Daylight UFO sighting above Ontario on 23rd May 2014

New interesting video footage of a dark daytime UFO sighting recorded in the sky above Ontario on 23rd May 2014.

Witness said:
While examining footage taken last month, I nearly overlooked one of the best orb sightings I have been able to capture. Footage was taken in 720p with the camera facing straight up from my back deck. This is daylight footage of an unknown object at altitude I estimate to be 3 to 4 thousand feet. The object stops and retraces its’ approximate original flight path before moving on.

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UFO crashes in China – Spacing Out! Ep. 74

A UFO crashed into a vegetable garden in China. That and other UFO news on this episode of Spacing Out!

Stories discussed in this episode:
- Vatican astronomer speaks at Georgetown
- Alleged alien abductee chess president up for re-election
- Bob Lazar still defends Area 51 UFO information
- UFO crash-lands in China

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The Bureau: XCOM Declassified: Is This Game A Government Conspiracy To Cover Up UFO Truth?

It's a classic tale of a UFO cover-up: Extraterrestrials invade a military base, soldiers battle the ETs, then press officials and government agents explain away this interplanetary conflict with lies involving weather balloons and military test flights.

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, a video game released Tuesday, lets you do just that. Set during the Cold War, The Bureau allows you to play the role of a United States government agent, using your tact to thwart the alien occupation while also weaving a web of lies for the public.

Peculiar, though, that a game about UFO conspiracy came out within a week of the federal government's declassification of Area 51 documents. It's even weirder that the man heading the public relations side of the game's release is Nick Pope, the former head of the British Ministry of Defence's now-defunct UFO desk.

So The Bureau must be a government ploy to steer our fragile minds away from the real Area 51 and more toward the creepy, unbelieveable aliens that inhabit pop culture, right? The Internet seems to think so. During a promotional interview for the last game in the XCOM series, Pope told reporters that Britain had weapon capabilities specifically geared toward an alien invasion.

Message boards were quick to point at Pope's government ties.

"[Is this] a green light for alien propaganda?" wrote one user.

"Mr. Pope cannot tell full truths, as it is with many [government] employees," another added. "There are pieces of truth within his statements."

Pope told HuffPost Weird News that many people think he's still secretly working as a government flack, gathering intel on the public's notion of UFOs.

"They say I didn't really leave the ministry in 2006," he said. "They say, either this game is designed to throw people off, or it's part of a climatization process. Somehow I'm helping governments use this as a way of slowly getting the message out: They're here, but don't panic."

Are Pope and The Bureau's publisher, 2K Games, part of a government conspiracy? Probably not. More likely, Pope is simply a former government worker getting paid by a studio to be spokesman for a video game.

In fact, the government is involved in video games, but it isn't very secretive about them. America's Army, a first-person shooter funded and released entirely by the U.S. Army, is a known recruiting tool that shows off -- to gamers -- how cool a job with the military can be. Minus the death part.

Then again, if Pope was really lying about his intention to confuse the public with the release of a video game, he might say things like this:

"We didn't plan to match up the game's release with the declassification of Area 51 material ...  I'm not a gamer myself, I'm not involved in the development side. My role is to engage with the gaming community and bridge the gap between UFO enthusiasts and gamers."

It should be noted that The Bureau is a relatively solid real-time strategy shooter with a compelling storyline. Pope claims that the United States government was fine with the UFO rumors spreading during the real Cold War, because it was actually testing U-2 spy planes. The Bureau's storyline delves into broad topics like these about government cover ups, and any gamer interested in UFO lore will stay interested.

For more in-depth reviews of the game's mechanics, visit GameSpot or IGN.

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Video: Mexican Government Releases Ancient Space Explorer and Extra-terrestrial Evidences

Newly released ancient Mayan documents, which are estimated to be around 1,300 years old, seem to reveal that mankind is not alone in the universe and very advanced technologies such as space travel have likely existed thousands of years back.

The documentation, which was released by the Mexican government, not only suggests the existence of space explorer but may also shows the origin of human race.

Some consider the revelation by the government as a major development for humanity as it seems the truth is slowly getting disclosed. Many people in the UFO and extra-terrestrial community are hoping that the newly released documentation will fast track the disclosure of similar and other related information through the effort of governments around the world.

The Sundance winner “Revelation of the Mayans 2012,” by Juan Carlos Rulfo, also discusses such technology. The makers of the documentary were closely working with the Mexican government, according to the producer, Raul Julia-Levy, who described the cooperation as good for mankind. He revealed that MEXICO President Alvaro Colom Caballeros was the one who ordered to collaborate.

Julia-Levy said the government will release the artefacts, codices and related documents with proof of extra-terrestrial and Mayan contact. Archaeologists will corroborate all of their information. He explained that the government is not alone in making this statement as everything is supported with significant evidence.

Mexican state of Campeche minister of tourism Luis Augusto Garcia Rosado went on record to confirm the discovery of alien life. In a statement by Rosado, he confirmed the documents about Mayans and extra-terrestrials contact, which the government has kept for quite some time in underground vaults. He also mentioned about the 3,000-year-old landing pads in the jungle in one of his interviews.

It is revealed that the Mexican government has protected these secrets for around 80 years.

Daily 2 Cents: My Guardian Angel — Attack by ‘High Elf’ Battling Evil — ‘Angel of Mons’…Possibly UFO

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My Guardian Angel

My dad recently told me this story and I was just amazed. I thought you guys would like to hear it.

