TOP 10 ANCIENT GADGETS!

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Nowadays, we are extremely proud of the existent technology and we have come to rely on it for various things. But what was it like hundreds of years ago? What was technology for the cultures existent back then? Well, as history and archeological findings have shown us, they did have technology and, of course, ancient gadgets. Let’s check out the top 10 gadgets of the ancient world.

#1 Antikythera Mechanism

Made almost 2000 years ago, the Antikythera Mechanism is believed to be one of the oldest computers in the world. Found in the ruins of a ship, it was considered for a long time to be clock but recent discoveries have demonstrated it could do so much more. Originating from Greece, this ancient gadget had the ability to predict when a solar eclipse would happen and even could organize the calendar in cycles of four years.

#2 The Coso Artifact

The fact that you would find a spark plug is nothing special. But what happens when that spark plug is actually embedded in hard rock, one that dates from as long as 500.000 years ago? The Coso Artifact has disappeared and it is not to be studied using modern technology. There are three suppositions however when it comes to its origins: one, that it was made by an extremely intelligent ancient civilization such as Atlantis; two, that it came from the future and three, that it is of alien origin.

#3 Baigong Pipes

 Located on top of Mountain Baigong, the Baigong pipes lead directly into a pyramid. The interesting thing about these rusty pipes is that no signs of civilizations in the area has ever been unearthed there. This means that the reason for which these have been made is still unknown. However, they are of an uniform size and they do have a special pattern, a salt lake being situated in their close vicinity.

#4 Ancient Sandstone Xylophone 
 

The link between humans and music is older than any of us can imagine. In the early 20th century, scientists have discovered these ancient sandstones and they believed them to have been used for grinding grains. It took a lot of time and a fortunate accident before their real purpose was discovered; it seems that this ancient gadget is actually a musical instrument, this being discovered by accident by an archaeologist.

#5 Roman Dodecahedra 
 

While there are many fascinating Roman artifacts that can easily pose as ancient gadgets, this is by far one of the best. Amazingly enough, it was found in several countries, including Germany, France and Switzerland. Even though many archaeologists have tried to study it, no clear purpose was identified. They were able to identify certain symbols on it there are related to the Zodiac but they are not certain whether it was used for surveying or it just had a decorative purpose.

#6 Mystery airplanes

Discovered in Columbia, these figurines are believed to have been made by a tribe named Quimbaya, somewhere around 1000 CE. The resemblance to an airplane is uncanny, as they have tails, landing gears and wings just like any modern day plane. Scientists have rebuilt models after them only to prove that they worked. There are some scientists who say that these are only stylized fish or insects.

#7 The Phaistos Disc

This ancient gadget is made from clay and it is believed to date back to the second millennium. Just like other ancient gadgets, its origin is unknown and so is the meaning or the intent purpose. The disc has been unearthed in Crete and it has a wide array of symbols imprinted on it, some of which have been identified as people, animals, tools or plants.

#8 Byzantine Tablet 
 

While we rely on modern tablets for a lot of things, so did the people from Byzantine culture rely on their ancient gadgets. This tablet is comprised of five panels that are stacked together and each of them has a frame and a wax coating. It is believed that they were used for making note on inventories or appraisals.

#9 Baghdad Battery 

Perhaps this is one of the strangest ancient gadgets to have ever been discovered. While it is clearly a battery, it does not explain why would people who lived in the ancient world need it. It was found in Iraq in 1936 and ever since then scientists have constructed replicas in order to prove that it actually works.

#10 Dropa Stones

These stones are unique ancient gadgets and many people have said they belong to an ancient or alien culture. They were discovered on a burial site in the Himalayan mountains and each of these stones is actually a one-foot wide disc, with a simple hole in the center. The interesting thing about these is that they are extremely old; scientists have placed them to have existed as far as 12.000 years ago.

Modern day gadgets are extremely useful for us. And maybe it was just like that for ancient cultures, relying on the gadgets presented above for every day living. 

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UFO volgt Engels passagierstoestel ( Video)

Enkele dagen geleden werd door een passagier in een vliegtuig een bijzonder opname gemaakt van een UFO. 

Het gaat om een vlucht in de buurt van het Engelse Liverpool en je ziet het toestel via het passagiersraam langs de wolken over het Engelse landschap vliegen.


Dan is er in de verte een klein maar helder object waar te nemen, wat, naar het lijkt, als het ware met het vliegtuig mee vliegt.

In de onderstaande video zie je bewegende beelden van het vreemde object. Dat het een intelligent bestuurde UFO is, blijkt heel duidelijk na precies een minuut, waar je het ineens ziet accelereren en met grote snelheid wegschieten.

Het schijnt dat er rond dezelfde tijd meer UFO-meldingen waren rondom Liverpool. De plaatselijke krant, The Liverpool Echo, rapporteert in diezelfde periode maar liefst negen verschillende waarnemingen.

Ook werd er een vreemd voorval gerapporteerd vanuit Formby, een stadje onder de rook van Liverpool. Hier zagen mensen een vreemd object in de lucht hangen.

“Het licht zag er uit als een ster, maar groter. Het was fel en wit en het pulseerde ook. Eerst dacht ik dat het een vliegtuig was, maar later besefte ik dat dit niet het geval geweest kon zijn omdat het object stil hing".

 

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UFO file conspiracy in the UK

The UK House of Lords is being questioned about the stalled release of their remaining UFO files. That and other space and UFO stories on this episode of Spacing Out!

Stories discussed on this episode:
– Stalled UFO file release questioned in the UK House of Lords
– Hundreds see UFO and hear loud noises in UK town
– California residents catch blue UFO on video
– Expect large aliens, says scientist

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Former Obama Pilot Says Virtually All Pilots Believe In UFOs

Veteran pilot Andrew Danziger, who have 28 years of experience in the cockpit, claims to have spotted unidentified white disc hovering in the sky while on a routine flight across America. Danziger, who flew US Barack Obama in 2008 campaign tour, further asserts that virtually all pilots believe in UFOs.

The American pilot says he encountered a white disc floating through the sky during his flight in April 1989 between Kansas and Iowa. He reportedly saw the mysterious aerial disc transformed into a giant red ball and glowed for approximately 30 seconds before completely disappeared into the clouds.

Danziger says that the captain also witnessed the UFO for around 40 minutes before it started to change colour and vanished.

According to Danziger, the UFO looked the same to the moon faintly visible through the thin fog. He says that they had no idea about what they had saw, but certain it was not from here.

When Danziger shared their sighting to other pilots, he was amazed to know that many pilots often saw UFOs while traversing the skies.

Danziger reveals that they were not supposed to talk about UFOs, so they swore the station agent on duty to secrecy and agreed to remain silent about their incident to any of their co-workers.

But the veteran pilot is confident that he is not the only one in his profession to have witnessed an unexplained flying object in the skies. He reiterates that virtually all pilots believe in UFOs.

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Report UFO sighting #200

Orlando, Florida. Down the street from a weapons factory…. – March 24th 2015

Derbyshire, UK –  29th march 2015, 21.32 hours

I went out to the back of my property to have a smoke, it was nightime and the skies to the west were pretty clear, and below the tree line which has no leaves on it i noticed what appeared to be a very bright star like object shining. At first i thought it was a star , and then noticed it bobbing up and down slightly. I ran in to get my i phone and took a cuople of minutes of video and then decided to start taking pictures of which i managed to get 2 of , i went to take a third photo and it was instantaniously gone.

