UFO Mural Marked 50th Anniversary of ‘The Warminster Thing.’

A mural is a piece of artwork applied or painted directly on a ceiling, wall, or other large permanent surface. A distinctive characteristic of mural painting is the architectural elements of the space harmoniously integrated into the picture. The best illustration for this is the most celebrated UFO’s “The Warminster Thing”.

After a strange sound, and weird flying objects, the market town of Warminster has been the talk of the country for many years. The reports of the UFO, also known as “The Warminster Thing”, came from people who saw the objects and heard strange sounds in the night sky in 1965. Fifty years after ‘the Warminster Thing,’ an important conference event takes place in the town. By a “secret” artist, the mural was organised by the Warminster Information Centre, which implies that such “utterly unique event” is never forgotten.

The Significance of 50^th Anniversary

Held over the August Bank Holiday, the 50^th anniversary is a one-day event. It commemorates the significance of 50 years after the town received extreme criticisms and curiosities. In fact, Warminster has remained as the national capital of all UFO throughout the 1960s and 70s. Furthermore, it also enjoyed a resurgence with the crop circle phenomenon between 1980s and 90s. The artwork has drawn lots of attention because people are already taking lots of pictures. The occurrence is what the team wants to happen. Leslie Blain, from the information center, took eight months to plan and organize the mural. As to who did the painting, she said it’s a secret, but since the art is still not finished, the curious might catch him in action.

Photos of Warminster’s “flying saucers” appeared in local and national newspapers at the time, giving much publicity. After thousands of people have visited Warminster to see UFOs, a public meeting was held over the bank holiday in 1965.

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Hangar 1: The UFO Files – Far Side of the Moon S02E04

Hangar 1: The UFO Files – Far Side of the Moon
History Channel, Season 2 Episode 4
1st May 2015

Hangar 1 files reveal top-secret evidence that indicates the government has been operating bases on the Moon and Mars. Some of this evidence dates back to the 1950’s and suggests that NASA may be behind a long existing, secret mission to establish off-planet outposts. If these bases do exist, what is their purpose and why are they being kept a secret?

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To truly grasp what we’re doing to the planet, you need to understand this gigantic measurement

This June 13, 2013 handout photo provided by NASA shows the ice front of Venable Ice Shelf, West Antarctica, in October 2008. (AFP PHOTO / NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC Irvine)

There’s been a lot of news lately about the losses of ice from the planet’s two gigantic ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica. And not surprisingly, some people have found it very stunning — simply because the volumes of ice involved sound so huge.

For instance, after I wrote about a new study showing a disturbing increase in ice loss from one relatively small part of the Antarctic ice sheet, I saw the following tweet from Moby — yes, that Moby:

following tweet from Moby — yes, that Moby:

          moby XⓋX    

✔     @thelittleidiot   

Antarctic currently losing 56,000,000,000 tons of ice every year. goodbye, humanity.  http://wpo.st/k4XI0 

7:15 PM - 22 May 2015    

  

       Washington Post    

Yet another Antarctic ice mass is becoming destabilized, scientists...

By Chris Mooney @chriscmooney  

The glaciers of the Southern Antarctic Peninsula region are now also contributing to sea level rise.

Actually, that’s just the losses for one region of Antarctica, the Southern Antarctic Peninsula. Total losses are much larger. But the tweet — and the general magnitude of the kinds of changes that we’re seeing — got me thinking. It can be hard to comprehend the scale of these events, so it would be helpful to break it down into more comprehensible pieces. 

Scientists often measure the loss of ice from the planet’s two gigantic ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, in a particular unit called a “gigaton,” which is sometimes also spelled “gigatonne.” Either way, it’s not something you encounter in your ordinary life, because it’s incredibly “giga-ntic” — the kind of unit that planets depend on.

In the International System of Units, the prefix “giga” means 10⁹, or one billion (1,000,000,000). Hence terms like “gigawatt” or “gigahertz.” Thus, a gigaton is equivalent to a billion metric tons.

A male African elephant might weigh, at most, 6.8 metric tons, according to the San Diego Zoo. So a gigaton is well over a hundred million African elephants. As for sea life, the blue whale can weigh as much as 146 metric tons, according to NOAA. So a gigaton is more than 6 million blue whales.

Or for another analogy, consider how Meredith Nettles of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University recently described a gigaton-sized piece of ice to me:

• “If you took the whole National Mall, and covered it up with ice, to a height about four times as high as the [Washington] monument,” says Nettles, you’d have about a gigaton of ice. “All the way down from the Capitol steps to the Lincoln Memorial.”

With this in mind, let’s now look at how much ice Antarctica is losing, before moving on to the other sources of major ice loss, like Greenland.

A recent scientific paper estimated the total annual loss for Antarctica at 159 gigatons (plus or minus 48 gigatons, since these measurements are subject to considerable uncertainty). Other scientific estimates vary — Jonathan Bamber, an Antarctic expert at the University of Bristol, recently gave me a lower estimate — 130 gigatons per year. Yet another, even lower recent estimate is 92 gigatons per year. Whatever the exact number, Antarctica is clearly losing billions of African elephants worth of ice each year.

Climate change doubters, faced with such numbers, sometimes like to point out that East Antarctica is gaining some ice — but there is still a net loss of ice to the ocean because of massive losses in West Antarctica, the most vulnerable part of the Antarctic continent. And it’s not as if we should be exactly content about the status of East Antarctica, either. The gigantic Totten Glacier of East Antarctica is losing 70 gigatons of ice per year, “enough to fill Sydney Harbour every two and a half days,” as one scientist with the Australian Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center puts it.

