Filer’s Files #32 – 2015 – Astronomer Spots UFO - PART II

Sightings of UFOs in the United States

California Strange Lights

Salton City — It was Wednesday July 29, 2015, around 10:30 pm and I was in my kitchen putting dinner away after getting my kids to bed when I heard my dogs who are usually very quite start to bark and howl. I opened my sliding glass door to see why they were barking and witnessed them looking southeast at the sky and when I looked to see what they were looking at I witnessed 4 very large bright glowing red/orange balls of lights hovering high up in the sky. I watched them as the slowly shifted positions randomly. I ran to get my husband who thought they were very large balls of fire in the sky. We continued to watch them for about 5 minutes as they continued to move randomly. I ran inside to get my camera and when I returned there was only three left and they had formed a straight line with each other. I felt a sense of fear and depression like something was very wrong. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Colorado Sightings

Aurora — I was sitting outside with my boyfriend looking up on August 2, 2015, what stunned me was it slowed down time specifically so I could see it. It was only in the sky for 10 seconds and was extremely fast and almost fell out of the sky in a swooping down motion. It abruptly turned straight up and disappeared. My boyfriend saw the last part. Time slowed down when I was watching it and I felt I was being selected. I could see the bottom with equally spaced pulsating white lights. I saw this for only a second that felt like two minutes. It changed direction and completely disappeared. I am positive this was a ufo and it wanted me to see it. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Estas Park — I was on a trip with family into the Roosevelt National Forest on July 17, 2015, and took many pictures. When I got home I looked over them and saw an object with four glowing lights on the bottom and it seemed to be flying near the tip of the mountain.

I did not notice it at the time of the picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Light

Cape Canaveral — I was watching TV and noticed the sunset looked pretty so I took pictures on July 1, 2015.

. It was raining but the clouds near the sunset were interesting. I only noticed the objects when I was looking at the pictures a few weeks later.
When I noticed the first object I thought it was a palm tree trunk flying and when I looked closer I noticed several objects in the same picture. Each picture had a different amount of objects. I didn’t know who to send the photos to until I was watched Hanger 1. I would like to know if it’s UFO’s.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

Alachua — I was taking pictures of the cloud formations that evening, they were very colorful on June 14, 2014. I didn’t see the bright disc objects until a few weeks later when I was erasing pictures from my phone at my leisure and noticed a very bright spot on a picture, thought maybe it was a crack on the lens, until I expanded the picture….wow. So then I found two other pictures taken within seconds of each other. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Lights

Chicago — I was at the Godfrey Hotel rooftop nightclub bar on August 1, 2015, and took three photos of this skyline, that show strange lights. Nothing was heard, nor was anything spotted at the time that the photos were taken with an IPhone 6 camera. The lights are in an organized and geometric pattern. Granted, there were plenty of helicopters and airplanes in the sky. I don’t think the photos are of conventional aircraft. The pattern of lights in the photo reminds me of the “Phoenix lights” event. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Edinburgh – Pam Stark writes, “Its 2:10 am, and I just had the @$!# scared out of me. I turned my light and tv off at 2 am on July 27, 2015. I closed my eyes for a few minutes, I had a strange feeling that something or someone was watching me. I opened my eyes; I could see someone standing by the chair in my room. It was grey colored and had big eyes. I won’t forget it. I turned on my light it was gone.” I was yelling for my son, Brandon who rushed into my room. He was sitting on the porch having a cigarette with the porch light off because of the mosquitoes. I’m still shaking. I won’t be going to sleep until daylight gets here. Believe me I’m tired. Thanks to Pam

Missouri Object

Valles Mines — I live in the country on four acres and was at home and took 9 pictures during my morning meditation on August 2, 2015. When I looked at my pictures I noticed this weird shape in it. I didn’t witness it but, my iPhone picked up something that could be an orb, angel, drone or spaceship. The object appears to be hovering and has a glowing white shape. I noticed it in the middle of my photo my pictures, but not all of them. I showed my girlfriend, and my son, and they were tripping out. I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary but, felt like I was being watched. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Nevada Lights

Las Vegas — My wife and I were on the freeway about 9 pm on July 1, 2015 and were following GPS directions when my GoPro cam mounted on dashboard caught this big bright light. GoPro saw it way before us as the bright light came to earth from space. It was falling fast in a straight vertical line but not breaking up like a meteor. I got excited because I know it is not from this world. I even told my wife that is coming from Heaven. All is recorded in the video of numerous lights in the sky. The Big Bright Light starts to slow down and it turned off at about 1000 feet from the ground and about less than a mile straight in front of us. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey UFO