Island View Restaurant, Taling Ngam, Koh Samui, Thailand – 28 March 2015

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They Were There: UFO Sightings From The Vietnam War (Videos)

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(N.Morgan) UFO accounts can be found all through out history, from ancient times, until today.

Is it possible that UFOs or alien beings we not only involved in, but actively participating in the world wars?

In this article we will be covering accounts of UFOs being seen and encountered during the Vietnam war.

The video above gives one of the most intriguing and scary accounts in which a patrol boat encounters a UFO and watches it destroy one of their companion patrol boats.

 In the Vietnam conflict, UFOs were referred to by our military as Enemy Helicopters.

The Vietnamese didn’t obtain helicopters until later in the war.

Another intriguing account took place in South Vietnam in June 1966 rarely had reason to speculate about UFOs — at least until the little-known Nha Trang UFO incident took place.

The Nha Trang incident if thorough documentation can be obtained, could become a UFO “classic” according to one NICAP investigator familiar with the case.

The sighting allegedly occurred during one of the most active periods of the Vietnam conflict, and understandably received little publicity at the time.

Now, however, with American participation in the war concluded, numerous war-related incidents are beginning to emerge.

One of these involves a startling UFO sighting witnessed by possibly thousands of soldiers stationed in Vietnam at the time.

An initial investigation was conducted by NICAP investigator Raymond Fowler, who was able to  to contact an eyewitness to the event.

According to the witness, eight bulldozers were operating that night cutting roads around “Hawk Hill,” located less than one-half mile to the west of the American compound.

On another part of the base, two “sky-Raider” prop-driven aircraft were warming up on the airstrip located less than a mile to the east.

At the same time, a Shell Oil tanker lay anchored in the bay about a mile t the southwest.

 The witness, an enlisted soldier holding the rank of Specialist 5, had gathered with an undetermined number of fellow soldiers around 8 p.m. in an open area of the base to watch an outdoor movie.

 Outdoor films had become possible only recently, according to the witness, thanks to the arrival and installation of six, new, independently-operated, 100 KW diesel-powered generators.

One of these generators had been installed near the compound where the soldiers were seated and was being used to supply power for the movie projector.

The film had been underway for some time, according to the witness’s account, when suddenly, at approximately 9:45 p.m., the sky to the north lit up!

The GIs glanced up and saw what at first appeared to be a flare exploding above a ridge to the north.

“At first we thought it was a flare which are going off all the time and then we found that it wasn’t” recounts a letter from the witness mailed home a few days later.

“It came from the north and was moving from real slow to real fast…Some of the jet fighter pilots which were here…said it looked to be about 25,000 feet (in altitude)… then the panic broke loose.

It dropped right towards us and stopped dead still about 300 to 500 feet up.

It made this little valley and the mountains around look like it was the middle of the day; it lit up everything.

“Then it went up and I mean up.

It went straight up and completely out of sight in about 2-3 seconds.

Everybody is still talking about it.”

Had the soldier’s letter or his recent account of the incident stopped there, the case would probably not have come to the attention of either NICAP or the officials from Washington that reportedly visited the base the next day.

But the letter and the witness’s account of the incident continues:

“That really shook everyone is that it stopped, or maybe it didn’t, but anyway our generator stopped and everything was black.

At the Air Force Base about one half mile from here all generators stopped.

The engines on two planes that were the runway ready to take off stopped, and there wasn’t a car, truck, plane or anything that ran for about four minutes.”

In addition, the eight bulldozers working on nearby hills also ceased operating according to the witness.

Another account I found is by Robert “Doc” Waltz who shares his own experience with a UFO encounter during the Vietnam conflict.

He states: 

I am a Vietnam vet.

I was stationed in Tay Ninh Province with the 25th Infantry Division in 1969.

One night in late summer or early fall of 1969, while at Tay Ninh Basecamp, I saw one single light, at a high elevation, travel in a straight line across the sky and stop.

It then traveled in another direction, again in a straight line, at a high rate of speed, and stop again. It did this maneuver several times….flying across the night sky at a high rate of speed, and stop at will.

There was no observable tail (like a shooting star). There was no sound.

There were no blinking or pulsating lights.

Just this single star-like light, but it did not twinkle like a star.

As I recall, when it came to it’s many stops, it never gave the appearance of hovering, or slowly moving like a chopper (Besides, it was too high up to be a chopper.)

In other words, when it stopped its flight path, it came to a complete stop.

Then it shot across the sky in another straight line and would stop again.

I brought this to the attention of some buddies, and we watched it continue to do this until our duties brought our attention back to the ground.

References:

http://www.openminds.tv/ufos-during-the-vietnam-war/563

http://www.history.com/shows/hangar-1-the-ufo-files/videos/ufos-at-war?m=5189717d404fa&s=All&f=1&free=false#

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPh3NMi8rcwTwclsZ36Nuvg

http://www.nicap.org/reports/660619nhatrang_report.htm

http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case60.htm

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10 Most Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Prove Aliens Have Visited Earth

They’ve snuck into our bedrooms as thieves in the night and taken our children, our parents, our wives and loved ones, with absolute impunity and with zero regard for our wellbeing.

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The UFO phenomenon, whether for believers or survivors, tends to be relegated to small town hicks, paranoid university stoners and their dropout brethren. The simple truth is, critical thinking in the information age has refined our suspension of disbelief into a sharply honed skepticism and natural scoff. The very notion that we’ve been visited by intelligent lifeforms from another world is, along with myths of Norse Gods and witchcraft, consigned to Hollywood films and teen fan fiction, and that’s okay, right?

Wrong.

Spoiler alert: If you think you’re safe at home, behind locked doors, think again. The next time you open your eyes, you might find yourself naked in the woods, missing three weeks of memories and carrying a whole new set of nightmares.

To celebrate the “revelation” Russia’s known about the existence of Alien civilisations since 1969 “http://ufos.about.com/od/ufofolkloremythlegend/p/russia1969.htm” here are the 10 most compelling pieces of evidence  They‘re here, they‘ve been here, and they‘re here to stay. 

10. Drawings, Paintings, Carvings, & Other Records Of Ancient Times

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With humans having walked the earth for an estimated 200,000 years, some might call the following a little short sighted. And yet here we are. I will take everything that came before the advent of television (1939) and stuff it in the first section. I do so with the utmost pride and sincerity.

Sure, a lot happened during the first 199 thousand, 926 years, but sources being what they were, let’s just sum it up to one thing; drawings. A ton of them. All over the world, and throughout the ages, drawings, paintings, carvings, quilts and markings. They may each tell a different story, but in the end they all say the same thing, “we are not alone”.

Cave Painting (Top Left Corner of Image Above)

First there’s this 15 thousand year old French cave painting. It is what it is, let’s not dilly-dally.