“It is common to see broad stroke comparisons between East and West Antarctica for the sake of convenience, however, doing so risks diminishing the fact that there is net mass loss occurring in a large area of East Antarctica, as well,” Jamin Greenbaum, lead author of a recent study of Totten Glacier, told me by email. “It is well established that the region encompassing the Aurora Subglacial Basin and Totten Glacier is losing mass and contributing to sea level at a rate that is large compared to variability in snowfall indicating that the losses are due to processes beyond snowfall (e.g. enhanced ocean melting).”

Moreover, the rate of ice loss from Antarctica has been increasing, and scientists keep finding new sources.

So what does it all mean? It takes 360 gigatons of ice to raise the global sea level 1 millimeter, Bamber told me. So right now, Antarctica is doing that about once every three years. Globally, though, sea level is going up at an increasing rate of 2.6 to 2.9 millimeters per year, according to the latest research, because Antarctica isn’t the only contributor.

The gigantic Greenland ice sheet, which is facing rapidly rising Arctic temperatures, is also contributing, and at least for now, appears to be throwing off much more ice than Antarctica. A recent study put the loss at 378 gigatons per year for the years between 2009 and 2012. That’s a millimeter per year right there. Indeed, recent research suggests that some glacial iceberg calvings — from, say, Greenland’s Helheim Glacier — can be as large as a gigaton at a single time.

Glaciers around the world are also contributing — and at the scale of many gigatons. Indeed, recent research suggests that the glaciers of Alaska alone are now contributing 75 gigatons per year, which is very large number, considering that they only constitute about 11 percent of the world’s glaciers.

Warm ocean water also expands, so in addition to ice loss, the oceans are also growing in volume due to their temperature. And for those who don’t think 2 or 3 millimeters per year of ocean rise is a big deal — the real concern, with both Greenland and Antarctica (and also Alaska), is that these rates are increasing.

And why might that be happening?

It’s because of the 34 gigatons annually of carbon dioxide that humanity is currently putting in the atmosphere. In 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimated that to have a good chance of keeping global warming under 2 degrees Celsisus above pre-industrial times — a widely embraced international goal — humanity  had, as of the year 2011, only about 1000 gigatons of CO2 left that it could emit. Divide 1000 by 34 and you get maybe 3 decades more of emissions at current levels. And that assumes that emissions merely stay constant, rather than rising along with rising economic growth.

When it comes to our gigatons of carbon dioxide emitted each year, NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory has done some fascinating math (which starts with a relatively simple conversion of gigatons of carbon dioxide into gigatons of carbon):

• In 2010 about 9 Giga-tons of Carbon (GtC) were emitted from burning fossil fuels as 33 Giga-tons of CO₂ gas.
• How much is 9 Giga-ton? 9 billion tons or 9,000,000,000,000,000 grams, or 19,800,000,000,000 pounds.
• Can you imagine…9 Giga-tons is the weight of about 132 billion people. The amount of carbon we are putting into the atmosphere each year is equal to 20 times the weight of the current world population.

All of which further underscores that the gigaton is the unit that really explains to you how we’re altering the planet — changing its atmosphere, and changing its oceans, at a scale that’s hard for humans to conceive of. Net gigatons of CO2 are going into the atmosphere and net gigatons of H2O are going into the ocean. And if you wanted to reshape a planet, it’s hard to think of a better recipe than that.

Also in Energy & Environment:

New research suggests nature walks are good for your brain

Alaska wildfires have burned over a million acres — and fire season still has a long way to go

Giant earthquakes are shaking Greenland — and scientists just figured out the disturbing reason why

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ALIEN ABDUCTION ~ FACT OR FICTION?   - PART I

If the figures are to be believed, up to 4 million people have been abducted by aliens in the US, with many millions more captured world wide. Although the existence of human hungry aliens might be impossible to disprove per se, it is unlikely that extra-terrestrials could manage such mass kidnappings without being commonly noticed. This suggests that there are many people who falsely believe they have been seized by creatures from outer-space, perhaps after experiencing unusual and bizarre phenomena. The purpose of this article is to communicate some of the recent research in psychology and neuroscience that gives us some clues as to how and why these experiences and beliefs occur.

Some of the many thousands of people who claim to have been abducted are likely to be fortune seekers, bar-room braggers, publicity hounds and maybe even some genuine abductees. Yet with the high numbers of people reporting abductions, many of the people who believe they have been captured will likely have been mistaken.

The History of Abductions

Yes there are signs of crafts being seen in the sky and alien contact in ancient text, but without knowledge as to what these hieroglyphs, paintings etc actually symbolize or mean we will stay away from ancient astronaut theories and look at recorded history.

The First reported Sighting to make Print!

In the November 27, 1896 edition of the Stockton, California Daily Mail, Colonel H. G. Shaw claimed he and a friend were harassed by three tall, slender humanoids whose bodies were covered with a fine, downy hair who tried to kidnap the pair.

Colonel H. G. Shaw, along with his friend Camille Spooner, had a close encounter with previously unknown entities.

Shaw was in charge of putting together an exhibition to be displayed at a Fair in Fresno.

Shaw and friend were traveling by horse and carriage in route to Stockton, when their horse froze with fright.