When I was young, about three or so, I was hospitalized and near death. I had a fever that just would not break and was passed out for most of the hospitalization. My dad, who has always been religious, wanted the hospital’s priest to come say a prayer for me.

So, the priest comes to pray for me but, something’s not right about the guy. He never gives his name and has no bible. He says the entire prayer in Latin and blesses me.

Now, my parents aren’t married yet and since the priest is there, they ask why they haven’t been able to have another child yet. They had been trying for about a year with no luck. The priest tells them that they won’t have another child until they’re married.

The priest leaves after that and an hour later my fever breaks.

The next day the hospital’s priest comes to the room to say a prayer for me. My dad is confused and tells the man that someone had already come the day before, to which the man replies that no priests were on duty the day before. He checked with all of the hospital staff and their visitation book and everything, nothing turned up. No priest was in the previous day.

He searched for years to find this priest that prayed for me and he never found a single trace of him anywhere.

A month after my mom and dad got married, my mom got pregnant with my brother.

So, we’ll never know who the mysterious man was but, I like to think he’s my guardian angel. To this day my dad still has found no record of him, not even someone who looks like him. Someone was looking out for me that day though. I just wish I knew who. – Reddit.com

NOTE: They do exist…in many forms. Lon

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“Martyrs Breeding Nation of Iran” Demands Flogging for Actress Kissing Strange Man on Cheek

In Iran, women are supposed to dedicate themselves exclusively to breeding martyrs. Not kissing strange infidels on the cheek. That’s cheeky behavior at odds with Hezbollah’s pride in breeding human cannon fodder which must be punished with lashes.

The group, which is called Hizbullah, has links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, demanded the flogging of Iranian actress Leila Hatami for her on-the-cheek kiss with the president of the Cannes Film Festival during the opening ceremony.

It filed a complaint with Iran’s judiciary for the prosecution of the actress who stars in the Oscar-winning, “A Separation.”

“We, the undersigned, who are a group of student Muslim brothers and sisters, ask the cultural and media branch of the judiciary to prosecute Leyla Hatami for her sinful act of kissing a strange man in public, which according to article 638 of Islamic Criminal Justice carries a prison sentence.”

“Furthermore, the action of this film star has hurt the religious sentiments of the proud and martyrs breeding nation of Iran and as such we also demand the punishment of flogging for her as stipulated in the law.”

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard effectively runs Iran. Hezbollah in Iran was the traditional arm of Iranian clerics, gathered from criminals who were the lowest element of society, and were used to beat and kill the enemies of Islam.

Every time you see an appeaser cite how many Iranian women work in film, remember that these are the conditions under which they work. Iran is a totalitarian society run by theocrats and fascists. It has plenty of talented women. It also has vicious repression.

Iranians are rather tired of breeding martyrs, but the rulers of Iran aren’t. Their “moderate” president is a puppet of its true rulers.

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“Angel” which saved British troops in WW1 “may have been UFO”

A famous supernatural incident during World War I may have had a rather more otherworldly explanation.

According to the story, heavily outnumbered British soldiers managed to push back the German forces at the Battle of Mons thanks to supernatural intervention in the form of angelic warriors who mysteriously appeared during the battle and fought alongside the troops.

The miraculous tale would go on to spur both controversy and intrigue for years to come. Several books were published with conflicting views of the event which lead to rumors and conspiracy theories. One particularly prominent idea was that the whole thing had been fabricated as part of a military morale boosting exercise designed to improve recruitment numbers.

Fast forward to the 21st century and now the Angel of Mons has been brought once again in to the limelight thanks to a new set of claims suggesting that what the soldiers witnessed was in fact the otherworldly occupants of a UFO.

“The UFO enigma was unknown during the First World War conflict; the troops would relate to an event such as this in the only way they could, by thinking that they had a sign from God,” said author Kevin Goodman.

The testimony of a Lance-Corporal who was a first-hand witness to the event is quite compelling:

“I could see quite plainly in mid-air a strange light which seemed to be quite distinctly outlined and was not a reflection of the moon, nor were there any clouds in the neighbourhood. The light became brighter and I could see quite distinctly three shapes, one in the centre having what looked like outspread wings, the other two were not so large, but were quite plainly distinct from the centre one. They appeared to have a long loose-hanging garment of a golden cloak.”

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Woman’s car attacked by self-identified ‘high elf’ battling evil

The last thing the woman from Northeast Portland probably expected when she got up Tuesday morning was that she would be attacked by a sword-wielding elf.

But that’s what happened around 7 a.m. as she drove her red BMW by the intersection of Southeast 7th and Morrison.

A man dressed in chain-mail with a helmet, shield and carrying a sword and staff ran into traffic and started attacking her car.

She called 911, reporting that “a pirate” was attacking her car.

When police got there, they detained Konrad Bass of Glendale, Oregon.

Bass told officers that he wasn’t a pirate but a “high-elf engaged in battle with the evil Morgoth.”

Morgoth is a character created by JRR Tolkien in a prequel to the Lord of the Rings stories. In the stories, he is the character from which all evil grew.

Bass, who was cited for criminal mischief and transported to Providence Hospital, also told officers he had taken LSD.

The woman’s car had several puncture marks.

