Secret UFO files of the Italian Air Force subject of new book

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UFOs- The Italian Dossier book cover. (Credit: Ugo Mursia Editore)

Two Italian journalists have scoured newly declassified files of the Italian Air Force in order to find the juiciest UFO files for their new book, UFO, I dossier italiani (UFOs – The Italian Dossier).

Italian journalists Lao Petrilli and Vincenzo Sinapi say they looked through thousands of documents to find UFO reports from all over Italy. They say reports came in from all types of people, including airline pilots, jet fighter pilots, the police, military, and even priests.

The files were previously stamped as Secret or Confidential, and have been saved for reference in regards to flight safety. They say many of the files were previously unpublished.

The records begin in the 70s, although according to the Italian newspaper Il Mattino, the Italian Air Force began investigating UFOs in the 50s. Another Italian newspaper, Gazzeta Di Parma, says the book includes 56 UFO reports from the last 4 years, “with a real boom in 2010 (22 cases) and a decline in 2011 (17) and 2012 (10).”

Il Mattino summarized some of the sightings from the Campania region of Southern Italy, whose capital is the city of Naples. One of these was in the town of Grazzanise, the home of one of Italy’s most important military airports. On February 8, 2005, a flight controller registered a UFO on radar. A C130 transport aircraft flying in the area confirmed the presence of the UFO.

Italian Air Force C-130. (Credit: Arpingstone/Wikimedia Commons)

Another case in Campania took place in the town of Cesa on June 15, 2011 at 4:37 pm. A 27 year-old student and his mother were awoken by a loud noise. The student says they saw a bright glowing ball outside their window. He went to the balcony to get a close look.

The ball hovered only a few feet away, near the ground, illuminating their garden. The object then moved in a zigzag pattern and shot upwards and vanished. The incident lasted two minutes. The student described the object as “an electrical discharge like a lightning bolt.”

The Facebook page for the book also lists some of the sightings. One of them was seen by passengers of an Alpieagles airlines aircraft. The pilot says that they were headed from Palermo to Naples International Airport in a Fokker 100 jet. They were beginning to descend into the airport when an orange and white UFO flew by going the opposite direction.

Alpieagle Fokker 100 commercial airliner. (Credit: Marcell Torre/Planespotters.net)

Gazzeta Di Parma highlighted a few stories from the book from 2013 reported by the military. The first was in Rome at the beginning of the year. A medical officer reported seeing several elliptical lights traveling at “various heights, course and speed.” He watched them for 50 minutes before they disappeared.

In May, two men reported seeing “an object of diamond-shaped dark-colored, suspended about 50 meters high.” The sighting took place in St. George Albanian. They say the object eventually flew into the ground causing a fire. There was no trace of the UFO found.

UFO seen by military personnel at Campoformido (Udine) August 12, 1974. This is one of the witness drawings

In 2013, a restaurateur in Chiesa spotted a bowling pin shaped object in the sky that he was afraid to report. However, to his surprise, the police station commander said he had seen the same thing in August, 2012 with two children.

Other sightings in 2013 included triangle shaped objects near Rome and Soncino, as well as a fleet of UFOs seen by a young man in Cremona. Gazzeta Di Parma listed other dates with short descriptions of the 56 sightings from the last four years included in the book.

Petrilli and Sinapi say they did not evaluate the sightings, they just give the facts. However, the sightings are of cases that have thus far gone unexplained.

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UFO mania: The Eerie Alaskan Pyramid Investigated (Video)

N.Morgan) An amazing mystery that has resurfaced is the 14,000 year old pyramid unearthed in structure at Gobekli Tepi in Turkey would have been considered impossible by archaeologists.Similarly, to this day some Egyptologists dispute the true age of the Sphinx, which has been confirmed by geologists.There are many mysteries about Gobekli Tepi, chief among them the fact that its creators expended even more effort to bury it than they did to build it. Remarkably a similar pyramid was unearthed near Mount McKinley in Alaska. The video presentation below gives an astounding account of this mystery and what it means for archeology.