To the two men’s shock, they saw the cause of the horse’s actions; three tall alien looking beings with small delicate hands at the end of their spindly arms stood by the road. They had no hair on their heads, yet a soft, light fuzz over their bodies. Large eyes made their small mouths and ears appear even smaller.

The two eyewitnesses would later tell authorities that the beings had a “strange” type of beauty to them.

All of the beings carried with them a bag of some kind with a hose which they often stuck in their mouths, obviously to breath with. Although there was still some daytime left, the beings also carried with them egg-shaped lamps which glowed. This glow would later illuminate a waiting spaceship.

As the men watched the aliens, the beings were communicating with each other by a type of chant, as no English words were heard by Shaw and Spooner. The men would tell authorities that the aliens made an attempt to abduct them, but that the large difference in mass between the human and alien body thwarted the effort.

Soon, the three alien beings made a move toward a nearby bridge. Using their other worldly lamps, the aliens lighted up the bridge, showing a nearby craft. The UFO was of a cigar shape, and it hovered quietly over the water.

The beings seemed to be almost lighter than air as they moved toward their craft. It seemed that the aliens would almost leave the ground as they walked on the earth.

The beings entered the hovering cigar UFO in a most unconventional way also. They sprung up from the ground and above their craft, and then floated down into the craft through an unseen entry. Soon, the object flew away.

Then in the 1940s and ’50s.

The Space Age was upon us, and sci-fi literature was soaring in popularity with human-alien encounters a recurring theme. In July 1946, “Planet Comics” ran a strip in which aliens used a luminous tractor beam to kidnap a voluptuous female earthling, whom they called Specimen 9. They tell her the abduction is part of “Project Survival,” and as they steer their spaceship toward what looks like Saturn, the leader remarks, “Now home. And if you find our methods ruthless, Specimen 9, it is because our needs are desperate.”

Likewise, in 1954, a comic strip appearing in the British tabloid The Daily Express detailed the alien abduction of a Royal Air Force pilot. Dozens of other abduction stories graced the pages of sci-fi novels and comic books.

June 24, 1947 The Kenneth Arnold Incident

Kenneth Arnold, a businessman, was flying his private plane near Mount Rainier in Washington State when he saw nine shining discs moving against the background of the mountain. He estimated their speed as about 1,000 mph. He said that they swerved in and out of the peaks of the Cascade Mountains with “flipping, erratic movements.” He later told a reporter that the objects moved as a saucer would “if you skipped it across the water.” The next day the story appeared in newspapers all over the nation, calling the strange objects “flying saucers.” Hundreds of people soon began reporting sightings of flying saucers, and a US Air Force investigation was initiated; on 4 July, ten days after the sighting, the US Air Force announced confidently that Arnold had been “hallucinating.”

1953 Hunrath and Wilkinson Disappearance

The 1950s was a time of major UFO activity but it was also a time in UFO history known by a group of persons known as “UFO contactees”. These individuals claimed to have made contact with the alien occupants of the flying saucers. For some these contacts were face to face, for others the communications were telepathic. Some claimed to have been given rides on alien spacecraft. Most of the mainstream UFO organizations of the time gave little credence to the contactees, and believed most to be hoaxers or people suffering from delusions. One of the most famous contactees was George Adamski.

George Adamski was born in Poland and immigrated to the US at a young age. By the 1930s, he was living in California as a sort of guru practicing “Universal Progressive Christianity”. He set up a small observatory at a restaurant “Palomar Gardens” below the famous Mount Palomar Observatory. By the early 1950s, Adamski was taking photographs of flying saucers with his telescope and writing science fiction and articles about the occult. On November 20, 1952, Adamski reportedly met an angelic looking man named Orthon who emerged from a landed flying saucer, claiming to be from Venus. During this encounter at the base of the Coxcomb Mountains, not far from Desert Center, California, Adamski was accompanied by six people who were told by Adamski to stay behind while he made the contact with Orthon.

After this encounter, Adamski attracted a small group of followers. One of these was Karl Hunrath, a electrical engineer, who had invented “Bosco” a device which was intended to bring down flying saucers. After a dispute with Adamski, Hunrath moved away from Palomar Gardens and rented an apartment in Los Angeles with Jerrold Baker, a handyman at Palomar Gardens who had also had a falling out with Adamski.

Karl Hunrath was soon working as a radio technician. In June 1953, a old friend of Hunrath’s from Racine, Wisconsin, Wilbur J. Wilkinson, arrived in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. Wilkinson, a co-inventor of Bosco, had left his job as a foreman at an electrical appliance plant, to join Hunrath in his efforts to see a flying saucer and meet an alien.

The two men developed an interest in channeling aliens, meeting other contactees and using psychic techniques and mechanical contractions to communicate with the “Maserians”, beings who allegedly lived on the moon.

On or about November 10, 1953, Karl Hunrath made phone calls to several associates telling them that some people had left Earth for other planets and that no one should be surprised if this might happen to him. On November 11, 1953, Hunrath and Wilkinson rented a small plane at Gardina County Airport near Los Angeles. With three hours of fuel, one hour paid rental, and no filed flight plan, Hunrath flew off with his passenger Wilkinson with the likely intent to meet a grounded saucer which they apparently presumed would take them to Maser, Venus or some other off-Earth populated celestial body.

Apparently to this day, no trace of the aircraft or the two men has been found. Most people presume that Hunrath, an inexperienced pilot, probably crashed somewhere in the mountainous terrain east of Los Angeles. If this is so, the aircraft wreckage may be out there still.

