Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America

Reviewed by Jay Watkins

As World War II ended, the race was on with the Soviet Union to seize as many German scientists as possible in anticipation of the Cold War. The full story has remained elusive until now. Operation Paperclip, by Annie Jacobsen, provides perhaps the most comprehensive, up-to-date narrative available to the general public. Her book is a detailed and highly readable account of the program. Jacobsen compiled extensive primary and secondary sources, duly annotated in over 100 pages of notes and bibliography. In it are many new sources, among them US government records (President Clinton’s “Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act”), German archival records, first-person accounts, memoirs, and letters. The book also contains a useful index and biographies of the principal players.

Jacobsen offers a detailed chronology of events related to Operation Paperclip. Because of its scope and the introduction of so many characters, the narrative could have been improved if the author had focused on a shorter list than the 89 individuals profiled and maintained more topical continuity. Nevertheless, the book is a compelling work with interesting historical and personal revelations, for example:

• One of the most notorious cases of WMD proliferation occurred on 15 May 1945, when the German U-234 submarine, bound for Japan, was captured off Newfoundland by the USS Sutton. The U-boat carried Dr. Heinz Schlicke, Director of Naval Test Fields at Kiel, and the cargo included plans for the Hs293 glider bomb, V-1 glide bomb (forerunner to cruise missiles), V-2 rocket (forerunner to the SCUD missile), Me262 fighter aircraft (the first combat jet fighter), low observable submarine designs, and lead-lined boxes filled with 1,200 lbs. of uranium oxide, a key ingredient of atomic bombs. Schlicke, who claimed to be an electronic warfare expert, became a prisoner at Ft. Meade, MD.
• Sarin was produced at Dyhernfurth (Dyhernfurth later fell into Russian hands). Its name derives from the initials of its developers: Gerhard Schrader and Otto Ambros from the infamous IG Farben chemical company—maker of the killing gases used at concentration camps—and from the names of two German Army officers.
• Schrader tells the story of inventing “tabun,” a nerve agent named after the English word “taboo.”  The Germans called it 9/91 and, after their defeat at Stalingrad, seriously considered using it on the Russians.

Henry Wallace, former vice president and secretary of commerce, believed the scientists’ ideas could launch new civilian industries and produce jobs. Indeed, German scientists developed synthetic rubber (used in automobile tires), non-running hosiery, the ear thermometer, electromagnetic tape, and miniaturized electrical components, to name a few.

Werner von Braun is well known to those who remember the Apollo moon landing. During the Ford administration, von Braun was almost awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—until one of Ford’s senior advisors, David Gergen, objected to his Nazi past.

Less well known is that another 120 fellow German scientists, engineers, and technicians developed the Saturn V launch vehicle, or that the Launch Operations Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was headed by Kurt Debus, an ardent Nazi. The Vertical Assembly Building—bigger in volume than the Pentagon and almost as tall as the Washington Monument—was designed by Bernhard Tessmann, former facilities designer at the German missile launch facility at Peenemuende.

Other prominent Nazis hired under Operation Paperclip included:

• Dr. Hubertus Strughold, who played an important role in space medicine by developing space suits and other life-support systems. In June 1948, he put a rhesus monkey named Albert in the pressurized nosecone of a V-2 rocket in a pressurized nose cone, the first step in the effort to send humans to space.
• General Reinhard Gehlen, former head of Nazi intelligence operations against the Soviets, was hired by the US Army and later by the CIA to operate 600 ex-Nazi agents in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany. In 1948, CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter assumed control of the so-called Gehlen Organization.
• German biologist Dr. Kurt Blome was hired to develop offensive and defensive capabilities to counter Soviet biological warfare activities.

In 1949, the CIA created the Office of Scientific Intelligence. Its first director, Dr. Willard Machle, traveled to Germany to set up a special program to interrogate Soviet spies. The CIA believed the Russians had developed mind-control programs and wanted to know how US spies would hold up against this capability if caught. He also aimed to explore the feasibility of creating a “Manchurian candidate” through behavioral modification. Thus, Operation Bluebird was born. Bluebird, later called MKULTRA, was a research activity experimenting in behavioral engineering of humans. The Nuremberg Code prohibits experimentation with humans without their consent. During this program, Dr. Frank Olson, a US Army biological weapons researcher, was given the drug LSD without his knowledge, leading to his death by leaping from a building. DCI Richard Helms ordered much of the documentation destroyed, and the circumstances of his demise remain controversial to this day.

