Cosmic rays could scar the heart, raising risks for Mars-bound astronauts, rat study hints

Rats that were exposed to radiation similar to what Mars-bound astronauts might face showed higher levels of scar tissue in their hearts, indicating they were more vulnerable to heart failure.

By Helena Kudiabor Edited byLaura Mondragón, Brandon Specktor

Exposure to space radiation may increase astronauts' risk of a dangerous heart condition, a new study in rats hints.

The research, published Sept. 30 in the journal PLOS One, found that rats exposed to levels of radiation similar to what an astronaut might experience on a long-term trip to Mars developed more scar tissue around the small blood vessels of their hearts than rats that were not exposed to this radiation. This scar tissue is indicative of a condition known as cardiac fibrosis, which is known to increase the risk of heart failure.

This scar tissue was observed nearly a year after the rats were first exposed to the radiation.

But since this study was in rats, it cannot definitively say whether this effect will play out in humans. For example, given that humans have a longer life expectancy than rats (80 years versus 2 to 4 years), the effects seen in rats may take around 30 years to show up in humans. However, the study authors say the research highlights the importance of following astronauts' health long after they return to Earth.

"The message that we try to convey … is that the follow-up time is really important," study co-author John Baker, a professor of surgery in the Radiation Bioscience Laboratory at the Medical College of Wisconsin, told Live Science. "When astronauts come back to the Earth, they expect ‪—‬ and we expect ‪—‬ that they're going to live for a long time. I think we have to be wary that they could well develop at least some type of cardiac disease."

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How space radiation affects the heart

The link between exposure to radiation and cardiac issues has been well documented. However, "no astronaut has ever been exposed to galactic cosmic radiation for long periods of time," Baker said, which makes it difficult to determine exactly how space radiation affects the heart.

Although Baker and his team previously pinpointed cardiac issues among rats exposed to radiation, this new study utilized NASA's Simulated Galactic Cosmic Ray Simulation (SimGCRSim). This new simulator provides a more precise comparison of the levels of space radiation an astronaut might experience while exploring deep space for more than a year.

During the study, the researchers exposed rats to several minutes of radiation proportionate to their size, similar to what they might experience on a trip to Mars and back (a roughly 18-month round trip, with current technology). Some of the rats' hind legs were suspended, to "simulate conditions of weightlessness," Baker said.

After 360 days, the rats that were exposed to cosmic radiation developed twice as much scar tissue around the heart's small blood vessels than unexposed rats. This buildup of scar tissue means "the heart can't relax to the point when it needs to," thereby increasing the risk of heart failure, Baker said.

This effect was not seen in the rats who were exposed only to simulated weightlessness, confirming "it was only the radiation that produced the damaging effect on the heart," Baker said. However, long-term testing revealed that this group of rats had lower levels of key immune cells, suggesting that microgravity also may affect aspects of long-term health. (Numerous studies have shown various short-term health impacts related to microgravity.)

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This study "is a very valuable contribution to space biology," Rupak Pathak, an associate professor of pharmaceutical science at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences who was not involved in the study but holds a doctorate in radiation biology, told Live Science. While rats and humans have clear differences, "they share more than 90% of genetic information," he said, as well as very similar cardiac systems.

Given that the study authors were able to expose the rats to radiation only once, Pathak would like to see further experiments exploring whether chronic radiation exposure affects the function of the heart and other vital organs.

Baker and his colleagues hope that future experiments can be used to help NASA implement safeguards for astronauts on long-term missions, such as providing astronauts heart medications or improving shielding for the spacecraft.

"The more we know before we start, then the better NASA is going to be at working out what types of countermeasures can be developed," said Baker.

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Will disclosure come from the sea? Newly released Catalina Island files raise UAP questions about alien life

UFO researcher and filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee believes newly released UAP files documenting unexplained sightings over California's Catalina Island could support the theory that answers about alien activity may lie beneath the ocean rather than in the skies.

UFO investigator Mark Christopher Lee

UFO researcher and filmmaker Mark Christopher Lee believes alien disclosure could come from what has been lurking under the sea.

Lee has highlighted recently released Department of War files from PURSUE Release 07 that document a cluster of UAP reports over Catalina Island, California, between 1949 and 1955.