TRIANGLE UFO MOVES SLOWLY OVER CALIFORNIA ROOFTOP

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MYSTERIOUS ALIEN LIGHT BUZZES AIR FORCE RECON AIRCRAFT

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MYSTERIOUS ALIEN LIGHT BUZZES AIR FORCE RECON AIRCRAFT

 JULY 1975  …..   GULF COAST

These six men were on a training/test exercise in an RB-47H electronic countermeasures reconnaissance aircraft. The RB-47, while originally developed as a bomber, was also used extensively as a reconnaissance aircraft. One was shot down by the Soviet Union while on such a mission in 1960.  This particular mission began at Forbes AFB in Topeka, Kansas as an exercise including gunnery exercises over the Texas-Gulf area, navigation exercises over the open Gulf, and Electronic CounterMeasures exercises on the return trip across the south-central U.S.  The men participating were soon to depart for Germany and duty there. It should be noted that the ECM equipment was not radar. It did not emit a signal and then pick up reflected echoes off of an object. Rather, it detected electromagnetic signals that were actually emitted by an object itself. The purpose of this was to detect and locate enemy radar installations. On this aircraft, the #2 monitor consisted of a direction finder with antenna on the lower rear of the aircraft, and the #1 monitor consisted of a direction finder with antennas on each wingtip of the aircraft. The #3 monitor was not involved in the events of July 17, because its range did not include the frequencies involved. The first contact with the unknown object was before 4:00 AM CST. The first two parts of the mission had been completed, and the aircraft was just leaving the airspace over the Gulf of Mexico near Gulfport, Mississippi, when Frank McClure, on the #2 ECM monitor, detected an airborne signal to the right rear of the aircraft, out over the Gulf of Mexico. The signal was of a type usually confined to ground-based radar installations. It was at 2800 megacycles, a common frequency for S-band search radar. McClure at first thought that his scope must be 180° out of alignment and that he must be picking up a ground-based radar station in Louisiana, which would actually be to the left front of the aircraft. As he watched, the signal moved up the scope, as it would if the scope was 180° out of alignment. However, he was amazed to see that, after it had moved up the scope on the right-hand side of the aircraft, it then crossed the path of the RB-47 and proceeded to move down the scope on the left-hand side. In other words, whatever was emitting the signal flew a ring around the RB-47, which was flying at approximately 500 mph. Even if the scope was 180° out of alignment, the signal source still moved completely around the aircraft, which no ground radar could do. McClure said and did nothing at this time, not mentioning the signal to the other crew members. The signal faded as they flew north.

The RB-47 made a scheduled turn to the west over Jackson, Mississippi and the crew was preparing to begin a series of simulated ECM operations against Air Force ground radar units, when suddenly the pilot, Lewis Chase, saw a light coming in from the left, at approximately the same altitude as the RB-47. At first he thought it was another plane, but it was only a single white light, closing fast. He gave the command to prepare for evasive maneuvers, but the light flashed across from left to right so fast that no such action could have been taken. It then blinked out at a point to the right front of the aircraft. Both Chase and Copilot James McCoid observed this. At this point, approximately 4:10 AM CST, they were approximately over Winnsboro, Louisiana.  Chase told the other crewmembers what he had seen, and McClure now told him about his earlier signal reading. At 4:30 AM, McClure set his scope to detect signals near 3000 mcs again, and he detected a strong signal at the same location in relation to the RB-47 that Chase had last seen the light. He and Provenzano checked the alignment of the #2 monitor by tuning in on known ground radar installations and found it to be in perfect working order. At 4:30 AM, Provenzano tuned his own monitor, #1, to 3000 mcs, and found that his equipment detected a signal at the same location. What’s more, he and McClure found that the signal was staying in the same position, keeping pace with the RB-47, which was still flying at 500 mph. This meant that it was not a signal from a ground-based radar.

By this time they had reached the Duncanville, Texas area. At 4:39, Chase spotted a huge light to the right front of the RB-47 an about 5,000 feet below the aircraft’s 34,500 feet altitude. The weather was perfectly clear. At 4:40, McClure reported two signals, at 40° and 70°. Chase and McCoid reported seeing red lights at those locations. Chase contacted radar Station Utah at Duncanville, Texas and requested permission to abandon his flight plan and pursue the lights, which he received. At 4:48 AM, radar station Utah requested the position of the signals that McClure was receiving, and they immediately confirmed that their radar had detected the objects at the same location. As the RB-47 attempted to pursue, the object appeared to stop suddenly. Chase could see that they were gaining on it, and they over shot it.  At 4:52 it blinked out, and simultaneously vanished from McClure’s scope and the ground radar! Chase put the aircraft into a port turn, and the object suddenly blinked on again, simultaneously reappearing on McClure’s scope and the ground radar at 4:52! They began to close to within 5 miles of the object, when it suddenly dropped to 15,000 feet and then blinked out again, once again vanishing from the scopes and ground radar. At 4:55, Chase radioed Utah radar station that they had to break of pursuit and continue with their scheduled flight plan due to low fuel. At 4:57 McClure picked up the signal again, and at 4:58 Chase made visual contact again. As they headed into Oklahoma, McClure continued to receive a signal, now from the rear of the aircraft, until it finally faded as they neared Oklahoma City. The Director of Intelligence, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, stated in his report that he had: …no doubt the electronic D/F’s coincided exactly with visual observations by aircraft cmdr numerous times, thus indicating positively the object being the signal source. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

