perspective in the clip made it possible to misidentify the tiny insect for a large aircraft flying in the distance.
10. HOBBY DRONES
Over the past decade, hobby drones have become one of the top explanations for UFO sightings. Not only do they look like scaled-down versions of spaceships, but they’re more likely to be spotted in places where they don’t belong than military jets or weather balloons. Amateur drone hobbyists can even buy programmable LED light kits with the intention of confusing people looking to the skies.
11. LED KITES
Kites can also be decorated with LED lights, which makes them potential bait for UFO spotters. An object pulsating with multi-colored lights was reported over Vancouver in early 2011; it was later identified as a Chinese-made kite. Some have also suggested than a bright-blue UFO recorded over Hawaii in December 2020 was really an LED kite on the loose.
Physicist Michio Kaku believes alien life will be found within the century, but making contact is 'a terrible idea' that could lead a similar outcome to when Montezuma was defeated by Cortés
Physicist Michio Kaku believes alien life will be found within the century, but making contact is 'a terrible idea' that could lead a similar outcome to when Montezuma was defeated by Cortés
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku says we'll find alien life within the century
The October launch of the Webb telescope will offer thousands of planets to analyze
But 'we can't gamble' on aliens being friendly, he cautions, telling scientists to make contact very carefully
'We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés,' he added, referring to the Aztec ruler defeated by Spanish conquistadors
Contact with alien life is just around the corner, according to leading physicist, but we shouldn't expect it to be friendly.
String theory expert and futurist Michio Kaku believes we'll find signs of life in the universe within the century.
But just blindly reaching out to extraterrestrials is 'a terrible idea,' he told The Guardian, comparing it to Montezuma meeting with Hernan Cortés before the Spanish decimated the Aztec in the 16th century.
Kaku, the author of several science best-sellers, advises making first contact 'very carefully.'
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'I think that aliens out there would be friendly but we can't gamble on it,' said futurist Michio Kaku, author of The God Equation. Kaku calls blithely reaching out to extraterrestrials a 'terrible idea'
The reference to Montezuma may spark fear among Earthlings, as the ancient ruler of the Aztecs in the 1500s who welcomed Cortés and was killed because of his good deed.
Cortés took advantage of the welcoming, took Montezuma hostage so that he could take the Aztec throne.
Montezuma is said to have later been killed by his angry subjects who believed he had willing given up to Spanish rule.
And Kaku warns that welcoming foreign beings to Earth may have the same outcome.
With the planned October launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (pictured), 'We'll have thousands of planets to look at,' says Kaku, who has predicted humans will make contact with aliens within the 21st century
But just blindly reaching out to extraterrestrials is 'a terrible idea,' he told The Guardian , comparing it to Montezuma meeting with Cortés before the Spanish decimated the Aztec in the 16th century
Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at City College in New York and a leading proponent of string theory.
He popularizes physics on TV and has written several New York Times best sellers, including Physics of the Future and The Future of the Mind, which postulates on the possibilities of telepathy and programmable memories.
Who is Michio Kaku?
Japanese-American scientist Michio Kaku was born in San Jose, California on January 24, 1947.
He attended Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 1972.
Kaku's studies focus on theoretical physics, and the continuing search for a so-called 'Theory of Everything' that unites the four fundamental forces of nature – the strong force, the weak force, gravity and electromagnetism.
Today he popularizes physics for the public as a science communicator, hosting TV specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel and other outlets.
He has also written various popular science books including Physics of the Future, Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe, and The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind.
Several of his titles have topped the New York Times best-seller list.
His latest book, The God Equation, discusses the ongoing quest to develop a 'theory of everything' that unites the fundamental forces of nature.
But Kaku's scientific curiosity extends into other realms, including the search for intelligent life in the universe.
In a 2018 reddit AMA, he said he felt humanity would make contact with aliens 'within the century.'
His optimism comes from the planned October 2021 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will offer even greater infrared resolution and sensitivity than the Hubble telescope.
'We'll have thousands of planets to look at, and that's why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilization,' he said in a new interview with The Guardian.
But the noted futurist is ambivalent about ringing an ET's doorbell.
'There are some colleagues of mine that believe we should reach out to them,' he told the Guardian. 'I think that's a terrible idea.'
'We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago.'
Montezuma II, the last emperor of the Aztecs, was defeated by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1520.
'Now, personally, I think that aliens out there would be friendly but we can't gamble on it,' Kaku added. 'So I think we will make contact but we should do it very carefully.'
In our rush to communicate, he said in the reddit AMA, we also should think about their intentions: 'Are they expansive and aggressive, or peaceful?'
And communication may not be that easy.
Because we're using radio waves, 'talking to them will be difficult, since they could be tens of light years away,' he said in the AMA.
Kaku is hardly alone in having reservations about a close encounter. 'We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans,' renowned physicist Stephen Hawkings (pictured) said in 2018
'[Another] possibility is that they land on the White House lawn and announce their existence,' he added. 'But I think that is unlikely, since we would be like forest animals to them.'
Kaku is hardly alone in having reservations about a close encounter.
'We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans,' renowned physicist Stephen Hawkings said in 2018, Live Science reported.
'If you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced.'
An alien civilization receiving a message from Earth could be 'billions of years' ahead of human development, he added.
'If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria.'
But, like Kaku, Hawkins still supported the search for alien life.
In fact his comments were given at a press event announcing a ten-year, $100 million effort to listen for broadcast signals from the million closest stars, using two of the world's most powerful telescopes.
'It's time to commit to finding the answer - to search for life beyond Earth,' he said. 'We are alive. We are intelligent. We must know.'
In the 21st century, we get a lot of our Earth political news on late night talk shows, and now we can get our space news there as well. Renowned physicist, string theorist and popular TV scientist Michio Kaku has been making the rounds lately talking about the James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to be launched in the fall of 2021. Like a good scientist, he’s in favor of using new and better technology, but he’s also cautious about how some of his colleagues will use this particular tool for exploring the cosmos.
“Soon we’ll have the Webb telescope up in orbit and we’ll have thousands of planets to look at, and that’s why I think the chances are quite high that we may make contact with an alien civilization. There are some colleagues of mine that believe we should reach out to them. I think that’s a terrible idea. We all know what happened to Montezuma when he met Cortés in Mexico so many hundreds of years ago.”
Montezuma
For those who only know of Montezuma from the bad joke about gastric problems, Moctezuma II (Montezuma) welcomed the alien known as conquistador Hernán Cortés to the Aztec empire, and both he and the empire died as a result. Montezuma reached out in peace, just as many of our SETI messages say “We come in peace,” and Kaku thinks this is a bad idea too because it implies we’re unarmed and could convince extraterrestrials to “come and rule us.” Or, as he said in 2018, come and “develop” our planet – building their own structures, planting their own plants and installing their own government. Gee, that’s never happened on Earth, has it?
“To be honest, I’ve get emails from people that say: ‘You’re wrong professor, the aliens are already here. They’ve been in the flying saucers, they have been kidnapped.”
Kaku followed up his Guardian interview with an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” He anticipated and addressed the blowback from many people who believe UFOs are alien spaceships and Earth is already populated with extraterrestrials, both camouflaged and out in the open, abducting humans but returning them seemingly unharmed. How come they haven’t conquistadored us like Cortés?
“I tell them the next time you are kidnapped by an alien flying saucer, for God’s sake, steal something. I don’t care whether it’s a pen or a chip, steal something! Because there is no law against stealing from an extraterrestrial civilization.”
What was I supposed to do?
Obviously, Michio Kaku is a scientist who values facts and proofs over speculations. Of course, stealing a writing quill from Cortés wouldn’t have saved Montezuma – he still had hundreds of troops, dreams of gold, superior weapons and infectious diseases. Kaku says he hopes aliens are friendly but let’s let them show it – don’t reveal our cards to them right up front.
Is he right? There are many who believe we’ve already alerted alien civilizations we’re here and not to bright by our industrial pollution and growing numbers of satellites doing nothing but orbiting – at least from their perspective.
And the biggest sign to aliens we’re not to bright and ready for conquest? We get our science knowledge from late night talk shows.
When it comes to the matter of high-tech military devices that become mistaken for UFOs, there are a number of examples. Roswell, for example, was a top secret experiment using people in high-altitude flights in the skies of New Mexico in early July 1947. Not a UFO or an alien in sight. Then, there’s the Mantell case of 1948. Moving on, one of the most important examples (a case that has undeniable parallels with Roswell), is also one of the lesser-known cases. It is a fascinating story that was uncovered by U.K. ufologist Dr. David Clarke. It is well worth noting that in the early 1960s an event occurred in the wilds of Scotland which eerily mirrored the Roswell affair of 1947. Yes, we are talking about a clandestine balloon flight that was given nothing less than a spaceship-driven spin. In an excellent July 2012 article at his blog titled “The Scottish Roswell?” Dr. David Clarke said of this curious case: “Picture the scene: A shepherd visiting a remote area stumbles upon strange wreckage strewn across the ground which could be the remains of a crashed spaceship. The debris consists of pieces of unusual metal and strange drawings. On reporting his find at the local police station, search teams and military personnel descend on the area. The wreckage disappears – no one knows where – and civilians are told to ‘keep quiet about it.’ At this point, you are probably thinking ‘Roswell, New Mexico, 1947.’
Project Moby Dick balloon
“But no, this incident occurred in the Scottish Highlands one spring morning in 1962. It has uncanny links to its American cousin, even down to the ‘cover story’ used hide the true identity and purpose of the ‘crashed spaceship,'” says Clarke. The case to which Dr. Clarke refers occurred on the wild moorland in Ardgay, Scotland. In the same way that rancher William Ware “Mac” Brazel reported his find to the U.S. authorities outside of Roswell in 1947, a shepherd named Donald MacKenzie did likewise, albeit in Scotland: he contacted the local police and told them what he had found. A four-man Royal Air Force team – attached to the RAF Mountain Rescue Service – traveled to the area and found both the site and the odd materials. Attempts on the part of Squadron Leader John Sims, of Royal Air Force Kinloss, to learn what had come down, failed: he was told by the Air Ministry, London, that it was absolutely none of his business. Data that appeared in base logbooks was confiscated. The mystery was quickly and effectively hidden. The only thing missing from this saga was a bunch of dead aliens strewn across the moors of Ardgay. Nevertheless, it’s still a story that contains all the key ingredients of a ufological pot-boiler!
Except for one thing: at its heart was something very different to a UFO. Dr. Clarke decided to dig deep into the story. He did more than that: he solved the decades-old mystery. The wreckage found at Ardgay was not from a crashed flying saucer. It was, in reality, debris from a huge balloon attached to a CIA-funded, classified program called Moby Dick. Air Vectors notes: “The first Moby Dick launch was on 19 February 1953. 640 Moby Dick balloons were launched up to the end of the program on 30 June 1954. For whatever reasons, a range of different balloon configurations were used during the program, with balloon diameters ranging from 15 meters (49 feet) to 25 meters (83 feet), and shapes including cylinders.” The similarities between the Scottish event of 1962 and that which occurred at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 are as clear as they are obvious. What we have here is the development of a mystery with clear UFO-themed overtones attached to it, but which actually had very down to earth – but highly secret – balloon-based origins. Maybe Roswell and Ardgay should become twin-towns.
When it comes to the issue of what really happened on what was once known as the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in early July 1947, there are things we know, things we suspect, and things we will probably never know. But, that something happened – something which caused theU.S. Air Force to offer multiple explanations for the event – is not a matter of any doubt at all. It was an incident that clearly concerned elements of not just the military, but the government, too, and to a highly significant degree. Eye-witnesses – both military and civilian – were warned not to talk about what they had seen and / or heard. More than a few of those warnings crossed the line and can only accurately be described as death threats. People were plunged into states of fear. Lives were changed forever; even scarred. Some lives may have ended; as in terminated. It was on July 8, 1947 that the strange event surfaced publicly. Associated Press (among many other news outlets) reported on the startling, then-breaking news:
“The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff’s office of Chavez County. The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff’s office, who in turn notified Major Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office. Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher’s home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters.” The story was quickly picked up not just across the United States, but across the planet, too. In barely no time at all, however, the flying disc angle was blown out of the sky: the whole thing was nothing but a huge, embarrassing mistake. The materials found on the massive ranch – by rancher William Ware “Mack” Brazel – were not the remains of a disc, after all. What had really been found, and subsequently collected and brought to the Roswell Army Air Field, was weather-balloon debris. Or, so the military was careful to try and assure everyone.
Nick Redfern
With Brazel at the time of the discovery – which had actually occurred days earlier – was a young boy named Dee Proctor. He would go on to be one of the most important people in the Roswell story. We also know for sure that three, key military men, all of whom were destined to become part and parcel of the Roswell affair, were also present at the ranch – and specifically before a veritable battalion was on-site and ordered to recover the massive amount of whatever-it-was. They were Major Jesse Marcel, the intelligence-office of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell; Captain Sheridan Cavitt, of the Counter-Intelligence Corps; and CIC Master Sergeant Lewis S. “Bill” Rickett. All three were at ground-zero. They all saw the wreckage. Years later Marcel would open up wide on the matter of the debris he saw and collected. Cavitt and Rickett may have seen more than debris. Way more. Possibly bodies, strange bodies. Brazel and little Dee may have seen one or more of those bodies, too.
When the media revealed the weather-balloon explanation, something amazing happened: Roswell was largely, and very quickly, forgotten. Granted, those implicated in the affair never forgot what they saw and experienced. But, the media certainly moved on to other things. Plus, back in 1947 there were no UFO research groups around to look into the case. The result? Aside from a few, occasional, brief references in books and magazines in the 1950s and 1960s, Roswell was for all intents and purposes dead and buried – which is precisely how those charged with keeping the disturbing secret wanted it. Things changed, however, in the mid-to-late 1970s. Both William Moore and Stanton Friedman were eagerly pursuing the Roswell story by then; it was a story that was slowly but surely destined to be resurrected. It was Friedman who found the now-elderly Jesse Marcel. The long-retired major had a most interesting story to tell:
Nick Redfern
“I saw a lot of wreckage but no complete machine. It had disintegrated before it hit the ground. The wreckage was scattered over an area about three quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide. I was pretty well acquainted with most everything that was in the air at that time, both ours and foreign. I was also acquainted with virtually every type of weather-balloon or radar-tracking device being used by either the civilians or the military. What it was we didn’t know. We just picked up the fragments…it certainly wasn’t anything built by us.” Mack Brazel’s son, Bill, would later say that what was found on the Foster Ranch was “…something on the order of tinfoil except that [it] wouldn’t tear…You could wrinkle it and lay it back down and it immediately resumed its original shape. Quite pliable, but you couldn’t crease or bend it like ordinary metal. Almost like a plastic, but definitely metallic in nature.”
When Friedman spoke with Bill Rickett, in 1985, the also-long-retired Counter-Intelligence Corps man revealed a few snippets of information on what happened, but practically froze like a deer caught in headlights when Friedman brought up the matter of bodies. It was clearly an issue Rickett had no intention of discussing – and he didn’t. As for Sheridan Cavitt, he proved to be one of the trickiest players in the entire story. He revealed very little of substance. On occasion, he even denied having ever been at Roswell or at the crash site. Cavitt may even have withheld what he knew of the incident when, in 1994, the Air Force came knocking on his front-door, wanting answers. As for Dee Proctor, well, he had the fear of God put into him by the military – and to the extent that he barely ever talked about the mysterious events of July 1947. Back then, a lot of people knew something of the case. The men above, however, knew more than most. Much more.
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Strange objects in the sky caught on camera
Strange objects in the sky caught on camera
Many strange objects move through our sky that simply cannot be explained. What are these objects?
A photographer took a lot of images of the sky in Wisconsin. It was the first photo that showed a mysterious black square UFO hanging in the sky below the clouds.
Flying Saucer with transparent shield photographed near Roswell, New Mexico. Photographer heard a strange sound like whoosh-whoosh, displaced air.
Photographer captured an unknown cigar-shaped UFO over Amarillo, California. Object has no wings or other visible parts characteristic of an aircraft.
Photographer took several photos within seconds of a beautiful landscape near Slade, Kentucky Only one photo showed something remarkable. Tree rock-like anomalies apparently hanging in the sky. Holographic representation of objects from a parallel universe?
Photographer from Cornwall Ontario, Canada captured an object that looks like a black knight craft passing the moon
During a cloudy day, a photographer captured a huge dark triangular shape (cloaked triangle craft) over Kansas City, Missouri
Photographer caught a strange flying object above plane near Cairns airport, Australia. The object looks like a flying humanoid carrying something on his back.
Tom Horn: Tribulation Trouble - An Asteroid Approaches
Tom Horn: Tribulation Trouble - An Asteroid Approaches
Our old friend Tom Horn has brought us another exciting future prophecy, straight out of the pages of the Book of Revelation.
Signs in the heavens … Asteroids hurtling toward our planet … earthquakes … volcanoes … poisoned rivers, … echoes of God’s judgment on Egypt in the days of Moses and Pharaoh.
The Bible tells us of a time in the future when the powers of heaven will be shaken and our world will face the judgment of God. If you’re not familiar with Bible prophecy, it’s called The Tribulation Period and it lasts for 7 long years.
The good news? The Bible tells us how we can escape this terrible time of judgment.
When an object called ʻOumuamua’ was detected flying through our solar system in 2017, scientists were baffled by its strange behavior. Many said it was just a bizarre space rock, but Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb believes it was most likely a relic of an alien civilization. And he thinks you should believe that too. In this episode of The Space Show, Motherboard reporter Becky Ferreira speaks with Professor Avi Loeb, chair of Harvard’s astronomy department and author of the new book “Extraterrestrial.” (Amazon link)
And the little chopper could take to the skies for the first time on Sunday (April 11).
NASA's littleMars helicopterhas opened its eyes on the Red Planet.
The 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper, known as Ingenuity, snapped its first color photograph on Saturday (April 3), shortly after being lowered to the Martian dirt by the Perseverance rover.
The tableau shows "the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater and a portion of two wheels of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover," agency officials wrote in a description on Monday (April 5), when the photo was released.
This low-resolution view of the floor of Mars’ Jezero Crater and a portion of two wheels of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover was captured by the agency’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter on April 3, 2021. It’s the first color photo taken by Ingenuity on the Martian surface. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The car-sized Perseverance landed inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero on Feb. 18 with Ingenuity firmly attached to its belly. The rover deployed Ingenuity on Saturday and has since moved a short distance away, allowing the Martian sunlight to reach the solar-powered rotorcraft.
Over the next few days, Perseverance will drive still farther away, to a place called Van Zyl Overlook, which provides a good view of the airfield that mission team members have chosen for Ingenuity. If all goes according to plan, Ingenuity will lift off as soon as Sunday (April 11), conducting the first-ever powered flight in the skies of a world beyond Earth.
The goal is to demonstrate that this exploration mode is feasible on Mars. If Ingenuity performs well during its month-long, five-flight campaign, future Red Planet missions could commonly include helicopters, as scouts for rovers and as explorers in their own right, NASA officials have said.
Ingenuity doesn't carry any science instruments. But the little flyer will capture imagery during its flights, and those photos should be sharper than the grainy one it snapped on Saturday from beneath Perseverance, NASA officials said.
The six-wheeled rover will attempt to document Ingenuity's flight program from Van Zyl Overlook using its high-resolution MastCam-Z camera system. There's even a chance that Perseverance could record audio of Ingenuity's sorties using itstwo onboard microphones, mission team members have said. There are certainly no guarantees on the audio front, however, given how quickly sound attenuates in the thin Martian atmosphere.
Ingenuity's flight program is hard-capped at one month, because Perseverance has business of its own to attend to. The $2.7 billion rover will search for signs of ancient Mars life on the floor of Jezero, which hosted a river delta and a big lake billions of years ago.
Perseverance will also collect and cache several dozen samples, which will be returned to Earth by a joint NASA-European Space Agency campaign, perhaps as early as 2031.
Mike Wall is the author of "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or Facebook.
Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey said he believes UFOs could exist after his friend’s plane was “paused at 40,000” feet – and hopes humans would be friendly to extraterrestrials if they ever make contact, according to a report.
The former chief spook — who ran the agency from 1993 to 1995 — spoke Friday to the Black Vault’s YouTube channel, where he promoted his new book with co-author Ion Mihai Pacepa, “Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin’s Secret War on America.”
“There have been over the years now events of one kind of another, usually involving some kind of aircraft-like airframe,” Woolsey said in the interview.
“I never thought there was anything to all this, it always seemed pretty far out to me,” he continued.
“But there was one case in which a friend of mine was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft,” Woolsey continued, adding that the source was someone he “respects.”
“What was going on? I don’t know. Does anybody know?” he said. “There had just been enough things like that that have occurred that I think there will be a lot of examination of what’s going on over the course of several months or years.”
He added: “I’m not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly, but something is going on that is surprising to a series of intelligent aircraft, experienced pilots.”
James Woolsey hopes humans would be friendly to extraterrestrials should they ever make contact.Getty Images
During the interview, Black Vault podcaster John Greenwald Jr. said other intelligence chiefs also have left open the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
In December, ex-CIA Director John Brennan said it was “presumptuous and arrogant” to believe there are no other forms of life than the ones on Earth.
“I think some of the phenomena we’re going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might, in fact, be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don’t yet understand and that could involve some type of activity that some might say constitutes a different form of life,” he said on the podcast “Conversations with Tyler.”
Brennan commented on the videos, calling them “quite eyebrow-raising.”
Rep. John Ratcliffe says there are “a lot more” UFO sightings that have not been made public.Andrew Harnik/CNP/AdMedia
“You try to ensure that you have as much data as possible in terms of visuals and also different types of maybe technical collection of sensors that you have at the time,” he added.
Last month, former Director of Intelligence John Ratcliffe said on Fox News that “there are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” adding that “some of those have been declassified.”
“And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain,” Ratcliffe said.
James Woolsey went on the Black Vault podcast to discuss the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
“Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom,” he added.
A new Pentagon report expected to be released by June 1 will also detail any threats posed by the aerial phenomena and whether foreign adversaries are suspected of controlling them.
In December, then-President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government funding bill, which started a 180-day countdown for the Pentagon and spy agencies to say what they know about UFOs.
The former CIA director said the idea of UFOs “always seemed pretty far out.”DoD/AFP via Getty Images
The Navy videos were first leaked to The Stars Academy, a UFO research group founded by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge, and then obtained through efforts by the New York Times.
The UFOs were seen moving at incredible speeds and performing seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers. One of the clips showed a dark circular object flying far in front of a jet, while a second caught a small object racing over land.
The third captured a circular object first speeding, then appearing to slow down — and moving closer to the pilot’s camera.
Greenwald, the Black Vault host, has claimed that the trove of records on UFOs unsealed by the CIA appeared to be intentionally difficult to sift through since they used an “outdated” file format.
“The CIA has made it incredibly difficult to use their records in a reasonable manner,” he said. “In my opinion, this outdated format makes it very difficult for people to see the documents, and use them, for any research purpose.”
Sightings were up in 2020 compared to the previous year — with more than 6,600 recorded during that period, according to National UFO Reporting Center data.
For more on UFOs, check out The Post’s video series about the phenomenon.
Easter is a festival and holiday celebrated by millions of people around the world who honor the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred three days after his crucifixion at Calvary. It is also the day that children excitedly wait for the Easter bunny to arrive and deliver their treats of chocolate eggs.
The date upon which Easter is held varies from year to year, and corresponds with the first Sunday following the full moon after the March equinox. It occurs on different dates around the world since western churches use the Gregorian calendar , while eastern churches use the Julian calendar.
While Easter, as we know it today, was never a pagan festival , its roots and many of its traditions have associations with ancient pagan customs and beliefs.
According to the New Unger’s Bible Dictionary: “The word Easter is of Saxon origin, Eastra, the goddess of spring, in whose honour sacrifices were offered about Passover time each year. By the eighth century Anglo–Saxons had adopted the name to designate the celebration of Christ’s resurrection.” However, even among those who maintain that Easter has pagan roots, there is some disagreement over which pagan tradition the festival emerged from. Here we will explore some of those perspectives.
Christian’s today celebrate Easter Sunday as the resurrection of Jesus.
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Resurrection as a Symbol of Rebirth
One theory that has been put forward is that the Easter story of crucifixion and resurrection is symbolic of rebirth and renewal and retells the cycle of the seasons, the death and return of the sun.
According to some scholars, such as Dr. Tony Nugent, teacher of Theology and Religious Studies at Seattle University, and Presbyterian minister, the Easter story comes from the Sumerian legend of Damuzi ( Tammuz) and his wife Inanna ( Ishtar), an epic myth called “The Descent of Inanna” found inscribed on cuneiform clay tablets dating back to 2100 BC. When Tammuz dies, Ishtar is grief–stricken and follows him to the underworld. In the underworld, she enters through seven gates, and her worldly attire is removed. "Naked and bowed low" she is judged, killed, and then hung on display. In her absence, the earth loses its fertility, crops cease to grow and animals stop reproducing. Unless something is done, all life on earth will end.
After Inanna has been missing for three days her assistant goes to other gods for help. Finally one of them Enki, creates two creatures who carry the plant of life and water of life down to the Underworld, sprinkling them on Inanna and Damuzi, resurrecting them, and giving them the power to return to the earth as the light of the sun for six months. After the six months are up, Tammuz returns to the underworld of the dead, remaining there for another six months, and Ishtar pursues him, prompting the water god to rescue them both. Thus were the cycles of winter death and spring life.
The Descent of Inanna.
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Dr. Nugent is quick to point out that drawing parallels between the story of Jesus and the epic of Inanna “doesn't necessarily mean that there wasn't a real person, Jesus, who was crucified, but rather that, if there was, the story about it is structured and embellished in accordance with a pattern that was very ancient and widespread.”
The Sumerian goddess Inanna is known outside of Mesopotamia by her Babylonian name, "Ishtar". In ancient Canaan Ishtar is known as Astarte, and her counterparts in the Greek and Roman pantheons are known as Aphrodite and Venus. In the 4th Century, when Christians identified the exact site in Jerusalem where the empty tomb of Jesus had been located, they selected the spot where a temple of Aphrodite (Astarte/Ishtar/Inanna) stood. The temple was torn down and so the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built, the holiest church in the Christian world.
Dr. Nugent points out that the story of Inanna and Damuzi is just one of a number of accounts of dying and rising gods that represent the cycle of the seasons and the stars. For example, the resurrection of Egyptian Horus; the story of Mithras, who was worshipped at Springtime; and the tale of Dionysus, resurrected by his grandmother. Among these stories are prevailing themes of fertility, conception, renewal, descent into darkness, and the triumph of light over darkness or good over evil.
Easter as a Celebration of the Goddess of Spring
A related perspective is that, rather than being a representation of the story of Ishtar, Easter was originally a celebration of Eostre, goddess of Spring, otherwise known as Ostara, Austra, and Eastre. One of the most revered aspects of Ostara for both ancient and modern observers is a spirit of renewal.
Celebrated at Spring Equinox on March 21, Ostara marks the day when light is equal to darkness, and will continue to grow. As the bringer of light after a long dark winter, the goddess was often depicted with the hare, an animal that represents the arrival of spring as well as the fertility of the season.
According to Jacob Grimm’s Deutsche Mythologie , the idea of resurrection was ingrained within the celebration of Ostara: “Ostara, Eástre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the christian’s God.”
Most analyses of the origin of the word ‘Easter’ agree that it was named after Eostre, an ancient word meaning ‘spring’, though many European languages use one form or another of the Latin name for Easter, Pascha, which is derived from the Hebrew Pesach, meaning Passover.
Easter and Its Connection to Passover
Easter is associated with the Jewish festival of Passover through its symbolism and meaning, as well as its position in the calendar. Some early Christians chose to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus on the same date as Passover, which reflects Easter having entered Christianity during its earliest Jewish period. Evidence of a more developed Christian festival of Easter emerged around the mid-second century.
In 325 AD, Emperor Constantine convened a meeting of Christian leaders to resolve important disputes at the Council of Nicaea. Since the church believed that the resurrection took place on a Sunday, the Council determined that Easter should always fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox. Easter has since remained without a fixed date but proximate to the full moon, which coincided with the start of Passover.
While there are distinct differences between the celebrations of Pesach and Easter, both festivals celebrate rebirth – in Christianity through the resurrection of Jesus, and in Jewish traditions through the liberation of the Israelites from slavery.
A Jewish family celebrating passover.
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The Origins of Easter customs
The most widely-practiced customs on Easter Sunday relate to the symbol of the rabbit (‘Easter bunny’) and the egg. As outlined previously, a hare was a symbol associated with Eostre, representing the beginning of Springtime. Likewise, the egg has come to represent Spring, fertility, and renewal. In Germanic mythology, it is said that Ostara healed a wounded bird she found in the woods by changing it into a hare. Still partially a bird, the hare showed its gratitude to the goddess by laying eggs as gifts.
The Encyclopedia Britannica clearly explains the pagan traditions associated with the egg: “The egg as a symbol of fertility and of renewed life goes back to the ancient Egyptians and Persians, who had also the custom of colouring and eating eggs during their spring festival.” In ancient Egypt, an egg symbolised the sun, while for the Babylonians, the egg represents the hatching of the Venus Ishtar, who fell from heaven to the Euphrates.
Relief with Phanes, c. 2nd century A.D. Orphic god Phanes emerging from the cosmic egg, surrounded by the zodiac.
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So where did the tradition of an egg-toting Easter Bunny come from? The first reference can be found in a German text dating to 1572 AD: “Do not worry if the Easter Bunny escapes you; should we miss his eggs, we will cook the nest,” the text reads. But it wasn’t until the tradition made its way to the United States via the arrival of German immigrants, that the custom took on its current form. By the end of the 19th century, shops were selling rabbit-shaped candies, which later became the chocolate bunnies we have today, and children were being told the story of a rabbit that delivers baskets of eggs, chocolate and other candy on Easter morning.
In many Christian traditions, the custom of giving eggs at Easter celebrates new life. Christians remember that Jesus, after dying on the cross, rose from the dead, showing that life could win over death. For Christians, the egg is a symbol of the tomb in which the body of Jesus was placed, while cracking the egg represents Jesus' resurrection. In the Orthodox tradition, eggs are painted red to symbolize the blood Jesus shed on the cross .
Regardless of the very ancient origins of the symbol of the egg, most people agree that nothing symbolizes renewal more perfectly than the egg – round, endless, and full of the promise of life.
While many of the pagan customs associated with the celebration of Spring were at one stage practised alongside Christian Easter traditions, they eventually came to be absorbed within Christianity, as symbols of the resurrection of Jesus. The First Council of Nicaea (325 AD) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the March equinox .
Whether it is observed as a religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, or a time for families in the northern hemisphere to enjoy the coming of Spring and celebrate with egg decorating and Easter bunnies, the celebration of Easter still retains the same spirit of rebirth and renewal, as it has for thousands of years.
The commercial satellite ELSA-d is in orbit now. Its days are numbered.
Astroscale just launched the first commercialspace junkcleanup mission designed to locate and retrieve used satellites and other debris orbiting Earth.
The Japan-based company's End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission lifted off from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 22. It was among the 38 payloads that were carried into space by a Soyuz rocket as part of the first all-commercial rideshare mission for Russian company GK Launch Services.
The ELSA-d mission will test new technology developed by Astroscale, which consists of two satellites stacked together: a 385-lb. (175 kilograms) "servicer" and a 37-lb. (17 kg) "client." The servicer is designed to safely remove debris from orbit, while the client spacecraft will serve during the demonstration as a piece of debris to be cleaned up. Once the two satellites separate, they will perform a cosmic game of cat and mouse over the next six months.
The End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission will test a magnetic docking technique to remove space debris from orbit. The "servicer" satellite will use GPS to locate space debris and then latch onto it using a magnetic docking plate to carry it down toward the Earth's atmosphere, where it will burn up. (Image credit: Astroscale)
"I am pleased to confirm that Astroscale's Mission Operations team at the In-Orbit Servicing Centre in Harwell, U.K., has successfully made contact with our ELSA-d spacecraft and established that all initial system checks are satisfactory," Seita Iizuka, ELSA-d project manager, said in a statement from Astroscale. "I congratulate our team and look forward to moving into the first phase of our technical demonstrations."
Using a series of maneuvers, Astroscale will test the satellite's ability to snatch debris and bring it down toward the Earth's atmosphere, where both servicer and debris will burn up. The servicer is equipped with a magnetic docking plate, as well as GPS technology to estimate the exact position and motion of its target. This debris removal demonstration project is the first of its kind by a commercial satellite operator, according to the statement.
During the trial mission, the company will test whether the servicer can catch the client satellite in three separate demonstrations.
In its first maneuver, the servicer will gently release the test debris then quickly catch it. Next, the servicer will attempt to capture the client as it tumbles through space at up to 18,000 miles per hour.
Finally,Astroscalewill simulate an actual mission, in which the servicer will need to search for, locate and capture the client from a distance. If successful, ELSA-d's magnetic capture mechanism could be installed on future satellites launched into space, allowing future servicers to safely remove these spacecraft when they are no longer in service.
"While leading the way in proving our debris removal capabilities, ELSA-d will also propel regulatory developments and advance the business case for end-of-life and active debris removal services," Nobu Okada, Astroscale founder and CEO, said in the statement. "This successful launch brings us closer to realizing our vision of securing the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations."
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The U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B space plane carries a power-beaming experiment on its latest mission to Earth orbit.
(Image credit: Boeing)
A U.S. military space plane is being used to flight-validate the best ways to gather the sun's energy for power beaming from Earth orbit.
In mid-March, the latest classified mission of the U.S. Space Force's X-37B robotic space plane winged past 300 days in Earth orbit.
Most of the robotic space drone's duties on this mission, known as Orbital Test Vehicle-6 (OTV-6), are a tightly held secret. However, one known bit of research that the craft carries is the Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module Flight Experiment, or PRAM-FX.
PRAM-FX is a Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) experiment that's investigating transforming solar power into radio frequency (RF) microwave energy. PRAM-FX is a 12-inch (30.5 centimeters) square tile that collects solar energy and converts it to RF power.
Paul Jaffe, the innovation power beaming and space solar portfolio lead at NRL, said that PRAM-FX is not beaming microwave energy anywhere. Rather, the experiment is gauging the performance of sunlight-to-microwave conversion. To be measured is how the PRAM is performing from an efficiency standpoint and also from a thermal performance stance, he said.
Preliminary results
That in-space task is relatively simple. But PRAM-FX helps advance a more ambitious objective — soaking up the sun's energy and broadcasting that power to an energy-hungry Earth.
The first preliminary results from PRAM-FX aboard OTV-6 were published in January as part of a review paper co-authored by Jaffe in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Journal of Microwaves.
"Though these results are preliminary, they compare favorably with the performance documented in ground testing, which also demonstrated 8% total module efficiency. As the experiment proceeds, a full picture of the module's performance under different illumination and temperature conditions in the space environment will be uncovered," the IEEE paper points out.
PRAM-FX is a key orbital test for space solar architectures. But what's next?
An artist's rendering of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Arachne spacecraft, part of a multi-phased effort to develop a space-based solar power transmission system capable of providing usable power regardless of time of day, latitude or weather. (Image credit: AFRL/Melissa Grim, Partise)
Step-by-step phases
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has blueprinted a major demonstration project that aims to beam power collected in space to expeditionary forces on Earth. That project is called the Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research (SSPIDR).
As outlined in the IEEE paper, SSPIDR's demonstrations include experiments called Arachne, SPINDLE, and SPIRRAL.
"Arachne will be the world’s first space-to-ground power beaming demonstration of a solar-to-RF modular panel with in-situ surface-shape measurement to optimize beam formation. The solar-to-RF panel technology is designed to scale to very large apertures and to support high volume, low-cost manufacturing," the paper reads.
Arache is scheduled to fly in 2024. AFRL received the first flight hardware component of the Arachne spacecraft from Northrop Grumman last December.
SPINDLE will test on-orbit deployment of a sub-scale version of the operational system. And SPIRRAL "will test thermal management approaches to ensure a long-lasting, high-performance system," the paper reads.
If all goes according to plan, SPIRRAL will launch in 2023 as part of the Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISS-E) Flight Facility. MISS-E is an in-orbit platform from Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance that's designed to be deployed externally on the International Space Station.
A depiction of the Space Solar Power Incremental and Demonstrations Research (SSPIDR) project, which aims to beam solar power from space to Earth. SSPIDR consists of several small-scale flight experiments that will mature technology needed to build a prototype solar power distribution system. (Image credit: Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL))
Limitless and sustainable energy
John Mankins is a longtime advocate of space power beaming and author of "The Case for Space Solar Power" (Virginia Edition Publishing, 2014). He worked at NASA for 25 years and is now president of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions, LLC.
Space solar power has the potential to transform humankind's future in space, and it might provide a new source of virtually limitless and sustainable energy to markets across the world. So, Mankins said, why wouldn't we pursue such technology?
"There is an array of new players in wireless power transmission — both via radio frequency and laser — in the U.S. and internationally," Mankins told Space.com. "China has just approved the formation of a national-level committee on space solar power and wireless power transmission, which will increase the prominence of their already strong research and development program."
Mankins also points to the United Kingdom. That nation is now exploring the possibility of joining the international space solar power and wireless power transmission community, with a major assessment completed in January of this year.
Looking outward beyond Earth, new applications of wireless power transmission are emerging in lunar exploration planning, Mankins said, where the ice deposits are located exclusively in permanent shadowed regions at temperatures around minus 390 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 234 degrees Celsius).
"But hundreds of kilowatts of power will be needed to mine and process the water ice to make useful materials, such as propellants. Wireless power might be the answer to providing that power," Mankins suggested.
Highly valued asset
Overall, the prospects look encouraging that space power beaming may be a highly valued asset in the commercial sector.
The technology may have a future akin to that of the United States' Global Positioning System, which started out as a military asset and transitioned to a globally utilized technology, experts say. Perhaps solar power beaming will become widely used down the road, providing plentiful solar energy everywhere regardless of the local weather, time of day or latitude.
By the way, for you techno-history buffs: Nikola Tesla originated the concept of large-scale power transfer via free space at the turn of the 20th century!
Leonard David is author of "Moon Rush: The New Space Race," which was published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook. This version of the story published on Space.com.
The Mars helicopter Ingenuity has unlocked its two rotor blades as preparations continue for the vehicle's first flight, due to occur no earlier than Sunday (April 11).
Ingenuity arrived on Mars Feb. 18 along with NASA's Perseverance rover, having made the long trek out to the Red Planet tucked inside the rover's belly. As of April 4, the little chopper has parted ways with Perseverance, preparing to take to the skies during a month-long test campaign. If Ingenuity's Sunday sortie is successful, it will be the first powered, guided flight on another planet.
"The blades of glory, aka rotor blades of the #MarsHelicopter, have been unlocked and are ready for testing," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California wrote in a tweet posted early today (April 8). "Next, we'll do a slow-speed spin-up of the blades for the first time on the Martian surface."
A series of images show the Ingenuity helicopter's blades moving after being unlocked. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)
Ingenuity's flight preparation process has been slow and cautious, in part because the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) helicopter made the journey to Mars in a folded configuration, tucked behind a protective shield.
After the rover dropped that shield and drove to the airfield, the helicopter's personnel had to order the device to unpack and slowly unfold itself. Then Perseverance had to set Ingenuity directly on the Martian surface and drive away, allowing the helicopter's solar panels to begin supporting the aircraft.
Blades on the Ingenuity Mars helicopter during the unlocking process, as seen on Apr. 8, 2021. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)
Unlocking and testing Ingenuity's blades mark the last major milestones before the helicopter attempts to fly. NASA officials have said they will test the blades first at 50 and then at 2,400 revolutions per minute before the helicopter attempts to fly.
Meanwhile, as Ingenuity makes its flight preparations, Perseverance is checking out the scenery and continuing to settle in on the Red Planet. Among other activities, the car-sized rover has been snapping photos of its own tire tracks and its sophisticated science arm.
The skull of a modern human female individual from Zlatý kůň.
Credit: Marek Jantač
Scientists have sequenced the oldest Homo sapiens DNA on record, showing that many of Europe’s first humans had Neanderthals in their family trees. Yet these individuals are not related to later Europeans, according to two genome studies of remains dating back more than 45,000 years from caves in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic1,2.
The research adds to growing evidence that modern humans mixed regularly with Neanderthals and other extinct relatives, says Viviane Slon, a palaeogeneticist at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel. “It’s different times, different places, and it happens again and again.”
The genetic history of the earliest humans in Europe and Asia has been blurred. Although researchers have sequenced DNA from Neanderthals and other extinct human relatives dating as far back as 430,000 years, there is a scarcity of genetic information from the period between around 47,000 and 40,000 years ago, known as the Initial Upper Palaeolithic, and no Homo sapiens DNA at all from before this period. Genomes belonging to humans from Siberia and Romania showed no connection to later waves of Europeans, but a 40,000-year-old individual from China is a partial ancestor of modern East Asian people.
Like all present-day people whose ancestry isn’t solely African, these early Eurasians carried Neanderthal DNA. Researchers thought that probably originated from mixing between the groups in the Middle East 50,000–60,000 years ago. But a 2015 study3 of the genome of the 40,000-year-old Romanian individual, from a site called Peștera cu Oase, held a surprise: a Neanderthal ancestor in the past four to six generations, suggesting that humans interbred with Neanderthals in Europe, too.
It was not clear from the Oase man’s genome whether interbreeding was common in Europe. He lived around the time when Neanderthal populations, already sparse, were beginning to vanish from the region.
Genetic mixture
The latest genome studies, both published on 7 April, clarify the relationships between Europe’s first modern humans, later Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, but also throw up some new questions. One study, in Nature1, is based on a tooth and fragmentary remains from Bacho Kiro Cave in Bulgaria; the other, in Nature Ecology and Evolution2, looks at a nearly complete skull from a cave known as Zlatý kůň in the Czech Republic.
The three oldest Bacho Kiro individuals, dated to between 45,900 and 42,600 years old, all had recent Neanderthal forebears, reports a team led by molecular biologist Mateja Hajdinjak and evolutionary geneticist Svante Pääbo, both at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI–EVA) in Leipzig, Germany. The genomes of modern non-Africans usually harbour about 2% Neanderthal ancestry, but the Bacho Kiro individuals had slightly more at 3.4–3.8%, and the chromosome segments — which shorten in successive generations — were considerably longer.
By measuring these segments, the researchers estimated that the Bacho Kiro individuals had Neanderthal ancestors as recently as the past six or seven generations — and probably in Europe, not the Middle East. “We saw these huge chunks. It was completely amazing,” says Hajdinjak, who is now at the Francis Crick Institute in London and was part of the team that identified the same patterns in the Oase man’s genome. “What are the chances of finding them again?”
The Zlatý kůň woman’s Neanderthal ancestry goes back considerably longer: 70–80 generations, or perhaps 2,000–3,000 years, says Johannes Krause, a palaeogeneticist at the MPI–EVA who co-led the study. His team could not date the skull accurately because of contamination. But on the basis of its Neanderthal ancestry, Krause suspects it is well over 45,000 years old, and in the same ballpark as the oldest remains from Bacho Kiro. “We do have, now, some of the oldest human genomes out there,” adds Hajdinjak.
Tracing the lineage
The oldest individuals from Bacho Kiro and the Zlatý kůň female are not related to later Europeans, ancient or modern, meaning that their lineages must have disappeared from the region. But, to their surprise, Hajdinjak and her colleagues found that the Bacho Kiro people shared a connection with contemporary East Asians and Native Americans. Hajdinjak suggests that the Bacho Kiro remains represent a population that once lived across Eurasia, but vanished from Europe and lived on in Asia.
The fact that several humans from Bacho Kiro had very recent Neanderthal relatives suggests that the groups mixed routinely in Europe, says Marie Soressi, an archaeologist at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands who plans to examine European archaeology through this lens.
Stone tools and other artefacts common to the Initial Upper Palaeolithic — and distinct from typical Neanderthal and later human toolkits — could be a product of cultural exchanges or even mixed populations, she says. “We really want to better understand what happened, what was the historical process and how peaceful were those encounters.”
A fifth force of nature has been found and it violates the laws of physics – why are we still in existence? “Muon g-2” sounds like a villainous robot in a sci-fi movie, but it’s actually the experiment conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Chicago that resulted in the discovery that muons – massive cousins of electrons – wobble while spinning through a strong magnetic field and the force created is not known under the Standard Model of particle physics. That would make it a fifth fundamental force of nature. Is that a bad thing?
“This quantity we measure reflects the interactions of the muon with everything else in the universe. But when the theorists calculate the same quantity, using all of the known forces and particles in the Standard Model, we don’t get the same answer. This is strong evidence that the muon is sensitive to something that is not in our best theory.”
Renee Fatemi, a physicist at the University of Kentucky and the simulations manager for the Muon g-2 experiment, doesn’t sound too concerned in the press release that he may have helped create a force in the universe that isn’t gravity, electromagnetic, weak or strong forces. Then again, he may be playing the odds that the numbers are wrong — there is a one in a 40,000 chance that the result could be a statistical fluke. On the other hand, Professor Ben Allanach from Cambridge University, who was not involved with the study, sounds positively giddy in his interview with the BBC.
“My Spidey sense is tingling and telling me that this is going to be real.I have been looking all my career for forces and particles beyond what we know already, and this is it. This is the moment that I have been waiting for and I’m not getting a lot of sleep because I’m too excited.”
Allanach and other physicists are hoping a fifth fundamental force might help explain dark matter and other mysteries and puzzles of the Universe. Gordan Krnjaic, a cosmologist at Fermilab, told The New York Times he thinks this will also help find new subatomic particles, like the theoretical leptoquark or the Z-prime boson.
“If the central value of the observed anomaly stays fixed, the new particles can’t hide forever. We will learn a great deal more about fundamental physics going forward.”
Since it’s a possible new force of nature, it needs a name. Allanach has already given the possible fifth force various names in his theoretical models — the “flavour force,” the “third family hyperforce” and “B minus L2.”
Needless to say, Gravity and Electromagnetic aren’t impressed with any of those. However, they probably agree that Leptoquark would make a great name for a band.
“I do not believe that most advanced alien civilizations will be biological. The most sophisticated civilizations will be postbiological, forms of artificial intelligence or alien superintelligence.”
Does that speculation on the existence of other intelligent life forms sound scientific or philosophical? If your answer was the latter, you’ll be pleased to know it was made by philosopher Susan Schneider, who is the William F. Dietrich Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award, and NASA’s chief philosopher. Wait … what? NASA has a philosopher? How did that get snuck into the budget?
“As the NASA chair, Schneider has recently completed a two year project with NASA on the future of intelligence. She now works with Congress on AI policy.”
Susan Schneider holds the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation, the position which makes her NASA’s philosopher. She’s also the author of “Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind” and “Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence.” With that resume, it’s no surprise she’s a regular guest on numerous scientific TV shows and conference panels. The Daily Galaxy reviewed her recent study for NASA on how an alien intelligent civilization might think and whether they would have conscious experiences similar to our own. Her beginning point is where most other thinkers end.
“Artificial Intelligence is billions of years old.”
If it’s that old, Schneider believes it’s postbiological – a combination of life and machine. Since that’s where we humans appear to be heading as well, it doesn’t seem farfetched. However, she sees this as postbiological form as just the first stage or “window” of alien life – the bodily form. The second “window” takes into account that the alien life could be 8 million years old – nearly as old as the universe itself. That kind of development time would make them superintelligent when compared to our measly seven-figure years of existence. And that superintelligence would also be both life form and machine – artificial intelligence many orders of magnitude beyond what we know. Then she opens “window three” and answers the question of if they will be anything like us.
“… they will not be carbon based.”
This also should not be surprise. Carbon is not the sturdiest of materials – that’s one reason why microprocessors are silicon and why we’re already working to upload our intelligence to computers in an attempt to achieve a longer lifespan or even immortality. She also points out that peak brain neuron speed is 200 Hz, which is “seven orders of magnitude slower than current microprocessors.” In her book, “Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind,” Schneider uses that to address the questions: “Is the mind just a program?” and “Can robots really be conscious?” Where does that leave us?
“We are galactic babies.”
Let’s hope the 8-billion-year-old postbiological AI beings that find us offer to babysit and educate us instead of looking at us like veal, piglets or salad sprouts. If they’re almost machine, maybe they won’t need to eat. We can only hope.
History is full of odd and eccentric individuals. Countless people have managed to make their mark with their odd behavior, abilities, claims, and achievements, very often scurrying off into the mists of time to leave behind more questions than answers, their stories cut short and incomplete. One such strange individual went out into a desert in South America, built a UFO landing pad, and then vanished off the face of the earth to take any answers to his bizarreness with him to never be known.
Not known is much about the earlier life of the man named Werner Jaisli, and he seems to have been pretty much a nobody until one day in 2008, when he had a life-changing experience. Jaisli had travelled from his native Switzerland to the country of Argentina, where he seems to have been living at the time in the town of Forte Alto. On the evening of November 24, 2008, he was hanging out with his neighbor Luis when the power suddenly cut out and the night fell completely silent. He would say of what happened next:
I was there, at Forte Alto, at midnight on November 24, 2008. Suddenly, everything was silent and the power was cut off. At that moment, two luminous objects advanced about 200 meters above the Calchaquí River. They were solid, circular, and had the color of burnished metal. They stood about 100 meters above our heads and projected a powerful beam of light. The strange thing is that this extraordinary light did not affect our vision at all. At that moment, something began to boil through my brain: it was an order.
The locals of Cachi have not seen him in the streets as they did during the construction. Some are even saying that he has since been abducted by aliens! However, others say that he simply got tired of all the attention and returned to his life back in Switzerland.
Werner Jaisli
A man has built an alien UFO landing pad in an Argentinian desert and claims extraterrestrials telepathically told him to construct it. He claims the alien contact occurred after he witnessed a recent UFO sighting in the area. The UFO landing strip was built near the town of Cachi, Argentina. Werner Jaisli constructed the pad. The Swiss man traveled to the South American country after receiving orders from an extraterrestrial source.
This order was telepathically beamed into his head loudly and clearly, nearly seared into him, and it told him to build a landing and launching pad for their spaceships, directing him to a remote area of desert near Cachi, a village in the Argentinian province of Salta. This telepathic message was so strong and compelling that Werner went about purchasing a plot of land in Salta, where he got to work building the vision that had been given to him by the aliens. It was to be a massive, sprawling construction he called the “Ovniport,” and over the next several years he would tirelessly and obsessively construct a huge, a 36-pointed star with a diameter of 160 feet, as well as a smaller 12-point star in the center and others around it, all of it laboriously handmade by himself out of piles of white and brown rocks. As this was going on, Werner became quite the sight wandering around the area wearing Druid robes and sporting a large, bushy beard. When it was completed in 2012, the Ovniport was an undeniably impressive feat which could clearly be seen from the air, and before long it was attracting quite a lot of attention from both locals and visitors alike.
The Ovniport
When news got out about this bizarre UFO landing pad out in the desert, it became a minor sensation, with people flocking in from all over the world to see it. Many of the UFO enthusiasts who came here also reported that there were several UFO sightings made in the area after the construction of the Ovniport, making it quite a mysterious place, indeed. Then, just as his fame was growing, Werner Jaisli just suddenly vanished without a trace. He didn’t tell his neighbor Luis, made no mention of travelling to any of his few friends, he just disappeared into thin air. Authorities searched for him but his house remained untouched, with all of his belongings still there and no hint as to where he could have possibly gone, which started rumors that perhaps he had joined his alien friends and been taken away aboard their spacecraft. More likely is that he simply went back to Switzerland, or that he was worried about the law and fled. It turns out that in 2011 he had a run-in with police when he was arrested for stealing wallets from tourists, so perhaps he was feeling the heat. One person claimed that he had mentioned going to Bolivia on the run, but this could not be confirmed. No one has seen Werner since, and his whereabouts are unknown.
The Ovniport he built is still there, and continues to be a tourist attraction in this remote, desolate area with not much else to see. Why did he toil away in the hot sun building this thing? Was this really due to messages from aliens, or was he just a derailed individual with a strange obsession? Why did he suddenly leave and where did he go? Did he go off with aliens or is he sitting around somewhere having a good laugh about it all? We will probably never know for sure.
Alien abduction Did aliens abduct Werner? Image credit: The Conversation. Since his mysterious disappearance, the UFO landing area is owned by the Municipality of Cachi. They promote the area as a tourist destination.
Nowadays the site attracts hundreds of UFO enthusiasts a year.
A Bronze Age stone slab unearthed in France in 1900 has been rediscovered in a new analysis that deems it to be the oldest known map in Europe.
A team of French scientists determined the markings were etched 4,000 years ago and depict an area in Western Brittany, France.
The slab, dubbed Saint-Bélec Slab, includes elements the team says they would expect in a prehistoric map - including 'repeated motifs joined by lines to give the layout of a map.
The engraved surface suggests that the slab's topography was purposely 3D-shaped to represent the valley of the River Odet, while several lines appear to depict the river network.
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A Bronze Age stone slab unearthed in France in 1900 has been rediscovered in a new analysis that deems it to be the oldest known map in Europe
A team of French scientists determined the markings were etched 4,000 years ago and depict an area in Western Brittany, France. Pictured: the team's interpretation of the engravings on the Saint-Bélec Slab (top left) as compared with the early Bronze Age structures known in the Montagnes noires area (top right) and known river and princely barrow features (bottom left). The final map (bottom right) shows the area of France depicted on the map with respect to other barrow locations and their corresponding theorised territories
'A map is 'a drawing or plan of the earth's surface or part of it,' the team wrote in the announcement.
'The Saint-Bélec Slab does indeed bear the three elements that are most probative of prehistoric cartographic representation: homogenous composition with engravings that are identical in technique and style and repetition of motifs.'
The slab had been forgotten throughout time as it moved to different locations around France.
It was first re-used in a burial structure during the end of the early Bronze Age.
A team of French scientists determined the markings were etched 4,000 years ago and depict an area in Western Brittany, France
Using high-resolution 3D surveys and photogrammetry of the slab, the team was able to confirm the engravings matched 80 percent of an area that surrounds the 18-mile long River Odet
The slab formed one of the walls of a stone-made coffin that held a number of bodies with the engravings turned toward the inside of the tomb.
When first unearthed in 1900, experts moved it to Museum of National Antiquities in 1924 and then it was relocated to a caste in France until it was found in 2014.
However, it wasn't until 2017 did researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap), Bournemouth University and University of Western Brittany lay eyes on the carved slab.
Using high-resolution 3D surveys and photogrammetry of the slab, the team was able to confirm the engravings matched 80 percent of an area that surrounds the 18-mile long River Odet.
The slab, dubbed Saint-Bélec Slab, includes elements the team says they would expect in a prehistoric map - including 'repeated motifs joined by lines to give the layout of a map.
When first unearthed in 1900, experts moved it to Museum of National Antiquities in 1924 and then it was relocated to a caste in France until it was found in 2014. However, it wasn't until 2017 did researchers uncover its true meaning
'This is probably the oldest map of a territory that has been identified,' Dr Clément Nicolas from Bournemouth University, one of the study's authors, told the BBC.
'There are several such maps carved in stone all over the world. Generally, they are just interpretations. But this is the first time a map has depicted an area on a specific scale.'
The sheet of rock is five feet by 6 feet long and is said to highlight that the area was a territory of hierarchical political entity that tightly controlled a territory in the early Bronze Age, and breaking it may have indicated condemnation and deconsecration.
An ancient engraving on a very old stone slab has been called the oldest 3D map of Europe.
The stone, which measures 2 meters by 1.5 meters (6.6 feet by 5 feet), has been named the Saint-Bélec Slab. It was initially found back in the year 1900 by archaeologist Paul du Chatellier during a dig at a prehistoric burial ground in Finistère, western Brittany, and was rediscovered in the cellar of the French castle, Château de Kernuz, over a century later in 2014.
Recent analysis of the stone revealed that it dates back approximately 4,000 years (between 1900 BC and 1650 BC during the early Bronze Age) and contains what archaeologists believe is an ancient map of an area in France’s northwestern region of Brittany.
The map was engraved on a large stone slab (not the stone mentioned in this article).
According to the Bulletin of the French Prehistoric Society, the “presence of repeated motifs joined by lines” indicates that it was engraved to represent an area of Finistère. Furthermore, experts who analyzed the stone believe that the indentations on the slab depict the River Odet valley and additional lines seemingly show the river network. As a matter of fact, thanks to high-resolution 3D surveys and photogrammetry, the experts were able to determine that the engravings on the stone are about 80% accurate to a location in Brittany that surrounds an 18-mile long stretch of the River Odet.
The 2.2-metre by 1.53-metre stone was first discovered in 1900 but then lost until 2014.
Photograph: Denis Gliksman
The slab is believed to have been used as one of the walls of a stone tomb.
Photograph: Denis Gliksman
In an interview with the BBC, Dr. Clément Nicolas from Bournemouth University stated, “This is probably the oldest map of a territory that has been identified.”
He went on to explain the slab in further detail, “There are several such maps carved in stone all over the world. Generally, they are just interpretations. But this is the first time a map has depicted an area on a specific scale,” adding, “It was probably a way to affirm the ownership of the territory by a small prince or king at the time.”
River Odet
It’s incredible to think that someone who lived around 4,000 years ago created such a detailed three-dimensional map on a stone slab. “We tend to underestimate the geographical knowledge of past societies. This slab is important as it highlights this cartographical knowledge,” Dr. Nicolas noted.