The Lolladoff Plate (Top Right Corner of Image Above)

Followed closely by the Lolladoff Plate. This 12 thousand year old stone dish was found in Nepal.  Note the central disc and spiral out of which there seems to appear a reptile, followed by a ship (space vagina?) followed by bacteria or atoms and then another reptile and in the outer edge, at the center of it all? That’s right. A mother-flippin’ Alien.

Sanscrit Scroll (Second Image Down on the Left Hand Side of Image Above)

Another example, one of literally thousands which we will not explore here, is this ancient Indian scroll. It depicts Vimanas. A Vimanas is a temple. It also means “flying palace” and they’re described in many of the Sanskrit epics, which are some of the oldest written texts of the known world. I could spend all day talking about these alone, so let’s move on to thousands of years later and across the globe.

Sigiburg France Sighting (Second Image Down on the Right Hand Side of the Image Above)

In 776, Sigiburg castle in France, the Saxons had surrounded the French. They were going to storm the castle and in so doing they would win the war and stop Emperor Charlemagne from turning them into Christians. Suddenly there appeared before them giant “Flaming shields” floating in the sky. They burned red, orange, yellow, blue and white light. Upon seeing these strange flaming discs, the Saxons took it as a sign from the Gods, and they fell back… This battle united Rome under Christianity. A 12th century manuscript, the ” Annales Laurissenses”, depicts the events which took place.

Madonna and Saint Giovannino (Bottom Left Corner of the Image Above)

The 15th century saw a plethora of alien doodles all over Europe. The Palazzo Vecchio in Florence has the now infamous painting of the Madonna and Saint Giovannino. Also known to us classless North Americans as Madonna and Saint-James. The original is depicted above, but what really blows one’s mind is the detail work. Zooming in we clearly see a bright disk like object in the daytime sky. It’s being watched by a man and his dog.

Notre-Dame Basilica Tapestry (Center of Bottom Row in the Image Above)

This next one from the same period still hangs at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Burgandy. Though it’s title is unknown we can see what appear to be… flying hats? For centuries scholars just assumed these were artists depictions of disk shaped “angel clouds”. Whether you believe these sightings to be “angel clouds” or aliens, I’ll leave to you, because everybody is entitled to chose their own brand of nonsense.

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On April 4th, 1561, above Nuremberg Germany another strange sighting occurred. This one can be seen in a famous 16th century woodcut by Hans Glaser. It was described as “A very frightful spectacle.” The sky appeared to fill with cylindrical objects from which red, black, orange and blue white disks and globes emerged. Crosses and tubes resembling cannon barrels also appeared whereupon the objects promptly “began to fight one another.” It is known as The Battle Over Nuremberg or the 1561 Celestial Phenomena over Nuremberg.

Baptism of Christ (Bottom Right Corner of the Image Above)

Jumping over to 1710, we’ve got the Baptism of Christ by Aert de Gelder. It’s still hanging in Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge, England and- “What the fudge?!” you ask? Oh, no don’t worry, just an angel cloud… by the way angels have been represented as guys with wings and hippy hair since Theodosius I around (379–395)… why these people 13 hundred years later would represent them as angel clouds, and why they would represent clouds as disks at all, I’ll leave you to answer…

There are literally hundreds of thousands of ancient world representations of what we now call aliens and I would love to go over all of them. There’s something almost soothing about knowing those encounters occurred several  centuries before our great ancestors were even conceived. I mean, if they wanted to harvest us for organs or influence our cultures towards some kind of end game, they would’ve done it already right? If they are out there, the damage was done centuries before you or I were ever born, and there’s nothing we can do, so there’s nothing to worry about right?

Wrong again boyo.

Since the dawn of the atomic age these interstellar demon spawn have been stealing us from our beds, conducting horrifying experiments on our unsuspecting populace, kidnapping our children and corrupting our society from the inside. They’ve done so in close consort with various governments and officials. They’ve done so at the expense of our health, our environment, our genetic lineage and our sanity. Thousands know about it and even act as accomplices.

They’ve snuck into our bedrooms as thieves in the night and taken our children, our parents, our wives and loved ones, with absolute impunity and with zero regard for our wellbeing.

Let’s explore some of the best documented cases. We’ve all heard about the 1966, Betty and Barney Hill abduction, we all know about the Roswell crash of 1947, I’m not even going to waste your time on those well worn trails, we’re going deep here people, so strap yourself in.

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Okay, I lied. I admit it. I lied. And I don’t feel bad about it either. I promised to jump right up to the second quarter of the 20th century, but I just can’t do it. Because that wouldn’t be fair. It wouldn’t be fair to all you paranoid, conspiracy hungry, culture junkies out there, thirsty for that little bit of mystery and wonder amidst your workaday world. Before getting into the strange events that happened during World War II, or the bizarre phenomena which basically started the modern Ufology movement, I must first address the thing that came before it. The thing that, some say, started it all.

It was an international marvel of the unexplained, and at the height of the industrial revolution, and more than 20 years before the Great War, the world was both shaken and stirred. Reports of mystery airships were popping up everywhere. In the United States the sightings began in the west and spread eastward.

The first major case happened in New Mexico on March 26th 1880 in the skies above a small town called Galisteo Junction, now known as Lamy. Voices were heard, voices which seemed to be coming from the sky above. When the people looked up they saw a circular ship, “monstrous in size”. It’s movements were described as approaching rapidly and then slowed to an elegant waltz across the sky.

It is said that the occupants of these ships were human, but their clothing and behaviour was bizarre. The occupants of these ships, when spoken too, claimed to be from Mars. A few artefacts, a cup and a beautiful flower wrapped in silk-like paper, were said to have fallen from the ship.

The following day, an unknown, well dressed, stranger, identified only as a “collector of curiosities” came into town. He told the local authorities that the artefacts were of Asiatic origin. He offered a large some of money for the finds. So large a sum that the depot agent who had found them couldn’t resist. The collector and the artefacts were never seen again.

On November 18th, 1896, a Californian man by the name of Colonel H.G. Shaw told reporters he had seen what appeared to be a landed space craft. It had a diameter of 25 feet and was around 150 feet in total length. Three slender 7ft tall beings of unknown origin are said to have stepped off the ship. They attempted to kidnap Shaw, and he narrowly escaped. The ship then lifted off the ground and sped off, out of sight.

There are sevbe received with disrespect, not unless you assumed that thousands of Americans had lost their senses, a discomforting notion which some scientists, editors and skeptics seem to embrace.”eral more mystery airship sightings, each one more complex and convoluted then the next. From the members of the secret “Aero Club” to the reported uses of an unknown “N.B. gas”, a substance, people claimed, made objects lighter than air.

An April 24th, 1897 report of Harper’s Weekly sums up the Phantom Airship phenomenon of the 1800’s nicely. It states: “The airship as a practical invention is believed to be so nearly ripe that a story of its appearance in the sky is not necessarily to

8. The Foo Fighters

Most of us are familiar with the band helmed by Dave Grohl, Nirvana’s ex drummer. But many have no idea where they got their name.

During the second world war, the greatest armed conflict the world had ever known, something we did must’ve got their attention.