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Daily 2 Cents: New TV Series About Area 51 — Swedish ‘Rat From Hell’ — Cell Tower Vanishes!

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X-Files creator producing new series about Area 51

AMC announced that Chris Carter, best known for creating the science-fiction drama The X-Files, is now attached to a dramatic television series about the notorious top secret military installation known as Area 51.

The network ordered a pilot episode for this series back in July 2012. And, at that time, it was announced that series would be based on a book titled Area 51, an uncensored history of America’s TOP SECRET military base by Annie Jacobsen. Judging by AMC’s recently announced slate of new programming, that basis has not changed. But the project has reportedly now officially moved into development.

The Hollywood Reporter describes the series as “A contemporary conspiracy thriller revealing the true story behind the infamous Area 51, America’s most mysterious military installation.” And the working title for the series is simply Area 51.

Carter is coming aboard the show as its writer and executive producer. He joins The Walking Dead executive producer Gale Anne Hurd who was already attached to the project.

Jacobsen’s 2011 book is controversial because she makes many questionable assertions. Most notably is the inclusion of an explanation for what crashed near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. She claims an anonymous witness informed her that the craft recovered at Roswell was actually an advanced German aircraft, and that the bodies recovered from the crash were children that had been mutilated by infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. This craft was allegedly ordered over the U.S. by Joseph Stalin, hoping to trick Americans into thinking it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft, which would result in a mass panic similar to the one caused by the 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds.

It was originally announced that Jacobsen would serve as a co-producer of the show. There has been no word about whether that is still the case as the show moves into full development. – OpenMinds

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Swedes catch 40cm ‘rat from hell’ in their kitchen

A Stockholm family was horrified to find a monster “viking” rat living in their kitchen. Pest controllers who were called in to catch the beast found it measured 40 centimetres (15 inches) – not including the tail. The family in Solna, north of Stockholm, had no idea what was in store when their pet cat was too scared to go into the kitchen. “We thought it could be a little mouse, but after a while we figured it couldn’t be because it was making too much noise,” Signe Bengtsson said.

Her worst fears were confirmed while emptying the rubbish a few days later when she saw a rat guzzling leftovers under the sink. “It was right there in our rubbish bin, a mighty monster. I was petrified. I couldn’t believe such a big rat could exist,” she said. “I couldn’t help but do the old classic and jump on the kitchen table and scream.” Her husband Erik Korsås who was away at the time was dubious that such an enormous rat could really be living in his kitchen. “When my wife called I said ‘Yeah, sure, take it easy, I’ll be home on Sunday. But by then it had jumped into the waste bin and had a Swedish smörgåsbord with all the leftovers,” he said.

As the rat made more appearances over the next day, the family took to stomping around as they passed the kitchen to ensure they wouldn’t meet the rat from hell again. “By the time I got home, the rat was so domesticated that it just sat under the kitchen table,” Korsås explained, adding that it had chewed through the water pipes connected to the dishwater and started a small flood. When the family saw the rat scurrying into a nook behind the dishwasher, they put the kitchen on lockdown and called the pest controllers, who arrived with three heavy-duty traps.

The rat was caught by the neck soon after, but didn’t die immediately and scurried away behind the dishwasher again. Bengtsson called her husband home to deal with the creature, which later died. He measured the rat to be 39.5 centimetres from nose to the start of its tail. “The kids were afraid it would come back to life as some sort of zombie rat. They didn’t want to touch it,” Korsås added. It turned out that the rat had found its way into the apartment cellars by chewing through cement and wood, the pest controllers explained. “It was quite a shocking experience,” Bengtsson added. “No one wanted to go into the kitchen after, and the cat was terrified for a week. The pest controllers said they’d never seen such a big rat before.” – The Local SE

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Yellowstone Park Volcano Dying?