NOTE: Portland, OR is certainly a weird place. But, then again, us ‘Grimm’ fans already know that. Lon

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Violent stellar explosion: Stellar behemoth self-destructs in a Type IIb supernova

A star in a distant galaxy explodes as a supernova: while observing a galaxy known as UGC 9379 (left; image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; SDSS) located about 360 million light years away from Earth, the team discovered a new source of bright blue light (right, marked with an arrow; image from the 60-inch robotic telescope at Palomar Observatory). This very hot, young supernova marked the explosive death of a massive star in that distant galaxy. A detailed study of the spectrum (the distribution of colors composing the light from the supernova) using a technique called "flash spectroscopy" revealed the signature of a wind blown by the aging star just prior to its terminal explosion, and allowed scientists to determine what elements were abundant on the surface of the dying star as it was about to explode as a supernova, providing important information about how massive stars evolve just prior to their death, and the origin of crucial elements such as carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. Credit: Avishay Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute of Science

Our Sun may seem pretty impressive: 330,000 times as massive as Earth, it accounts for 99.86 percent of the Solar System’s total mass; it generates about 400 trillion trillion watts of power per second; and it has a surface temperature of about 10,000 degrees Celsius. Yet for a star, it’s a lightweight.

The real cosmic behemoths are Wolf-Rayet stars, which are more than 20 times as massive as the Sun and at least five times as hot. Because these stars are relatively rare and often obscured, scientists don’t know much about how they form, live and die. But this is changing, thanks to an innovative sky survey called the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF), which uses resources at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), both located at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), to expose fleeting cosmic events such as supernovae.

For the first time ever, scientists have direct confirmation that a Wolf-Rayet star — sitting 360 million light years away in the Bootes constellation — died in a violent explosion known as a Type IIb supernova. Using the iPTF pipeline, researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science led by Avishay Gal-Yam caught supernova SN 2013cu within hours of its explosion. They then triggered ground- and space-based telescopes to observe the event approximately 5.7 hours and 15 hours after it self-destructed. These observations are providing valuable insights into the life and death of the progenitor Wolf-Rayet.

“Newly developed observational capabilities now enable us to study exploding stars in ways we could only dream of before. We are moving towards real-time studies of supernovae,” says Gal-Yam, an astrophysicist in the Weizmann Institute’s Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics. He is also the lead author of a recently published Nature paper on this finding.

“This is the smoking gun. For the first time, we can directly point to an observation and say that this type of Wolf-Rayet star leads to this kind of Type IIb supernova,” says Peter Nugent, who heads Berkeley Lab’s Computational Cosmology Center (C3) and leads the Berkeley contingent of the iPTF collaboration.

“When I identified the first example of a Type IIb supernova in 1987, I dreamed that someday we would have direct evidence of what kind of star exploded. It’s refreshing that we can now say that Wolf-Rayet stars are responsible, at least in some cases,” says Alex Filippenko, Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley. Both Filippenko and Nugent are also co-authors on the Nature paper.

Some supermassive stars become Wolf-Rayets in the final stages of their lives. Scientists find these stars interesting because they enrich galaxies with the heavy chemical elements that eventually become the building blocks for planets and life.

“We are gradually determining which kinds of stars explode, and why, and what kinds of elements they produce,” says Filippenko. “These elements are crucial to the existence of life. In a very real sense, we are figuring out our own stellar origins.”

All stars — no matter what size — spend their lives fusing hydrogen atoms to create helium. The more massive a star, the more gravity it wields, which accelerates fusion in the star’s core, generating energy to counteract gravitational collapse. When hydrogen is depleted, a supermassive star continues to fuse even heavier elements like carbon, oxygen, neon, sodium, magnesium and so on, until its core turns to iron. At this point, atoms (even subatomic particles) are packed in so closely that fusion no longer releases energy into the star. It is now solely supported by electron degeneracy pressure — the quantum mechanical law that prohibits two electrons from occupying the same quantum state.

When the core is massive enough, even electron degeneracy won’t support the star and it collapses. Protons and electrons in the core merge, releasing a tremendous amount of energy and neutrinos. This, in turn, powers a shockwave that tears through the star ejecting its remains violently into space as it goes supernova.

The Wolf-Rayet phase occurs before the supernova. As nuclear fusion slows, the heavy elements forged in the star’s core rise to the surface setting off powerful winds. These winds shed a tremendous amount of material into space and obscure the star from prying telescopes on Earth.

“When a Wolf-Rayet star goes supernova, the explosion typically overtakes the stellar wind and all information about the progenitor star is gone,” says Nugent. “We got lucky with SN 2013cu — we caught the supernova before it overtook the wind. Shortly after the star exploded, it let out an ultraviolet flash from the shock wave that heated and lit up the wind. The conditions that we observed in this moment were very similar to what was there before the supernova. ”

Before the supernova debris overtook the wind, the iPTF team managed to capture its chemical light signatures (or spectra) with the ground-based Keck telescope in Hawaii and saw the telltale signs of a Wolf-Rayet star. When the iPTF team performed follow-up observations 15 hours later with NASA’s Swift satellite, the supernova was still quite hot and strongly emitting in the ultraviolet. In the following days, iPTF collaborators rallied telescopes around the globe to watch the supernova crash into material that had been previously ejected from the star. As the days went by, the researchers were able to classify SN 2013cu as a Type IIb supernova because of the weak hydrogen signatures and strong helium features in the spectra that appeared after the supernova cooled.