Although she understandably questions the morality of the decision to hire Nazi SS scientists, Jacobsen balances her judgment with an understanding of the perceived threat of the Soviet Union under Stalin and the communists’ dialectical determination to prepare for total war with the West. The Soviets similarly captured and used German scientists for their own defense programs. That side of the story is not covered in this book.

Jacobsen provides insights on joint intelligence coordination and cooperation among US services and Allies; operational deconfliction; document and foreign materiel acquisition and exploitation; interrogation techniques; active tracking; production of foreign intelligence; surveillance and countersurveillance methods; and negotiating the sometimes conflicting objectives of the judiciary and the Intelligence Community (i.e., “hang them” vs. “hire them!”).

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Weird X-Rays Spur Speculation about Dark Matter Detection

Scientists must now decide whether the anomalous signal is truly exotic or has a more mundane provenance

Many major discoveries in astronomy began with an unexplained signal: pulsars, quasars and the cosmic microwave background are just three out of many examples. When astronomers recently discovered x-rays with no obvious origin, it sparked an exciting hypothesis. Maybe this is a sign of dark matter, the invisible substance making up about 85 percent of all the matter in the universe. If so, it hints that the identity of the particles is different than the prevailing models predict.

The anomalous x-rays, spotted by the European Space Agency’s orbiting XMM–Newton telescope, originate from two different sources: the Andromeda Galaxy and the Perseus cluster of galaxies. The challenge is to determine what created those x-rays, as described in a study published last month in Physical Review Letters. (See also an earlier study published in The Astrophysical Journal.) The signal is real but weak and astronomers must now determine whether it is extraordinary or has a mundane explanation. If that can be done, they can set about the work of identifying what kind of dark matter might be responsible.

“If the [x-ray emission] line is conclusively shown to be due to dark matter, the implications are of course profound,” wrote University of California, Irvine, astrophysicist Kevork Abazajian in a commentary published December 15, 2014, in Physical Review Letters.

If this observation sounds familiar, it is because researchers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope detected anomalous gamma rays near the Milky Way center, which some think could be from dark matter particles colliding and annihilating. The difference between the Fermi and the XMM–Newton observations is the energy of the light involved, which is connected to the masses of the hypothetical dark matter particles that created it. Fermi’s gamma rays are more than a million times more energetic than the x-rays, so the particles that created the former would be more massive than a proton.

The x-rays, on the other hand, would have to originate from particles significantly lighter than an electron. (For those keeping track at home, the x-rays have an energy of about 3.5 kilo-electron volts, corresponding to less than one one-hundredth of the electron mass.) If the XMM–Newton detection is a sign of dark matter, however, it would not be due to weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), which are researchers’ most popular candidates for what constitutes dark matter.

Other potential dark matter particles could include sterile neutrinos—heavier cousins of the types produced in many nuclear reactions—or more exotic possibilities such as axions, originally predicted to solve an unrelated problem in particle physics. Both of these particles remain hypothetical, but if they exist, they would be much less massive than electrons.

If the culprits are sterile neutrinos, they would possess masses slightly larger than the energy of the x-ray photons. They decay into the well-known standard neutrinos, with the rest of their mass converted into x-ray light—the very signal seen by XMM–Newton. This idea, however, presents a few problems: there are no equivalent x-rays in the Milky Way and other experiments hunting for sterile neutrinos have turned up empty.

By contrast, axions are stable but they transform into photons in the presence of strong magnetic fields. Because galaxies and galaxy clusters generate such intense magnetism, they are prime axion makers. The particles (technically “axionlike particles”) required to make the anomalous x-rays would be of higher mass than the typical axion, but within constraints allowed by some theories.

The biggest concern is that it is very hard to rule out other possible x-ray sources. Atoms emit light of specific energies depending on the configuration of their electrons but physicists have not identified all of these energies, especially for x-rays. In other words, it is possible this unidentified signal could be just a new emission line from ordinary atoms or from hot plasma. As CNRS/Université Paris-Sud particle physicist Adam Falkowski wrote, whether you accept the dark matter explanation depends on how you model the plasma emission: “seems that the devil is in the details...(which, frankly speaking, is not reassuring).”

The authors of the latest study think the plasma option is not a likely option, because the Milky Way contains a relatively small amount of it. Another problem is there seems to be a mismatch between the places where the x-rays are emitted and maps of the mass distribution in galaxy clusters that suggest where dark matter is hiding.