Yellowstone Park is home to the largest volcano in the world. But, is this massive geological formation dying?

Ken Sims of the University of Wyoming led a research team to study the gigantic volcano at the Yellowstone Caldera. There, they sampled water and air near Mammoth Hot Springs. They also ran tests on water from the feature, looking at acidity in water samples and radon in the air. Sims looked at how gas and water mix as the rise from under the ground. By understanding these processes, researchers hope to improve techniques to predict eruptions.

According to the study, the supervolcano may be slowly dying out. The last time the volcano erupted was 70,000 years ago. That event was relatively small compared to previous eruptions, which occurred hundreds of thousands of years before that time.

Geologists believe an eruption of the supervolcano could send 2,000 times more debris into the air than Mount Saint Helen’s did when it erupted in 1980.
Conditions at the volcano have remained relatively steady since monitoring began 30 years ago, according to the National Park Service. Over 10,000 geysers, hot springs and mud pots help drain heat from the feature, which stretches over parts of three states. Rad more at Tech Times

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Cell Tower Vanishes!

10/22/2012: We were delivering newspapers in downtown Littlestown,Pa. on the eastern edge of town at about 4:45 AM,when we came to a stop sign facing south.At this time,we observed a configuration of white lights in a diamond shape with all the lights equal distant apart.The lights were solid white and at the top and bottom there was an additional white light that pulsated together like a heartbeat.All we could see was the lights.At first,we thought it was a celltower because they were stationary.After further thought we realized celltowers have RED lights,NOT white.We returned to the site about 5 minutes later and the lights were gone.We were really confused now.Why,if this was a celltower,did the lights go out?We returned to the site the next day after sunrise and found nothing but an EMPTY FIELD.NO structure,NO ANYTHING!!!To this day it bothers me greatly.I am a man who uses deductive reasoning to figure things out.THERE IS NO EXPLANATION FOR THIS.Whatever this was,it made no noise at all.It was approximately 400 feet from us and maybe 200 feet in altitude. I will never forget this experience EVER!I remember it like it happened yesterday. – MUFON CMS

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NASA Reveals: Massive Object ‘Lurking on Edge of Solar System

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Scientists using ground based observatories have discovered a dwarf planet that is believed to have the most distant orbit found beyond the known edge of our solar system. Named 2012 VP113

Our known solar system consists of the rocky planets like Earth, which are close to the sun; the gas giant planets, which are further out; and the frozen objects of the Kuiper belt, which lie just beyond Neptune’s orbit. Beyond this, there appears to be an edge to the solar system where only one object somewhat smaller than Pluto, Sedna, was previously known to inhabit for its entire orbit. But the newly found 2012 VP113 has an orbit that stays even beyond Sedna, making it the furthest known in the solar system.

Both Sedna and 2012 VP113 were found near their closest approach to the sun, but they both have orbits that go out to hundreds of AU, at which point they would be too faint to discover.  The similarity in the orbits found for Sedna, 2012 VP113 and a few other objects near the edge of the Kuiper Belt suggests the new object’s orbit might be influenced by the potential presence of a yet unseen planet perhaps up to 10 times the size of Earth. 

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Read more here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/03/26/rogue-planet-solar-system/6863655/

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“NASA Reveals: Massive Object ‘Lurking on Edge of Solar System” 

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UFO DIGEST NEWSLETTER MARCH 27, 2014 - WEEKLY NEWSLETTER

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This week I would like to thank The Examiner's Roger Marsh and Inexplicata's Scott Corrales for their continued support and sharing their articles with the UFODigest readers. Roger writes about MUFON sightings and other strange paranormal news. Roger's articles this week include green lasers, triangle UFOs and odd moving objects. Scott on the other hand reports on Latin America UFO occurrences. This week he disclosures a hoax, and reports on a UFO as large as two soccer stadiums! 