The sightings officially began in Nuremberg (Aliens love Germany?) in November of 1944, but there had been whispers about them for years prior, only with less frequency. Strange “mystery airships” were popping up everywhere and being seen by both pilots and the men on the ground. The Allied forces believed they were covert weaponry from the Axis powers. Ironically the German and Japanese forces reported the same up their military chain and they assumed they were products of our Allied forces.

They were described as fiery glowing lights, moving fast in the sky or low to the ground. They ranged in colour from red, to yellow, orange and white (sound familiar?). It was said they would toy with our aircrafts, following our every manoeuvre before making impossible manoeuvres of their own and then disappearing into the night. All sides of the war were unanimous, these craft, these, discs, these lights, were under intelligent control. They were not some natural phenomenon. Efforts to out-manoeuvre them failed. Attempts to shoot them down failed. The pilots were scared, and there was nothing anybody could do about it.

The Pacific sightings were different from those in Europe. There, they were described as flaming discs which just hung in the sky. They rarely followed any of the fighters. A TIMES magazine report from 1945 states that B-29 aircraft fire took one of these down. The ball simply broke up into several pieces crashing down, lighting several buildings on fire. No pieces were ever reported to be found.

The Europeans on our side dubbed them Kraut fireballs. In the Pacific Theater of Operations they were just called balls of fire. The North Americans called them Foo Fighters.

The name can be credited to Donald J. Meiers, a radar operator for the 415th Night Fighter Squadron from Chicago. Meiers and another pilot by the name of Ed Schleuter were chased by one of these strange red balls of fire on the afternoon of November 27th, 1944. In their mission debriefing with S-2 Intelligence Officer Fritz Ringwald, Meiers was agitated. When asked what had happened he exclaimed, “… it was another one of those foo fighters!” he stormed out of the debriefing room and history was made.

In January of 1953, as a result of the Project Bluebook investigations, the Robertson Panel met and attempted to explain the sightings. They suggested electromagnetic phenomena of unknown nature, electrostatic phenomena of unknown nature and St. Elmo’s fire. In the end, the report states events remain “unexplained to this day”, but there were two things they did know for sure. These lights in the sky never posed a threat to military aircraft and it was suggested that “If the term “flying saucers” had been popular in 1943–1945, these objects would have certainly been so labeled.”

At the time, everybody took these sightings extremely seriously, scientists from all over the world and both sides of the war were brought together to figure out what they were and who they were fighting for. The answers have yet to come

7. 1947, Kenneth Arnold, The First Flying Saucer & The Dawn Of Ufology

On June 24, 1947, a private Idaho pilot by the name of Kenneth Arnold was flying from Chehalis, to Yakima, Washington, on a business trip. It was during this flight that he spotted a string of nine unidentified, shining, metallic, flying objects. The objects flew past Mount Rainier, moving at supersonic speed. A feat modern aircraft had only recently achieved and up until then, only in nose dives. Arnold clocked the crafts at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour (1,932 km/hr).

A U.S. Marine Corps C-46 transport airplane had crashed near Mount Rainier. A $5,000 reward was offered for the discovery of the lost plane. The skies were completely clear. He spotted a light coming from behind him, and after pulling all the necessary manoeuvres and even rolling his windows down to make sure it wasn’t simply a reflection, he concluded it was another craft.

30 seconds after seeing the first flash of light, Arnold saw a series of bright flashes in the distance North of Mount Rainier, a total of nine of them were now flying in a straight line to his left. The objects flew in a long chain, had no tail and emitted no contrails. The objects approached him and suddenly flew passed him.

He said they moved, like “saucers skipping on water” and with that, the term “Flying Saucer” was born.

The objects were said to hold a diagonal echelon formation, all lined up like a flock of birds, and they weaved from side to side (“like the tail of a Chinese kite” as he later stated). They darted through the valleys and around the smaller mountain peaks and would occasionally flip or bank on their edges, in unison, as they turned or manoeuvred. Their motion caused bright, mirror-like flashes of light. The encounter gave him an “eerie feeling”. He first thought he was seeing test flights of a new U.S. military aircraft.

When he did the calculation, he estimated their  speed at over 1,700 miles per hour (2,700 km/h). This was about three times faster than any manned aircraft in 1947. Not knowing the exact distance where the objects faded from view, he decided to conservatively and arbitrarily round his previous figure down to 1,200 miles (1,900 km) an hour, still faster than any known aircraft of that era.

Army pilots told him that briefings before combat often mentioned seeing “objects of similar shape and design” and they assured him that he “wasn’t dreaming or going crazy.”

In a July 19th interview, Arnold had this to say, “The disks are not from any foreign country.  The Army would give the answers if it could — if they don’t have the explanation now, they certainly could do something to find out. If the Army has no explanations the disks must be — ‘and I know this sounds crazy’ — from another planet.”

In an interview in April of the following year he stated, “Since my first observations and report of the so-called ‘flying disks’ I have spent a great deal of money and time thoroughly investigating the subject… There is no doubt in my mind that these objects are aircraft of a strange design, and material that is unknown to the civilisations of this earth.”

Did that at least creep you out a little bit? No? Okay, well, let’s check out the case it lead right into, a case Kenneth Arnold himself spent much time and money investigating.

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New Light on Our Accelerating Universe --"Not as Fast as We Thought"

Certain types of supernovae, or exploding stars, are more diverse than previously thought, a University of Arizona-led team of astronomers has discovered. The results, reported in two papers published in the Astrophysical Journal, have implications for big cosmological questions, such as how fast the universe has been expanding since the Big Bang. Most importantly, the findings hint at the possibility that the acceleration of the expansion of the universe might not be quite as fast as textbooks say.

Why You Can't See the Milky Way in the Spring Night Sky

by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist

The Milky Way and Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse at Acadia National Park in Maine, captured in summer 2014 by astrophotographer Ray Yeager.
CREDIT: Ray Yeager

Now that the bright moon has moved out of the evening sky, skywatchers have a great chance to view the early-spring stars. And yet, even stargazers who are far from the scourge of light pollution will notice that there is something missing from the current view of the Northern Hemisphere sky.

It's the Milky Way.

Even under dark and pristine skies, you would have great difficulty seeing it, as it now appears to run almost completely around the horizon. Normally appearing as a faint, irregular ribbon of light spanning the sky, the Milky Way usually can be seen at most times of the year, provided that the night sky is very clear and moonless. (However, it can never be seen in brilliantly lit big cities, such as New York.) [Best Night Sky Events of April 2015 (Stargazing Maps)]

The best time of the year to see the Milky Way is during the late summer and early fall, when its brightest portions run from the southwest to the northeast parts of the sky and arch nearly overhead.

The queen 'wigged out'

But, at this time of the year, during the evening hours — even with perfect conditions — the Milky Way is invisible as it runs along the horizon, where it is hidden by the denser atmosphere near the ground.

If you look nearly overhead this week at around midnight local time, you won't see the Milky Way, but rather a fine star cluster that appears as a faint shimmering patch of light on clear, moonless nights, best viewed with a good pair of binoculars. This pattern of stars is the constellation that owes its name to a theft: Coma Berenices (also called "Berenice's Hair").

Berenice was an Egyptian queen, the wife of Ptolemy Euergetes, who reigned around 250 B.C. She sacrificed her beautiful amber tresses, the story goes, and placed them in the Temple of Venus at Zephyrium, as she had vowed to do if her husband returned victorious from his war against Babylon. But the queen's hair was stolen from the temple, and she became distraught.