A Japanese space agency x-ray observatory named Astro–H scheduled to launch this year will carry instruments with sufficient precision to tell the difference between atomic emission and dark matter signatures. And more data is always better; finding other galaxies and galaxy clusters—especially those farther away—with the same type of x-ray emission would help constrain the possibilities.

Ultimately, astronomers must try to reconcile a big claim—dark matter detection—with a relatively weak astronomical signal, which could have several mundane explanations. “I think people who take weak results and ride them are gonna get in trouble,” says University of Washington particle physicist Leslie Rosenberg of the axion hypothesis. Where things stand, the stretch is pretty big from an anomalous x-ray signal to a definitive detection of the matter making up the lion’s share of all mass in the universe. As with any claim of a striking new discovery, it’s best to hedge one’s bets for now.

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Un membre de la Chambre des Lords intervient pour la déclassification d’archives sur les ovnis

Nick Pope, l'ancien officiel du bureau des ovnis du ministère de la défense anglais, avait souligné en septembre 2014 l’embarras du gouvernement qui n’a pas tenu ses promesses envers la nation en ce qui concerne la déclassification de documents sur les ovnis.
Finalement, les 18 dossiers restants ne seront pas mis à la disposition du public avant septembre 2015.
La vague de déclassification de tous les documents ufologiques a débuté en 2007.
​Guy Black, Lord de Brentwood, membre de la Chambre des Lords et cadre du Comité de l'information, avait déja demandé au gouvernement britannique où en été le processus de libération des fichiers.
Dans un message intitulé "objets volants non identifiés", Lord Black a adressé le 2 Mars 2015 une question au Parlement Britannique au sujet de savoir pourquoi le Ministère de la Défense n’a pas encore libéré la totalité de ces documents au public.
Lord Black souhaiterait obtenir une estimation à propos de la date de publication de ces fichiers par les Archives Nationales et de savoir s’ils seront publiés en un seul ou plusieurs lots.

Russian UFO video picked up by UK media is old news

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A purported UFO video captured over Russia recently was picked up by UK media. However, the video is actually a repost of an alleged UFO video posted in 2013. Either way, the phenomenon displayed in the video still goes unexplained, and the anomalous lights in the video have supposedly been recorded  several times.

The Mirror Online was the first to cover the story on May 22, 2015. They referenced a video posted on a French UFO YouTube channel called Ovni & Extraterrestre. The title of the video reads: ” Observation d’OVNI, UFO en Russie [2015].” OVNI is the term for UFO in Spanish and French speaking countries.

Another news website, the Daily Express, then picked up on the story a few days later.

According to the Mirror Online, “information submitted alongside the YouTube video, the UFO was seen in Russia’s Astrakhan region.”

The video they reference only has a short description, which translated by Google Translate reads, ” Hi everyone, here’s a video of UFO sighting in the skies of Russia.”

However, the same video, posted in April, 2013, does state that the video was recorded in the Astrakhan region of Russia. This video claims the footage was captured on April 24, 2013.

The previous year, in 2012, several witnesses recorded similar UFOs over St. Petersburg in Russia. The following video is purportedly from April 12, 2012.

So what is being seen in the videos?

All the videos are similar, showing bright lights in a cluster hanging in the air for several minutes.

The Mirror Online highlighted the comments of one YouTuber: “I think this could be the real deal…a number of reports of UFO sightings and personal witness reports link back to what is pictured here.”

Another excited comment, posted verbatim, reads: “…I swear on everything I love that a minivan sized ball like these flew thirty feet over me on cape cod Massachusetts it was flying at least as fast as a propeller plane and it was silent as the wind. It looked alive actually and when it got above my house it banged a super sharp right and when it got halfway up the course it disappeared. That was July 3 2012 been searching ever since. This has to be the first real video ever on YouTube.”

However, others are not convinced. Some claim the lights are Chinese Lanterns, and others are adamant that the lights in the video are military flares.

Here are some videos of military flares and Chinese Lanterns that we have captured for reference.

At least one YouTuber has suggested they are “Satans fallen Angels [sic],” and are here in preparation for the coming of the Antichrist.

No one has claimed to know the exact source of the lights, so until they do, the mystery continues.