Lee, who has made a series of documentary films about alien life, including The Rendlesham UFO: The British Roswell and The King of UFOs, argues these historical cases, combined with long-standing USO activity off the California coast, strengthen the case that meaningful disclosure may ultimately emerge from the ocean rather than the sky alone.

The Release 07 documents include Air Intelligence Information Reports and unresolved case files detailing silver "flying saucers" observed by Boy Scouts near Camp Fox in 1952, described as moving faster than a conventional jet before climbing and apparently disintegrating; a 1953 sighting of a round purplish-white object that remained stationary before heading northwest towards Los Angeles; and an earlier report of multiple objects seen singly over the island in 1949. The reports remain unexplained, although the 1953 file lists Jupiter as a possible explanation and the 1949 report states there was insufficient data for evaluation.

He said: "These Catalina files aren’t isolated curiosities. They sit in one of the most active stretches of water for USO reports on the planet. While the public focuses on the recent silent black triangle sightings, the older Catalina material points to something that has been operating in and around the ocean for decades. We’ve spent seventy years looking up. The real answers may be under the waves.”

Lee drew a direct connection to the ongoing work of retired US Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, former acting NOAA Administrator and Oceanographer of the Navy.

Gallaudet has publicly argued that some UAP activity involves transmedium craft operating in both air and water and has testified about the seriousness of the phenomenon. He has also described proprietary high-resolution bathymetric surveys in the Atlantic that a research team believes contain features corresponding to Plato's account of Atlantis. However, the location and underlying data have not been made public, and there has been no independent confirmation that the features are linked to Atlantis.

Lee continued: "Gallaudet brings institutional credibility to what many of us have argued for years: the ocean is not a side note in the UAP question - it may be central. If his team is mapping sites that align with ancient descriptions while the government is releasing decades-old Catalina reports that never got properly investigated, the two threads are pointing in the same direction. Disclosure might not arrive as a press conference about the sky. It might arrive when we finally start looking seriously at what’s under the water.”

Lee noted that previous AARO historical reviews found no confirmed evidence of extraterrestrial technology, and that the Catalina cases, like other unresolved UAP reports, remain subjects of uncertainty. AARO's 2024 historical report found no evidence that any US government investigation or official review had confirmed a UAP sighting represented extraterrestrial technology, while noting that many reports remained unresolved.

He has called for independent oceanographic and archival follow-up on the Catalina cluster, greater attention to USO data, and transparency around any government or private surveys of anomalous underwater features.

• The full PURSUE Release 07 files are available at war.gov/UFO.

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A visual representation of an unidentified flying object released by the FBI on Oct. 23, 2026, with a red circle annotation by Gizmodo

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Earlier this year, federal agents somewhere in the western U.S. observed a mysterious triangular aircraft hovering over an unnamed site that’s sensitive to national security, according to new documents released by the Pentagon. The matte black craft was completely silent and zipped around as fast as a fighter jet, according to a witness, who described it as “resembling a delta wing drone.”

The craft was estimated to be somewhere between 13 and 15 feet in wingspan with a 6-9 foot fuselage length, according to the Department of Defense document made public Friday. The vertical thickness of the craft was estimated to be, at most, just one or two feet, according to the Department of Defense.

“The unidentified craft maintained a completely fixed horizontal alignment [which] did not tilt, sway, or wobble during the controlled vertical ascent of approximately ten seconds,” the DOD report explains. “It climbed to an altitude of an estimated 200 to 300 feet above the local ridge line. Upon reaching this altitude, the craft instantaneously arrested all vertical motion and entered a stable hover for an estimated twenty seconds.”

The craft then “transitioned from a zero-velocity state directly into high-speed horizontal flight,” and managed to execute “a fluid banking maneuver and terrain-hugging descent into a canyon drainage in approximately two to three seconds.” The report notes that once the craft was banking, its “silhouette appeared to flatten and present as a more triangle.”

The FBI report on the incident includes nine images, which feature landscape photos and a black triangle that moves when they’re viewed together as though part of a flipbook. The report doesn’t indicate whether the images are authentic photos or artistic renditions.

Gizmodo ran the images through SynthID.com, which is used to detect invisible watermarks when an image is made with AI image tools from OpenAI and Google. The images did not contain the SynthID watermark, though they could have been made with a different company’s tools or made with basic Photoshop-style editing software.