Wilbur J Wilkinson, provided this script, claiming it was from a race using the moon as a way-station for its people from the planet Maser.

NOTE: Adamski was quoted as saying “I made enough wine for all of Southern California…I was making a fortune!” However, the end of Prohibition also marked the decline of his profitable wine-making business, and Adamski later told two friends that’s when he “had to get into this [flying] saucer crap.

Antonio Villas Boas Abduction Case

In 1957, a Brazilian writer named João Martins penned the first installment of a series titled “Flying Saucers’ Terrible Mission” for the magazine O Cruzeiro. “There he describes cases of people in isolated places attacked by small alien beings”.

Martins also asked his readers to write him with their own experiences. Among hundreds of responses, he selected one of a young farmer from Minas Gerais with whom he exchanged several letters.

The next year, Martins paid for the 23-year-old farmer to come to Rio de Janeiro, where he was examined by Dr. Olavo Fontes. The farmer’s name was Antonio Villas Boas, and he claimed to have been abducted by aliens one day after reading Martin’s article?

The story got out. Walter Buhler of the Brazilian ufology group SBEDV, and a follower of the self-described alien contactee George Adamski, learned about Vilas Boas’ story, and in 1962, Buhler visited the young farmer in his hometown. The SBEDV subsequently published a report on the Villas Boas case in English, and the account aligned with Adamski’s earlier descriptions of aliens and their spaceships. In January 1965, an international journal called the Flying Saucer Review reproduced Buhler’s report worldwide.

Villas Boas was working the fields at night to avoid the scorching temperatures of the day, when he saw the red light of a spaceship; it slowly approached him and landed nearby in a field. Villas Boas tried to escape but was captured by small humanoid creatures, which dragged him into their craft.

The aliens conducted a series of experiments on their captive, including taking samples of his body tissue, exposing him to a gas that made him violently ill, and compelling him to have sexual intercourse with a female alien, who was, Villas Boas said, very attractive, with blonde hair and blue, cat-like eyes.

A few details hint that the story was fabricated or imagined. “If you read Villas Boas’ account you may notice the advanced aliens nonetheless used rope ladders. Moreover, “Villas Boas’ original sketch of the alien spaceship, with three legs, looks remarkably like the drawings of Sputnik-1, often depicted with three of its four antennas showing. The Sputnik surely was the talk of the time in 1957 when Villas Boas was supposedly abducted — or imagined his story.”

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ALIEN ABDUCTION ~ FACT OR FICTION? - PART I I

The Betty and Barney Hill Case

Widespread publicity was generated by the Betty and Barney Hill abduction case of 1961, culminating in a made-for-television film broadcast in 1975 (starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons) dramatizing the events. The Hill incident was probably the prototypical abduction case and was perhaps the first in which the claimant described beings that later became widely known as the Greys and in which the beings were said to explicitly identify an extraterrestrial origin.

The Hills were an interracial couple in the 1960s, and the exhibit discusses Barney Hill’s civil rights activism. However, the couple is best known for giving the first reported incident of an alleged alien abduction in America.

Today, due to television shows and films, the scenario is familiar: UFOs chase down terrified witnesses on a desolate road and take them onto the spaceship to ask them questions or probe them in awkward places.

It began one night when Barney and Betty Hill claimed they were pursued by a glowing UFO through parts of New Hampshire. Betty soon had vivid nightmares (which she interpreted as fragmented memories) about the incident, and the couple came to believe that they had been abducted by the UFO’s occupants, who then erased their memories. The couple sought the help of a psychiatrist, and under hypnosis both Hills soon reported full-blown, detailed “repressed memories” of their abduction.

The Barney and Betty Hill story was celebrated as the most important UFO-related event in the 1960s, and spun into a media sensation. Their experiences became fodder for many magazine articles, books, and a made-for-TV film called “The UFO Incident.” Betty became a UFO celebrity, giving media appearances and writing a book about her story.

As the years passed, however, the story lost its gloss and most realize it to be a hoax.

No other witnesses could support their account, parts of it were implausible, and the validity of “repressed memories” was called into question. Betty Hill’s own reported experiences cast doubt on her credibility. In the decades since her original 1961 experience with her husband Barney, Betty claimed not a few, nor dozens, but hundreds of UFO sightings.

Though UFO investigators desperately wanted to believe her, that became more difficult. One UFO researcher who worked with Betty noted that she was “unable to distinguish between a landed UFO and a streetlight.” In other words, she saw UFOs where none existed.
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Even many UFO believers reluctantly admit that much of Betty Hill’s experiences and stories cannot be true and instead are likely imaginative fantasies of a sincere but confused woman. With little or no corroborating evidence and no eyewitnesses to support their remarkable story, the Barney and Betty Hill abduction case is, as often happens, inconclusive at best and a complete fabrication at worst.

If the Witnesses are not hoaxers or scammers then what else explains these experiences?

Sleep paralysis
Awareness during sleep paralysis is a common explanation for this confusion, most probably as abduction experiences and conscious sleep paralysis attacks often share many of the same features, such as waking whilst unable to move, feelings of fear, dread or unease and a feeling of pressure on the body. Normal sleep paralysis happens when the body enters the REM stage of the sleep cycle. The brain stem blocks movement signals that would normally travel from the brain to the muscles, probably to stop us carrying out the movements we dream about doing. The frightening aspect of this occurs when a sleeper awakens, becomes conscious, but who’s movement control is not reinstated by the brain. This state can also be accompanied by what are known as ‘hypnopompic’ hallucinations which occur naturally to many people whilst awakening. These hallucinations can take the form of voices, lights, figures or any number of strange bodily sensations. It is little wonder that when combined with fearful paralysis such uncanny experiences might be interpreted as alien in origin.