Next, Carolyn Shield writes about travel bans, sanctions and tensions on the International Space Station. Then, Nick Redfern writes about real information versus disinformation. Editor Robert Morningstar reviews 'Things Seen and Unseen' by Harold Egeln. Next, Doc Vega asks if UFO disclosure could be fabricated.The Syracuse New Times' Cheryl Costa examines a 1970 sighting where two alien pilots were seen! Paul Schroeder expounds on reincarnation and alien abductees. Author Jim Bowden writes about human extraterrestrials. Then, Richard Bonenfant shares his observations related to animal mutilations. Paul Dale Roberts examines the Bethel Island Haunting. Finally, Louis Hart writes about spring rites. I think he is optimistic. Click here for additional articles. Also see new videos at the bottom of these articles.  Enjoy Dirk

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GREEN LASER SCANS CALIFORNIA COUPLE'S HOME! by Roger Marsh.

A Hamilton City, CA, couple reported feeling an "extraterrestrial attempt" after watching a green laser grid-like pattern that appeared to be scanning their home, according to March 24, 2014, testimony in Case 54907 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. The couple was outside in their backyard about 10:30 p.m. on March 22, 2014, when they noticed the green laser "pulsating and scanning" the back side of their home. More... Also read: SILENT TRIANGLE UFO HOVERS OVER MARIETTA, GA Also read: WITNESS VIDEOS UFO MAKING INTELLIGENT MANEUVERS And read: LIGHT BEAM FROM TRIANGLE-UFO SURROUNDS ILLINOIS WITNESS

HERMOSILLO UFO WAS JUST A PRANK by Scott Corrales.

Mexico, Hermosillo, 11 March – An unidentified flying object caused hundreds of citizens to travel to the outskirts of the state capital of Sonora to see the lights that rose capriciously into the sky for three hours. In the end, it was just a prank. Around 19:00 hours, residents of several districts located to the south of Hermosillo reported seeing various multicolored lights flying in formation over the city. The word “OVNI” (UFO) quickly became a trending topic on Twitter and Facebook. More... Also read: A FLYING OBJECT AS LARGE AS TWO SOCCER STADIUMS

TRAVEL BANS AND SANCTIONS ANNOUNCED BY EU AND US CAUSES TENSIONS ON THE SPACE STATION by Carolyn Shield.

Travel Bans and sanctions announced by EU and US causes tensions on the Space Station. Today, it was announced by US and EU that sanctions have been placed on Russia. One wonders if the travel bans include scientists who travel to the ISS. The Russian crew and international crew members are placed in a difficult situation. Sanctions are a first step to declaring war on a nation. Russian’s assets are being confiscated by the EU and US. More...

UFOS, DISTINGUISHING REAL INFORMATION FROM DISINFORMATION by Nick Redfern.

My recent article on how the UFO subject (and specifically the issue of “alien bodies on ice“) has been used as a tool of disinformation has provoked a lot of people to email, Twitter and Facebook me on this thorny, controversial issue. And many of those same people seem to be missing the point. Hardly surprising, since disinformation is a murky mixture of fact and fiction. It’s chiefly designed to confuse the targeted individual or group – whether the Nazis during the Second World War, the Soviets at the height of the Cold War, or, in today’s world, maniacs who want to provoke terror. More...

UFO DIGEST BOOK REVIEW: LORIE BARNES' "THINGS SEEN & UNSEEN" By HAROLD EGELN by Robert Morningstar.

The dance of UFOs in the skies, the uncertain song of UFO contact and the mysterious theater of their performances prancing upon the human stage still puzzles the preplexed inhabitants of this world, Spaceship Earth. The close encounter experience is an incredibly diverse, challenging and enigmatic drama, both upfront and deeply subtle, without any definite answers. Many of its experiencers, straddling hidden whispery realms that shake them up, are exposed, unwilling or not, to an amazing wide variety of encounters. More...

1970 UFO SIGHTING HAD TWO BEINGS IN ALIEN COCKPIT by Cheryl Costa.

It was twilight on a warm Sunday evening in mid-June 1970 in East Aurora, NY. Patrick’s mom and sister were fussing with something in the garage, but eleven year old Patrick didn’t care about that. He was blissfully involved with shooting baskets in the driveway before bedtime. He was dribbling back to his shooting position when he noticed an odd light coming toward him. His first impression was that it was just a low flying airplane or maybe a helicopter. He thought to himself, that’s no big deal. More...

COULD UFO DISCLOSURE ACTUALLY BE FABRICATIONS? by Doc Vega.