“The two primary witnesses reported no physiological effects,” the report explains. “There were no reports of (but not limited to) disorientation, nausea, headache, dermal sensation, visual disturbance, memory gap, or other anomalous sensory phenomena. No anomalous odors were noted. No electromagnetic interference, signal degradation, or anomalous sensor readings were recorded on personal or agency equipment.”

The newly released reports are part of periodic Pentagon releases related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), more commonly known historically as UFOs. The first releases were broadly hyped, but they’ve rendered very few answers about the central question: Are these aircraft otherworldly or simply high-tech advancements from near-peer geopolitical adversaries like China?

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Steven Spielberg Thinks UFOs Might Just Be Humans Travelling Back From 500,000 Years In The Future

In his 2023 interview with Stephen Colbert, the filmmaker considered future humans returning to study their own history

Steven Spielberg discussed UFOs, extraterrestrial life and the possibility of future human visitors during the 2023 TV interview with Stephen Colbert

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Steven Spielberg speculated in a 2023 interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show that UFOs could be humans travelling back from 500,000 years in the future to study their own history.

The conversation addressed reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, in North American skies. The filmmaker expressed fascination with the sightings and concern about what he regarded as a lack of transparency surrounding them, calling for closer examination of what was happening.

At the time of the interview, Spielberg told Colbert he had never seen a UFO himself. His future humans theory was an imaginative possibility, rather than a claim that he had identified the objects or established evidence of time travel.

Steven Spielberg Imagines Visitors Studying Their Own Past

The filmmaker's suggestion recast the visitors as anthropologists. Instead of arriving from a distant civilisation elsewhere in the universe, they might be human descendants returning to examine the lives of earlier generations.

He imagined people from '500,000 years in the future' documenting the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st century. In that scenario, objects recorded by military cameras would be connected to an investigation of humanity's own past.

'And they know something we don't quite know, yet, that has occurred, and they're trying to track the last hundred years of our history?' he told Colbert.

The proposed reason for returning was historical research. Spielberg's speculation also raised the possibility that those visitors would have knowledge unavailable to the people whose lives they were documenting.

Colbert drew attention to the optimistic implication of that explanation. Under Spielberg's theory, he observed, 'we survive'.

Spielberg qualified that optimism with the suggestion that 'a certain percentage of us survive that allows these other generations to flourish'.

Steven Spielberg Considers Life Beyond Earth

The director of E.T. and Close Encounters also expressed a broader conviction that intelligent life exists beyond Earth. He presented that belief alongside a difficulty he saw in explaining how visitors could cross the distances involved.

'I don't believe we're alone in the universe. I think it's mathematically impossible that we are the only intelligent species in the cosmos. I think that's totally impossible'.

He described a visit from 400 million light-years away as seemingly impossible outside films, unless travellers could find a way to reach Earth through wormholes. Both the distance and the proposed means of crossing it formed part of his speculation.

Spielberg qualified his authority on the subject, telling Colbert, 'I'm not an astrophysicist'.

He approached the discussion as a filmmaker employing his imagination and as someone curious about UFOs. His interest extended beyond the objects themselves to questions about what information had been disclosed.

'I think what has been coming up recently is fascinating, just absolutely fascinating', Spielberg told Colbert.

He called for extraordinary due diligence over the sightings and criticised what he regarded as secrecy surrounding them. Those comments expressed his concerns about disclosure, rather than establishing an explanation for the phenomena.

Steven Spielberg Favours Curiosity Over an Alien Attack

Colbert also framed the discussion through two of Spielberg's films, questioning whether an encounter with extraterrestrial visitors would more closely resemble E.T. or War of the Worlds.

Spielberg favoured the less hostile possibility. His reasoning concerned the motives he imagined for a civilisation capable of reaching Earth, rather than any established account of alien visitors.

'I believe that if any extraterrestrial civilisation has journeyed all the way here its because of curiosity and science and its not about aggression'.

He extended that reasoning to the restraint he imagined such visitors would have exercised.

'And the fact they've been this patient with us and haven't turned the Earth into a burnt-out cinder is extraordinary – you have to applaud them'.

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Democrats Reportedly Prepare UFO Disclosure Committee Because Whistleblowers Do Not 'Trust Another President'

Indiana Congressman Andre Carson says a key historical UAP report has been delayed for almost two years, though the proposed panel remains conditional and its scope is unclear

Indiana congressman Andre Carson has questioned delayed UAP records, as Democrats reportedly consider a select committee if they win the US House 

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Democrats are weighing the creation of a UFO disclosure committee in the US House of Representatives if they regain control in the midterm elections, amid claims a key Pentagon report on historical sightings has been held back for almost two years.