Pictures of the stone slab with the engraved map can be seen here.
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image captionThe slab is covered in patterns of engravings
image captionThe slab was first discovered in Brittany in 1900.
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image captionMarkings on the rock are believed to depict an area of western Brittany
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image captionThe "map" matches a a stretch of the River Odet valley
Here’s a Strange Rock That Perseverance Shot With its Laser
Here’s a Strange Rock That Perseverance Shot With its Laser
Perseverance has been busy lately. After testing its systems out, taking the first sound recording ever on the Red Planet, and dropping off its helicopter sidekick, now it has the opportunity to work on its primary mission: stare at some rocks. And occasionally zap them with a laser.
Nasa’s Perseverance rover has made an interesting discovery
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That laser is part of the Supercam system we reported on previously. It sublimates part of a rock with its laser. The gas given off by the sublimation is then analyzed by spectroscopic cameras onboard the rover. That spectroscopy of the smoke emitted by the rock helps determine what the rock is actually made out of.
Image of the SuperCam laser and spectroscopy system that Perseverance uses to analyze rocks. Credit: CNES
Recently, the rover came across a unique rock that piqued its scientific team’s interest. They duly zapped the rock with a laser, and Perseverance posted a picture of the now slightly more pockmarked rock on its Twitter feed.
The rover even challenged its followers to try to find the additional pockmarks created by the laser, which Twitter user @justpaladone and a number of others managed to do in replies to the main tweet.
Another Twitter user, Nicolas Worth, pointed out the similarity between the rock Perseverance is researching and one found by Opportunity in 2005 now known as the Heat Shield Rock. That rock turned out to be a meteorite made of 93% iron, and was the first meteorite found on another planet.
Image of the Heat Shield Rock that Opportunity found in 2005. It was actually the first meteorite ever found on another planet. Credit: NASA / JPL / Cornell
Whether or not Perseverance blasted a possible meteorite with a laser is still up for debate, and it’s probably going to be awhile before any results from the Supercam science mission will be released. Until then Perseverance will continue blasting rocks and patiently waiting for its winged friend to take flight, which should happen in the coming weeks.
The Perseverance rover used its SuperCam laser to study this strange green rock on Mars.
Linda Moulton Howe: The Cover-Up of Advanced Extraterrestrial Technology
Linda Moulton Howe: The Cover-Up of Advanced Extraterrestrial Technology
The preeminent researcher in UFOlogy, Linda Moulton Howe, tells us that after 28 years of research that we can no longer afford to ignore the fact that aliens have been visiting and working with Earth and its species for millennia. She believes the cover-up is inspired by the power elite’s greed to foist outdated and environmentally damaging fossil fuel based technologies upon us when alien technologies may hold the key to our future recovery of planet earth.
Linda Moulton Howe is a regional-Emmy-award-winning American investigative journalist and documentary producer-writer-director-editor who is currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her father was Chet Moulton, Idaho’s Director of Aeronautics from 1946 to 1971 and recipient of many aviation honors.
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UFO Over Charlottesville, Virginia On 4-6-2021, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Charlottesville, Virginia On 4-6-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 4-6-2021 Location of sighting: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Source: MUFON 114606
The eyewitness noticed a bright light moving across the sky. This video footage is only 1 min however in that minute the craft moves across the sky. This is not a satellite, rocket, plane, helicopter, venus or weather balloon. I know people try to justify UFOs being other things than what they are...UFOs. Often people who see them are frightened by the reality of it being a UFO and they will go into a denial stage...it's an emotional wall of protection from the reality that is frightening them. You call them debunkers...I call them frightened children who cant face reality. This is 100% a UFO.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was walking my dog in the park as I noticed my dog look up toward me and for some reason I also looked up and noticed the bright roundish shaped object in the video I took. I heard absolutely nothing at all. This area does see it's fair share of military helicopters, osprey, coast guard, and E2 Greyhounds - my father flew c-130's and I've also seen them here as well...and all of them are loud. Sound here travels really far especially at night which is also part of what drew my attention. The video was taken after I confirmed on a flight radar app on my phone that it was not a commercial aircraft - and this app sometimes shows military without call signs - that wasn't present at all so I turned on the camera to film. I checked satellites when I got home and didn't see any with a western trajectory - not to say they don't exist...but this thing wasn't moving satellite fast - it was moving more like a a commercial airliner....but clearly wasn't. My eye didn't detect the flashing you can see in the video - it was definitively *not* flashing to the naked eye as it is in the video.
MUFON: UFO Over Bellevue, Nebraska On 6-20-2018, UFO Sighting News.
MUFON: UFO Over Bellevue, Nebraska On 6-20-2018, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 6-20-2018 Location of sighting: Bellevue, Nebraska, USA Source: MUFON 114611
Although this video was taken back in 2018, it was held until today and sent into MUFON a few hours ago. The video shows a round black object in the sky moving around and clearly showing interest in the girl watching it. This UFO was mentally tying itself to the eyewitness, because thats how they communicate with AI devices. We call it telepathy, but aliens call it normal ways of speaking to each other.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was s work. Went outside for my break to smoke a cigarette. When I was about to go inside the building, I had this giant oval thing in the sky floating, circling, even being still in the air. I could clearly see the craft with my own eyes. At that time, I didn't have a good phone with a good camera that can zoom, but I caught it on camera. It was an amazing experience.
Signs Of Ancient Aliens On Mars, 100% Proof They Exist, UFO Sighting News.
Signs Of Ancient Aliens On Mars, 100% Proof They Exist, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: 2009-2010, but revisiting today.
Location of discovery: 33°12'29.82"N, 12°55'51.21"W
Here's an old discovery I made back in 2010 and wanted to revisit it to see if its still there and it sure was. I really thought that Google Mars map would have edited these faces, figure and giant arrow out...but they didn't and thats rare. Usually objects are edited out within 3-6 months after reporting them on Google Earth, however, Mars map is less edited.
There are four ancient monuments seen here.
1. Face one, human like, but with bigger ears.
2. Face two, non human, near leg of figure.
3. Tall standing figure, with long arms and legs.
4. An arrow pointing to the tall figures head.
The standing figure measures 8.6km or 5.3 miles from top of head to bottom of feet. The figures long arm measures 3.4 miles or 5.5km long. The Arrow measures 1.9km long, 1.1km wide at tip. The face near the leg is 1.76km from chin to top of head. The human face is 2.0km from head to lower neck.
The detail of these ancient monuments are outstanding. Its hard to believe that NASA has never discussed even one of them, let alone ignoring all four. These are too large to ignore.
Much like the large face at Cydonia, Mars everyone has heard of. I have found a lot of faces since I was 7 years old at Silicon Valley, CA including the face at Cydonia. Yes others take credit, they always do, but I know the truth and it feels like yesterday, even though it was 43 years ago. I wrote about it several times and is included in my book UFO Sightings of 2006-2009.
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Massive spacecraft caught by two NASA satellites near the sun
Massive spacecraft caught by two NASA satellites near the sun
On April 2, 2021 NASA's satellite EUVI-A 304 captured a massive UFO. One day later, on April 3, 2021 another NASA satellite EUVI-A 284 captured the same UFO at the same location near the sun.
Seen from different angles as captured by the two satellites there is No doubt that it is the same spacecraft.
Extraterrestrial Contact & the Galactic Federation
Extraterrestrial Contact & the Galactic Federation
Elena Danaan recounts her personal contact experiences, the most dramatic of which involved an abduction at age nine by five gray aliens.
In the midst of two medical procedures involving implants, she was rescued by two human looking extraterrestrials using laser weapons. In the interview, Elena explains how her rescuers repurposed one of the implants so they could subsequently remain in telepathic communications. Elena learned that her rescuers belong to a Galactic Federation of Worlds that is helping Earth's Great Awakening.
Elena explains how the Galactic Federation first became interested in Earth after it was advised by another extraterrestrial political organization, the Andromeda Council, that a future galactic tyranny could be traced back to Earth in the present era. This matches the testimony of Alex Collier who said, around 1991, that the sudden appearance of a galactic tyranny four hundred years in our future could be traced back to the Earth, Moon and Mars.
Elena recounts how President Eisenhower was betrayed by the Majestic-12 Group which made an agreement with Gray aliens without his permission. This matches insider accounts that Eisenhower was on the verge of ordering the US Army to take over the Area 51 S-4 facility controlled by the MJ-12 Group in 1958 for their failure to fully brief him on their activities.
Elena further explains how in November 2018, she was advised by one of her alien rescuers, Thorhan, that in two years, the Earth would enter a very dangerous phase, but at the end of it, humanity would be liberated by the dark forces that have controlled it for centuries. This brings us to contemporary political events and multiple insider accounts that claim White Hats have set the stage for a series of earth shattering announcements.
Watch this fascinating interview for a glimpse into how different extraterrestrial factions are battling one another to steer humanity's destiny.
Former National Intelligence Official Says Upcoming Government UFO Report Will Be Hard to Explain
Former National Intelligence Official Says Upcoming Government UFO Report Will Be Hard to Explain
An upcoming report on UFOs from the government will include details that can’t easily be explained, a former top official of national intelligence hinted.
John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence, told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that there are cases where they don’t have good explanations for some of the unusual that they’ve seen. When that details become declassified, he’ll be able to talk more about that.
Ratcliffe said that a report to be released by the Pentagon and other federal agencies would present more details to the American people than declassified UFO sightings in the past.
Ratcliffe said that there had been sightings in different parts of the world, and when we talk about sightings, it’s not just a pilot or just a satellite or some intelligence collection. He explained that we have multiple sensors that are picking up these sightings.
In the unreleased sightings, Ratcliffe revealed that elements that are difficult to explain include movements that are not easy to replicate or traveling at speeds that surpass the sound barrier without making a sonic boom.
Maria Bartiromo later said in the program that the report is expected to be released on June 1 of this year.
Russian Navy Captain: Aliens Probably Build Their Bases On Earth’s Seabed
Russian Navy Captain: Aliens Probably Build Their Bases On Earth’s Seabed
Hundreds of new reports on UFOs appear everyday. One percent of those reports remain a mystery unraveled though 99% of them could be explained by natural or man-made factors.
Let us assume that aliens exist and visit Earth on a regular basis. What would be the best place for them to build a secret base? Seabed would be the best option. The oceans cover two-thirds of the planet.
The ocean remains virtually unexplored. We have a much clearer picture of processes that occur on the Moon, our knowledge of things that happen deep under the surface of the sea is scarce. As it turns out, reports about certain mysterious undersea incidents arrive steadily.
Those incidents are reported by naval officers who normally have good technical expertise and composure. The Navy officers are subject to annual medical examinations.
Submarines have no skylights. Maintaining radio communication under the sea is not easy though a radio wave passes through the water a lot better than it does above the sea surface. That is why submariners largely report incidents related to strange acoustic signals.
“I remember the time when panic struck the brass at the Headquarters of the Soviet Navy. It was in the mid-1970s, and the masters of the nuclear submarines began reporting strange sources of sound. The sound men on board the subs couldn’t identify the sounds detected in the Atlantic while on duty during the combat cruising,” says former senior officer of the Headquarters of the Russian Navy, Captain 1st Rank (Ret.) Vadim Kulinichenko.
“The crew of a submarine had to go though a troublesome experience while doing its best to sneak past the NATO antisubmarine systems and maintain the course as the sub moved at a depth of 200 meters. Some personnel, especially young seamen and midshipmen, could be pretty stressed-out from all that pressure. “
“And suddenly a duty sound man reports a case of ‘unidentifiable sounds’ to the captain’s bridge. The combat alarm stays on as long as sounds are being detected. Because nobody can be certain of the nature of the sounds, probably it’s some brand-new sub or a surface ship of the ‘potential enemy’. The sounds of the unknown could be detected several times a day,” says Kulinichenko.
What kind of sounds are you talking about?
“The sounds varied by the length and tone. The majority of them resembled a long croaking of a frog.”
“The number of incidents involving strange sounds kept growing. The Soviet Navy could not simply brush them aside. Finally, in October 1977, the Navy ordered the captains of the submarines to report all strange sonic incidents. And I know for sure that the U.S. Navy has instructed its subs likewise.”
“The operative staff personnel of all the fleets were told to gather information on any unexplainable acoustic manifestations. Every incident of the kind was to be marked in the charts. The naval officers whose job was to gather such information were dubbed “croakers.”
“There was a “croaker” in the North Fleet where I was serving at the time. Once I happened to take a look at his “for-your-eyes-only” chart. It looked as if the whole North Atlantic, north of Island and upward, had contracted measles. By the way, the term “croaker” eventually settled in. It was used for referring to the source of those strange phenomena,” says Kulinichenko.
Did the Navy arrive at any conclusions?
“No conclusions whatsoever. At first the Navy suspected the Americans, but those suspicions were pure allegations, there wasn’t any evidence in hand. A book titled U.S. Navy Intelligence Against the USSR has been recently published in Russia. It was written by two high-ranking American submariners. It is an interesting book with numerous accounts of U.S. naval reconnaissance during the Cold War era. However, there’s nothing in that book that can refer to the activity of “croakers.” Looks like the Americans have nothing to do with it.”
“Some authors simply confuse one thing with the other while writing about some ‘croaker’ allegedly captured by the Soviet Navy back then. The Soviet and U.S. Navy alike actively used sonic underwater buoys. In short, it’s a boy positioned at the sea bottom for transmitting certain acoustic signals that can be heard within a range of 20-30 kilometers.”
“Locating and destroying a sonic buoy of the potential enemy is really a big deal. For some reasons, the abovementioned authors take the cases of foreign sonic underwater buoys for the capture of ‘croakers’. Nobody has ever caught any of them yet.”
You said the Navy attempted to establish contact with the “croakers.” What are they, after all? Are they UFOs or sounds produced by fishes, other marine animals?
“So far there is no answer to this question. The ocean is like a forest in spring, it rustles thousands of different sounds. The majority of those sounds have been properly described and filed under proper categories. Any Navy training center can teach you to handpick sounds out of a cacophony. ”
“The list of sounds keeps growing. One theory maintained that the weird sounds were produced by female species of the killer whales while copulating. However, the killer whales are still out there in the ocean, and they keep copulating. But the mysterious ‘croakers’ are gone.”
“The first croakers were reported in the early 1970s, the ‘croaking’ reports reached a peak in the period from 1975 through 1980. Eventually, they just vanished in the deep blue sea. To my knowledge, the Russian submarines haven’t detected any new ‘croakers’ since the early 1990s.”
According to chief designer Nikolai Shevchuk at the Nikolayev Shipyard in Ukraine, Soviet designers worked on a flying submarine before the WWII broke out. The flying submarine was designed to carry a crew of three. It was designed to take off the sea surface and fly around a certain area searching for enemy vessels.
Having located a target, the winged sub was to dive underwater, approach an enemy vessel and launch torpedoes. The sub was thought to be an ideal weapon for conducting sabotage activities behind enemy lines.
The design of the flying submarine was approved by the Scientific Research Committee of the Soviet Union. But the project stalled in 1938 due to unknown reasons. Nobody has ever heard of it since.
It is quite possible that the project was put on hold at the time. Either the Soviet Navy or shipbuilders contracted by NATO may have resurrected it in the 1960s or 1970s.
Technical specifications of the flying submarine:
Crew: 3 men Speed: 200 km/h Range: 800 km Maximum altitude: 2,500 m Submersion depth: 45 m Independent underwater operations: 48 hours Weapons: two18-inch torpedoes; two paired machine guns
The first submarines were built at the turn of the 20th century. The first mysterious incidents involving submarines came on record during WWI.
On July 10, 1918, the U.S. submarine L-2 and the German submarine U-56 were about to attack each other. A sound man on board the American sub reported yet another U-boat at a distance. No sooner had he finished his report, the first enemy submarine blew up.
The sound of the second unidentified sub died away 20 minutes later. The above sound man claimed that he received a strange message in Morse code: three long sounds and one short. The sounds represented the letters “OE”. The meaning of the message remained unclear.
The captain of the L-2 figured out that the other German sub torpedoed the friendly one that was gearing up for action. However, the postwar documents clearly indicated that only one German submarine operated in that area in the summer of 1918.
In fact, aside from the L-2, no other subs operated in the area. According to documents, the area was free of depth bombs at the time. The strange two-letter message was not used by either of the parties involved in hostilities.
The incident may have taken place due to some sort of confusion during the war. Today it is hard to find out what caused the incident resulting in the sudden demise of the German submarine. However, the statistics released by the International Union of Submariners show that during a hundred-year period, from 1904 to 2004, 204 submarines were lost due to reasons unrelated to hostilities.
In other words, each year 2.3 submarine perishes goes down. Maybe the actual number of casualties is higher. Not every country is willing to declassify data on its vessels deemed sunk or missing.
Source:
“Komsomolskaya Pravda”, translated by Guerman Grachev
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US has 'secret evidence of UFOs breaking sound barrier without a sonic boom and performing moves humans don't have the technology for', says Trump's Director of National Intelligence
US has 'secret evidence of UFOs breaking sound barrier without a sonic boom and performing moves humans don't have the technology for', says Trump's Director of National Intelligence
In December a 180-day deadline was announced for a report into UFO sightings
The Pentagon and intelligence agencies must release their report by June 1
John Ratcliffe, former DNI, said there were more sightings than publicly known
Ratcliffe said the observations were made by Navy and Air Force pilots
They were recorded by 'multiple sensors' and had no obvious explanation
The incidents included supersonic travel without a sonic boom
Ratcliffe said it was in the public interest that the information be released
The U.S. has evidence of UFOs breaking the sound barrier without a sonic boom and making maneuvers impossible with known technology, the former Director of National Intelligence has revealed.
The revelations increased excitement about a forthcoming report detailing what the U.S. government has observed.
John Ratcliffe, who served as Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, said that many of the incidents still have no easy explanation.
'There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,' Ratcliffe told Fox News.
'Some of those have been declassified.
'And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain.
'Movements that are hard to replicate that we don't have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.'
John Ratcliffe appeared on Fox News on Friday to discuss the forthcoming report
Ratcliiffe said that there had been more UFO sightings than the public previously knew
Navy pilots recorded seeing unexplained objects spinning in mid air, in the summer of 2014
Ratcliffe told host Maria Bartiromo that the sightings of 'unidentified aerial phenomena' had been observed all around the world.
'When we talk about sightings, the other thing I will tell you is, it's not just a pilot or just a satellite, or some intelligence collection,' Ratcliffe said.
'Usually we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things, and some of these are unexplained phenomenon, and there is actually quite a few more than have been made public.'
The government was, in December, given a 180-day deadline to disclose what it knew, meaning that the report should be out before June 1.
Ratcliffe said he had hoped to publish their findings before he left office on January 20.
'We weren't able to get it down into an unclassified format quickly enough,' he said.
The report was part of a $2.3 trillion COVID relief bill, which Trump signed into law in December.
The bill contained the Senate Intelligence Committee's Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 that had in it a 'committee comment' section that addressed 'unidentified aerial phenomena.'
The report, produced by the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, must identify, among other things, any threats posed by unidentified aerial phenomena and whether they may be attributed to foreign adversaries.
'Weather can cause disturbances, visual disturbances,' Ratcliffe said.
'Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or than we realized.
'But there are instances where we don't have good explanations for some of the things that we have seen.'
Avril Haines is now the Director of National Intelligence in the Biden administration.
The Defense Department announced in September the creation of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force on August 4.
Videos from the Navy were released last year through the Freedom of Information Act that showed UFOs moving at incredible speeds and performing seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers.
One of the videos was shot in November 2004; the other two were shot in January 2015. The three videos were code-named 'FLIR1,' 'Gimbal,' and 'GoFast.'
In the 2015 videos, Navy pilots can be heard expressing disbelief. All three UFO videos were captured by Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets.
The videos were made public and published because of efforts by the New York Times, as well as through efforts by To The Stars Academy, which was founded by Tom Delonge, the founder and lead vocalist for the bands Blink-182 and Angels & Airwaves.
Ratcliffe said it would be 'healthy' for as much of this information as possible to be made public.
A week before Ratcliffe stepped down, in January, the CIA released a treasure trove of newly-unsealed records.
They showed chilling accounts of hundreds of UFO sightings across the globe dating back to the 1950s - along with the international intelligence community's efforts to understand them.
A dossier with nearly 3,000 pages of documents about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) - the government's official term for what are commonly called UFOs - was published on The Black Vault website.
Thousands of paranormal enthusiasts pored through the collection of more than 700 individual documents, according to Black Vault's founder John Greenewald Jr, who has spent the past two decades suing the CIA to release the records and then scanning the pages into his database one by one.
The CIA purports that the files account for its 'entire' collection of declassified UAP intel, but Greenewald cautions that there's no way to verify that claim and has vowed to continue searching for further records.
The documents also show correspondence about UFO sightings between CIA officers and members of the military.
Sometimes the officials brush off observers' stories as purely superstitious, even when another explanation isn't clear. But in other instances the officers show genuine concern that perhaps something dangerous is at play.
Pictured: A photo from the Project Blue Book archive shows lights misidentified as a group of UFOs over a Coast Guard air station in Salem, Massachusetts in 1952
In December it emerged that two Pentagon reports had been produced, providing detailed classified information about strange sightings.
The DoD's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force issued the two classified intelligence 'position reports' in 2018 and summer 2020, and they circulated widely in the U.S. intelligence community, according to a detailed account from The Debrief based on interviews with multiple intelligence sources.
The position reports' startling contents included a leaked photo that has never before been made public, accounts of 'Unidentified Aerial Phenomena' (UAP) emerging from the ocean and soaring through the sky, and an admission that extraterrestrial origins for the objects cannot be ruled out.
This leaked photo, published by The Debrief in December, was included in the 2018 position report, two DoD and one intelligence source told the outlet
The photo was previously described as depicting an 'unidentified silver 'cube-shaped' object' hovering over the ocean at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000
The leaked photo was was captured in 2018 off the East Coast of the United States by a military pilot using his cell phone camera, the sources said.
The photo was previously described as depicting an 'unidentified silver 'cube-shaped' object' hovering over the ocean at an altitude of roughly 30,000 to 35,000.
It appears that the image was captured by the backseat weapons systems operator of what appears to be an F/A-18 fighter jet.
Experts were baffled by the photo, but noted that the object somewhat resembles a GPS dropsonde, an atmospheric profiling device designed to be dropped from aircraft, typically over a hurricane.
'These revelations are extraordinary, and give the public a genuine peek behind the curtain when it comes to how the US government is handling the UFO issue,' Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the UK Ministry of Defence, told DailyMail.com.
'What this new information does is confirm that the US government is taking the UFO phenomenon more seriously than ever before,' he added. 'I anticipate further revelations shortly.'
The Pentagon has not confirmed the existence of the two position reports, as well as the authenticity of a leaked cockpit photo included in one of the reports.
Even more shocking were the revelations contained in a second, revised report issued by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force in early 2020.
The report delved deeply into the possibility that UAP are able to freely move both through the air and underwater, zipping through the ocean undetected and emerging into the air at incredible speeds.
The report contained an 'extremely clear' photograph of an unidentifiable triangular aircraft that emerged from the ocean in front of a F/A-18 Hornet fighter pilot, sources told The Debrief.
An artist's recreation (above) shows the image in the 2020 report as described by sources: a large equilateral triangle with rounded edges and large, spherical white 'lights' in each corner
Researcher Dave Beaty created this image to depict the object as described by sources who had seen the report from the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
That photo has not been leaked publicly, but artist and researcher Dave Beaty's recreation shows it as described by sources: a large equilateral triangle with rounded or 'blunted' edges and large, perfectly spherical white 'lights' in each corner.
The encounter occurred off the East Coast in 2019, according to officials who had seen the latest report.
Two officials said said the photo was taken after the triangular craft emerged from the ocean and shot straight upwards.
Officials say the latest report focused specifically on the possibility of 'transmedium' craft that are able to operate both underwater and in the air.
'Tic Tac' UFO: US Navy pilot made visual contact with the object on November 14, 2004
At least six Super Hornet pilots made visual or instrument contact with the UFO on November 14, 2004.
The encounters, which are documented in numerous interviews with first-hand witnesses, remain a mystery, and the object's incredible speed and movements have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial in origin.
The original FLIR video from the USS Nimitz encounters leaked online as early as 2007.
Witnesses say that clips of the video had been circulated widely on the Navy's intranet - used to communicate between ships in the carrier group - and an unknown sailor in the group likely first leaked it.
The clip became one of the most-touted pieces of evidence in the UFO community when the Pentagon confirmed its authenticity in 2017.
In January, Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence in an interview with New York Magazine.
Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence in an interview with New York Magazine in January
He said the oblong, wingless 'Tic Tac' shaped object was spotted off the coast of Mexico over the Pacific.
He also revealed that for about two weeks, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton, part of Carrier Strike Group 11, had been tracking mysterious aircraft intermittently on an advanced AN/SPY-1B passive radar.
The radar contacts were so inexplicable that the system was even shut down and restarted to to check for bugs - but operators continued to track the unknown aircraft.
Then on November 14, Commander David Fravor says he was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet when he made visual contact with the object, which seemed to dive below the water, resurface, and speed out of sight when he tried to approach it.
As Fravor landed on the deck of the Nimitz, Underwood was just gearing up to take off on his own training run.
Fravor told Underwood about the bizarre encounter, and urged Underwood to keep his eyes open.
He recalls how he suddenly saw a blip on his radar before tracking it on his FLIR camera.
Underwood was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet as part of the USS Nimitz (above) carrier group when he encountered an 'unidentified aerial phenomena'
'The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving,' Underwood told the magazine.
'And what I mean by 'erratic' is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I've ever encountered before flying against other air targets.'
Underwood said the object wasn't obeying the laws of physics and dropped from 50,000 feet altitude to 100 feet in seconds, which he says, 'isn't possible'. He added that he saw no signs of an engine heat plume or any sign of propulsion.
The pilot refuses to speculate as to whether the object is an alien spacecraft or not, however.
'That's not my job. But I saw something. And it was also seen, via eyeballs, by both my commanding officer, Dave Fravor, and the Marine Corps Hornet squadron commanding officer who was out there as well.'
When do we know we’ve entered a ‘full disclosure’ zone for UFO information being held by our or any government? When people who are currently still in office or in power do the disclosing. That makes one recent revelation about UFOs following U.S. Navy ships in 2019 so special – it was made by a current admiral. Another recent revelation is of the ‘former’ kind – a former CIA director reveals a UFO encounter that is beyond explanation … unless the explanation is ‘aliens’.
“No, we have not. I am aware of those sightings, and as it’s been reported, there have been other sightings by aviators in the air and by other ships not only of the United States, but other nations — and of course other elements within the U.S. joint force. Those findings have been collected and they still are being analyzed.”
Admiral Michael Gilday
In a speech at a Defense Writers Group event in Washington this week, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday, the U.S. Navy’s top officer, gave that answer when asked if he or anyone in the Navy had positively identified UFOs reported by multiple warships off the coast of California on two consecutive days and nights in July 2019. When asked if they were extraterrestrial, Admiral Gilday responded: “No, I can’t speak to that – I have no indications at all of that.” At all? Or ‘At all so far’? Reporters from The Drive were in attendance and attempted to follow up with the Navy, Coast Guard, FBI, and members of the intelligence and armed services committees in both the Senate and the House and received no answers as of this writing.
Perhaps they should ask former CIA director (1993-95) and former Under Secretary of the Navy (1977-79) R. James Woolsey Jr. Woolsey has released a book with co-author Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former Romanian acting spy chief who defected to America in 1978, entitled “Operation Dragon: Inside the Kremlin’s Secret War on America” and is making the rounds giving interviews on it. During one with The Black Vault, he as asked about UFOs and said this:
“There have been over the years now events of one kind of another, usually involving some kind of aircraft-like airframe. I never thought there was anything to all this, it always seemed pretty far out to me.”
R. James Woolsey Jr.
Sounds like any other politician giving an evasive non-answer … until he added this revelation from someone he “respects.”
“But there was one case in which a friend of mine was able to have his aircraft stop at 40,000 feet or so and not continue operating as a normal aircraft.”
That’s right … an airplane was reportedly suspended in space by something unexplained. Woolsey said he has no idea what could cause this, but then the former CIA director implied that this is not the first time.
“There had just been enough things like that that have occurred that I think there will be a lot of examination of what’s going on over the course of several months or years. I’m not as skeptical as I was a few years ago, to put it mildly, but something is going on that is surprising to a series of intelligent aircraft, experienced pilots.”
You mean like the intelligent aircraft and experienced pilots of the USS Nimitz? Or the experienced crews of the USS Kidd, the USS Rafael Peralta and the USS John Finn who saw UFOs on two nights in July 2019 that neither they nor their highest ranking officer can identify?
Something is definitely going on … if experienced personnel can’t identify it, it’s either secret aircraft a foreign country is testing, secret aircraft our country is testing on its own troops (wouldn’t be the first time) or something from somewhere that’s not either of those.
The most amazing …and unsettling … thing about these latest two revelations is the calm manner in which these two highly respected and highly ranked people delivered them. We could attribute that to experience and training … we could also wonder about brainwashing and mind control.
Until these UFO sightings are explained, all possibilities are open for discussion.
The UFO phenomenon is one that goes deep, and extends past what many might at first think. Many cultures around the world have their own legends and tales that feature something that could be seen as UFOs today, no matter whether the original people who told these stories knew what to call them or not. They have variously been attributed to gods, spirits, and other assorted entities, and the main takeaway is that this is a phenomenon that has been taking place in one form or other across cultures and geographical boundaries for a very long time. Native Americans also have their own stories of what in modern lingo would be aliens and UFOs, and even their own story of a crashed alien spacecraft.
One very interesting voice in the UFO field is the author, researcher, and Professor Emeritus at Montana State University, Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke. Coming from Cherokee and Chocktaw heritage, she has been very active in working with the Native American community, raising awareness of their plight, and also writing on their experiences with the UFO and alien phenomena, a point of view that is rarely covered in the field. She has made much mention of the spiritual connection these people give to the phenomena, that UFOs and aliens are just as much a part of the spiritual realm as anything physical, and with some tribes even believing that their souls came from out in space. In an interview with the Skeptiko podcast she mentions of this connection:
It depends on the tribal group, and it’s difficult for me to say, as a general rule, there is this spiritual connection. But there definitely is with some of the tribes. There’s no question about it. Some of the tribes actually talk about the trip across the Milky Way. That when you die you cross the path of the Milky Way. You’ve got a common theme there that the cosmos plays so much a part in afterlife and death and the ability of the deceased that they never really die. They just move on into another dimension and that they can come back and communicate with the living.
She also writes much of what she calls the “Star People,” or ancient entities that came from the skies in their vessels to teach the Native people, and which are present in the lore and legends of many tribes, with some old tales even claiming that they interbred with them. These are not necessarily described as aliens from another world, exactly, but rather as spirits or gods descending from another spiritual realm. She has covered this theory in her book Encounters With Star People: Untold Stories of American Indians, and in some cases it seems that these are far from myth, as there have been tales of meeting these Star People right up to the present. One such tale covered in her book is that of a tribal elder known only as Harrison, a member of one of the Northern Plains tribes and who has quite the bizarre story to tell.
This apparently happened back in 1945, well before the UFO craze took over in the mainstream and indeed even before the infamous Roswell incident. At the time Harrison was just 12 years old, and one evening he was at home with his grandfather when they heard a rumbling as the whole house shook like there was an earthquake happening. The grandfather then ran outside to see that all of his horses had run off in a panic, so he tried to gather as many as possible and decided to search for the rest the following day. That morning, the grandfather went out to look for his remaining horses and came back obviously distressed and afraid of something. Harrison asked him what had happened and the grandfather merely told the boy to follow him. There is no way to know what Harrison expected to see at this point, but there is a good chance he couldn’t have imagined what was in store for him.
His grandfather took him some distance away, where there was a large gouge or crater in the earth, as if something very big had come to smash into the field. At the bottom of this crater was a metallic craft of some kind, with what appeared to be a doorway hanging open and damaged on the side. The two of them stood there staring for some time before the grandfather decided to go look inside, where he apparently found several entities that were described as being 8 feet tall and wearing green suits, with translucent skin and eyes that changed colors. The strangers seemed to be just as surprised to see him as he was to see them, even appearing to be slightly afraid of him and trying to distance themselves. The creatures seemed to shy away from him, and when he tried to speak with them they apparently vanished into thin air. Since the grandfather and Harrison had no notion of aliens from outer space, they thought of them in terms they could understand, that these were the “Star People” that their ancestors had so often spoken of.
Over the next several weeks these mysterious Star People appeared around the property, always keeping their distance and with the ability to appear and disappear at will. It seemed as if they were curious about Harrison and his grandfather, that they were studying them, but they were obviously very wary at first, never coming too close and vanishing whenever they were startled or scared. They were also seen to sometimes gather rocks, plants, and other things, as if taking samples for study. Through all of this, the grandfather always heartily greeted his enigmatic visitors and even offered them food on some occasions, and as the days went by they would approach closer and closer until one day they invited the grandfather onto their ship, which was still lodged into the earth at the bottom of that crater.
On the ship, the entities then communicated with him telepathically, telling them about their realm, which was described as dry and arid like the South Dakota badlands, the terrain so harsh they were forced to live underground in domed cities. They also told him about their history, and their way of life, and explained that they had been visiting Earth for thousands of years but had rarely ever actually interacted with humans as they were doing now, rather merely observing and studying. According to them there were two other ships they had been with at the time of their unfortunate crash, and that they had been sent by a larger mothership, which they were making attempts to contact with their damaged communications equipment. The grandfather would later tell Harrison that he had seen much wondrous technology aboard the ship while he was there, such as screens that could show all manner of images and a special seat that covered whoever sat in it “like an envelope.”
According to Harrison, one night the mothership finally came, a massive cylindrical object that hovered for some time before shooting off into the night. The next morning when they went to see the crater, the ship was gone, along with its strange occupants. Shortly after this Harrison claimed that U.S. military men had arrived and cordoned off the area. They would allegedly confiscate the grandfather’s entire ranch and create a lake at the site where the ship had come down. The grandfather apparently never equated these creatures or their ship with aliens as we know them, as in being from another planet, but he was very sure they were not from around here nevertheless. There is no way to know if any of this really happened or not, but it is certainly a curious UFO case and an account of possibly crashed aliens from another culture and mindset that we rarely get to see. Real or not, it is truly fascinating all the same.
Deeply spiritual cultures remember a time when “people from the stars” freely interacted with members of the human species.
Mysterious 'Marsquakes' detected by Nasa's Insight lander in area of Red Planet where volcanic activity and landslides have been spotted
Mysterious 'Marsquakes' detected by Nasa's Insight lander in area of Red Planet where volcanic activity and landslides have been spotted
Mystery rumblings from Mars picked up by Nasa's Insight - an unmanned lander which arrived on the planet in November 2018
The quakes occurred almost exactly one Martian year - or two Earth years - after two previous quakes were detected in the same area
The Cerberus Fossae region is thought to be a center of volcanic activity, and in 2019 a landslide was detected there
Mars doesn't have tectonic plates like Earth, and so the causes of the quakes are the subject of ongoing research
Using its robotic arm, InSight has been able to partially bury the seismometer in order to shield it from the fierce winds and record more accurate data
Mysterious rumblings known as 'Marsquakes' have been detected by Nasa's InSight lander, offering further clues about volcanic activity beneath the surface of the Red Planet.
The tremors originated in a region called Cerberus Fossae - an area where Nasa scientists have picked up significant seismical activity and even landslides in the past.
They believe the tremors were likely caused by a sudden release of energy beneath the surface of the planet, but as Mars doesn’t have tectonic plates like Earth, the precise cause and origins of the rumblings remain unknown.
The quakes were picked up by InSight's seismometer, an onboard device specially built to capture Marsquakes.
Using its robotic arm, InSight has partially buried the seismometer to protect it from strong seasonal winds and allow for more accurate readings.
NASA's InSight has detected two large quakes on Mars in a region called Cerberus Fossae, further supporting the idea that this location is seismically active
An artist's rendition of the InSight lander operating on the surface of Mars. It is supporting several other missions orbiting the Red Planet
The area here the quakes were detected - Cerberus Fossae - is a steep-sided area cut into volcanic plains where active landslides were photographed in 2019.
Intriguingly, the quakes occurred almost exactly one Martian year - or two Earth years - after two previous quakes were detected in the same area.
InSight has recorded over 500 quakes to date, but because of their clear signals, these four were the best quake records for probing the interior of the planet, Nasa said in a statement announcing the quakes.
Taichi Kawamura of France's Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, which provides support to the Nasa mission, said the quakes added to scientists understanding of volcanic activity on the planet.
'Over the course of the mission, we've seen two different types of Marsquakes: one that is more 'Moon-like' and the other, more 'Earth-like,' he said.
Earthquake waves travel more directly through the planet, while those of moonquakes tend to be very scattered, said Kawamura.
THREE MISSIONS TO MARS IN 2021: US, UAE AND CHINA AT OR ON THE RED PLANET
So far 2021 has been the 'year of Mars' with three spaceships from Earth arriving at the Red Planet.
The first visitor from Earth to arrive was also a first for the Arab world - the United Arab Emirates 'Hope' probe.
This spaceship is going to monitor the weather on Mars over a full year.
The second ship was from China - Tianwen-1 will orbit Mars until May when it will deploy a rover.
This will make China only the second country after the US to land a rover on Mars if it is succesful.
NASA's Perseverance was the last of the three to arrive in Martian orbit, but the first to land on the Red Planet.
Marsquakes fall somewhere in between.
'Interestingly all four of these larger quakes, which come from Cerberus Fossae, are 'Earth-like.'
InSight launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in May 2018, touching down on Mars in November that year with the mission of giving the planet its first thorough check-up since it formed 4.5 billion years ago.
It is working in conjunction with several missions orbiting Mars and roving around on the planet's surface: including the Curiosity rover.
InSight's ability to adapt to the incredibly harsh conditions on the planet has given in an effort to gain more accurate data.
It regularly faces extreme swings in temperature - from minus 148 Fahrenheit during the night to 32 Fahrenheit - and fierce seasonal winds.
Its hoped that the Martian summer will bring calmer weather, making it easier to detect other quakes.
In order to record more accurate data, the InSight lander has begun using a scoop on its robotic arm to place soil over the cable connecting its seismometer - called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) - to the spacecraft.
'That allows the soil to get as close to the shield as possible without interfering with the shield’s seal with the ground.'
Scientists hope insulating it from the wind will make it easier to detect Marsquakes.
The new quakes were slightly smaller than two previous quakes of magnitude 3.6 and 3.5 detected n the same region.
InSight has recorded over 500 quakes to date, but because of their clear signals, these are four of the best quake records for probing the interior of the planet.
Since arriving in November 2018, the InSight lander has worked with several missions orbiting Mars and roving around on the planet's surface: including the Curiosity rover
In 2019, Nasa picked up evidence of active landslides at Cerberus Fossae, a set of troughs cut into volcanic plains on Mars
The Curiosity rover also snapped a pair of panoramas using its Mastcam camera
Earlier this week, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover snapped a picture of itself with a selfie with the 20ft-tall 'Mont Mercou' rock formation.
The selfie shows the rover alongside a rock formation dubbed 'Mont Mercou', a nickname taken from a mountain in France.
And while the photo is impressive on its own, it was actually taken to celebrate Curiosity's 30th sample to date, after the rover drilled a hole at a nearby rock sample nicknamed 'Nontron.'
Curiosity also snapped a pair of panoramas using its Mastcam on March 4.
NASA explained: 'By shooting one panorama from about 130 feet (40 meters) away from the outcrop, then rolling to the side and shooting another from the same distance, the rover created a stereoscopic effect similar to those seen in 3D viewfinders.
'Studying the outcrop from more than one angle helps scientists get a better idea of the 3D geometry of Mount Mercou's sedimentary layers.'
Curiosity is the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars, and is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
It launched from Earth on November 26, 2011 and landed on Mars almost a year later, on August 5, 2012.
The rover's key mission is to unravel they mystery of whether or not Mars ever had the right conditions to support life.
NASA added: 'Early in its mission, Curiosity's scientific tools found chemical and mineral evidence of past habitable environments on Mars.
'It continues to explore the rock record from a time when Mars could have been home to microbial life.'
Several interesting events have occurred on Mars in recent days. NASA’s InSight lander detected two quakes coming from the Cerberus Fossae region – one on March 7th and the other on March 18th.
The two quakes, which had magnitudes of 3.3 and 3.1, further validate the theory that the location is seismically active. In fact, InSight has detected more than 500 quakes so far during its mission.-
Experts have revealed that the planet has two types of quakes – one that is “Earth-like” and the other “moon-like”. While earthquakes here travel through our planet, those on the moon are more scattered, and the majority of those on Mars seem to be between the two, although the four largest quakes that happened at Cerberus Fossae were categorized as “Earth-like”.
InSight lander
In other Mars news, a strange green-colored rock was discovered by Perseverance which has experts guessing its origin. The rock, which measures approximately 6 inches in length, was zapped by a laser on the SuperCam instrument in hopes of finding out what it is made of. Is it a meteorite or part of another area on Mars that ended up in a different location? I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the laser detects in the rock. (A picture of the rock can be seen here.)
The Perseverance rover used its SuperCam laser to study this strange green rock on Mars.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived as the Mars helicopter Ingenuity has finally touched down on the Red Planet when Perseverance dropped it down to the surface. The helicopter, which weighs just 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms), is scheduled to take its first flight on April 11th and the data that it collects will be received here on Earth the following day.
It has two cameras that will collect data while flying over the Jezero Crater for 31 days. The helicopter will fly at an altitude of about 16.5 feet (5 meters) and its flight ranges will each be about 300 feet long.
While experts were concerned about the Ingenuity’s first night on Mars, new reports have stated that it survived its first cold night on the Red Planet’s surface. The helicopter’s battery successfully powered its heater to keep a steady temperature of approximately 5 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 15 degrees Celsius). Now we have to wait and see what kind of data it will collect during its flights.
Perseverance
Another interesting bit of news surfaced recently where studies of a yet-to-be-named crater on Mars indicated that it once had water; however, there were no clues revealing how it ended up there.
Research led by Brown University Ph.D. student Ben Boatwright along with Professor James Head claimed that the unusual features of the crater were probably due to a runoff from an ancient glacier. The water ran off the top of the glacier and directly into the crater as Boatwright described as being “a previously unrecognized type of hydrological system on Mars,” adding, “In lake systems characterized so far, we see evidence of drainage coming from outside the crater, breaching the crater wall and in some cases flowing out the other side. But that’s not what is happening here. Everything is happening inside the crater, and that’s very different than what’s been characterized before.” Their study was published in The Planetary Science Journal.
I’m looking forward to seeing what more secrets Mars will reveal to the world.
Is Bigfoot Real? Let’s Look at Emerging Scientific Evidence
Is Bigfoot Real? Let’s Look at Emerging Scientific Evidence
In 1967, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin spotted, and filmed, or so they claimed, a Sasquatch next to Bluff Creek in California. Dubbed an elaborate hoax by many, this image has become the universal symbol for Bigfoot throughout the United States. But, is Bigfoot real? A better question would be to ask why mainstream science has failed to put the question to the test when it comes to not only Bigfoot, but to other cryptids as well. Science is duty-bound by definition to explain the unexplained, yet some people are still debating the existence of Bigfoot rather than examining emerging scientific evidence, some of which has come to light in unexpected places.
Iconic frame 352 from the Patterson-Gimlin film which gave a face to the now popular cryptid creature known as Bigfoot. Despite emerging evidence, people continue to ask: Is Bigfoot real? (Bob Gimlin / YouTube)
Security Cam catches UFO, dead cows! April 2021, Willinston, North Dakota, UFO Sighting News.
Security Cam catches UFO, dead cows! April 2021, Willinston, North Dakota, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 5, 2021
Location of sighting: Williston, North Dakota, USA.
Source: MUFON 114593
A security cam captured this UFO and to top it off...two dead cows were found nearby when no cow farms existed within ten miles! This UFO was recorded for 38 seconds of which its glowing diamond shape was 95% lit up! The UFO has a smaller craft above it, that is used to assist in navigation when close to the ground. When it shoots away, the small craft lowers back into the top of the larger craft. Since two cows were mysteriously found dead nearby, this UFO must have been opened on top, because the smaller craft was picking up and carrying the dead cows to the ground after the animals have been scientifically probed and information gathered. Why probe the cows? Aliens know that cows are created to feed humans worldwide and as a main source of food, cows genetics and diseases, viruses and bacteria all will effect the human species in the coming hundreds of years. Thus...aliens can predict our health to some degree.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Object was caught by motion detection on ptz camera mounted on top of structure out at remote unoccupied farmstead object moved from north to south - unclear how far away - next motion event was daylight, you can see the grain bins in background there were 2 dead cows found in a tree row less than a mile away - no obvious cause of death, covered in mud. No farms with cows around for 10 miles, no reported missing cows from nearby farms never seen anything like this out there on the cameras.
Weird UFO caught on ptz camera at remote farmstead in North Dakota
Weird UFO caught on ptz camera at remote farmstead in North Dakota
Weird UFO caught by motion detection on ptz camera mounted on top of structure out at remote unoccupied farmstead in Williston, North Dakota on April 5, 2021.
UFO moved from north to south - unclear how far away - next motion event was daylight, you can see the grain bins in back ground.
There were 2 dead cows found in tree row less than a mile away - no obvious cause of death, covered in mud. No farms with cows around for 10 miles, no reported missing cows from nearby farms.
Never seen anything like this out there on the cameras. Mufon case 114593.
Swarms of flashing 'Tic-Tac shaped' UFOs chased four US Navy destroyers off California coast at 45 mph and hovered above them at night for WEEKS, ship logs reveal
Swarms of flashing 'Tic-Tac shaped' UFOs chased four US Navy destroyers off California coast at 45 mph and hovered above them at night for WEEKS, ship logs reveal
Mysterious drones chased and harried four US Naval destroyers for up to 100 nautical miles just off the coast of California
The drones, or UAVs, were able to travel long distances at high speeds with extreme maneuverability
Seamen onboard the destroyers reported seeing multiple drones, and flashing red and white lights
A UFO spotter said the drones were 'tic-tac' shaped
The head of the navy and the FBI were involved in investigation, but it was hushed up by Naval intelligence
The area is home to a large US Naval Base on Sam Clemente Island, and in the same area as another infamous UFO sighting in 2004
US Navy warships stationed off the coast of Los Angeles encountered swarms of mysterious drones, which pursued them at high speed in low visibility - prompting a high level investigation and some head scratching among top military brass.
The series of encounters with suspected UAVs, or unmanned aerial vehicles, in July 2019, saw as many as six mystery aircraft swarm several US Navy warships close to a sensitive training area at the Channel Islands, according to The Drive.
Based on deck log data from four US destroyers targeted in the series of encounters, The Drive worked out that the drones flew at speeds of up to 45 miles an hour and traveled at least 100 nautical miles - far exceeding the capabilities of any commercially-available unmanned aircraft.
The incident was brought to the attention of the Chief of Naval Operations and the FBI, and at one point the Navy began investigating itself as the potential source of the 'mystery' drone operators.
However before conclusive answers could be uncovered, the Navy classified all communications about their investigation.
USS destroyers on patrol in July 2019 were suddenly swarmed by flashing, tic-toc shaped drones, which were able to travel long distance at high speeds
The USS Kidd, pictured above in 2011, was one of four Navy destroyers swarmed by sophisticated drones traveling at high speeds during a bizarre incident in 2019. The origin of the drones is unknown
The USS Gonzalez, a guided-missile destroyer, is in the same class as the naval ships targeted by drones in a brazen attack off the coast of California in 2019. They use an onboard intelligence team known as a SNOOPIE to track unknown flying objects
The bridge of the USS Porter, which is the same Arleigh Burke-class destroyer as those targeted in the July 2019 drone skirmish
The Drive, which investigates military weaponry and tactics, using ship logbooks and internal emails released by the Navy under the Freedom of Information Act, were able to reconstruct the bizarre series of events.
Their account shows the drama began on the night of July 14 2019. Deck logs from the USS Kidd show that just before 10pm that night two drones were spotted.
An onboard intelligence crew responsible for documenting and investigating contact with unknown vessels - known as the Ship Nautical Or Otherwise Photographic Interpretation and Exploitation team - or SNOOPIE - was engaged to figure out who, or what, the mystery flying objects were.
Within a few minutes of the sighting, reports show the USS Kidd moved into quiet mode, minimizing communications as it sought to work what the threat level was.
It contacted a nearby warship also on patrol, the USS Rafael Peralta, who also engaged their onboard photo intelligence team, or SNOOPIE.
Several other US Navy destroyers on patrol nearby began noticing strange lights.
The USS John Finn also reported UAV activity, and noticed a 'red flashing light' at 10:03pm, according to its logbook.
Just over an hour later at 11:23pm, the USS Rafael Peralta spotted a white light hovering over the flight deck.
The drone was able to remain hovering above the destroyer's helicopter landing pad while traveling at speeds of 16 knots and in low visibility.
The nearly 90-minute encounter was well beyond the capability of commercially-available drones.
The next night, the drones returned, this time as the warships were patrolling closer to the Californian mainland.
US warships have state-of-the-art detection systems, but were unable to discover the origin of these drones
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter shows off its high-tech weaponry
Filmmaker and UFO enthusiast Dave Beaty was the first to bring the drone encounter to light, revealing it was in the same area as the 2004 Nimitz Encounter
He said the drones were 'tic-tac shaped', similar to previous reported UFO sightings
They were first spotted by the USS Rafael Peralta and the ship's SNOOPIE team was engaged at 8:39pm.
At 8:56pm, logs show the USS Kidd had also come into contact with drones.
'The drones seem to have pursued the ships, even as they continued to maneuver throughout the incident,' The Drive reported.
Logbooks onboard the USS Russell show drones were swarming all over it, dipping in elevation from 1000 to 700 feet and seemingly able to move in any direction.
The USS Russell had separate contact with drones nine occasions in less than an hour.
Then at 9:20pm that night, the USS Kidd noticed 'multiple UAVs' around the ship.
The USS Rafael Peralta was also swarmed by as many as four drones. It was contacted by a passing cruise ship, the Carnival Imagination, to say they too had spotted up to six drones.
The three-hour frenzy of activity continued until close to midnight, with none of the warships able to say with certainty where the drones had come from.
The Navy's top commanders including the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and commander of the Pacific Fleet were notified.
The Los Angeles bureau of the FBI was also brought in to look at the incident.
The subsequent investigation found that just a handful of civilian ships were in the area at the time that could have been used as landing pads for the drones.
Investigators suspected the drones may have been launched from the ORV Alguita, a catamaran in the area.
And while the Alguita did have drones onboard, it was soon established its aircraft were not capable of such aeronautical feats.
Naval intelligence was brought in on the investigation and it was soon turning its glare inwards.
The area is home to a large US Naval Base on Sam Clemente Island, where sensitive training operations are often undertaken.
Soon afterward, the Navy classified the investigation, preventing further information from being released to The Drive.
There were further drone sightings later in July 2019, with SNOOPIE teams aborad the destroyers again being called on to identify the drones and work out where they were coming from.
The bizarre incident was first noticed by filmmaker Dave Beaty, a UFO researcher who UFOs.
In June 2020, he Tweeted: 'Did the navy ship #USSKidd #DDG100 encounter a UAP in July 2019 in So Cal OPAREA Trying to find out more. The ship logs indicate a "Snoopy Team" was deployed - an intel section that tries to visually ID objects. DM if you know more. Near San Clemente island.'
Later, relaying information he'd received from a Navy source, Beaty said a crew member on board 'could see them with the naked eye and they were almost eye level with the bridge hovering'.
'They were the same tic-tac shaped objects.'
Beaty said the sightings occurred in the same areas as another infamous UFO sighting in 2004 which became known as the 'Nimitz Encounters'.
The Drive said there remained 'baffling' questions about how the drones had been able to fly with such breathtaking skill, speed and maneuverability.
'If the drones were not operated by the American military, these incidents represent a highly significant security breach,' it reported.
Just a few days ago, the former Director of National Intelligence revealed the US has evidence of UFOs breaking the sound barrier without a sonic boom and making maneuvers impossible with known technology.
John Ratcliffe, who served as Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, said that many of the incidents still have no easy explanation.
'There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,' Ratcliffe told Fox News.
'Some of those have been declassified.'
'Tic Tac' UFO: US Navy pilot made visual contact with the object on November 14, 2004
At least six Super Hornet pilots made visual or instrument contact with the UFO on November 14, 2004.
The encounters, which are documented in numerous interviews with first-hand witnesses, remain a mystery, and the object's incredible speed and movements have led to speculation that it was extraterrestrial in origin.
The original FLIR video from the USS Nimitz encounters leaked online as early as 2007.
Witnesses say that clips of the video had been circulated widely on the Navy's intranet - used to communicate between ships in the carrier group - and an unknown sailor in the group likely first leaked it.
The USS Nimitz, a US Navy aircraft carrier, was at the center of a bizarre UFO sighting saga in 2004.
The clip became one of the most-touted pieces of evidence in the UFO community when the Pentagon confirmed its authenticity in 2017.
In January, Chad Underwood, the former Navy aviator who shot the famous leaked video clip, broke his silence in an interview with New York Magazine.
He said the oblong, wingless 'Tic Tac' shaped object was spotted off the coast of Mexico over the Pacific.
He also revealed that for about two weeks, the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Princeton, part of Carrier Strike Group 11, had been tracking mysterious aircraft intermittently on an advanced AN/SPY-1B passive radar.
The radar contacts were so inexplicable that the system was even shut down and restarted to to check for bugs - but operators continued to track the unknown aircraft.
Then on November 14, Commander David Fravor says he was flying in an F/A-18F Super Hornet when he made visual contact with the object, which seemed to dive below the water, resurface, and speed out of sight when he tried to approach it.
As Fravor landed on the deck of the Nimitz, Underwood was just gearing up to take off on his own training run.
Fravor told Underwood about the bizarre encounter, and urged Underwood to keep his eyes open.
He recalls how he suddenly saw a blip on his radar before tracking it on his FLIR camera.
'The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving,' Underwood told the magazine.
'And what I mean by 'erratic' is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I've ever encountered before flying against other air targets.'
Underwood said the object wasn't obeying the laws of physics and dropped from 50,000 feet altitude to 100 feet in seconds, which he says, 'isn't possible'. He added that he saw no signs of an engine heat plume or any sign of propulsion.
The pilot refuses to speculate as to whether the object is an alien spacecraft or not, however.
'That's not my job. But I saw something. And it was also seen, via eyeballs, by both my commanding officer, Dave Fravor, and the Marine Corps Hornet squadron commanding officer who was out there as well.'
UFOs harassed US warships for several days in July 2019, according to the newly-released information from the logs of US warships.
The USS Kidd, USS John Finn, and USS Rafael Peralta were in a military area off the coast of California engaging in a training exercise when those on board noticed UFOs they described as drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
The three ships were swarmed by as many as six drones over a matter of days, at times doing brazen manoeuvres around the vessels.
The Drive obtained the logs through the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which recorded the sightings in entries such as ‘White light identified hovering over the ships flight deck,’ and ‘Kidd reported UAV overhead.’
One entry from Rafael Peralta reported, ‘Two UAV’s spotted off the starboard wing.’ Another entry added six minutes later, ‘Four UAV’s spotted off the starboard bridge.’
During the encounter, the UAVs matched the USS Kidd’s speed and bearing for around 90 minutes, which is 60 minutes more endurance than drones of their size.
The warships are equipped with electro-optical systems, thermal imaging, radar, and sensors, but the crew could not track the craft when they disappeared.
On July 15, 2019, the three vessels contacted the nearby cruise ship Carnival Imagination to know if the crafts were from there, but the crew confirmed they weren’t, but they also noticed five or six of the UFOs around the warships.
This time, the craft hovered with the USS Rafael Peralta in the area for three hours, and at one point recognizing four drones following the ship. The Navy, Coastguard, FBI, and other agencies did a formal investigation, but they found no answers.
It does not determine where the crafts were launched.
Une roche martienne qui intrigue les scientifiques
Une roche martienne qui intrigue les scientifiques
Les scientifiques de la NASA sont spéculatifs à propos d’une étrange roche turquoise découverte sur Mars par le rover Perserverance.
Plus tôt cette semaine, le petit rover a tweeté une photo de la roche martienne en précisant l’avoir zappé avec un laser.
La NASA explique avoir procédé à cette opération dans le but d’en apprendre davantage sur la géologie de la planète rouge.
Les experts ne se sont pas encore prononcés sur le type de roche, mais ils affirment que l'échantillon de 6 pouces ressemble à un fragment de météorite déjà observé par le passé, rapporte CNN.
Des scientifiques avancent aussi l’hypothèse qu’il pourrait s’agir d’un substrat rocheux patiné ou carrément d'un morceau de planète.
La trouvaille survient au moment où la NASA est en préparation pour faire voler un hélicoptère sur Mars.
Si l’agence spatiale réussie, elle écrira une page d’histoire en réalisant le premier vol contrôlé sur une autre planète.
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From the “Ethically Dubious” file, which is in the “What could possibly go wrong?” filing cabinet, comes the news that researchers have grown mouse embryos outside of a mouse womb and kept them growing for 12 days – which would be about the length of the first trimester for a human embryo. Speaking of human embryos – the researchers are already discussing growing them outside of the womb for much longer than the few days embryos grow at invitro fertilization clinics before being implanted in a mother or destroyed. Is this the start of a brave new world, the end of ethics, the plot of the ultimate dystopian horror movie … or something far more unimaginable?