In the long and convoluted history of the UFO enigma one must surely question not only the government’s cover-ups that have existed, but even if the supposed disclosures are more than meet the eye. With each new revelation are questions that should be posed. Are these, at times, vague or even fantastic depictions of extraterrestrial activity really authentic or are they an example of counter intelligence tactics? There are two very real possibilities in all this. 1) Either many of these crashes, sightings, and abductions are true 2) Perhaps these are false stories manufactured by government intelligence agencies to socially engineer society away from its belief in God, to accelerate social change, or to manipulate our core belief systems as a conditioning process for world government domination. More...

REINCARNATION AND ALIEN ABDUCTEES by Paul Schroeder.

Many tens of thousands of alien abductees the world over awaken in bed exhausted, to experience copious nosebleeds, yellow stains on their pillows, scars and scoop marks on their skin, subcutaneous implants and fearful, vivid recall of large eyed bug- like nonhuman entities, eyeball to eyeball, who are nighttime bedroom intruders and who pilot UFOs. More...

HUMAN EXTRATERRESTRIALS by Jim Bowden.

There are human extraterrestrials and they look like us. Their eyes are a little larger than ours and I assume that is the result of their physical evolution. They have been around far longer than the human species which we represent. In fact, they are our ancestors. I first met them in The Ringer. The Ringer is both a mental and physical extraterrestrial realm where I was taught, tested, tortured, tricked, and almost died on two occasions. More...

MORE SIGNIFICANT OBSERVATIONS RELATING TO ANIMAL MUTILATIONS by AJ.

The subject of animal mutilations is inherently distasteful, if not repugnant, to most people. It’s hard to imagine why anyone would inflict cruelty upon helpless creatures, especially those which are solely dependent upon us for their existence. Yet, there is considerable evidence to suggest that a deliberate and premeditated assault on both domestic and wild animals has been ongoing for several decades. Since livestock, particularly cattle, have been the most frequent victims of these mutilations, the phenomenon has come to be known as “cattle mutilations.” What is striking to this researcher is that so little progress has been made over the years in determining the nature and source of these mutilations. More...

THE HAUNTING OF BETHEL ISLAND by Paul Dale Roberts.

March 15, 2014, Saturday / Time to be there: 2pm. I received a total of 6 emails from citizens who have visited Bethel Island and claim to have witnessed paranormal activity. I received a very detailed email from a Kelsey Jarvis begging me to bring my team out there to investigate. The detailed email was written very well and I was going to incorporate his email into one of my articles. Guess what? I accidentally deleted his email, so Kelsey if you are reading this please send me that email again! We are going to Bethel Island! This scouting mission is dedicated to you! Where are we meeting? Island Joe's Cafe and Bakery, 6210 Bethel Island Road, Bethel Island, CA 94511. More...

SPRING RITES by Louis Hart.

Ah, springtime. I always look forward to the arrival of this season. It is such a special time of the year. Although things haven’t budded out up here in the mountains, indications are that soon that will change. In years past I often performed special rites in conjunction with the Spring Equinox. This year, however, I simply walked around making contact with Mother Earth and her Elementals. Especially with the element of air, to which I am closely associated. More...

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Dolphin whistle instantly translated by computer

by Hal Hodson

Software has performed the first real-time translation of a dolphin whistle – and better data tools are giving fresh insights into primate communication too

IT was late August 2013 and Denise Herzing was swimming in the Caribbean. The dolphin pod she had been tracking for the past 25 years was playing around her boat. Suddenly, she heard one of them say, "Sargassum".

"I was like whoa! We have a match. I was stunned," says Herzing, who is the director of the Wild Dolphin Project. She was wearing a prototype dolphin translator called Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry (CHAT) and it had just translated a live dolphin whistle for the first time.

It detected a whistle for sargassum, or seaweed, which she and her team had invented to use when playing with the dolphin pod. They hoped the dolphins would adopt the whistles, which are easy to distinguish from their own natural whistles – and they were not disappointed. When the computer picked up the sargassum whistle, Herzing heard her own recorded voice saying the word into her ear.

As well as boosting our understanding of animal behaviour, the moment hints at the potential for using algorithms to analyse any activity where information is transmitted – including our daily activities (see "Scripts for life").

"It sounds like a fabulous observation, one you almost have to resist speculating on. It's provocative," says Michael Coen, a biostatistician at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Herzing is quick to acknowledge potential problems with the sargassum whistle. It is just one instance and so far hasn't been repeated. Its audio profile looks different from the whistle they taught the dolphins – it has the same shape but came in at a higher frequency. Brenda McCowan of the University of California, Davis, says her experience with dolphin vocalisations matches that observation.