Indiana congressman Andre Carson is leading the reported push, arguing that federal records on unidentified anomalous phenomena are overdue for release.

Carson chaired a congressional hearing on unidentified flying objects in 2022. He now argues that efforts to obtain information about unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, have fallen short of requirements already established by Congress. The proposal remains conditional rather than a formally announced committee.

UFO Disclosure Push Focuses on a Delayed Pentagon Report

Carson has singled out a historical records report from the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which handles UAP reporting and investigations. He claims the document has been delayed for almost two years, despite legislative requirements intended to improve scrutiny of the subject.

'Unfortunately, the current administration has not been fully transparent on UAP and has slow walked several of the statutory requirements Congress established for UAP disclosure. For example, the Department of Defense's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office was established to receive, analyze, and resolve UAP reporting — but it has delayed the release of a key historical UAP record report for almost two years.'

The Indiana Democrat told the Post that the material should address historical sightings, the way incidents were examined and the possible involvement of classified programmes. One question is whether relevant activities were properly communicated to lawmakers, rather than remaining outside congressional oversight.

He described its intended scope as including 'how incidents were investigated, the role of classified programs, and whether relevant activities were appropriately disclosed to Congress.'

Carson did not identify the report by title or specify the deadlines he believes officials missed. Those omissions leave the precise document and the timing of its expected release unclear.

UFO Disclosure Plans Could Sharpen Party Rivalry

Although the proposed panel would depend on Democrats taking control of the House, interest in UAP records is not confined to one party. President Donald Trump has also directed federal agencies, including NASA, to identify and release government files relating to UFOs.

The Post cited unnamed Republican insiders who fear a Democratic select committee could take political credit for disclosures that might otherwise be associated with the Trump administration. Their concern relates to which political figures would oversee and announce any release, not proof that the records contain evidence of extraterrestrial activity.

A caucus and a select committee would also be different initiatives. The reported proposal includes both, but the available account does not establish their membership, formal powers or a schedule for setting them up.

UFO Disclosure Concerns Extend to the Next President

David Grusch, who has appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast, has raised a different concern about the timing. He fears a future president may be less willing to allow the release of information, expressing the view, 'I don't trust another president'.

That is distinct from Carson's stated objection to delays under the current administration. Neither concern establishes what any unreleased document contains, or whether a change in congressional control would compel its publication.

Rogan also questioned the timing of UFO disclosures in May, suggesting that renewed attention to the subject could distract from criticism surrounding the Iran War. His suspicion was not presented with evidence linking any disclosure decision to military events.

For now, Carson's proposed congressional effort depends on an electoral outcome, while the historical report at the centre of his complaint has not been identified by name or accompanied by a confirmed publication date.

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Democrats plan UFO disclosure committee as Trump trust wanes

Locked in a big game of disclosure chess.

Blue and red chess pieces locked in UAP disclosure checkmate.

Image by Cybernews.

Marcus Walsh  - Journalist

Key takeaways

1. Democrats have drafted a plan for a House UAP committee if they regain Congress.
2. Andre Carson says the current administration has delayed legal requirements for UAP disclosure.
3. David Grusch argues UFO disclosure should not depend on one president.
4. Reddit users questioned whether either party would deliver faster UFO transparency.

A UFO flying through the cosmos.

Image by Cybernews.

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Number of mysterious drones flying over defence bases rises as authorities in the dark

Yashee Sharma

Authorities are in the dark about who is behind the major jump in the number of unidentified drones flying over Australian Defence Force bases in what has been described as a national security threat.

Defence officials told a Senate committee the reports of unidentified drone sightings over bases have risen from 19 in 2022-23 to 204 in 2025-26.

Classic Hornets take of at Williamtown RAAF base for operation in 2014. Several unidentified drones breached the base’s airspace earlier this year.

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These added to a total of about 420 sightings over the past four financial years.

In the financial year to date, which started on July 1, there has already been 42 reports.

Asked how many of the incidents were just “a silly teenager” and how many were foreign interference or espionage, the defence officials were unable to say.

“I can say we’re working really closely on the motivations,” the official said.

“We haven’t identified particular high-end concerns but we are very concerned that this is a growing challenge.”