“It’s not only about being able to grow [mouse] embryos, but being able to manipulate them.”
If you picked “far more unimaginable,” you’re probably right. Jacob Hanna at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is the senior author of the mouse-embryo-growing-in-a-jar study accepted for publication in the journal Nature Research and the purpose was not just to see if it could be done but to play/experiment with the embryos. Mice have a 20-day gestation period, so the 12 days in a jar was enough for them to grow tissues and organs – and be observed by researchers doing little more than peering through the glass. In fact, the only thing stopping the mouse embryos from growing to term in the jar of liquid nutrients was the lack of a blood supply to their hearts. Hanna told MIT Technology Review that he’s not interested in going to term – his goal is “to watch and manipulate early development.” One idea is to introduce viruses such as Zika, to learn how exactly they harm the fetus. That’s fine for mice (but not for animal rights activists) but Hanna wants to go beyond mice to … human embryos.
HANNA, ET. AL./WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE/YOUTUBE/SCREENSHOT
“Once the guidelines are updated, I can apply, and it will be approved. It’s a very important experiment. We need to see human embryos gastrulate and form organs and start perturbing it. The benefit of growing human embryos to week three, week four, week five is invaluable. I think those experiments should at least be considered. If we can get to an advanced human embryo, we can learn so much.”
(Insert screams here.)
Hanna recognizes and respects the so-called 14-day rule – an unwritten guideline for embryologists which keeps them from growing human embryos more than two weeks. However, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) wants to allow for a much longer term and that’s what Hanna is waiting for. He told MIT Technology Review he wants to conduct experiments where human embryos could be altered to limit their potential to develop fully – for example, by installing genetic mutations in a calcium channel to prevent the heart from ever beating.
Is Jacob Hanna making plans to help humankind through science … or is he a mad scientist helping to make a new kind of human? A little of both? One thing is for certain – he’s not alone in this thinking. And one other thing is probable – this is already being done somewhere else.
Do you want this brave new world? What could possibly go wrong?
Pressurized oxygen helps to feed the developing cells, pushing through with pressure where nature would build a circulatory system. The embryos eventually died because they grew too large for oxygen to penetrate without the help of the placental blood oxygen flow that embryos have in real wombs.
Twelve days represents about half a mouse’s natural full gestational term. Hanna tells MIT Technology Review he hopes this will lead to human embryo studies of up to 5-week-old embryos. In naturally occurring pregnancies, it’s almost impossible to study embryos without jeopardizing them in some way—the same way it’s very, very ethically difficult to study pregnant people under the traditional scientific method.
To demonstrate the wide-ranging research ramifications of their method, the scientists also experimented with specific stains, chemicals, and more to show the embryos could still grow in the spinning artificial womb:
“This culture system is amenable to introducing a variety of embryonic perturbations and micro-manipulations that can be followed ex utero for up to six days. The ability to remove a mammalian embryo from the uterine environment and grow it normally in controlled conditions constitutes a powerful tool to characterize the effect of different perturbations on development during the period from gastrulation to organogenesis, that can be combined with genetic modification, chemical screens, tissue manipulation and microscopy methods.”
Developmentally, the 12-day-old mouse embryo, which is at “the hind limb formation stage,” is the same as the 5-week-old human fetus. As Technology Review points out, other researchers are actively studying ways to culture artificial human embryos by prompting human stem cells to divide and grow. But there are ethical questions that go both ways when it comes to studying embryos.
First, many critics consider the idea of implanting a so-called “artificial embryo” into a human womb to be extremely distasteful, and the practice is even illegal in some places. Trying to study this dynamic would be fraught, to say the least. Second, implanting a real embryo in an artificial womb to be studied up to 5 weeks, when the embryo would recognizably be human and have growing features, is a tough sell for many people.
UFO abductees come in all flavors. Some are highly respected or educated people who seem to have impeccable credentials, some are from more questionable sources. Some come from those who have stories that seem to follow some rational internal logic, while others fly right off the charts into the realm of the completely outlandish. Certainly some reports are way off the meter when it comes to pure bizarreness, and one of these is the time a farmer says he was whisked away to Mars, the Moon, and Venus by aliens.
The man named Buck Nelson was once pretty much a nobody. Born in 1895, he lived on his rural farm in the Ozark Mountains in Missouri, and there wasn’t really much that was remarkable about him. That is, until 1954, when one evening would turn his mundane world inside out. On this night he was out at his farm when his radio began acting up, changing channels on its own and turning on and off. As he tinkered with the radio trying to fix it, his dog began barking uncontrollably outside. The animal was apparently going absolutely nuts, so he went out to see what was going on and was startled by three disc-shaped crafts hovering in the sky above, one large one and two smaller ones. The startled farmer then tried to signal these crafts with his flashlight, and that was when he claimed to have been hit with a beam “much brighter and hotter than the sun.” This apparently did not hurt him, but it left him paralyzed and unable to move, after which the UFOs moved off into the night.
After this strange encounter, he claimed that chronic back pain he had dealt with for years suddenly disappeared and his eyesight improved, but this was only the beginning of the weirdness. The flying saucers would begin to make regular appearances over his farm, and there would also appear two “friendly human spacemen” who called themselves Bucky and Bob, with a large black dog that apparently looked exactly like a regular old Earth dog and which they called “Bo.” These men claimed that they were actually human beings who had long ago been brought to live with the aliens on their home world and that there were other humans up there as well. The spacemen apparently explained to him that they were from the planet Venus, and they then looked around his house and asked him various questions about his life and stuff. Nelson would say of this odd encounter:
They stayed with me for about an hour and they were interested in everything in the house, especially my radio. When I told them a battery on top of it was for power, they smiled and said, with all this power around you in the air?…they went past a picture of Christ and I asked them if that meant anything to them and they said, “yes, we understand but you people don’t.
Before leaving they told him that they would be back again to take him onto a trip to space. The aliens were apparently true to their word, because one night they took him aboard their spacecraft and allegedly took Nelson on a tour of the solar system. They stopped off at the moon, which was described as a manufacturing base, then Mars, which was colorful, vibrant, and similar to Earth, and then Venus, which was a fantastic peaceful utopia where there was no war or crime. On Venus, they apparently showed him a “book machine,” about the size of a TV set, which you could put a book into and it would read the pages and play music. Bucky and Bob also told Nelson about what they called “The Twelve Laws of God,” which are suspiciously nearly exactly the same as the 10 commandments from the Bible with a couple new ones tacked on, explained that they only used solar power, that many of the Venus aliens and abducted humans like them lived on earth, many in important positions and in the space industry, and that they were keeping a careful eye on the increasing development of atomic weapons. According to them, countless galactic civilizations had destroyed themselves with nuclear weapons and they feared Earth was careening along this doomed path.
Nelson would write of all of this in a booklet imaginatively titled My Trip to Mars, the Moon, and Venus, which includes instructions for building a “saucer detector,” and he also began holding an annual “Spacecraft Convention,” all of which made him a bit of a minor celebrity at the time. He would present many pictures as proof of all of this, and even samples of hairs from the spacemen’s dog, as well as alleged recordings of Bucky’s voice, but they are weak evidence at best. Considering that the spacemen looked exactly like humans, pictures of them are useless, and the hairs of the dog were merely dog hairs, prompting Nelson to comment “Dawgs is dawgs. Don’t matter what planet they’re from.” As for the voice caught on tape, although it is eerie, high and oddly shaky, it still sounds an awful lot like Nelson’s voice. Nelson would hold his conventions and bask in his minor fame all the way to his death in 1982, and remains a lesser known, but very odd feature of the 1950s contactee movement.
Nelson’s story is absurd on many levels. For one, we know now that Mars is hardly colorful and vibrant, that Venus does not have an atmosphere conducive to a utopian life, or even life in general, and it all seems to borrow heavily from the science fiction available at the time from writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs and others. The booklet that Nelson wrote is also poorly written, thin on details, and reads exactly like one would expect from an uneducated farmer spinning yarns about aliens. Despite its quirky charm it reads like hack fiction, in fact, yet Nelson maintained to the last that it was all true. There is nearly zero chance that any element of the story is true, but it is nevertheless a fascinating peek into one of the weirder individuals in the contactee scene that was all the rage at the time, and a strange little tale to add to the lore of such stories.
There was a time when I thought it was at least feasible that cattle mutilationsmight be the work of aliens. That, however, was more than a few years ago. The more I dug into the mystery, the more I came to believe that the subject had far less to do with aliens and far more to do with government activity. Within in the field of Ufology, there is an acceptance that the first real animal mutilation case (as ufologists see it) was that of Snippy, a horse found dead under bizarre coincidences. As the Denver Library state of the Snippy affair: “On September 7, 1967, near the town of Alamosa in the San Luis Valley, Snippy, a 3-year-old Appaloosa, failed to return to the Harry King Ranch where she was stabled. Two days later, Mr. King (the ranch owner) discovered Snippy’s remains roughly a quarter-mile from the ranch house. According to his account, the neck and head had been completely stripped of flesh, leaving nothing but bare, seemingly sun-bleached, white bone, while the remainder of the mare remained unscathed.”
The problem here is not the story, but the fact that the more I dug into the matter of the mutilations, the more I came to find that secret government studies of the United States’ cattle herds had been going on for decades. In fact, way back. The reason: the U.S. government was quite rightly very worried about foreign nations and agents using deadly viruses to bring the herd down and, as a result, cause chaos in America. So, the government – periodically and careful and quietly – ran tests on cattle to see how such attacks on the U.S. were working or not on the poor animals. If that disappoints you, too bad. And if you think that such a thing couldn’t be done, consider the data contained in the documents I’m about to share with you now. It was back in 2001, while spending about in the National Archives, that I found out the extent to which government agencies were secretly tied to America’s cattle.
Bacteriological Warfare in the United States is a fascinating FBI document – declassified into the public domain via the terms of the Freedom of Information Act – that covers the years 1941 to 1950. Notably, of the file’s original 1,783 pages, no less than 1,074 have been firmly withheld from declassification by the FBI. The file reveals a wealth of illuminating and disturbing data on animal disease and death, and their potential, theoretical links to bacteriological warfare and sabotage by enemy nations and individuals. For example, J.R. Ruggle, the FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge at the Savannah, Georgia office of the Bureau in the early-to-mid 1940s, wrote thus to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on February 3, 1943: “This office has received a copy of a communication from John T. Bissell, Colonel, General Staff, Assistant Executive Officer, Military Intelligence Service, Washington, D.C., dated December 29, 1942, to directors of intelligence in all Service commands…” Colonel Bissel’s communication read:
“It has been brought to the attention of this division the possibility in the immediate future of an attempt on the part of the enemy to plant bombs containing germs or to endeavor to create an epidemic, such as hoof and mouth disease, among cattle and other livestock. It is requested that should any information concerning the above come to the attention of the Directors of Intelligence of the Service Commands or the A.C. of S. [Assistant Chief of Staff], G-2 [Army Intelligence], Western Defense Command, that the same be transmitted by the most expeditious means to the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 War Department.” And what did the government do? I’ll tell you: they very carefully began to take a look at the cattle herd and to determine the extent to which those “enemy nations and individuals” might be. And the secret investigations were undertaken wherever it seemed the cattle were being subjected to viruses by our enemies.
The FBI even found examples of such concerns going back to the First World War: “Anton Dilger, a German-American medical graduate from John Hopkins University, was in Germany when the First World War broke out. He offered his services to the Kaiser, and was promptly detailed by Colonel Nicolai to do secret service work in the United States. Dilger returned to America with a supply of cultures of glanders and anthrax germs. Financed by von Papen, he set up a laboratory in Chevy Chase, near Washington, and started breeding germs on a large scale for infecting mules, horses, and cattle awaiting shipment to the allies. This man then organized a band of some twelve assistants to travel around the country, carrying Dilger’s germs in small glass phials stopped with corks through which a needle extended. This roving band jabbed their deadly needles into the livestock. They also spread germs by placing them in fodder and drink. Thousands of soldiers, as well as horses and cattle, died as a result of Dilger’s germs. At last Dilger revolted against his mission of silent death. He was murdered by German spies a few months before the end of the war. Could it happen here? It did happen here!”
Now, let’s take a trip to 1949. Particularly notable is a July 11, 1949 document that refers to the government’s desire to acquire “world-wide information on animal diseases and animal population” [italics mine]. And, one year later, the FBI was still collecting such data. On October 19, 1950, the FBI prepared a document titled Abnormal Loss of Hogs in Nebraska and Illinois that dealt with an unusually high number of hog deaths in the aforementioned states – as a result of cholera. The files, however, make it clear that, in official, FBI quarters, the nature of the animals’ deaths had been viewed with deep suspicion. It was concluded that the deaths were due to a “variant virus” or “atypical virus”” that stemmed from “local conditions and the physical conditions of the hogs.” The important factor, however, is that this document was found within a file specifically focused upon bacteriological warfare. In other words, the FBI was still looking closely at any and all animal deaths that might not have wholly conventional explanations.
So, we’ve seen that government concerns went back the First World War. Then, in the late 1940s the secret investigations were still going on. And, as was shown above, secret investigations of hogs in the 1950s took place. Then, a decade later, cattle mutilations began. I could have made this article at least a 4-part one, such is the sheer number of documents now available on the subject (if you know where to look). There are thousands and thousands of pages. Had cattle mutilations suddenly surfaced out of nowhere in 1967, I might be a bit more open to the alien angle. The fact is, though, that covert studies of America’s cattle have been going on for around a century. Sometimes with the bodies of the dead left where they were covertly studied. Add to that a bit of government disinformation to the effect that all of this is due to aliens, then it’s very easy to see how government agencies were able to undertake their secret studies and with the real (and far more disturbing) story kept hidden.
The Ocean’s Youngest Monsters Are Ready for Glamour Shots
The Ocean’s Youngest Monsters Are Ready for Glamour Shots
Divers practicing blackwater photography are helping marine scientists gain new insights into fish larvae.
An inch-long larval lionfish off the coast of Palm Beach, Fla. “What’s really fascinating is when you send the scientists something and they have no idea what it is,” said Steven Kovacs, a local dentist and blackwater photographer.Credit...Steven Kovacs
For most scuba divers, few places underwater match the visual thrill of a kaleidoscopic coral reef teeming with colorful fish. For Jeff Milisen, a marine biologist and photographer in Kona, Hawaii, there is no better place to dive than an open stretch of deep ocean. At night.
“There’s a whole lot of nothing,” he said. “There’s no bottom, no walls, just this space that goes to infinity. And one thing you realize is there are a lot of sea monsters there, but they’re tiny.”
Of course, there are big monsters, too, like sharks. But the creatures Mr. Milisen is referring to are part of a daily movement of larval fish and invertebrates, which rise from the depths to the surface each evening as part of one of the largest migrations of organisms on the planet. The emerging hobby of taking pictures of them is known as blackwater photography.
Most of the larvae are no bigger than a fingernail; others are even smaller. And they can easily be mistaken for bits of seaweed or drifting detritus. But up close, when captured with a camera using a special lens called a macro, the animals can appear to loom as large as wild animals on a safari — a safari on another planet.
Five years ago, Mr. Milisen began sharing his photos in a Facebook group, and there he discovered a community of passionate nighttime adventurers who were capturing images of living things rarely seen before. Perplexed and astonished by what they were photographing, Mr. Milisen and others in the community, called the Blackwater Photo Group, began contacting fish scientists, asking for help in identifying what they were seeing.
Even the most seasoned specialists responded with incredulity.
“The No. 1 thing people, even scientists, ask is: ‘What the hell is that?’” said Ned DeLoach, an experienced underwater photographer, who, with his wife, Anna, and the writer Paul Humann, has published eight books on marine fishes. “Why these images are so spectacular and so popular is they’re so otherworldly. People have never imagined that creatures like this exist, and that has attracted photographers.”
David G. Johnson, curator of fishes at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, was one of the first scientists to be contacted by members of the Facebook group. He said he was immediately smitten by the images.
“You have behavior, colors,” he said. “It really is a great advance in terms of what we can learn about the early life history of fishes.”
As the blackwater hobby has taken off, gaining adherents around the globe, more and more photographers have captured stunning images and videos that reveal a secret world of bizarre, tiny animals that scientists have struggled for decades to better understand. Many of the images have gone viral on social media, and some recently won major underwater photography awards.
Now, scientists like Dr. Johnson want to formalize the collaboration with blackwater photographers.
In a paper published on Tuesday in the journal Ichthyology & Herpetology, scientists from Hawaii, along with Dr. Johnson and others at the Smithsonian, have outlined how they hope to enlist more nighttime underwater photographers, most of whom have no scientific background, to participate in marine research. If the photographers could collect specimens of the tiny animals they photograph, DNA could be extracted and analyzed.
A larval cusk-eel and marine biologist Jeff Milisen, who joined a Facebook group for likeminded enthusiasts of nighttime open-ocean photography.Credit...Jeff Milisen
A bony-eared assfish (Acanthonus armatus).Credit...Steven Kovacs
A larval cusk-eel, genus Brotulotaenia.Credit...Steven Kovacs
Hairy goosefish (Lophiodes fimbriatus), off the coast of the Big Island in Hawaii.
Credit...Jeff Milisen
So far, the scientists leading the effort have recruited about a dozen divers, who have collected more than 60 specimens for analysis. More are in the pipeline.
“We’re building a collection that for the first time has a live image,” Dr. Johnson said. “We get the specimen and create a DNA record tied to it.”
He expects scientists with a knack for underwater photography to join the effort as well. Marine researchers hope that examining images of animals photographed in their natural surroundings and pairing those images with data drawn from techniques such as dissection and DNA barcoding will significantly expand the knowledge of how these animals change over time and why they behave as they do. Ideally, the work will also shed light on the mysterious daily migration of creatures, called the diurnal vertical migration, that takes place every night in every ocean around the globe.
The diurnal vertical migration includes trillions of tiny animals, many in the larval stage, that rise from great depths of 1,000 feet or more to just beneath the surface to feed. The journey takes place at night, scientists believe, because it allows the animals to avoid predation by larger fish that locate their prey visually. The baby fish return to the lightless deep before sunrise.
Like many insect species and frogs, most marine fishes and invertebrates look and behave vastly different in their larval stages than they do as adults. The fish larvae are often festooned with flamboyant, streaming appendages to help them navigate the currents or imitate other species such as poisonous jellyfish. Some have enormous eyes and broadcast a rainbow iridescence that would not look out of place beneath a glass counter at Tiffany’s.
Most marine fishes and some ocean invertebrates go through this two-stage life cycle. Scientists believe that the drastic shift in form is a product of evolution and natural selection.
“Larvae and adults are each living in a completely different evolutionary arena,” Dr. Johnson said. “The larvae make their living in the open ocean currents, which is such a different place than where they’re going to settle out, like the sandy bottom, a coral reef or the deep sea.”
The larval stage of many sea creatures transpires in the open ocean, which is difficult to study, and little is known. Almost all of the previous understanding of what these animals look like comes from expeditions that collected them in large conical devices called plankton nets, which are dragged behind research vessels. The technique began over 150 years ago, gaining prominence with the Challenger expedition from 1872 to 1876, organized by the British government. There have since been some major advances in the technology, but the basic technique is largely unchanged.
A larval spotted ribbonfish off the coast of Palm Beach.Credit...Steven Kovacs
Plankton nets draw the animals into a large open ring and funnel them into a jarlike device called a cod end. As water is forced into the jar, the animals are easily crushed and usually die before reaching the surface. Many creatures, such as jellyfish, salps and glittery, orb-shaped animals called ctenophores, are so delicate that they are mushed into a gelatinous goo that researchers on boats pull from the jars by the handful. The animals that remain intact are fixed in an alcohol solution, which prevents them from decomposing, but which turns them ghostly white. Often the delicate filaments and fins break off, making it impossible to know how the animals looked and behaved while alive.
“Those filament appendages are extremely important,” said Luiz A. Rocha, a marine biologist and curator of fishes at the California Academy of Sciences who is not involved in the project. He said that they can be used for mimicry, movement or camouflage.
“Because all that information is lost when collected in the nets, the photographs can open up an entirely new research area to understand why they have these features and what they use them for,” he said.
Open water observation of fish larvae is not new, but it was mostly practiced during the day. The technique, called blue water diving, began in the 1980s when a group of California scientists, hoping to overcome the problems with plankton nets, began taking boats out while the sun blazed overhead.
William M. Hamner, a retired ecologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, was a pioneer of blue water diving and developed many techniques to drift and dive in the open ocean that are used today by blackwater divers.
“The fact that we started blue water is simply because no one cared enough about plankton at the time to go to all the effort to observe them in the wild, and I did,” Dr. Hamner said.
In both blue and blackwater diving, scuba divers usually travel far offshore, often 10 miles or more, where the seafloor may lie several thousand feet below. They descend 50 to 100 feet beneath the ocean while clinging to a tether that hangs from a boat or from a buoy on the surface.
In blackwater diving, however, powerful underwater lights are attached to a tether to illuminate the water, often attracting animals, including sharks. The avocation is not for everyone.
“There’s a whole new sensory experience when there’s no top or bottom,” said Ms. DeLoach, one of the photographers. “It’s the closest I think I’ve come to being in outer space.”
Images of live (left column) and fixed (right column) larvae of a cusk-eel (genus Luciobrotula) and a deepsea tripod fish (genus Bathymicrops)
Credit...via Smithsonian Institution
For the photographers, capturing an image of something never observed, let alone photographed, before becomes almost an addiction.
“What’s really fascinating is when you send the scientists something and they have no idea what it is,” said Steven Kovacs, a dentist in Palm Beach, Fla., and a frequent contributor to the Facebook group, who has been blackwater diving for five years. “Or it’s the first time being seen. That’s one of the greatest thrills of all.”
The photographers have reason to gloat. Some scientists say the images, paired with DNA from collected larvae, have the potential to revolutionize the study of larval fishes.
“We believe this approach opens a new window for our understanding of these larvae and raises exciting questions for future research,” said Ai Nonaka, a researcher at the Smithsonian and the lead author on the paper.
Dr. Johnson hopes that the project will inspire a new generation of underwater photographers to become citizen scientists and participate in research.
“We’ve been doing this for four to five years, but it’s still new,” said Mr. DeLoach, who began collecting specimens for the Smithsonian with his wife in 2019. “There’s so much that hasn’t been discovered yet. It’s a pretty handy thing to have a specimen in the Smithsonian collection with your name on it.”
Other scientists who study larval fishes are happy to give the photographers their due credit.
“I think that this is one of those special cases in which the underwater photography people actually realized something quite valuable and cool before science did,” said Tom Shlesinger, a marine biologist based in Florida who is a convert to blackwater photography. “It really opened my eyes and mind to the fact that we actually know very little about what’s going on in the sea at night.”
De heli is zaterdag losgemaakt van de robotjeep Perseverance, die op 18 februari op de Rode Planeet is geland. Na het losmaken, kon de Ingenuity geen gebruik meer maken van de energie van de Perseverance en was hij op zijn eigen zonnepanelen aangewezen. Ook om zich te verwarmen tijdens de ijskoude nacht waarbij de temperatuur tot min 90 kan dalen.
Voor de NASA is het een "belangrijke etappe" dat de mini-helikopter die nacht heeft doorstaan. De volgende dagen ondergaat het tuig een reeks testen. De eerste vlucht vindt ten vroegste op 11 april plaats. Het zal dan de eerste gemotoriseerde vlucht op een andere planeet zijn.
Sasquatch and Native Americans. Legends and traditions. One of many videos to come on this subject. Again, a very special thanks to Bobbie Short’s friends an…
Sasquatch and Native Americans. Legends and traditions. One of many videos to come on this subject. Again, a very special thanks to Bobbie Short’s friends and family for allowing me to share her material. It is very informative and I know Bobbie worked very hard on all of this material and on spreading truth and knowledge on the subject of Bigfoot. #Bigfoot sightings #Bigfoot encounters #Bigfoot stories #The Skookum Report
Filer’s Files 14 2021 - Commander Fravor Chases Tic Tac UFO - PART I
Winthrop, Maine Tic Tac like cylinder on March 7, 3021
Filer’s Files 14 2021 - Commander Fravor Chases Tic Tac UFO - PART I
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Commander Dave Fravor Chases Tic Tac UFO, Metamaterials for Star Gate Portals, Cold Fusion Issue, Who is Jack Sarfatti? Massive Solar Storm10,000 B.C., Space X’s Crew Dragon Plans to go to Mars, Sabotage in the US. Shadows, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Commander Dave Fravor Chases Tic Tac UFO
Commander Dave Fravor
His 24 years in the military included 18 years as a Navy jet pilot and five deployments in Iraq, beginning with Desert Storm. At the time of his sighting, he was commander of a 300-member Navy squadron aboard the USS Nimitz known as Strike Fighter Squadron 41. The pilots were flying the Navy’s newest aircraft, the F/A-18F Super Hornet.
He recalls the weather was ideal on the day he’s convinced he saw a UFO: Blue sky and no clouds. The sea was calm.
Three others were in the sky with him. In addition to the pilot in the other F/A-18F who accompanied him on that mission, a weapons system officer was in the back of both fighter jets. Their identities have not been disclosed, as they are still active military, Commander Fravor said.
Shortly after the two fighter jets began their training mission, they were redirected by a radio operator from the cruiser USS Princeton to a part of the Pacific Ocean southwest of San Diego where the Princeton had been tracking as many as a dozen mysterious objects for two weeks. Objects had been seen dropping straight down from above 80,000 feet and stopping at 20,000 feet.
F=18s Chasing Tic Tac UFO
In this case, a UFO — approximately 10 feet wide and 40 feet long — hovered as low as 50 feet above the ocean. There was a disturbance in the water directly below it, with waves possibly generated by a second unidentified submerged object much larger than a submarine.
Tic Tac circled is 40 feet long and the submerged object is 1500 feet long
The water appears to be bubbling, and possibly boiling indicating heat from the USO. The submerged object appeared larger than an aircraft carrier and likely launched the Tic Tac that seemed to be taking signals from the USO
It is assumed the submerged USO can carry more than thirty Tic Tacs and represents an submerged ship larger than the Nimitz super aircraft carrier.
Comparison between USS Nimitz Carrier and Submerged Alien ship
It is also assumed the submerged ship may be able to fly is also a spaceship. Commander Fravor said he and the trio accompanying him had their eyes glued on the airborne object for about five minutes that was hovering over the Unidentified Submerged Object (USO).” This submerged ship likely has greater technology than the USS Nimitz or Tic Tacs. It may have flown from another planet or been built under the sea. Ships and planes have mysteriously disappeared for centuries and never found. The USO is larger than the Nimitz in most categories,
Sonars picked up USOs moving at a 100 knots (115 MPH) submerged.
Favor said numerous times that UFO had the appearance of a giant “Tic Tac” breath mint. It was an oblong, all-white tubular device with no windows and no wings. It had no exhaust, and its energy source and form of propulsion were unknown. It wasn’t a plane, a helicopter, a drone, or anything he’d seen in his years as a Navy jet pilot.
F-18 and Tic Tac about the same size
“In 18 years of flying airplanes, this thing had characteristics I never saw,” Commander Fravor said. “It was almost jaw-dropping. It was very strange.”
He said he told the other pilot to stay up high, that he was going down for a closer look. As soon as he got within 3,000 feet — a little more than a half-mile — the object zoomed away at bullet speed, he said.
“As I get within about a half-mile of it, it just rapidly accelerates,” Commander Fravor said. “As it crosses my [fighter jet’s] nose, it just disappears. It’s gone.”
In one of his many other interviews, Commander Fravor said the mysterious aircraft took off at a speed “well above supersonic.”
It was gone within two seconds on a day so clear he had 50 miles of visibility and could easily see large objects 10 miles away.
“I believe it was something not from this world,”Commander Fravor said Dec. 20 on Fox News during a nationally televised interview with host Tucker Carlson.
One reason Commander Fravor said he’s going public is he wants to demystify UFOs, in hopes the U.S. government and people in general will take the potential for them more seriously.
Metamaterials for Star Gate Portals
David Mosier wrote , Yeah, the clueless are everywhere.
PS I figured out how to use metamaterials for Star Gate Portals using Matt Visser’s equations with the Sarfatti-Wanser coupling S.“Traversable wormholes, some simple examples”
Trivial Visser’s eq 2.2 is inside metamaterial Stargate portal
S^ij = [c^4/4piG|S|cos(argS][K^ij – &^ikK^ll]
K^ij = extrinsic curvature
S^ij = surface stress energy tensor
e.g. CUBE, edges and corners smoothed.
6 flat planes (faces) – empty space to walk through the portal
12 quarter metamaterial cylinders (edges)
8 metamaterial octants of a sphere (the corners)
It’s a piece of cake with the correct metamaterial pumped resonances same as for warp drive.
Cold Fusion Issue
On Mar 26, 2021, Art Wagner wrote:
Thanks to Joe Foster from passing this along
“I saw in your email regarding the cold fusion issue. What caught my eye was the mention of the muon. There was an interesting article regarding this class of particles and I thought there may be some crossover with the discussion going on about the Tic Tac (see link):
Muon particle was a surprise in Hadron Accelerator
The article touches on a category of particles (muon being ne of them) and some unique properties recently observed during operation of the Hadron accelerator. Not being a physicist, it is probably well beyond my comprehension however after trying to follow Jack and the folks on this email list regarding propulsion systems, metamaterials and superluminal space travel, this article seemed worthwhile following up on. As such, I reached out to a physicist that I know from Princeton University that works on the sensors used at Czern. I asked him his thoughts (3.1 sigma was not extraordinary at this point according to him) and he said he didn’t think there was anything there at least at this point however, there could be if there was a significant breakthrough however many more observations would have to be made in order to determine if that might be the case. I also asked him about if he thought there might be applicability with the areas that Jack and his team are looking in. Dan said he didn’t think so, at least not at this time.”
Who is Jack Sarfatti?
Jack Sarfatti writes, Standard Mode is very high energy physics completely irrelevant to UAP warp drive which depends on a very low energy emergent nonequilibriuum dissipative nonlinear collective resonance in artificially manufactured metamaterials
“…evidence of extremely low power warp drive with time-travel-to-past capability in a meta-material fuselage controlled by a conscious AI post-quantum computer.”
According to his LinkedIn page, Sarfatti was born 14 September 1939. He received a BA in Physics from Cornell University (1956-1960); an M. S. in Physics from University of California, San Diego (1965-1968); and a PhD in theoretical and mathematical physics from the University of California, Riverside (1968-1969.) Career wise, the LinkedIn account tells Jack Sarfatti ——us:* Sep 1967 – Jun 1973, Assistant Professor of Physics, San Diego State
* Sep 1971 – Nov 1987, US Navy PACE -Instructor – teaching math to young sailors and marines onboard fighting ships at sea* Jan 1980 – Dec 1986. Science advisor to Lawry Chickering Institute for Contemporary Studies – ISB. Helped formulate the Strategic Defense Initiative behind the scenes for Paul Nitze, Cap Weinbergerand POTUS
Jan 1996 – Present, CEO Sarfatti Group/ Internet Science Education Project.
His academic work, He has published numerous scientific articles, particularly in the areas of consciousness; quantum physics and astronomy. A sample of his work includes:
2020 Sarfatti has also published a number of books, including: * 1974 “Space Time and Beyond” by Bob Tober, in conversation with physicists Jack Sarfatti and Fred Alan Wolf.* 2002. “Space Time and beyond 11”
His personal website, features information on physics, cosmology, advanced propulsion, meta materials, quantum computing; a section headed “UFO sightings map;” and a weird desk area which provides information about Bigfoot, UFOs, sea monsters etc. His own blog includes pieces on a wide range of subjects including Robert Bigelow; quantum gravity, interviews with Luis Elizondo; much about UAP physics and his own theories; Where do his views originate? I took a look back in the diaries of Jacques Vallee for the early history of where Sarfatti’s ideas originated. There was an interesting diary entry in “Forbidden Science: Volume Three” (pp98-99) dated 27 July 1982:
“Walking through North Beach I passed Cafe Trieste where Jack Sarfatti was engaged in some passionate argument. He saw me and ran to catch me. So we ended up at Cafe Puccini, where I ordered a prosciutto sandwich and a cup of coffee , and listened to his theories.
Sarfatti’s ideas are full of color, short on proofs. he ‘confided’ to me, as he does to everyone within earshot, that people close to Reagan, Meese and Caspar Weinberger support him. The wife of the American ambassador in Paris keeps calling him at Cafe Trieste and political pundit Bill Buckley listens to him. It is impossible to separate the real from the imaginary in all this.
Jack’s life is a tapestry of stunning coincidences and romantic episodes. It is undeniable that he was a child prodigy. In 1953, age 15 (we are the same age) he was sitting in the Brooklyn library reading a math book on switching functions when he received a phone call from a mechanical voice that plunged him into a quasi hypnotic state. He only remembers one phone call but his mother states there was a series of them, always from the same bizarre voice.
The phone calls changed his life, he said. They led him to theorize about the energy of the vacuum and faster-than-light propulsion . He cites all the right authors, such as Coxeter, whose works I recently read. And he is certainly right when he says Einstein’s theory is only a special case of a wider physics.”
There are several other Vallee diary entries which speak of Sarfatti. In another one, dated 22 September 1997, when alluding to the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) Vallee writes:
F-18 and Tic Tac UAP
“You chaps are obviously part of the Others predicted to me in 1952 by a sort of conscious computer and spacecraft from the future that we will now attempt to build.”
In an April 2006 article by Preston Dennett, in “FATE” magazine we learn: “In 1952 and 1953, when I was about 12 or 13 years old, I received a phone call…in which a mechanical sounding voice said it was a computer on board a flying saucer. They wanted to teach me something and would I be willing? This was my free choice. Would I be willing to be taught – to communicate with them? I remember a shiver going up my spine, because i said, ‘Hey man, this is real.’ Of course, I was a kid…but I said yes.”
Sarfatti was impressed. he ran and got his friends, and they gathered together in his bedroom, awaiting the upcoming promised contact. Unfortunately, nothing occurred, and Sarfatti assumed at first that it was just a clever practical joke.
At this point, his memory of the event strangely ends. But according to Sarfatti’s mother, the first phone call was followed by a series of similar phone calls – each giving Sarftatti information that would leave him forever changed. Says Sarfatti, ‘My mother remembers this experience very well. It turns out that I had forgotten most of it. This was really something that occurred over several weeks…”
This then, was the beginning of Sarfatti’s introduction to the topic.
A great fire appeared in the sky and lasted three nights,” wrote a Portuguese scribe in early March, 1582. Across the globe in feudal Japan, observers in Kyoto noted the same fiery red display in their skies, too. Similar accounts of strange nighttime lights were recorded in Leipzig, Germany, South Korea; and a dozen other cities across Europe and East Asia. The historical record seems to suggest that major storms like the one in 1582 are, at minimum, a once-in-a-century occurrence, and so we should expect one or more of them to hit Earth in the 21st century. The whole sky appeared to be burning.
Scientists studying ice core samples in Greenland found evidence of a massive solar storm stronger than any recorded in history, including the devastating coronal mass ejection (CME) of 1859 known as the Carrington Event.
The discovery implies that these types of severe solar events occur more frequently than previously believed and may support Dr. Robert Schoch’s theory of a solar-induced extinction event that wiped out several advanced, ancient civilizations.
Researchers have made some fascinating breakthroughs studying Greenland’s ice sheet lately, including the discovery of two massive, 12,000-year-old asteroid impact craters, which researchers like Graham Hancock point to as the catalyst for the Younger Dryas period – an anachronistic ice age caused by dust and sediment thrown into the atmosphere, which blocked out the sun.
Schoch says he believes the Younger Dryas suddenly ended when a massive solar storm, such as a CME, scorched the planet and led to the rapid melting of ice, causing global flooding and an inhospitable climate– what Schoch has dubbed a Solar-Induced Dark Age, or SIDA. Solar storms are caused by disturbances in the sun’s atmosphere. High energy explosions known as solar flares can be accompanied by an enormous rush of solar wind known as a coronal mass ejection. The intense heat and plasma outbursts from the sun caused further extinction of civilizations that survived the ice age, while forcing remaining survivors to retreat below ground.
Underground caves and shelters in the Cappadocia region of Anatolia, Turkey is further evidence for Schoch’s theory, which he says may be the key to our discovery of evidence for famously elusive, antediluvian civilizations such as Atlantis. According to Schoch, low-lying, thick stoned shelters with narrow entries, much like fall-out shelters or bunkers, have been found in these areas further supporting the idea that these people attempted to protect themselves from some aerial catastrophe.
This latest study appears to lend credence to Schoch’s theory, as radioactive atoms beryillium-10, chlorine-36, and carbon-14 caused by extensive radiation from solar protons were discovered in ice core samples, suggesting these types of solar storms happened way more often than once thought, and with much greater intensity.
Both Schoch’s and Hancock’s theories have been labeled “heretical” and “pseudoscientific,” but with more corroborating evidence such as this, their cases continue to strengthen. Meanwhile, the stalwarts of archeology continue to disregard mounting evidence that traditional narratives we’ve long been fed seem to be flawed.
And with this growing body of evidence showing human history may have a significantly older timeline, it’s hard to ignore Hancock’s assertion that when it comes to our own history, we may be “a species with amnesia.”
Since the 1989 power outage, the power generation industry has begun working on mitigation techniques, and taken preventative measures to make power grids more resistant to solar weather, but it’s hard to be fully prepared. When the next big solar storm comes, and it will come someday, we may not be fully ready for it. But one thing is for sure: it’s going to put on one heck of a show. The storm would have been fatal to astronauts, had they been on the moon at the time. Our computers and satellites may be damaged. They can send electromagnetic radiation and charged particle radiation hurtling our way. It could have had a catastrophic effect, blowing out electrical systems, GPS, radio systems and other technology worldwide, and sending billions of people into a blackout that could have taken years to repair. Thanks to NASA.
Space X’s Crew Dragon Plans to go to Mars
SpaceX Starship
On November 17, SpaceX’s Dragon autonomously docked with the International Space Station (ISS) after Falcon 9 launched the spacecraft to orbit from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, November 15, 2020. its first crew-capable spacecraft. Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley have successfully disembarked the SpaceX Crew Dragon space capsule and entered the International Space Station.
Space x is already showing off its much bigger, much shinier cousin: the Starship, built in Boca Chica, a coastal village at the southeastern tip of Texas, as part of a plan to carry giant crews into deep space. And NASA’s administrator is bristling.
That’s because, even though the Crew Dragon — which consists of a capsule for carrying cargo and crew into space on top of a Falcon 9 rocket — is still very much in the works, it’s well behind schedule. Awarded a NASA contract in 2014, SpaceX initially said it would deliver an operational vehicle that astronauts could fly in by 2017. But that still hasn’t happened. As of March, SpaceX has completed one uncrewed mission to the International Space Station using the Crew Dragon. It planned to launch a crewed mission later in 2019. But when a Crew Dragon capsule exploded during engine testing in April, SpaceX and NASA put off the planned first crewed mission.
On Sept. 30, Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, told CNN that the Crew Dragon would be ready to carry astronauts into space in three to four months. But NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told CNN he wasn’t convinced, and due to delays from SpaceX and Boeing (which is at work on a similarly delayed, competitor capsule called Starliner), he anticipated NASA buying more seats aboard Russian capsules.
Sabotage of US
The government of states and the Federal Government normally do not reveal sabotage. As an Intelligence Officer I look for evidence of apron and sabotage. Many people report seeing fire coming from the sky satellites.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia speculated that the real culprit behind the November 2018 wildfires in California may have been laser beam from space. The West Coast is burning and insurers are fleeing. Since February the Western half of the U.S. has been facing a record-breaking wildfire season. In California, wildfires have now burned over 4 million acres — double the destruction that the 2018 wildfires caused. So far, 8,400 buildings have been destroyed in California wild land fires
The U.S. Department of Interior states as many as 90 percent of wild land fires in the United States are caused by people lighten the fires. Some human-caused fires result from campfires left unattended, the burning of debris, downed power lines, negligently discarded cigarettes and intentional acts of arson. The remaining 10 percent are started by lightning or lava.
According to Verisk’s 2019 Wildfire Risk Analysis 4.5 million U.S. homes were identified at high or extreme risk of wildfire, with more than 2 million in California alone.
2020: By December 18, 2020 there were about 57,000 wildfires compared with 50,477 in 2019, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. More than 10.3 million acres were burned in 2020, compared with 4.7 million acres in 2019. Five of the top 20 largest California wildfires fires occurred in 2020, according to CalFire’s list. Wildfires in California have burned a record 4.2 million acres, damaging or destroying 10,500 structures and killing 31 people.
Wildfires are occurring all over the US and in many other democracies like Australia.
The West Coast is burning and insurers are fleeing and few people committing arson and sabotage are caught. Since February the Western half of the U.S. has been facing a record-breaking wildfire season. In California, wildfires have now burned over 4 million acres — double the destruction that the 2018 wildfires caused.
2020 -So far, 8,400 buildings have been destroyed in California alone.
Through much of September, at least a thousand or more and eight large wildfires each of 100,000 acres and were burning in Washington and Oregon, with 3 in Washington and 5 in Oregon. This was unprecedented for those two states, which combined only saw a total of 26 large fires from 1997 to 2019. Deaths: 46 (32 in California, 11 in Oregon, 1 in Washington, 2 in Colorado), numerous towns destroyed
Total fires: 100+ Neighbors saw Mr. Bakkela set a fire outside of his home.
Red dots indicate fires in the US during 2020
Bakkela’s neighbors had to flee the scene, Oregon Live reported. When the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department arrived on scene, they saw Bakkela standing next to a large fire.
A woman in Monterey County, California was arrested on suspicion of intentionally starting fires along the 101 freeway. The woman was identified as 37-year-old Anita Esquivel KION-TV reported.
Washington State Troopers in Puyallup arrested multiple people attempting to start fires along the interstate.
There is some evidence that the fires might be started by satellite. Many of the fires in the past are on a line from west to east and shortly after satellites pass over. People claim to see fire coming down from space. California had 8,194 wildfires in 2018 costing $ $10,380.millions for just one camp fire. Thousands of wildfires per state is common indicating these are not all accidental wildfires.
YouTube video of direct energy weapons coming from sky setting fires.
We know China has Direct energy weapons, laser, infrared, mirror and satellites that can magnify the sun passing over the US. Douglas MacKinnon of the Daily Sun writes, “China’s space supremacy could wipe out our satellites and send us back to the Stone Age As you read this, the Communist People’s Republic of China continues its military program to identify and target every single satellite in Earth orbit needed by the United States for its survival.”https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=9mYISCNn&
Houses are burned but forest is not suggesting Satellite causing fires
Insiders claim since 2017 there has been a large increase in the wildfires suggesting an deliberate plan to sabotage the US.
Many homes are destroyed away from any wildfires indicting fire from the sky.
That should be of concern to the political and military leadership of the United States and those of our allies particularly since we have proof of Chinese espionage and sabotage in many other areas.
For example China spread the COVID-19 from Wuhan all over the world but restricted all travel in China. The developed their vaccine was ready at least a year before ours. China claims their advanced medical system keept Chinese deaths down to 15,000 compared to 600,000 US deaths and the virus was wiped out of China by June of last year. Communist media reminds the Chinese people they are at war with the US.
Many and most crimes are solved using circumstantial evidenced. Dozens of terrorists have been arrested near the border where people from a 1000 different countries have crossed into the US illegally. Remember generally, acts of sabotage are not reported to the news media and kept quiet.
Congress woman Gene and foamily
Green graduated from University of Georgia and is known as a mathametician and ran a successful gym business. For suggesting Satellites may be causing some of the fires democrats removed her from committee assignments which are a good reason to believe she may have some inside information from intelligence sources.
My experience has been as an Intelligence officer that listen carefully to what the politically motivated intelligence leaders say, and believe the opposite. China is much stronger than they will admit and every logical and diabolical trick they can create is used to defeat the US. Their Chinese companies are run by generals to dream up ways to defeat democracies.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) has come under intense scrutiny and some sharp criticism, especially from Republicans, after it was revealed he was having an intimate relationship with a women suspected as being a spy for the Chinese Communist Party. She worked as a prominent Swalwell fundraiser for years—to the point she was able to influence a job hire in his Congressional office—leading to some calls for his removal from the House intelligence committee. https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-wildfires
Shadows
No. 2 of The Seven trilogy
Shadows, Fred Ellis Brock’s second novel of The Seven trilogy, has been released. It is a cross-genre thriller involving kidnapping, murder, romance, and UFO conspiracies. It is published by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. The third novel, Secrets, will be published in the summer of 2021. The first novel, The Seven, came out last June. Shadows and The Seven are available wherever books are sold, but if you’re looking online at places like Amazon, many books have “seven” and “shadows” in the title. Best to search for the author’s name. More information at www.fredellisbrock.com.
In Shadows, best-selling author Bill Sanders reluctantly returns to his hometown almost a year after an old Friend, Paul Watson, was murdered while the two were searching for Paul’s missing ten-year-old daughter.
Paul had sworn to Bill that the girl was abducted by a UFO. Only after Paul’s death did Bill come to know that his friend was telling the truth. Bill also learns of the existence of an ultra-secret group called The Seven and its shocking role in the UFO phenomenon.
Bill also makes an astonishing discovery about his and Paul’s pasts with UFOs and aliens. This, along with a letter from a dead man about the earlier death of Bill’s wife, sets him on a collision course with
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Filer’s Files 14 2021 - Commander Fravor Chases Tic Tac UFO - PART II
Winthrop, Maine Tic Tac like cylinder on March 7, 3021
Filer’s Files 14 2021 - Commander Fravor Chases Tic Tac UFO - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Commander Dave Fravor Chases Tic Tac UFO, Metamaterials for Star Gate Portals, Cold Fusion Issue, Who is Jack Sarfatti? Massive Solar Storm10,000 B.C., Space X’s Crew Dragon Plans to go to Mars, Sabotage in the US. Shadows, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, France, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
Arizona Light
Tucson — on March 16, 2021, m wife and I saw our first UFO’s at 10:30 facing the west in the night sky but they lit-up then “faded-away” twice and were gone.
We saw what appeared to be two objects. One consisted of 5 orange lights with a red outer glow in an Olympic Rings formation. This object appeared to be one craft going to. Tucson Airport when the 2nd object lit-up!
The 2nd object was a perfect line of 7-9 orange lights and illuminated about a mile north of the first lights and at about the same altitude of 1,000 to 2,000 feet high. The 2nd object faded one light after another and the first did as well till both were gone. This all happened at roughly 10:30PM Wife first saw them to when me, her and our 17yr old son saw them fade away.
I am a trained USAF observer and neither object had the FAA required Red/Green navigation lights. The craft were400-500 feet across for the first object and 700-900 feet across for the 2nd object. I am a Retired geospatial analyst with the USAF.
California Object
Temple City — at 6:15 AM on October 1, 2020, I exited my home and noticed a cube shaped metallic object floating 300 feet above my neighbor’s roof It was not a helicopter, drone, balloon or airplane.
Disbelieving what I was observing, I immediately went inside to retrieve my I-Phone and I observed a tic tac in rhe phone while I visually saw a cube. Understanding this may be some type of optical distortion, I changed to video, as the object quickly moved to the southeast. The resulting video showed the object transforming into an irregular object and then spun away .
Florida Drawing
Fort Myers – on February 5, 2021, photographed this very large craft at 1:40pm. I recognized this anti-gravity capable vessel due to an earlier sighting and photo I was able to capture and documented in MUFON case # 103691 Sept.26, 2019 similar vessel. The blue sky was identical for both sightings. This craft hung stationary for over 15 minutes and I was able to snap multiple shots. A commercial jet was flying directly at the huge shrouded ship that probably did not appear on the jet’s radar. The jet liner is easily seen on the left hand side of the first photo and makes judging the size of this craft at 4000 feet long as a realistic estimate. Of particular interest in the middle of the ship is a synthetic fog that can clearly be seen pumping out of a square exhaust port and the fog appears to be electrically charged so that it is curling back and drawn to the ship’s surfaces. The left end of the craft appeared to be where the propulsion units are housed. On the right end of the ship are several protruding features that look like radar dishes or possibly particle beam or laser devices. There is also a large glowing sphere with large tubes protruding (perhaps a power plant). Finally note the smaller cloud at the upper right partially shrouding a smaller vessel…. Alien or man-made, some people know the answers.
Hawaii Possible Crashed Object
Nope– on March 1, 2021, I have 5 more. Possible UFO crashes This is the best one to date/
Maine Cylinder
Withrope— on March 27, 2021, is morning at 4:54 am, I was driving my fiancé to work. There were two very large, suspicious looking objects in the sky below cloud level. The larger one was directly under the moon. The smaller one went out of view as we drove. The larger one however got even bigger as we drove towards but finally disappeared.
Maryland Object
Taneytow– on March 27, 2021, UFO in the sky floating/hovering. Can be seen moving in the opposite direction clouds are moving. Looked like a disc with a domed structure on top.
Massachusetts Flashing
Boston– on March 29, 2021, observed small solid object like a pill emitting intermittent bright white raveling light or flash pulses east at 3:41pm in bright blue sky. Its moving at at high rate of speed. Took 10-15 seconds to travel from horizon to horizon. An airliner was taking off from Logan Airport in background. Object had no similarity to an airplane or r and appeared at lower altitude than aircraft.
Minnesota Light
Akeley— on March 22, 2021, around 6:00 a.m. I looked out my windshield, and noticed two lights. I got out of my vehicle to get a better look and started recording as both lights began to move y up and southeast. I noticed another light begin to move and before long another glowing object appeared. This object went directly over the other light and disappeared. Their green and red flashing lights were making extreme maneuvers rotating in all directions.
Montana Lights
Florence– on July 14, 2020, my husband and I were laying in bed, I notice a red blinking light flashing in a triangle outside to the east of the house. I go up to my window and take a quick video couldn’t see much so I rush outside. The metallic saucer is now hovering out back with flashing lights going in a pattern around the craft, green blue, yellow and red. It was like looking through water or as if it was see through. We watched it for 10 minutes in awe, teenagers and little girls all saw it with us. We haven’t stopped seeing one, two or three since this day I have that video as well.
New Jersey Lights
San Antonio– on March 27, 2021, was driving on 1604 near Kilmarnoch Lane by Pillars Christian Learning center. I see a big black triangle off to my left moving quickly across my path on 1604. I got some video but its not the best. There are three red lights moving left to right. This thing blacked out the sky behind it!. Your looking for the red lights making a triangle. I was a little freaked out
New York Tic Tac
Station Island– on March 11, 2021, two tic tac shaped objects, one following the other too close to be planes. Very bright and glowing with a short tr
Oregon Object
Beaverton– on March 27, 2021, I was sitting outside as it was the first sunny day in quite awhile. I was laying back in a lawn chair and saw a black object that looked like a pill with the ends rounded like a capsule. It was flying broadside which was strange. No wings or any other distinguishing features, no visible exhaust.
Utah Object
Whiterock – on March 30, 2021, , I was up on Casper Mountain at Bear Trap Meadow testing night vision binoculars that I had just purchased. I was looking at some deer in the meadow when I saw the orb to the west. It was solid amber colored, very bright, about 1000 feet up. It seemed to hover a little then continue on a straight path to the southeast. The video is from my nightvision binoculars
Washington Lights
Richland — March 25, 2021,Narration of Video): What is that? It looks like a bunch of fireballs, something in orbit. I wonder if that is a comet. It looks like embers strung through sky. They just died out. That is the most bizarre thing I have ever seen.
Note:It is difficult to say what these objects are. They could also be space debris entering the atmosphere.
Update – Mar 27, 2021: An article in the Seattle Times Newspaper confirmed that the string of “embers” was a Space X rocket crashing back to Earth. See details of article from the Seattle Times (https://www.seattletimes.com) below:
Kapunda — on February 2, 2021, myyself and four other witnesses saw about 6 to 10 UFO’s leaving a strange black rectangular cloud. The objects travelled east to west at great speed and appeared to be disc shaped and metallic grey in colour. All five witnesses photographed the objects from five different cameras. This event has left us still shaking !
Townsville— on February26, 2021, I took this photo on my iPhone XR at the Crystal Creek lookout. I noticed upon a review of the Live Photo that there was an object streak under the clouds. It was until recently that I zoomed in on it to see what it was and was surprised at the objects pyramidal structure. In the Live Photo you can see how it distinctly streaked under the clouds, very fas.
Canada Light
Conkin – on December 8, 2020, weird lines in my picture when taking pictures of the stars.
France Cylinder
Saint-martin-du-lime — a photo taken of sunset in Mayenne , Renazé on May 23, 2014 at 8:02 p.m. with a G7 powershot gun.S een only after viewing the photo on PC. The cross visible in the photo belongs to the Château des Chesnaies, 298 meters from where I took this photo so impossible for me to determine the distance and the size of this object . Also observed firsthand with two other children “the” real “flying saucer” 30 meters in diameter in 1977 in the town of Saint-Saturnin-du-Lime. I am a customs official and work for the state.
UK/England Light
Doncaster — on March 25 , 2021, I watched this flying across the sky for about a minute traveling at high rate of speed.
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UFOs Over Ceccano, Italy On March 28, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Over Ceccano, Italy On March 28, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 28, 2021 Location of sighting: Ceccano, Italy
A family was watching from a mountaintop when they noticed two glowing objects moving about in the sky. the objects were very high, but changed directions and began to fly lower until you can see them moving over the treetops of the distant mountain. This city was founded long ago in 424 BC by the Romans. The UFOs were first seen over Castello dei Conti, a medieval castle overlooking the Sacco River Valley. Then the glowing objects moved away. Aliens are highly invested in historical sites and this city and this castle have a lot of history behind them. The aliens were studying how humans try to preserve historical sites in order for our future generations to learn from.
Glowing UFO Over Barstow, California on April 3, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Over Barstow, California on April 3, 2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 3, 2021
Location of sighting: Barstow, California, USA
These two glowing spheres were seen over Barstow, California a few days ago. The UFOs are seen moving across the sky, changing directions and altitude and even changing colors. Very exciting and close UFO to the eyewitness. Watch carefully and you will notice that the UFO seems to be aware that it's being watched. It seems that aliens are trying harder and harder to get attention of the public in order to get them use to the idea that aliens exist. 100% proof that aliens fly over California.
On March 31, 2021 Aa cigar-shaped UFO appears to be plunging into the Etna volcano.
It would not be the first time that a UFO flies into a volcano, as happened in Mexico before, but this time, instead of a UFO, it is a meteorite passing the volcano in Italy.
This UFO was filmed back in 2017 but it was submitted to MUFON’s website today. It happened over Houston, Texas.
Witness report:
One Night, On December 13 2017 while i was on my way home from a stressful day at work. A White Beautiful Light Appeared and started Hovering around and stayed stationary also went in and out of sight.
Perseverance snapped this image of the Ingenuity helicopter on March 28 close to the beginning of the deployment process.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA has plenty of experience operating wheeled rovers on Mars, but it's never tried to fly a helicopter on the red planet before. The Ingenuity rotorcraft will get a chance to make history this month by flying the Martian skies, but first the Perseverance rover had to drop it off on the ground.
As of Saturday, Ingenuity is on its own. "Mars helicopter touchdown confirmed," NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab tweeted along with a photo showing the helicopter a short distance away from the rover.
Ingenuity was perched under the belly of the Perseverance rover, and the process of deploying it took nearly a week. The rover's cameras have given us visual benchmarks of the progress. The latest image of Ingenuity all alone highlights how small it is against the wide landscape.
After letting Ingenuity loose, the rover carefully rolled away to allow the helicopter's solar panels to recharge its battery and keep it warm in the cold Martian conditions. "Next milestone? Survive the night," NASA JPL tweeted.
It's been fascinating to chart the chopper's progress. On March 31, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab shared a look at Ingenuity with all four legs reaching out. "We're in the home stretch. The Mars helicopter has lowered all four legs and is in position to touch down on the Martian surface," JPL tweeted. "Once it's fully ready, NASA Perseverance will release it gently to the surface."
Earlier this month, Perseverance shed a protective pan that kept the helicopter safe during travel, giving us a first look at the flying machine tucked under the rover's belly on the red planet. This kicked off a series of operations involving driving the rover over to the designated "airfield" spot where it set Ingenuity down on the surface before moving away and heading for an overlook.
The multi-step process of delivering Ingenuity involved releasing a locking mechanism, rotating the machine into position and deploying the spring-loaded legs, none of which happens quickly. Ingenuity remained connected to Perseverance for power during that time.
EnlargeImage - On March 29, Perseverance captured this view of Ingenuity oriented upright with two legs extended.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
On March 28, we got an early peek at Ingenuity's movements, which have an origami-like look to them. Perseverance snapped an image of the helicopter tilted to the side. On March 29, a view showed two of the landing legs popped out and the helicopter oriented to an upright position.
Now that Ingenuity has been set free, it could attempt its first test flight, a short hover, as early as April 8. We're expecting more images from Perseverance as it keeps track of the tiny chopper's efforts.
They Detect Gigantic Underground Three-Dimensional Structure near the Earth’s Surface
They Detect Gigantic Underground Three-Dimensional Structure near the Earth’s Surface
Scientists have detected a gigantic structure previously unknown deep within the Earth, under the Pacific Ocean between the core and the Earth’s mantle.