“With a series of observations, including data I took with the Keck-I telescope 6.5 days after the explosion, we could see that the supernova’s expanding debris quickly overtook the flash-ionized wind that had revealed the Wolf-Rayet features. So, catching the supernova sufficiently early is hard — you’ve got to be on the ball, as our team was,” says Filippenko.

“This discovery was totally shocking, it opens up a whole new research area for us,” says Nugent. “With our largest telescopes you might have a chance of getting a spectrum of a Wolf-Rayet star in the nearest galaxies to our Milky Way, perhaps 4 million light years away. SN 2013cu is 360 million light years away — further by almost factor of 100.”

And because the researchers caught the supernova early — when the ultraviolet flash lit up the progenitor’s stellar wind — they were able to take several spectra. “Ideally, we’d like to do this again and again and develop some interesting statistics, not just for supernovae with Wolf-Rayet progenitors but other types as well,” says Nugent.

Pipeline Upgrade Leads to Unexpected Discoveries

Since February 2014, the iPTF survey has been scanning the sky nightly with a robotic telescope mounted on the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory in Southern California. As soon as observations are taken, the data travel more than 400 miles to NERSC in Oakland via the National Science Foundation’s High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network and the Department of Energy’s ESnet. At NERSC, the Real-Time Transient Detection Pipeline sifts through the data, identifies events to follow up on and sends an alert to iPTF scientists around the globe.

The survey was built on the legacy of the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), designed in 2008 to systematically chart the transient sky by using the same camera at Palomar Observatory. Last year Nugent and colleagues at Caltech and UC Berkeley made significant modifications to the transient detection pipeline for the iPTF project. Working with NERSC staff, Nugent upgraded the pipeline’s computing and storage hardware. The iPTF team also made improvements to the machine learning algorithms at the heart of the detection pipeline and incorporated the Sloan Digital Star Survey III star and galaxy catalogs so the pipeline could immediately reject known variable stars.

They even added an asteroid rejection feature to the automated workflow, which calculates the orbit of every known asteroid at the beginning of the night, determines where the asteroids are in an individual image, and then rejects them.

“All of our modifications significantly sped up our real-time transient detection; we now send high quality supernova alerts to astronomers all around the globe in less than 40 minutes after taking an image at Palomar,” says Nugent. “In the case of SN 2013cu, that made all the difference.”

Journal Reference:

1. Avishay Gal-Yam, I. Arcavi, E. O. Ofek, S. Ben-Ami, S. B. Cenko, M. M. Kasliwal, Y. Cao, O. Yaron, D. Tal, J. M. Silverman, A. Horesh, A. De Cia, F. Taddia, J. Sollerman, D. Perley, P. M. Vreeswijk, S. R. Kulkarni, P. E. Nugent, A. V. Filippenko, J. C. Wheeler. A Wolf–Rayet-like progenitor of SN 2013cu from spectral observations of a stellar wind. Nature, 2014; 509 (7501): 471 DOI: 10.1038/nature13304

Analyzing sun-like stars that eat Earth-like planets

Some Sun-like stars are ‘Earth-eaters.’ During their development they ingest large amounts of the rocky material from which ‘terrestrial’ planets like Earth, Mars and Venus are made. Credit: Image courtesy of Vanderbilt University

Some Sun-like stars are ‘earth-eaters.’ During their development they ingest large amounts of the rocky material from which ‘terrestrial’ planets like Earth, Mars and Venus are made.

Trey Mack, a graduate student in astronomy at Vanderbilt University, has developed a model that estimates the effect that such a diet has on a star’s chemical composition and has used it to analyze a pair of twin stars which both have their own planets. The results of the study were published online on May 7 in the Astrophysical Journal.

“Trey has shown that we can actually model the chemical signature of a star in detail, element by element, and determine how that signature is changed by the ingestion of Earth-like planets,” said Vanderbilt Professor of Astronomy Keivan Stassun, who supervised the study. “After obtaining a high-resolution spectrum for a given star,

This ability will add substantially to astronomers’ understanding of the process of planet formation as well as assisting in the ongoing search for Earth-like exoplanets, according to the astronomers.

First, some background: Stars consist of more than 98 percent hydrogen and helium. All the other elements make up less than 2 percent of their mass. Astronomers have arbitrarily defined all the elements heavier than hydrogen and helium as metals and have coined the term “metallicity” to refer to the ratio of the relative abundance of iron to hydrogen in a star’s chemical makeup.

Since the mid-1990′s, when astronomers developed the capability to detect extrasolar planets in large numbers, there have been several studies that attempt to link star metallicity with planet formation. In one such study, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory argued that stars with high metallicity are more likely to develop planetary systems than those with low metallicity. Another study concluded that hot Jupiter-sized planets are found predominantly circling stars with high metallicity while smaller planets are found circling stars with a wide range of metal content.

Building on the work of coauthor Simon Schuler of the University of Tampa, who expanded the examination of stars’ chemical composition beyond their iron content, Mack looked at the abundance of 15 specific elements relative to that of the Sun. He was particularly interested in elements like aluminum, silicon, calcium and iron that have melting points higher than 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit (600 degrees Celsius) because these are the refractory materials that serve as building blocks for Earth-like planets.

we can actually detect that signature in detail, element by element.”

Mack, Schuler and Stassun decided to apply this technique to the planet-hosting binary pair designated HD 20781 and HD 20782. Both stars should have condensed out of the same cloud of dust and gas and so both should have started with the same chemical compositions. This particular binary pair is the first one discovered where both stars have planets of their own.