Australian Strategic Policy Institute defence expert Malcolm Davis said the rising number of unidentified drones was “absolutely” a national security threat.

“The risk is there’s not so much some amateur flying a drone over a base creating an incident,” he said.

“It’s the possibility that you could have a foreign adversary or a terrorist organisation utilising drones to actually attack one of our bases.”

The Williamtown RAAF Base, home to fighter jets and aircraft about 30km north of Newcastle in NSW, made headlines after unidentified drones were found to have breached the restricted airspace on two separate occasions in July and August.

Defence personnel did not shoot the drones down and investigations are still ongoing to determine their origins.

Defence officials flagged the current legal framework was “not straightforward” about their powers in responding to these incidents.

Davis said the incident showed how easy it could have been to damage aircraft and infrastructure and pointed to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb.

The covert military operation had caused damage to multimillion-dollar Russian military assets after cheap drones were unleashed in a surprise attack in July 2025.

“Drones are cheap. They can be armed with explosives. They can do real damage,” Davis said.

At the time of the Williamtown base incident, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it was “unsafe and dangerous” to have drones around defence airspace.

While small and relatively cheap, drones can cause significant damage and have become a defining feature of the war in Ukraine. 

AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky

“It makes no sense for that to occur,” he said.

Legislation to grant defence members the ability to shoot down any unidentified drones was introduced in October.

Shadow defence minister James Paterson said it should not have taken so many months of pressure for the federal government to finally act and bring forward those reforms.

“The Coalition has been raising the alarm on drone attacks on our major defence infrastructure for many months, particularly our RAAF bases,” he said.

Australia will spend a record $425 billion over the next decade to overhaul the defence force.

About $22 billion has been spent on counter-drone technology and $7 billion on counter-drone investment over the decade.

Davis called on the federal government to fast-track its investment into counter-drone defences.

“At the , I think that we’re only just starting to wake up to this threat and the government is moving way too slowly to remomentspond to this threat,” he said.

“We don’t have 10 years to think about a capability solution and then buy it. We’ve got to get this in place within 12 months.”

In a statement, an Australian government spokesperson said “modern threats demand modern laws”.

“Protecting Defence personnel, critical infrastructure and sensitive capabilities has never been more important.

“The legislation builds on the Albanese government’s previous regulatory changes and provides Defence with enduring authority to respond to drone incursions.

“Defence must be able to protect its people, bases and capabilities against a range of rapidly evolving threats.”

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Ariyuanhas & Adrieiuous — The Alleged Pleiadian Prisoner Photographs — United States — 1972

Ariyuanhas & Adrieiuous — United States — 1972

In 2010, YouTube user startraveler2000 uploaded a video titled “real human aliens” showing a series of photographs said to depict two human-looking extraterrestrials named Ariyuanhas and Adrieiuous.

The pair were described as a woman and her son from the Pleiades who had allegedly been taken into United States military custody in 1972.

The photographs were describeed as being taken by a military intake specialist.

Ariyuanhas was identified as the adult woman shown throughout the photographs. According to the account, she was between 78 and 100 years old in Earth years, although she appeared to be approximately 30.

She was described as having very light blue eyes, large pupils and slightly pointed ears. Material associated with the case identified her as a scientist and gave her origin as the Pleiades constellation.

The story stated that Ariyuanhas and her son had arrived on Earth after their spacecraft made an emergency landing while they were searching for Adrieiuous’ father. The pair were allegedly intercepted by the United States military and taken to a secret facility, where they were held separately.

During her confinement, Ariyuanhas reportedly stopped speaking and eating, although she continued to drink water. She allegedly did not request to see her son because the two were capable of communicating telepathically.

The inscribed text box reads:

SPECIES: HUMAN/CELEST
GENDER: FEMALE
STATS: 7FT-3IN/143LBS/BLUE EYES/
AGE: 78-100
LOCATION: BLOCK 9, CELL 16, BLK-SPY
ORIGIN: PLEIADES CONSTELLATION
THREAT LEVEL: NON THREATENING
LANGUAGE: NON VERBAL COMM
TITLE: SCIENCE
DATE OF CUSTODY: 05121972
CRAFT: MURCURY/STA-ELECT/DISK
REG NUMBER: 5127209016

The Arm Markings

One of the most distinctive elements in the surviving material is a series of dark markings visible across Ariyuanhas’ left forearm.