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/russian-ufo-video-picked-up-by-uk-media-is-old-news/33732

UFO DIGEST NEWSLETTER MAY 28, 2015

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Daily UFO Headlines 5/28/2015

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• Duo arrested for creating ‘UFO’ scare in Mumbai – Bangalore Mirror
• Ghost? UFO? Or Dust? Mysterious Orb Spotted At Florida Space Walk Of Fame – The Huffington Post
• UFO Group of Hunterdon/Warren counties meeting set for May 29 – NJ.com
• Why Aren’t The Aliens Here Already? – NPR
• These 9 Instruments Will Find Out Whether Aliens Could Live on Europa – Popular Science

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-5282015/33730

Extraordinary Drone Footage Of Sudan’s Mysterious Nubian Pyramids (Video)

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(N.Morgan) The most famous pyramids are those of Egypt, however, thousands of kilometers further south along the Nile stands another impressive group of ancient structures, which have survived in the Sudanese desert for the past 3,000 years.

And thanks to this new drone footage captured by National Geographic, we’re finally able to get some insight into the sheer scale of these incredible and little-studied pyramids.

Constructed by the Nubian civilization, there are about 255 of these mystic and beautiful pyramids in 3 known spots scattered across the Sudanese desert, but most tourists never see these wonders or are even aware of their existence.

There has been very little research done in exploring these structures.

National Geographic filmed this video as part of a new documentary following one of the first archaeological investigations at the El-Kurru pyramid site in almost 100 years.

As reported by Fiona MacDonald of Science Alert: El-Kurri was one of the royal cemeteries built for the Nubian royal family during the time of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, and it contains structures that date back to 1070 BC.

Just like the Egyptians, the Kushites entombed their royalty below lofty pyramids – presumably to help their souls reach up to the heavens – but structurally, the buildings are quite different.

For starters, the Nubian pyramids are far steeper and narrower, and they’re built from stepped stones, as opposed to the smooth surfaces of the wider Egyptian pyramids.

They’re also smaller, ranging from around six to 30 metres in height, compared with the 139 metre Great Pyramid at Giza.

Extraterrestrial Life – Hiding the Truth in Plain Sight

Hiding truth in plain sight is a favorite tactic of the elite. The biggest factor working in their favor is massive and widespread public incredulity at their schemes, because the scale is simply unimaginable for the average person to comprehend. It is indeed hard to swallow that a tiny group of people, disconnected from compassion, empathy and the rest of humanity, would actively promote war, depopulation and the destruction of the Earth, but the evidence proves it to the case: from Kissinger’s 1974 Memorandum 200 (depopulation) to the spraying of our skies with toxic metals (geoengineering).

However, as bad as that is, it still has not gone so deep into the rabbit hole. If you really want an outlandish and ostentatious example of hiding truth in plain sight, check out the short clip below, where Barack Obama glibly coats the truth of alien intervention with a layer of calculated sarcasm.

“The Aliens Exercise Strict Control Over Us”

The overwhelming majority of people watching that clip (see below) would have walked away believing the whole thing was a joke. This is exactly the calculated response those in power want to elicit around the ‘alien’ topic; hiding truth in plain sight by making it into a joke, or science fiction, is a more effective strategy at shielding reality from an increasingly skeptical public than mere obfuscation or point blank denial.

The theme of hiding truth in plain sight can be found in abundance in the entertainment industries – music, movies and comedy – and especially science fiction. Movies and TV series such as Star Trek and V are a way that the elite can release the pressure without having to engage in open disclosure. It’s also a cunning way they can claim plausible deniability, by explaining away all the evidence as “science fiction.”

And while such comical rhetoric can keep people in disbelief and ridicule, peoples’ minds remain closed to the idea of what is possible and the elite keep their control grid intact.

Obama is a very good actor; look at his delivery as he says these words:

“The Aliens won’t let it happen.”

“They [Aliens] exercise strict control over us.”

“I can’t reveal anything.”

“That’s what we’re instructed to say.”

Obama may try, but he can’t hide the truth by pretending it away. Enough of us already know of the extraterrestrial presence on Earth, and that number is only going to increase as time goes by.

Overwhelming Evidence Aliens Do Exist

If you take the time to critically study eyewitness testimonies, listen to visitation/abduction accounts and read declassified military documents on the topic, you will discover a vast amount of evidence not only confirming that ETs exist, but also that they have been here a long time and already interact with humanity – and have entered into arrangements with our Government that are most definitely not in the best interest of humanity.