Both of the stars in the binary pair are G-class dwarf stars similar to the Sun. One star is orbited closely by two Neptune-size planets. The other possesses a single Jupiter-size planet that follows a highly eccentric orbit. The difference in their planetary systems make the two stars ideal for studying the connection between exoplanets and the chemical composition of their stellar hosts.

When they analyzed the spectrum of the two stars the astronomers found that the relative abundance of the refractory elements was significantly higher than that of the Sun. They also found that the higher the melting temperature of a particular element, the higher was its abundance, a trend that serves as a compelling signature of the ingestion of Earth-like rocky material. They calculated that each of the twins would have had to consume an additional 10-20 Earth-masses of rocky material to produce the chemical signatures. Specifically, the star with the Jupiter-sized planet appears to have swallowed an extra ten Earth masses while the star with the two Neptune-sized planets scarfed down an additional 20.

The results support the proposition that a star’s chemical composition and the nature of its planetary system are linked.

“Imagine that the star originally formed rocky planets like Earth. Furthermore, imagine that it also formed gas giant planets like Jupiter,” said Mack. “The rocky planets form in the region close to the star where it is hot and the gas giants form in the outer part of the planetary system where it is cold. However, once the gas giants are fully formed, they begin to migrate inward and, as they do, their gravity begins to pull and tug on the inner rocky planets.

“With the right amount of pulling and tugging, a gas giant can easily force a rocky planet to plunge into the star. If enough rocky planets fall into the star, they will stamp it with a particular chemical signature that we can detect.”

Following this logic, it is unlikely that either of the binary twins possesses terrestrial planets. On one star, the two Neptune-sized planets are orbiting the star quite closely, at one-third the distance between Earth and the Sun. On the other star the trajectory of the Jupiter-sized planet grazes the star, taking it closer than orbit of Mercury at the point of closest approach. The astronomers speculate that the reason the star with the two Neptune-size planets ingested more terrestrial material than its twin was because the two planets were more efficient at pushing material into their star than the single Jupiter-sized planet was at pushing material into its star.

If the chemical signature of G-class stars that swallow rocky planets proves to be universal, “when we find stars with similar chemical signatures, we will be able to conclude that their planetary systems must be very different from our own and that they most likely lack inner rocky planets,” said Mack. “And when we find stars that lack these signatures, then they are good candidates for hosting planetary systems similar to our own.”

Added Stassun: “This work reveals that the question of whether and how stars form planets is actually the wrong thing to ask. The real question seems to be how many of the planets that a star makes avoid the fate of being eaten by their parent star?”

The research was supported by National Science Foundation grants AAG AST-1009810 and PAARE AST-0849736.

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Journal Reference:

1. Claude E. Mack III, Simon C. Schuler, Keivan G. Stassun, John Norris. DETAILED ABUNDANCES OF PLANET-HOSTING WIDE BINARIES. I. DID PLANET FORMATION IMPRINT CHEMICAL SIGNATURES IN THE ATMOSPHERES OF HD 20782/81? The Astrophysical Journal, 2014; 787 (2): 98 DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/787/2/98

UFO mania: Was evidence of alien life on Mars was destroyed?

Opportunity rover in 2004 took an image of a fascinating structure on Mars that shows structural features that are consistent with organisms on Earth known as crinoids . . . Crinoids are echinoderms, like starfish . . . so these are animals! And I’m saying that Opportunity took a photograph on Mars that shows features that are consistent with what we know of crinoids . . . Now, the fascinating thing is here you have a possible fossil of a very interesting organism in a rock on Mars, and three hours and a half after that photograph was done, that rock was destroyed by the rock abrasion tool.

The fossilized crinoid. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/USGS) 

The same area after being ground down by the rover’s abrasion tool. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/USGS)

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POSSIBLE ALIEN CRAFT CRASH IN BARSTOW CALIFORNIA

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DECEMBER 12, 2009        BARSTOW CALIFORNIA

Residents of Barstow, CA are claiming there was an unidentified flying object (UFO) landing on a local highway on Saturday, Dec. 12, which has been sparking internet forum postings. The sighting was called to our attention by a reader Eric.  A relative of a witness reported on an internet forum God like productions.com about the sighting Saturday at 1:20 pm EST:  “My sister just received a call from her stepson from Barstow who attested that a UFO landed on one of the major highways there (presumeably Interstate 40 or 15). The UFO was surrounded by a team of black cars.  

Witnesses are questioning whether this is a Government UFO or the ‘real thing.’ My sister is waiting for a return call from her stepson. I’ll give more details as they arrive.”  Today the same person, maya2012, wrote back to the forum after hearing more information from the sister:  “Her nephew called today. Apparently, the UFO landed (or crashed) off off the road early in the morning when it was still dark outside.  The police and black cars arranged themselves so that their headlights were facing outward, making it difficult for people to see what was happening. My nephew’s coworker took two pictures but they came out somewhat blurry. He stated that you could partially see the UFO in one picture.  

My nephew doesn’t have the pictures, his coworker does. We’re still trying to get them. A large military transport was brought in to take the UFO back to the nearby military base.”  Whether the UFO was an alien spacecraft or a military plane is unknown.  If the UFO claims are true, there will probably be other Barstow residents reporting the sighting soon since it was on a highway.  It should be interesting to hear what other people from Barstow have to say about the sighting.  