Belle Mead — I was driving home and then a huge flash surprised me on JULY 24, 2015 at 7:00 PM, and I saw 20 objects at least 6 or 7 times bigger than a 747. I thought it was a ufo. It moved slowly in a path of nine- saw, and I reacted to it. I was freaked out. I lost sight because it flashed and it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Disc

New York City – I shot this picture in October of 2014 while taking the ferry. Three helicopters with ranging in colors of red, black and white were in the area doing their typical tourist ventures. After the trip I was re-examining the pictures and noticed this weird shaped object did not show up on any other shot after. In the next picture the object is no longer visible but there are some exhaust fumes that could be from the craft. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Binghamton – I was taking pictures of a hot air balloon launch at a balloon rally on July 31, 2015.

Later, when looking at my pictures I noticed an object in the sky that I didn’t see while taking the photo. No one else noticed it that I know of at the time.

I showed the picture to my son and he recommended that I send the photo to you. Thanks to MUFON CMS

North Carolina Lights

Thought you might like to see these lights taken on July 27, 2015. I have a wildlife camera set up on my property and when I unloaded the SD card these guys showed up. I have no idea what it is, but for sure it is not bugs. The camera is set up using infrared photos at night and color in the day. I never gave any thought to UFO’s, but these lights could be a case for small ones. What do you think?

Note: It is difficult to determine the source of these lights. I agree with the witness that they are not bugs. The photo sequence starts at 10:55 PM and goes through 12:02 AM. The lights appear, disappear and later reappear. Whatever was photographed was on or in front of the trees. Thanks to William Puckett, DirectorUFOsnw

Ohio Lights

Dayton — My Mom and I were sitting on my front porch talking on July 31, 2015, when we noticed two round objects thru the trees. They made no sound and were glowing a reddish color. I grabbed my phone to get this photo. They were traveling fast in a linear pattern, fairly close to each other. There were no other aircraft in the sky. I watched the objects for as long as I could. Some neighbors have also witnessed these objects. I do reside near Wright Patterson Air Force Base. I am a nurse and a Mom and never have seen anything like this. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Utah Blue Lights

Springville — I was walking on the track at the high school around 8:45 pm and decided to take a photo of the moon on July 30, 2015. The blue spheres are clear and obvious. I was unaware of the objects at the time I took the photo, but the bottoms of my feet began burning and I found it difficult to walk home and the pain continued for almost two days. I don’t know why or if it was connected, but it has never happened before. I didn’t notice the objects at the time so I don’t know how long the objects were in the sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington Disc

Skyway — I wasn’t there at the time, but my friend was taking pictures on August 1, 2015, when out of nowhere an object appeared. Seafair was during this time, but the Blue Angeles weren’t in the sky. My friend the said the object moved at impossible speeds and in weird directions, and since I watch the MUFON TV show I thought it would be right to talk about it here. My friend also said the object went up into the clouds and it didn’t come down for a minute. It appeared right where it went up, the object continued to move around when it flew into the distance disappearing. Thanks to MUFON CMS

West Virginia Lights

Morgantown — We were sightseeing and took this picture of two objects in the sky on July 29, 2015. We didn’t actually see them in the sky. It wasn’t until we got home and looked at our pics and realized we had captured something. We also saw one two summers ago doing crazy zigzagging. A few years before that we saw an orangish boomerang hovering. My husband and I asked, “What is that”? That’s when it shot into outer space. We both agreed we saw a ufo. The third one, so we weren’t really surprised. This is becoming such a common thing. We know others who have seen them. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Worldwide UFO Reports

Argentina Green Fireball

Buenos Aires — This object has all the signs of being a UFO. If you jump to 50seconds into the July 2015 video and pause and start every second, you will see some small white UFOs come out of the object and fly in circular patters around the UFO. This object was going much to slow to be a meteor only 30% of the speed. So…why did an alien species try to fake a meteor entering earth’s atmosphere to come to Earth? Probably so they wouldn’t scare people. It’s a big ship for sure. Thanks to UFO Sightings Daily

News states:
Bright green fireball lights up night sky but is it a UFO or meteor? – Weird green fireball burns through sky at night that turned the sky green as it shot through the air, caught in this footage. Some observers say the huge green luminous sphere gave the sky was otherworldly and could have been a UFO. It flew above the area of Caseros.