The astronomer Conon eventually convinced the disconsolate queen that Zeus himself had taken the locks and put them up into the sky. Such is the story of how the cluster got its name, though this region of the sky was not generally recognized as the separate constellation of Coma Berenices until the beginning of the 17th century.

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Coma Berenices up, Milky Way down

There is a good reason Coma Berenices is highest in the sky when the Milky Way appears at its lowest.

From our Earthly vantage point, every star that we see in the night sky is part of our galaxy — the Milky Way. The sun and our solar system are situated in one of our galaxy's spiral arms and are located about two-thirds of the way from the center to the far edge of the main part of our galaxy.

The Milky Way is shaped like a disc, and most of its mass and stars lie in the relatively flat "galactic plane." The two points that are farthest from the galactic plane are called the galactic poles. As it turns out, the north galactic pole is located very close to Coma Berenices. So, when Coma Berenices is highest above the horizon, as is the case now, the galactic plane (sometimes also referred to as the galactic equator) runs more or less around the horizon and is usually hidden by low-lying haze.

So that's why the Milky Way runs low when Berenice's Hair rides high.

Or, as the late popularizer of the sky Hans A. Rey wrote in his popular guidebook, "The Stars: A New Way to See Them" (Houghton Mifflin, 1952), "No hair can ever get into the milk, celestially speaking."

Editor's note: If you capture an amazing view of a night-sky sight and would like to share photos with Space.com for a story or gallery, send comments and images to managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.

Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmer's Almanac and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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Radio bursts from space reveal strange mathematical pattern

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E.T. file photo from pre-opening preview of Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, Japan March 30, 2001. (U.S.  REUTERS/Eriko Sugita)

File photo - an undated Hubble image shows NGC 1566, a galaxy located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Dorado (The Dolphinfish). (REUTERS/ESA/Hubble & NASA/Handout via Reuters)

Eleven fast radio bursts from space seem to follow a strange mathematical pattern, according to a new study – and it has researchers scratching their heads. 

According to study co–authors Michael Hippke of the Institute of Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn,  Germany, and John Learned of the University of Hawaii in Manoa, the bursts– which were first detected in 2001 – all had dispersion measures that were integer multiples of the same number: 187.5. “The astronomers that found [the bursts] have not seen such things before and do not understand them,” Learned told FoxNews.com.

Nobody knows what causes fast radio bursts, known as FRBs. They only last a few milliseconds, and only one so far has been captured live (by the Parkes Telescope in Australia last year). Though the bursts release just as much energy in a few milliseconds as the sun does in a month, their brevity indicates that the source must be small, with estimates being several hundred miles across at most.

Researchers use dispersion measures, which records how much “space gunk” the burst has passed through, to estimate the distance an FRB has travelled. For instance, a low frequency FRB will have more gunk on it, indicating a longer trip, whereas a high frequency FRB will be cleaner, indicating it came from closer to Earth.

The fact that all of the FRBs’ dispersion measures are integer multiples of 187.5 has, according to Hippke and Learned’s team’s calculations, a 5 in 10,000 chance of being coincidental. The dispersion measures also indicate that their origin is relatively close to Earth, but unlikely from within our own galaxy.

There are numerous theories on where these bursts came from, including speculation that the messages are from extraterrestrial intelligence. To the scientific community, however, this theory doesn’t really hold water, and is seen as more of a last resort only after all other avenues have been exhausted.

“We think these are likely from some very energetic process, like a burst from a high magnetic field neutron star or energy released [when] two neutron stars merge,” Professor Maura McLaughlin of the West Virginia University Center for Astrophysics explained. “The thing that made people think they were possibly from ETs was a recent paper that showed that one fundamental property is quantized in a way that wouldn't be expected if the signals were naturally occurring. However, I imagine that correlation will totally go away once more are discovered.”

Learned himself is dubious of an alien source as well, noting that he and Hippke only noted the dispersion measures’ “peculiar” pattern, and that they may even be coming from Earth. “We are now leaning more towards a terrestrial, anthropogenic interpretation,” he said. “At this point I would place my money on some sort of governmental satellite, not a natural phenomena, but I would not bet much.  More data, which reportedly [is] being analyzed but which we have no insider information about yet, will be most interesting and refute or confirm our hypotheses.” He also noted that he’d only look to an ETI interpretation once all other possibilities have been eliminated.

As for McLaughlin, she believes there’s no way the FRBs could be messages from aliens, as the signals are very broadband and emitted over a wide range of radio frequencies. “It would take a LOT of energy for an alien civilization to produce these bursts - they'd need to harness the energy of many, many suns - and there's no real advantage for communication to send a signal over such a large bandwidth.”

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UFO Undersea Bases : Some Compelling and Some Plain Stupid

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Unfortunately, most of the claims concerning undersea bases are plain stupid. Nevertheless, some make you go hmm. Hence, let us start with the stupid.

Thanks to Google Earth, some believe 2000 feet beneath the ocean in an area near Point Dume, Malibu, California is an underwater alien base. The vehicles these aliens pilot are called “USOs” (Unidentified Submersible/marine Objects) as opposed to the more familiar UFOs which do not enter or exit from oceans/lakes as these apparently do.

The aforementioned base is a merely a seamount formation. Due to its flat appearance and supposed pillars, kooks are agape. There are problems for Jimmy Church, the crank radio host who has endorsed and publicized this structure, though.

Nature has long created objects that appear man-made and all of them are vastly more impressive and symmetrical than the Point Dume formation. Hell, even a fool like Lee Speigel does not appear to believe this gibberish.

Nevertheless, it is understandable Church is a fool. His guest list includes flakes like Richard Dolan, Kerry Cassidy, David Wilcox, and Jason Martell. In research, you are what you eat; hence, Church has chronic dysentery (1)(2)(3).

George Sauder is perhaps the most popular exponent of underground base theories around. I agree with him there may well be some funky subsea bases around. Johnathan Gray’s interesting “64 Secrets Still Ahead of us” discusses a document Sauder unearthed dating from 1966, detailing the use of underwater bases by the United States going back decades. It is good verifiable documentation. Nonetheless, Sauder should avoid mixing with kooks like Church too often (4)(5).

David Hatcher Childress Lurking Beneath the Waves.

The reason I say this is no matter how interesting the subsea base subject could potentially be, king David Hatcher Childress has leaped on-board. In 2005, he republished Ivan T. Sandersons 1970, book “Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFO’s.” (6)

The English born Sanderson was a popular Charles Fort inspired biologist, agent, adventurer, and storyteller in the 50s and 60s. Many believe Sanderson to be the person who first coined the term “cryptozoological” for off-beat creatures he wrote about like the “Abominable Snowman.” (7)

Returning to his “Invisible Residents” book, one of Sanderson’s most fascinating and influential claims in it concerns an object noted on sonar circa 1963 travelling at over “150 knots” and went to “28,374 feet below sea level” by the U.S Navy.

He quoted this story from two different articles lacking any sources. The real story appears to have taken place with an incident seen by the Royal Navy off the Norwegian Coast in February of 1963. It was an interesting tale and it contained no stories of objects descending to any such depths (8).