In the city of Barstow, California on December 12, 2009, residents see a low-flying UFO streaking across their neighborhoods.  The pre-dawn event included several witnesses seeing the object cross a highway and either land or crash in a deserted area.  Some residents decided to follow the path of the object and find out where it was and what had happened to the object.  

Soon, they have visitors; a number of SUVs come speeding by, heading straight for the UFO. The residents come close enough to the unknown object to see the SUVs encircling the UFO.  Their headlights were pointing away from the object, blinding the onlookers from getting a good view of the scene. Soon, a flatbed truck arrives.  About 10 minutes later, the flatbed begins to leave the scene, accompanied by the SUVs. The residents see a tarp-covered object about the size of a VW bug. 

Soon, the parade of vehicles is gone, leaving the residents at a loss as to what the object was and how the incident had transpired.  Reports were made to local law enforcement and the Air Force, but no information was gleaned from the sources.  NOTE: The above image is a rendering

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The God Particle – Monumental Higgs Field Breakthrough – The Higgs Boson Particle 3D

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The Higgs boson or Higgs particle is an elementary particle initially theorised in 1964, whose discovery was announced at CERN on 4 July 2012. The discovery has been called “monumental” because it appears to confirm the existence of the Higgs field, which is pivotal to the Standard Model and other theories within particle physics. It would explain why some fundamental particles have mass when the symmetries controlling their interactions should require them to be massless, and why the weak force has a much shorter range than the electromagnetic force. The discovery of a Higgs boson should allow physicists to finally validate the last untested area of the Standard Model’s approach to fundamental particles and forces, guide other theories and discoveries in particle physics, and potentially lead to developments in “new” physics.

This unanswered question in fundamental physics is of such importance that it led to a search of more than 40 years for the Higgs boson and finally the construction of one of the world’s most expensive and complex experimental facilities to date, the Large Hadron Collider, able to create Higgs bosons and other particles for observation and study. On 4 July 2012, it was announced that a previously unknown particle with a mass between 125 and 127 GeV/c2 (134.2 and 136.3 amu) had been detected; physicists suspected at the time that it was the Higgs boson. By March 2013, the particle had been proven to behave, interact and decay in many of the ways predicted by the Standard Model, and was also tentatively confirmed to have positive parity and zero spin, two fundamental attributes of a Higgs boson. This appears to be the first elementary scalar particle discovered in nature. More data is needed to know if the discovered particle exactly matches the predictions of the Standard Model, or whether, as predicted by some theories, multiple Higgs bosons exist.

The Higgs boson is named after Peter Higgs, one of six physicists who, in 1964, proposed the mechanism that suggested the existence of such a particle. Although Higgs’s name has come to be associated with this theory, several researchers between about 1960 and 1972 each independently developed different parts of it. In mainstream media the Higgs boson has often been called the “God particle”, from a 1993 book on the topic; the nickname is strongly disliked by many physicists, including Higgs, who regard it as inappropriate sensationalism. In 2013 two of the original researchers, Peter Higgs and François Englert, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work and prediction Englert’s co-researcher Robert Brout had died in 2011, and except in unusual circumstances, the Nobel is not given posthumously.

In the Standard Model, the Higgs particle is a boson with no spin, electric charge, or color charge. It is also very unstable, decaying into other particles almost immediately. It is a quantum excitation of one of the four components of the Higgs field. The latter constitutes a scalar field, with two neutral and two electrically charged components, and forms a complex doublet of the weak isospin SU symmetry. The field has a “Mexican hat” shaped potential with nonzero strength everywhere (including otherwise empty space) which in its vacuum state breaks the weak isospin symmetry of the electroweak interaction. When this happens, three components of the Higgs field are “absorbed” by the SU and U gauge bosons (the “Higgs mechanism”) to become the longitudinal components of the now-massive W and Z bosons of the weak force. The remaining electrically neutral component separately couples to other particles known as fermions (via Yukawa couplings), causing these to acquire mass as well. Some versions of the theory predict more than one kind of Higgs fields and bosons. Alternative “Higgsless” models would have been considered if the Higgs boson were not discovered.

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“Brightest Objects in the Sky”Camelopardalids Meteors – Meteors From Comet 209P/Linear Burn Harmlessly into Earths Atmosphere

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Gamma-Ray Burst Shatters Old Theories

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A team of scientists studying the afterglow of a gamma-ray burst tell us that their findings will re-write scientific theories. Using the Very Large Array Telescope, the team examined the afterglow of a gamma ray burst which mainstream astronomers assume is formed by a so-called shockwave. What they observed does not match the theoretical predictions of the standard model. Wal Thornhill tells listeners how the Electric Universe paradigm would view the findings.

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Elongated Skulls and DNA Results

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Kudos for those searching for answers about the elongated skulls in Peru. They are unique enough with their interparietal bones (os inca) that prove they were born to be shaped like this – not cradle-boarded.  

The os inca bones were found on the “otamid” skull shapes in North America (referred to as primitive shapes) in certain tribes and odd skulls found in moundbuilder areas and Nevada as well as Texas coastline tribes and Baja tribes (see my slope-headed post). Their skulls were elongated looking, sloping forehead, strong brow ridge, and other unusual characteristics that led researchers to call them primitive looking and carnivorous looking. 