Here is a sample of the thousands of credible sources, many of which come from hardened rational military men, who confirm that aliens do exist among us:

• Former Command Sergeant Bob Dean who worked at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Power Europe), the center of NATO, who personally had  many  experiences of interacting with Nordic ETs. He reveals that the Shadow Government is deeply involved with ETs in underground facilities (e.g. with the jumproom connecting S4 [Area 51] in Nevada with Pine Gap in Australia) and how there is a big battle between the NWO factions that favor disclosure and the ones that vehemently oppose it.
• Veteran Clifford Stone, who had  a personal relationship with a green ET called Korona and has numerous alien tales. Some of these many involved his time in Vietnam where he went on UFO crash recovery missions. He even helped an alien escape from military custody! Stone has publicly stated many times there are  57 alien species already interacting with humanity in some way or another.
• ET Contactee Alex Collier, who  has had a long ongoing relationship with evolved beings from the Andromedan Galaxy. Throughout his many video interviews he discusses, in astonishing detail,  the ET presence on Earth, the Reptilian control of our government and institutions, the truth about our Moon, bases on Mars, human treaties signed with evil alien races,  the Government selling us out for greed and technology and many other topics.
• Former military man Phil Schneider, a brave whistleblower who not only encountered alien beings underground, but also got into a gun  fight with them – killing one and wounding another. He was a  geologist, structural engineer and underground tunneling expert who participated in the construction of many deep underground cities and bases in North America. In  his many video presentations  he describes in detail these cities, tunnels and bases, the Government’s secret deal with hostile ETs and advanced alien technology being used by secret US agencies.
• ET Contactee Billy Meier, who was one of the first prolific contact stories. Meier was reportedly contacted by an extraterrestrial named Semjase who claimed to be from the Pleiades. She allowed him to take over 1000 clear daytime pictures of her craft and others like it as well as live video – in the 1970s before computers and Photoshop were widespread, so fakery would have been difficult or impossible.
• Former Air Force officer Charles Hall who became familiar with Areas 53 and 54 (called “Dreamland”) and the Dogbone Lake field where the ETs landed their craft. He actually lived with a certain species, which he  describes as tall, thin, with large eyes and transparent hair, and with the ability to dress and look like humans, and to grow again once they get old.
• Former Air Force officer Bill Holden who had many UFO and ET experiences, including several  encounters with alien beings and UFO craft demonstrations. He witnessed 2 Greys in jumpsuits, and a flying double-saucer UFO emerge from water without a splash. He reveals  how relations between aliens and the US government are both ongoing and extensive.

The cases of other ET contacts Simon Parkes, Arizona Wilder, Whitley Strieber, Mark Richards, Maurizio Cavallo, Ernie Sears, Bonnie Meyer, Alec Newald, Jonathan Reed, James Casbolt, Kim Carlsberg, Douglas Taylor, Travis Walton and  Stan Romanek are also worth investigating, not to mention those who are believed to have seen or worked on UFOs, such as Bob Lazar and U.S. Air Force Captain Robert Salas.

Researchers Shining a Light on the ET Reality

As well as ET contactees and abductees, there are numerous credible researchers who have spent their lives studying the ET phenomenon. Take Roger Leir, an expert on alien implants; Ann Eller, who worked with the father of UFO and Alien research, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and who served as Hynek’s personal secretary; and Professor David Jacobs who has fascinating evidence of a disturbing ET agenda of building a hybrid human-alien race. Or, listen to Barbara Lamb, Stan Friedman, Bill Cooper, Mary Rodwell, Timothy Good, Steven Bassett, Steven Greer, Linda Moulton Howe or Philip  Corso.

Of particular interest is the late Dr. Karla Turner, who investigated the ET abduction phenomenon for decades and collected massive testimonial evidence of the existence of grey and reptilian ETs.

We Have Been Helped

Lastly, let’s finish with a quote from Dr. Herman Oberth, a NASA Space Scientist, who said this in 1972:

• “Today, we cannot produce machines that fly the same as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of Gravity. This would explain the sudden changes of directions. This hypothesis would also explain the piling-up of these discs into a Cylindrical or cigar shaped “Mothership” upon leaving the Earth. Because it is in this fashion, that only one field of gravity be required for all the flying saucers. We cannot take credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been HELPED. And we have been helped by the people of other WORLDS.”