Although it is unknown what this structure is composed of, others have been detected near it, and researchers have also reported that their find provides an opportunity to better understand the intricate processes that have allowed our planet to evolve and change over time. weather.
This finding was possible thanks to the monitoring of the seismic waves that had been obtained in previous events.
As these waves travel through the interior of the Earth, they encounter changes in temperature, different compositions or densities of rocks, which cause their speed to change, bend or disperse, making it possible for the echoes to be detected by seismographs located in various parts. of the world.
By taking into account the measurement of time and the amplitude of the echoes, it can reveal the physical properties of the subsurface and reveal hidden structures , such as the one in the recent find. However, until now the investigation was not decisive and only allowed us to know the underground landscape in a “fragmentary” way.
The research that made the finding possible
To overcome the limitations of the current investigations, a team of geophysicists from the University of Maryland (UMD) analyzed thousands of recordings of seismic waves as they traveled below the Pacific Ocean basin, and they noticed a specific pattern. It was a type of wave called a shear wave named for its “S” shape.
The new way of mapping the Earth’s inner core was developed by taking a leaf from deep space exploration's book
(Image: SWNS)
Although these waves are very difficult to detect among all the random noise, the analysis of multiple recordings allowed to identify similarities and patterns in the echoes from the boundary between the molten core and the solid mantle layer above.
The researchers also had computer help, using a machine learning algorithm called Sequencer , which analyzed approximately 7,000 seismograms obtained from hundreds of earthquakes with magnitude 6.5 or greater and that occurred in the Pacific Ocean basin between 1990 and 2018.
Scientists are looking deep into the heart of our planet and hope to soon understand the processes that shield life on Earth from deadly cosmic radiation
(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)
This hard work by scientists finally made it possible to “systematically detect seismic echoes.
Doyeon Kim , a postdoctoral fellow in the UMD Department of Geology and the lead author of the paper, said in a statement :
“By looking at thousands of echoes from the central mantle boundary at a time, rather than focusing on a few at a time, as is often the case, we have gained a whole new perspective. This shows us that the core-mantle boundary region has many structures that can produce these echoes, and that was something that we had not realized before because we only had a narrow vision ”.
The researchers found three-dimensional structures near the core-mantle boundary in nearly half of all the waves that were diffracted. The most prominent was a feature located under the volcanic Marquesas Islands of the Pacific Ocean, which are probably the result of a plume root, a volcanic feature that caused the birth of many volcanic islands.
Vedran Lekik , associate professor of geology at UMD and a co-author of the study, said in a statement:
“We found echoes in about 40 percent of all seismic wave paths. That was surprising because we expected them to be rarer, and what that means is that the anomalous structures at the core-mantle boundary are much more widespread than previously thought. “
This research has confirmed the existence of many more subterranean structures than previously thought existed, and also provided important information on how plate tectonics has changed our planet over millions of years.
Something strange is happening in the skies over Malargue, Argentina – multiple UFO sightings have occurred there recently and the Argentine media is covering them in a way U.S. ufologists should be jealous of. What are these UFOs, what is attracting them to Malargue and why isn’t the U.S. media reporting on them? Could it have something to do with the space observatories there?
“Some friends from Alvear pedaled through the area of the Castles of Pincheira in Malargüe. They took several photos of the landscape, and in one, this appears.”
“This” is a UFO photographed and posted on Facebook by Lucio Aguirre. Grupo La Provincia posted the photograph, remarks that it looks like a “flying saucer” and points out that this “is the third time in the year that a similar case occurs in the same Mendoza department, and locals say it is a “common area for UFO sightings”.” That’s understandable, since Argentina is a common country for UFOs. (More on that in a minute.) Aguirre writes that his group was cycling “through the area of the Castles of Pincheira in Malargüe.” This is in west-central Argentina near the Chilean border – a beautiful area with gorgeous scenery that attracted their eyes more than the “flying saucer” he found later in the photos … if indeed that’s what it was. A common comment was “lens smudge” or a thrown rock, which are certainly possibilities … if this wasn’t a UFO hotspot.
“In mid-January of this year, Daniel Castillo, from Salta who was traveling to Neuquén, took some photos at a viewpoint on Cuesta El Chihuido in the southern department. Then when reviewing the images, he noticed a UFO coming out.”
Cuesta Del Chihuido is also in Malargüe, and Malargüe Ardiario reported on that January sighting, along with magnifying the photo and pointing out what looks like its shadow on the ground below it. Radio Mitre reported on a train of lights in February 2021 that was identified as Starlink satellites. In April of 2020, two women driving towards Malargüe called the police to report a UFO that frightened them. Fortunately, they recorded it and shared it with Malargüe a Diario and El Ciudadano (watch it here).
“The object consisted of very strong lights that, at times, were turned off. In addition to following them along the route, he changed colors, made sudden movements and accompanied them from the side. Although the video is not of good quality, the frightened women can be heard in it and it is striking that only that light was seen in the sky.”
Malargüe is home to the Pierre Auger Observatory, an international observatory searching for ultra-high energy cosmic rays, and the European Space Agency’s deep space ground station, part of its ESTRACK network. Are these what is attracting UFOs to Malargüe? The city has a small airport and is also infamous for the 1972 crash in the Andes of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, whose survivors resorted to cannibalism until they were found – a story told in “Alive” and other movies.
Or is it just Argentina? In March 2021, UFO hunters made a concerted effort to identify a mysterious UFO over Pie de Palo. In February, an “inverted walnut” UFO was seen by multiple witnesses in in Roque Pérez. Both of these locations, like Malargüe, are being referred to as “UFO hotspots.” Is it individual cities or the entire country that’s a hotspot? We could go on and on about Argentine UFOs because there are so many sightings there – enough that eliminating the lens smudges, rocks, bugs, birds and other non-UFOs doesn’t solve them all. It has to be more than just opportunities for repairs and refueling at gold, silver and other mineral mines in the mountains.
Do aliens like to tango? Until we have a reason, this writer is going with that.
The late Stephen Hawking managed to live a long (for his condition) and certainly fulfilling life after being diagnosed and ultimately debilitated by the motor neuron disease (MND) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease) – with the help of a speech generating device, a sophisticated wheelchair and the help of many friends. Peter Scott-Morgan also has motor neuron disease, but he’s gone a big step further that Hawking by making the decision and the necessary surgical changes to connect to machines and become what he calls the first human cyborg. The process, begun in 2019 just two years after his diagnosis, has reached the point where he’s announced to the world that he’s now Peter 2.0. Is he really a human cyborg?
“In short, as a transitioning cyborg my overall quality of life is exceptional,’ he said. ‘I have love, I have fun, I have hope, I have dreams and I have purpose and did I mention, I’m still alive. Really alive, not just one of the living dead, not just surviving, thriving. So when you ask the best thing in the last four years, not being dead is right up there.”
Scott-Morgan is more than “not dead” – the world-renowned roboticist is a living advertisement for the technology he has developed, along with the risky and controversial surgical decisions he has made in order to use much of it. He describes the steps in great detail in his new autobiography “Peter 2.0,” which was recently serialized by The Daily Mail. Those include a gastrostomy, a cystostomy and a colostomy all performed in a single operation so that tubes and devices could take over the functions of his stomach, bladder and colon. After training a computer to mimic his voice, he said his last words and received a laryngectomy (removal of the voice box) to prevent saliva from entering his lungs. Laser eye surgery improved the vison he needs for seeing the computer and eye-movement-controlled devices. And he was able to record a library of facial expressions while he could still make them which are now a realistic avatar.
The scientist remains determine to use technology to transform his body before being 'locked in' by the condition
While his partner of 45 years, Francis, is indispensable both physically and emotionally, his true inspiration comes from a surprising source.
“For one simple reason, all my early science education game from Doctor Who and Star Trek. Every week I learned if you’re smart enough and brave enough and have access to enough super cool technology then whatever the odds you can change everything.”
All of this work to build Peter 2.0 is not just to save Peter 1.0 – it’s to help others with motor neuron disease and other debilitating conditions. He’s starting with his voice simulator, which actually allows him to speak in any language.
“Building on the research we conducted to create my Peter 2.0 voice, world-leading @cereproc and The Scott-Morgan Foundation will be announcing a wonderful first – the chance for ANYONE losing their voice to clone it affordably!!!”
CereProc Ltd. developed the world’s most advanced text to speech technology for multiple platforms and Scott-Morgan’s foundation is helping those without his robotics knowledge, support system and financial backing to afford the same tools in a world where medical advances that give people quality of life are not a right but a product with a price that’s usually exorbitant.
“I’m not just surviving… I’m thriving!”
Peter 2.0 is obviously not the end, just the beginning. As Peter Scott-Morgan upgrades himself, he will help upgrade those like him. As he puts it, his mission is “to completely rewrite the future of disability.”
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WHAT IS MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE?
Motor neurone disease is a rare condition that mainly affects people in their 60s and 70s, but it can affect adults of all ages.
It's caused by a problem with cells in the brain and nerves called motor neurones. These cells gradually stop working over time. It's not known why this happens.
Having a close relative with motor neurone disease, or a related condition called frontotemporal dementia, can sometimes mean you're more likely to get it. But it doesn't run in families in most cases.
Early symptoms can include weakness in your ankle or leg, like finding it hard to walk upstairs; slurred speech, finding it hard to swallow, a weak grip, and gradual weight loss
If you have these sympthoms, you should see a GP. They will consider other possible conditions and can refer you to a specialist called a neurologist if necessary.
If a close relative has motor neurone disease or frontotemporal dementia and you're worried you may be at risk of it – they may refer you to a genetic counsellor to talk about your risk and any tests you can have
It seems that in the realm of UFO sightings and encounters they often seem to be drawn to certain places or regions of the world. For whatever reasons, these mysterious forces seem to gravitate towards certain areas, with these places seeming to boast an inexplicable number of reports compared with other locations. Most of the time there seems to be no knowing why this should be, but in some cases it seems plain that if there are otherworldly forces visiting our planet there is a good reason for why they come to one type of location in particular, and that is nuclear weapons facilities. Rather eerily and spookily, UFOs have long seemed to be intensely attracted to such places, and one place with its share of intense encounters is an Air Force base and nuclear weapons facility in the U.S. state of Montana.
Located in Cascade County, Montana, just outside the city of Great Falls, Malmstrom Air Force Base was originally constructed in 1942 as Great Falls Army Air Base. It was envisioned to be a strategic bomber base for World War II, also serving as a training base for four Bombardment Groups, the 2nd, 385th, 390th, and 401st, as well as a location for assembling various aircraft, including P-39 Airacobras, C-47 Skytrains, B-25 Mitchells, and A-20 Havocs. After World War II, the base became important as a strategic defense site during the Cold War era, playing an important role in many missions, and from 1959 it became the home of the 341st Strategic Missile Wing and the 10th Strategic Missile Squadron, acting as a base for nuclear ICBM missiles. By 1967, it was the largest in the United States, covering 23,500 square miles, and not long after that it boasted a total of 200 Minuteman II missiles. The base’s missiles were on the forefront of America’s nuclear defense, on constant alert during the Cold War era, and were on a high level of strategic alert and a hair trigger during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Yet it seems as though there were other forces besides the Soviets that were interested in all of those nukes.
Malmstrom Air Force Base
There have been many reports of some very intense UFO activity at Malmstrom AFB over the years, much of it compiled by UFO researcher Robert L. Hastings, author of The UFO/Nukes Connection, who through Freedom of Information Act requests and interviews with numerous witnesses has managed to piece together a rather ominous tapestry of UFO reports from several nuclear-equipped Air Force Bases, chief among these being Malmstrom. Hastings has been researching the phenomenon involving UFOs and nukes for over 30 years, and some of the reports he has uncovered from Malmstrom are sobering, to say the least. One of these people with a tale to tell is former USAF Minuteman ICBM targeting officer 1st Lt. Robert C. Jamison, who says that in March of 1967, Air Fore Security police began to chatter over the radios about a UFO sighting in the vicinity of the base, after which there were orders from their superiors instructing them to get underground if any UFO was to appear near one of the silos, as well as orders to keep superiors informed of the UFOs’ movements, and shortly after this 10 of the base’s Minuteman ICBMs suddenly and inexplicably shut down, which required his team to go restart them. This wouldn’t even be the end of it, as Hastings adds:
Jamison said that immediately after the missile shutdown incident, for a period of approximately two weeks, his team received a special UFO briefing before being dispatched to the field. Jamison said that approximately two weeks after the full-flight missile shutdown, his team responded to another, partial shutdown—involving four or five ICBMs. Prior to being dispatched, Jamison’s team received a report that the missile failures had occurred immediately after a UFO was sighted over the flight’s Launch Control Facility. Jamison recalls that this incident took place at a flight located south or southwest of Great Falls, possibly India Flight, and during daylight hours. Jamison said that he had subsequently spoken with several individuals, mostly missile security guards, who had witnessed various UFO-related incidents. He reports that they were “visibly shaken” by their experiences. Jamison’s statements are important because they indicate that the Air Force was fully aware of UFO involvement in at least two missile flight shutdown incidents prior to dispatching the missile maintenance teams to restart the ICBMs. Specifically, according to Jamison, the 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron undertook certain precautions and formally implemented various procedures to protect the teams’ safety while in the field. In this respect, his testimony is unprecedented.
Were these UFOs responsible for the missile shutdowns, and did the military know about them, hence their detailed instructions on how to proceed? Who knows? It seems like 1967 was the year for these UFOs to be taking a very keen interest in the base, because there were several other reports from that same year. One of these comes from former US Air Force Captain Robert Salas, who says that on the morning of March 16, 1967 security forces reported a red light glowing in the sky near the front gate. This light was soon joined by another, this one white in color, and both of them flew about in a zig-zag pattern. Salas wasn’t sure how seriously to take this report at first, but when another panicked call came in from security who claimed that the lights were still there and one of the men had been injured, after which the call went dead.
Salas immediately contacted his superior, Lt. Fred Meiwald, and as they were speaking a security alarm went off indicating a “no go” alert, meaning that missiles had been somehow disabled. In this case, as with Jamison, a full flight of 10 missiles had gone offline. As this was going on, more security air control personnel were calling in to say that the lights were still hovering around the gate, and then they suddenly sped off, the missiles coming right back online as soon as they were gone. An investigation into the incident by a team of engineers from the Boeing company could find no rational reason for why the missiles had shut down and been knocked off alert, their best guess being that it had been the result of some kind of EMP pulse. But who directed that pulse? Salas was convinced it was directly related to the UFOs seen, but that it was not an aggressive gesture, saying:
They could have a lot more damage, permanent damage, to our weapons systems, and they didn’t. If they wanted to destroy them, with all the powers they seem to have, I think they could have done that job, so I personally don’t think this was a hostile intent.
Another report comes from a Staff Sgt. Louis D. Kenneweg, who at the time of these incidents was stationed at Malmstrom as a Minuteman ICBM maintenance clerk. His bizarre story begins one night as he was driving to the base to report for duty when he saw something in the sky, of which he would say:
As I traveled down one of the roads parallel to the flightline. I saw something that I first thought was a private plane’s lights, blinking. As I watched it get closer, I realized that it wasn’t blinking at all, but zig-zagging. First here, then there, traveling too fast for a plane, then looming over the flightline. I got up late, and I knew that I had little time, but I stopped anyway. I opened the car door, got out, and focused on the lights. I watched it as long as I could, without being late to work. I remember saying to myself that this pilot was going to be in a lot of trouble, coming across the runway, or at least across the Air Force Base property. I don’t remember it traveling that close to me, but I do remember the image of it disappearing in a low southerly trajectory over the [MIMS] hangar. Of course, it was much farther away than it appeared. At that point, it wasn’t ‘blinking’ anymore but had more of a glow. It appeared as a bright light the size of the moon, on a cloudy night, although I don’t remember it being cloudy.
He continued to the base and found it to be in a state of chaos and high activity when he arrived. Obviously, he had not been the only one to have seen the strange object, as the whole area was buzzing with frantic activity, with several large trucks being loaded and missile maintenance teams being sent out into the field. Although no one directly informed him of what had happened or what all the fuss was about, it did not take long for him to hear rumors whispered by the other men. He would say:
The barracks was buzzing. Stories about how when they got to the missile silos and found no damage, and how all the batteries were dead. I also heard a story that UFOs were seen on radar, then they were gone. Our missile sites each had a tertiary power system. The main power source was delivered by Montana Power. Telephone poles, transformers and wire. The second system was the diesel generators, and the third was the battery back-up within the silo itself. Numerous reports came back saying that they had found no damage to the fences, wires, transformers, microwave intrusion system, locks on the three-foot-thick concrete blast doors, or to the batteries. So, no evidence of damage from intruders or animals, lightning or fire. Just three sources of power vanished and the batteries were dead. As I recall, there were other nights where the guys would come back and look a little shaken, all within that same time-period.
In that same time frame we have the account of Airman 1st Class David Hughes, who was stationed at Malmstrom between 1966 to 1967 as an Air Policeman with the 341st Combat Defense Squadron. At the time, he was working at what he calls the “Foxtrot” Flight Launch Control Facility, and he says that on many occasions he and the others would see a strange light in the sky between Choteau and Augusta, Montana, often hovering about near the base and seeming to circle around it. Although there were no inexplicable missile malfunctions reported, it was definitely eerie, and he has said of it:
This light would move at incredible speeds, make right-angle moves, and continue for hours. When seeking further information from wing command, we were often insulted when told it was a Telstar satellite. On one occasion we were told by other friends working in the air traffic control tower at the base that aircraft had been launched to seek to identify a strange radar echo that had appeared on their screens and on the screens of the local airport. This was later denied the next day, but if memory serves, the local newspaper had an story on it the next day. This must have happened sometime in early 1967, or late 1966. All I know is that some strange things consumed our attention many nights while on patrol. We patrolled from Augusta to Choteau each night and frequently saw something that lent credence to the UFO concept. To us, ‘UFO’ simply meant it was an Unidentified Flying Object, either from our military or some unknown source. We never believed the satellite story. However, when we learned that the jets had been scrambled and the next day it was denied, then we knew something was up.
In later years reports of UFOs at the base would continue. From 1975 we have the report made by Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Chassey, a former Minuteman ICBM maintenance technician with the 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron. He claims that in the fall of that year, he overheard radio chatter between Air Force Security Police excitedly talking about a strange light hovering right over the weapons storage facility. The following day he would hear more rumors from a colleague, who told him that two helicopters had actually been scrambled to intercept it, but that it had flown away at high speed towards the town of Belt, only to circle back around to hover over the storage area again, each time speeding away and coming back when the helicopters tried to chase it, with Chassey saying “It flat outran the helicopters. We heard that it zipped out to Belt and back to the base in no time.”
What did this craft want and why was it so interested in that storage area? No one has a clue. In that same year, a Lt. Col. Robert Peisher was advised by the local police that there had been a series of cattle mutilations near the missile sites and ICBM launch facilities, although what connection this may have to what was being seen is unknown. Reports of UFO activity at the base continued on right into the 1990s. In 1992, a base security policeman by the name of Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Brown says that he and his partner were posted at one of the missile silos, staking it out due to an alarm system malfunction that had also knocked out power on the ground. Their job was to make sure the silo was safe until the systems went back online, and they were taking turns on watch. As his partner slept, Peisher noticed a bright white light in the sky, “moving erratically.” The light apparently was lurking about near one of the silos, speeding off and then coming back to hover, which was enough to get him to wake his partner. He told Hastings of what had happened:
This light was doing some wild things in the sky, sudden direction changes, moving very fast, then stopping, then shooting off in another direction. I watched this for about 15 to 20 minutes. I started getting spooked, so I reached out the window of the truck and started banging on the camper shell to wake my partner up. He finally came around the front, asking me what was wrong. I pointed to the light and told him I’d been watching it for around 20 minutes and I didn’t know what it was. He got into the passenger side of the truck and we kept watching this thing doing its acrobatics.
Before long, their radio came alive with security chatter from people who were all seeing the same exact thing. The mysterious object would lurk about the area until the sun began to come up, after which it disappeared off into the distance. According to Peisher, all of the security teams who had witnessed the object were later debriefed and told by their superiors in no uncertain terms not to discuss what they had seen with anyone. In 1995 we have a case from January 20 of that year, when an Alert response Team sighted a light in the sky that they could not explain. They radioed it to a missile maintenance team at a nearby silo, who confirmed that they saw it too. This light was apparently very large, with other multicolored lights along its sides, and described as moving slowly over the missile field. After some time, it moved off into the distance. It would later turn out that there had been several sightings of a UFO in the region in the days before and after this incident.
More recently still is an account from February of 1996 from Tech. Sgt. Jeff Goodrich, who was the Team Chief of Missile Handling for the 341st Maintenance Squadron. He claims that he and his team were working at a remote site called the Missile Roll Transfer Building when they observed a formation of five triangular-shaped objects flying completely silently and in unison near the base, and on two occasions stopping to hover motionlessly. Calls to Malmstrom’s air traffic control tower and that of the nearby civilian airport showed that they had not picked up anything on radar that could explain what they had seen. In the meantime, the objects slowly moved over a portion of the missile field and then continued off into the distance. These reports from Malmstrom AFB and others like them are only the tip of the iceberg, and there have been accounts very similar to these from other Air Force bases harboring nuclear weapons. Why should this be and what do these mysterious forces want? Hastings believes that it is all tied to our leaps and bounds in nuclear weapons since World War II, and that indeed the increase in worldwide UFO sightings in general since that time is likely related to our nuclear capability. He says of this:
Considering these and similar accounts—too numerous and credible to dismiss—I would argue, as others have before me, that the heightened presence of the UFO phenomenon since the end of World War II is a direct consequence of the advent of the Nuclear Age. To suggest that this is the only explanation for widespread UFO sightings during our own era would be presumptuous, simplistic, and undoubtedly inaccurate. Nevertheless, I believe that the nuclear weapons-related incidents are integral to an understanding of the mystery at hand.
Reports like this have come in from various nuclear facilities throughout the United States and paint a rather spooky picture. There definitely seem to be some correlation between UFO reports and nuclear facilities, and it leaves us to wonder what is going on here. Are they watching these places, perhaps from time to time letting us know that they know what we are up to and that they can shut it all down? Or is this all due to some other phenomena, being misinterpreted and misidentified even by these experienced men? It is hard to say just what is going on here, but the fact that so much strangeness in the skies seems to go on over nuclear weapon facilities seems to be decidedly creepy at the very least.
Some people just seem to draw strangeness to them. One area where this can be seen are so-called “contactees,” those unique individuals who, for whatever reasons, seem to attract UFOs and aliens. There are numerous stories along these lines, each more bizarre than the last, and they leave us struggling to know what to make of them. One very weird such case comes to us from an ex-Marine who has been continually visited by alien beings and who says that it is an ominous sign of things to come.
Terrell Copeland, of Suffolk, Virginia, is not the kind of person one would think would make up far-fetched stories. A former United States Marine, he has long been considered by friends and family to be a no nonsense, hardworking and practical guy, not prone to telling strange tales, but this would change starting in on the night of October 24, 2005. On this evening he was on a street not far from the Dismal Swamp when he saw off in the distance about 2 miles away “a massive ball of light” that was at an estimated altitude of 15,000 feet and being circled by jet fighters. As he watched, the ball of light and fighter jets moved off into the distance out of sight. He wasn’t quite able to wrap his head around what he had seen, and then three nights later he saw something strange again over a Suffolk shopping center. He says of this:
I was driving in front of the Fresh Pride grocery center and saw it up close. The light was hovering over the center. I pulled up to the parking lot and was not prepared for what I saw. There was an object inside the light. The light had been an illusion. At first, I thought it was just a stealth bomber, but I realized a stealth wasn’t that big.
Terrell Copeland
He would describe the object as a massive triangular shape that moved very slowly out across the sky. These two sightings would prove to be just the beginning of a series of strange incidents he would witness over the coming years. He began to have numerous sightings of strange objects in the sky, often seen from the window of his apartment, while others seemed to occur mostly over lakes and landfills, which led him to believe they were using these places as hiding spots. Some of these objects he actually managed to film, which led to some bizarre and frightening experiences. One time he claims that he was visited by a mysterious man in military clothes who told him to remove one such video he had posted online, and another even more surreal experience happened after he captured another video on his cell phone from his apartment window and posted it online. He says after the video was posted he woke from a nap to hear someone at the door, and he explains of this:
It was an orb of light. Just a big ball of light. It wasn’t moving. One was solid white. The other was directly across the street from it … up 300 feet above ground and was changing colors very rapidly. I thought “This is … this is not usual. Something’s wrong here. Maybe I am in over my head. I’m not supposed to be looking at this stuff. I woke up from the nap by the sound of someone trying to enter my apartment. And I said, ‘Who is it?’ There was no answer. Still just, you know, you could see the door knob moving and like a scratching at the door. And I keep a firearm. It was on my table. And my thought was to get up and check. But I was in complete paralysis. The only things I could move were my eyes. And I heard a voice through the door say, ‘You don’t need that weapon. We won’t harm.’
After this, he says his experiences began to get more intense. He found he would often have bouts of missing time, that he could not account for, as well as temporary paralysis and occasions in which he was visited be strange entities in his sleep but later be convinced it had not been a dream. He says of one such episode:
The first time was during the last Saturday in February of 2008. I went to sleep on my couch and woke up in a massive dining hall. There were lots of tables. Everything was white. People were eating. They all looked like human beings. They were tucked away in a position that made no sense. It’s not something I would do. The only conclusion for me was that they brought me in and out through the window.
These unsettling incidents came to be more and more common, to the point that he was sure that he was being abducted by alien beings who had for whatever reasons taken an interest in him and wanted to study him. Sometimes he would remember what happened clearly, at other times is was all blurry and indistinct like a half-remembered dream, whereas many times he remembered almost nothing at all. He tried keeping a sort of dream journal, jotting down whatever he could remember in the wake of these odd encounters. He would say of one such incident:
I was in a room and I saw a woman who did not have complete human features. She had the typical black eyes that you hear about. She had an elongated skull. And that startled me. And the next memory I have is me standing on my balcony waving at this cylinder-shaped ship.
Copeland began to look into the alien abduction phenomenon and even travelled 600 miles to attend a seminar of people who had experienced similar things to him, which was attended by 1500 people who were either abductees, those curious about UFOs and aliens, or ufologists. It was partly his participation in this conference that captured the attention of The History Channel’s UFO Hunters series, which did a whole segment on his experiences. Host Bill Birnes even speculated that Copeland was an alien hybrid and didn’t know it, and that’s why he was being so closely watched, to which Copeland responded, “That’s heavy. It’s not surprising to me, though. After all that’s happened these last couple of years, it could be true.” The UFO Hunters team even brought Copeland to medical experts for testing, where he was found to have an “unknown, rare blood disorder,” whatever that means, which the show claimed was also shared by other supposed alien abductees. As to why these aliens might have taken an interest in him, Copeland can’t really say, although he firmly believes that these beings are monitoring us and are preparing to meet humanity face to face, whether we like it or not. He says of this:
I truly believe that’s what all of this is leading to – a meeting with a biological entity. Every culture from the Aztecs to the Egyptians talks about someone coming from the sky. The information is there for us. Unfortunately, we don’t look at things with a logical mindset. … As humans with modern civilization, we’ve been blessed and think we’re at the top of the proverbial food chain. But that isn’t the case. They will reveal themselves and intervene in human affairs. We need to get off our high horses. People will not take the integration lightly. … They’re going to show themselves. Get ready. You want change? Change is coming.
It is a rather ominous note to end on, leaving one to wonder what sort of change this might be. Copeland seems to be on the surface a very sincere and reliable witness, but one has to wonder just how much of his bonkers tales are true. Is there anything to be learned from this all, and if so, what? If any of this is real, then what are these entities trying to tell us? Your guess is as good as anyone’s, and while we try to figure it all out, similar reports keep coming in.
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Roswell "Aliens" Were Human Hybrid: Fallen Angel Breeding Program
Roswell "Aliens" Were Human Hybrid: Fallen Angel Breeding Program
By Lee Austin
In reviewing the Roswell, New Mexico “alien” crash of 1947, there’s a contradiction hiding in plain sight for those who believe aliens are fallen angels. During the infamous autopsy film of the two beings who were found at the crash site, it became obvious they were not the dead bodies of humans, but a hybrid of some sort
Angels have a celestial body and are immortal. Therefore, the Roswell crash victims could not have been angels. I believe they were not human nor angelic, but a combination of both. An interdimensional hybrid being, which is the result of a breeding program instituted by fallen angels.
Not only do fallen angels continue to mate with human women to this very day. They’ve been passing their forbidden knowledge to the Luciferian elite, who control this fallen world. In the Book of Enoch it is disclosed the fallen angels educated man in the secrets of the esoteric religion including sorcery, incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees. (Enoch 7:10) They also taught men to make swords, knives, shields, breastplates, the fabrication of mirrors, and the workmanship of bracelets and ornaments, the use of paint, the beautifying of the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select kind, and all sorts of dyes, and our knowledge of these things caused the world to become altered and corrupted. (Enoch 8:1-2) And they taught men every kind of iniquity upon earth, and disclosed to the world all the secret things which are done in the heavens. (Enoch 9:5) The whole world was corrupted by their knowledge and God pronounced judgment upon those angels for this crime. (Enoch 10:12)
And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; (Jude 1:
The secrets of their origin and future incursion may are also found in the ancient texts of The Book Of The Secrets Of Enoch, The Book Of Jubilees, The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and The Book Of Giants.
For seventy generations, the dark angels have been imprisoned in the second heaven of the fourth dimension. And in the Abyss, thirty-six-hundred miles below the surface of the earth, included in their rank are the two-hundred Watcher angels – aka Grigori – who descended on Mount Hermon, putting on a garment of flesh and procreating with female images.
Genesis 6, verse 4, says, “There were giants in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them. The same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown.”
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 7 says, “It happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days that daughters were born to them, elegant and beautiful. And when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamored of them, saying to each other, ‘Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children.’”
The Book of Jubilees, Chapter 5 says, “And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants.”
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 7, Verse 2 says, “Wherefore have you forsaken the lofty and holy heaven, and have lain with women; have defiled yourselves with the daughters of men; have taken to yourselves wives; have acted like the sons of the earth, and have begotten an impious offspring?”
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: Testament of Reuben, Chapter 2, Verses 18-19 says, “For thus they allured the Watchers who were before the flood; for as these continually beheld them, they lusted after them and they conceived the act in their mind; for they changed themselves into the shape of men, and appeared to them when they were with their husbands. And the women lusting in their minds after their forms, gave birth to giants, for the Watcher appeared to them as reaching even unto the heaven.”
Ezekiel 23:20 says, “There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emissions was like that of horses.”
Moses, Enoch, Ruben and Ezekiel each describe a giant race of satanically-inspired hybrids known as the Nephilim: half-dark angel, half-human. They were created for the singular purpose of corrupting the DNA genome code of humans and preventing a future offer of redemption from God.
Before the fall, Adam and Eve reflected the Ancient of Day’s perfect triple-helix DNA genome code, wearing their spirits externally and bodies internally. After their expulsion from Eden, both were downgraded to a perishable double-helix DNA genome code, displaying their bodies externally and their spirits internally.
The Testaments of The Twelve Patriarchs: The Testament of Naphtali, Chapter 1, Verse 27 says, “In like manner the Watchers also changed the order of nature, whom the Lord cursed at the flood, on whose account He made the earth without inhabitants an fruitless.”
God creates within a framework of three. When Adam and Eve fell, their systemic triple-helix DNA code transmuted from three strands into two. One whole comprised of three became two-thirds of one… or sixty-six-point-six percent of one…… Six, Six, Six. The number of an image. It’s the third strand of DNA code that enables images to telepathically communicate with The Demiurge and trans-relocate into the ten dimensions or heavens without the obstacle of time and space.
Every human contains a scroll of DNA determining their physicality, intellect and emotions. Forty-six chromosomes from the father and mother form one individual set containing a double helix DNA genome code. This physical testimony and record of the parents’ lives has been passed down and preserved since the deluge. Prior to the flood, the Ancient of Days initiated the DNA destruction of the Nephilim by turning them against each other through mutual slaughter.
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 10, Verse 13 says, “To Gabriel also the Lord said, ‘Go to the biters, to the reprobates, to the children of fornication and destroy the children of fornication, the offspring of the watchers, from among men. Bring them forth, and excite them on against another. Let them perish by mutual slaughter; for the length of days shall not be theirs.’” The Ancient of Days then forced the Watchers to observe the slaughter of their progeny, the Nephilim.
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 12, Verses 5-7 says, “Then the Lord said to me, Enoch, scribe of righteousness, ‘Go tell the watchers of heaven, who have deserted the lofty sky, and their holy everlasting station, who have been polluted with women and have done as the sons of men do, by taking to themselves wives, and who have been greatly corrupted on the earth; That on the earth they shall never obtain peace and remission of sin. For they shall not rejoice in their offspring; they shall behold the slaughter of their beloved; shall lament for the destruction of their sons; and shall petition for ever; but shall not obtain mercy and peace.’” These satanically-inspired hybrids consumed all vegetation, animals, images, and finally each other.
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 7, Verse 2-5 says, “The women became pregnant and gave birth to giants, four-hundred and fifty feet tall. They ate the labors of men. As they were unable to supply them, the giants grew bold against them and devoured the men. They began to sin against birds, animals, reptiles and fish, and to eat the flesh of each other. And they drank the blood.”
The Book of Giants 1Q23 Frag 1&6 says, “Two-hundred donkeys, two-hundred asses, two hundred rams of the flock, two-hundred goats, two-hundred beasts of the field from every animal., from every bird were selected for miscegeneration (interbreeding).
The Book of Giants 4Q531 Frag. 2 says, “they defiled…they begot giants and monsters…they begot, and, behold, all the earth was corrupted…”
The Book of Jubilees, Chapter 5, Verse 2 says, “And lawlessness increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike man and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walketh on the earth- all of them corrupted their ways and their orders, and they began to devour each other, and lawlessness increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men (was) thus evil continually.”
Engaging in beastiality, the Nephilim produced multiple varieties of chimeras and monsters. The satyr, griffin and faun were not fictional mutants of Greek mythology, but actual historical abominations. Tales of the Titans in Sumerian, Egyptian, and Roman civilizations are further evidence of the Nephilim’s incursion before and after the deluge.
The Nephilim maintained their power by human blood sacrifices, becoming the first DNA genome code carriers of Black Goo Programmable Matter, the sentient agent of infection found in the bowels of the Abyss, and contained within the apple that transmuted Adam and Eve from incorruptible to corruptible.
Goliath was allegedly thirteen feet tall. Can you expect me to believe that the pre-flood giants were four-hundred and fifty feet tall? . Consider the red kangaroo. Weighing only three-one-hundredths of an ounce at birth, it grows to an adult weight of one-hundred and eighty pounds, an increase of ninety-six thousand times its birth weight. In a similar fashion, the weight of a Nephilim is comparable to an infant.
However, it was the corrupted seed of the Watcher angel that precipitated the exponential growth after birth. Nephilim are eternal beings. Although their mortal bodies died in the flood, the disembodied spirits exist today as fierce, terrestrial spirits known as demons, whose purpose is to torment and destroy.
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 15, Verses 8-10 says, “Now the giants, who have been called upon earth evil spirits, shall proceed from their flesh, because they were created from above; from the holy watchers was their beginning and primary foundation. Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits of heaven shall be in heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born on earth. The spirits of the giants shall be like clouds, which shall oppress, corrupt, fall, contend, and bruise upon earth. They shall cause lamentation. No food shall they eat; and they shall be thirsty; they shall be concealed, and shall not rise up against the sons of men, and against women; for they come forth during the days of slaughter and destruction.”
Without hope, demons feed off the generational destruction of images and animals. Whether cast out or forced to leave after the death of its victim, demons will continue to seek another host. My minions are restricted to two locations: the third dimension of the first heaven, and Hell, which is thirty-six hundred miles below the surface of my flat earth.
Luke Chapter 11, Verse 24 says, “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then is says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’”
Pre-flood vegetation was abnormally large. During the Antediluvian, pre-deluge age, images lived hundreds of years. Multiply the size of an average redwood tree by five and you’ll have an idea of the landscape from Adam to Noah. Prior to the flood, thousands of forests were packed with giant silicon trees reaching into the clouds. Pre-flood trees were the first organic skyscrapers. Today, the desert rock landscapes are the remains of these giant silicon forests. Before the deluge, millions of Nephilim quarried all of the giant forests with their insatiable appetite.
Finally, when all of the vegetation and animals were depleted, the Nephilim resorted to consuming images and each other. Observing the carnage from the third Heaven, the arc angels submitted their petition to the Ancient of Days. Judgment and the deluge followed. Because their double-helix DNA genome code wasn’t tainted with Black Goo, only Noah and his family were spared from annihilation.
Genesis Chapter 6, Verse 9 says, “Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with The One.” Perfect in his generations goes a lot deeper. Here is a description of Noah’s birth. Get ready for your theology to be rocked.
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 105, Verses 1-4 & 15-16 says, “After a time, my son Mathusala took a wife for his son Lamech. She became pregnant by him, and brought forth a child, the flesh of which was as white as snow, and red as a rose; the hair of whose head was white like wool, and long; and whose eyes were beautiful. When he opened them, he illuminated all the house, like the sun; the whole house abounded with light. And when he was taken from the hand of the midwife, opening also his mouth, he spoke to the Lord of righteousness. Then Lamech his father was afraid of him; and flying away, came to his own father Mathusala, and said, ‘I have begotten a son, unlike to other children. He is not human, but resembling the offspring of the angels of heaven, is of a different nature from ours, being altogether unlike to us. His eyes are bright as the rays of the sun; his countenance glorious, and he looks not as if he belonged to me, but to the angels.’ ‘This child, which is born to you, shall survive on the earth, and his three sons shall be saved with him. When all mankind who are on the earth shall die, he shall be safe. And his posterity shall beget on the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal. Upon the earth shall a great punishment be inflicted, and it shall be washed from all corruption. Now therefore inform thy son Lemech that he who is born is his child in truth: and he call his name Noah, for he shall be to you a survivor.’”
Despite an acute awareness of the consequences, the Watcher angels procreated with female images in a corrupted alchemical mix of mortal and immortal.
The Book of Enoch, Chapter 7, Verses 3-7 says, “Then their leader Samyaza said to them, ‘I fear that you may perhaps be indisposed to the performance of this enterprise; and that I alone shall suffer for so grievous a crime.’ But they answered him and said, ‘We all swear and bind ourselves by mutual execrations that we will not change our intention, but execute our projected undertaking.’ Then they swore all together, and all bound themselves by mutual execrations. Their number was two hundred, who descended up ardis, which is the top of mount armon.”
Enoch the scribe communicated the Watchers’ supplication before the Ancient of Days, who rejected their request for grace. The Watchers/Grigori witnessed their Nephilim offspring perish in the flood as they were cast into the great darkness of the second heaven for seventy generations. The end of seventieth generation is upon us.
The Book of the Secrets of Enoch, Chapter 18, Verse 3 says, “And they said to me, ‘These are the Grigori, who with their prince Sananail rejected the Lord of light, and after them are those who are held in great darkness on the second heaven. And three of them went down on to earth from the Lord’s throne to the place Ermon, and broke their vows on the shoulder of the hill Eron and saw the daughters of men how good they are, and took to themselves wives, and befouled the earth with their deeds, who in all times of their age made lawlessness and mixing, and giants are born and marvellous big men and great enmity.’”
The Book of Daniel, Chapter 9, Werse 27 states that the seventieth week is reserved for my rule over the flat earth. “He will make a treaty with the people for a period of one set of seven.” One set of seven is seven years. The Ancient of Days designated four-hundred and ninety years
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TicTac UFO Over Deming, New Mexico 4-3-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
TicTac UFO Over Deming, New Mexico 4-3-2021, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 4-3-2021 Location of sighting: Deming, New Mexico, USA Source: MUFON 114560
Here is a fantastic video. An eyewitness was coming back from Roswell when he passed Deming, New Mexico and noticed this tictac UFO in the distance. He stopped his car (very important in a sighting, so few people do that) and recorded three short videos of the craft. The UFO is white oval and not moving at all. But the reflection from the sun off the screen made it impossible for the guy to see it on his phone screen. You can hear him express his frustration in one part of the video. This UFO was only 330km 206 miles from Roswell, the famous UFO crash site. This is a UFO and it was watching him and thats why it wasn't moving around. The alien craft was trying to test the eyewitnesses curiosity. Thus, learning more about what to expect when they reveal themselves to all humanity.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was driving back from Roswell for the holiday yesterday, April 3, 2021. At about 4:30 I had just passed Deming when I noticed something hovering over the mountains to the south of the 10. I pulled over and stared for a while. It never moved, and from that angle it looked dark. I drove further up the 10 and passed 3 RV's which were pulled over, all staring out their windows to the same direction I had been looking. I passed the mountain and from this angle the object appeared to be white and reflect the sun. It was too high to be a helicopter and, being from L.A. I see helicopters all the time, I know what they look like and how they maneuver. It couldn't have been a blimp or an airplane. It was a crystal clear sky, with no clouds and the sun was bright. The thing just hung there. I checked my map to see if there was an exit close enough that I could get to while keeping it in sight, and saw there was, with a road that got closer. I ended up at this spot: [exact location details have been moved to Investigators report section/ CMS/fgc] but the dirt road led back to what looked like private property, and to be honest I was a little too freaked out to want to drive towards this thing.
When I'd tried to take pictures on my phone the camera failed multiple times before I got a picture. I couldn't see the object on my screen while I was trying to get a picture, so it's sheer luck that I managed to get it at all. I went back to the gas station at the exit to see if anyone was looking towards the object, but there were only truckers in their trucks and some people inside the station. I was too timid to approach people to ask them to look. The object never left, and I assumed, given where I was, the possibilities could be numerous and I wasn't going to get an explanation, so I continued home.
Artist's Impression of a collision of two icy asteroid-sized bodies orbiting the bright star Fomalhaut
(photo credit: REUTERS)
If an asteroid heads towards Earth, what can we possibly do to stop it from impacting the planet?
According to NASA: Punch it.
Stopping an asteroid impact is something that has been tossed around in both science fiction and serious scientific discussions. Various solutions have been proposed and displayed.
But NASA scientists actually have a plan in place to "punch" an asteroid away, or rather, have a spaceship collide with it head-on.
The concept seems ridiculous, almost like an April Fool's Day joke. But the project is very real, and is well into the planning and development phases.
The project is known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission, and has been developed by NASA and John Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory along with several NASA centers.
The technology involved, as detailed on NASA's website, includes what they call the "kinetic impactor" technique, which should be able to change an asteroid's motion in space.
A spacecraft will crash straight into an asteroid at a speed of around 6.6 kilometers per second, which should force it to change the speed of its orbit. It will only change it by a fraction of a percent, but it is enough to be observed and measured by astronomers with telescopes.
The craft's launch window is set to first open in late July, and will be launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will then travel to its first test in the Didymos asteroid system. It is expected that mankind's first battle against an asteroid will take place in September 2022, when the craft will arrive in the system.
“Up until now, we haven’t had too many options for what we might do if we found something that was incoming,” APL astronomer and DART investigation team leader Andy Rivkin told Vice News.
“DART is the first test of how we might be able to deflect something without having to resort to a nuclear package – or sitting in our basements, waiting it out and crossing our fingers.”
The nuclear option Rivkin referred to is among the most commonly seen methods of asteroid destruction in popular culture. Essentially, it would see nuclear weapons be used to blast the asteroid apart.
The idea is very spectacular to think about, and makes for an impressive visual for science fiction films. In real life, however, the idea is not ideal at best, and potentially catastrophic at worst. This is because destroying an asteroid will result in the formation of smaller rocks, still likely heading towards our planet. If they get through Earth's atmosphere, the damage they could cause would still be severe.
The DART project is more subtle, nudging the asteroid with a softer jab rather than an explosive nuke.
Rivkin acknowledged this, telling Vice that scientists really just want to see what happens. He told the news outlet: “If asteroids are to keep you awake at night, let it be with excitement about how cool they are, and not concern.”
Enemy drone attack threats are a key part of the inspiration for newer kinds of laser weapons because they can incinerate drones without generating large amounts of explosive fragmentation. Moreover, newer lasers can scale attacks to align with the target and desired combat effect and, perhaps most of all, travel at the speed of light to destroy drones quickly, ideally before they are able to strike.
Attacking drone swarms may be approaching for attack so quickly that kinetic responses such as interceptor missile fire control systems may be challenged in certain respects, depending upon the extent of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled target recognition technology and computer automation.
The question of scaling lasers to optimize power input for counter-drone strikes is addressed in a recent essay from May of last year called “Testing the Efficiency of Laser Technology to Destroy Rogue Drones,” in the Security & Defense Quarterly from War Studies University. The essay describes innovative experimental methods of “incorporating a laser module and groups of optical lenses to focus the power in one point to carbonize any target.” Specifically, the research paper explained, a laser lens was adjusted to zero in or focus upon particular distant objects.
“We measured the necessary time to burnt acrylic plastic, wood, and hard carton from a distance of 55 metres. It was noticed that the laser efficiency is proportional to the laser power and time the cannon is turned on,” the essay writes.
In a discussion with The National Interest, Army Futures Command Commander Gen. John Murray made the point that pre-programmed or autonomous drones do indeed potentially present a uniquely difficult, first-of-its kind defensive predicament which requires tailorable solutions. Perhaps AI-enabled defenses can help discern key specifics related to an incoming drone threat and help determine the optimal countermeasure, which may in many cases be lasers.
“When you have little drones operating in different patterns and formations, all talking to each other and staying in sync with one another...imagine that with the ability to create lethal effects on the battlefield. There is no human who will be able to keep up with that,” Murray told The National Interest in an interview.
AI-capable drone defenses can already gather, pool, organize and analyze an otherwise disconnected array of threat variables, compare them against one another in relation to what kinds of defense responses might be optimal and make analytical determinations in a matter of milliseconds. As part of this, AI-empowered algorithms can analyze a host of details such as weapons range, atmospheric conditions, geographical factors and point of impact calculations all in close relation to one another as part of an integrated picture, examine and compare what has worked in specific previous circumstances and scenarios to determine the best defensive response.
Added power to a laser weapon includes the ability to decrease processing time for any kind of kill chain or sensor-to-shooter cycle. While elements of this process can be shortened through the use of AI-empowered computers and automation, doubling the power output from 10kw would likely reduce the kill time from approximately five seconds to two-to-three seconds, Evan Hunt, Director of Business Development for High Energy Lasers and c-UAS, Raytheon, told The National Interest in an interview.
“The laser is a solution with high efficiency that can ruin or intercept autonomously programmed drones, as this cannot be achieved in the same way by the RF jammer or any other solutions,” the War Studies University essay explains.
There are a number of current, high-profile laser weapons development efforts underway including Air Force initiatives to fire lasers from stealth fighter jets, Navy integration of large, powerful lasers onto destroyers and even Missile Defense Agency work on “power scaling” sufficient to use lasers for ballistic missile defense.
Nonetheless, one thing Murray stressed was that, while lasers can offer lower-cost, scalable and highly-efficient weapons systems, they can experience what’s called “beam attenuation” and weaken in certain weather conditions.
“One thing about lasers is they are never going to be the sole solution, because of atmospherics- weather - so you are always going to have some mix of gun, missile and lasers, I think,” Murray explained.
Kris Osborn is the defense editor for the National Interest. Osborn previously served at the Pentagon as a Highly Qualified Expert with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army—Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Osborn has also worked as an anchor and on-air military specialist at national TV networks. He has appeared as a guest military expert on Fox News, MSNBC, The Military Channel, and The History Channel. He also has a Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
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Four Bizarre UFO Encounters That Ended Badly
Four Bizarre UFO Encounters That Ended Badly
Some people want to believe while others simply don’t. To most of us, the effects of the UFO phenomenon go no further than this and we go on with our daily lives.
The following people were a little less lucky and their lives were abruptly cut short either by getting too close to something or by simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
1. Thomas Mantell
U.S Air Force Captain Thomas Mantell’s death is linked to one of the earliest and most famous UFO encounters. It took place in 1948, a mere six months after the term ‘flying saucers’ had been coined by Kenneth Arnold.
On January 7, Kentucky State Police alerted the tower operators at Godman AFB near Fort Knox, reporting a huge object flying at high altitude. The object was conical in shape and had a shiny, metallic surface and a red tip. It was seen by multiple witnesses, both civilian and military.
Three P-51 aircraft led by USAF Captain Thomas Mantell were sent to investigate. As he was climbing towards the UFO, Capt. Mantell reported seeing “a metallic object or possibly the reflection of sun from a metallic object, and it is of tremendous size.”
The other pilots fell back as their aircraft were not equipped for high altitude flight but Mantell continued his pursuit. He reached an altitude of 22,000 feet (6,700 meters) and his last message was that he was taking a closer look.
An hour later, his dead body was found amid the wreckage of his plane. The official explanation was that he had been chasing Venus and fainted due to a lack of oxygen. In the 1950’s the statement changed. He had apparently chased a CIA-sponsored Skyhook balloon.
Needless to say, many believe he was shot down by the conical UFO.
2. João Prestes Filho
Brazil has seen quite a number of UFO sightings over the years and one of the most gruesome fates was suffered by João Prestes Filho.
On the evening of March 5, 1946, he was shot in the head by a beam that came from the skies. He panicked and ran to his sister’s house. At first, it seemed he had suffered nothing more than a scare but his body soon began exhibiting some very strange symptoms.
According to witnesses, his flesh began falling away from his bones. His jaw, chest, arms and legs were affected at first but soon his entire body had deteriorated beyond recognition.
“His teeth and bones stood revealed, utterly bare of flesh,” his sister recalled.
Despite virtually disintegrating, João reported feeling no pain whatsoever. He died while being transported to a nearby hospital.
The strange lights seen in the area at that time suggest a possible UFO connection.
3. Inacio de Souza
Brazilian Inacio de Souza and his wife were returning home on August 13, 1967 when they encountered three humanoids wearing yellow suits. Hovering nearby was a ship that Inacio said looked like an inverted wash-basin.
Startled by their appearance and the fact that they were heading for him, Inacio shot his rifle at one of the strangers. It had no effect.
The UFO retaliated by shooting a green ray of light directly into de Souza’s head. The visitors then disappeared.
Inacio spent the next days drifting in and out of consciousness and despite his wife’s testimony and the circular burn marks on his skin, doctors believed he had suffered nothing more than a vivid hallucination.
A few days later, he was diagnosed with leukemia and he died on October 11, 1967. The doctors were confused by the speed with which his disease spread.
While some believe this incident is nothing more than coincidence, others see no problem in connecting the dots and claiming he had been indeed killed by an alien death ray.
4. Peter Stevens
New York UFO researcher Jennifer Stevens apparently got too close to something. In February 1968, she was investigating a strange event that had led to the death of a teenage boy. She had been notified that a strange fireball was seen rising above Mohawk River and two boys even reported catching a glimpse of a humanoid in a white suit.
The following morning, the body of a 16-year-old boy was found in the area. He had only been missing for six hours but his body was deeply frozen. The policemen who found him said he had a terrified look.
His footprints suggested that he had been running before being pulled up by something. This aspect intrigued Jennifer Stevens and she believed the boy’s death and the UFO sighting were somehow connected.
A few days later, her husband was approached by a mysterious ‘saturnine-looking’ man who told him that UFO researchers “should be very careful.” Jennifer’s husband, Peter, died a sudden and unexpected death shortly after this encounter.
Jennifer Stevens got the message and gave up her research.
'We must retaliate': Acting Intelligence Committee Chair Marco Rubio says the US should hit back with 'more than just sanctions' after Pompeo confirms Russia WAS behind the cyber attack branded an 'act of war' by senator - PART II
'We must retaliate': Acting Intelligence Committee Chair Marco Rubio says the US should hit back with 'more than just sanctions' after Pompeo confirms Russia WAS behind the cyber attack branded an 'act of war' by senator - PART II
Marco Rubio, acting chair of Senate intel committee, demanded retaliation
Rubio said that the hack should be punished with more than sanctions
Trump is yet to acknowledge the hack, which affected swathes of government
Mike Pompeo on Friday became the first to publicly blame Russia for the hack
The Pentagon, FBI, Homeland Security and Treasury were all targeted
Russia has denied being behind the hack, which was carried out over months
Marco Rubio has demanded that the United States retaliate with more than sanctions for a massive cyber attack on the Pentagon, FBI and nuclear programs, which he said was likely carried out by Russia.
SolarWinds timeline: Company stocks and when they discovered attack
March: Updated versions of SolarWinds premier product, Orion, are infiltrated by an 'outside nation state'
SolarWinds customers who installed updates to their Orion software were unknowingly welcoming hidden malicious code that could give intruders the same view of their corporate network that in-house IT crews have
November 18 and 19: Outgoing CEO Kevin Thompson sells $15m in shares
December 7: Leading investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sell $280m shares from SolarWinds
December 7: CEO Kevin Thompson resigns. His transition had already been announced but no set date given
December 8: FireEye announces hackers broke into its servers
December 9: New CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna announced to take over from Thompson in 2021
December 11: FireEye claims it became aware that SolarWinds updates had been corrupted and contacted the company
December 13: The infiltration of Orion becomes public
The US issues an emergency warning, ordering government users to disconnect SolarWinds software which it said had been compromised by 'malicious actors'
The Pentagon, the State Department and the National Institutes of Health, as well as the Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security departments reveal they were targeted
FireEye says the attackers stole some of its 'red team' software, which mimics cyber-attacks to test the security of its clients' computers.
Two lawmakers, who were briefed on the hack this week, told Politico that FireEye representatives said that one of their employees had apparently been duped into revealing their two-factor authentication security details.
Company officials have denied the account given by congressional staffers and said none of its employees were tricked.
FireEye said they caught the breach when hackers tried to register a new device on its systems, which tipped the company off to the wider cyber-attack.
Following an investigation, FireEye say they determined that SolarWinds' Orion software had been hacked.
'We initially detected the incident because we saw a suspicious authentication to our VPN solution,' a spokesperson has since said.
'The attacker was able to enroll a device into our multi-factor authentication solution, and that generates an alert which we then followed up on.'
They insist that the SolarWinds breach was the source of the attack against FireEye.
Once it determined that there was a wider cyber-attack, a FireEye executive alerted SolarWinds on December 12 of the compromise.
After learning of the SolarWinds breach, the National Security Council held an emergency meeting at the White House on December 12.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI were brought in to investigate after some government agencies were confirmed to have been hacked.
At this time, people with knowledge of the meeting reported that hackers believed to be working for Russia had been monitoring internal email traffic at the US Treasury and Commerce departments.
Sources told Reuters that they feared the hacks uncovered so far may have been be the tip of the iceberg.
SolarWinds began alerting about 33,000 of its customers on December 13 that an 'outside nation state' - widely suspected to be Russia - had injected malicious code into some updated versions of its premier product, Orion.
The company said in a statement that updates to its monitoring software released between March and June of this year may have been subverted by what it described as a 'highly-sophisticated, targeted and manual supply chain attack by a nation state'.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive ordering federal agencies to 'disconnect or power down' the SolarWinds Orion software due to the breach.
From US nuclear agencies and the FBI to Fortune 500: Who is known to have been targeted by hackers so far
The list of victims continues to grow from the cyberattack that is being described as the biggest hack in American history.
The two US agencies responsible for maintaining America's nuclear weapons stockpile - Energy Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration - have already said they were compromised in the attack.
The attack also breached the Pentagon, FBI, Treasury and State Departments.
The DOE and the NNSA have warned Congress that their breached networks may include the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which conducts the government's most sensitive and advanced nuclear research, Politico reported.
The US has an estimated 5,800 nuclear warheads, some of which are on missiles and bombs ready for launch from submarines, airplanes and land-based missiles, while others are held in storage. Most however are in storage, retired, or being decommissioned.
The FBI (above) has moved routine communication onto classified networks that are believed not to have been breached, according to two people briefed on the measures.
Hacked: The Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico conducts the government's most sensitive and advanced nuclear research
Deterrent: Land-based Minuteman missiles are one of the three prongs of the nuclear triad. Experts now fear the agencies that maintain US nuclear stockpiles have been breached
Their status is one of the government's most closely-guarded secrets, as are efforts to create new weapons, which are part of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's work.
Another attack was found in a field office of the Energy Department in Richland, Washington state, which Politico reported could have been an effort to gather information on how to disrupt the national electricity grid.
The sprawling attack also compromised broad swathes of the private sector, including Microsoft and likely most of the Fortune 500.
The true scale of who has been affected and what information has been stolen may never be known, officials and experts say.
How hackers used legitimate software updates as camouflage for the 'SUNBURST' attack
WHAT HAPPENED?
The hack began as early as March when malicious code was snuck into updates to popular software that monitors computer networks of businesses and governments. The malware, affecting a product made by U.S. company SolarWinds, gave elite hackers remote access into an organization's networks so they could steal information.
It wasn't discovered until the prominent cybersecurity company FireEye determined it had been hacked. Whoever broke into FireEye was seeking data on its government clients, the company said - and made off with hacking tools it uses to probe its customers' defenses.
Its apparent monthslong timeline gave the hackers ample time to extract information from a lot of different targets.
FireEye executive Charles Carmakal said the company was aware of 'dozens of incredibly high-value targets' compromised' by the hackers and was helping 'a number of organizations respond to their intrusions.'