Thad Starner at the Georgia Institute of Technology and technical lead on the wearable computer Google Glass, built CHAT for Herzing with a team of graduate students. Starner and Herzing are using pattern-discovery algorithms, designed to analyse dolphin whistles and extract meaningful features that a person might miss or not think to look for. As well as listening out for invented whistles, the team hopes to start trying to figure out what the dolphins' natural communication means, too.

McCowan says it's an exciting time for the whole field of animal communication. With better information-processing tools, researchers can analyse huge data sets of animal behaviour for patterns.

Coen is already doing something like this with white-cheeked gibbons. Using similar machine-learning techniques to those used by Starner and McCowan, he has found 27 different fundamental units in gibbon calls.

McCowan, meanwhile, has recently modelled the behaviour of rhesus macaques at the National Primate Research Center in California. The idea is to predict when the macaques would descend into the violent social unrest known as "cage war" that often leads to the death of the alpha family.

Her team started collecting data, making 37,000 observations of key signs of dominance, subordination and affiliation over three years. Among other things, their analysis showed that cage stability improved if new young adult males were introduced now and again as they seemed to grow into "policing" roles. "You had to look at the data," McCowan says. "It wasn't something a human could see."

Terrence Deacon, an anthropologist and neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, explains that some pattern of repetition is a basic requirement when information is transmitted. In other words, if Herzing's dolphins or McCowan's macaques are exchanging information, if their behaviour is not just random, meaningless noise, then there must be some discoverable patterns. Information theory can find out what those pattern are, which parts of a whistle are important, helping behaviourists figure out what animals are communicating.

The first results from Starner and Herzing's work on dolphin communication-processing are due to be presented at the speech and signal processing conference in Florence, Italy, in May. Last summer's work was cut short because the team lost the dolphin pod, but they did make some progress. Starner's algorithms discovered eight different components in a sample of 73 whistles. It's still preliminary, but they were able to match certain strings of those components with mother-calf interactions, for instance. The work has let them plan for the coming summer when they want to confirm two-way communication between humans and dolphins.

Deacon is excited to see if such work can lead to a better understanding of animal cultures. He suspects much animal communication will turn out to be basic pointing or signposting rather than more complex language. But humans often communicate on a basic level too. "I don't see a fundamental white line that distinguishes us from other animals," he says.

This article appeared in print under the headline "Decoding dolphin"

UFO mania: Alien Planet moves toward Earth suggests Texas Professor

January 30, 2014 -- (TRN http://www.turnerRadioNetwork.com ) -- A man identifying himself as Dr. Kaplan, a Professor in the Astronomy Department at the University of Texas at Austin, has made use of the McDonald Observatory at that school to reveal the existence of an inbound planet heading toward Earth,  and has provided the actual coordinates for the general public to see it themselves. TRN has those coordinates and reveals them below.Dr. Kaplan videotaped his work inside the McDonald Observatory and TRN s has that video for you to see.

Using the 2.7m Harlan J. Smith telescope at the McDonald Observatory in Texas, Dr. Kaplan tracked this planet on January 26, 2014 at about 10:00 PM Texas time.

Another UFO spotted flying over Mt Annan

Sean Thompson

• From:         Macarthur Chronicle Camden

Picture of a UFO hovering over Cleveland in Queensland, following a sighting at Mt Annan the previous week in December, 2013. Source: Supplied

Stargazer and Mt Annan resident Raksha Martinovic said she and her husband were looking up at the stars at 11.15pm on March 22 when they spotted strange lights in the sky.

The latest sighting comes after a wave of UFO activity in the Macarthur region last December, when a local business owner said they spotted a mysterious light drift across the sky late at night.

Pictures of a ‘UFO’ hovering over Mt Annan, snapped by a Macarthur Chronicle reader in December 2013. The faint white dot is what the reader believes is the unidentified flying object. Source: Supplied

These claims were again substantiated by a skywatcher in Cleveland, south east of Brisbane, and across the Pacific Ocean in California.

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Mrs Martinovic said her extraterrestrial experience lasted for over two hours.

“The light was just hovering around and disappeared, then came back and disappeared again,” she said. “This drama lasted for two hours.”

Pictures of a ‘UFO’ spotted over Mt Annan in December 2013. Source: Supplied

Despite the spate of flying saucer spottings, Macarthur Astronomical Society spokesman John Rombi said what people consider a UFO could just be a meteor or space junk.