Those who follow my ancient giants posts, know about these red-haired race of robust and tall people compared to other tribes.  The dried up lakes like in Nevada's Humboldt Sink and in this location in Peru create ideal conditions for preserving these remains.

Here is a video interview with Brien Foerster who led the mission with other researchers to finally get DNA results on these. It does amaze me that these were not tested by local authorities. But, then, look what happened to the “otamid”skulls in North America.

Brien describes these as robust large jaw, bone is strong and large where neck muscles attached, more powerful and complicated neck muscles, eye orbits bigger than normal, cranial capacity is 25-30% larger than homo sapiens.
 
DNA results so far:  Mitochondria – segments do not match anything in GenBank (holds cataloged results of every DNA documented on earth). Segments do not match anything in Homo sapiens and nothing in Neanderthal. This also explains why the skulls are shaped so oddly – they are not related. The skull tested is believed to be at least 2000 years ago as much as 3000 years ago. It might even be older, but researchers hadn't been studying them, assuming that they were cradle-boarded and that their look was cultural.

We already know that the term “Inca bone” came from these skulls of Peru who had interparietal bones naturally from birth, not from cradle boarding. Why did the locals choose to cradle board? My honest observation would be that they wished to look like the “gods,” these people who were much wiser, had advanced knowledge (having evolved earlier and settled the world). It's sort of like kids wanting to smoke to look like grownups or a girl wanting a butt implant to look like a Kardashian.  

What might all this mean? It seems to be a step closer to my theory that man first developed from homo erectus lineage in Asia and Indonesia and spread out by land to places like Georgia, France, and the future British Isles and by sea through the South Pacific, to South America and eventually up to North America, way ahead of the homo sapiens who had yet to emerge from Mitochondrial Eve in Africa and leave to spread around the world in the last 100,000 years, coming upon these advanced cultures and getting their jump in knowledge that some desperate researchers would like to attribute to a high protein diet (I understand lions eat a lot of protein too).

There are legends of these giants in all cultures including the Bible and, in fact, those who follow that text would find it reassuring to know that their Lord flooded the world to obliterate this first cannibalistic race in favor of one that showed compassion and intelligence both. 

When we toss giants into the mix as the original earthly race hundreds of thousands of years before us, suddenly the desperate explanation of ancient aliens playing tinker toys with boulders is finally discarded.  As well, human sacrifice might be explained by appeasement to the cannibalistic “gods.” When you stack onto that a unifying universal language adopted around the globe, stone megaliths, metal works, weaving and other technology that happened simultaneously for us homo sapiens as we arrived in giant territory and learned from their already established knowledge, now we're talking seamless explanation.

Suddenly, the world makes sense. The greater mystery now is, who were they a lineage of? Several forms of homo erectus hybridized?  And, what became of them? War uprising by homo sapiens? 

I highly recommend Brien Foerster's books.  

Source: http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2014/05/elongated-skulls-and-dna-results.html

Museum of National Mystery

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There’s an apocryphal quote attributed to Ben Franklin that says, “One can tell the morals of a culture by the way they treat their dead.”

When it comes to the victims of the September 11th, 2001 attacks, we have to stop and ponder whether or not we have treated them with respect and why they continue to be exploited politically and why now they are merchandized like some trinket in a drugstore knickknack isle.

Nearly 3,000 people were killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Now we are told that they are being honored at a museum, President Obama called the site of the memorial and museum “this sacred place.”

Now, people aren’t so sure about the sacred, because of the money changing going in at ‘ground zero’.

As the Gothamist reported, “The National 9/11 Museum opened to the public [May 21], with dozens of museum employees on hand to assist visitors through exhibits, numerous Red Cross workers and chaplains eager to help those who needed comfort… President Obama dedicated the museum last week in a special ceremony that was by invite only. There were mostly politicians and a few of the victim’s families in attendance.”

And, of course, select members of the media – which did not include that Gothamist reporter who was actually thrown out.

But those honored visitors were told to leave because only the VIPs, which included former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, were allowed back inside for a black-tie cocktail reception, the NY Daily news said. It is said later this summer there will be a family restaurant opening up in the facility.

The creepiness here is evident, the cocktail soiree was being held on the site where it is believed many of the victim’s remains are still buried and many people feel that it is also a bit sick to open a restaurant on the site.

The museum’s cocktail hour took place near the “remains repository,” where 8,000 unidentified body parts are being stored.

Now that it has opened to the public, there are mixed feelings about the museum. While some see it as a place where people can reflect on the tragedy, some see it as politically exploitative and not as dignifying as maybe a wall with names or a monument.

Again, our censored Gothamist reporter noted: “There’s a warning in front of the entrance, “The exhibition may not be appropriate for visitors 10 years old and younger. Adults accompanying younger visitors should exercise discretion before entering.””

Upon arrival, the scene is set up like a Halloween spook alley in a posh library. Scorched car doors, salvaged firefighters’ uniforms, banners, toys, and a destroyed fire engine are preserved forever and on display at the museum.

The museum itself was designed to look like a fallen and crumples tower as it is set on the ground next to trees and a reflecting pool. Inside the building are numerous columns and beams that did not melt in the extreme heat that the two planes allegedly generated on that day.

In an area that looks like an airport terminal, there are two columns that represent a double trident.

As the official WTC.com site says: “These seven-story steel structures were part of the original façade of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center, once forming the distinctive Gothic arch motif at the base of the skyscrapers. The forked columns are so large that the Museum Pavilion’s structure will be built around them.”