He would not name any, and said he expected many more to learn in coming days that they, too, were infiltrated.
WHAT IS SOLARWINDS?
SolarWinds, of Austin, Texas, provides network-monitoring and other technical services to hundreds of thousands of organizations around the world, including most Fortune 500 companies and government agencies in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Its compromised product, called Orion, accounts for nearly half SolarWinds' annual revenue. The company's revenue totaled $753.9 million over the first nine months of this year.
Its centralized monitoring looks for problems in an organization's computer networks, which means that breaking in gave the attackers a 'God-view' of those networks.
HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday released an alert detailing what it knows about the breach, which has been called the biggest in US history.
CISA says that hackers were able to compromise the supply chain of network management software from SolarWinds, specifically recent versions of the SolarWinds Orion products.
Beginning in March 2020, hackers used SolarWinds software updates to install a secret network backdoor, which authorities are calling SUNBURST.
The malicious code was signed by the legitimate SolarWinds code signing certificate. An estimated 18,000 customers downloaded the compromised updates.
Once installed on a network, the malware used a protocol designed to mimic legitimate SolarWinds traffic to communicate with a domain that has since been seized and shut down.
The initial contact domain would often direct the malware to a new internet protocol (IP) address for command and control. The attackers used rotating IPs and virtual private servers with IP addresses in the target's home country to make detection of the traffic more difficult.
'Taken together, these observed techniques indicate an adversary who is skilled, stealthy with operational security, and is willing to expend significant resources to maintain covert presence,' CISA said in the alert.
CISA said that once inside a network, the hackers seemed focused on gathering information, and would frequently target the emails of IT and security staff to monitor any countermeasures.
Without offering further details, the agency warned that the hackers used 'other initial access vectors beyond SolarWinds Orion,' meaning even groups that do not use the network software could be compromised.
'We must retaliate': Acting Intelligence Committee Chair Marco Rubio says the US should hit back with 'more than just sanctions' after Pompeo confirms Russia WAS behind the cyber attack branded an 'act of war' by senator - PART I
'We must retaliate': Acting Intelligence Committee Chair Marco Rubio says the US should hit back with 'more than just sanctions' after Pompeo confirms Russia WAS behind the cyber attack branded an 'act of war' by senator - PART I
Marco Rubio, acting chair of Senate intel committee, demanded retaliation
Rubio said that the hack should be punished with more than sanctions
Trump is yet to acknowledge the hack, which affected swathes of government
Mike Pompeo on Friday became the first to publicly blame Russia for the hack
The Pentagon, FBI, Homeland Security and Treasury were all targeted
Russia has denied being behind the hack, which was carried out over months
Marco Rubio has demanded that the United States retaliate with more than sanctions for a massive cyber attack on the Pentagon, FBI and nuclear programs, which he said was likely carried out by Russia.
On Friday Mike Pompeo, the Secretary of State, became the first U.S. official to publicly attribute a massive hacking campaign to Russia, after broad swathes of the federal government and private sector were revealed to be compromised.
Later on Friday night Rubio, the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, urged a strong response.
The methods used to carry out the cyberhack are consistent with Russian cyber operations,' he tweeted.
Marco Rubio on Friday night called for 'retaliation' beyond sanctions for the cyber attack
Russia has denied being behind the attack, but Pompeo and Rubio have pointed the finger
'But it's crucial we have complete certainty about who is behind this. We can't afford to be wrong on attribution, because America must retaliate, and not just with sanctions.'
Donald Trump has remained tight-lipped about the attack. Russia has denied being behind it.
But the huge security breach, which is believed to have begun in the spring and gone undetected for months, is thought to have been so sophisticated that only a state-sponsored actor could pull it off.
The Russians are automatically the prime suspect for attacks of this scale and audacity.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said the attack compromised federal agencies' 'critical infrastructure' in a manner that was hard to detect and will be difficult to undo.
It means that calculating the true size of the attack will be difficult.
'CISA has determined that this threat poses a grave risk to the Federal Government and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations,' they said on Thursday.
'CISA expects that removing this threat actor from compromised environments will be highly complex and challenging for organizations.'
Pompeo on Friday confidently pointed the finger at the Russians.
'This was a very significant effort, and I think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity,' Pompeo told The Mark Levin Show on Friday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman has denied Kremlin involvement, and the Russian embassy said in a statement that the country 'does not conduct offensive operations in the cyber domain.'
The sprawling attack, which went undetected for nearly nine months, compromised the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Treasury, State and Energy, as well as a growing list of companies and local governments across the country.
Officials with the nation's cybersecurity agency warn that the breach could be difficult to undo, saying the hackers 'demonstrated sophistication and complex tradecraft' and that it was likely that they had built additional secret backdoors while active inside the compromised networks.
Experts say there simply are not enough skilled threat-hunting teams to properly identify all the government and private-sector systems that may have been hacked, and warn infected networks may have to be 'burned to the ground' and rebuilt from scratch.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has become the first U.S. official to publicly attribute a massive hacking campaign to Russia. He is seen above with Putin in 2019
Senator Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, said: 'It's pretty hard to distinguish this from an act of aggression that rises to the level of an attack that qualifies as war'
The Pentagon was among the thousands of users of the infected network software. Teams are now hunting DoD networks for hidden backdoors and signs of the attackers
Democrats in Congress have spoken out about the cyber attack in strong terms, demanding a harsh response and blasting President Donald Trump, who has not spoken about the attack or appeared in public for the past five days.
'The situation is developing, but the more I learn this could be our modern day, cyber equivalent of Pearl Harbor,' said Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat, in a tweet on Friday.
'Our nation is under assault. This cyberattack could be the largest in our history,' he added, before slamming Trump for his lack of public response to the cyber attack.
Senator Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, told MSNBC: 'It's pretty hard to distinguish this from an act of aggression that rises to the level of an attack that qualifies as war.'
Coons, 57, called the attack 'as destructive and broad scale an engagement with our military systems, our intelligence systems as has happened in my lifetime.'
Trump has not yet said anything publicly about the intrusion.
He was being briefed 'as needed,' White House spokesman Brian Morgenstern told reporters on Friday.
National security adviser Robert O'Brien was leading interagency meetings daily, if not more often, he said.
'They're working very hard on mitigation and making sure that our country is secure. We will not get into too many details because we're just not going to tell our adversaries what we do to combat these things,' Morgenstern said.
'The situation is developing, but the more I learn this could be our modern day, cyber equivalent of Pearl Harbor,' said Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat
'Cozy Bear': The Russian hacker cell suspected in attack
Russia denies involvement in the SUNBURST attack, but US officials say the nation is behind the 'Advanced Persistent Threat' (APT) that carried out the audacious breach.
Sources say that one top suspect is APT29, the Kremlin-linked group also known as Cozy Bear.
Cozy Bear is best known as the group said to be responsible for the 2016 breach of the Democratic National Committee's servers.
Experts believe that Cozy Bear operates as part of one of Russia's intelligence agencies.
Some doubt the attribution of SUNBURST to Cozy Bear, through, noting that the tools used in the attack have never been seen before.
The Democratic chairs of four House committees given classified briefings on the hack by the Trump administration issued a statement complaining that they 'were left with more questions than answers.'
'Administration officials were unwilling to share the full scope of the breach and identities of the victims,' they said.
Morgenstern said earlier that disclosing such details only helps U.S. adversaries.
The long-term planning of the attack became clear on Friday, as officials said that the hackers appeared to have conducted a dry run over a year ago, testing their ability to insert malicious code into network management software from SolarWinds Corp, which was later delivered to some 18,000 of the company's customers.
Private security companies say that the breach bears the hallmarks of a Kremlin operation. Some have pointed at the Russian hacking cell dubbed 'Cozy Bear' -- though other experts argue that the tools and methods used in the new attack are different from any past breach, making attribution tricky.
'At the moment, there are no technical links with previous attacks, so it may be an entirely new actor,' security firm Kaspersy said in a blog post.
FireEye, the cybersecurity company that discovered the intrusion into U.S. agencies and was among the victims, has already tallied dozens of casualties. It's racing to identify more.
'We have a serious problem. We don't know what networks they are in, how deep they are, what access they have, what tools they left,' said Bruce Schneier, a prominent security expert and Harvard fellow.
The only way to be sure a network is clean is 'to burn it down to the ground and rebuild it,' Schneier said.
He compared the situation to learning that a serial killer has been inside your house, with his own key. 'You don't know if he's gone. How do you get work done? You kind of just hope for the best,' he said.
A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin denied Russia was behind the attack
Trump has not made any remarks addressing the attack and has not appeared in public for five days, but posted this Christmas card photo on Friday with First Lady Melania
Many federal workers - and others in the private sector - now must presume that unclassified networks are teeming with spies.
Agencies will be more inclined to conduct sensitive government business on Signal, WhatsApp and other encrypted smartphone apps.
'We should buckle up. This will be a long ride,' said Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and former chief technical officer of the leading cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. 'Cleanup is just phase one.
Meanwhile, Microsoft President Brad Smith called the attack a 'moment of reckoning' that 'illuminates the ways the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve and become even more dangerous.'
Microsoft, one of the thousands of companies to receive the malicious update, said it had notified more than 40 customers around the world whose networks were infiltrated by the hackers.
The list of victims includes not only government agencies, but security and other technology firms as well as think tanks and government contractors.
'The attack unfortunately represents a broad and successful espionage-based assault on both the confidential information of the U.S. Government and the tech tools used by firms to protect them,' Smith wrote in a blog post.
'The coming months will present a critical test, not only for the United States but for other leading democracies and technology companies,' he added.
This heat map of infections created by Microsoft shows that those infiltrated by the hackers are spread out across the US
On Friday, increasing evidence emerged showing that the hacking campaign had been carefully planned and executed over more than a year.
A version of the SolarWinds Orion product, which was ultimately used to deliver the SUNBURST backdoor to customer networks, was tampered with in October 2019 but did not contain the backdoor, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The tampered files went undetected, and in March of 2020, the hackers began using Orion updates to deliver their backdoor.
SolarWinds timeline: Company stocks and when they discovered attack
March: Updated versions of SolarWinds premier product, Orion, are infiltrated by an 'outside nation state'
SolarWinds customers who installed updates to their Orion software were unknowingly welcoming hidden malicious code that could give intruders the same view of their corporate network that in-house IT crews have
November 18 and 19: Outgoing CEO Kevin Thompson sells $15m in shares
December 7: Leading investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sell $280m shares from SolarWinds
December 7: CEO Kevin Thompson resigns. His transition had already been announced but no set date given
December 8: FireEye announces hackers broke into its servers
December 9: New CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna announced to take over from Thompson in 2021
December 11: FireEye claims it became aware that SolarWinds updates had been corrupted and contacted the company
December 13: The infiltration of Orion becomes public
The US issues an emergency warning, ordering government users to disconnect SolarWinds software which it said had been compromised by 'malicious actors'
The Pentagon, the State Department and the National Institutes of Health, as well as the Treasury, Commerce and Homeland Security departments reveal they were targeted
'We're thinking they wanted to test whether or not it was going to work and whether it would be detected. So it was more or less a dry run,' a source familiar with the investigation told Yahoo News.
'They took their time. They decided to not go out with an actual backdoor right away. That signifies that they're a little bit more disciplined and deliberate,' the person added.
SolarWinds, which disclosed its unwitting role at the center of the global hack on Monday, has said that up to 18,000 users of its Orion software downloaded a compromised update containing malicious code planted by the attackers.
The attack was believed to be the work of an 'outside nation state,' SolarWinds said in a regulatory disclosure.
In addition to major federal agencies and critical infrastructure, the hackers targeted entities as various as a county government in Arizona and a cable television company.
The Pima County, Arizona government and Cox Communications Inc were identified as victims of the intrusion by Reuters after running a publicly available coding script.
How hackers managed to install a secret backdoor in software used by hundreds of thousands of government departments and companies
The hack began as early as March this year when hackers snuck malicious code into recent versions of SolarWinds' premier software product, Orion.
The popular software tool helps organizations monitor the performance of their computer networks and servers.
Hackers managed to install a secret network backdoor - which authorities are calling SUNBURST - into Orion's software updates.
Its centralized monitoring looks for problems in an organization's computer networks, which means that breaking in gave the attackers a 'God-view' of those networks.
It is not yet clear how hackers managed to infiltrate SolarWinds and go undetected for nine months.
During this time-frame, as many as 18,000 SolarWinds customers - including federal agencies and major companies - downloaded the compromised updates that contained the back door.
The software update became an instrument for hackers to steal information undetected for nine months.
Once installed on a network, the malware used a protocol designed to mimic legitimate SolarWinds traffic to communicate with a domain that has since been seized and shut down, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has since revealed.
The initial contact domain would often direct the malware to a new internet protocol (IP) address for command and control. The attackers used rotating IPs and virtual private servers with IP addresses in the target's home country to make detection of the traffic more difficult.
CISA said that once inside a network, the hackers focused on gathering information and frequently targeted the emails of IT and security staff to monitor any countermeasures.
The hackers are feared to have had access to government emails as far back as June.
SolarWinds: The Texas company at the center of the biggest attack in American history
Before this week, few people were aware of SolarWinds, the Austin-based software company providing vital computer network monitoring services to major corporations and government agencies worldwide.
But the revelation that elite cyber spies have spent months secretly exploiting SolarWinds' software to peer into computer networks has put many of its highest-profile customers in national governments and Fortune 500 companies on high alert.
It's also raising questions about whether company insiders knew of its security vulnerabilities as its biggest investors sold off stock.
The hack began as early as March this year when hackers snuck malicious code into recent versions of SolarWinds' premier software product, Orion. The Austin-based software company provides vital computer network monitoring services to major corporations and government agencies worldwide
A SolarWinds SEC filing from December 7 - just days prior to the hack emerging -revealed that the company's board had appointed a replacement CEO.
SolarWinds' longtime CEO, Kevin Thompson, had months earlier indicated that he would be leaving at the end of the year as the company explored spinning off one of its divisions.
The SolarWinds board appointed his replacement, current PulseSecure CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna, on December 7, according to the financial filing.
It was also on December 7 that the company's two biggest investors, Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo, which control a majority stake in the publicly traded company, sold more than $280 million in stock to a Canadian public pension fund.
The two private equity firms in a joint statement said they 'were not aware of this potential cyberattack' at the time they sold the stock.
Global alarm bells ring: How the hack was first discovered by a California cyber-security firm FireEye
The breach of SolarWinds' software was first discovered by one of its customers: The prominent cybersecurity firm FireEye.
The California-based cyber security firm, which is also a government contractor, noticed a suspicious log-in on its network around December 8.
Republican Senator Says UFOs Are Flying Our Facilities, and Nobody Knows What They Are
Republican Senator Says UFOs Are Flying Our Facilities, and Nobody Knows What They Are
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio told TMZ recently he’s worried by the lack of information on the stuff flying over our facilities. Rubio said that the worry is the presence of things flying over our facilities, and we can’t identify them.
Rubio laughed when the TMZ reporter asked if we’ll find friendly aliens in the upcoming reports. He said that we should not jump to conclusions about extraterrestrials or alien spaceships but rather take it one step at a time.
Rubio said that his thing is straightforward and explained that while we don’t know what that object is flying over the top of our installations, we should find out first if it’s from another country, which would be bad news too.
Rubio also revealed that the report from the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) of the Pentagon might miss its deadline on June 1, 2021.
Rubio’s comments come after the ex-director of National Intelligence announced the report last week.
The Perseverance rover dropped the helicopter on April 4, 2021.
The first helicopter on Mars is officially on Martian soil.
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity touched down on the surface of the Red Planet after being dropped by its mother ship, the Perseverance rover, the space agency announced late Saturday (April 4). The helicopter's first flight is just over a week away.
"#MarsHelicopter touchdown confirmed! Its 293 million mile (471 million km) journey aboard @NASAPersevere ended with the final drop of 4 inches (10 cm) from the rover's belly to the surface of Mars today," officials with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Californiawrote in a Twitter announcement. "Next milestone? Survive the night."
NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is seen on the surface of the Red Planet after being deployed by the Perseverance rover on April 4, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is seen on the surface of the Red Planet after being deployed by the Perseverance rover on April 4, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity is seen on the surface of the Red Planet after being deployed by the Perseverance rover on April 4, 2021.
(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Weighing in at just 4 lbs. (1.8 kilograms), Ingenuity is a tiny, solar-powered helicopter that relies on a rechargeable battery to keep its systems warm during the harsh Martian night. Until today, Ingenuity has been attached to Perseverance's belly, feeding off the rover's nuclear-powered system to stay warm.
Now, the helicopter is using its internal battery to power a vital heater.
"This heater keeps the interior at about 45 degrees F through the bitter cold of the Martian night, where temperatures can drop to as low as -130 F (minus 90 degrees Celsius)," NASA's Bob Balaram, chief engineer for the Mars Helicopter project, wrote in a status update Friday (April 2). "That comfortably protects key components such as the battery and some of the sensitive electronics from harm at very cold temperatures."
Ingenuity is expected to make its first flight on April 11, with the data from that test reaching Earth on April 12, NASA officials have said. The $85 million drone is the first helicopter ever sent to another world and is designed to test technologies for future flying vehicles on other planets. Ingenuity carries two cameras to document its flights, which will also be observed by the Perseverance rover.
If all goes well, Ingenuity will perform a series of ever-longer flights over Jezero Crater (where the Perseverance rover landed on Feb. 18) over the next 31 Martian days, which are called sols. Each flight should reach no higher than 16.5 feet (5 m) and will be conducted over a 300-foot-long (90 m) flight range.
NASA plans a series of tests before that first flight to fire up Ingenuity's four rotor blades (they spin at up to 2,537 revolutions per minute) while Perseverance watches from a safe distance. The rover will be stationed a safe 16.5 feet away from the drone before the first flight.
But first, of course, Ingenuity must survive the bitter cold of its first night alone on Mars. The helicopter's battery will power its heater enough to maintain a steady temperature of about 5 degrees F (minus 15 degrees C).
"The Ingenuity team will be anxiously waiting to hear from the helicopter the next day," Balaram wrote Friday. "Did it make it through the night? Is the solar panel working as expected?"
This graphic shows the activities NASA has planned for its Ingenuity Mars helicopter. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Mission team members will closely watch Ingenuity's temperature and battery performance over the weekend to ensure the helicopter is healthy, Balaram added. If everything looks good, Ingenuity can then move on to its rotor tests and other system checks ahead of the first flight, he said.
As novel as Ingenuity is, the helicopter is just part of NASA's ambitious Perseverance rover mission to explore an ancient delta in Mars' Jezero Crater. The rover is expected to spend the next two years exploring the area to seek out signs of ancient life. Perseverance will also collect samples of Mars rocks to be collected and returned to Earth on a later mission.
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Government Agencies Are About To Disclose What They Know About UFOs, And That Will Be A Dramatic Paradigm Shift
Government Agencies Are About To Disclose What They Know About UFOs, And That Will Be A Dramatic Paradigm Shift
Do you believe in UFOs? Decades ago, if you answered yes to such a question many would have considered you to be a nutjob. But at this point UFOs are not a “conspiracy theory” any longer. In fact, even the U.S. government is admitting that they exist, and in just a few weeks we may learn a whole lot more about what the U.S. government really knows about this phenomenon. When President Trump signed a 2.3 trillion dollar COVID relief bill last December, it contained a provision which requires all U.S. intelligence agencies to submit an unclassified report to Congress that reveals all that they know about UFOs…
In December 2020, President Trump signed a coronavirus relief bill that included an interesting stipulation – the bill set into motion an 180-day time frame in which US intelligence agencies must tell Congress everything they know about UFO sightings, via an unclassified report.
Remarkably, in what sounds like the opening crawl of an unimaginative sci-fi film, the report must also include an analysis as to whether or not UFOs pose a threat to national security (perhaps, one day, our puny, primitive weapons will be used to “bring democracy” to a space-faring civilization).
Unfortunately, U.S. intelligence agencies insisted that 180 days did not give them enough time, and so now the report is expected to be released somewhere around June 1st.
The report will include all data found through “geospatial intelligence, signals intelligence, human intelligence and measurement and signals intelligence.” Classified information held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the FBI will be included as well.
It will be fascinating to see what actually ends up in this report.
Personally, I don’t think that the intelligence agencies will come even close to revealing everything that they know. But the fact that former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe was willing to share so much information during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on Friday seems like a good sign. According to Ratcliffe, there have been “sightings all over the world”…
Ratfcliffe said some UFO sightings have been declassified in the past, but a report to be released by the Pentagon and other federal agencies will present more information to the American people.
“There have been sightings all over the world,” Ratcliffe said. “And when we talk about sightings, the other thing I will tell you, it’s not just a pilot or just a satellite or some intelligence collection. Usually, we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things.”
Yes, it is definitely quite true that there have been sightings all over the planet, but Esri has released an animated map that shows that more UFO sightings happen in the United States than anywhere else by a good margin.
“Frankly, there are a lot more sightings than have been made public. Some of those have been declassified. And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that, frankly, engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
Of course videos that the U.S. Navy has previously released have already confirmed the fact that UFOs often perform aerial feats that human pilots simply cannot match…
Videos from the Navy were released last year through the Freedom of Information Act that showed UFOs moving at incredible speeds and performing seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers.
One of the videos was shot in November 2004; the other two were shot in January 2015. The three videos were code-named ‘FLIR1,’ ‘Gimbal,’ and ‘GoFast.’
In the 2015 videos, Navy pilots can be heard expressing disbelief. All three UFO videos were captured by Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets.
If UFOs can perform “seemingly impossible aerial maneuvers”, that would seem to suggest that whoever is piloting them is even more technologically advanced than we are.
I am entirely convinced that the U.S. government knows a great deal about UFOs and those that are flying them, and millions of Americans are very much looking forward to the release of the upcoming unclassified report.
U.S. government agencies will certainly not tell us everything, but I do believe that they will reveal more details than they ever have before.
Ultimately, I believe that the stage is being set for a great deception of epic proportions, and that is why I am starting to write more about the UFO phenomenon.
As more information is shared with the public, the narrative will be that UFOs are “spacecraft” that contain “aliens” from another planet.
And I think that it is quite likely that officials will insist that they are “friendly” and that we should be open to “learning” from them.
But the truth is that they are definitely not our “friends”.
As humanity moves into the darkest hours that it has ever known, people will become increasingly desperate for someone to come along and save us.
And if “aliens” were to show up with technology that we do not currently possess, many would be tempted to embrace them as “saviors”.
For decades, Hollywood has been relentlessly priming us for such a scenario, and now the U.S. government is starting to publicly acknowledge that UFOs aren’t just science fiction.
This is a story that is going to become increasingly important over the next few years, and it isn’t going to end well.
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FBI UFO Files, This is Where the Flying Saucers Come From, What The Pilots Look Like & Why They're Here
FBI UFO Files, This is Where the Flying Saucers Come From, What The Pilots Look Like & Why They're Here
This file is incredible, Declassified documents from the FBI describe the occupants of the Flying Saucers, Where They Come From, Why They Are Here and What They Look Like. After reading this it confirms many people beliefs that the Others are Interdimensional beings and don’t live on a Planet that is Physical like ours.
The Real Men In Black... The Strangest and Spookiest Experiences via Nick Redfern
The Real Men In Black... The Strangest and Spookiest Experiences via Nick Redfern
The Men in Black were elevated to superstar status in 1997 in the hit movie of the same name. Although the Hollywood blockbuster was fiction, the real Men in Black have consistently attempted to silence the witnesses of UFO and paranormal phenomena since the 1950s.
Researcher and author Nick Redfern delves deep into the mysterious world of these mysterious operatives. He reveals their origins and discusses classic cases, previously unknown reports, secret government files, and the many theories that have been presented to explain the mystery.
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Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper Admits To Alien Craft Existance
Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper Admits To Alien Craft Existance
Gordon Cooper was one of America’s original astronauts. He helped pioneer this country’s space exploration efforts when, aboard a tiny space capsule known as Mercury [Faith] 7, Cooper orbited the Earth for 34 hours, proving that man could live outside our atmosphere for prolonged periods. His patriotism, bravery and respectability go without saying…
Cooper has recently made several public pronouncements concerning his strong belief in UFOs. While a guest on the Merv Griffin Show, Cooper shocked the viewing audiences by speaking for over five minutes on a topic that was only within the past few years often considered too bizarre for polite conversation.
But there were some things that Cooper wouldn’t even discuss on the air in front of the curious multitudes. Luckily Lee Spiegel is a personal friend of Gordon Cooper. They have conferred on several occasions, and while in the company of the man who is bound and determined to crack the ‘Cosmic Watergate’ which he is convinced exists within the higher echelon of government, the former space traveler is more than happy to talk about his UFO experiences – and they are man.
In the early 1950s, Cooper was assigned to a jet fighter group in Germany. While stationed there, he remembersvery vividly the week an entire formation of circular objects passed over the Air Base on almost a daily routine.
‘We never could get close enough to pin them down, but they were round in shape and very metallic looking,’ Cooper points out. UFOs were to continue to haunt him when the Air Force Colonel was transferred several years later to Edwards Air Force Base Flight Test Center in the California desert.
What happened one afternoon while he was on duty at this military base is evidence enough that the government definitely does keep a lot of secrets when it comes to UFOs!
The incident took place in the late 1950s, either 1957 or 1958 – as Cooper can best recall; and to this day, the photographic evidence of an actual UFO touching down upon the Earth is being kept under wraps.
During this period, Cooper was a Project Manager at Edwards Air Force Base, just three or four years before entering America’s space program. After lunch this particular day, Cooper had assigned a team of photographers to an area of the vast dry lake beds near Edwards.
In a taped interview with UFOlogist Lee Spiegel, the former Astronaut disclosed thatwhile the crew was out there, they spotted a strange-looking craft above the lake bed, and they began taking films of it.
Cooper says the object was very definitely ‘hovering above the ground. And then it slowly came down and sat on the lake bed for a few minutes.’ All during this time the motion picture cameras were filming away.
‘There were varied estimates by the cameramen on what the actual size of the object was,’ Cooper confesses, ‘but they all agreed that it was at least the size of a vehicle that would carry normal-sized people in it.’
Col. Cooper was not fortunate enough to be outside at the time of this incredible encounter, but he did see the films as soon as they were rushed through the development process.
‘It was a typical circular-shaped UFO,’ he recollects. ‘Not too many people saw it, because it took off at quite a sharp angle and just climbed straight on out of sight!’
Cooper admits he didn’t take any kind of poll to determine who had seen the craft, ‘because there were always strange things flying around in the air over Edwards.’ This is a statement Lee Spiegel was able to verify through his own research efforts, having obtained closely guarded tapes of conversations between military pilots circling the base and their commanding officers in the flight tower, tracking the presence of unknown objects.
‘People just didn’t ask a lot of questions about things they saw and couldn’t understand,’ notes Cooper, who adds that it was a lot simpler to look the other way, shrug one’s shoulders, and chalk up what had been seen to ‘just another experimental aircraft that must have been developed at another area of the air base.’
But what about the photographic proof – the motion picture footage – that was taken? ‘I think it was definitely a UFO,’ Cooper states, as he makes no bones about it. ‘However, where it (the object) came from and who was in it is hard to determine, because it didn’t stay around long enough to discuss the matter – there wasn’t even time to send out a welcoming committee!’
After he reviewed the film at least a dozen times, the footage was quickly forwarded to Washington. Cooper no doubt expected to get a reply in a few weeks’ time as to what his men had seen and photographed, but there was no word, and the movie *vanished* – never to surface again….
On coast-to-coast television, Cooper recently made a blockbuster statement that had the telephone lines tied up the next day, as viewers telephoned the stations which carried the syndicated Merv Griffin Show, anxious to find out if their ears had been playing tricks on them the night before.
Toward the end of the talk-show host’s interview with the former Astronaut, Merv broke into a secretive tone of voice right on the air, and aimed a hundred-thousand-dollar question at his guest: ‘There is a story going around, Gordon, that a spaceship did land in middle America and there were occupants, and members of our government were able to keep one of the occupants alive for a period of time. They’ve seen the metal of the aircraft and they know what the people look like – is that a credible story?’
For all intents and purposes Cooper should have laughed for assuredly such a speculative story belongs in the category of science fiction or space fantasy. But Gordon Cooper kept a straight face when he replied: ‘I think it’s fairly credible. I would like to see the time when all qualified people could really work together to properly investigate these stories and either refute or prove them.’
The bombshell had been dropped. Cooper went on to say that from the various reports of UFO contacts and abductions he had been privy to, he was convinced that the occupants of this crashed UFO were ‘probably not that different from what we are,’ – that they are almost totally humanoid (i.e., have two arms, two legs, a torso and readily identifiable facial features) in appearance.
Taken aback by what Cooper had said over the national airwaves, Lee Spiegel telephoned Cooper’s office the following morning and managed to get past his private secretary, though others in the media were getting the cold shoulder.
‘Cooper admitted to me that he could have revealed more on the air, but he decided not to play his entire hand because he felt certain that some ‘official eyebrows were going to get raised’.’”
I was watching the volcano Popocatepetl volcano using the online live cam when I saw a glowing object shooting down from space towards the mouth of the volcano and then exploded. I believe this to be an alien craft disguised as a meteor, this way anyone who sees them will not believe its a UFO, but a meteor. Now we I have seen dozens of shows an movies all with this same method of disgusting the craft as a meteor. For instance in a Star Trek episode they had to get to the planets surface but it was a primitive planet and they didn't want to be seen, so they made the shuttle entry into the atmosphere appear to be a meteorite trail. This way throwing off anyone who sees it. Now, reciting Star Trek is not all that far from reality really. I mean many things today exist because Star Trek inspired it to happen.
Some of the many Star Trek items they inspired that are real today:
1. Transparent aluminum.
2. Tablet computers
3. Universal translators
4. Hand held communicator...very similar to the Nokia flip phones.
5. Tractor beams...remember MIT created one.
6. Phaser gun, its a direct energy weapon...which is used today thanks to DARPA.
This photo is absolutely fantastic evidence of alien activity in Argentina desert. Alien craft have been recorded for decades around volcanos and mountain areas. This UFO obviously has little to scan and learn from out in the barren desert. So for it to buzz past the cyclists is no surprise. A group of cyclists out for competition and exercise is of high interest to aliens to understands human competitiveness and health interests.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
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A group of cyclists was going by one of the loveliest landscapes in the area; upon taking a photo, they became aware of a strange formation. A photo taken of a group of cyclists touring the roads of Malargue quickly became the focus of attention, but not for the breathtaking southern landscaptes or the prowess of the athletes. What capture the attention of many was that the image displays a strange object that many have associated with a UFO flying of the legendary Castillos de Pincheira formation. The image came about from a post to Facebook by Lucio Aguirre and which went viral immediately. "Some friends from Alvear were pedaling around the Castillos de Pincheira region in Malargue. They took several shots of the landscape and in one of them, you can see this..." says the man in his profile. The photo shows a dirt road only meters away from the rocky formation. Above it, meters above the structure, a blurry object seems to hover above the surface.
Below screenshot has added focus only, bringing out real color and shape.
Harry Reid: U.S. Government Is Hiding Facts On UFOs From Public
Harry Reid:U.S. Government Is Hiding Facts On UFOs From Public
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the U.S. government has information about UFOs that it has been hiding and covering up for years.
Reid, 80, served as a Nevada senator from 1987 to 2017. While in office, he sought to continue funding a Defense Department program called Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification that had had been discontinued.
In the documentary, “The Phenomenon,” director James Fox asked Reid if there’s some evidence on UFOs that still hasn’t seen the light of day, Huffpost reported.
“I’m saying most of it hasn’t seen the light of day,” Reid replied.
“There’s more than one up there,” Reid said, adding that he believes UFOs may have interfered with U.S. weapons.
The film examines the history of UFO sightings in and outside the U.S. with new details about encounters involving U.S. Navy pilots. It also details a 1967 report about how 10 missiles became inoperative over a U.S. missile base at the same time that a UFO appeared above the base.
The Pentagon studied recordings of UFOs in a classified program, launched at the request of Reid in 2007 that ended in 2012 due to lack of funding.
Luis Elizondo, the former head of the classified program, told CNN in 2017 that he thinks “there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone. These aircraft — we’ll call them aircraft — are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the U.S. inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of.”
Elizondo said he resigned from the Defense Department in 2017 to protest the secrecy surrounding the program and the opposition to funding it.
“They did everything they could to stop the program from going forward … they wanted nothing to do with this … Nobody has to agree why it’s there. But shouldn’t we at least be spending some money to study all these phenomena? Shouldn’t we study this stuff? The answer is yes,” Reid said.
Instead, Reid said, “the federal government all these years has covered up, put brake pads on everything, stopped it. I think it’s very, very bad for our country.”
Elizondo described the documentary as setting “a new benchmark for disclosure” and “the most accurate and informative documentary ever made about UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena),” according to “The Phenomenon” website.
The “unwarranted stigma” around UFOs has “prevented the government and academia from taking this important topic seriously,” said Chris Mellon, former deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in Defense Department.
“The rapidly increasing number and quality of land and space-based sensors is making the UAP issue impossible to avoid,” said Mellon, whose voice is also included in the documentary.
In August 2020, the Pentagon announced that the U.S. Navy was overseeing a new task force to investigate “unexplained aerial incidents” that have been observed on several occasions by U.S. military aircraft.
The new task force — the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) — will report to the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security.
“The Department of Defense and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report,” the Pentagon said in a press release. “This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.”
Who Will Resist The Aliens Who Want To Destroy Us?
Who Will Resist The Aliens Who Want To Destroy Us?
Military news site Task & Purpose confirmed a disturbing fact: the newly created U.S. Space Force has no intention of fighting aliens.
Despite the recent uptick of military UFO sightings, the Pentagon appears uninterested (at least officially) in the possibility of hostile aliens. But if an alien invasion does take place, which arm of the Pentagon would respond? The answer: probably all of them.
During a recent Pentagon roundtable, Task & Purpose’s Pentagon reporter Jeff Schogol asked if the Space Force “is concerned about threats posed by extraterrestrial intelligence.” The official answer he got back? “No.”
Schogol’s question was asked with tongue firmly planted in cheek, but the revelation last year that U.S. Navy fighter jets encountered alleged UFO craft in 2004 and again in 2015—in both instances appearing on radar and leaving behind video evidence—makes one wonder.
If the unidentified flying objects described by Navy pilots, as well as military and civilian personnel for the past seventy years, are really of extraterrestrial origin and unfriendly, how would the Pentagon deal with them?
If UFOs suddenly descended from the skies, toasting the Statue of Liberty, the Great Mall of America, and the Golden Gate Bridge with death rays, the Pentagon would need to convene some sort of study group to quickly determine what kind of threat it was dealing with. If that happens, forget the Air Force.
Ironically, the service that would most likely take the lead is the U.S. Navy.
Why the Navy? Aliens would likely come from vast distances, traveling light years in long distance voyages, to smash puny humans. The U.S. Navy is unique among the services in planning similar, though much, much shorter voyages.
Both submarines and UFOs deal with pressure—in the case of submarines the pressure is on the outside, while in space the pressure is on the inside of the vehicle. From an operational and technical standpoint, aliens and sailors have a few things in common.
There are other reasons the Navy might take the lead. Seventy-one percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, and if aliens operated from the water (remember, the 2004 sighting included reports of a 737-sized object on the surface of the ocean) the Navy is unique in having manned aircraft, surface ships, and submarines prowling above, on, and below the surface of the ocean.
The Navy could also sail to the most remote locations in the world’s oceans, establishing a military presence for weeks or months, to investigate and monitor for enemy activity.
The Air Force could operate against aliens, but the service’s fighters and bombers could only remain on station for mere minutes or hours before returning to base.
Against a terrestrial threat this isn’t really a big deal, but against an alien threat we know nothing about—and according to the 2004 incident, theoretically capable of traveling extraordinary distances in a blink of an eye—such a force will be less useful.
If humans could lure aliens into a set-piece battle the Air Force could bring a lot of firepower, but how one lures aliens into battle is anyone’s guess. In the meantime the Space Force, nestled under control of the Air Force, would contribute to the alien war by maintaining the U.S. military’s network of position, navigation, and timing/GPS satellites, communication satellites, and other space-based assets.
The Army would be the service responsible if aliens attempted a landing in the United States, or presumably one of our allies. The Army’s 10 combat divisions would spring into action, attempting to destroy the aliens with fire and maneuver.
It would be in many ways similar to countering an airborne landing, with the Army attempting to destroy the alien’s landing zone and prevent the flow of alien reinforcements.
The Marines could also get in on the alien fighting, particularly overseas in Asia, Europe, or even the Middle East—though one would like to think aliens would be smart enough to avoid that region and the prospect of their own 18-year war altogether.
Of course, all of this is contingent on the U.S. military being on par with alien technology… which, frankly, is extremely unlikely.
The universe is billions of years old, and other races could easily have a head start of a million years or more on us. And certainly, any species capable of interstellar flight is far more technologically advanced.
Consider that a handful of 21st-century tanks could crush an army from the 11th century, or even the 19th century for that matter. Even a difference of a thousand years would be ample enough to ensure humanity’s defeat from even a minor alien expedition/hunting trip/bachelor party.
If aliens do exist, ultimately it may not matter if they are hostile or not. Our destruction at their hands would be about as inevitable as destruction from an extinction-level meteor impact.
They could even be friendly, the combination of advanced, destructive technology and violent tendencies leading to intelligent life self-screening itself from interstellar travel. (That would be bad news for humanity.)
The “UFOs” people are seeing could even be top secret U.S. government craft. The aliens could be us. In the end, maybe it doesn’t matter if the Pentagon has a plan to fight aliens after all.
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J’ai vu un objet volant non identifié : que faire ?
J’ai vu un objet volant non identifié : que faire ?
Nathalie Mayer - Journaliste
Les années passent et une chose reste : à travers le monde, les gens observent des ovnis. Le signe de visites de civilisations extra-terrestres ? Pas nécessairement. Mais si cela vous est déjà arrivé, vous pouvez le signaler. Des experts vous apporteront une réponse.
[EN VIDÉO] Quel est cet ovni filmé depuis l'ISS ?Régulièrement, les caméras de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS) filment des objets volants non identifiés, alias ovnis. Satellites, débris ou étages de lanceurs, quand ce ne sont pas de simples reflets dans les vitres : ces images font le bonheur des ufologues. Ici, on voit un objet allant dans le même sens que l’ISS, un peu plus bas et (logiquement) un peu plus rapide. Rêvons un peu.
Il arrive régulièrement que l'observation d'un objet volant non identifié (ovni) soit rapportée par des personnes tout à fait censées et lucides. Et les personnes en question en restent parfois marquées à jamais. La presse s'en fait généralement l'écho. Notamment lorsque l'observation est le fait d'un groupe de personnes, plus ou moins indépendantes et géographiquement séparées. Et sachez que si vous aussi, vous avez vu un ovni, vous pouvez être entendu.
D'abord, notez tout de même que les ovnis, officiellement, ça n'existe plus. Oubliez les objets volants non identifiés. Veuillez désormais parler de préférence de phénomène aérospatial non identifié (Pan). Peut-être, parce que le terme est moins connoté « extra-terrestres ». Mais aussi parce qu'il est moins réducteur. Beaucoup de signalements se rapportent en effet à des phénomènes naturels -- la foudre, par exemple -- qui ne sont pas des « objets ».
Si vous avez observé un pan, vous pouvez vous tourner vers la gendarmerie de votre secteur. Elle est habilitée à recueillir votre témoignage. Elle rédige alors un procès-verbal administratif qui enregistre la date et le lieu d'observation. Mais aussi tout ce qui peut être utile à percer le mystère : la forme de l'objet, ses dimensions, d'éventuels sons qu'il aurait pu émettre, etc. Des informations que les gendarmes transmettent ensuite à une cellule spécialisée du Centre national d'études spatiales (Cnes).
Avec la multiplication des drones, les signalements d’ovni augmentent.
Des explications terre à terre dans la plupart des cas
Le Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés (Geipan) a été créé dès 1977. Et il est aussi possible de s'adresser directement à lui, par l'intermédiaire d'un formulaire à remplir en ligne.
Plus votre description sera précise, plus l'enquête du Geipan pourra être menée de manière poussée. Scientifiques et détectives privés en renfort. Car le Groupe affirme que tous les signalements sont pris très au sérieux. Et qu'en cas de doute, mieux vaut en parler afin de pouvoir s'appuyer sur des experts de la question pour les lever.
Ceci étant dit, la plupart du temps, les explications fournies par le Geipan aux observateurs de Pan manquent d'exotisme. Des lanternes lâchées à l'occasion d'un mariage. Un petit avion à l'atterrissage, feux temporairement éteints. Un vol de montgolfière. Un lancement de satellites. Seuls 3,5 % des signalements resteraient aujourd'hui encore sans explication. Sans pour autant vouloir dire qu'ils se cachent derrière, des visites extra-terrestres. Certains restent simplement non identifiés faute de renseignements suffisamment précis ou de moyens techniques. Mais tout comme certains cas anciens trouvent aujourd'hui solution, peut-être que ceux-ci seront résolus à l'avenir avec l'aide d'évolutions technologiques.
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Incredible UFO Sighting Over Arizona: Full-On Lights Beaming Down
Incredible UFO Sighting Over Arizona: Full-On Lights Beaming Down
That night, a local resident was driving down the highway from Yuma to Fax, Arizona and saw something incredible, reportslatest-ufo-sightings.net.
Witness report: “I saw 4 of them flying in a square formation towards Yuma, couldn’t pull my phone out fast enough for those though, and the movement on those were crazy. Maybe next time I’m down there I’ll catch them on camera.
“In all my years here I’ve never seen them have full-on lights beaming down. Maybe flashes of red and green here and there like a normal plane/jet but I’ve never seen 4 of them flying in a square, solid white light the whole time.
“They all disappeared at the same time. The only thing that was letting me see them was the crazy amount of light they were emitting, so it just looked like someone just turned some lights off lol.
“Yuma Proving Grounds does military testing but I’ve never seen shit like this in all 23 years of living here, I wish I could’ve recorded the 4 flying in a square formation but I couldn’t pull my phone out fast enough after I was done being in awe.
“I saw no smoke trails like in the video. I was literally trying to see where smoke would be if they were flares but I couldn’t see a single column of smoke. It was from my phone, Samsung S20. Would’ve been awesome if I had a Nikon. Right after the BP checkpoint leaving Yuma, they were by the mountains.”
L'hélicoptère martien de la Nasa, toujours accroché au rover Perseverance, est quasiment prêt à toucher Mars. Il est désormais suspendu sous l'astromobile, à quelques centimètres de la surface de la planète, ses quatre petits pieds dépliés.
Ingenuity n’est plus qu’à une dizaine de centimètres au-dessus de la surface de la planète rouge. Le déploiement de l’hélicoptère martien semble se passer comme prévu, comme en témoignent les clichés régulièrement envoyés par le rover Perseverance. Sur les images brutes, obtenues avec la caméra WATSON sur l’instrument SHERLOC, on peut voir Ingenuity suspendu sous l’astromobile, ses quatre pieds dépliés.
« L’hélicoptère martien a abaissé ses quatre pieds et est en mesure de se poser sur la surface martienne. Quand il sera prêt, Perseverance le posera doucement à la surface », a tweeté le Jet Propulsion Laboratory de la Nasa le 31 mars 2021. Sur l’image suivante, prise le 30 mars avec WATSON, on distingue à la fois l’hélicoptère suspendu à Perseverance, et l’une des roues du rover.
Tel qu’il apparaît sur ces images, Ingenuity n’est plus relié que par le haut à Perseverance, qu’il peut encore utiliser comme source d’énergie. Une fois que le rover l’aura posé, il devra reculer rapidement, pour exposer Ingenuity aux rayons du Soleil. L’hélicoptère va puiser son énergie de cette source, à l’aide d’un panneau solaire installé au-dessus de ses deux pales. Ingenuity ne pourra plus compter que sur sa propre autonomie après sa séparation définitive de l’astromobile.
Une fois Ingenuity en contact avec la surface de Mars, sa mission pourra commencer. Une fenêtre de 30 sols (le nom du jour sur Mars), soit 31 jours terrestres, va s’ouvrir : il faudra mener toutes les tentatives de vol et les vérifications dans ce laps de temps.
UN PREMIER VOL AU PLUS TÔT LE 11 AVRIL
Le tout premier vol d’Ingenuity doit avoir lieu au plus tôt le 11 avril. Le petit engin de 1,8 kilogramme doit s’élever dans les airs à une altitude de 3 mètres, planer pendant 20 secondes, puis redescendre. Cela peut sembler modeste, mais c’est pourtant déjà un grand défi de voler ainsi dans l’atmosphère ténue de Mars. Perseverance observera la scène à 100 mètres de distance, de façon à pouvoir prendre des photos de son compagnon, tout en évitant de se mettre en danger si Ingenuity venait à avoir un incident. L’hélicoptère vise avant tout à faire une démonstration technologique du vol propulsé sur une autre planète et n’embarque pas d’instruments scientifiques — il dispose juste de deux caméras.
Si Ingenuity réussit sa première tentative de vol et qu’il est encore fonctionnel, la Nasa pourra envisager un deuxième essai, en changeant probablement un peu les paramètres du vol. Ingenuity pourrait s’élever jusqu’à 5 mètres d’altitude et voler horizontalement, parcourant quelques mètres de distance, lors d’un vol un peu plus long. Jusqu’à 5 tentatives de vol pourront être envisagées, s’il reste assez de temps et sous réserve des résultats des vols précédents.
The underwater continent broke off from Gondwana 80 million years ago.
Zealandia is a submerged "lost continent" that hosts New Zealand and the territory of New Caledonia (part of which is shown here) in the South Pacific.
(Image credit: Arne Hodalic via Getty Images)
A new ocean-mapping expedition is drawing the boundaries of Zealandia, a submerged "lost continent" that hosts New Zealand and the territory of New Caledonia in the South Pacific.
Zealandia broke off from the supercontinent Gondwana between 79 million and 83 million years ago. Except for New Zealand and New Caledonia, this fragment of continental crust now sits on the ocean floor. It's not the only bit of continental crust that's detached from a larger continent, but it is the largest at 1.9 million square miles (4.9 million square kilometers). That's six times larger than the next-largest continental fragment, the microcontinent of Madagascar.
Zealandia, also known as Te Riu-a-Māui in Māori, was assigned continental status in 2017. Since then, researchers have been working to map the lost continent — no easy feat, as 94% of it is under water.
Now, Derya Gürer, an earth scientist at the University of Queensland in Australia, and her colleagues have collected new data on the northwestern edge of Zealandia, which is located offshore in Queensland's Coral Sea Marine Park. The researchers spent 28 days aboard the vessel Falkor exploring the region, mapping 14,285 square miles (37,000 square km).
"Our expedition collected seafloor topographic and magnetic data to gain a better understanding of how the narrow connection between the Tasman and Coral Seas in the Cato Trough region — the narrow corridor between Australia and Zealandia — was formed," Gürer said in a university statement.
The area between the Australia plate and the Zealandia plate is likely very complicated, Gürer said. There are probably several microcontinents submerged there, all of which splintered off the main continental masses when Australia broke free of Gondwana. (The supercontinent encompassed what is today South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Zealandia, Arabia and the Indian subcontinent.) These fragments of continental crust are different from the surrounding oceanic crust of the seafloor, which is denser and thinner than continental crust.
Done in collaboration with the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the mapping was part of the Seafloor to Seabirds expedition. The mapping data will also feed into a larger project, the Seabed 2030 collaboration, which aims to make a publicly available, comprehensive map of the ocean floor by 2030. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), less than 10% of the seafloor has been mapped by modern sonar methods, which use sound to reveal undersea topography. The Seafloor to Seabird expedition not only collected information about topography, but also data on the intensity of the magnetic field across the area. Because oceanic crust and continental crust are made of different mineral concentrations with different magnetic signatures, this data will enable researchers to reconstruct the broken fragments of Gondwana.
"The seafloor is full of clues for understanding the complex geologic history of both the Australian and Zealandian continental plates," Gürer said.
In the winter of 1850, a fierce storm hit the Orkney island archipelago of Scotland, causing massive amounts of devastation, particularly in the area of the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland Island, and when the storm passed it left behind swaths of damage and 200 people dead. Yet in addition to the tragedy and damage left in its wake, the ferocious storm had also uncovered a mystery that had been there under the earth for thousands of years. There, partially exposed by the raging storm atop a knoll called Skara Brae, was what appeared to be a previously unknown ancient Neolithic village, which would uncover more mysteries as it was further exposed, and unearth ancient enigmas that have never really been explained.
The first attempts to uncover more of the apparent buried village were amateurish affairs carried out by locals, which they conducted until 1868 before quitting after having unearthed four ancient houses. The site would then sit abandoned for decades, in the meantime being set upon by looters and hit with yet another storm, before it finally came to the attention of the University of Edinburgh’s Professor V. Gordon Childe and was properly investigated in 1917. When real archeologists got to work, it was found that the site was likely inhabited from between around 3180 BC to about 2500 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids, and was composed of a total of ten clustered houses tucked down in earthen dams and mounds, meant to help support the walls and provide insulation. These houses were constructed of flagstone and featured stone hearths, beds, and various stone-built pieces of furniture, including cupboards, dressers, seats, and storage boxes, and there was even an indoor sewer system or toilet in each home, with small antechambers equipped with drains that carried waste to the sea and would have been very advanced for the time. This was all incredibly well preserved and complete.
Skara Brae
This elaborate design was one of the first mysteries of Skara Brae, and another was that it seems that the settlement was suddenly and inexplicably abandoned at some point. Whatever had made them leave caused the inhabitants to apparently flee in great haste, as there have been found many items that would have been considered very valuable at the time and even the remains of what are thought to have been meals laid out. Theories as to why these people so suddenly and decisively abandoned the village range from some sort of catastrophe like a storm, to some other calamity like disease, but no one really knows. Whatever the reason for this sudden exodus, the people who once lived here sure did leave a lot of stuff behind. Throughout this tiny village, which was estimated to have held perhaps 50 inhabitants at any one time, there were found fragments of stone, bone, and antler thought to be from some tool-making process, as well as numerous objects made of animal, fish, bird, and whalebone, whale and walrus ivory, and killer whale teeth, including awls, needles, knives, beads, jewelry, adzes, shovels, small bowls and plates. In addition to this there were found countless pieces of pottery, thousands of strange beads made from bone and sheep’s teeth, lumps of red ochre thought to have been used for body painting, and even one of the only pieces of preserved rope from a Neolithic site ever found. Much of this would have been seen as incredibly valuable at the time, but it is all just sitting around, with no real attempts to stow it, hide it, or take it along. Yet for as amazing as all of this is, by far the most mysterious objects found at Skara Brae are its inexplicable carved stone balls.
Scattered around the site are stone balls, about the size of a baseball and adorned with elaborate carvings of intricate patterns of spirals, circles and straight lines, with each one typically sporting between three to ten small knobs or bosses on the surface. It has long been considered a complete mystery as to how these ancient people could have created such elaborate inscriptions and carvings with only stone tools to work with, but the bigger mystery is that no one really knows what they are for. When it comes to the mysterious stone balls of Skara Brae the theories are numerous. Ideas include that they were used as weights for fishing nets, or that they were primitive scales, standardized weights for Neolithic traders, tools for the use of making beads or a multi-tool of some sort, objects used for rituals, oracles or fortune telling devices, status symbols, rollers for the transport of the giant stones used in megalithic monuments, or even weapons. Hugo Anderson-Whymark, curator of National Museums Scotland, has said of this theory:
It is perhaps best to think of them as ceremonial or stylized weapons. Things that could inflict damage if you wanted to use them, and may in some circumstances have been used that way, but are more likely to be objects which represent the status or power of the individual that held them in that community. Many of the ideas you have to take with a pinch of salt, while there are others that may be plausible. What’s interesting is that people really get their imaginations captured by them — they still hold a lot of secrets.
Some of the mysterious stone balls
Another idea is that the balls could represent what are called “Platonic solids,” which were symmetrical polyhedrons first proposed by the ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher Plato to represent the classical elements of earth, water, air, fire and ether. If this theory is true it would be an amazing discovery, as it would mean that these Neolithic people understood these geometries and mathematics over a millennium before Plato first described it all. In an effort to come to some understanding of their mysterious purpose, scientists have created 3-D models of the balls and others like them found at other sites in Scotland, and while these have not provided any concrete answers one thing that was found is that the they seemed to have been worked and reworked or modified over several generations.
Similar balls have been found at other locations around Scotland, and indeed there have been around 500 of the objects found at various sites, with the Skara Brae examples being among the most famous, but all are equally enigmatic. No one really has a clue what they were for. They could have simply been left behind as a prank to mess with people in the future for all we know, and your guess is as good as anyone’s. The stone balls have baffled scientists for years, with no one any closer to a definitive answer. What happened to Skara Brae? What were these mysterious balls used for? Considering there is no written record for any of it we will probably never know, and your guess is as good as anyone else’s.
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If Astronomers see Isoprene in the Atmosphere of an Alien World, There’s a Good Chance There’s Life There
If Astronomers see Isoprene in the Atmosphere of an Alien World, There’s a Good Chance There’s Life There
It is no exaggeration to say that the study of extrasolar planets has exploded in recent decades. To date, 4,375 exoplanets have been confirmed in 3,247 systems, with another 5,856 candidates awaiting confirmation. In recent years, exoplanet studies have started to transition from the process of discovery to one of characterization. This process is expected to accelerate once next-generation telescopes become operational.
As a result, astrobiologists are working to create comprehensive lists of potential “biosignatures,” which refers to chemical compounds and processes that are associated with life (oxygen, carbon dioxide, water, etc.) But according to new research by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), another potential biosignature we should be on the lookout for is a hydrocarbon called isoprene(C5H8).
The study that describes their findings, “Assessment of Isoprene as a Possible Biosignature Gas in Exoplanets with Anoxic Atmospheres,” recently appeared online and has been accepted for publication by the journal Astrobiology. For the sake of their study, the MIT team looked at the growing list of possible biosignatures that astronomers will be on the lookout for in the coming years.
An arrangement of 3 exoplanets to explore how the atmospheres can look different based on the chemistry present and incoming flux. Credit: Jack H. Madden
To date, the vast majority of exoplanets have been detected and confirmed using indirect methods. For the most part, astronomers have relied on the Transit Method (Transit Photometry) and the Radial Velocity Method (Doppler Spectroscopy), alone or in combination. Only a few have been detectable using Direct Imaging, which makes it very difficult to characterize exoplanet atmospheres and surfaces.
Only on rare occasions have astronomers been able to obtain spectra that allowed them to determine the chemical composition of that planet’s atmosphere. This was either the result of light passing through an exoplanet’s atmosphere as it transitted in front of its star or in the few cases where Direct Imaging occurred and light reflected from the exoplanet’s atmosphere could be studied.
Much of this has had to do with the limits of our current telescopes, which do not have the necessary resolution to observe smaller, rocky planets that orbit closer to their star. Astronomers and astrobiologists believe that it is these planets that are most likely to be potentially habitable, but any light reflected from their surfaces and atmospheres is overpowered by the light coming from their stars.
However, that will change soon as next-generation instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) takes to space. Sara Seager, the Class of 1941 Professor of Physics and Planetary Sciences at MIT, leads the research group responsible (aka. the Seager Group) and was a co-author on the paper. As she told Universe Today via email:
“With the upcoming October 2021 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope we will have our first capability of searching for biosignature gases—but it will be tough because the atmospheric signals of small rocky planet are so weak to begin with. With the JWST on the horizon the number of people working in the field has grown tremendously. Studies such as this one coming up with new potential biosignature gases, and other work showing potential false positives even for gases such as oxygen.”
Artist’s impression shows the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Once it is deployed and operational, the JWST will be able to observe our Universe at longer wavelengths (in the near- and mid-infrared range) and with greatly improved sensitivity. The telescope will also rely on a series of spectrographs to obtain composition data, as well as coronagraphs to block out the obscuring light of parent stars. This technology will enable astronomers to characterize the atmospheres of smaller rocky planets.
In turn, this data will allow scientists to place much tighter constraints on an exoplanet’s habitability and could even lead to the detection of known (and/or potential) biosignatures. As noted, these “biosignatures” include the chemical indications associated with life and biological process, not to mention the types of conditions that are favorable to it.
These include oxygen gas (O2), which is essential to most forms of life on Earth and is produced by photosynthetic organisms (plants, trees, cyanobacteria, etc.). These same organisms metabolize carbon dioxide (CO2), which oxygen-metabolizing life emits as a waste product. There’s also water (H2O), which is essential to all life as we know it, and methane (CH4), which is emitted by decaying organic matter.
Since volcanic activity is believed to play an important role in planetary habitability, the chemical byproducts associated with volcanism – hydrogen sulfide (H2S), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen gas (H2), etc. – are also considered biosignatures. To this list, Zhan, Seager, and their colleagues wished to add another possible biosignature – isoprene. As Zhan explained to Universe Today via email:
“Our research group at MIT focuses on using a holistic approach to explore all possible gases as potential biosignature gas. Our prior work led to the creation of the all small molecules database. We proceed to filter the ASM database to identify the most plausible biosignature gas candidates, one of which is isoprene, using machine learning and data-driven approaches – Dr. Zhuchang Zhan.”