Temporal lobe disturbance
Another commonly cited source of internal spookiness are the temporal lobes of the brain. Electrical stimulation of the surface of the temporal lobes (usually done on an awake patient when they are undergoing brain surgery) can produce unusual auditory sensations. Similarly, Michael Persinger, a Canadian scientist, has produced strange sensations in his research participants by using magnets to influence temporal lobe function from outside the skull. Such sensations have included feelings of a ‘presence’, disorientation and fear. It would seem unlikely that a possible abductee would fail to notice if someone placed large magnets near his or her head (or even that they were subject to brain surgery !) before the ‘abduction’ experience. However, similar effects can be caused by epileptic or similar seizures in the temporal lobes. Many epilepsy sufferers who have temporal lobe seizures report mystical experiences, missing time, out of body feelings or even strange smells or ‘atmospheres’ prior to, during or after a seizure. It must be remembered that not all forms of epilepsy cause dramatic shaking of the body, and many simply result in brief lapses of consciousness or experiences such as those noted above. This leads us to wonder whether disturbances in the temporal lobes may also contribute to experiences which some people may interpret as an alien abduction.

Mental illness
Surprisingly, overt mental illness may be one of the least likely explanations for abduction experiences. Research has previously suggested that alien contactees are no more likely to show signs of mental illness than the general population, a finding which has been backed up by several other studies. However, many features once thought present only in mental illness have now been discovered to be held by much of the population. If we look at the healthy population as a whole, these features seem to exist on a continuum with some people reporting anomalous thoughts and feelings or having certain traits more than others. In this vein, it seems people who report themselves as abductees are more likely to endorse unusual experiences, be creative and imaginative, have depressive ideas, be suspicious, have dissociative tendencies and to have suffered childhood trauma. So whilst it seems unlikely that the bizarre experiences reported by most ‘abductees’ stem from severe mental illness (which can produce equally bizarre and seemingly real experiences) it is certainly the case that this group has characteristics that differentiate them from the general population. It is possible that these dispositions may increase the tendency for them to explain an anomalous experience in terms of alien contact.

Memory distortion
Our memories are often infuriatingly fallible, leading us to forget information we want to remember, remember information we’d rather forget, or often confidently recall something that later turns out to be inaccurate. A recent study has investigated memory distortions in people claiming to have been subject to alien capture. Participants in the study were read several lists of similarly themed words then given tests of recall and recognition. The results of the study indicated that ‘abductees’ were able to remember words from the original list as well as ‘non-abductees’, but tended to show a higher rate of recall and recognition for words that were never actually read out in the first place. This suggests that the ‘abductees’ are more likely to misidentify the source of memories, perhaps suggesting that some elements of their abduction experience may have been culled from other sources such as the media or their own imagination.

This effect may also work retrospectively, allowing people to co-opt previous memories to support an abduction account. An early memory study conducted by Frederic Bartlett demonstrated that we reconstruct memories as they are recalled to create a coherent story. This reconstruction takes place using cultural references that give us a frame on which to hang the various remembered experiences. The alien abduction experience is well known to almost everyone, due to the popularity of shows such as the X-Files, and famous cases which have hit the headlines. This may give some people a cultural framework on which they can hang memories from a bizarre, unusual or traumatic experience. Unfortunately it is even the case that naïve or even unscrupulous therapists may push alien abduction as a explanation for a bizarre experience that a client may have undergone. Many examples of therapists willing to use hypnotic regression, a technique noted for its tendency to cause false recall, to recover abduction experiences can be found on the internet. Perhaps giving an off-the-shelf explanation for strange experiences that the brain is quite capable of generating, without the need for extra-terrestrial intervention.

Conclusion
It would certainly be foolish to discount the possibility of anything unlikely, simply because of its improbability. Yet we must also remember that we can often find explanations for anomalous experience within ourselves. As the old doctor’s adage goes ‘When you hear hoof beats, start by thinking horses not zebras’. This would seem to work as well for zebras as it does for visitors from outer-space.

ARE ALIEN ABDUCTIONS REAL?

AS ALWAYS YOU DECIDE…..

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Brent Peterson

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UFO sighting: Video shows mysterious white dot pulsating in skies over Hertfordshire

The pulsating white dot was captured in shaky footage hovering over a house in Hoddesdon near Potters Bar

Is it a bird, is it a plane?

No it's undeniable proof of an alien invasion over Hertfordshire - or so UFO enthusiasts would like to believe.

The pulsating white dot was captured in shaky footage hovering over a house in Hoddesdon near Potters Bar.

The unidentified flying object seemingly moves in one direction and then the other, dismissing the chances of it being an aeroplane.

The video, credited to Jason Thomas, was filmed in May.

It was later posted to the FindingUFO YouTube channel.

Yesterday, July 2, alien watchers marked ‘World UFO Day’, the 68th anniversary of the alleged UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico, USA, in 1947.

The stated goal of the July 2 celebration is to raise awareness of “the undoubted existence of UFOs” and to encourage governments to declassify their files on UFO sightings.

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Stephen Bassett says, “Disclosure is very close;” perhaps this summer

Believers, skeptics converge on Roswell

Scientist Hail This Photo Of UFO Taken By Young Schoolboy As "Best Ever"

Are we alone in the universe? A schoolboy In India may have just found the answer.