Yet, what struck me once more was how Childress attached himself to Sanderson like a parasite. Because, he is such a schmuck he sucks the fun out of anything Sanderson ever touched. Moreover, he seems to advocate for dubious pseudo-science with white supremacist undertones.

Like Childress, as a kid, I too was fascinated with the idea of advanced underwater/lost civilizations; indeed, the possibility of aliens under the depths fascinated me. Hence, Atlantis was where I wanted to go and from whence most discussions of underwater civilizations/bases start.

Plato described the Atlantean’s way back sometime near 300 BC. It is doubtful any Atlanteans existed as described by Plato who seemed to use it as an allegorical tale. Nevertheless, I am a huge fan of Robert Ballard who pointed out due to volcanoes and rising water levels we have numerous communities from which legends of Atlantis could have sprung (9).

All About Unexplained Spooklights

(Before It's News)

Paulding Light is found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It's been reported since the 1960s. Some studies of it say that it is likely the lights from a car in the distance. The legends include a railroad brakeman who died trying to prevent a collision and for all eternity carries a lantern to protect from other collisions, the ghost of a murdered mail carrier, and the ghost of an Indian dancing on the power lines. 


Big Thicket Light is seen in East Texas in Hardin County on Bragg Road and, although some have debunked it as car lights, there is an interesting aside to this. In my years of Bigfoot research, I have repeatedly heard from people about strange lights in the woods. These look like a flashlight or a lantern and when they try to chase them down, they cannot seem to capture the source. The Big Thicket area is one of the most light-active sites I have run across in the research. In fact, I have advised Bigfoot researchers in this region to keep their eyes open for lights in the woods and try some experiments. 

Traditionally, these kinds of lights were seen by citizens around the world and called “will-o'-the-wisp.”  A true will-o'-the-wisp is seen over bogs, marshes, and swamps. Natural odd lights have been seen for centuries, long before car lights and train lights. Some of the local legends include ghosts with lanterns. 

(Wikipedia)  A peasant traveling home at dusk sees a bright light traveling along ahead of him. Looking closer, he sees that the light is a lantern held by a “dusky little figure”, which he follows for several miles. All of a sudden he finds himself standing on the edge of a vast chasm with a roaring torrent of water rushing below him. At that precise moment the lantern-carrier leaps across the gap, lifts the light high over its head, lets out a malicious laugh and blows out the light, leaving the poor peasant a long way from home, standing in pitch darkness at the edge of a precipice. This is a fairly common cautionary tale concerning the phenomenon; however, the ignis fatuus was not always considered dangerous. There are some tales told about the will-o’-the-wisp being guardians of treasure, much like the Irish leprechaun leading those brave enough to follow them to sure riches. Other stories tell of travelers getting lost in the woodland and coming upon a will-o’-the-wisp, and depending on how they treated the will-o’-the-wisp, the spirit would either get them lost further in the woods or guide them out.

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Daytime UFO sighting over New Ellenton, South Carolina on 8th April 2015

New interesting video footage of a strange donut – shaped UFO sighting recorded over New Ellenton, South Carolina on 8th April 2015.

Witness said:
I was photographing clouds with my cell phone. In between layers of cloud was what I thought a star until I went inside and zoomed in. The circle with a hole on the center was clearly not a star. I was in front of my house in New Ellenton, S. C. In Aiken County. I enjoy photographing the sky, stars moon and clouds. But I have never seen this before.

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Josie's Lingering Nightmare

The following is an uncommon alien abduction report:

I live on the ground floor of a condominium building in an Atlanta, GA suburb. I've only lived here about 4 months, but have felt uneasy with my home since I moved in. I live alone and rarely socialize, but I do enjoy having an occasional night out with friends. One night a few weeks ago, my close friend Josie spent the night on my couch since she was in no condition to drive home. This wasn't unusual because I enjoy her company - we are like sisters and have known each other since grade school.

The next morning (Sunday) I found Josie sitting on my leather chaise shaking like a leaf in the wind. She was wrapped in a white bed sheet, which I didn't recognize - all my bedding is colored. There was an odd odor in the living room, which reminded me of an old musty basement. As I walked closer to Josie she looked at me with wide bloodshot eyes with tears streaming down her face. I asked her what was wrong. She didn't answer - but hide her face in her hands.

I sat down on the foot of the chaise watching and consoling Josie. I was frightened, wondering if someone had broken into the condo last night and assaulted Josie. 'Josie - what happened? Where did this white bed sheet come from?' She raised her head from her hands and said 'I was abducted by aliens.'

'What? Did someone break-in and hurt you?' She looked at me and started to cry. 'The aliens took me away.'

I stood up and walked to the front door. All the locks were intact and the alarm was still armed. It hadn't been touched. I walked towards the patio sliding doors - the lock and alarm was intact there as well. Nothing in the condo looked out of place. I walked back to Josie and inquired about the white bed sheet again. She said that they took her clothes and wrapped her in it before they brought her back. I could tell that she was serious - Josie has always been a no-nonsense person. In fact, I didn't remember ever seeing her cry before.

'They know where I am again.' Again? 'What do you mean when you say again?' She asked if she could take a shower - that she would explain to me afterwards. I went in my bedroom in order to find Josie some clothes. When I walked into the bathroom, she dropped the bed sheet - and I noticed a half-dollar sized bruise at the base of her spine. There was also a few patches of greenish colored powder on her legs and on the bed sheet. Josie stepped into the shower. I grabbed the bed sheet and placed it in a large shopping bag I had beside my bed. I then made my way to the kitchen and started brewing coffee.

Josie stayed in the shower for over 45 minutes. I sat at the dining room table wondering what could have possibly transpired during the night. After a while, Josie slowly walked into the dining room and sat down across from me. 'You don't believe me, do you?' I replied 'you said that aliens took you. I don't believe in aliens, honey.'

'This was not the first time they came for me. I've put up with this since I was 5 years old. My Mama also experienced abductions during her life. They never have told us why.' Josie took a sip of coffee, 'it is painful and doesn't get any easier. It killed Mama.' Josie's Mom had committed suicide while Josie was in college. Her Father was never a part of her life.

I didn't know how to respond, but I do know this. If Josie said she was abducted, then she believed that it had happened. She is the most sincere person I know. Her only vice was that she is a heavy drinker - these abductions may be the reason why.

We talked for most of the day. She explained that the encounters always begin with her waking up disrobed on a hard cold table in a brightly lit room. The same aliens would attend to her each time. These aliens were very human-like except for their glistening yellow hair. There were male and female of various sizes and heights. They all wore white full-bodied suits. They didn't walk with their two legs but appeared to float just an inch or two above a black textured floor. There were other aliens present that were small in stature with large heads and eyes. These small beings wore dark blue smocks that reached the floor. Their duties were unknown - though there were always several standing around. Josie also said that she has endured over two dozen abductions and that she was told to expect further encounters during her life. The last abduction was over a year ago and ceased after she moved to another house. She hoped that they may have lost track of her. Now she realized that they always knew where she was.