Image taken by a crew member of Expedition 13 from the ISS, showing the eruption of Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Credit: NASA
Like its cousin methane, isoprene is an organic hydrocarbon molecule that is produced as a secondary metabolite by various species here on Earth. In addition to deciduous trees, isoprene is also produced by a diverse array of evolutionary-distant organisms – such as bacteria, plants, and animals. As Seager explained, this makes it promising as a potential biosignature:
“Isoprene is promising because it is produced in vast qualities by life on Earth—as much as methane production! Furthermore, a huge variety of life forms (from bacteria to plants and animals), those that are evolutionary distant from each other, produce isoprene, suggesting it might be some kind of key building block that life elsewhere might also make.”
While isoprene is about as abundant as methane here on Earth, isoprene is destroyed by interaction with oxygen and oxygen-containing radicals. For this reason, Zhang, Seager, and their team chose to focus on anoxic atmospheres. These are environments that are predominantly composed of H2, CO2, and nitrogen gas (N2), which is similar to what Earth’s primordial atmosphere was composed of.
According to their findings, a primordial planet (where life is beginning to emerge) would have abundant isoprene in its atmosphere. This would have been the case on Earth between 4 and 2.5 billion years ago when single-celled organisms were the only life and photosynthetic cyanobacteria were slowly converting Earth’s atmosphere into one that was oxygen-rich.
By 2.5 billion years ago, this culminated in the “Great Oxygenation Event” (GOE), which proved toxic to many organisms (and metabolites like isoprene). It was also during this time that complex lifeforms (eukaryotes and multi-celled organisms) began to emerge. In this respect, isoprene could be used to characterize planets that are in the midst of a major evolutionary shift and laying the groundwork for future animal phyla.
But as Zhang noted, teasing out this potential biosignature will be a challenge, even for the JWST:
“The caveats with isoprene as a biomarker are that: 1. 10x-100x the Earth’s Isoprene production rate is needed for detection; 2. Detecting Near-Infrared isoprene spectral feature can be hindered by the presence of methane or other hydrocarbons. Unique detection of isoprene will be challenging with JWST, as many hydrocarbon molecules share similar spectra features in Near-Infrared wavelengths. But future telescopes that focus on the mid-IR wavelength will be able to detect isoprene spectral features uniquely.”
Beyond the JWST, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (successor to the Hubble mission) will also be taking to space by 2025. This observatory will have the power of “One-Hundred Hubbles” and its recently-upgraded infrared filters will allow it to characterize exoplanets on its own and through collaborations with the JWST and other “great observatories.”
There are also several ground-based telescopes currently being built here on Earth that will rely on sophisticated spectrometers, coronographs, and adaptive optics (AOs). These include the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) These telescopes will also be able to conduct Direct Imaging studies of exoplanets, and the results are expected to be ground-breaking.
Relative sizes of Kepler habitable zone planets discovered as of 2013 April 18. Left to right: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f, and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists’ renditions). Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech.
Between improved instruments, rapidly improving data analysis and techniques, and improvements in our methodology, the study of exoplanets is only expected to accelerate further. In addition to having tens of thousands of more available for study (many of which will be rocky and “Earth-like”), the unprecedented views we will have of them will let us see just how many habitable worlds are out there.
Whether or not this will result in the discovery of extraterrestrial life within our lifetimes remains to be seen. But one thing is clear. In the coming years, when astronomers start combing through all the new data they will have on exoplanet atmospheres, they will have a comprehensive list of biosignatures to guide them.
The Lost Pacific Continent of Advanced Human Beings... Did It Really Exist?
The Lost Pacific Continent of Advanced Human Beings... Did It Really Exist?
According to Churchward, the lost Pacific continent of Mu “extended from somewhere north of Hawaii to the south as far as the Fijis and Easter Island.”
He claimed Mu was the site of the Garden of Eden and the home of 64,000,000 inhabitants known as the Naacals.
Its civilization, which flourished 50,000 years before Churchward’s day, was technologically more advanced than his own, and the ancient civilizations of India, Babylon, Persia, Egypt and the Mayas were merely the decayed remnants of its colonies.
Could this strange land and advanced human’s have really existed?
Robbie Williams Hires More Security Personnel to Guard Him Against UFOs and Aliens After Terrifying Experiences
Robbie Williams Hires More Security Personnel to Guard Him Against UFOs and Aliens After Terrifying Experiences
During interviews, Robbie Williams has said many times that he believes that we’re not alone in the universe, but the thought that extraterrestrials can contact causes him, terror.
Because of this phobia, he strengthened his house security to the point of even hiring a bodyguard to watch over while he sleeps.
The famous singer previously confessed during an interview for the Alien Nation his meeting with what he believes to be a UFO when he was sober. He said that he might have a mental illness, but he wants to share his story with the skeptics.
He also shared that he always felt terrified, thinking that aliens could try to contact him. The artist is aware that statements like his will always be taken with skepticism.
For this reason, he didn’t rule out that he may have suffered hallucinations in the past, which could explain his alleged sightings of UFOs.
Five Legendary Lost Cities that have Never Been Found
Five Legendary Lost Cities that have Never Been Found
The story of Atlantis is one of the most renowned and enduring tales of a lost city, said to have been swallowed up by the sea and lost forever. Yet, the story of Atlantis is not unique, as other cultures have similar legends of landmasses and cities that have disappeared under the waves, been lost beneath desert sands, or buried beneath centuries of vegetation. From the ancient homeland of the Aztecs, to jungle cities of gold and riches, we examine five legendary lost cities that have never been found.
Since Europeans first arrived in the New World, there have been stories of a legendary jungle city of gold, sometimes referred to as El Dorado. Spanish Conquistador, Francisco de Orellana was the first to venture along the Rio Negro in search of this fabled city. In 1925, at the age of 58, explorer Percy Fawcett headed into the jungles of Brazil to find a mysterious lost city he called “Z”. He and his team would vanish without a trace and the story would turn out be one of the biggest news stories of his day. Despite countless rescue missions, Fawcett was never found.
In 1906, the Royal Geographical Society, a British organization that sponsors scientific expeditions, invited Fawcett to survey part of the frontier between Brazil and Bolivia. He spent 18 months in the Mato Grosso area and it was during his various expeditions that Fawcett became obsessed with the idea of lost civilizations in this area. In 1920, Fawcett came across a document in the National Library of Rio De Janeiro called Manuscript 512. It was written by a Portuguese explorer in 1753, who claimed to have found a walled city deep in the Mato Grosso region of the Amazon rainforest, reminiscent of ancient Greece. The manuscript described a lost, silver laden city with multi-storied buildings, soaring stone arches, wide streets leading down towards a lake on which the explorer had seen two white Indians in a canoe. Fawcett called this the Lost City of Z.
In 1921, Fawcett set out on his first of many expeditions to find the Lost City of Z, but his team were frequently hindered by the hardships of the jungle, dangerous animals, and rampant diseases. Percy’s final search for Z culminated in his complete disappearance. In April 1925, he attempted one last time to find Z, this time better equipped and better financed by newspapers and societies including the Royal Geographic Society and the Rockefellers. In his final letter home, sent back via a team member, Fawcett sent a message to his wife Nina and proclaimed “We hope to get through this region in a few days.... You need have no fear of any failure.” It was to be the last anyone would ever hear from them again.
While Fawcett’s lost city of Z has never been found, numerous ancient cities and remains of religious sites have been uncovered in recent years in the jungles of Guatemala, Brazil, Bolivia and Honduras. With the advent of new scanning technology, it is possible that an ancient city that spurred the legends of Z, may one day be found.
The Aztec people of Mexico created one of the most powerful empires of the ancient Americas. While much is known about their empire located where today’s Mexico City can be found, less is known about the very start of the Aztec culture. Many consider the missing island of Aztlan to be the ancient homeland where the Aztec people began to form as a civilization prior to their migration to the Valley of Mexico. Some believe it is a mythical land, similar to Atlantis or Camelot, which will live on through legend but will never be found in physical existence. Others believe it to be a true, physical location that will someday be identified. Searches for the land of Aztlan have spanned from Western Mexico, all the way to the deserts of Utah, in hopes of finding the legendary island. However, these searches have been fruitless, as the location – and existence – of Aztlan remain a mystery.
The formation of civilization at Aztlan comes from legend. According to Nahuatl legend, there were seven tribes that once lived at Chicomoztoc – “the place of the seven caves.” These tribes represented the seven Nahua groups: Acolhua, Chalca, Mexica, Tepaneca, Tlahuica, Tlaxcalan, and Xochimilca (different sources provide variations on the names of the seven groups). The seven groups, being of similar linguistic groups, left their respective caves and settled as one group near Aztlan.
The word Aztlan means “the land to the north; the land from whence we, the Aztecs, came.” It is said that eventually, the people who inhabited Aztlan became known as the Aztecs, who then migrated from Aztlan to the Valley of Mexico. The Aztec migration from Aztlan to Tenochtitlán is a very important piece of Aztec history. It began on May 24, 1064, which was the first Aztec solar year.
To this day, the actual existence of an island known as Aztlan has not been confirmed. Many have searched for the land, in hopes of having a better understanding of where the Aztecs came from, and perhaps a better understanding of ancient Mexican history. However, like other lost cities, it is not clear whether Aztlan will ever be found.
In Arthurian legend, Lyonesse is the home country of Tristan, from the legendary story of Tristan and Iseult. The mythical land of Lyonesse is now referred to as the “Lost Land of Lyonesse,” as it is ultimately said to have sunk into the sea. However, the legendary tale of Tristan and Iseult shows that Lyonesse is known for more than sinking into the ocean, and that it had a legendary presence while it remained above ground. While Lyonesse is mostly referred to in stories of legend and myth, there is some belief that it represents a very real city that sunk into the sea many years ago. With such a legendary location, it can be difficult to ascertain where the legend ends and reality begins.
There are some variations in the legends that surround the sinking of the land. Prior to its sinking, Lyonesse would have been quite large, containing one hundred and forty villages and churches. Lyonesse is said to have disappeared on November 11, 1099 (although some tales use the year 1089, and some date back to the 6th century). Very suddenly the land was flooded by the sea. Entire villages were swallowed, and the people and animals of the area drowned. Once it was covered in water, the land never reemerged. While the Arthurian tales are legendary, there is some belief that Lyonesse was once a very real place attached to the Scilly Isles in Cornwall, England. Evidence shows that sea levels were considerably lower in the past, so it is very possible that an area that once contained a human settlement above-ground is now beneath the sea level. Indeed, fisherman near the Scilly Isles tell tales of retrieving pieces of buildings and other structures from their fishing nets. These stories have never been substantiated, and are viewed by some as tall tales.
From the legendary tales of Tristan and Iseult, to Arthur’s final battle with Mordred, to the stories of a city being swallowed by the sea, the tales of Lyonesse invoke a vast array of thoughts and emotions by those who wish to know more about this legendary city, and who like to believe that it’s legendary tales are founded upon a very real lost city.
For hundreds of years, treasure hunters and historians alike have searched for El Dorado, the lost city of gold. The idea of a city filled with gold and other riches has a natural appeal, drawing the attention of individuals from all over the world in hopes of discovering the ultimate treasure, and an ancient wonder. In spite of numerous expeditions around all of Latin America, the city of gold remains a legend, with no physical evidence to substantiate its existence.
The origins of El Dorado come from legendary tales of the Muisca tribe. Following two migrations – one in 1270 BC and one between 800 and 500 BC, the Muisca tribe occupied the Cundinamarca and Boyacá areas of Colombia. According to legend, as written in Juan Rodriguez Freyle’s “El Carnero,” the Muisca practiced a ritual for every newly appointed king that involved gold dust and other precious treasures.
When a new leader was appointed, many rituals would take place before he took his role as king. During one of these rituals, the new king would be brought to Lake Guatavita, where he would be stripped naked, and covered in gold dust. He would be placed upon a highly decorated raft, along with his attendants, and piles of gold and precious stones. The raft would be sent out to the center of the lake, where the king would wash the gold dust from his body, as his attendants would throw the pieces of gold and precious stones into the lake. This ritual was intended as a sacrifice to the Muisca's god. To the Muisca, “El Dorado” was not a city, but the king at the center of this ritual, also called “the Gilded One.” While El Dorado is meant to refer to the Gilded One, the name has now become synonymous with the lost city of gold, and any other place where one can quickly obtain wealth.
In 1545, Conquistadores Lázaro Fonte and Hernán Perez de Quesada attempted to drain Lake Guatavita. As they did so, they found gold along its shores, fueling their suspicion that the lake contained a treasure of riches. They worked for three months, with workers forming a bucket chain, but they were unable to drain the lake sufficiently to reach any treasures deep within the lake. In 1580, another attempt to drain the lake was made by business entrepreneur Antonio de Sepúlveda. Once again, various pieces of gold were found along the shores, but the treasure at the depths of the lake remained concealed. Other searches were conducted on Lake Guatavita, with estimates that the lake could contain up to $300 million in gold, with no luck in finding the treasures. All searches came to a halt when the Colombian government declared the lake a protected area in 1965. Nonetheless, the search for El Dorado continues, even without the ability to search Lake Guatavita. The legends of the Muisca tribe, the Gilded One and their ritualistic sacrifice of treasures have transformed over time into today’s tale of El Dorado, lost city of gold.
Dubai cultivates an ultra-modern image of dazzling architecture and effortless wealth. Yet its deserts conceal forgotten cities and a hidden history which reveal how its early inhabitants adapted and overcame dramatic past climate change.
One of the most famous lost cities of Arabia – tantalizingly so because historians have known it existed from written records but simply could not find it – is the medieval city of Julfar. Home to the legendary Arabian seafarer Ahmed ibn Majid, as well as allegedly to the fictional Sindbad the Sailor, Julfar thrived for a thousand years before falling into ruin and disappearing from human memory for almost two centuries. Unlike other desert cities, Julfar was a thriving port, in fact the hub of southern Gulf Arabic trade in the Middle Ages.
Julfar was known to be somewhere on the Persian Gulf coast north of Dubai, but the actual site was only found by archaeologists in the 1960s. The earliest signs of settlement found on the site date from the 6th century, by which time its inhabitants were already trading as far afield as India and the Far East on a routine basis.
The 10th to 14th centuries were a golden age for Julfar and for long-distance Arab trading and seafaring, with Arab navigators routinely traveling halfway around the world. Arabs had sailed into European waters long before Europeans succeeded in navigating through the Indian Ocean and into the Persian Gulf, for instance. As the main base for these voyages and trade, Julfar was the largest and most important city in the southern Gulf for over a thousand years. Arab merchants routinely made the mammoth eighteen-month sea voyage as far as China, and traded almost everything imaginable.
Such a valuable commercial centre attracted constant attention from rival powers though. The Portuguese took control in the 16th century, by which time Julfar was a substantial city of around 70,000 people. A century later the Persians seized it, only to lose it in 1750 to the Qawasim tribe from Sharjah who established themselves next-door at Ras al-Khaimah, which they continue to rule to this day, leaving the old Julfar to gradually decay until its ruins became forgotten amongst the coastal sand dunes. Today most of Julfar in all likelihood remains still hidden beneath the sprawling dunes north of Ras al-Khaimah.” – courtesy David Millar
A woman believes the strange lights she saw from her house could be a 'UFO'.
Romanie Smith, was standing in her garden in Great Suttonwhen she noticed the mysterious lights in the sky on Monday night (March 29) at around 9.20pm and which she said stayed for around 40 minutes.
She said the 'object' was a around a mile away in the Chester direction from where she was standing.
Romanie described the lights as flashing in a 'twinkly pattern' in multiple colours including orange, green, red and blue but was still 'quite a white light'.
The Great Sutton resident said every so often it 'tilted' to show a 'dark shadowy shape of the object', which she described as curved.
Romanie told CheshireLive: "It was flashing in a twinkly pattern, in a line that tilted every so often showing a dark shadowy shape of object and it was curved like a semi-circle, like it had tilted on its side.
"Then it would almost three-quarter tilt, showing how round it was and the lights would still be twinkling that’s when it almost showed a strip beam of light from it, then it would tilt back.
"I understand this could have just been a light flare dazzling me not a light beam as such.
"I realised it was moving slightly almost a shifting, shaky movement, but always hovering like almost stationary, but would jiggle to the left and then back to the right.
"Then up a bit and back down and then it would shift quite a lot and move across from the point I first saw it, but not a slow travel it was a jerky movement.
"At one point it tilted and that’s when I noticed a second light, not as big, much smaller and the lights from the big one almost outlined them both.
"I watched the shadows get closer and closer until the smaller one disappeared into the main one, and then it really lit up.
"That’s when I could see lights coming off it, showing almost lines or like it was absorbing light into it or off of it."
Romanie said at this point this was when she 'really started freaking out' and could feel herself shaking.
She said the mysterious 'object' stopped and formed the line again and was 'flashing and moving about slightly'.
Romanie added she kept 'willing it to move or just shoot off and vanish' just to 'prove' to her she wasn't seeing things.
She added: "I kept willing it to move or just shoot off and vanish just to prove to me I wasn’t seeing things, but it just stayed there.
"It had moved across the house line in front of me so clearly, it covered some ground as it was miles and miles away.
"I was using the roof of the house behind to work out how much it was moving, as it started central to their chimney pots and by the time I came it had moved above the house next door right of that one.
"Obviously I’m talking miles away not just above them, as I was using them as a guide to work out if it was moving at all.
"I also saw another slow moving, much dimmer light moving across the sky which at first I thought was a travelling star.
"But it moved right across the sky across the big flashing lights and the more I think about it, it moved from the right side to the left.
"The left is where the two smaller light objects came from when it intercepted the main flashing object."
Laurette Piani, Cosmochimiste, chargée de recherche CNRS au Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG) de Nancy, CNRS, Université de Lorraine
Guillaume Paris, Géochimiste, chargé de recherche CNRS au Centre de recherches pétrographiques et géochimiques de Nancy, Université de Lorraine
Water is essential to life as we know it and it seems completely normal to have water all around us. Yet Earth is the only known planet to be covered by oceans. Do we know exactly where its water came from?
This is not a simple question: it was long thought that Earth formed dry — without water, because of its proximity to the Sun and the high temperatures when the solar system formed. In this model, water could have been brought to Earth by comets or asteroids colliding with the Earth. Such a complex origin for water would likely mean that our planet is unique in the universe.
However, in a 2020 study, we showed that water — or at least its components, hydrogen and oxygen — may have been present in the rocks that initially formed the Earth. If that is so indeed, other "blue planets" with liquid water are more likely to exist elsewhere.
Water on Earth, water inside the Earth
(Image credit: Howard Perlman, USGS; Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Adam Nieman, Author provided (No reuse))
Liquid water covers more than 70% of Earth's surface, with about about 95.6% of it in oceans and seas, and the remaining 4% in glaciers, ice caps, groundwater, lakes, rivers, soil humidity, and the atmosphere.
But most of Earth's water is deep underground: between one and ten times the volume of the oceans are contained in the mantle.
At the surface of the Earth, "water" means two hydrogens for each oxygen (H20), whereas what we call "water" in the mantle corresponds to hydrogen incorporated in minerals, magmas and fluids. This hydrogen can bond with surrounding oxygen to form water at the appropriate temperature and pressure conditions.
While water represents less than 0.5% of the mass of the Earth, it is key to the evolution of the planet itself and to life at its surface.
In the early solar system, there was a lot of hydrogen, mainly in the form of dihydrogen gas (H2), or bonded with oxygen atoms to form water (H2O). However, Earth and the other rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, and Mars) formed near the sun, where it was too hot for water to incorporate into rock as ice: it just would have evaporated. So why does the Earth now have so much water, both in its mantle and on its surface?
The solar system began as a cloud of gas and dust, from which the planets and planetary bodies formed by the agglomeration of dust. At the low pressures of the interplanetary medium, the incorporation of water into planetary bodies depends on the surrounding temperature: above minus 184 degrees Fahrenheit, water is in its vapor form and does not agglomerate with other solids. (Image credit: Laurette Piani)
The prevalent hypothesis: hydrogen delivered to Earth by hydrated asteroids
Some meteorites, called chondrites, come from small asteroids that, unlike the planets, have not geologically evolved since their formation. They are good witnesses of the first millions of years of the solar system.
The carbonaceous chondrites for instance formed far enough away from the Sun to initially contain water ice (all of which has since been incorporated in hydrated minerals through hydrothermal alteration). Contrastingly, ordinary and enstatite chondrites formed closer to the sun where water was gaseous and was incorporated in large amounts into rocks: like the rocky planets, ordinary and enstatite chondrites are considered to be "dry."
The Murchison meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite containing hydrated minerals and organic components that formed in the outer part of the solar system (0.46 g). Right: the Sahara 97096 meteorite, an enstatite chondrite with no hydrated minerals that formed in the inner part of the solar system (70 g). (Image credit: on Taylor/Flickr, and Laurette Piani and Christine Fieni/MNHN, CC BY-SA)
Until now, the accepted hypothesis was that Earth formed from dry materials, and that its water was delivered by celestial bodies that formed further from the sun: hydrated meteorites, such as carbonaceous chondrites, or comets — although this last hypothesis was recently thwarted by the ESA space probe Rosetta.
Another origin for Earth’s water?
Our study tells a different story. We analyzed the hydrogen in enstatite chondrites. Remember that these are among our best analogues for the rocks that formed Earth, so the hydrogen concentrations in these "dry" rocks hint at the possible presence of water during Earth’s formation.
We compared the Earth composition and that of enstatite chondrites by looking at the amounts of various isotopes (atoms of the same element but containing different numbers of neutrons). We find that, although enstatite chondrites do not contain hydrated minerals, they do contain small amounts of hydrogen with an isotopic ratio consistent with the Earth's. Hydrogen is thought to have been present in trace amounts (<0.1%) in the minerals and organic compounds that agglomerated to form enstatite chondrites, explaining where most of the water contained in Earth's mantle and in part of the oceans comes from. The majority of Earth's water (more precisely its elements, hydrogen and oxygen) may thus have been present from the beginning.
What are the consequences of a local origin of water?
This does not tell us when the oceans appeared on Earth's surface, but we now know that Earth's water was not necessarily delivered by hydrated bodies that formed very far from the sun. However, we do not yet understand in what form(s) and by what process hydrogen was incorporated and stored in rocks of the inner solar system.
The presence of hydrogen in inner solar system rocks is particularly important because it could have been a water source for the other rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, and Mars). Similar rocks could then represent a source of water for planets orbiting other suns, a condition to develop life, at least life as we know it.
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Data from NASA's Juno spacecraft revealed faint aurora features likely triggered by charged particles coming from the edge of Jupiter's massive magnetosphere. (Image credit: NASA/SWRI/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/V. Hue/G. R. Gladstone/B. Bonfond)
NASA's Juno mission has detected new auroral emissions on Jupiter which appear to ripple over the planet's poles.
The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) on the Juno spacecraft captured this glowing phenomenon, which is characterized by faint ring-shaped emissions that expand rapidly over time at speeds between 2 and 4.8 miles per second (3.3 and 7.7 kilometers per second). Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), where Juno's UVS instrument was built, suggest these auroral emissions are triggered by charged particles coming from the edge of Jupiter's massive magnetosphere, according to a statement from the institute.
"We think these newly discovered faint ultraviolet features originate millions of miles away from Jupiter, near the Jovian magnetosphere's boundary with the solar wind," Vincent Hue, lead author of the study, said in the statement. "The solar wind is a supersonic stream of charged particles emitted by the sun. When they reach Jupiter, they interact with its magnetosphere in a way that is still not well understood."
Evolution of a dawn storm in Jupiter’s polar auroras. This animation was created from observations made by Juno’s UVS (Ultraviolet Spectrograph) instrument.
Much like on Earth, auroras on Jupiter are linked to charged particles within the planet's magnetosphere. However, Jupiter's magnetosphere is about 20,000 times stronger than Earth's, which means the gas giant can deflect incoming solar winds from up to 4 million miles (6 million km) away.
"The high-latitude location of the rings indicates that the particles causing the emissions are coming from the distant Jovian magnetosphere, near its boundary with the solar wind," Bertrand Bonfond, co-author of the study from Belgium's Liège University, said in the statement.
The charged particles recorded by Juno's UVS instrument appear to be emanating from the outer reaches of the magnetosphere, where plasma from the solar wind interacts with the Jovian plasma. In turn, this interaction may spur the ring-like features, known as Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, which could travel along Jupiter's magnetic field lines. Alternatively, the newly detected auroral feature may be the result of dayside magnetic reconnection events, during which interplanetary magnetic fields converge, rearrange and reconnect, according to the statement.
A false-color visualization of Jupiter's faint, ring-like aurora features expanding over time. (Image credit: NASA/SWRI/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/V. Hue/G. R. Gladstone)
"Despite decades of observations from Earth combined with numerous in-situ spacecraft measurements, scientists still do not fully understand the role the solar wind plays in moderating Jupiter's auroral emissions," Thomas Greathouse, co-author of the SwRI study, said in the statement. "Jupiter's magnetospheric dynamics, the motion of charged particles within its magnetosphere, is largely controlled by Jupiter's 10-hour rotation, the fastest in the solar system. The solar wind's role is still debated."
Therefore, the researchers argue that further research is required to fully understand the processes that produce these newly detected ring-like emissions. With NASA's Juno mission recently extended until 2025, the researchers hope to study Jupiter's auroral features in even greater detail.
Their findings were published March 9 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics.
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China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has captured stunning images of Mars as a bright red sunlit crescent in deep space.
The photo captured by an image sensor on Tianwen 1.
Image: CGTN/Chinese National Space Administration
The photographs were separately taken over the northern and southern hemispheres of Mars with the medium resolution camera on Tianwen-1, China's first interplanetary mission.
The result is two glorious shots showing the illuminated eastern hemisphere of Mars, including surface features and the faint edge of the Martian atmosphere. The photographs were taken at a distance of around 6,850 miles (11,000 kilometers) away from Mars.
China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft orbiting Mars captured this stunning view of a crescent Red Planet on March 18, 2021. Shown here is the planet's northern hemisphere from a distance of 6,850 miles (11,000 kilometers). (Image credit: CNSA)
The image of Mars’ southern hemisphere, in which the lower portion of the image is illuminated, was taken on March 16 while the northern hemisphere shot was taken by the same camera on March 18.
The Tianwen-1 probe is currently in a polar orbit around Mars which takes it as close as 174 miles (280 kilometers) to the surface and as far away as 36,660 miles (59,000 km), according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
The orbit allows the spacecraft to pass over the primary candidate landing site for the mission's rover.
China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft orbiting Mars captured this stunning view of a crescent Red Planet on March 18, 2021. Shown here is the planet's northern hemisphere from a distance of 6,850 miles (11,000 kilometers). (Image credit: CNSA)
The spacecraft’s high resolution camera has been collecting detailed images of the target landing site in preparation for a rover landing attempt in May or June, according to CNSA.
Tianwen-1 arrived at Mars on Feb. 10, just a day after the United Arab Emirates’ Hope probe, and a week ahead of NASA’s Perseverance rover.
« L’excitation monte » à la Nasa avec la liste des premiers objets qui seront observés par son nouveau télescope spatial
« L’excitation monte » à la Nasa avec la liste des premiers objets qui seront observés par son nouveau télescope spatial
Nathalie Mayer - Journaliste
Le lancement du télescope spatial James Webb est annoncé pour cet automne. Enfin ! Les préparatifs battent leur plein. Les responsables du projet viennent d'annoncer la liste des 286 projets auxquels ils ont souhaité attribuer du temps sur la première année d'observation de l'instrument.
Le lancement attendu depuis longtemps du télescope spatial James Webb est aujourd'hui prévu pour le 31 octobre 2021. Et outre les derniers ajustements techniques, du côté de la Nasa, la mission avance. Les responsables viennent de sélectionner les programmes qui pourront être menés au cours de la première année d'observation du télescope.
Rappelons que le grand miroir du télescope spatial James Webb permettra d'observer l'Univers dans le domaine de l’infrarouge -- proche à moyen --, le tout avec des capacités d'imagerie et de spectroscopie haute résolution. De quoi espérer découvrir des pans entiers de l'Univers qui nous étaient jusqu'alors inaccessibles. « Nous ouvrons le coffre au trésor et les surprises sont garanties », s'enthousiasme John C. Mather, scientifique principal du projet au Goddard Space Flight Center, dans un communiqué de la Nasa.
Une sélection rigoureuse et prometteuse
Le temps d'observation avec le télescope spatial James Webb étant extrêmement précieux, le processus de sélection a été drastique et mené par près de 200 membres de la communauté internationale des astronomes pendant plusieurs semaines sur plus de 1.000 projets volontairement anonymisés. Finalement, 286 propositions ont été sélectionnées (explorez-les par type). Elles ambitionnent de trouver les premières galaxies, d'étudier la formation des étoiles ou encore de mesurer les propriétés physiques et chimiques des systèmes planétaires, y compris du nôtre.
« Nous attendons avec impatience les belles images et spectres et les découvertes étonnantes que Webb fera au cours de cette première année d'observations », note Gunther Hasinger, directeur des sciences à l'Agence spatiale européenne (ESA), partenaire de la Nasa sur le projet. « L'excitation monte. Ces cibles sont des observations très attendues qui promettent d'élargir notre vision de l'Univers et notre place dans celui-ci », a souligné de son côté Sarah Gallagher, conseillère scientifique auprès du président de l'Agence spatiale canadienne, l'autre partenaire du projet de télescope spatial James Webb.
Dr. Steven Greer likes to suggest that he is in regular contact with extraterrestrials who are visiting Earth. Kindly, if for a price, Greer offers to train others in his "close encounters of the fifth kind" contact "protocols." But is Greer really in contact with unidentified flying objects or what the military refers to as unidentified aerial phenomena?
Well, like the U.S. military, I'm very confident that some UFOs are true unknowns not belonging to China, the United States, or Russia. That said, I'm not convinced these objects are what Greer is seeing or communicating with. A Jan. 27, 2015, Greer "contact" event in Florida offers a case in point.
That date saw Greer leading an expedition at Vero Beach on Florida's east coast. Greer's websitesaysthat his weeklong expeditions come with a "tuition fee" of "$2,500-$3,500 depending on facility costs." The website explains that "all of the Ambassador to the Universe trainings are similar. All participants are expected to complete and return liability release, confidentiality agreement and Ambassador Agreement, which will be sent after they have paid and registered."
Back to Jan. 27, 2015, when Greer's expedition claimed to have summoned two UFOs.
Video of the sighting was posted to Greer's YouTube channel, and the incident was the first case listed on the "photographic and video evidence" page of Greer's website. The video introduction says the "event" occurred between 9:10 and 9:15 p.m. and "was a result of an invitation initiated by the members using coherent thought and meditation practices, also known as, CE-5 protocols." The video description states, "There were NO boats or ships seen anywhere in the area of the objects and there were no jets or planes or other airborne objects anywhere near the objects before, during or after the event."
That's not true. But let's not jump the gun.
The video starts with one bright orange light appearing off the coast. Greer is heard directing a participant to "please turn off your night scope." Note that a night scope would assist in detecting low visibility aircraft in the vicinity. Shortly thereafter, a second light appears off the coast, to the left of the first light. Greer confirms that these are indeed UFOs.
"I'm looking with the night scopes. There's no smoke. There's no trails. These are not flares," he continues. "They were waiting for us to arrive." A few seconds later, Greer implores his group, "Let's welcome the beings on board to join us in meditation. That is such a beautiful color — see, you'll never forget that color," he says. "This is huge," one participant says. Greer agrees, "Yes, this is a major event." At the 3-minute, 32-second mark, the first light disappears. Ignoring the lights' slow but obvious altitude decline, Greer states that "they've stayed pretty much the same altitude, though. ... Let's invite them to come as close as they can." At the 4:11 mark, the second light dissipates. While the second light is quite obviously above the water as it fades out, Greer quickly states, "Oh, that's gone into the ocean. See what it did?" Greer concludes, "Now the way that you know that's not like something like a flare, first of all, it didn't shoot up and then come down." The video fades out. We then see a series of other photos and videos of the same event.
But were these UFOs? Or were they something more terrestrial?
Well, FlightAware flight tracking data attained by the Washington Examiner suggest the latter is true. At 9:11 p.m. on Jan. 27, 2015, a Beech 76 Duchess registered N110SU was recorded flying at 85 mph off Vero Beach. This is slower than the aircraft's normal cruising speed and would feasibly allow the aircrew to deploy parachute flares or some other illumination device. The aircraft took off and returned to the airport in Fort Pierce. The screenshot below shows the aircraft's location at the time of the "event."
(Screenshot via FlightAware)
The owner of the aircraft is listed by the Federal Aviation Administration as Ari Ben Aviator, Incorporated. The website of the Fort Pierce-based flight school, Aviator College of Aeronautical Science and Technology, lists Michael Cohen as its president and CEO, and "the Owner and only President of Air Ben Aviator, Inc. since its inception." The website explains that Cohen "has 33 years of experience with managing a successful flight training school in all areas including advertising and recruiting." The distinction between "Air Ben Aviator" and "Ari Ben Aviator" seems to be a spelling mistake. Florida state business records list Cohen as the owner of both the Aviator College and Ari Ben Aviator.
When I reached out to the Aviator College to ask about the Jan. 27, 2015, flight, Director of Maintenance Christopher Speer told me that the college never does things like dropping flares. After sending Speer a copy of the flight record, he did not respond to any further emails. Incidentally, another aircraft listed to Ari Ben Aviator was forced to land on a section of Interstate 95 in Florida on Jan. 30, 2017, after running out of fuel. CNN has alsoreported that Ari Ben Aviator received a loan between $350,000 and $1,000,000 under the federal government's coronavirus relief Paycheck Protection Program.
The top line, however, is that the flight was in the place and time that the witnesses saw the lights. I'd thus offer a pretty confident assessment that what was seen off Vero Beach that night were not UFOs but, in fact, flares of some kind. Watch the video recording of the Jan. 27, 2015, incident below.
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“The generated intraspecies chimaeras were viable and displayed normal histology, morphology and function. Human:pig chimaeras generated with TP53-null human induced pluripotent stem cells led to higher chimaerism efficiency, with embryos collected at embryonic days 20 and 27 containing humanized muscle, as confirmed by immunohistochemical and molecular analyses. Human:pig chimaeras may facilitate the production of exogenic organs for research and xenotransplantation.”
Science-speak is often so confusing that it makes seemingly horrific things less so, but one phrase in the opening abstract of a new study jumps out in a way that anyone can understand – “Human:pig chimaeras.” The chimera (or chimaera) of Greek mythology was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature made from parts of a lion, goat and serpent. Modern-day chimeras are creatures, organisms or tissue that are one body with two sets of cells and two different sets of DNA. A whole-body chimera is created when two embryos merge at a very early stage and the two embryos develop as one being. This can occur in humans when a fetus absorbs a dead fraternal twin. For comparison, a hybrid is the offspring of two different species with each of their cells containing DNA from both species — mules (horse-donkey) and ligers (lion-tiger) are examples.
Classic chimera
Human-pig chimeras in the U.S. were first created in 2017 by placing human cells in pig embryos. In a few, the cells grew into muscle and organ cells before the embryos were destroyed. The goal was to eventually grow human organs in pigs for transplanting, and more experiments involving human-rodent and human-chimpanzee chimeras allegedly occurred in China and Japan. On the other hand, these experiments in the U.S. have been tightly regulated and are quite rare. Recently, researchers at the University of Minnesota focused on some less complex but just as needed tissue – muscles to replace those lost in accidents, combat or surgical procedures. That focus resulted in the creation of more human-pig chimeras with one new twist – the embryos were allowed to grow to full term!
“It is important to note that we demonstrate that the human donor cells are located only where the pig skeletal muscle [now genetically deleted] once was. The human donor cells do not migrate to the brain or to the reproductive cells of the pig.”
Mary Garry, associate professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota’s Cardiovascular Division and co-author of the study published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering, answers in Inverse the chimera-elephant-in-the-room question – the human stem cells were implanted in pig embryos that had the genes required to develop pig skeletal muscle tissue removed via CRISPR gene editing. Because of that, they never strayed to the pigs’ brains or reproductive organs. Also, these were adult-derived stem cells, not embryonic stem cells.
You know what this means?
That still left a lab full of human-pig chimeras running around. Transplanting their human muscles is not yet technologically feasible nor ethically approved — Garry estimates that both will happen in the next 3 to 5 years in the U.S. What about outside the U.S.? We’ve already seen that regulations don’t matter in some countries and money talks in just about all of them. Could human-pig chimeras be supplying organs already somewhere else? That needle is moving quickly on the probability meter. Organ transplants of all kinds are in short supply, even in countries with illegal or look-the-other-way harvesting. Do the benefits outweigh the risk of unethical development or an accidental escape into the normal population? Is there a twisted scientist with the goal of creating a real Orwellian “Animal Farm” or Seinfeldian Pig Man?
Stranger things have happened … and they’re not going to stop.
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There are countless supposed alien encounters out there. People have been reporting strange meetings with enigmatic entities for some time, and for the most part they have tended to lean towards the common “Grey Aliens” most known in popular culture, the more animalistic “Reptilians,” and the human-looking, blonde “Nordics,” but the creatures descried in such encounters have really run the range. On occasion there are some very far-out and completely outlandish reports mentioned, and one of these is certainly the tale of the guy who was abducted by alien monoliths.
It was the evening of January 26, 1977, and it had been a pretty good night so far for 19-year old Lee Parish. He went to his girlfriend’s house in the town of Prospect, Kentucky, and when he left at 1 AM he was in good spirits. He got into his car and started his short drive home through farmland and fields as far as the eye could see. As he stared out over the road, the lane lines hypnotically flashing by, he noticed up ahead a very strange object seemingly hovering over the road, emanating a yellowish orange glow. He would later recall getting the feeling that it had “appeared out of nowhere” because the surrounding landscape was totally flat and he hadn’t seen it actually approach. As he got closer, he could see that it appeared to be rectangular, perhaps 10 by 40 feet, but he could not make out much detail because it was so blindingly bright. As he drew nearer still, his car began to experience various electrical malfunctions, his headlights flickering and the radio suddenly going silent. His vision seemed to get hazy and then the object rose into the air and shot off into the night at great speed. He felt as if he were about to lose consciousness, but managed to make it home, where his night would get even weirder.
As soon as he got in the door he knew something was wrong. Although his girlfriend’s house was only a 7-minute drive away, almost an hour had inexplicably passed. Then when his mother saw him she wanted to know what had happened to his eyes, which caused him to look into a mirror to see that they were extremely bloodshot, and he also felt that they were very sore. That night he barely slept, remembering that strange rectangular craft, the missing time, and becoming more and more convinced they were related to the bloodshot eyes. He began to suspect that something very bizarre had happened out on that road, and that his memory of what had happened was perhaps not the whole story. The next morning, he told his mother what had happened, and she was very understanding, even contacting local hypnotist Lawrence Allison, as well as two UFO researchers by the names of Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert. They decided to try to put Parish under and see what sorts of memories they could dredge up, which would turn out to be perhaps odder than any of them had anticipated.
Parish would be hypnotically taken back to the road that evening, explaining what was happening in his head and seeing the bizarre rectangular craft ahead, but things would then take a sharp detour into the truly weird. He said that as he watched it the object had gone from reddish orange, to black, and then to white, so bright it hurt his eyes, and then his car had felt like it was hovering over the pavement. Then suddenly he was not in his car anymore, but rather sitting in a massive circular room with glowing walls. The dimensions of the room were so large that he estimated the room was anomalously larger than the actual object he had seen, and there was a strange movement to it all in the background, as if they were on a boat at sea. The room was completely empty except three extremely outlandish machines or creatures of some sort. One was around 20 feet high, all black and appearing as a monolith or tombstone, the only thing breaking its exterior being a single handless arm with one joint. Another was much smaller, about 6 feet tall, and looked like a pure luminous white cube with another cube on top as a “head” and two arms folded up against its body. The third entity was the smallest, and was a red rectangular square with a wedge-like head and a single arm with no joint. Parish had the distinct feeling that these were sentient beings and that the white one was their leader, although he wasn’t sure why he knew this.
As he sat there in a mix of wonder and fear, the black one and the little red one approached him, with the red one seemingly nervous and afraid of him. The giant black one reached out to touch Parish’s arm and back, sending a sensation of burning cold shooting through him, as well as a vibrating sensation that rocked his body. The small red one also reached out to touch his head, seemingly very wary and afraid, as one might be when reaching out to pet an angry dog, and its touch produced a sharp poking, stinging sensation like a needle. After this, the red one stepped behind the white one, possibly even merging with it, Parish couldn’t tell, and the white one began producing an unpleasant sound that sounded like “a rhythmic scraping sound.” When this sound started, the black one backed away from Parish, after which the white one stepped behind it and the giant monolith vanished, apparently along with the others, leaving the now terrified parish sitting there alone. He now felt almost uncomfortably warm, the cold gone to be replaced by heat, and his limbs were heavy like he was moving underwater. Then in an instant he was sitting back in his car again and the craft was rising into the air to speed off, his radio coming back on again. He likened his appearance in the vehicle to being teleported, one minute he had been in that alien room, and in the car the next.
When asked as to what he thought the aliens had been doing to him, the best he could come up with was that they had been examining him somehow. The UFO researchers were a little unsure what to think of this surreal account, but it was somewhat corroborated when they found a local farmer who claimed that he had seen a large bright light hovering out over the fields on the very same night Parish had had his experience. The researchers also felt that Parish was a simple young man who seemed sincere and not prone to making up stories, and they would conclude that the sighting was worth consideration and further study. We are left to wonder what happened to this guy and what exactly it was he saw. what were these entities and did they ever even really exist at all outside of his own head? It is hard to say, but it is one of the odder alien encounters on record.
The world of ufology revolves around some famous stories of sightings and abductions. One abduction account that has withstood the tests of time, skeptics, investigations and a movie depiction is that of Travis Walton. In 1975, six fellow loggers in Snowflake, Arizona, including one Mike Rogers, reported to local authorities that they encountered a flying saucer which Travis had jump from the truck and run towards, only to be knocked to the ground by a beam of light. Thinking he was dead, they left him and, when they returned with searchers, could not find him. Walton showed up five days later with a story of being abducted and taken to a space ship, encountering two species of aliens and being dropped off a few miles away. The witnesses, especially Walton’s friend and logging-crew-leader and truck driver Mike Rogers, stuck by their stories and passed polygraph tests. Walton wrote “The Walton Experience” which became the basis for the 1993 film “Fire in the Sky” and has continued to tell his story. (A Google search brings up many accounts of the story.) As for Mike Rogers …
“I, Michael H. Rogers, being of sound and rational mind, do hereby give notice that I am no longer to be considered a witness to Travis C. Walton’s supposed abduction of November 5, 1975.”
Travis Walton today.
That post appeared on Rogers’ Facebook page on March 19, 2021. After all these years, is he saying that the alien abduction of Travis Walton he said he saw in 1975 never happened and he, Mike Rogers, is a sound-minded liar? The comments on this post and others on subsequent days could make for another book – or better yet, a soap opera script – but don’t really answer the question. In one response to a similar query, Rogers says:
“No, it wasn’t a scam or hoax, as far as I know, ***. But you never know?”
As far as he knows? You never know? That’s pretty vague – like a remark made to get attention rather than release new information or make a confession. The comments and counter-comments on the posts – especially the back-and-forth between Rogers and Travis Walton himself – suggest some sort of personal vendetta is at the source … and that vendetta is, not surprisingly, about money. It appears there is talk of a remake of “Fire in the Sky” in the posts and they imply that this is the at the root of this big – at least in the ufology world – fight. Money has been a part of this story from the start, with The National Enquirer giving Walton and his co-workers a $5,000 prize for “best UFO case of the year” after they passed polygraph tests administered by the Enquirer.
“I have been waiting a very long time to say this… I am very tired of holding this in.”
Does that sound like someone looking for a bigger piece of the pie or someone dealing with covering up a lie for 45 years? Travis Walton sticks by his story, which has not changed in 45 years. That, plus the witnesses, is what gave his story such credibility and durability. As of this writing, there don’t appear to be any other witnesses coming forward to un-witness themselves. Subsequent posts on Rogers Facebook page indicate a lot more “He said … he said” comments and, it should be noted, promotions of a book of illustrations Rogers is working on.
Will a real-life soap opera bring down one of the most enduring UFO and alien abduction cases of all time? You never know. It’s safe to say this is far from over.
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Mysterious Interstellar Visitor May Be the Most Pristine Comet Ever Found
Mysterious Interstellar Visitor May Be the Most Pristine Comet Ever Found
New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most recently detected interstellar visitor to our Solar System, is one of the most pristine ever observed. Astronomers suspect that the comet most likely never passed close to a star, making it an undisturbed relic of the cloud of gas and dust it formed from.
2I/Borisov was discovered by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov in August 2019 and was confirmed to have come from beyond the Solar System a few weeks later. “2I/Borisov could represent the first truly pristine comet ever observed,” says Stefano Bagnulo of the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, Northern Ireland, UK, who led the new study published today in Nature Communications. The team believes that the comet had never passed close to any star before it flew by the Sun in 2019.
New observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) indicate that the rogue comet 2I/Borisov, which is only the second and most recently detected interstellar visitor to our Solar System, is one of the most pristine ever observed. This video summarizes new findings on this mysterious alien visitor.
Credit: ESO
Bagnulo and his colleagues used the FORS2 instrument on ESO’s VLT, located in northern Chile, to study 2I/Borisov in detail using a technique called polarimetry.[1] Since this technique is regularly used to study comets and other small bodies of our Solar System, this allowed the team to compare the interstellar visitor with our local comets.
The team found that 2I/Borisov has polarimetric properties distinct from those of Solar System comets, with the exception of Hale–Bopp. Comet Hale–Bopp received much public interest in the late 1990s as a result of being easily visible to the naked eye, and also because it was one of the most pristine comets astronomers had ever seen. Prior to its most recent passage, Hale–Bopp is thought to have passed by our Sun only once and had therefore barely been affected by solar wind and radiation. This means it was pristine, having a composition very similar to that of the cloud of gas and dust it — and the rest of the Solar System — formed from some 4.5 billion years ago.
This image was taken with the FORS2 instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in late 2019, when comet 2I/Borisov passed near the Sun. Since the comet was traveling at breakneck speed, around 175,000 kilometers per hour, the background stars appeared as streaks of light as the telescope followed the comet’s trajectory. The colors in these streaks give the image some disco flair and are the result of combining observations in different wavelength bands, highlighted by the various colors in this composite image.
Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut
By analyzing the polarisation together with the color of the comet to gather clues on its composition, the team concluded that 2I/Borisov is in fact even more pristine than Hale–Bopp. This means it carries untarnished signatures of the cloud of gas and dust it formed from.
“The fact that the two comets are remarkably similar suggests that the environment in which 2I/Borisov originated is not so different in composition from the environment in the early Solar System,” says Alberto Cellino, a co-author of the study, from the Astrophysical Observatory of Torino, National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy.
Olivier Hainaut, an astronomer at ESO in Germany who studies comets and other near-Earth objects but was not involved in this new study, agrees. “The main result — that 2I/Borisov is not like any other comet except Hale–Bopp — is very strong,” he says, adding that “it is very plausible they formed in very similar conditions.”
This image shows an artist’s impression of what the surface of the 2I/Borisov comet might look like. 2I/Borisov was a visitor from another planetary system that passed by our Sun in 2019, allowing astronomers a unique view of an interstellar comet. While telescopes on Earth and in space captured images of this comet, we don’t have any close-up observations of 2I/Borisov. It is therefore up to artists to create their own ideas of what the comet’s surface might look like, based on the scientific information we have about it.
Credit: ESO/M. Kormesser
“The arrival of 2I/Borisov from interstellar space represented the first opportunity to study the composition of a comet from another planetary system and check if the material that comes from this comet is somehow different from our native variety,” explains Ludmilla Kolokolova, of the University of Maryland in the US, who was involved in the Nature Communications research.
Bagnulo hopes astronomers will have another, even better, opportunity to study a rogue comet in detail before the end of the decade. “ESA is planning to launch Comet Interceptor in 2029, which will have the capability of reaching another visiting interstellar object, if one on a suitable trajectory is discovered,” he says, referring to an upcoming mission by the European Space Agency.
This image shows an artist’s close-up view of what the surface of the comet might look like.
Credit: ESO/M. Kormesser
An origin story hidden in the dust
Even without a space mission, astronomers can use Earth’s many telescopes to gain insight into the different properties of rogue comets like 2I/Borisov. “Imagine how lucky we were that a comet from a system light-years away simply took a trip to our doorstep by chance,” says Bin Yang, an astronomer at ESO in Chile, who also took advantage of 2I/Borisov’s passage through our Solar System to study this mysterious comet. Her team’s results are published in Nature Astronomy.
Yang and her team used data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner, as well as from ESO’s VLT, to study 2I/Borisov’s dust grains to gather clues about the comet’s birth and conditions in its home system.
This animation shows the orbit (in red) of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, which was the second and most recently detected interstellar object to visit our Solar System.
Credit: ESA/Space Engine (spaceengine.org)/L. Calçada. Music: Johan B. Monell
They discovered that 2I/Borisov’s coma — an envelope of dust surrounding the main body of the comet — contains compact pebbles, grains about one millimeter in size or larger. In addition, they found that the relative amounts of carbon monoxide and water in the comet changed drastically as it neared the Sun. The team, which also includes Olivier Hainaut, says this indicates that the comet is made up of materials that formed in different places in its planetary system.
The observations by Yang and her team suggest that matter in 2I/Borisov’s planetary home was mixed from near its star to further out, perhaps because of the existence of giant planets, whose strong gravity stirs material in the system. Astronomers believe that a similar process occurred early in the life of our Solar System.
While 2I/Borisov was the first rogue comet to pass by the Sun, it was not the first interstellar visitor. The first interstellar object to have been observed passing by our Solar System was ʻOumuamua, another object studied with ESO’s VLT back in 2017. Originally classified as a comet, ʻOumuamua was later reclassified as an asteroid as it lacked a coma.
This video shows an artist’s view of what the surface of the comet might look like. 2I/Borisov was a visitor from another planetary system that passed by our Sun in 2019, allowing astronomers a unique view of an interstellar comet. While telescopes on Earth and in space captured images of this comet, we don’t have any close-up observations of 2I/Borisov. It is therefore up to artists to create their own ideas of what the comet’s surface might look like, based on the scientific information we have about it.
Credit: ESO/M. Kormesser
Notes
Polarimetry is a technique to measure the polarisation of light. Light becomes polarized, for example, when it goes through certain filters, like the lenses of polarized sunglasses or cometary material. By studying the properties of sunlight polarized by a comet’s dust, researchers can gain insights into the physics and chemistry of comets.
More information
This research highlighted in the first part of this release was presented in the paper “Unusual polarimetric properties for interstellar comet 2I/Borisov” to appear in Nature Communications (doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22000-x). The second part of the release highlights the study “Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov” to appear in Nature Astronomy (doi: 10.1038/s41550-021-01336-w).
The team who conducted the first study is composed of S. Bagnulo (Armagh Observatory & Planetarium, UK [Armagh]), A. Cellino (INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy), L. Kolokolova (Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, US), R. Ne¸ic (Armagh; Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK; Centre for Planetary Science, University College London/Birkbeck, UK), T. Santana-Ros (Departamento de Fisica, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal, Universidad de Alicante, Spain; Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain), G. Borisov (Armagh; Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria), A. A. Christou (Armagh), Ph. Bendjoya (Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice, France), and M. Devogele (Arecibo Observatory, University of Central Florida, US).
The team who conducted the second study is composed of Bin Yang (European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile [ESO Chile]), Aigen Li (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA), Martin A. Cordiner (Astrochemistry Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, USA and Department of Physics, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA), Chin-Shin Chang (Joint ALMA Observatory, Santiago, Chile [JAO]), Olivier R. Hainaut (European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany), Jonathan P. Williams (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, USA [IfA Hawai‘i]), Karen J. Meech (IfA Hawai‘i), Jacqueline V. Keane (IfA Hawai‘i), and Eric Villard (JAO and ESO Chile).
Ever since 2I/Borisov was first discovered, astronomers have been fascinated with this interstellar comet. With new information being discovered about the comet, experts have confidentially called it the most “pristine” space object that’s ever been studied.
Astronomers don’t think that 2I/Borisov ever traveled close to any star (other than our sun) which means that its composition of gas and dust was completely pure and original. When comets travel close to stars, they can become altered or degraded by the sun’s radiation and heat. Stefano Bagnulo, who is from the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, Northern Ireland, UK, and who led the new study, stated, “2I/Borisov could represent the first truly pristine comet ever observed.”
The researchers used the FORS2 instrument located on the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) to study the comet by a technique called polarimetry. They compared 2I/Borisov to comets that are found in our Solar System. They noticed that it was quite similar to Comet Hale-Bopp that made headlines back in the 1990s when it flew by Earth. Before its journey in the ‘90s, Hale-Bopp was believed to have only passed by our sun once before, meaning that the solar wind and radiation wouldn’t have had much affect on it from a single flyby; therefore it was also considered to be “pristine” but not as much as 2I/Borisov, according to the experts.
2I/Borisov
Alberto Cellino, who is from the Astrophysical Observatory of Torino, National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), Italy, and a co-author of the study, explained, “The fact that the two comets are remarkably similar suggests that the environment in which 2I/Borisov originated is not so different in composition from the environment in the early Solar System.”
2I/Borisov provided experts with the unique opportunity of studying its composition and comparing it to comets that originated in our Solar System. Their study was published in Nature Communications where it can be read in full.
Bin Yang (an astronomer at ESO in Chile) and colleagues analyzed data collected from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the VLT to study the comet’s dust grains; to find out how it was formed; and to figure out the distant system’s conditions.
(Not 2I/Borisov)
The dust that’s present on the comet’s main body (also called coma) contained grains and pebbles that measured at least one millimeter. Furthermore, the water and carbon monoxide significantly changed when it traveled closer to our sun.
Additionally, they believe that the comet was formed from different locations in its system from close to its host star to areas much further away – possibly due to space debris being flung around by powerful gravitational forces from giant exoplanets. It’s possible that this also happened here when our Solar System was first forming. This other new study was published in Nature Astronomy.
This image was taken with the FORS2 instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in late 2019, when comet 2I/Borisov passed near the Sun. Since the comet was traveling at breakneck speed, around 175,000 kilometers per hour, the background stars appeared as streaks of light as the telescope followed the comet’s trajectory. The colors in these streaks give the image some disco flair and are the result of combining observations in different wavelength bands, highlighted by the various colors in this composite image.
Credit: ESO/O. Hainaut
This image shows an artist’s impression of what the surface of the 2I/Borisov comet might look like. 2I/Borisov was a visitor from another planetary system that passed by our Sun in 2019, allowing astronomers a unique view of an interstellar comet. While telescopes on Earth and in space captured images of this comet, we don’t have any close-up observations of 2I/Borisov. It is therefore up to artists to create their own ideas of what the comet’s surface might look like, based on the scientific information we have about it.
Credit: ESO/M. Kormesser
This image shows an artist’s close-up view of what the surface of the comet might look like.
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Nazi Disc Craft, Teotihuacán an Ancient Spaceport or City of the Gods, Chinese Release Photos of Structures on the Moon by Chang’e-2 Orbiter, Tame the Tornadoes with Cloud Seeding, Mexico-President-Blames s Biden for Border Crisis, Shadows Book, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Nazi Disc Craft
Engineer Bill Tomkins was briefed by Navy intelligence officer’s series of war documents, Hitler’s engineers even built flying saucers and strange aerial vehicles described as “light balls” that had the capacity to fly and follow allied fighters to deconcentrate them during the flight. Tomkins states, “So we would get up at 1:00 in the morning and I’d get tapped on the shoulder in my bunk and I knew who it was”. And all the Admiral Rico Botta aide said is, “He’s here, so I’d throw my clothes on. He escorts me over to the Admiral’s tower. And in that top tower is a conference room, and this is where these intelligence spies explained to us all the things that the Germans were doing”. They had lived in Germany before the war. Tompkins job was to carry the spies information to key government and aviation officials throughout the country. The Admiral was awarded the Legion of Merit for his service in the war.
It’s not a mystery that the Nazi’s searched even the most remote places on Earth for devices, ancient manuscripts describing paranormal energies, and places that would help them in their ultimate goal: World domination. Hitler was fascination with Occult Sciences, Esoteric philosophies and exotic technologies led him to exploiting whatever avenues he had in gaining access to and developing weapons technologies that would allow Nazi Germany to become a global power. As a student of occult sciences, Hitler was well aware of the possibility of communicating with extraterrestrial races through methods such as ‘psychic channeling’ whereby an individual could establish communication with distant life forms. the Occult societies scattered throughout Northern Europe who studied the work of mystics such as Helena Blavatsky, who wrote extensively of her esoteric communications with other ‘life forms’ and how to develop these communication abilities. [6]
Some declassified documents exist claiming that the Germans created airplanes shaped like a flying saucer and even incandescent flying spheres to disconcert allied pilots during the war. Their ultimate goal was to create flying saucers.
UFOs Pictures collage or various models of real Nazi Vril flying saucers
When speaking about the Nazis, their quest for paranormal technologies and Nazi UFO’s we encounter a lot of skepticism, so I want to be as though as possible when describing these mysterious crafts.
The Nazi UFO Fact or Fiction?
“Italian researcher Renato Vesco argued that Germans had developed antigravity. The disc-shaped and tubular craft were built and tested near the end of the Second World War, which, he argued, was the proper explanation of foo fighters.