According to the accompanying account, the symbols represented a constellation of stars.

Adrieiuous

Adrieiuous was identified as Ariyuanhas’ son and appears separately in the surviving photographs.

He was described as being between 19 and 28 years old, despite physically resembling a boy of approximately eight to ten. Unlike his mother, Adrieiuous reportedly spoke with guards, ate food and participated in testing.

The story claimed that an intelligence test produced a score of approximately 210.

The pair were said to have remained in custody for approximately two years before eventually being permitted to leave in their spacecraft.

The inscribed text box reads:

SPECIES: HUMAN/CELEST
GENDER: MALE
STATS: 5FT-11IN, 89LBS, BLUE EYES
AGE: 19-28
LOCATION: BLOCK 9, CELL 15, BLK SPY

Detention Information

A custody date of 05.12.1972 was associated with the case. The surviving material does not establish whether this was intended as May 12 or December 5, 1972.

A later summary of the same account listed Ariyuanhas as approximately 2.22 meters tall, with blue eyes and an apparent age in her early thirties, while Adrieiuous was listed as approximately 1.56 meters tall and physically resembling an eight- to ten-year-old child. The same summary repeated the claim that the two had been held separately and communicated telepathically.

Provenance

The earliest source currently located for the photographs is the YouTube video “real human aliens,” uploaded by startraveler2000.

No identified photographer, original negatives, military archive, authenticated detention records or earlier publication of the photographs has been located.

The identities of the people shown in the photographs remain unverified.

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Steven Greer’s CE-5 Alien Photographs — Andromedan Ambassador “Bijou,” the Light Being, the Mt. Shasta Being & the Healer — 2009–2017

Steven Greer

Steven M. Greer is an American physician and UFO researcher who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) in 1990. He later established the Disclosure Project, focused on testimony concerning UFOs and alleged extraterrestrial activity.

Greer also developed the CE-5 contact protocols, intended to facilitate human-initiated contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. During CSETI and CE-5 expeditions, Greer and members of his groups have produced several photographs claimed to show extraterrestrial beings.

Bijou — November 17, 2009

During a CSETI expedition at Joshua Tree National Park, California, on November 17, 2009, CSETI member Raven Nabulsi photographed an area beside the group’s chairs at approximately 11:31 p.m.

CSETI released the photograph publicly in 2010, describing the figure as an extraterrestrial being encountered during the contact event.

The original account did not identify the figure as Bijou or describe it as Andromedan. Greer later presented the same figure as “Bijou,” an ambassador from the Andromeda Galaxy.

The Light Being — February 2010

In February 2010, CSETI member Emery Smith photographed a small luminous humanoid-shaped figure during a contact event at Boca Grande, Florida. The image became known as the “Light Being” and was also catalogued in Greer’s archive as a “Crystalline ET.”

The photograph was subsequently included among the CE-5 and extraterrestrial photographs presented through Greer’s organization.

The Mt. Shasta Being — 2011

Another alleged entity photograph was presented by Greer from a CE-5 event at Mt. Shasta, California, in 2011.

Greer later displayed the photograph while discussing alleged extraterrestrial contact during CE-5 events.

The surviving presentation identifies the location and year as Mt. Shasta, California — 2011. The photographer is not identified in the source material currently located.

The Healer — May 2017

A third alleged entity was photographed by David Marconi, the screenwriter and director known for writing Enemy of the State, during a CE-5 expedition near Oracle, Arizona, held from May 23–29, 2017.

According to Greer, Marconi had a Nikon camera mounted on a tripod when the group noticed what appeared to be a red orb near an older man seated in the contact circle. Greer asked Marconi to photograph the area.

Greer described the figure as having a large head, a beak-like nose and mouth, and what appeared to be a feathery garment. He said members of the group had heard the entity moving behind them despite not seeing it with the naked eye.

Greer referred to the entity as “The Healer,” stating that it had allegedly appeared during other encounters. He also claimed that the older man photographed beside it had suffered severe hearing loss since his youth and awoke the following morning with his hearing restored

Sources

• Steven Greer — Joshua Tree, November 17, 2009
• Steven Greer — CSETI Contact with ET Being, June 2010
• Steven Greer — Light Being, Boca Grande, February 2010
• CE5 Podcast — Raven Nabulsi
• Steven Greer interview — The Healer account

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