Not all ETs are “bad”. Not all are “good”. There are countless species, and motivations within those species, for us to make many generalizations. There is a whole universe of hominoid beings out there waiting for us to end the planetary secrecy and take our place in the galactic community. However, it’s not going to happen until a critical mass can discern the truth, hiding in plain sight.

Source : http://planetxnews.com/

Het raadsel van de zwarte ringen ( Video)

Vorige maand schreven wij een artikel over een vreemde zwarte ring die in de lucht boven Kazachstan verscheen.

Twee dagen geleden gebeurde iets dergelijks ook in Tigre, een voorstad van Buenos Aires, en honderden getuigen keken vol verbazing naar de lucht.


Het stadje Tigre ligt aan de rand van een immens grote delta van de río de la Plata, ruim 30 km ten noordwesten van Buenos Aires.

Op woensdagmiddag schrokken mensen die zich in de buurt van de Puerto de Fruto bevonden toch wel even toen ze naar de lucht keken.

Het fenomeen ging als een lopend vuurtje de sociale media rond en zoals gewoonlijk bij dit soort verschijnselen heeft niemand een goede verklaring.

Zoals we eerder schreven, is het heel goed mogelijk dat we met deze ringen een soort dimensiepoorten zien, vergelijkbaar met de zogenaamde ufowolken. Grote wolken die fungeren als dimensieportalen.

Wie weet hebben deze ringen ook een dergelijke functie, zeker omdat ze nu meer voor lijken te komen en ook in verschillende delen van de wereld.



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Redditor asks former NASA engineer where the UFO’s are

There was an interesting AMA at Reddit yesterday with an RCA engineer contracted to work for NASA,  from 1954 until 1988.
One Reddit user asked him “Where do they hide the UFOs?” and he did get an interesting answer. You can read the whole interview here.

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Triangle UFO over Seattle, Washington 25-May-2015

I just received this UFO report from our reader. Apparently this triangle UFO was hovering above Seattle, a coastal seaport city and the seat of King County, in the U.S. state of Washington. This was filmed from a car on Monday, 25th May 2015.

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UFO activity above volcano Colima, Mexico

Here’s an interesting report from The Third Millennium about a strange UFO activity in the sky above volcano Colima in Mexico. This happened back in March 2015.

More info in the video!

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Close encounters of the Texan kind: UFO-shaped clouds seen over parts of state following severe weather

• Pictures of lenticular clouds seen over Robertson and Leon Counties 
• Normally form over mountains and are rarely spotted over low-lying ground
• Post-storm mammatus clouds could also be seen over Austin  
• So far 18 people have died in Texas and Oklahoma because of the floods 

By Daily Mail Online Reporter

Clouds baring a striking resemblance to UFOs have been seen in the skies over Texas following the recent severe weather.

The stunning pictures, taken by M. Davis, show rare lenticular clouds in the skies over Robertson and Leon Counties on Monday. 

So far 18 people have been killed in the storms that have swept through Texas and Oklahoma, causing widespread flooding and devastation. 

The clouds generally form over mountains - although in rare instances they can be caused by shear winds. 

  

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Is it a UFO? The stunning pictures, taken by M. Davis, show rare lenticular clouds in the skies over Robertson and Leon Counties, Texas, on Monday

  

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Odd shape: The clouds generally form over mountains - although in rare instances they can be caused by shear winds, such as those produced in the recent storms 

The moisture droplets are pushed up a steep slope, condensing into cloud on their way, and forming in a spiral formation over the top.

Other than UFO-watchers, there are other people who seek these out - glider pilots. 

Lenticular clouds imply rising air around the bow of the cloud, and gliders can seek these spots and get a free lift to some very high altitudes.

Post-storm mammatus clouds were also spotted over Austin on Monday. 

They are bulbous formations that are found under other clouds.

While most clouds have flat bottoms, mammatus have round pouches that are caused by sinking air.

They are extremely rare because they can only be seen when they are low in the sky and lit up by sunlight. 

President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he had assured Texas Governor Greg Abbott that he could count on help from the federal government as the state recovers from the floods. Abbott has declared a state of disaster in at least 40 Texas counties, including Harris County, which includes Houston.

Abbott said he has deployed the state's National Guard and was worried the death toll could rise.

'It's devastating to see what I saw on the Blanco River when this tidal wave of water just swept away neighborhoods,' he said, recalling a disaster area in central Texas. 