We discussed the significance of the trident and the frequency of its appearance in the year 2014 on the March 21 broadcast of Ground Zero.

In the Ground Zero article ‘Triquetra II: Loosed From His Prison‘, the trident is a symbol taken from the underworld. The trident is also known as the devil’s pitchfork and has been associated directly with Atlantis and the god of the depths Poseidon.

As MythsOfChristianity.com informs: “The three-pronged pitchfork is the trident of Poseidon, the Greek god of water. The trident was a powerful weapon capable of stirring the waters to fury and in the ancient epic, the Odyssey, Poseidon was the foe of the hero Odysseus, constantly wrecking his ships and thwarting his attempts to return home.”

For many centuries, the original symbol of Poseidon and his powerful three-pronged staff eventually evolved into the devil that lived in depths of the earth.

Poseidon has also developed a relationship with the great beast or Leviathan of prophecy that rises from the sea in the final days before judgment.

People who have already toured the 9/11 Museum commented on the double trident and how it towers above the museum and how it cast some eerie occult symbolism.

There have also been comparisons that have already been made to the Holocaust Museum and there have been many complaints about how graphic and horrific it is.

The museum is said to be difficult to walk through and the photographs of the victims are said to be so devastating to people that they turn away either repulsed or emotionally devastated.

The displays are said to be very indicative of the scale of destruction, with the wrecked fire engines and World Trade Center elevator motor, is also distressing. There are audio recordings that are particularly harrowing, including a 911 call from someone on the 106th floor that of course is worried that he is going to die.

In the heart of the museum is a video gallery showing the burning towers news reports and people jumping out of buildings.

There are many people that have many ideas of what this museum is about, and why it was even erected in the first place. The 9/11 Museum is a for-profit museum and it has a gift shop where people say the souvenirs are grim and are in poor taste.

It is a tricky proposal to memorialize a tragedy, but this is really beginning to look like an attempt to turn the 9/11 tragedy into a commodity.

For years, the United States government has used the victims of 9/11 as an excuse to fuel their war efforts and there is really no honor in that little enterprise. As you may already realize, there is some outrage over what is being sold at the gift shop.

For $64.00 you can purchase survival tree earrings and $39.00 gets you a hoodie emblazoned with an image of the towers. There is also a collectable cheese plate you can purchase as well.

Victims’ families didn’t ask for this, they didn’t expect their family members to be important deaths for eternity and have their remains in a containment hold piled behind a locked door in a museum that doubles as a mausoleum with an adjacent Shake Shack.

It wasn’t enough that these victims were used for the battle cry to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, now they are bankable for commemorative shirts and hoodies. The building’s ornate design can now be seen on a commemorative necktie and bath towel.

It is also interesting to know that the executives and directors of the 9/11 Museum are making six figure incomes while many family members still are struggling to live day-to-day.

According to ‘9/11 Museum Museum Bigs Cash In‘, a January 2011 report from the NY Post:

“Schoolchildren thought their penny jars and bake-sale proceeds would go toward building a 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero — not the six-figure salaries of nonprofit execs.

But 11 staffers at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum each pulled down more than $170,000 in total compensation in 2009, according to the most recent filings. Four execs took home more than $320,000.

Foundation President Joseph Daniels, 38, pocketed $371,307 after receiving hefty raises three years in a row — 28 percent in 2006, when he was promoted from acting president, followed by 12 percent and 6 percent.

Museum director Alice Greenwald made $351,000, and capital planning Vice President Joan Gerner soaked up $337,143 before leaving last spring. Development director Cathy Blaney raked in $322,292. The full-time foundation employee also worked last year as a fund-raiser for Gov. Cuomo’s election campaign.

The money to pay the $5.3 million in compensation for the foundation’s 87 staffers in 2009 came from private donations — $220 million raised in a Herculean grass-roots effort to honor the 2,974 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and $150 million from blue-ribbon board members. More than 60,000 individuals in all 50 states and 31 countries donated to the cause.”

Now that the museum is open to the public, the hefty salaries are paid through the selling of tchotchkes at a gift shop that has been built over the dead bodies of 9/11 victims.

They say that, “this is America, what do you expect.” I expect a little more dignity and less political pomp and merchandizing at a place that is supposed to be tribute to those who died.

The question is, is this a dignified way to treat the victims of the 9/11 attacks and have we pushed the envelope too far by treating 9/11 like the Jewish holocaust?

It is being called a crass commercial enterprise. The sickness people are feeling as they walk through the museum is not only buffered by the horrors of 9/11, but by the sick sense that that something very evil is taking place upon sacred ground.

Would you have a picnic at a crematorium? Probably not; however, at the 9/11 Museum you can listen to those unbearable last-words-to-loved-ones recordings, look at bloodied shoes and falling-body images – and then eat comfort food and be offered a cocktail.

Would it be prudent to sell to family member’s trinkets made from the pulverized metal and bones at the site? Just as well sell commemorative sausage at the venue, there is nothing to sick or twisted that the museum won’t exploit.

Source: http://www.groundzeromedia.org/museum-of-national-mystery/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=museum-of-national-mystery

RUSSIAN COSMONAUT MARINA POPOVICH DISCLOSES UFOS; TO VISIT USA, REQUEST US GOVERNMENT & US ASTRONAUTS TO DISCLOSE UFOS/ETS

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