I suppose that I am most surprised that I never had any idea that Josie has undergone this abuse over the entire time I have known her. Do I believe her? I have no reason not to believe her - and I plan to help her through the continued exploitation by these yellow-haired aliens. H.

NOTE: The submission was referred to me by a UFO investigator, who is an attorney in Atlanta, GA. The report was forwarded by a middle aged woman who has lived in the same general area her entire life. After I received the report, I was asked to redact some of the content after I requested permission to publish. Your comments are welcomed. Lon

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Daily 2 Cents: 24th Annual Bigfoot Conference -- Nice Doormen Finish Last -- Obama's Former Pilot Recalls UFO Encounter

24th Annual Bigfoot Conference

The worlds longest running Bigfoot Conference is set to resume on April 18, 2015 2 to 8 pm at the Salt Fork State Park Lodge. Your Host and Master of Ceremonies Don Keating brings back a tradition to Ohio. On this website you will find information on speakers, accommodations, itinerary, and tickets. Please check back to this page for updates as they become available.

Speakers:

Dr. Jeff Meldrum
Carl Johnson
Todd Neiss
Diane Stocking-Neiss

Meet and Greet … Friday evening in the “Ball Room” from 6-9 p.m. with the speakers whom have already arrived as well as myself. NO ADMISSION CHARGE!!!

Conference from 2 until about 8 p.m. on Saturday. General admission tickets will fly out the door quickly. They are $15 each. Current or former members of the Military will receive $5 off ticket price with proof of Military service (ID Badge, whatever) There will be an auction of items that will have been donated as well as several items from my OWN PERSONAL COLLECTION! If you have an item(s) you’d be willing to donate please contact me ASAP. VIP tickets still available. Contact me directly (eobic@yahoo.com) or go here to place your order. They are limited so go, order now!!!

There will be ONE Door Prize winner of $100 at the conference. You MUST be present to win!!!

At this time there is a tentative cookout planned for Sunday!!! I will give you full details during the conference IF it is a go, or not.

Conference t-shirts will be $20 each no matter the size. If you wish to PRE-ORDER a shirt(s) get back to me ASAP. The order goes in for them in the next couple of weeks!

Finally, there will be a moment of silence at the start of the Conference as one of our longtime members has passed away. Veronica Burchette passed away back on February 7th.

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Boston bombers’ mom: US ‘will pay for my sons’

The mother of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has furiously bashed Americans and promised that the US “will pay” for convicting her “innocent” son and killing his older brother.

Just moments after learning that her 21-year-old was found guilty of all 30 counts in the Boston Marathon bombing trial Wednesday, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva sent an angry tirade to the technology website Vocativ through the WhatsApp messenger app.

“[The US] WILL PAY FOR MY SONS AND THE SONS OF ISLAM, PERMANENTLY!!!” she fumed in Russian. “THE TEARS OF THEIR MOTHERS WILL BE FUEL FOR THEM IN HELL.

“MY SONS ARE INNOCENT, AS INNOCENT AS ALL THOSE WHO ARE BEING KILLED BY YOUR COUNTRY,” she added. “TODAY THEY ARE KILLING MUSLIMS, AND TOMORROW WILL COME YOUR TURN AND HE WHO DOUBTS THIS IS DEEPLY MISTAKEN!!!!!”

“HOW CAN A MOTHER FEEL WHOSE SON IS IN THE CLAWS OF A PREDATOR PREPARING TO TEAR HIM TO PIECES LIKE MEAT???”

Vocativ had managed to obtain Zubeidat’s phone number by locating pictures of her holding signs with the digits. The images were posted on the Russian social media site VKontakte as part of a previous fundraising effort to support the Tsarnaev family in the wake of the 2013 attack.

The website then requested that she send a selfie with a dated piece of paper which could verify that it was indeed her sending the messages. In the photo, Zubeidat can be seen wearing a black hijab and holding a sign that reads, “Zubeidat mother of two precious brothers Tamarlan Djahar April 9, 2015.”

“I LOVE MY SONS IMMEASURABLY!!!!!!” she explained. “PRECIOUS, GLORIOUS AND RARE IN CHARACTER AND ESSENCE…ONLY GOD KNOWS WHAT WE DO NOT KNOW!!!”

Zubeidat also sent a note in Russian to a family friend Wednesday, saying she believed Americans were the real “terrorists” and claiming her murderous son is truly “the best of the best.”

“I will never forget it,” the message said. “May God bless those who helped my son.”

Vocativ had also stumbled upon the post in VKontakte.

“The terrorists are the Americans and everyone knows it,” Zubeidat charged. “My son is the best of the best.”

Zubeidat, a Russia native, has always insisted that her son Dzhokhar is innocent — despite the fact that he admitted to the 2013 attack, which left three people dead and 260 others injured.

Her other son, Dzhokar’s brother Tamerlan, also was involved in the plot and died in a shootout with cops. - Boston bombers’ mom: US ‘will pay for my sons’

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Nice Doormen Finish Last

Ralph Body was booted from a luxe Long Island City apartment building — for being too accommodating to its well-heeled tenants.

Body, 41, said he “gave his life” to the glimmering Queens tower called 27 on 27th ever since it opened two years ago a few blocks from the East River.

He didn’t just hold the door. He did anything and everything residents asked him to do — check on pets, clean litter boxes, water plants, hold packages, even show $4,200 apartments to new tenants if need be, he said.

“Everything I did, somebody asked me to do, or there was a need for it,” Body said.

But the door suddenly slammed shut on the collegial “Melrose Place”-like atmosphere last Sunday, when the staffing company that placed him at the posh building told him “upper management” wanted him out, he said.

“They said, ‘We know you did it for the right reasons, but unfortunately . . . you’re too nice to the tenants.’”

He tried to plead his case: “I told them, ‘When the tenants ask me to do something, I’m going to say yes.’

“But they said, ‘You do things for them which you shouldn’t be doing. And unfortunately, in this case, nice guys finish last,’ ” he continued.

Body said he was “shocked” at being shown the door — and so were tenants who are now rallying to bring him back.
“Going above and beyond your work duties shouldn’t be punished — it should be praised,” reads a petition to reinstate Body. “We stand with Ralph.”

It goes on: “Most tenants . . . can attest to Ralph’s kindness and eagerness to make people feel safe and welcome. In a transient city where most people are from other states and countries, 27 on 27th was a unique building that truly felt like ‘home’ from the moment you stepped through the front doors.”

Residents told The Post that Body was one of the main reasons they chose to live at the 27-story building, which boasts dazzling views of Manhattan, a yoga room, gym and game and film rooms — but competes with similarly outfitted towers rising in Queens.

“Ralph made this different than other luxury buildings,” said the tenant who started the petition, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from building management Heatherwood Communities.

A paper petition that the petition organizer left in the lobby mysteriously disappeared the next day, the tenant noted. “I would definitely have to think twice about my [lease] renewal now,” the resident said.

Tenants blamed Heatherwood for Body’s removal — not staffing company PBS Facility Services, which Body said has promised to find him work at a different building.

But for now, the only door he’s opening is to his apartment in the West Village. “They said I have to sit tight and wait,” Body said.

In an e-mail to tenants obtained by The Post, Heatherwood says there has been “misinformation” about Body’s removal.