A schoolboy from India has snapped one of the most convincing shots of a UFO whilst playing with his new smartphone.

Abhijit Gupta, from Kanpur in India was thrilled after receiving his brand new phone with a high megapixel camera. Young Abhijit reportedly wants to grow up and be a photographer. Specializing in nature, specifically snapping never before seen plantlife.

Forget Plant Life!

After a few hours of fun-loving snappery outside the family home, Abhijit took his new toy back inside. It wasn't until he took his phone back inside to look through his photos that he noticed the strange craft.

• "I like nature photography and when I saw various shapes of clouds in the sky I started clicking pictures on my phone. While I was going through the clicked pictures in the photo gallery, I saw a round object in the photographs and when I zoomed to take a closer look at it, I noticed it was a UFO." - Abhijit

Following on from the recent discovery of potentially alien pyramids on Mars, this image is the latest UFO photograph to go viral. Conspiracy theorists and UFO believers from all four corners of the globe are hailing this as 'final proof that aliens and UFOs exist'.

• "Come on, this is irrefutable proof aliens are visiting us. It is not blurry, there is a clear sharp image of the craft, what do the non believers say about this!! - A poster on a UFO sightings website

Others however have not quite embraced the theory that we are not alone quite so willingly. Some have stated that this effect can be achieved using various apps found online.

But of course we will let you decide whether this is just the latest in a long line of fakes.

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Titan's Northern Lakes: Salt Flats?

Titan's Northern Lakes: Salt Flats?
Date: 23 Oct 2013

This false-color mosaic, made from infrared data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, reveals the differences in the composition of surface materials around hydrocarbon lakes at Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Titan is the only other place in the solar system that we know has stable liquid on its surface, though its lakes are made of liquid ethane and methane rather than liquid water. While there is one large lake and a few smaller ones near Titan's south pole, almost all of Titan's lakes appear near the moon's north pole.

Scientists mapped near-infrared colors onto the visible color spectrum. Red in this image was assigned a wavelength of 5 microns (10 times longer than visible light); green, 2.0 microns (four times longer than visible light); and blue, 1.3 microns (2.6 times longer than visible light).

The orange areas are thought to be evaporite -- the Titan equivalent of salt flats on Earth. The evaporated material is thought to be organic chemicals originally from Titan's haze particles that once dissolved in liquid methane. They appear orange in this image against the greenish backdrop of Titan's typical bedrock of water ice.

In this mosaic, Kraken Mare, which is Titan's largest sea and covers about the same area as Earth's Caspian Sea and Lake Superior combined, can be seen spreading out with many tendrils on the upper right,.  The big dark zone up and left of Kraken is Ligeia Mare, the second largest sea. Below Ligeia, shaped similar to a sports fan's foam finger that points just up from left, is Punga Mare, the third largest Titan sea. Numerous other smaller lakes dot the area.  Titan's north pole is located in the geographic location just above the end of the "finger" of Punga Mare.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/University of Idaho

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Aliens Are Real & They Will Look Like Humans – Claims Cambridge University Scientist

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Evolutionary biologist Simon Conway Morris has shared his belief that aliens are real and that they look just like us, noting how interesting it is that we have yet to find or come in contact with human-like beings, given the number of Earth-like planets we have discovered so far.

Professor Conway Morris is best known for his study on the Cambrian explosion, which saw a sudden evolutionary burst of complex animal life occur around 542 million years ago. Morris, a man of both religion and science, has also been challenging popular scientific theories with an open mind for quite some time. He feels that many theories, when pulled together, can help explain how we all got here, but on their own paint only an incomplete picture.[1]

Given his history, it’s not much of a surprise that Morris also delves into the ET realm. He feels that because many of the planets we have discovered are similar to our own, harbouring the distinct possibility for life, it is likely life has already emerged.

Morris has stated: “I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn’t boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge, because intelligence is convergent.”

“One can say with reasonable confidence that the likelihood of something analogous to a human evolving is really pretty high.”

“And given the number of potential planets that we now have good reason to think exist, even if the dice only come up the right way every one in 100 throws, that still leads to a very large number of intelligences scattered around, that are likely to be similar to us.”

Professor Conway Morris continues to say: “Fermi’s paradox seems to be coming rather sharply into focus. If I’m on the right track then the likelihood of intelligence is evolving and actively engaging in some sort of transgalatic expeditions doesn’t seem to be completely beyond the realm of possibility.”

“What Fermi didn’t know when he asked that famous question was that the number of Earth-like planets is absolutely gigantic now. More problematic is that many of these solar systems far, far pre-date our solar system. They would have, in principle, a major head start of hundreds of millions, if not billions, of years.”

“The problem is exceedingly acute: we shouldn’t be alone but, famous last words, all the evidence suggests we are. Maybe [aliens] are hiding, the Arthur C Clarke idea, or as Stephen Baxter mischievously suggested we live in a virtual world. I don’t honestly know. My suspicion is we have only begun to scratch at the surface of reality, for want of a better word.”

But are they hiding? It almost seems like there’s been so much evidence of “someone else” that the statement “maybe they’re hiding” seems misplaced.

Valid Theories?

Are his theories something to be taken seriously or is he off in left field? Given the amount of research that has gone into this subject over the years, enough evidence, case studies, and experiences have been documented to suggest it’s not at all unreasonable to believe that aliens not only exist, but that they could be among us already. Even Harvard professor John Mack states when it comes to alien abductions: “Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension.” 