“These concepts, he maintained, were developed by the Americans and Soviets and led directly to flying saucers.”
Richard Dolan
The Nazi UFOs also referred to in German as Haunebu, Hauneburg-Geräte, or Reichsflugscheiben) are supposed advanced aircraft or spacecraft that were allegedly developed by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Collage of actual Nazi flying saucers codenamed “Haunebu”
These technologies and super-crafts appear in a number of conspiracy theories. They usually appear in connection with esoteric Nazism, an ideology that involves Nazi recovery for supernatural or paranormal purposes.
Many authors have made a historic connection with Nazi Germany, their exploratory missions around the globe, and these fascinating UFOs. Several authors maintain that Nazi Germany explored the territory of New Swabia in Antarctica, where it sent an expedition in 1938, and planned further excursions, and even created a secret base, where many Nazi leaders fled to, after the second world war.
Nazi Germany investigated advanced propulsion technologies, including missile and powerful turbines developed by Viktor Schauberger.
Some UFO sightings during World War II, particularly those known as “foo fighters”, were considered enemy weapons. Allied forced though, on numerous occasions, that the so-called Foo Fighters were, in fact, Nazi secret weapons. Luckily there are several references of a few scientists who admitted working on UFOs. Another actual reference to Nazi UFO’s comes from a series of texts written by Italian turbine expert, Giuseppe Belluzzo.
Written on March 24-25, 1950, the text detailing secretive technologies was published on the Italian daily “Il Giornaled’Italia”:
“…types of flying discs were designed and studied in Germany and Italy as early as 1942”.
Belluzzo also expressed the opinion that “some great power is launching discs to study them”. Soon after Belluzzo wrote about advanced turbines, German scientist Rudolph Schriever admitted to having developed flying saucers during the Nazi period.
Man-Made UFOs, 1944-94: Fifty Years of Suppression
by Renato Vesco A comprehensive and in-depth look at the early ‘flying saucer technology’ of Nazi Germany and the genesis of early man-made UFOs. From captured German scientists, escaped battalions of German soldiers, secret communities in South America and Antarctica to today’s state-of-the-art ‘Dreamland’ flying machines, the astonishing book blows the lid off the ‘Government UFO Conspiracy’. Examined in detail are secret underground airfields and factories; German secret weapons; ‘suction’ aircraft; the origin of NASA; gyroscopic stabilizers and engines; the secret Marconi aircraft factory in South America, and other secret societies, both ancient and modern, that have kept this craft a secret, and much more
In an interview with German news magazine Der Spiegel, Schriever claimed that he had designed a craft powered by a circular plane of rotating turbine blades 49 ft (15 m) in diameter.
In 1953, Avro Canada announced that it was developing the VZ-9-AV Avrocar, a circular jet aircraft which could reach a speed of 1,500 mph (2,400 km/h) Soon after the announcement by Avro Canada, German engineer Georg Klein claimed that such designs had been developed during the Nazi era.
During the 1950’s, a lot of different countries were into the whole Flying saucer thing, and apparently many countries wanted to develop their very own flying saucer.
A non-rotating disk developed at Breslau by V-2 rocket engineer Richard Miethe, which was eventually captured by the Soviets, while Miethe fled to the US via France, and ended up working for Avro.
Klein even went on and identified two types of supposed German flying disks:
A disk developed by Rudolf Schriever and Klaus Habermohl at Prague, which consisted of a ring of moving turbine blades around a fixed cockpit. Klein claimed that he had witnessed this craft’s first manned flight on 14 February 1945, when it managed to climb to 12,400 m (40,700 ft) in 3 minutes and attained a speed of 2,200 km/h (1,400 mph) in level flight.
“The “flying saucer” reached an altitude of 12,400 meters within 3 minutes and a speed of 2,200 kilometers per hour. Klein emphasized that in accordance with German plans, the speed of these “saucers” would reach 4,000 kilometers per hour.
One difficulty, according to Klein, was the problem of obtaining the materials to be used for the construction of the “saucers,” but even this had been solved by German engineers toward the end of 1945, and construction on the objects was scheduled to begin, Klein added.
We cannot speak about flying saucers, mysterious spacecraft, and advanced technology without mentioning Hermann Oberth, the founding father of rocketry and astronautics.
Oberth said:
“It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries.
A German newspaper recently published an interview with George Klein, famous German engineer and aircraft expert, describing the experimental construction of ‘flying saucers’ carried out by him from 1941 to 1945.” (source, via the CIA’s electronic reading room.) There is no shortage of strange documents in the CIA’s Freedom In “Disclosure“
British Researcher Bill Rose was able to discover that Schriever was involved with other scientists Klaus Habermohl and Giuseppe Belluzzo (an Italian engineer) as well as one Dr. Walter Miethe. Rose’s research established that Miethe had been the Director of the saucer programme at two facilities located outside Prague ,Czechoslovakia. We know little more about Miethe’s activities at this time him but it does seem that he knew Wernher von Braun (of whom much more later) as there is a photograph of them together in 1933. Klein also stated that the stability of the craft had been achieved by using a gyroscope; the same method used by the V-2 rockets Von Braun-Dornberger team.
Viktor Schauberger in forests, alongside rivers, he studied what he considered life-enhancing energy, water and air vortices.
He argued that “Prevailing technology uses the wrong forms of motion. It is based on entropy – on motions which nature uses to break down and scatter materials. However, nature uses a different type of motion for creating order and new growth. The prevailing explosion-based technology – fuel burning and atom splitting – fills the world with expanding, heat-generating centrifugal motion.” Schauberger believed that energy production could instead use inward-moving cold-generating centripetal motion, the same as nature employs to build and enliven substances. Even hydroelectric power plants, Schauberger said, use a destructive motion – they pressure water and chop it through turbines. The result is ‘dead water’. He built suction turbines that he considered enlivened and invigorated, resulting in clean, life-giving water downstream. He met Adolph Hitler who was extremely excited about the new technology. Hitler wanted Schauberger to supervise the building of a new flying craft that could levitate without burning any fuel. This idea for this new craft was based upon a discovery made by Schauberger a few years before of how to develop a low-pressure zone at the atomic level. The scientist claimed to have achieved this in a laboratory setting when his prototype whirled air or water ‘radically and axially’ at a falling temperature. Schauberger named this resulting force as ‘diamagnetic levitation power’ and noted that nature already used this direct or ‘reactionary’ suction force in weather generation, solar fusion stability etc. Klein also stated that the stability of the craft had been achieved by using a gyroscope; the same method used by the Von Braun-Dornberger team. Thanks to EraOfLight Video at
Note. He left Los Angeles for Andrews Air Force Base, Md. in April 1959 as commander of He left Los Angeles for Andrews Air Force Base, Md. in April 1959 as commander of Air Force Systems Command (AFSC) April 1, 1961, and developed the Air Force Ballistic missiles. under a reorganization initiated by him. He was promoted to full general on July 1, 1961. I phoned General Shriver who thought he knew me as a general and I asked about the e discs in the salvage area
MacDill Air Force Base .
General Bernard Schriver father of USAF Missiles born in Germany At. General Schriver told me, “They would not park the discs there, they are being salvaged at other bases out west.
Teotihuacán an Ancient Spaceport or City of the Gods
Teotihuacan Pyramids of the Sun Teotihuacan is arranged in a grid layout that covers about 8 square miles (20 square kilometers). It contains around 2,000 single-story apartment compounds, as well as various pyramids, plazas, temples and palaces of nobles and priests. Teotihuacán, one of the largest Mayan cities. Its name means “City of the Gods,” Despite the ancient time period, the civilization was a bustling metropolis, housing sophisticated infrastructure, engineering, and technology. Suddenly, the residents of the great city disappeared in 7 A.D., leaving behind their once-thriving civilization. Where did they go, and why? No one is entirely sure of what happened, but a few key pieces of evidence tell us that the residents of Teotihuacán were more advanced than once thought.
Both mica and mercury — minerals that play an integral role in today’s aerospace industry have been discovered in Teotihuacán’s ruins. Is it possible that the city’s residents departed their beloved city to establish breakaway civilizations elsewhere?
Other questions arise concerning the ruins that were left behind. The Teotihuacán pyramids turn out to be very similar to those found in Egypt. How and why did that happen? The Mayans left behind mysteries that scientists, archeologists, historians, and interested people are still trying to unravel even after all these years. A crushing disease like the flu or virus may have essentially wiped out the population is one possibility, or defeat in a war.
Teotihuacán: Ancient History and Geography
The ruins of Teotihuacán, one of the largest cities in the ancient world, lie about 50 km (31 miles) Northeast of Mexico City. It’s believed that the city was established in 1 B.C. By the year 2 A.D., it was a thriving metropolis with a population of about 150,000 to 200,000 residents. It was given its name by the Aztecs who made pilgrimages to the ruins in later years.
The ruins reveal scores of apartment buildings, most with flat roofs that support the theory of rooftop gardens or terraces. Other structures that appear to be residences are small buildings clustered around a central courtyard. In the center of the courtyard is a kitchen where the community residents possibly gathered for their daily meals.
The city established an irrigation system to take advantage of its plentiful supply of spring water. Adequate water, good soil and a moderate climate contributed to its flourishing vegetables. There was ample wild game to round out their diet.
Teotihuacán citizens had a penchant for arts and crafts. In addition to ample water, Teotihuacán also had a river of mercury running underneath it used in some UFOs for propulsion. Testing shows the mica found in Teotihuacán originated from Brazil, more than 2,000 miles away. Today, there is still no explanation for why they needed it. Today, mica is used as a capacitor in construction, as well as for thermal and electric insulation. It is thermally stable up to 500 degrees Celsius.
The architectural layout of Teotihuacán indicates that it would have been perfect for an ancient spaceport. It is 20 square kilometers (12 sq. miles) and has a “precise grid layout.”
The dominant feature of the city is its wide Avenue of the Dead, which begins in the agricultural fields and runs through the entire length of the city, ending at the Pyramid of the Moon. The avenue today measures almost 3.2 kilometers long (2 miles) and 40 meters (131 feet) wide. Archeologists have discovered that the avenue was actually a lot longer and wider than it appears today.
Satellite photography strongly suggests the Mayans designed this to be an ancient airport or spaceport. The remains of some of the buildings along the possible runway indicate they were used to support aircraft. After examination, scientists discovered landmarks along the runway: these landmarks appear to have been designed for the pilots to see in order to inform them about any instrument changes they needed to make.
Pyramids of the Sun Teotihuacán
Giza, Egypt
Two great pyramids dominate the Teotihuacán landscape with a smaller one nearby:
The Pyramid of the Sun at one end of the Avenue of the Dea
The three Teotihuacán pyramids and the Giza pyramids are all “in the same layout as the stars in Orion’s belt.” Even more staggering is that the engineers who were in charge of building the pyramids at both locations demonstrated a “[fundamental understanding of the mathematical constants π, Φ, and e. Pyramid of the Sun. Thanks to Gaia
Chinese Release Photos of Structures on the Moon by Chang’e-2 Orbiter
China in the past as released photos of space ships or UFOs flying over the moon. The craft appear and disappear on the event horizon of the moon, often at the lower left outer edges of the moon. These UFOs are orbiting the moon and coming and going from bases there.
Huge Space Ship 30 km (18 miles) long 500 meters high at 17S 117.5 E
“Reports indicate China is releasing Hi Res images taken by the Chang’e-2 moon orbiter, which clearly show buildings and structures on the moon’s surface. A few images are on the Chinese Army web site.
China and the US are moving toward full disclosure of the Extraterrestrial reality. China will be releasing all the moon data and images from the Chang’e-2 in the coming months, let’s hope this is the beginning of a new era.”
It will be interesting to see if the news media picks up the news.
Appears to be a power station on the Moon
China has satellites over the Moon and in addition China has landed the Chang’e-3 Lander and launched the Yutu Rabbit Rover. The Chinese government is slowly releasing lunar images that confirm structures and tall towers on the Moon. The images are on the official Chinese Army website, and they will likely show the world the US has kept secret alien capabilities.
Euctemon is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Moon near the very top. Euctemon Crater is 20 km (12.5 miles) wide; suggesting a monumental construction whatever it is that appears to span the crater. .The possible ramp on the right side is 15 km long and only about 7km on the left side. It is along the northwest rim of the crater Baillaud. To the southwest is the large walled plain. The Chinese have more detailed photos of the “Dark Track,” a bridge-like structure or perhaps a Space ship across Euctemon Crater, , The rim in the right side of above photo is 2.9 km high (9,500 feet) according to Lunar Impact 2009 data base.
The interior floor of this crater has been resurfaced some time following the original formation, leaving a nearly level, featureless plain surrounded by the worn outer rim. This floor is marked only by a number of tiny craterlets, and the small crater Euctemon K near the southwest inner wall. A small crater has cut through the western rim, and has joined with the main crater by a gap in its eastern rim. Euctemon H that now forms a wide cleft through the rim
Euctemon lunar impact crater Close Up Structure and Ramp
The rim on the left side is probably much lower in the photo above. The close up shows some circle like projection on the dark track. and some rounding at the edges. Photos of the crater taken in 2000 do not show the dark structure suggesting it is of recent
The object spans the crater from rim to rim and its design is questionable. What would be the purpose of such a giant bridge or highway?. A possibility is that this s a Spaceship carrying large amounts of minerals for a mining operation near the object is a white elongated ‘flattened S like ramp structure for bringing up ore to the ship of bridge.
Several NASA personnel report NASA has known for some time about an extraterrestrial presence on the Moon and Mars- and the ancient structures and artifacts they’ve left behind. Vast areas of the moon appear to have been kind of remodeled on the surface with a Type II ancient civilization likely far in advanced of ours.
It appears mining operations are being conducted and ships are carrying the minerals to other destinations. Large amounts Hydrogen 3 on the moon is likely being used to power the structures. Many of the structures appear to be ancient ruins.
Chinese Lunar Images of Building Complex Power Plant
Similar structures on Mars indicate an advanced civilization once existed throughout the solar system and even on Earth. The advanced civilization could have towed the moon into its present position and settled on Earth creating humans in their image just as we are told in the beginning God created the heavens and Earth. The moon is a miracle in itself in that it allows the seasons to occur.
The Chinese have probably been in contact with these aliens already. That would explain why so many radio telescopes are searching for signals from aliens, and more being built as we speak. Thanks to China National Space Administration (CNSA)
Tame the Tornadoes with Cloud Seeding
I send my condolences to the families of the 6 people who died in Alabama and 880injured in as tornadoes erupted on March 25, 2021. Bibb County airport a ‘total loss’ after tornado outbreak. Additionally billions of dollars damage occurred destroying hundreds of homes and businesses. One tornado track was 100 miles long. A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm and comes into contact with the ground, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The U.S. experiences more tornadoes than any other country in the world usually connected with the Jet Stream. This northward migration of tornadoes reflects the northward migration of the jet stream. Since the jet stream is tied to the southern edge of the cold air centered on the Pole, as the seasons change from late winter to late summer, the polar cold air retreats to the north dragging the jet stream, and the tornado season, with it. There is some evidence the jet stream is manipulated by five HAARP Facilities in China. The Chinese Communist Party broadcasts almost daily the people of China are at war with the United States and other democracies. The spread of the CVID-19 should convince you that this is true. China claims a total of 15,000 died in China from the decease and they had vaccines a year ahead of us.
I suggest tornados should be studied and a scientific advisory plan developed to stop them from forming. Our Air Force or Air National Guard should be fighting the tornadoes to save lives and homes. According to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, tornadoes form when the winds inside a thunderstorm begin blowing in different directions. Warm air from the South interacts with cold air causing a wind shear that causes the clouds to begin to rotate. If that rotation is then caught in the large updraft caused by a super cell storm, the spinning tightens and begins to form a funnel. Initially, the tornado has a good source of warm, moist inflow to power it. Once the funnel is formed, rain and hail causes the funnel cloud to extend towards the ground, causing a tornado. One tornado Thursday.
Tornado damage near Cookeville along Hensley Drive.
Traveled 100 miles with destruction almost a mile wide.
The deadly tornado that ripped through Moore, Oklahoma last year “completely destroyed” the homes of 140 airmen stationed at nearby Tinker Air Force Base and “at least partially damaged” the homes of 196 other airmen, said Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh. Further, two airmen lost family members in the violent windstorm, Several UFOs were spotted during the 17 minute time the Moore, Oklahoma tornado. When I was in Vietnam a few airplanes controlled the weather on the H Chi Min trail in 1968, I believe the Air Force can tame many of the tornadoes..
If the inflow bands have a spiraling nature to them, it suggests the presence of rotation.
This is the beginning of a tornado and the key hook is forming.
The most destructive and deadly tornadoes occur from super cells, which are rotating thunderstorms with a well-defined radar circulation called a mesocyclone. (Super cells can also produce damaging hail, severe non-tornado winds, unusually frequent lightning, and flash floods.) Tornado formation is believed to be dictated mainly by things which happen on the storm scale, in and around the mesocyclone.”
STAGE-1 STAGE-2
STAGE-1 –Before thunderstorms develop, a change in wind direction and an increase in wind speed with increasing height creates an invisible, horizontal spinning effect in the lower atmosphere. This called a mesocyclone.
STAGE-2 -Rising air within the thunderstorm updraft tilts the rotating air from horizontal to vertical. A low level moisture cloud “wall cloud” is usually present in rotation mode below the base level of super cell.
A Thunderstorm cloud is called cumulonimbus cloud. They can range in height from 30,000 feet to 70,000 feet into the atmosphere
Below is radar readout of the May 20, 2013, tornado. The actual tornado early in its track is located in the southern reddest hook near the bottom of the image.
This Bib Airport plane could have stopped the tornado
The beaver’s tail is a smooth, flat cloud band extending from the eastern edge of the rain-free base to the east or northeast. It usually skirts around the southern edge of the precipitation area. It also suggests the presence of rotation. (Possible attack point) We know this movement of air can be tracked by Doppler weather radar and is likely the key to defeating the formation of the Tornado. The radar hook echo is one of the classic hallmarks of tornado-producing super cell thunderstorms as seen on weather radar. The echo is produced by rain, hail, or even debris being wrapped around the super cell.
Notice Radar Red Hook Tornado at bottom of radar data that indicates tornado is forming.
The National Weather Service considers the presence of a hook echo as sufficient to justify issuing a tornado warning since it is recognized as a sign of tornado development.
NSSL is working to simulate storms that produce tornadoes in computer models to better understand how they form and behave. The Air Force could gain tremendous support from the American people if they could Evict Tornadoes. Thanks to NSSL.
Let’s Fight the Tornados
The basic plan would be to spread silver iodide agents or dry ice to form millions of microscopic ice crystals cooling the warmer air. Surplus T-s Harvard aircraft were fitted with racks under each wing containing 32 railroad fuses that were impregnated with silver iodide. These were ignited individually or all at once, depending upon the threat. Working with ground units, the aircraft would lay a plume of silver iodide in front of approaching cumulonimbus clouds (CBs) with noticeable effect. Even drones could be used.
Large, active CBs were reduced to nothing. Hail storms were greatly reduced.
Even small airplanes can reduce damage. T-6 Harvard. Cloud seeding aircraft
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blamed President Joe Biden on Tuesday for the ongoing immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, suggesting that the new president and his administration provoked mass migration by broadcasting open-borders policies. And promising free medical care. Many left-wing politician appeared to agree with conservative Senators.
Thomas Homan, the former Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), there are many fresh graves and rapes, along the routes to the US and children carry phoned numbers of what they claim is their grandfather but the phone numbers belong to known Pedophiles. Hundreds of children have tested positive to CVID-19.
On Monday, Mexican Defense Secretary Luis Crescencio Sandoval said officials deployed almost 9,000 army Troops to the borders of Mexico. Instead of denouncing President Donald Trump’s approach as cruel and inhumane maybe Biden can learn something from it.
“What [the U.S. is] doing right now is releasing every single one of them including the sick as fast as we possibly can into the interior United States,” Morgan said. “That’s the goal of this [Biden] administration: Not to protect our borders, not to enforce our laws, but absolutely to exploit them, abuse them and let people illegally in the United States … And then prevent ICE from lawfully apprehending criminals and deporting them.
Tom Homan: Biden created border crisis with rush to ‘undo everything’ Trump did on border security
Biden ‘sold out this country and our national security,’ the former acting ICE director arguesIntelligence reports clearly show that the cartels coordinate the movements of large family groups in one area to overwhelm the Border Patrol so they can move drugs, gang members, criminals and others that don’t want to get caught into the U.S. through the unguarded section of the bord
Thousands are being housed in Hotels at $400.00 each per night. While American veterans who fought for the country sleep on the street. Thanks to www.theblaze.com › news
Shadows
No. 2 of The Seven trilogy
Shadows, Fred Ellis Brock’s second novel of The Seven trilogy, has been released. It is a cross-genre thriller involving kidnapping, murder, romance, and UFO conspiracies. It is published by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. The third novel, Secrets, will be published in the summer of 2021. The first novel, The Seven, came out last June. Shadows and The Seven are available wherever books are sold, but if you’re looking online at places like Amazon, many books have “seven” and “shadows” in the title. Best to search for the author’s name. More information at www.fredellisbrock.com.
In Shadows, best-selling author Bill Sanders reluctantly returns to his hometown almost a year after an old Friend, Paul Watson, was murdered while the two were searching for Paul’s missing ten-year-old daughter.
Paul had sworn to Bill that the girl was abducted by a UFO. Only after Paul’s death did Bill come to know that his friend was telling the truth. Bill also learns of the existence of an ultra-secret group called The Seven and its shocking role in the UFO phenomenon.
Bill also makes an astonishing discovery about his and Paul’s pasts with UFOs and aliens. This, along with a letter from a dead man about the earlier death of Bill’s wife, sets him on a collision course with The Seven. www.fredellisbrock.com
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Filer’s Files 13 2021 Nazi Disc Craft - PART II
Eugene, Oregon two discs on February 14, 2021
Filer’s Files 13 2021 Nazi Disc Craft - PART II
Major George A. Filer III ret. USAF
New Jersey State Director
Eastern Region Director
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Nazi Disc Craft, Teotihuacán an Ancient Spaceport or City of the Gods, Chinese Release Photos of Structures on the Moon by Chang’e-2 Orbiter, Tame the Tornadoes with Cloud Seeding, Mexico-President-Blames s Biden for Border Crisis, Shadows Book, and Carbon 60.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Sightings are from MUFON CMS
California Object
Thornton, California on March 24, 2021, never seen anything like this sorry about the language
Florida Lights
Orlando–on March 23, 2021, about 35 objects appeared in the sky while my wife and I were looking at the sky to the East. They looked similar to a constellation but it was a daytime sky. They were in a scattered pattern and moved to the West before disappearing.
West Palm Beach– on March 6, 2021, black upright egg hovering over sugar cane field. Opposite side of a 4 lane highway crystal clear sunny morning as I was moving west. It was just there as if I didn’t notice it at first. As I passed by at 60mph it never moved or bounced. No reflection from the morning sun. I wonder why I had zero inclination to stop and observe longer considering how odd it was.
Michigan Light
Lakeside– on March 19, 2021, driving to work towards Stevensville heading on I94 in Bridgman and saw this large Light hovering in the sky. My work mate also saw it. No flashing lights just all on and in a large triangle shape
New Jersey Light
Hackettstown – on March 14, 2021, my neighbor, my husband, and daughter were outside talking. When my daughter asked, “What is that thingthat big orange thing.” I said plane, So when we all looked it was a large glow like a fireball slowly gliding toward our direction. It was getting smaller as itwas gliding. It reached an area above the trees and turned direction, it was getting smaller and then it just disappeared. It was fascinating to watch.
Ohio Cigar
Bowling Green– on March 20, 2021, driving down a road on a clear day approximately 10am and saw this white object in the sky. Not in the shape of an airplane or any other familiar objects. It moved slowly & I watched it for about 10 minutes until we reached our destination.
Oregon Disks
Eugene – on February 14, 2021, I’ve seen the constellation Orion below the clouds as well as lots of flashing light in the past 6months it’s gotten a lot more frequent so much so that I may have found the worm hole there using not far from my house.
Pennsylvania Lights
Pottstown– on March 20, 2021, while driving I noticed a line of red lights in the sky I continued driving towards and saw them change shape. Some seemed to fall, some disappeared and I freaked out since I was driving I told my cousin to take pictures sand video. I decided to go closer to get a better look when I got there I got scared but watched some more and got a couple pastures.
Texas Light
San Antonio – March 14, 2021, I took this picture of the illuminated church at night. Upon reviewing photos, I realized the quality was crystal clear and I could see stars in photo so I zoomed in on the stars and noticed something strange. Look for yourselves upper left spire of in picture.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Brazil Light
Niteroi– on March 22, 2021, a circle object like a globe, whit sparking lights changing colors continuously. It seemed to be keeping the same point getting far away slowly. The sighting last at about 50 minutes.
Canada Light
Kamloops – on March 11, 2021, weird lights observed above B.C.
France Lights
Valence– on January 5, 2021, at 6:19 p.m. red-orange light was at low altitude and slow speed which changes to a very bright white light heading north. I could see well-defined butterfly shape
with very strong brightness duration a 4-5 minutes.
Mexico Object
Mexico City– on March 7, 2021, this was the second time I saw this object. The first time, I thought it was a balloon. This time, however, it was going perpendicular to the wind and flying parallel with a plane headed to the Mexico City Airport. The UFO was changing shape or rotating. I snapped three pictures, and we see it has two sides- one which is silver or shiny and has a design or line. I also noticed, upon closer examination, that another object appears for one frame (0:18 seconds), flying in the same direction, faster than sound. I don’t think it was a bird. The pilots must have seen this off to their left side.
Puerto Rico Lights
Rio Piedras – on February 7, 2021, was doing meditation in my balcony during the evening and when I opened my eyes saw what appeared to be reflection of an object in the blue sky. Immediately, I took my HDR-CX440 video camera and started recording at the bright objects. One of them was a 3 yellow circles organized together and appeared as yellow when it was getting brighter. The other was appearing as two connected circles. I am not sure if it’s the same object materializing differently.
Spain Lights
Madrid– on March 22, 2021, looking northwest, seeing stars with binoculars, I saw a cluster of white lights appear in the shape of a vee from the north. When seen with the binoculars, an immense cluster with many points in the shape of a vee were orange at a fairly high speed. I want to think that they are satellites but in the way that I saw them trace the entire sky from north to northwest.
UK/England Lights
Coventry– on February 1, 2021, spotted helixical shape whilst in garden pruning trees hence it was in line of sight. Started filming after a minute another faster moving shape enters frame moving erratically. The second object disappeared while the first object tracked on a fairly straight trajectory ( ISS was shown by nasa as being over the uk at approximately at that time but not sure this would be visible in daylight) either way second object flight path was to erratic to be a satellite.
Dorchester – on March 25, 2021, seen flying across the sky at high speed in the night.
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The Dulce Wars, Deep Underground Military Bases, Black Ops Programs, the Denver Airport
The Dulce Wars, Deep Underground Military Bases, Black Ops Programs, the Denver Airport
Welcome to another interesting episode of Tin Foil Hat With Sam Tripoli. This episode we welcome to the bunker the Machine, Bert Kreischer. This mepisode we discuss….
1) Bert’s new special 2) the Oscars 3)Weaponized Poliitical Correctiness 4) The World of F.F’s 5) National Reconnaissance Office, 6) Deep Black Programs 7) Casa Blanca” (White House) 8)Raven Rock Mountain Complex 9)Cheyenne Mountain 10) Dulce, New Mexico 11) Project Plowshare 12) The Denver International Airport (DIA) 13)Underwater base off the Coast of Malibu 14)Ryan Time Tavels to Van Nuys Blvd 1979
While most of us are just hanging around waiting for something big or worthwhile within the UFO frame, the Facebook UFOers are providing much detritus, that has little or nothing to do with the UFO pheneomenon.
Here’s part of the Travis Walton controversy mentioned by Bill Murphy for a recent Anomalist link:
A prevailing theme is that Mike Rogers, one of the guys with Travis when he went off into the woods and became a hostage (kidnapped) of ETs, may be disputing the alleged abduction. But I don’t think that’s what Mike is bitching about.
Mike Rogers is upset that he was not let in on a new film or docu about the Walton episode. This goes to the current turmoil in the UFO community between flying saucer stalwarts and long-timers, for reasons that are petty or trivial.
Another example arises from Philip Mantle’s vivid attempt to dethrone Nick Pope as a bright star in the UFO firmament. I won’t get into the argument that Mantle is pushing except to note that he, Mantle, is pushing, with all his might, that lousy “alien autopsy” film and the conglomeration around it, but still persists in claiming Nick Pope is not all that he (Pope) claims to be.
Nick Pope is, for me and many others, an above-board gentlemen well-versed in UFO historiography and a notable TV personality who worked with Britain’s MoD from which he culled much that is helpful in understanding the UFO phenomenon and government agencies that have information about it.
Mantle’s persistent attacks on Nick Pope’s credibility is rooted in direct and fetid fits of jealousy and envy on Mantle’s part, feelings that Mantle dismisses so aggressively, he opens the door to the reality of his covetous desire to be Nick.
That Mantle lauds the despicable alien autopsy film while slamming Nick Pope is a grand example of sociopathic behavior, which seems very prevalent in the UFO community nowadays.
Then there’s this:
A fellow I like, Ben Brannum, likes to provide photos that contain, he writes, UFOs, this one a clip from the recent Mars probe supposedly showing scads of UFOs all over the Martian skies.
Few can see anything resembling a UFO and a few even offering their photos, or non-photos of UFOs to augment Ben’s “observations.”
And here is a quant offering from my pal Curt Collins, offering a nostalgic yet informative bit of UFO related (or not-related) spaceship “news.”
Sometimes UFO postings are fraught with relevant information, but any relevance on Facebook lately is not finding its way to the forefront of the social network’s pages that I scour.
I was watching Helioviewer when I noticed an explosion. When I made a close up of this area, I saw a black object shoot out of the explosion and across an area in ten minutes. Although the video is fast, the time it too is long. Also in the explosion, there was three ripple waves opposite of the UFO...the UFO area was the only place without such waves. This is 100% proof that aliens do live in a hollow space within Earths sun. Hollow sun theory, remember? I created the theory, but its scientific fact!
Glowing Object Over McHenry, Illinois On 3-31-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing Object Over McHenry, Illinois On 3-31-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 3-31-2021 Location of sighting: McHenry, Illinois, USA Source: MUFON
Now here is a really interesting video report that just came in. A person was driving along in Illinois when they noticed a glowing yellow object moving around above them. When they pulled over to film it, it became more clear, but the city lights did cause some problems when he was recording. It looks like this UFO was actually following this person. The eyewitness was more relaxed and calm than many would normally be, so I think the alien craft picked up on that too. Alien contact was made in a field in McHenry, Illinois!
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was at the intersection of McCullom Lake Rd and Richmond Rd in McHenry when I saw the object above McCullom Lake moving at a speed a lower plane would probably move at. It consisted of a single fiery orange glow, mainly round in shape, but the bright area within the round shape was not consistent in its position or intensity. It flickered like a fireplace or lantern would. It was almost as if a plane had a very large lantern lit on or in it, but it looked nothing like a typical light you would see on a plane.
There were no other lights around it. I have seen meteorites before and it did not look anything like a meteorite. The light continued in an east-southeast direction for about 30-45 more seconds before it became more distant and disappeared; then the sky was completely dark in the place it one was. I captured it on my car's dash cam and also on my phone camera. In the dash cam, it is the light that approaches the upper left of the frame.
In the videos is difficult to see the color/consistency that I described above, but during the parts where my phone has trouble focusing, it does accurately show the orange color that I saw with my eyes.
Biker Falls Off His Motorcycle After the Sudden Appearance of a UFO
Biker Falls Off His Motorcycle After the Sudden Appearance of a UFO
Not the actual UFO
Richman Myambo of Chipinge, Zimbabwe, says that he encountered what appeared to be a UFO on his way home from work last Friday.
Myambo, 47, claims that the unidentified flying object (UFO) suddenly appeared in his view and caused him to fall off his motorcycle. The incident gave him a trip to the hospital.
Richman Myambo
Myambo was traveling home when he saw a strange light in the sky, followed by a deafening noise, which he claimed was the cause of his fall.
Describing the scene, he said that he was traveling home on his motorbike at around 9 a.m. when he spotted an unusual light traveling in the sky. He tried to keep his composure on riding, but the sound that followed after the light made him fall due to panic. He thought he was dying.
He reported that the UFO looked like a rocket with a tail fire.
Myambo sustained a leg injury and was sent to the Chipinge District Hospital for treatment. In the meantime, he’s still trying to figure out the bizarre events he encountered. He admitted that he was 100% sober but was so confused he thought he had witnessed those unusual things people see in thick forests.
Myambo was reportedly not the only person who witnessed the UFO, as other residents of the area claimed they also saw the bright light followed by a loud, booming sound.
Huge spherical object spotted on the ISS live stream
Huge spherical object spotted on the ISS live stream
On April 1, 2021, the ISS live stream captures a bright spherical anomaly that appears to rise from the horizon, then the anomaly is growing brighter until it slowly fades out again and disappears from view.
Although the anomaly seems to appear from behind the horizon it is actually the Earth's motion that causes the anomaly to appear, and even though it is possible that the ISS live stream captured a sunset, sunrise or the moon we cannot rule out that the object is man-made or of extraterrestrial origin.
In an interview with Fox News, recent former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, confirmed the U.S.Government is aware of “a lot more” sightings of “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena,” or “UAP,” than has so far been made public.
Former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, on UFOs
“There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” Ratcliffe told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo. “Some of those have been declassified.And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain.Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for.Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
Without going into specifics, Ratcliffe, who served as head of the U.S.Intelligence Community under Donald Trump from May 2020 to January 2021, confirmed multiple accounts previously reported exclusively byThe Debrief.
Artist Rendition of triangular unknown aircraft claimed to have been photographed by the U.S.Navy.
(Image Source: Dave Beaty/The Debrief)
In December 2020,The Debriefrevealedthrough information obtained via the Freedom of Information Act that defense officials at the highest levels, including the Vice Chiefs of Staff for the Navy and Air Force and Secretary of the Navy, had received classified briefings on UAP in October 2019.
“Recommend you take the brief I just received from our Director of Naval Intelligence VADM Matt Kohler, on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP),” said then-Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Robert Burke in an email to Vice Chief of Staff for the Air Force, General Stephen “Seve” Wilson.
Copy of the email obtained by The Debrief via FOIA
Additionally, in December,The Debriefrevealed officials had disseminated at least two classified intelligence reports on UAP encounters by the military to the Intelligence Community in the last two years.
Confirmed by multiple Intelligence Community members and one Federal Law Enforcement Official, one of the intelligence reports released in the fall of 2020 contained what was described toThe Debriefas an “extremely clear” photograph of an unidentifiable triangular aircraft.
Officials who had seen it described the unidentified aircraft in question as a large equilateral triangle with rounded or “blunted” edges and large, perfectly spherical white “lights” in each corner.
BothThe Debriefand subsequently foreign policy journalistTom Rogan of the Washington Examinerconfirmed the triangular UAP photograph’s existence independently.
The Debrief alsopublished a leaked phototaken from the cockpit of a F/A-18 fighter jet that purportedly shows what the Department of Defense (DoD) has characterized as “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”
At the time of release,The Debriefexpressly stated the leaked photo wasnotthe same image of the supposed triangular object previously reported.
Nevertheless, confusion still emerged, as the leaked image shows an odd “bell-shaped” object with ridges or other protrusions along the lateral edges and extending toward its base, not a clear triangular aircraft.
A host of online pundits and avocation analysts have speculated the leaked photo depicts a 28″ mylar Batman balloon, commonlyavailableat party supply retailers.However,The Debriefhas become aware that the leaked image is one in a series of photographs captured over a period of 32 minutes by Naval aviators.The Debrief has also confirmed the photos were provided to and analyzed by the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, being run by the Office of Naval Intelligence.
When reached for comment, Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Gough would not confirm nor deny the leaked photograph’s existence. “To maintain operations security and to avoid disclosing information that may be useful to potential adversaries, DOD does not discuss publicly the details of reports, observations or examinations of reported incursions into our training ranges or designated airspace, including those incursions initially designated as UAP,” Gough toldThe Debrief.
Photo Showing Navy Encounter with UAP leaked to The Debrief
While visions of crystal-clear high-definition images or videos of unknown aerial objects are undoubtedly enticing, another aspect of this bizarre phenomenon mentioned to Fox by Ratcliffe is far more compelling.
“When we talk about sightings, the other thing I will tell you is, it’s not just a pilot or just a satellite, or some intelligence collection,” said Ratcliffe. “Usually we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things.”
The former DNI’s comments on the DoD having collected multisensor data on UAP echo what has been previously reported toThe Debriefby individuals working within government and who hold requisite access to information regarding UAP encounters.
“Some of the best evidence acquired has come from measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), rather than from videos or still images,” a source speaking under the condition of anonymitytoldThe Debriefin November.
In aJanuary articleco-authored byThe Debrief’sTim McMillan andTom Rogan of the Washington Examiner, authors revealed through multiple surveillance and reconnaissance platforms; intelligence assessments had found the objects being classified as UAP appeared to be intelligently controlled, mechanical devices, capable of performing feats beyond current technological capabilities.
Some of these extreme performances said to have been captured include:
“Transmedium” capabilities – Meaning capable of operating through the air and underwater.
The ability to anticipate the responses by those they encounter.
A propensity to appear with impunity near sites housing thermonuclear weapons.
Also revealed was the claim that amongst the “Five Eyes” intelligence networks – the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – intelligence intercepts show foreign countries, such as Russia and China, are experiencing the same types of encounters.
“Weather can cause disturbances, visual disturbances.Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or than we realized,” said Ratcliffe. “But there are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we have seen.”
John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence
Ratcliffe also told Fox he believed it would be “healthy” to make UAP information available to the public.The former DNI acknowledged he had wanted to get out UAP information before he left office.Ratcliffe, however, said, “We weren’t able to get it down into an unclassified format that we could talk about quickly enough.”
Citing federal law and numerous Supreme Court rulings that extend privilege to recognized news organizations for access to government records that are of “unusual circumstances” of great public interest and relating to “imminent action by Congress,”The Debriefhas filed formal requests with the Department of Defense for release of videos and still imagery associated with UAP.Our request includes the series of photographs that accompany the image previously leaked.
On December 7, 2020, the Staff Judge Advocate General Counsel for the Office of Naval Intelligence confirmedofficials had accepted the Debrief’s request.Officials said they werecurrently undergoing the classification review process to determine what materials could be released.
The Intel Committee’s directive states the UAP report is to be provided at the unclassified level, with the exception that some information could be withheld in a classified annex.Presently, the report is expected to be completed sometime in June.
What will be provided in DNI’s report on UAP remains to be seen.Yet, according to the former head of the U.S.Intelligence Community, John Ratcliffe, when it comes to UAP incidents, “there are actually quite a few more than have been made public.”
See John Ratcliffe’s Interview with Fox’s Maria Bartiromo:
There are some stories you tell because they describe amazing discoveries. There are others you tell because you love the double-entendre headline. Some are both. This is one of them. Is there intelligent life on Uranus – the cold planet whose name everyone except astronomers love to mispronounce? That’s just one of the possible explanations for the first X-rays ever seen emanating from Uranus. Get your giggles out of your system now because this is a baffling astronomy mystery from an already strange planet.
“In the new study, researchers used Chandra observations taken in Uranus in 2002 and then again in 2017. They saw a clear detection of X-rays from the first observation, just analyzed recently, and a possible flare of X-rays in those obtained fifteen years later. The main graphic shows a Chandra X-ray image of Uranus from 2002 (in pink) superimposed on an optical image from the Keck-I Telescope obtained in a separate study in 2004. The latter shows the planet at approximately the same orientation as it was during the 2002 Chandra observations.”
Of the planets in the solar system, only Uranus and Neptune have not shown X-rays. A team of astronomers decided to take a closer look at the closer one using archived data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and previously unpublished data from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). A press release on their study and analysis, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, shows the earlier image in a composite photo.
Uranus
(credit: NASA)
The pink spot is the glow of X-rays from Uranus. For planets closer to the Sun, the main cause of X-rays like these are simple reflections of X-rays from the Sun with particles being scattered by the planet’s atmosphere. Saturn has this phenomena as well as rings, which are suspected of creating X-rays when electrons and protons in its nearby space environment collide with the rings. You can miss the rings in the above picture of Uranus. However, scientists also say X-ray glows can be caused by auroras which form when charged particles travel down magnetic field lines, like on Earth, or they fall on polar regions, as on Jupiter. Uranus has also show auroras, but their cause has not been determined. So, which is causing the X-rays emitting from Uranus? It could be because of its strange angle.
“Uranus is an especially interesting target for X-ray observations because of the unusual orientations of its spin axis and its magnetic field. While the rotation and magnetic field axes of the other planets of the solar system are almost perpendicular to the plane of their orbit, the rotation axis of Uranus is nearly parallel to its path around the Sun. Furthermore, while Uranus is tilted on its side, its magnetic field is tilted by a different amount, and offset from the planet’s center. This may cause its auroras to be unusually complex and variable.”
Animated GIF showing Uranus’ magnetic field. The yellow arrow points to the Sun, the light blue arrow marks Uranus’ magnetic axis, and the dark blue arrow marks Uranus’ rotation axis. Credits: NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio/Tom Bridgman
Is the orientation of Uranus the cause of its X-rays? If that’s not it, is it intelligent life sending a message to stop staring at Uranus? And to cool it with the jokes because that’s not what they call themselves?
The only way to find out is to continue to probe Uranus – the study points out that there’s more Chandra data to analyze — and a couple of future telescopes, the European Space Agency’s Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics (ATHENA) due to launch in 2031 and NASA’s Lynx X-ray Observatory mission still under consideration, will be better able to zoom in on Uranus.
Neptune doesn’t emit X-rays either but no one seems to be rushing to probe it or just stare at it for long periods. Perhaps a name change would help. Belly-Button?
There are numerous tales of people who have claimed to have been abducted by alien forces beyond out understanding. It is sometimes easy to write off some of them, but every so often there are those that seem to come from truly credible sources. As a seemingly reliable witness, Dr. Enrique Caretenuto Botta has impeccable credentials. A decorated ex-war pilot with a sterling educational history and research record in aeronautical engineering, he was highly sought after by many firms in his native land of Venezuela. In 1950, the then 40-year-old Botta was working at an architectural engineering firm based in Caracas, who had sent him on a business trip to Argentina to work on an ambitious construction project out in the countryside of Buenos Aires. To get to and from the project, he commuted through the sparse rural landscape outside of what at the time was the fairly small city of Bahía Blanca, and it was during one of these drives that he would have a bizarre experience that would change his life forever.
The drive was typically mundane, the area only sparsely inhabited and not much to see out past the windshield and the hypnotizing repetitive landscape making it easy to get lost in one’s thoughts. Yet on this evening his thoughts would be intruded upon by something very anomalous out on a field along the empty road ahead. It appeared to be some sort of metallic, disc-shaped object sitting right on the grass of the field, and it was such an unexpected enough site that Botta slowed down and then stopped his vehicle to get a closer look. His first thought was that it was somehow an aircraft that had come down to land out in that remote expanse, but as he drew closer he could see that it was no ordinary helicopter or plane. When curiosity compelled him to get out of the car and walk closer, he could see that the object was made of a very strange material that appeared metallic, but was somewhat spongey and “rubbery” to the touch. After circling the bizarre thing for a few minutes and gliding his hand along this weird surface, Botta claims that he then came to an opening. At this point he was more curious than scared, and decided to go inside.
Once within the mysterious craft, he allegedly saw just a plain metal corridor with a lone blinking red light at the top of the domed top above. As he continued, that flickering red light illuminated a room that had control panels adorned with various clinking lights, knobs, meters, buttons, and switches, the whole of it hovering over a transparent sphere, but this dancing light also outlined what appeared to be a curved divan with four seats. Botta warily approached until the blinking lights revealed to him the outlines of what appeared to be three small, almost child-sized figures only about four feet tall sitting there in the seats motionless. At this point Botta could not see them clearly because of the wavering lighting and the fact that he was behind them, so he crept closer to the figures, wondering who they could possibly be, and as he did he could see that whoever they were they were dressed in some sort of tight fitting grey coveralls. Botta called out to them, but got no response, so he gave into the overwhelming urge to reach out and touch the shoulder of one of them. When he did, he claims that he could feel that the body was rigid, and that their skin had a “charred texture.” It seemed that these individuals, whoever or whatever they were, were dead. This was enough to strike Botta with a jolt of fear that sent him scurrying back outside to get into his car and speed off.
When Botta got back to the hotel that he had been staying at, he excitedly told two of his associates about what had happened, and they decided to head back out there the next morning to check it out. When they arrived, the strange craft was gone, and in its place was a large pile of what appeared to be ash. When one of Botta’s companions touched this ash, his hand supposedly turned promptly purple much to the man’s alarm, and that’s when they saw a strange display in the sky above. According to Botta, there were three unidentified objects up there, two discs and a larger cigar-shaped object. These strange objects hovered above them for a few minutes, before suddenly seeming to merge into one, after which this single object emanated a red light and sped off at breathtaking speed to leave them standing there dumbfounded. Botta would claim that for several days after this bizarre incident his friend’s hand would remain purple where he had touched the pile of ash, and that he himself was plagued by a fever and unexplainable blisters and what was like a sunburn on his skin. Doctors were allegedly unable to find any rational cause for these physical symptoms. Dr. Botta would keep the bizarre incident to himself for years before telling it to a man named Horacio Gonzales G., who in turn passed it along to UFO researcher Leon Stringfield, and the report would feature in Stringfield’s book Situation Red.
It is frustrating that this is where the case stands. Only one witness, no matter how seemingly reliable, just doesn’t seem to cut it in this day and age. We are left to ask, just what happened to him out there? what were those creatures he saw, and were they really dead? Did their friends perhaps come to retrieve them, and perhaps that is what Botta and his friends saw? How did they end up dead to begin with? What was the pile of ash left behind? Did any of this happen in any sense at all? It is a rather eerie and spooky account, and as with many others like it there are no real answers.
June 21, 1947 was the date of one of the most mysterious and widely-debated incidents in UFO lore. A man named Harold Dahl, his young son, and several men were shocked and amazed by the sight of a veritable squadron of circular UFOs, with holes around the sides,flying over the waters of Maury Island, Puget Sound, Washington State. Five of the craft seemed to be moving in a smooth fashion at roughly 2,000-feet. That certainly couldn’t be said of one of them: it was clearly, and dangerously, out of control. That was made even more obvious when that particular craft suddenly plummeted to a height of around barely 700-feet. This was not a good sign. It was practically an omen. The rest of the mysterious aerial vehicles skillfully maneuvered out of the way, except for just one craft: it proceeded to “touch” the malfunctioning one, as things were described at the time. That didn’t seem to help. The craft then started to “spew forth” a huge amount of material – and showered down a mass of weird debris into the water. Some of it was an extremely thin, light metal. Other material, black in color, was boiling hot – something that was made clear when the wreckage hit the water and instantly caused a huge amount of steam to violently billow and bubble all around. Very unfortunately, the Dahl’s family dog was killed by some of the material as it slammed not just into the water, but onto the family’s boat, also.
A shocked Dahl quickly contacted his boss and friend, Fred Crisman; he was a man who had links to U.S. intelligence, and who wasted no time in gathering up as much of the material as possible. With Crisman and his son helping too, it wasn’t long before a sizeable amount of the material was on the boat and in their collective hands. Seeing the potential dollar-value in the story, Crisman contacted Ray Palmer. He was the publisher of Amazing Stories magazine. Crisman wondered if he, Palmer, might be interested in having an article written on what had happened – something that led a number of UFO researchers to wonder if Crisman had conjured up an elaborate hoax. Certain events that continued to grow quickly suggested it wasn’t a fabrication. First and foremost, the U.S. military was soon on the scene to scoop up the material. Specifically, the two involved were Captain William Lee Davidson and First Lieutenant Frank Mercer Brown. The pair was acting on the orders of General Nathan Twining, a key figure in the U.S. military’s early investigations into Flying Saucers. Those orders were never fulfilled. How can you fulfill orders when you’re dead?
The legendary Grassy Knoll, Dallas where JFK was shot and killed on November 22, 1963
(Nick Redfern)
Brown and Davidson flew into the area – from Hamilton Field, California – with not a problem in sight, at all. They collected as much of that weird debris as they could and took to the skies. On the way back, however, the absolute unthinkable happened. Their planned destination was Wright Field, Ohio (today, known as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). A team was to be ready and waiting at the other end to take hold of that mass of curious material. The two hadn’t been in the skies for long, however, when malfunctions kicked in. Severe malfunctions. To the extent that the plane plummeted to the ground, killing them in a fiery nightmare. The wreckage mysteriously vanished. There is an afterword, I must stress. And what an afterword it is.
While Harold Dahl largely fell into obscurity afterwards, the same cannot be said for Fred Crisman. He became a prominent figure within the Kennedy assassination. Indeed, in 1968, when District Attorney Jim Garrison was at the height of his investigation of JFK’s death, Crisman was subpoenaed by Garrison himself. Garrison had it in his mind that Crisman wasn’t just a minor figure in the death of the president. For Garrison, Crisman was quite possibly one of the assassins at Dealey Plaza, Dallas on November 22, 1963. Garrison was sure Crisman was poised and ready to go on the fateful day, but in the guise of one of three “hoboes” – as they were described – seen lurking around the Grassy Knoll when JFK was shot. To be sure, the whole saga is one of high-strangeness. And that’s putting it mildly.
Fox News correspondent Ashley Strohmier joins 'The Story' to discuss the 'mysterious objects'
If 2019 was a big year for UFO coverage, 2020 may have been the best year ever.
No one can say for certain whether life exists outside of this planet, but the public's interest levels in the subject have likely never been higher.
FIRST QUARTER
In January, the U.S. Navy said the release of certain classified briefings and a classified video about a UFO incident held by the Department of Defense "would cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security" to the U.S., in response to a public records request from Vice.
A couple of weeks later, the U.K. announced that reported UFO sightings by the British public will be published online for the first time. The Royal Air Force ran a UFO unit for 50 years but shut it down in 2009 after coming to the conclusion that none of the reports offered evidence of a real threat.
In mid-February, after the U.K.'s decision to publish reported UFO sightings online, 61% of Americans surveyed said they want the U.S. government to declassify the country's so-called "X-files." Fifty-eight percent said they believe the U.S. government "actively investigates extraterrestrial life."
SECOND QUARTER
April was a blockbuster month as the Pentagon finally released unclassified footage showing "unidentified aerial phenomena" captured by Navy aircraft that had circulated in the public for years.
That same week, Tom DeLonge, the former Blink-182 singer and the head of To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, the group that originally obtained the videos, said "UFOs are real" in a since-deleted tweet.
The videos, known as "FLIR1," "Gimbal" and "GoFast," were originally released to the New York Times and to TTSA.
The first video of the unidentified object was taken on Nov. 14, 2004, and shot by the F-18's gun camera. The second video was shot on Jan. 21, 2015, and shows another aerial vehicle with pilots commenting on how strange it is. The third video was also taken on Jan. 21, 2015, but it is unclear whether the third video was of the same object or a different one.
In June, the topic spurred national interest once again, after President Trump told his son, Donald Jr., that he had "interesting" details on Roswell, N.M.
"So many people ask me that question," the president said in response to whether aliens exist. "There are millions and millions of people that want to go there, that want to see it. I won't talk to you about what I know about it but it's very interesting. But Roswell is a very interesting place with a lot of people that would like to know what's going on."
When Trump Jr. further pressed his father on whether he would declassify details about Roswell, the president said, "I'll have to think about that one."
Later that month, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, asked the Pentagon for a detailed, unclassified report on unidentified aerial phenomena. Rubio cited concerns the issue has been given scant attention from the intelligence community while acknowledging the existence of an "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force."
THIRD QUARTER
Late July saw the explosive release of a report that mentioned a long-hidden UFO investigative unit within the Pentagon making its findings public, as well as "off-world vehicles not made on this Earth."
In August, the Pentagon officially launched the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, boosting an effort by the Office of Naval Intelligence, to investigate UFOs following several unexplained incidents that have been observed by the U.S. military.
This announcement came with its own controversies, Nick Pope, a former employee and UFO investigator for Britain's Ministry of Defense, told Fox News in August.
President Trump made news once again, this time telling Fox News in an October interview that he would take a "good, strong look" at whether there are UFOs.
In December, leaked reports from the Pentagon's UFO task force discussed "non-human technology," including an Oct. 2019 email exchange between high-ranking military officials.
Encelade, lune de Saturne, aurait des courants dans son océan comparables à ceux de la Terre
Encelade, lune de Saturne, aurait des courants dans son océan comparables à ceux de la Terre
Laurent Sacco - Journaliste
[EN VIDÉO] NASA's Cassini probe is about to dive into Saturn - Le 15 septembre 2017, la sonde Cassini plongera dans l’atmosphère de Saturne. Elle aura permis de grandes découvertes, laissant derrière elle des centaines de milliers d’images du « seigneur des anneaux » et nous dévoilant en détail ses lunes. Revivez son inoubliable odyssée.
La détermination de certaines caractéristiques de la banquise de l'océan global d'Encelade, grâce aux mesures gravimétriques de la sonde Cassini, a permis de préciser un modèle de cet océan. Les calculs effectués avec ce modèle suggèrent alors l'existence de courants un peu analogues à ceux connus sur Terre dans le cadre de la circulation thermohaline océanique, ou plus largement dans ce que l'on appelle la circulation méridienne de retournement.
Avant la découverte de l'océan global d'Encelade, et si l'on excepte Mars, les meilleures chances de trouver des traces de formes de vie ailleurs que sur Terre se trouvaient certainement à la surface d'Europe, la lune glacée de Jupiter. Mais aujourd'hui, on peut se poser des questions car contrairement à Europe, Encelade se trouve dans une région de la magnétosphère de Saturne qui est nettement moins délétère pour l'électronique d'une sonde que dans le cas de Jupiter, si l'on prend en compte les particules chargées qui y circulent. C'est pour cette raison, d'ailleurs, que l'on n'a fait qu'un petit nombre de passages rapprochés d'Europe et qu'il serait une mauvaise idée, sans un durcissement de l'électronique pour résister aux radiations cosmiques, de se mettre en orbite autour d'Europe.
Certes, Europe semble bel et bien posséder des geysers qu'une sonde peut traverser pour en déterminer la composition. En outre, comme le proposait le regretté Freeman Dyson, il suffirait peut-être de partir à la chasse de blocs de la banquise d’Europe éjectés par de gros impacts de météorites, et en orbite rapprochée, pour espérer toucher le jackpot de l'exobiologie. Toutefois, Encelade possède aussi des geysers et comme son environnement est moins dangereux, la stratégie de recherche de Freeman Dyson serait sans aucun doute plus facile à mettre en œuvre aux alentours d'Encelade.
Une partie de la communauté scientifique se concentre donc sur Encelade (et une autre sur Europa Clipper, dont le lancement est prévu à l'horizon 2025, et qui devrait réaliser une quarantaine de survols d'Europe) et la modélisation de son océan. On sait que ce dernier est maintenu liquide en partie au moins à cause de forces de marée gravitationnelles de Saturne dissipant de la chaleur en malaxant le cœur rocheux de la lune, mais pas au point d'y produire le volcanisme observé pour la même raison sur Io.
Une présentation d'Encelade et son océan global. Pour obtenir une traduction en français assez fidèle, cliquez sur le rectangle blanc en bas à droite. Les sous-titres en anglais devraient alors apparaître. Cliquez ensuite sur l'écrou à droite du rectangle, puis sur « Sous-titres » et enfin sur « Traduire automatiquement ». Choisissez « Français ».
De la géophysique appliquée à la planétologie comparée
Encelade n'a que 500 kilomètres de diamètre mais son champ de gravité est assez fort pour permettre de l'utiliser pour résoudre ce que les géophysiciens terrestres appellent un problème inverse. En l'occurrence, pouvoir remonter aux distributions inhomogènes de masse à l'intérieur d'un corps céleste en analysant les caractéristiques de ce champ tout comme l'oreille humaine reconnaît un instrument, sa forme et sa composition, en écoutant la musique qu'il produit.
Les mouvements de rotation d'une planète donnent aussi des informations sur sa structure interne car ils sont déterminés en partie par son moment d'inertie. Bref, il est possible de contraindre des modèles physiquement crédibles de son intérieur. Les planétologues sont ainsi arrivés à la conclusion, grâce aux données de la sonde Cassini, que l'océan global d'Encelade devait probablement être profond de 30 kilomètres au moins. Ils sont également arrivés à faire des estimations concernant l'épaisseur de cette banquise, environ 20 kilomètres, et il semble bien qu'elle soit plus mince aux pôles qu'à l'équateur.
Des chercheurs sont allés un cran plus loin comme ils l'expliquent dans un article publié dans Nature Geoscience mais que l'on peut trouver en accès libre sur arXiv.
La vie existe-t-elle dans l'océan d'Encelade ? Pour obtenir une traduction en français assez fidèle, cliquez sur le rectangle blanc en bas à droite. Les sous-titres en anglais devraient alors apparaître. Cliquez ensuite sur l'écrou à droite du rectangle, puis sur « Sous-titres » et enfin sur « Traduire automatiquement ». Choisissez « Français ».