“It was recently brought to our attention that Ralph did not follow PBS’s policies and procedures and after being spoken to several times, it was their decision to reassign him to another building,” the letter reads.

But residents aren’t buying it.

“Heatherwood wants impartial professionalism,” said tenant Dr. Michael Dardano. “I don’t want to live in an environment like that — where there are robots at the front desk.” - Doorman fired from luxury building for being ‘too nice’ to tenants

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Obama's former pilot recalls UFO encounter

One of President Barack Obama’s former pilots not only says he believes in UFOs and tells in great detail about the time he saw one while flying over Iowa.

Andrew Danziger, a 28-year airline veteran who was one of Obama’s pilots during his 2008 presidential campaign, told his story to the New York Daily News.

Danziger says his close encounter happened in 1989 while flying from Kansas City to Waterloo, Iowa. He describes it as a beautiful evening, with clear skies. He says both he, and Bruce, the captain, had noticed a white disc in the sky. For 30 minutes, that disc remained in the sky.

“We got busy with our flying duties and for a short while, maybe for a minute, both of us had looked away from the disc, but when I looked up at it again I saw something that has been burned into my memory,” Danziger writes.

I yelled to Bruce, “Holy s–t.” He immediately looked over from what he was doing. Above the clouds, where the white disc had been, was a now giant red ball. It was big and bright and just sat there above the clouds. It wasn’t intense enough to illuminate us with a red glow but it was still plenty bright. We sat there in stunned silence. We obviously didn’t want to hit it but quickly saw that it was flying parallel to our course. We weren’t on a collision course and we also weren’t gaining on it. Time became a blur as we continued our descent, this giant, red ball holding its course.

As the plane slowly descended to the ground, and was at 13,000 feet, the ball began a descent as well.

In about 30 seconds, like a setting sun but not nearly as bright, it vanished behind the clouds. The instant it fully disappeared, hundreds of lights began flashing from within the clouds.

As I looked on in disbelief, the flashing lights were brighter than ever and I could see that the section of the cloud that the glowing red ball had descended behind was starting to stretch apart like a piece of “Silly Putty,” two halves being pulled slowly apart with the middle getting thinner and thinner. This continued until the halves grew so thin that it tore apart and, pop! Everything was gone. The dimly lit disc, the flashing lights, the thin wispy clouds that we had with us for the last 40 minutes; all of it, gone. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Only the full moon remained off to our left.

He insists they had no idea what they say, they were certain it wasn’t from this earth.

Danziger says that as a pilot, he has lots of company in his belief that UFOs do exist.

I’m not going too far out on a ledge to say that virtually all pilots believe in UFOs. Little green men, “close encounters”, alien kidnappings,… not so much, but with billions of stars and trillions of planets out there, “ya gotta believe”, and almost all of us do.

While former President Bill Clinton has previously said he examined the Roswell and Area 51 files while in office and confirmed we aren’t hiding any extraterrestrial life there, he refuses to rule out the existence of alien life forms. - Obama's former pilot recalls UFO encounter

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UFO zichtbaar direct na vulkaanuitbarsting Mexico.

Is er een verband tussen de vele UFO waarnemingen en het weer tot leven komen van de bekende Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico en mogelijk zelfs als relatie in algemene zin?

Het aantal UFOs dat rond deze vulkaan wordt waargenomen is zo langzamerhand fenomenaal en nu verschijnen ze enkele minuten na een uitbarsting.

Tientallen jaren langs was deze reus van een vulkaan in een soort slaapmode tot 1994 en 1997, toen er opnieuw uitbarstingen voorvielen, met de grootste uitbarsting in 1.000 jaar in het jaar 2.000.

Deze gigantische vulkaan staat ook wel bekend onder de naam Don Goyo (Mr. Gregory) na een verschijning van een man met een baard die zichzelf Gregorio Chino Popocatépetl noemde, de beschermgeest van de vulkaan.

Velen zeggen dat ze deze geestverschijning hebben gezien en de geest en de vulkaan worden op 12 maart bijzonder geëerd omdat dit de geboortedag is van paus Gregorius de Grote.

Dit soort rituelen waarbij de vulkaan en haar beschermgeest worden geëerd gaan al lang terug in de tijd.

Op 31 maart was er opnieuw een uitbarsting van de Popocatépetl vulkaan, waarbij een grote pluim van as en lava de atmosfeer werd ingestoten.

Via de webcams van Webcams de Mexico en Skyalert werden de beelden van deze uitbarsting al snel wereldwijd verspreid.

Waar niemand echter rekening mee had gehouden, maar wat toch gebeurde, was dat er op de afbeeldingen van deze uitbarstingen duidelijk een UFO te zien was.

Via de Twitter van Webcams werd dan ook het volgende bericht de wereld ingestuurd:

“Skyalert en Webcams de Mexico hebben een vreemd licht opgepikt op de avond van 31 maart. Een licht dat de aswolk passeerde die net drie minuten daarvoor door de Popocatépetl vulkaan was uitgestoten na een enorme explosie in de krater van deze kolos.”

Misschien pakken de UFO's het nu iets slimmer aan omdat normaal gesproken wat ze doen bij deze vulkaan niet opgepikt wordt in het nieuws. Door zich nu te vertonen, vlak na een aanzienlijke vulkaanuitbarsting terwijl miljoenen mensen kijken, wordt dát nu binnenkort anders.

Bron: Inexplicata

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UFO Cover-Up Issue Surrounds the Delay of Releasing Britain’s X-Files

The delay in the release of a cache of documents called as Britain’s X-Files has made UFO spotters to think of a cover-up. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) failed to fulfil its promise to release 18 UFO files at the end of 2014. The MoD admitted that it did not hand the cache over on the scheduled date after Lord Black of Brentwood questioned to the House of Lords about the update.

The defence ministry promised to release the files in late 2015 or 2016 instead. MoD blamed the delay to the additional processing requirements.

Former UFO investigator at the MoD, Nick Pope, said that the massive delay has caused several conspiracy theorists to think of a cover up.

Nick Pope explained that the suspicions about the delay focused on the idea that there’s information in these files that would shock the world that the Ministry doesn’t know how to handle it.

Many UFO enthusiasts and followers are thrilled to know the details of the famous UFO encounter in Rendlesham Forest, which has been popularly known as Britain’s Roswell.

During this incident, radiation exposure reportedly affected much to the health of an American Airman First Class John Burroughs. Pope added that these documents could be called legitimately as Britain’s X-Files and most probably include further reports on the alleged UFO and alien encounter in the Rendlesham Forest.

The UK government admitted that there’s a big possibility that the witnesses at Rendlesham forest were irradiated. Recently, the US government settled an injury claim on the basis of the admission by the UK government. This possibly caused a high-level diplomatic row that resulted in a delay, according to Pope.

Attorney Pat Frascogna recently won a legal bid for Burroughs to force military health chiefs to shoulder the finances of the former US airman. Frascogna said that they knew there was information in MoD files regarding the Rendlesham Forest incident because it was clearly indicated in the MoD files that they obtained through a Freedom of Information request in 2014. According to Frascogna, either the MoD is hesitant to release these secret files or someone ordered to delay their release.

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