Even popular scientists Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye believe aliens and ETs exist and are intelligent.

Canada’s former defense minister Paul Hellyer not only believes ETs exist, but states that “at least 4 known alien species have been visiting earth for thousands of years.” In an interview we did with Hellyer at Toronto City Hall I asked him outright about the existence of different species, and he told me that at some levels of military and government it’s such a known fact that it’s not even surprising to them anymore.

Exciting Time For Disclosure

In the end this topic is so widely discussed now that it’s only a matter of time before big answers will come. Some believe the answers are already there while others are waiting for more tangible proof, and they are of course entitled to wait. I do believe though that instead of being rash, angry, or condescending about the probability of alien life, we could be more curious, excited, and open. It’s a very real and practical possibility, and the days of thinking it’s crazy talk should be long gone.

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UFO Researcher Finds Ancient Ship In Alaska, July 2015 (Video)

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Date of discovery: June 30, 2015

Location of discovery: Sitkalidak Island, Alaska

Coordinates: 57° 9’33.11″ N153° 9’29.91″W

 

I wanted to test my skills on Google Earth at finding ancient ships. Many people have tried to tell me that what I report on mars is not real, its just in my head. The term is called “pareidolia.” I have a masters degree in counseling education. I know all about that and much more and what those morons are doing is embedding…that means they learn one technique word and they apply it to everything they see. Its a sign of an amateur…which clearly they are. This is a ship and it took me about 5-7 minutes to find. I also found about 6 others near by that may be ships, but may not be. I only wanted to report the sure thing, to erase all doubt about my skills. I found a 41 meter ship, what you do with this knowledge is up to you. Trust me when I report Mars structures. I have a good head on my shoulders.

Scott C. Waring

 

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Astronomers Predict Fireworks from Rare Stellar Encounter (Video)

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This is the longest-period binary system containing a radio pulsar. A pulsar, known as J2032. When astronomers started watching it, they had no idea how dynamic was. They still don’t know what it’s capable of. This pulsar has been accelerating for the last ten years, and it’s still speeding up.

When it passes through the companion star’s disk, we’re gonna see some serious gamma-ray emission. The pulsar, known as J2032 is the crushed core of a massive star that exploded as a supernova.

It is a magnetized ball about 12 miles across, or about the size of Washington, weighing almost twice the sun’s mass and spinning seven times a second.

The massive star tugging on the pulsar is named MT91 213. Classified as a Be star, the companion is 15 times the mass of the sun and shines 10,000 times brighter. Be stars drive strong outflows, called stellar winds, and are embedded in large disks of gas and dust.

Astronomers are expecting high-energy explosions when pulsar J2032 swings around its massive companion star in early 2018. The pulsar will plunge through a disk of gas and dust surrounding the star, triggering cosmic fireworks.

Astronomers think the supernova explosion that created the pulsar also kicked it into its eccentric orbit, nearly tearing the binary apart in the process.

A study of the system led by Lyne and including Ray and Stappers was published June 16 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

  

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Great Photo Of An Alien Craft Over Charnham Park

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GREAT PHOTO OF AN ALIEN CRAFT OVER CHARNHAM PARK   APRIL 29, 2015  …… CHARNHAM PARK UNITED KINGDOM    

Newbury Weekly News reader Vanessa Cloete snapped this image, and many more like it, of an unidentified aerial phenomenon above her home in the Charnham Park vicinity.  And it wasn’t a one-off.  Ms Cloete, who works night shifts, first saw the object several weeks ago and was amazed when it returned – not once, but several times.  On the last occasion, she said: “I was so fascinated I went and knocked for my neighbours. They couldn’t believe what they were seeing and got their camera to take stills and video images. 

“The strange thing is that it seems to change shape and sometimes is surrounded by green lights and, sometimes, blue. I first saw it out of my bedroom window.”  Ms Cloete is adamant that the object is not the planet Venus because it moves rapidly around the night sky.  She said: “Whatever it is, it’s round and sometimes flashes. It stays in the sky for up to an hour before suddenly vanishing. I think I’ve seen it more than most because of the shifts I work.” 

The object was last seen on Friday, April 29.  Since the story was published in the Hungedrford edition of this week’s Newbury Weekly News, more residents have come forward to say they had seen the mystery object too. One reader sent their own photograph of the mysterious phenomenon.  But none could offer an explanation for what they had seen.  

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Mummy Of An Ancient Astronaut Found By The KGB? (Video)

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It began with the revelations of Viktor Ivanovich, a neurologist and Russian astrophysicist hired by the Kremlin as a scientific advisor for the development of advanced propulsion systems.

 

As he tells Sci-Fi, Ivanovich had access to some secret archives of the KGB in which he spoke of an expedition in 1961 as part of ”Isis Project”, which aimed to discover traces of knowledge and technology Ancient Egypt that could be used for military applications.

 

The mission team consists of Egyptologists of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a certain Herman Alekseen such as the Hermitage Museum Egyptologist, military experts specialized in chemical and radioactivity, some astronomers, including Vladimir Yuri, and Sami Sharaf , Secretary of Gamel Abdel Nasser, the second president of the Republic of Egypt.

 

If we consider the historical period in which the shipment would take place, it’s no wonder the political axis between Egypt and the Soviet Union. Since the conflict in 1956, when Israel invaded Egyptian territory, as a result of Canal crisis, the Soviet Union sided with Egypt. It is estimated that when the Isis project began, the Soviet military present in Egypt reached 20 000 units.