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Round: The bulbous formations found under other clouds were seen over the Austin skyline on Monday

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Mystery shrouds UFOs seen hovering over Mumbai airport

It's been two days since five Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) were noticed flying above Mumbai airport, but mystery continues to shroud the event with multiple agencies, including the police, probing the matter.

The objects were first sighted by a Jet Airways pilot shortly before he was to take off around 6 p.m.. He alerted the Air Traffic Control (ATC).

The ATC instructed the pilot to abort take off. He exited the main runway and later again came in the queue and finally took off after sometime when the objects seemed to have disappeared after a few minutes.

Despite speculation in various quarters of the objects being remote-controlled parachutes, radio controlled mini-gliders, Chinese lanterns, balloons, etc., official sources preferred to term them simply as 'unidentified objects' seen floating for a few minutes in the airport airspace.

They were espied moving at a height of around 150 feet and in a south-north direction countering strong winds blowing from the south-west at that time, pointing to a possibility that they (the objects) were being guided or controlled from terrestrial sources.

The sources declined to speculate on where the objects disappeared, or if they returned on land in the vicinity of the Mumbai International Airport Ltd. (MIAL).

As per available indications, the objects were not picked up by most radars in and around Mumbai, including those belonging to the defence forces.

No agency has lodged a formal complaint with the police so far mainly due to confusion over jurisdiction or territorial issues.

DCP Virendra Mishra, Airport Division said that they were coordinating with the agencies and investigating the matter. Rumours of PMO calling for an urgent meeting in this regard was denied by Mumbai ATC's General Manager Jayant Dasgupta.

A message of a high level meeting being conducted by the DGCA was also going the rounds but when contacted the authority denied it. DGCA officials said that they were awaiting the reports and couldn't comment on the possibility.

Rajeev Nair, Director, said, "There have been many rumours doing rounds but they werent the weather ballons as they neither are released in the evenings nor near the airport area."

Another message that was being circulated claimed that the five objets belonged to the Army and alleged that it was a miscordination between the agencies.

However, commenting on the issue, Vipul Saxena, aviation expert, said, "I have flown in this area many times from INS Kunjali, hence I can say with confidence that such activities cannot be by Navy or Army. This is a serious issue that only Intelligence Bureau and National Security Agency can handle. There are SOP in Army and Navy that cannot be voilated."

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Black ring mystifies Argentina town

Shocking Official Documents Confirm Aliens Living On Earth?   (Video And Photos)

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(N.Morgan)  An very intriguing report has been uncovered by TercerMilenio revealing government documents confirming the existence of extraterrestrials. There’s also this shocking FBI document from 1947 about the interdimensional beings living on Earth. Translation: The FBI website has a public document on the internet that has the folio number 6751, where it was released to the director of the government agency to Edgar Hover stating that we are being visited by giant interdimensional beings that do not come from a particular planet. See more in the stunning video below.

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Daily UFO Headlines 5/27/2015

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• VIDEO: Bizarre hovering ‘UFO’ lights are the ‘REAL DEAL’, claim alien chasers – Daily Express
• Former UN worker convinced NASA photos show Mount Rushmore-style carvings on Mars – Daily Express
• Hunting for UFO’s in Monterey Bay – The Costarican Times
• Strange lights sparks UFO mystery in Shropshire – Shropshire Star
• Male patient says Perry talked of aliens – Metro

Source: http://www.openminds.tv/daily-ufo-headlines-5272015/33721

Proof of Aliens Released In 2014 by Mexican Athorities

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High Resolution for full screen viewing, proof of Aliens. “While many will not consider this solid Proof, it’s only because of their own blindness and unwillingness to accept the obvious. To them I would ask the following questions, Why would these people leave such documentation? Why such stories in stone? Remember the phrase “It’s not written in stone”? Well, this is, and it was hidden for decades, from their discovery. Why do you suppose that is?” michaelnew1962

SOURCES: michaelnew1962

Ancient Aliens And Spaceships Depicted On Very Old Paintings

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MessageToEagle.com – There are many intriguing paintings depicting ancient extraterrestrial visitations. Many of these beautiful paintings were made during the Renaissance period.

Some of them were created in medieval times while others are more recent. What they all do have in common is that they offer an exclusive view of stunning alien flying craft that people of that time witnessed over the skies.

In this article, we have selected some of the most astonishing paintings we would like to share with MessageToEagle’s readers.