“As astronomers we can identify the majority of things we see in the sky, but not everyone is this well trained and when they see something like this, their first thought is to call it a UFO,” he said.

If you spotted the same UFO activity at Mt Annan, click here to send an email to the Macarthur Chronicle editor

Daily UFO Headlines 3/27/14

(Before It's News)

• Another UFO spotted flying over Mt Annan – The Daily Telegraph
• ‘History Decoded’ is a fun, entertaining read – Huntington Herald Dispatch
• Trees on Mars – North Coast Journal
• Second Trailer for Jupiter Ascending – GotchaMovies
• Lick’s Automated Planet Finder: First robotic telescope for planet hunters – Space Daily

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Area 51 Bombshells Revealed By Annie Jacobsen On Trunews

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By Susan Duclos

Rick Wiles at TRUNEWS was joined by investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen on March 24, 2014, for a riveting show on her findings after interviews with 19 men who served at the uber secretive Area 51 base in Nevada, secretly for decades, and Jacobsen had “unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to the secret base.”

Jacobsen is introduced and the discussion starts about Area 51 at the 19:45 minute mark in the video/audio below.

Jacobsen is the author of “Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base”

Susan Duclos owns/writes Wake up America

(AGS) Artificial genetic sequencing may create new life forms.

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Extraordinary (Artificial Intelligence/ADNA)

Artificial genetic sequencing may create new life forms.

In the future an extraordinary intelligent system will be produced and deployed in robots for use in deep space exploration (and this critical).  These intelligent systems will be more complex then any robotic technology being perceived or developed today.  These advanced systems will contain a new form of artificial DNA that provides these systems with the capability to adapt more readily to various environments.  This objective will be accomplished using special microelectronic and electrochemical technologies that mimic and replicate artificial cellular production, and likewise forms artificial genetic sequences and resulting ADNA.  A brief description of this technology is described and illustrated hereafter.   

This intelligence system and structure is divided into (5) levels of growth and distribution, whereas level-1 (parental L1), level-2 (cellular groups/subsystems L2), level-3 (systems L3), level-4 (the brain L4), and level-5 (universal L5).

Brief overview of this extraordinary technology,

Parental cellular units extract (need) inputs, and in doing so produce individual cells whose objective is to pursue other (inputs) or variations as to fulfill these needs.  The parental cellular units of (level-1) will produce “artificial cells”, where the commonality among these cells is used to mimic cellular bonding and thereby creating an artificial biological cohesion.  The cohesion of these cellular structures will produce the subsystems necessary for self sustaining and fulfilling the needs for environmental adaptation (or otherwise using microelectronic and electrochemical interfaces for such purposes).  In (level-2) of this intelligence system, bonding is formed between various parental cellular units using a process known as “bridges of commonalty”.  These interconnections and resulting sequences are used to form cellular groups with specific and shared common needs.  This process in part is used for the early development and formation of genetic structures for which later will form “subsystems”.  The commonality among variations (or inputs) of the cell groups produced by the parental units is used for measuring input consistency.  Those cells not consistent amongst the group will be placed into some temporary stage known as “hibernation”.   

The cellular stage of hibernation is due to the rejection of various inputs (variations) based on genetic sequences and common needs, and the inability to “adapt” within the environment, or otherwise cellular adaptation for biological cohesion.  When cellular bonding reaches (level-3) some “system” is formed from earlier cellular bonding of subsystems, whereas these newly formed systems contain specific genetic sequences with structural formations and needs.  The level of cellular hibernation will determine rejection or whether further variations (inputs) are necessary for commonality and likewise adaptation.  Hibernation of this type evolves through stages as to form emotions through electrochemical influences (interface).  Influences are the adhesion (biological cohesion) that starts integrating these cells, cell groups, and subsystems to form additional “structured needs”.  Thereafter (level-4) is the formation of the ‘brain’ where all these subsystems are integrated to “function as unified system”.  Cellular hibernation evolves as an involuntary response associated with electrochemical inputs for emotional response, other types of emotions are voluntary and these based on viable options (input variations) to needs.  And lastly, the cellular to subsystem formations have specific genetic sequences and code (residual and active memory).  The integration of these genetic structures into this system creates the formation of an Artificial DNA.   

What is being illustrated?

The basic model for creating an (Artificial DNA with Intelligence).

The above described is merely a sample of what is far more complex.