Un analogue de la circulation méridienne de retournement ?
Il est possible de transposer les modèles décrivant le comportement des océans salés sur Terre à Encelade. Il y a bien sûr des différences. Ainsi, il n'y a pas de vents et la chaleur est injectée non pas depuis la surface mais depuis le fond de l'océan sur Encelade. Mais les mêmes équations de la physique sont à l'œuvre comme celles de Navier-Stokes pour l'hydrodynamique et de Fourier pour la chaleur. Enfin, les planétologues ont à leur disposition le savoir des océanologues construit en étudiant l'océan Austral autour de l'Antarctique où la glace et l'eau salée sont en interaction, comme dans le cas d'Encelade. Une modélisation de cette interaction a donc été faite sur ordinateur pour la lune de Saturne.
Il apparaît alors qu'aux pôles la glace aurait tendance à fondre plus facilement, ce qui expliquerait qu'elle soit moins épaisse et inversement à l'équateur. Or, de l'eau salée qui gèle expulse le sel qu'elle contient de sorte que l'eau liquide devient plus lourde et qu'elle va donc plonger en profondeur dans de l'eau moins salée. La situation n'est pas sans rappeler un phénomène lié à une instabilité bien connue en océanologie sur Terre, un phénomène ressemblant à l'instabilité de Rayleigh-Taylor (ainsi nommée en hommage aux physiciens britanniques Lord John William Strutt Rayleigh et Geoffrey Ingram Taylor) par ses manifestations. Mais son origine est différente : c'est une instabilité de double diffusion. Il se forme alors les fameux « doigts de sel ». Cette instabilité survient dans un milieu comportant deux fluides de densité différente et stratifiés dans un champ de gravité où le plus dense est initialement au-dessus. Cette situation n'est pas stable, si bien que le fluide le plus lourd développe des sortes de panaches pénétrant le fluide le plus léger, tandis que celui-ci, à l'inverse, crée des panaches analogues qui s'élèvent. Sur Terre, cela intervient dans ce que l'on appelle la circulation thermohaline et plus généralement dans la circulation méridienne de retournement.
Au final, les simulations numériques conduites par les chercheurs nourris des données gravitationnelles de Cassini laissent donc penser que des analogues de cette circulation, avec des courants, se produisent dans l'océan d'Encelade avec de l'eau plongeant au niveau de l'équateur puis se dirigeant vers les pôles où elle monte en surface en devenant plus chaude, chauffée par le plancher océanique, avant de se diriger à nouveau vers l'équateur.
Cette information importante nous renseigne sur les régions de l'océan d'Encelade où l'eau serait plus chaude, également plus riche en nutriments et où la vie aurait donc plus de chance de prospérer.
En 2015, la sonde Cassini retournait voir Encelade, le satellite glacé sur lequel elle avait observé d'extraordinaires geysers, trahissant une activité à l'intérieur de cette petite lune de Saturne, de seulement 500 km de diamètre. Après une longue et patiente étude de plusieurs années, des chercheurs avaient conclu qu'ils ne sont pas produits par une petite mer régionale mais bien par un océan d'eau global, entre le noyau rocheux et sa surface. Là où les sources d'énergie n'ont toujours pas été clairement identifiées.
À l'aube des années 1980, au cours des visites historiques de Voyager 1 et 2 (novembre 1980 et août 1981) à Saturne, Encelade ne fut survolée que brièvement et à grande distance, ce qui ne délivra pas beaucoup d'informations sur sa surface gelée. Les découvertes et, avec elles, les surprises n'arrivèrent qu'en janvier 2005, lorsque quelques mois après l'arrivée de l'ambitieuse sonde Cassini dans l'environnement de la planète géante, des geysers furent observés en contre-jour, sur le limbe de ce satellite naturel. Tous jaillissent depuis de longues crevasses situées à proximité du pôle sud, baptisées « rayures du tigre ». Après de nombreux survols à des altitudes variables (entre plusieurs centaines et seulement quelques dizaines de kilomètres), les chercheurs découvrirent que les glaces aux points d'émissions étaient jusqu'à 110 °C plus chaudes que partout ailleurs et aussi que la vapeur d'eau expulsée est mêlée à de la matière organique et salée.
Cela fait dix ans que des équipes de chercheurs planchent sur le phénomène. Quelle est l'origine de ces évents ? Pour beaucoup, cette région du pôle sud relativement jeune (très peu de cratères d'impacts y sont visibles) et qui arbore des crevasses dont la profondeur peut atteindre 300 m, cacherait sous sa banquise de 30 à 40 km d'épaisseur, une vaste poche d'eau liquide. Une étude, publiée en 2014, fondée sur des mesures sensibles des changements infimes de gravité du satellite a étayé cette possibilité, supposant que cet océan ou cette mer régionale aurait 10 km de profondeur. Cette année, d'autres recherches ont avancé qu'il pourrait aussi exister une activité hydrothermale sur le plancher océanique. Cette mer intérieure serait en effet en contact avec le noyau rocheux (Encelade est composé à 60 % de roches).
Les geysers d’Encelade sont situés dans une région proche de son pôle sud baptisée « les rayures du tigre » (quatre crevasses longues d’environ 130 km nommées Alexandrie, Caire, Bagdad et Damas). Sur ce sondage réalisé en 2010, plus de 100 geysers ont été observés.
Ce réservoir pourrait être beaucoup plus vaste. Une étude qui vient d'être publiée dans la revue Icarus propose, sur la base d'arguments solides, que sous son épaisse coquille de glace, Encelade abrite en réalité un océan global. Pour arriver à cette conclusion, Peter Thomas, membre de l'équipe d'imagerie de Cassini, qui a dirigé ces recherches, concède que cela n'a pas été simple et a demandé « des années d'observations et de calculs impliquant une collection variée de disciplines mais, ajoute-t-il dans le communiqué de la Nasa, nous sommes confiants sur ce que nous avons trouvé ».
Avec son équipe, ils ont parcouru des centaines d'images de la surface du sphéroïde, acquises ces sept dernières années afin de traquer sur les cartes reconstruites le plus précisément possible, les moindres changements de position -- au fil de ses rotations --, de ses fractures, cratères, etc. Les chercheurs ont mesuré une libration (qui serait observable depuis Saturne, à l'instar de celle de la Lune vue de la Terre) provoquée et par la forme presque sphérique du petit satellite (504 km de diamètre, plus petit que la France) et par son orbite elliptique (synchronisée avec celle de Dioné) autour de Saturne. Les différents modèles élaborés de sa structure interne ont été confrontés aux observations. Le seul qui s'accorde avec suggère donc qu'Encelade possède une couche d'eau liquide entre son noyau et la surface glacée. Dans le cas où « la surface et le noyau seraient reliés de façon rigide, ce dernier constituerait un tel poids mort que l'oscillation serait beaucoup plus faible que ce que nous observons » explique Matthew Tiscareno, de l'institut Seti, qui cosigné l'article.
Outre la question de l'habitabilité d'un tel milieu qui, à certains égards, évoque nos abysses, les géophysiciens continuent de s'interroger sur ce qui peut maintenir durablement (probablement depuis plusieurs milliards d'années) l'activité interne de cette petite lune. Quelle est la source de toute cette énergie ? Le jeu des forces de marée avec la géante Saturne est évidemment une partie de la réponse. Toutefois, cela semble insuffisant. Idem pour la désintégration radioactive de certains isotopes dans le noyau rocheux : il n'en renferme pas assez pour expliquer le phénomène permanent des geysers. L'enquête se poursuit et les chercheurs bénéficient d'un atout avec la présence sur place de Cassini.
Illustration de la structure interne supposée d’Encelade. Un océan global serait pris en sandwich entre l’épais manteau de glace (ice crust) et le noyau rocheux (rocky core). La surface et le noyau ne seraient pas liés de façon rigide comme en témoigne la libration de cette petite lune de Saturne !
Les découvertes qui accompagnent l'exploration d'Encelade sont un des grands triomphes de Cassini, sonde spatiale développée par la Nasa et l'Esa, qui a quitté la Terre pour Saturne en 1997. Prolongée jusqu'en 2017, la mission fera hélas bientôt ses adieux à Encelade. Trois dernières visites sont programmées. La prochaine se déroulera le 28 octobre, à quelque 49 km de la surface, au-dessus de la région de ses geysers actifs.
On ne peut qu'être émerveillé et fasciné et par la beauté et par la diversité des mondes autour de Saturne. Et cela se retrouve partout dans notre Système solaire et au-delà : il n'est qu'à considérer les reliefs complexes de Pluton et Cérès, récemment révélés ou encore Europe, Io, Ganymède autour de Jupiter, etc.
Avec Europe, Titan, Ganymède et peut-être Cérès -- ainsi que Mars (du moins dans le passé) --, Encelade s'ajoute à la liste des astres qui possèdent de l'eau liquide dans leurs entrailles et sont potentiellement habitables. Aussi, il n'est pas un astronome et exobiologiste qui ne rêve pas d'y envoyer, dans un premier temps, un robot d'exploration.
Curiosity pose sur Mars devant le mont Mercou et signe l'un de ses plus beaux selfies - PART I
Curiosity pose sur Mars devant le mont Mercou et signe l'un de ses plus beaux selfies - PART I
Xavier Demeersman - Journaliste
Où est en ce moment le rover Curiosity ? Devant le mont Mercou... sur Mars. Pas celui qui est sur Terre, dans le sud-ouest de la France. Le robot a passé beaucoup de temps sur ce site et en a profité pour prendre l'un de ses plus beaux autoportraits depuis son site d'exploration.
Curiosity, illustre prédécesseur de Perseverance, poursuit ses activités sur les pentes du mont Sharp (5.000 mètres d'altitude). Ces derniers jours, il a transmis au Le JPL est le principal centre américain pour l'exploration robotique du..." data-url="/sciences/definitions/univers-jet-propulsion-laboratory-2561/" data-more="Lire la suite">JPL, sa maison-mère (sur Terre), un bel assortiment d'images de son environnement prises les 16 et 26 mars derniers, au pied d'un monticule de six mètres de haut, qui a été surnommé le Mont Mercou. À la Nasa, on s'est empressé d'assembler les quelque 71 pièces du puzzle-mosaïque pour obtenir ce beau selfie du rover-explorateur devant ce site exceptionnel. Il se compose exactement de 60 images prises le 26 mars avec la caméra Mahli (Mars Hand Lens Imager), et de 11 autres, capturées 10 jours plus tôt, du haut de la Mastcam.
Cela fait plusieurs semaines que le robot tourne autour de ce relief. Il intéresse beaucoup les géologues sur Terre en effet pour tout ce qu'il a raconté sur le passé de Mars. Son aspect feuilleté est comme un livre que les scientifiques veulent ouvrir. Comme vous pouvez le voir, Curiosity a procédé à un forage sur le site. C'était le 30e de son expédition qui a débuté il y a bientôt neuf ans. L'endroit a été nommé « Nontron », en référence au village éponyme situé en Dordogne, où de la nontronite a été découverte en 1822.
Le mont Mercou vu sous deux angles différents. 32 images prises par la Mastcam de Curiosity composent ce paysage.
Tout indique que la région en contient comme l'ont montré les observations réalisées depuis l'orbite martienne. Et devinez ce que l'on trouve sur Terre, en France, à proximité de cette commune du sud-ouest ? Le mont Mercou. La colline de 316 mètres se retrouve donc désormais sur les cartes de deux planètes différentes.
Sur Mars, Curiosity se prend en selfie sur un site exceptionnel riche en argile
Cinquante-sept images composent ce superbe selfie de Curiosity et de son environnement martien réalisé il y a quelques jours. Le site de « Glen Etive », où le rover vient de faire deux forages, s'avère très précieux et retient toute l'attention des chercheurs de la Nasa.
Selfie de Curiosity capturé le 11 octobre 2019 sur le site de « Glen Etive ». Bariolé de poussière, le rover commence à prendre la couleur de Mars.
Seul sur Mars, en tout cas seul robot au sol en service actuellement, l'infatigable Curiosity poursuit ses activités de géochimiste sur les flancs du mont Sharp. Le 11 octobre dernier, lors de son 2.553e jour martien, le rover a profité d'une pause dans son travail pour réaliser un nouvel autoportrait.
Les 57 images individuelles prises patiemment avec la caméra Mahli (Mars Hand Lens Imager) qui équipe son bras robotique ont été « cousues » ensemble pour composer ce sublime tableau dans lequel on peut admirer l'astromobile d'une tonne - c'est l'occasion de voir dans quel état il est et d'ailleurs, on notera que Curiosity est barbouillé de poussière des pieds à la tête ; il se fond de plus en plus dans le paysage - et son environnement. Et quelle beauté tout autour de lui. Une beauté aride, certes, mais fascinante.
Ainsi, au loin, sur l'horizon, peut-on voir les remparts nord du cratère Gale (au passage, rappelons que le rover s'est posé au pied du mont Sharp, au centre de ce cratère de 155 kilomètres de diamètre, il y a déjà sept ans maintenant). En haut à droite de l'image, on aperçoit un morceau des niveaux supérieurs de l'édifice qu'arpente méticuleusement le rover. Dans le prolongement de cette pente, à l'arrière-plan, et à quelque 300 mètres de Curiosity, on distingue la masse sombre de la crête Vera Rubin qu'il explorait un an plus tôt. À ses pieds enfin, à gauche, à mi-chemin quasiment entre ses deux roues avant, deux petites piqûres dans le sol : les forages opérés par l'astromobile il y a un peu plus d'un mois.
Nommés « Glen Etive 1 » et « Glen Etive 2 », les deux trous, et surtout la matière récoltée, ont une saveur toute particulière pour les chercheurs de la mission. Il y a un mois en effet, le 24 septembre, c'était la deuxième fois seulement depuis le début de son séjour sur Mars que le petit laboratoire sur roues tout-terrain, de son vrai nom MSL (Mars Science Laboratory), se livre à une expérience de chimie par voie humide (en anglais, wet-chemistry). Sur les 74 gobelets disposés au sein de l'instrument SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars), neuf sont dotés de solvants qui offrent la possibilité de détecter la présence de matière organique.
Le site de « Glen Etive », au cœur de l'« unité d'argile » (identifiée depuis l'espace) lequel site n'a bien sûr pas été choisi au hasard, est tout indiqué pour ces recherches car, si ça se trouve, ces roches ont conservé des traces de vie passée. Que disent les résultats ? Rien, pour l'instant. Il va en effet falloir être patient : « les données de SAM sont extrêmement complexes et prennent du temps à interpréter » a rappelé Paul Mahaffy, en charge de l'instrument à la Nasa. Aussi, rendez-vous début 2020 pour découvrir les secrets que renferment ces échantillons réduits en poudre. Voilà qui aiguise notre curiosité.
Sur Mars, Curiosity explore un nouveau site riche en argile et nous offre un selfie
Article de Xavier Demeersman publié le 31 mai 2019
Quand il ne travaille pas, le rover Curiosity regarde les nuages défiler dans le ciel et se prend en photo. Voici son dernier autoportrait, réalisé dans une région riche en argile sur les pentes du mont Sharp.
Le 6 août prochain, cela fera sept ans déjà que Curiosity a débarqué sur Mars, dans le cratère Gale. Sa mission d'exploration, loin d'être achevée, se poursuit toujours sur les flancs du mont Sharp, point culminant (5.500 mètres) constitué d'un empilement de couches sédimentaires. L'astromobile, qui ne prend jamais de vacances, a récemment réalisé ses vingtième et vingt et unième forages : « Aberlady » et « Kilmarie », dans le sol d'une région qui était apparue très riche en argile aux yeux des sondes en orbite il y a plusieurs années, bien avant l'arrivée de Curiosity. C'est entre autres pour cette raison que ce site a été choisi. Et ça se confirme : l'argile abonde. Le scénario le plus probable pour l'expliquer est qu'il y avait bien un lac à cet endroit, il y a environ 3,7 milliards d'années, et que les argiles s'y sont formées au fond, en interaction avec l'eau.
Cinquante-sept images individuelles composent ce nouveau selfie de Curiosity créé le 12 mai. Téléchargez l'image en haute résolution ici.
Sur ce tout nouveau selfie de Curiosity, les deux trous « Aberlady » et « Kilmarie » sont visibles à ses pieds. L'image prise le 12 mai - lors de son 2.405e jour sur Mars - se compose de 57 photos individuelles capturées par Mahli (Mars Hand Lens Imager), la caméra qu'il tient au bout de son bras robotique.
Nuages de glace d’eau défilant à quelque 31 kilomètres au-dessus de Curiosity.
Bien que l'essentiel de son activité soit de regarder le sol de Mars pour le caractériser - et comprendre son évolution, son habitabilité -, il arrive aussi que le rover ait le nez en l'air, parfois sur un coucher de soleil à l'horizon et parfois pour deviser le temps qu'il fait. Et il y a quelques jours, le 17 mai, le rover a aperçu des nuages défiler au-dessus de lui. Des nuages noctulescents, haut perchés (à une altitude estimée de 31 kilomètres), qu'il a pu photographier avec sa caméra de navigation NavCam. Et d'ailleurs, histoire de mieux inférer leur altitude, la Nasa en a profité pour tourner les yeux du robot InSight (à 600 kilomètres de là) sur ces nuages de glace, au même moment.
Curiosity nous offre son dernier selfie et un superbe panorama de Mars
Article de Xavier Demeersman publié le 5 février 2019
Curiosity nous a envoyé un nouveau selfie. Il vient d'être réalisé sur le flanc nord de la montagne qu'il escalade. Depuis ces hauteurs, le rover en a profité aussi pour capturer un splendide panorama. C'est la première fois que le robot se retourne pour contempler ce paysage. Au loin, les remparts du cratère où il se trouve et, dans la plaine, on peut voir tous les sites qu'il a visités depuis son arrivée sur Mars, il y a cinq ans et demi.
Sur Mars, à une centaine de millions de kilomètres de la Terre, l'infatigable Opportunity a fêté, le 25 janvier dernier, son quatorzième anniversaire d'exploration dans la région de Terra Meridiani -- 45 kilomètres ont déjà été parcourus en 4.836 jours martiens. Une prouesse ! Presque à la même latitude, mais à 8.400 kilomètres de là, Curiosity poursuit de son côté l'ascension du mont Sharp, édifice de 5.500 mètres de haut qui campe au centre du cratère Gale (154 kilomètres de diamètre) où le rover d'une tonne a atterri voilà maintenant cinq ans et demi. Les deux astromobiles se portent bien et, chemin faisant, prolongent leurs missions d'investigations des roches martiennes.
Il y a quelques jours, Curiosity a transmis aux équipes qui le pilotent et prennent soin de lui, un nouvel autoportrait. Le tableau se compose de dizaines de photos indépendantes assemblées qui ont été prises durant la journée du 23 janvier avec la caméra Mahli (Mars Hand Lens Imager) sur son bras articulé. On peut admirer le rover poser sur la crête Vera Rubin où il séjourne depuis plusieurs semaines. Juste derrière lui, un terrain en pente riche en argile que les « scientifiques sont impatients de commencer à explorer », écrit la Nasa. Il est prévu qu'il s'y rende au cours des prochaines semaines. Tout au fond, derrière le rover, on reconnaît le sommet du mont Sharp qu'il atteindra, qui sait, peut-être un jour.
Curiosity sur le site Vera Rubin, le 23 janvier 2018 (sol 1943). Des dizaines d'images assemblées composent ce nouveau selfie. Juste derrière le rover, le site qu'il va bientôt explorer. Tout au fond : le sommet du mont Sharp. Téléchargez l'image en haute résolution ici.
Un fantastique panorama où l’on retrouve le parcours de Curiosity sur Mars
Depuis les hauteurs de la montagne qu'il arpente (sur le flanc nord), Curiosity jouit d'un point de vue unique sur les paysages qui l'entourent, sur des dizaines de kilomètres à la ronde. Les équipes du rover ont tenu à partager la vue saisissante qui s'étalait devant lui en octobre dernier. Le robot a pris quelques heures pour réaliser ce magnifique panorama avec l'œil gauche de la caméra de son mât (voir ci-dessus). C'était peu avant le solstice d'hiver dans l'hémisphère nord martien. Le temps était au beau fixe, offrant de beaux détails sur les collines lointaines, à plus de 80 kilomètres.
« Même si Curiosity grimpe régulièrement depuis cinq ans, c'est la première fois que nous regardons en arrière et voyons toute la mission en dessous de nous », a commenté Ashwin Vasavada, chercheur de la mission au JPL.
Tout au fond, à l'arrière-plan, on aperçoit dans des tons éthérés, les remparts nord de l'immense cratère d'impact formé il y a plus de 3,6 milliards d'années. Plus près, dans la plaine -- les recherches de Curiosity ont révélé qu'il s'agit d'un ancien lac --, on aperçoit les principaux sites que le rover a visités depuis son arrivée le 6 août 2012. 18 kilomètres ont été parcourus depuis le site d'atterrissage et l'astromobile s'est élevé de 327 mètres. Sur ces images, la balance des blancs a été travaillée de façon à obtenir un rendu des roches comme elles nous apparaîtraient de jour, sur Terre (ce qui facilite le travail des géologues).
Un panorama exquis que vous pouvez retrouver ici en haute résolution et avec un luxe de détails. On a littéralement l'impression d'y être, de sentir les rayons du Soleil d'hiver et une légère brise martienne... Des paysages transformés depuis des milliards d'années par les alizés et aussi, dans la jeunesse de la planète, par l'eau. Vous pouvez également télécharger une version avec tous les sites visités par le rover annotés ici.
Un an après son arrivée sur Mars, Curiosity a photographié une occultation de la petite lune Déimos (à 20.000 km de la surface de Mars) par sa grande sœur Phobos, plus massive et plus proche (6.000 km d’altitude) et tournant en sens inverse.
Curiosity : un étonnant selfie sur un sol très hydraté
Article de Xavier Demeersmanpublié le 26 août 2015
Curiosity s'est offert un nouvel autoportrait qui combine une mosaïque d'images prises la veille du troisième anniversaire de son arrivée sur Mars, dans le cratère Gale. Le site de Marias Pass, où il était ces dernières semaines, sur les flancs du mont Sharp, témoigne d'un taux d'hydrogène et de silice plus élevé que dans les autres endroits visités par le rover. Il s'agit de précieux indices de matériaux hydratés témoignant de l'histoire passée de Mars et que les planétologues espèrent bien déchiffrer.
Le 6 août 2015 marquait le premier anniversaire de la sonde européenne Rosetta autour du noyau de la comète Tchouri, une semaine tout juste avant son passage au périhélie. À quelques millions de kilomètres de là, Curiosity fêtait seul sur Mars le troisième anniversaire de son débarquement à l'intérieur du cratère Gale. La veille, lors du sol 1.065 (1.065e jour martien), le rover américain s'est livré à un méticuleux autoportrait ou selfie.
Le tableau final réunit pas moins de 92 images brutes individuelles capturées durant une heure avec la caméra Mahli (Mars Hand Lens Imager), installée au bout de son bras articulé. Elles sont visibles, séparément, au sein de la galerie dédiée du site de la Nasa. Par ailleurs, l'excellent blog d'Emily Lakdawa (journaliste à la Planetary Society) offre de les découvrir toutes ensemble, réunies en une seule image non traitée et non combinée. Une vidéo très intéressante, visible sur YouTube, illustre la méthode employée pour acquérir cette mosaïque d'images - une méthode également employée par le rover au début de son séjour sur Mars. Comme l'explique la Nasa dans son communiqué, avant d'envoyer les instructions, des essais furent réalisés au préalable dans un studio-laboratoire sur Terre, avec la doublure de Curiosity (à voir ici). Bien sûr, le bras robotisé n'apparaît pas mais on voit toutefois son ombre projetée sur le sol poussiéreux de la Planète rouge.
Image composite de 92 photos individuelles prises le 5 août 2015 avec la caméra Mahli, installée au bout du bras articulé. Le rover est juché sur une petite colline, où il a foré deux trous (les taches grises). Derrière lui, le mont Sharp, à gauche, et, à droite une partie des remparts ouest du cratère Gale. L’image en très haute résolution est téléchargeable ici (2,23 Mo).
Cet autoportrait du 5 août est le cinquième réalisé sur un site de collecte d'échantillons. Les trous que l'on distingue devant le rover ont été forés dans une roche baptisée « Buckskin ». L'image s'inscrit dans la lignée des selfies des sites « Rocknest », « John Klein », « Mojave » et « Windjana ». Pour celui-ci, le rover faisait face au nord-est. À l'arrière-plan, derrière lui, on aperçoit à gauche, au sud de sa position, la silhouette du mont Sharp (5,5 km d'altitude) - qu'il a commencé de gravir en septembre 2014 - et, à droite, en direction de l'ouest, une partie des parois rocheuses qui entourent ce vaste cratère d'impact de 155 km de diamètre.
Un taux élevé d'hydrogène et de silice
Curiosity a grimpé une petite colline d'environ 6 mètres de hauteur et effectué son septième forage à son sommet le 30 juillet dernier (sol 1.060). Le site nommé « Marias Pass » (« le col de Marias ») a particulièrement attiré l'attention des scientifiques de la mission. En effet, en passant dans les parages le 21 mai, l'instrument Dan (Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons) avait détecté en mode passif un taux plus élevé qu'ailleurs d'hydrogène dans le sol. Quant aux tirs laser réalisés avec ChemCam, ils ont révélé un niveau important de silice. En faisant un détour sur son chemin à travers les contreforts de cette montagne échafaudée d'empilements de couches sédimentaires, les chercheurs ont donc eu une nouvelle occasion d'étudier un environnement à la jonction de deux couches. Quelques mois auparavant, le rover avait observé, et même foré, dans cette formation sur le site Pahrump Hills. Pour les planétologues, il est important de comprendre quelles étaient les conditions qui régnaient alors dans cette région pour qu'une modification de la composition des sols ait pu être opérée, marquant ainsi une transition.
La silice contient du silicium et de l'oxygène que l'on retrouve abondamment sur Terre dans plusieurs minéraux, comme le quartz. L'abondance d'hydrogène est interprétée comme des ions hydroxyles (OH-) issus de l'eau et liés aux roches. Autant de marqueurs signalant la présence de matériaux hydratés comme l'ont confirmé les passages de Dan en mode actif. « Jusqu'à un mètre en dessous du rover, le sol présente dans cette région trois ou quatre fois plus d'eau que n'importe quel site sur lequel Curiosity a roulé durant ses trois années sur Mars », souligne à ce propos le responsable de l'instrument, Igor Mitrofanov de l'institut de Recherche spatiale de Moscou.
Enfin, on peut se réjouir que les forages aient pu être exécutés sans problèmes de courts-circuits, à l'inverse de ce qui s'était produit en février dernier, à l'occasion d'un transfert d'échantillons réduits en poudre à Pahrump Hills. Curiosity a repris la route le 12 août après plusieurs semaines passées dans cet environnement inédit et avec un échantillon en cours d'analyse. Le 18 août, il avait déjà parcouru 132 mètres.
Scientists Unearth Skull Of Dinosaur Called ‘one Who Causes Fear’ In Argentina: Study
Scientists Unearth Skull Of Dinosaur Called ‘one Who Causes Fear’ In Argentina: Study
Scientists in Argentina recently have discovered the well-preserved skull of a large meat-eating dinosaur named ‘one who causes fear’ in the Mapuche language.
Scientists in Argentina recently have discovered the well-preserved skull of a large meat-eating dinosaur named ‘one who causes fear’ in the local Mapuche language. According to thestudypublished in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the horned ‘Llukalkan aliocranianus’ was around 5 metres long and roamed South America 85 million years ago. Researchers discovered the remains nearby of another carnivorous dinosaur, something they said was highly unusual.
As per the study, similar to T-rex, the Llukalkan dinosaur was also two-legged with very short arms but was medium-sized compared to the giant T-rex. The dinosaur had short horns and tiny fingers. It was estimated to weigh between one and five tonnes, which is slightly lighter than an adult African elephant.
The researchers said that the dinosaur was probably a fearsome predator, with a large skull and a strong bite. The findings suggest that it had better hearing than other dinosaurs in the abelisaurids family which likely made it a better hunter. The fossilised remains of the beast were found at a famous fossil site near La Invernada in Argentina.
Lead author Dr Federico Gianechini, from the National University of San Luis, said, “This is a particularly important discovery because it suggests that the diversity and abundance of abelisaurids were remarkable, not only across Patagonia but also in more local areas during the dinosaurs' twilight period”.
"This discovery also suggests that there are likely more abelisaurid out there that we just haven't found yet, so we will be looking for other new species and a better understanding of the relationship among furilesaurs," says Dr Gianechini.
Gianechini further informed that abelisauridae were a family of theropod dinosaurs averaging five to nine meters long that prowled mainly in Patagonia and other areas of the ancient southern subcontinent Gondwana, which today has split into Africa, India, Antarctica, Australia, and South America. Co-author Dr Ariel Mendez from the Patagonian Institute of Geology and Palaeontology said that these dinosaurs were still trying out new evolutionary pathways and rapidly diversifying right before they died out completely. The fossilised remains of Llukalkan include a superbly preserved and uncrushed braincase and this new species is also similar in many respects to Viavenator, except that it is smaller, the holes in the skull through which the veins pass are larger and more widely separated from the supraoccipital crest, among other differences.
Schedel van “angst inboezemende” dinosaurus gevonden in Patagonië
Wetenschappers hebben in het zuiden van Argentinië de schedel van een enorme vleesetende dino gevonden. De Mapuche noemen de dinosaurus in hun eigen taal, het Mapudungun, “eentje die angst inboezemt”. Het uitgestorven dier liep 85 miljoen jaar geleden tijdens het late Krijt in Zuid-Amerika rond.
De gehoornde Llukalkan aliocranianus van vijf meter lang moet er angstaanjagend hebben uitgezien. De dinosaurus had, net als de bekende Tyrannosaurus rex, twee achterpoten en twee korte voorpoten. Hij was wel kleiner dan de reusachtige T. rex. De Llukalkan aliocranianus had ook smalle vingers en korte hoorns. Hij woog tussen 1 en 5 ton, iets lichter dan een volwassen Afrikaanse olifant. Een gevreesd roofdier was het, met een grote schedel en een stevige beet. Dat blijkt uit het onderzoek dat is verschenen in het vakblad Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Het is gebaseerd op overblijfselen van de Llukalkan aliocranianus, gevonden in Patagonië.
Volgens de onderzoekers had deze dinosaurus een beter gehoor dan de andere exemplaren in de familie van de Abelisauridae. Dat maakte van hem waarschijnlijk ook een betere jager, meent Federico Gianechini, paleontoloog aan de National University of San Luis Argentina. Opvallend is dat de schedel naast een andere, iets grotere vleesetende dinosaurus, de Viavenator exxoni, lag. Het is volgens Gianechini erg ongewoon dat twee Abelisauridae op hetzelfde moment en dicht bij elkaar leefden. De twee wedijverden ongetwijfeld met elkaar voor dezelfde prooien of ze aten elkaar misschien zelfs op, aldus Gianechini.
In Argentinië zijn de laatste decennia wel meer belangrijke restanten van dino’s opgegraven. In 2014 ging het om een exemplaar met een gewicht van ongeveer 14 olifanten, mogelijk de grootste ooit.
Schedel van “angst inboezemende” dinosaurus gevonden in Patagonië
Wetenschappers hebben in het zuiden van Argentinië de schedel van een enorme vleesetende dino gevonden. De Mapuche noemen de dinosaurus in hun eigen taal, het Mapudungun, “eentje die angst inboezemt”. Het uitgestorven dier liep 85 miljoen jaar geleden tijdens het late Krijt in Zuid-Amerika rond.
De gehoornde Llukalkan aliocranianus van vijf meter lang moet er angstaanjagend hebben uitgezien. De dinosaurus had, net als de bekende Tyrannosaurus rex, twee achterpoten en twee korte voorpoten. Hij was wel kleiner dan de reusachtige T. rex. De Llukalkan aliocranianus had ook smalle vingers en korte hoorns. Hij woog tussen 1 en 5 ton, iets lichter dan een volwassen Afrikaanse olifant. Een gevreesd roofdier was het, met een grote schedel en een stevige beet. Dat blijkt uit het onderzoek dat is verschenen in het vakblad Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Het is gebaseerd op overblijfselen van de Llukalkan aliocranianus, gevonden in Patagonië.
Volgens de onderzoekers had deze dinosaurus een beter gehoor dan de andere exemplaren in de familie van de Abelisauridae. Dat maakte van hem waarschijnlijk ook een betere jager, meent Federico Gianechini, paleontoloog aan de National University of San Luis Argentina. Opvallend is dat de schedel naast een andere, iets grotere vleesetende dinosaurus, de Viavenator exxoni, lag. Het is volgens Gianechini erg ongewoon dat twee Abelisauridae op hetzelfde moment en dicht bij elkaar leefden. De twee wedijverden ongetwijfeld met elkaar voor dezelfde prooien of ze aten elkaar misschien zelfs op, aldus Gianechini.
In Argentinië zijn de laatste decennia wel meer belangrijke restanten van dino’s opgegraven. In 2014 ging het om een exemplaar met een gewicht van ongeveer 14 olifanten, mogelijk de grootste ooit.
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The Debris Cloud From a Supernova Shows an Imprint of the Actual Explosion
The Debris Cloud From a Supernova Shows an Imprint of the Actual Explosion
Computer models are continuing to play an increasing role in scientific discovery. Everything from the first moments after the Big Bang to potential for life to form on other planets has been the target of some sort of computer model. Now scientists from the RIKEN Astrophysical Big Bang Laboratory are turning this almost ubiquitous tool to a very violent event – Type Ia supernovae. Their work has now resulted in a more nuanced understanding of the effects of these important events.
Type Ia supernovae are a type of supernova that occur in binary star systems – specifically systems with a white dwarf star. Eventually the white dwarf will run out of fuel to power its nuclear reaction. However, in some cases, matter from the companion star can reignite the reactions of the white dwarf, which could then cause a runaway nuclear fusion event, resulting in a Type Ia supernova and creating all of the naturally occurring heavy elements with atomic weights larger than iron.
When the white dwarf explodes, it creates a shockwave known as a remnant. These remnants are known to vary along with the explosion that created them, but it has not really been clear how or why.
That is where the computer simulation comes in. The team at RIKEN, led by physicist Gilles Ferrand, actually developed two different models – one for modeling the supernova explosion itself and one modeling the remnant.
Spectacular example of a supernova remnant. Credit: NASA
There were two main variables that the RIKEN team wanted to control as part of the explosion model. The first was how exactly the runaway reaction that caused the supernova is ignited. The second was how that explosion propagates itself through the collapsing star.
Outputs from the various models created using this methodology were then fed into the simulation of the supernova remnant. Dr. Ferrand and his team noticed that there were four main categories the remnants could be categorized into, based on some variable details of the actual explosion that spawned them.
The first was the number of points at which the supernova explosion begins to take place. The two broad categories for this variable are that the explosion would either start in a few, distinct places, or multiple places simultaneously throughout the star.
The second variable deals with a concept know as deflagration, which is defined as “a turbulent fire that moves slower than the speed of sound.” Alternatively, these deflagrations can occasionally devolve into an extremely fast moving detonation. Deflagration fires are caused by the explosions that kick off the supernova, but the speed with which they move could have profound impacts on the remnant.
Supernova G292.0+1.8. Like most supernovae it detonated within a host galaxy – in fact ours. Credit: Chandra.
Combining all these variables into a full remnant model allows the researchers to define four distinct types of remnant that result from four different types of explosions. Since remnants are still visible hundreds of years after the supernova that created them takes place, understanding their form and then backtracking to the type of supernova that caused it in the first place could be particularly useful for understanding the frequency of different types of stellar explosions.
Someday there might even be a computer model that can accurately predict what kind of remnant would be created by a given supernova before it is even visible. Sounds like some good follow-up work for Dr. Ferrand and his team.
Artist depiction of a supernova remnant growing out of the original explosion while being shaped by it. Credit: Ferrand et all, permission from the American Astronomical Society
The Closest Star Cluster to Earth is Being Dismantled in Front of our Eyes
The Closest Star Cluster to Earth is Being Dismantled in Front of our Eyes
Star clusters are interesting inhabitants of the sky. They vary in sizes, distances, and number of stars, but almost all are spectacular to look at. And most of them are in the process of being torn apart. That is certainly the case for the Hyades star cluster – the closest one to Earth at only 153 light years away. The problem is, there is something causing a lot more destruction than would be expected given the mass and energy in the surrounding space. Now, a team of scientists from ESA have a theory as to what the cause of the destruction might be – a mysterious dark matter sub-halo.
This novel theory extends from findings gleaned from data collected by GAIA, ESA’s star mapping satellite. The GAIA team expected to see what are called “tidal tails” trailing and leading the star cluster as it moves throughout the galaxy. These tails are formed when some stars are forced to the outer edges of the cluster, and then pulled by the gravitational pull of the galaxy itself, pushing some stars forward in their journey through the galaxy, while other stars are pulled further behind.
ESA Video discussing the Hyades tidal tails. Credit: ESA Youtube Channel
The GAIA team did find tidal tails on either side of the Hyades cluster when they observed it. However, they were extraordinarily long – thousands of light years across the galaxy, each holding thousands of stars. Observing them in their entirety was only possible because of the GAIA data and a computer model that Dr. Tereza Jerabkova, an ESA research fellow, developed with her colleagues.
That model had several added advantages over previous efforts to map the tidal tail of the Hyades. Without the model, thousands of stars that had been left behind by the cluster hundreds of millions of years ago would not be included in the tail due to changes in their orbit during that time. But there was something even more interesting hiding in the data that the model failed to predict.
Another ESA video discussing how the Hyades star cluster has evolved over the last 600 million years. Credit: ESA YouTube Channel
There seemed to be huge holes in the tidal tail, where stars were completely missing. One of the nice things about well-written simulations is that it is possible to quickly adapt them to new data, and that is exactly what Dr. Jerabkova did. Changing parameters to try to account for the missing stars, she realized that the presence of an object weighing 10 million solar masses could have caused the disruption seen in the tidal tail pattern. Only there wasn’t any object of that size anywhere near the missing stars.
Realizing that they couldn’t see any object, the researchers turned to something that they couldn’t actually see – dark matter. Scientists have long theorized about dark matter sub-halos – invisible clusters of dark matter that exert gravitational forces throughout the galaxy. But so far, no one has ever seen them in action.
Here’s an image from Hubble of a “dark matter ring”. Credit: NASA, ESA, M.J. Jee (John Hopkins University)
If the ESA team’s models are correct, a sub-halo could be the cause of the disruption in the Hyades’ tidal tail. While this would be exciting new evidence for the presence of such understudied massive structures, it is far from certain that they are the sole cause of the Hyades’ disruption. As always, more data is needed, and GAIA is still patiently collecting data on more than a billion stars. Maybe the next round of data will hold some additional insight on what exactly is happening to this spectacular star cluster.
Light Over Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA 3-31-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Light Over Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA 3-31-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 31, 2021
Location of sighting: Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
Source: MUFON 114498
This report just came in. A person in Louisiana recorded a glowing light in the sky last night. The object is silent, but moves around erratically. The object seems to be very high up and almost looks like a drone, but I have never seen a drone with so powerful of a light before. So I honestly don't think it's a drone. Such glowing spheres have been seen around the world. For instance they are seen over Denver, Colorado and even at the famous Dome of Rock Temple in front of thousands of tourists. That must have been something to see in person. This glowing object is a UFO.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
I was talking on the phone outside when I noticed a Light approaching me from the north. I Watched the light Do some pretty incredible acrobatics before I remembered my cell phone camera. The Night was partly cloudy and Pretty windy, with a wind from the north west about 10-25 mph and gusty. The light seemed not to react to the wind conditions at all. It seemed to be at about 3000 Ft. altitude when I first noticed it. It was descending rapidly directly toward my position. It appeared to descend just into the cloud deck and bob in and out eventually coming to a hover near the bottom of the clouds. ( Estimate 2500 ft.) The Light would dim periodically, and simultaneously appear to descend when it did so, usually after a sharp curving maneuver. The color was variable from a deep barely visible red, to a brilliant white, Tending toward yellowish most of the time. Most of the more startling color changes are not on the video. There was no noise and it seemed to move effortlessly in any direction. The speed seemed excessive for a drone at the altitude it appeared to be at. This is not the first time I have seen This Phenomena in this area, but it is the first time I have captured it on video.
On March 31, 2021, strange ball of lights have been observed over Louisiana and Illinois. Where do they come from?
Ball of light flying over Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Witness noticed a light doing some pretty incredible acrobatics before he remembered my cell phone camera. The night was partly cloudy and pretty windy but the light seemed not to react to the wind conditions at all.
The ball of light seemed to be at about 3000 Ft. altitude and appeared to descend just into the cloud deck and bob in and out eventually coming to a hover near the bottom of the clouds. ( Estimate 2500 ft.)
There was no noise and it seemed to move effortlessly in any direction. The speed seemed excessive for a drone at the altitude it appeared to be at. Mufon case 114498.
Ball of light moving in straight-line path above Mc Cullum Lake, Illinois.
Witness was at the intersection of McCullom Lake Rd and Richmond Rd in McHenry when I saw the ball of light above McCullom Lake moving at a speed a lower plane would probably move at.
It consisted of a single fiery orange glow, mainly round in shape, but the bright area within the round shape was not consistent in its position or intensity.
The light continued in an east-southeast direction for about 30-45 more seconds before it became more distant and disappeared; then the sky was completely dark in the place it one was. Mufon case 114499.
Two interesting UFO videos filmed over Quebec, Canada
Two interesting UFO videos filmed over Quebec, Canada
I just found these two UFO videos filmed in Canada on Instagram. First one was filmed over the city of Montreal and the second one was filmed somewhere over Quebec. Both were taken a few days ago.
UFO maneuvering over Lake Charles, Louisiana 31-Mar-2021
UFO maneuvering over Lake Charles, Louisiana 31-Mar-2021
This bright unidentified flying object was caught on tape in the sky above Lake Charles, a city in southwest Louisiana on 31st March 2021.
Witness report:
I was talking on the phone outside when I noticed a Light approaching me from the north. I Watched the light Do some pretty incredible acrobatics before I remembered my cell phone camera. The Night was partly cloudy and Pretty windy, with a wind from the north west about 10-25 mph and gusty. The light seemed not to react to the wind conditions at all. It seemed to be at about 3000 Ft. altitude when I first noticed it. It was descending rapidly directly toward my position. It appeared to descend just into the cloud deck and bob in and out eventually coming to a hover near the bottom of the clouds. ( Estimate 2500 ft.) The Light would dim periodically, and simultaneously appear to descend when it did so, usually after a sharp curving maneuver. The color was variable from a deep barely visible red, to a brilliant white, Tending toward yellowish most of the time. Most of the more startling color changes are not on the video. There was no noise and it seemed to move effortlessly in any direction. The speed seemed excessive for a drone at the altitude it appeared to be at. This is not the first time I have seen This Phenomena in this area, but it is the first time I have captured it on video.
A meteorite that stunned the world when it blazed through the sky and plummeted into a frozen lake in Michigan on January 16, 2018 contains some of the key ingredients for the creation of life, scientists have discovered.
The six-foot wide rock fragmented and illuminated the sky while travelling at 30,000mph, with footage of the event going viral around the world.
Fragments were rapidly tracked down and handed over to scientists who now know it contains some of the key ingredients for the creation of life.
So-called 'organic compounds' were found and these carbon-containing molecules are the backbone of amino acids, fats, DNA and other biological materials.
The discovery of these raw materials on a space rock means it is possible that billions of years ago a larger, but similar, meteorite landed on Earth and brought these organic compounds with it, eventually allowing life to flourish.
Security camera footage of the fireball in the sky over Toledo, Ohio. The six-foot wide rock fragmented and illuminated the sky while travelling at 30,000mph
The meteorite fragment that fell on Strawberry Lake which contains pristine extraterrestrial organic compounds
Philipp Heck, a curator at the Field Museum in Chicago, which led analysis on the rock says: 'These kinds of organic compounds were likely delivered to the early Earth by meteorites and might have contributed to the ingredients of life.'
While scientists know that carbon-based compounds were instrumental in the development of life on Earth, their origins remain a mystery.
Some theories say they were belched out from deep inside the Earth, while others contest they likely landed on our planet from another world via meteorites.
The rock is not thought to contain life itself, but materials which – given the right conditions – could create life.
Scientists benefited from the public furore following the event, as it meant the rock fragments were rapidly tracked down and retrieved.
This ensured they remained relatively clean and unsullied by Earth's microbe-rich dirt, allowing for a truer picture of the meteorite's contents.
'This meteorite is special because it fell onto a frozen lake and was recovered quickly. It was very pristine,' says Dr Heck.
'We could see the minerals weren't much altered and later found that it contained a rich inventory of extraterrestrial organic compounds.'
Meteor lights up the skies as it explodes over the Midwest
Meteorite hunter Robert Ward with the meteorite on Strawberry Lake near Hamburg, Michigan
A piece of the meteorite sits on a display during a press conference, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, at the Longway Planetarium in Flint, Michigan. Scientists now know it contains organic compounds
Astronomer Todd Slisher unfolds tin-foil to reveal a piece of the meteorite during the 2018 press conference
WHAT WAS THE MASSIVE FIREBALL THAT SOARED OVER MICHIGAN?
The American Meteor Society says it received hundreds of reports of a fireball on the night of Tuesday January 16 over Michigan, including many in the Detroit area.
Footage of a meteorite falling from the sky was captured by a number of residents throughout Michigan and further afield that evening.
A bright light, understood to be the soaring fireball exploding above Michigan, was seen as far away as Chicago and even across the border in Canada.
The United States Geological Survey said the equivalent of a 2.0-magnitude earthquake struck the area at the same time..
This would suggest it came crashing down to earth, but there has been no official confirmation of this yet.
By the end of the week, meteorite hunters who flocked to Detroit from across the U.S. after a meteor exploded had begun to find the fragments.
The 6-foot-wide meteor broke apart Tuesday about 20 miles over Earth, NASA scientists said. Most of the fragments landed in Hamburg Township.
The rock blazed bright as it burned up in Earth's atmosphere and broke up, but it was large enough that many of its pieces remained intact when they landed.
Smaller meteors disintegrate completely until nothing is left by the time it approaches Earth's surface.
But the pieces of the 2018 rock were so large they could be tracked by weather systems normally used to predict and follow rain and hail.
'Weather radar helped show the position and velocity of the meteorite. That meant that we were able to find it very quickly,' Dr Heck says.
Within two days an eager meteorite hunter, Robert Ward, had tracked down the first piece on the frozen surface of Strawberry Lake, near Hamburg, Michigan and entrusted it to the Chicago Field Museum.
The short period of time it took for the rock to be found provides an invaluable research opportunity.
'Because there was so much excitement surrounding it, everybody wanted to apply their own technique to it, so we have an unusually comprehensive set of data for a single meteorite,' says Ms Jennika Greer, co-author of the research and a scientist at the University of Chicago.
The research found that, apart from the cacophony of organic compounds, the rock is a rare form of meteorite, called a H4 chondrite.
The findings are published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
Explained: The difference between an asteroid, meteorite and other space rocks
An asteroid is a large chunk of rock left over from collisions or the early solar system. Most are located between Mars and Jupiter in the Main Belt.
A comet is a rock covered in ice, methane and other compounds. Their orbits take them much further out of the solar system.
A meteor is what astronomers call a flash of light in the atmosphere when debris burns up.
This debris itself is known as a meteoroid. Most are so small they are vapourised in the atmosphere.
If any of this meteoroid makes it to Earth, it is called a meteorite.
Meteors, meteoroids and meteorites normally originate from asteroids and comets.
For example, if Earth passes through the tail of a comet, much of the debris burns up in the atmosphere, forming a meteor shower.
Scientists found evidence that a meteor vaporized over Antarctica 430,000 years ago, burning up in a dramatic plume of hot gases.
(Image credit: Mark Garlick / markgarlick.com)
Roughly 430,000 years ago, an incandescent ball of hot gas came barreling out of the sky and slammed into Antarctica — and now, scientists have found tiny bits of debris formed by that impact.
The team scooped up the mineral particles from Walnumfjellet in the Sør Rondane Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, which is located south of Africa on the eastern side of the continent. Antarctica offers the perfect environment to scout for meteorite remnants, due to its dry, frigid climate and minimal human presence, first author Matthias van Ginneken, a geoscientist who specializes in the study of micrometeorites, or extremely tiny meteorites the size of dust particles, told Live Science.
"It was my first Antarctic expedition … and we found this very ideal sampling area on top of a Sør Rondane mountain," said Van Ginneken, who now conducts research at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, but during the study, held positions with the Free University of Brussels, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. After gathering sediment from the summit, Van Ginneken scanned the samples with an electron microscope.
"To my great surprise, I found these very weird looking particles that did not look like terrestrial particles ... but they didn't look like micrometeorites either," he said. Unlike micrometeorites, which resemble fine dust, about half of the samples looked like several teeny stones fused together. Some carried tiny flecks of material on their surfaces, while others bore distinct, almost snowflake-like markings, he said.
This micrograph shows meteorite impact particles collected in the Sør Rondane Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. (Image credit: Scott Peterson / micro-meteorites.com)
The chemical composition of the particles suggested that they formed hundreds of thousands of years ago during an airburst in the lower atmosphere, which occurs when a meteorite becomes vaporized before hitting the ground, according to the new study, published online March 31 in the journal Science Advances.
"If more of these unique touchdowns can be identified and then even older particles are investigated, maybe we can use them to understand the characteristics of early Earth's atmosphere," Maitrayee Bose, an isotope cosmochemist at Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe, who was not involved in the study, told Live Science in an email.
Understanding the nature of these impacts could also help us prepare if such a meteor came zooming toward Earth again, but this time aimed at a bustling city instead of the Antarctic wilderness, Van Ginneken said.
Reconstructing the impact
Upon first discovering the unusual particles, "I said, 'Bingo! This is fantastic, fantastic stuff,'" Van Ginneken said. But the discovery was just the start of the story — to learn how these particles came to be, the team conducted thorough chemical analyses, searched the literature for reports of similar particles and created numerical models to visualize the original asteroid that created them.
"The paper does detailed analysis at each step ... and does an excellent job of convincing me that such an event may have occurred in Earth's recent past," Bose told Live Science.
The particles themselves measured about 0.004 to 0.01 inches across (100-300 micrometers) and mostly contained the minerals olivine and iron spinel, which formed the snowflake-like patterns on some of the particles. These minerals were fused together by a small amount of glass. This composition closely matched a class of meteorites known as CI chondrites, confirming that the particles contained material from an asteroid, Van Ginneken said.
The high quantity of nickel in the particles also pointed to an extraterrestrial origin, because nickel is not very abundant in the Earth's terrestrial crust, he added.
Knowing that these particles contain material from space, the authors then wanted to figure out where and how they formed once their parent meteoroid entered Earth's atmosphere. The oxygen isotopes in the particles — meaning forms of oxygen with different numbers of neutrons — revealed how much oxygen was present during the particles' formation, Van Ginneken said.
Compared with typical chondrite material, the samples were very rich in oxygen, overall, suggesting they formed in the atmosphere, but relatively close to the ground. That said, the particles contained very few heavy oxygen isotopes, and specifically lacked an isotope called oxygen-18, the team found. This mimics the chemical composition of Antarctic ice, which contains little oxygen-18; based on this, the team concluded that the particles interacted and mixed with the ice during their formation.
Next, to estimate when these particles formed, the team went hunting for reports of similar meteorite touchdowns. It turned out that similar particles had been captured in ice cores drawn from other regions of Antarctica, including two summits known as the EPICA Dome C and Dome Fuji. Studies suggest that these meteorites fell to Earth 430,000 and 480,000 years ago, respectively, and by comparing the newfound particles to these other ones, the authors estimated that the Walnumfjellet particles formed 430,000 years ago.
"The mineralogic and textural evidence used in the paper shows similarities between particles from the different regions in Antarctica," but despite these overlaps, the absolute age of the Walnumfjellet particles remains unknown, Bose said. Future analyses will be needed to nail down their precise age, more conclusively, she said.
Considering the size, shape and density of the particles, the team was also able to produce a "very rough calculation" as to the size of their parent asteroid, Van Ginneken said. The particles' fused appearance hints that the cloud of hot gas in which they formed was very large and very dense, which allowed the minerals to collide and melt into one another on their way to Earth. This hints that the original asteroid was likely between 328 feet and 492 feet (100 and 150 meters) in diameter.
Based on their numerical models, "it turns out that such an asteroid will not reach the ground … basically it would be vaporized into a cloud of superheated meteoritic gas," Van Ginneken said. The cloud of gas would then continue descending toward the ground at a similar rate to the original asteroid — "we are talking kilometers per second," he said.
"This very dense, incandescent plume that would reach the surface, this is extremely destructive. This could destroy a large city in a matter of seconds, and do severe damage over hundreds of kilometers," Van Ginneken said.
Airburst events occur much more frequently than asteroid impacts that create large craters in the crust, he added. For example, an airburst event took place in Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013, and scientists also suspect that the massive explosion that leveled forests near Tunguska, Russia in 1908 was an airburst, the authors wrote in the Science Advances report.
Tunguska-like events are estimated to occur "once every 100 to 10,000 years, which is orders of magnitude more frequent than large crater-forming impacts," the authors wrote. Studying the newfound Walnumfjellet particles could help scientists better understand how often these impacts occur and how severely they damage the earth below, Van Ginneken said.
The study suggests "that we should worry more about smaller asteroids, between a few tens of meters and 200 meters [32-656 feet in diameter], than much larger asteroids resulting in impact-cratering events," because the smaller asteroids touch down on our planet more often, he said. Should such an asteroid start hurtling toward a small country, a mass evacuation would likely be required to spare people from the fiery plume, he said.
Meteoriet explodeerde boven zuidpool met kracht van 1.000 Hiroshima-kernbommen
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET - Onderzoek van VUB en ULB, in samenwerking met een internationaal team van onderzoekers uit verschillende universiteiten in Europa, Rusland en de Verenigde Staten heeft aangetoond dat 430.000 jaar geleden een grote meteoriet met een diameter van ongeveer 100 meter is ontploft boven Antarctica. De reusachtige meteoriet drong de dampkring binnen en explodeerde, nog voor hij het ijs van de zuidpool bereikte, met een kracht vergelijkbaar met die van 1.000 Hiroshima-kernbommen.
“De explosie moet voor een vernietigende schade hebben gezorgd in een straal van tientallen tot enkele honderden kilometers rond de plek van de explosie”, zegt VUB-prof Steven Goderis, die in 2018 de expeditie leidde die de ontdekkingen mogelijk maakte.
Goderis en zijn team trokken toen op zoek naar micrometeorieten in de Walnumfjellet, die deel uitmaakt van het Sør Rondanegebergte in het oosten van Antarctica. “De microscopisch kleine brokstukken van de ingeslagen meteoriet hebben een speciale samenstelling, waardoor ze goed te onderscheiden zijn van de gewone meteorieten en micrometeorieten die we op Antarctica vinden. Ze hebben een samenstelling die overeenkomt met die van meteorieten, maar reflecteren ook de zuurstofisotopische samenstelling van het Antarctische ijs.”
De explosie kon gedateerd worden aan de hand van verschillende boorkernen die in de loop van de voorbije decennia in het poolijs zijn verzameld. In een aantal van die boorkernen vonden de onderzoekers ook sporen van de kosmische explosie.
“Waarschijnlijk komen dergelijke ‘airburst-achtige’ fenomenen geregeld voor, maar we vinden er meestal geen enkel spoor van terug”, zegt Goderis. “In 2013 was er in het Siberische Chelyabinsk een gelijkaardige maar veel kleinere bijna-inslag, die toen veel schade veroorzaakte en waarbij wonderbaarlijk genoeg bijna uitsluitend materiële schade werd aangericht. Nog in Rusland, in Tunguska, werd in 1908 een gelijkaardige impact van een 100 meter grote meteoroïde beschreven. Waarschijnlijk moeten we rekening houden met een frequentie voor een inslag van die omvang van één keer om de duizend tot vijfduizend jaar.”
Er blijft een kleine kans bestaan dat de meteoriet effectief het aardoppervlak heeft geraakt en dat de sporen daarvan in de loop van de voorbije vierhonderdduizend jaar letterlijk zijn ondergesneeuwd. In dat geval bevindt de impactkrater zich wellicht onder een flinke laag ijs. Toekomstig onderzoek kan daar eventueel uitsluitsel over geven. “De kans is redelijk klein”, denkt Goderis. “Maar niet helemaal onbestaand. Waar we wel zeker van zijn, is dat we de sporen van de thermische impact die zo’n explosie heeft veroorzaakt beter in kaart zullen kunnen brengen. Ook de schokgolf die na de explosie volgde, zal waarschijnlijk ergens sporen zal hebben nagelaten.”
Het onderzoek werd gepubliceerd in Science Advances onder de titel ‘A large meteoritic event over Antarctica ca. 430 ka ago inferred from chondritic spherules from the Sør Rondane Mountains’. Hoofdauteur is Matthias van Ginneken, nu aan de Universiteit van Kent maar destijds voor het onderzoek verbonden aan de VUB. Het onderzoek werd mede mogelijk gemaakt door de logistieke ondersteuning vanuit het Belgische Prinses Elisabethstation op Antarctica, en de financiële ondersteuning door het federaal wetenschapsbeleid (Belspo).
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