 

The expedition was organized after the chance discovery of a mysterious tomb by two Bedouins Magbarat Alzoar in one of the pyramids of Giza. The two victims, after entering the tomb, they were taken ill and hospitalized. When questioned by agents of the KGB and Egyptian intelligence, he repeated that the Bedouin had found the “Visitor God.”

 

Since then, the ”Isis Project” became the highest priority and every effort will be organized to find and analyze the tomb discovered by the two Bedouins. The expedition was organized jointly by the two countries in secret, for fear that the CIA, the US intelligence services, might become aware of the discovery.

 

According to the report document held by Ivanovich, the Soviets found the tomb full of artifacts. Thus we read in a note addressed to a senior officer of the KGB:

 

“My agents have secured notes of scientists working at the Tomb of visitor discovered”

 

 

This is followed by the following list of information:

 

• Findspot: undisclosed; 15 boxes of artifacts; 1 partially mummified body; one stone sarcophagus, 8 samples of hieroglyphics.

 In the report prepared by one of the first scientists to enter the tomb reads:

 

• “During the inspection of the walls we have noticed a strange repulsive force coming out of the walls. We could not find any scientific explanation.”

 

Finally, the report prepared by one of the cryptographers, who participated in the partial decoding engraved on the walls of the tomb message, read a prophecy involving the “return of the winged”.

 

But the most surprising discovery relates to the mummy. The mummy seems to have a height of more than 2 meters high, much higher than the average height of the inhabitants of ancient Egypt.

 

  

Carbon-14 analysis conducted by molecular biologist Boris Timoyev revealed that the body goes back about 12,000 years ago, thousands of years before the Egyptian dynastic period. Who could be the mummified body content in the sarcophagus?

 

According to Egyptian mythology, a family of gods descended from the stars in Egypt. They taught them the knowledge and wisdom. Later, when his work was over, they left the earth to return to heaven, with the exception of Osiris, who was left with the task of protecting and maintaining the dice ancestral knowledge.

 

 

The god Osiris. According to Egyptian mythology, he came down from heaven in a ‘flying boat’. Was it a UFO?

 

Osiris brought civilization to men, taught them to cultivate the land and produce wine, and was loved by the people. After his death was mummified and buried in a secret location.

 

Based on this ancient myth, shortly after the discovery of the tomb of the visitor, a group of scientists, computer programmers, doctors and other academics gathered to discuss the scope of the event. The group was convinced that the body in the coffin was the mummy of Osiris, the alien king! The group adopted the name of “followers”, a movement of almost religious boundaries, dedicated to the worship of the “visitor from the stars.”

 

The Kremlin took the matter under a more pragmatic profile. At the time of the Cold War, it would have been helpful to have some kind of invincible alien technology. Moreover, Soviet scientists began to wonder seriously what the real function of the pyramids and if they had been designed for a particular purpose. Some of them were the hypothesis that they are powerful machines able to channel some energy of the cosmos or some kind of interstellar transmitter.

 

The KGB and the meeting with the former astronaut

 

What piqued the interest of the Sci-Fi in the subject was a film that seems to have obtained US broadcaster of the Russian mafia through an intermediary.

 

The film obtained from the archives of the KGB and high security images show the discovery of the sarcophagus inside the tomb Guest. The Sci-Fi experts guarantee the authenticity of the film.

 

The black and white video shows a number of soldiers and officers entering what appears to be an Egyptian burial chamber without gas masks. At the opening of the sarcophagus, you can see a cloud of toxic gas invading the environment and the reaction of the soldiers affected by the breath and fear as they watch the mummy in the coffin that contained it.

 

Later, the place seems to have been organized for further scientific analysis. Now the soldiers are wearing special protective suits.

 

 

What value can be given to this film? Is it a joke made on the basis of the revelations of Ivanovich? There is no doubt that the video shows concordance with the data contained in documents Ivanovich. This, according to some, would be further evidence to support the authenticity of the film.

 

Furthermore, it appears that the private screening organized by the team of Sci-Fi, issued before the documentary aired, this daughter of one of those who formed the ”followers” who, recognizing his father in the images of the film, she begins to mourn.

 

“There is no doubt that a small group of Russian scientists with military experts have discovered a tomb in Egypt in 1961,” says Ivanovich. “But in the documents it has never been revealed exactly what was found inside the sarcophagus. Only through the sources of the highest ranks of the KGB know that we have found the remains of an alien creature died in Egypt 10,000 years before Christ “.

 

If the information disclosed by Dr. Ivanocih are true, we need to reconsider all the cultural evolution of human civilization. Constantly, there is news that reveal the past of the Earth much more sophisticated and enigmatic than previously thought.

 

Moreover, whatever people may say, knowledge of Egyptian civilization and the construction of the great pyramids of Giza remains a mystery. “The fundamental question about ancient Egypt is to understand how such an advanced civilization, at the height of its development around 2500 BC, has appeared on the world stage,” says McNaughton Roselyn Institute of Egyptology.

 

“All the other ancient civilizations have experienced a progressive historical development in the design of its technology in hundreds or even thousands of years. This has not happened in ancient Egypt. A fully formed society suddenly came out of the desert”.

 

 

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If We Shoot Down a UFO We’ll Trigger an Interstellar War – Former Canadian Minister of Defense

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If We Shoot Down a UFO We’ll Trigger an Interstellar War – Former Canadian Minister of Defense 

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