On Twitter, the Green Sky quickly became one of the most hotly debated subjects. Astronomer Jorge Coghlan in an interview described the possible meteor as space junk. News source:

Australia Disc

Carrara — I was observing the north sky on August 2, 2015, as I usually do when I noticed moving lights heading towards me. I then sat on the balcony and continued watching thru the lens at the show before me. It was quite orderly, darting and chasing popping things from themselves lasting an hour and half. I knew what I was seeing and even grabbed my partner to check out the random objects. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Nimmitabel — John Ravallion writes, “I would like to report a ufo sighting from 1969, of an amazing large ufo which my neighbor and I watched for 10 minutes.” I have never reported this event before, but I have had an interest in subject ever since and only seen one other sighting on tv a few years ago of a similar twin light UFO. i would like to record a drawing of some sort if possible are you interested and can you advise me how to properly record this very clear sighting. Thank you John Ravallion

Canada Huge UFO

Calgary — I got undressed to shower and saw 5 red circles on my body on July 29, 2015. They looked like when a dice rolls 5. They’re not bumps, they don’t hurt, itch or anything like that. I had no idea what it was, so I Googled it. UFO marking was all that came up that looked identical to what I had on me. I didn’t see it appear, and just found it. I started feeling paranoid, shocked, and scared. I then googled “signs that you’ve encountered aliens” and met many of the signs. I was almost too scared to go to bed, worried I’d wake up somewhere strange. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Toronto — The two of us observed a shooting star overhead on the rooftop of my building on August 2, 2015. It moved across the sky for about 6-inches at 12:08 am, tracking east. We noticed a round, thick white light turning on and off. I flashed on my green starlight laser that appeared to hit it and bounce off. It immediately reacted to my laser when I flashed at 12:24 AM; it seemed to fly faster traveling towards the moon in a SE direction. It was a cylinder shaped object tumbling or spinning in a clock-wise direction similar to this attached online photo.

The size of the light was bigger than a commercial jet’s landing lights the cylinder disappeared from view as it got closer to the full moon’s brightness. It was a very electric energy that awakened and excited us. This is my 3rd unknown flying object sighting in a week. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Japan Blue Light

On July 17, 2015, in my YouTube video in the first 7 seconds you will see a static image, then after 17 seconds, the blue flash appears in the top-left area in the sky. You can also see a small white light beside the blue light that seems like a reflection of the blue light on the ship body. It does not look like natural phenomenon. It was not airplane’s lights and too high for a drone.

“Recently, I had been investigating if there is UFO with royal blue color because a lady witnessed a blue UFO. I telepathically asked, if there is UFO with royal blue color, please let me videotape that craft”. Then I started to videotape the night sky hoping that something might happen, and then the blue flash appeared in the sky.
Camera: Sony HDR-CX390

Mexico Sightings

Guadalajara — I’ve had a telescope for years and charted the stars and observed of the moon on August 2, 2015. I saw something that could only be observed through my telescope. It was either very small or very far away. It was a round shaped object. The center was completely dark and the edges were visible too. Around the object there were lights that formed a ring, and around that ring there was another set of lights that formed a half ring. At first I thought it was the reflection from the light of neighboring houses, but then one of my companions saw it too with his telescope. He described the lights as forming a three-point star outline rather than two rings. The object was moving very slow giving me enough time to make the difficult change from one lens to another. It was not moving from north to south and turned east and disappeared behind some clouds.

  Boomerang— I heard an police helicopter flying and went to my rooftop on November 6, 2006, and saw a helicopter when a ufo also appeared. I thought I was going to see aliens as this dark boomerang object followed me.

The flying was controlled with changes of direction and the center of the object had one light and exit energy at the sides. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Zealand Sightings

Nelson and New Plymouth — First sighting was reported to NZ police and air traffic control. A second sighting was witnessed by my family a security guard, and me. There were two separate sightings of orange orbs in different towns, with no sound, moving then accelerating. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Wellington — This UFO tried to sneak past cloaked in its lenticular cloud, but the guy was onto it and got a photo. If you see one, get a photo! Please, and share it with us. Put a link in any comments of any post taking us to it.

Stuff News states: “A flying saucer made of clouds was sighted over Wellington’s Lyall Bay on July 31, 2015. When Alex Greig headed to the beach to enjoy an early morning Milo about 7.50 am, he was stunned to see the giant orb looming in the sky above him.

“It was phenomenal,” he said. “Just absolutely amazing, I’ve never seen one like that, so perfectly formed that looks like there should be a UFO inside it – a big steel disc, like in the movies.” Unfortunately the stunning formation was soon obscured by surrounding clouds, he said. MetService meteorologist Emma Blades said it was a lenticular cloud, which is common in New Zealand as they are caused by waves generated by air rushing over mountains. “This is a stunning example though,” she said. In Texas in June, there were 56 reported sightings to the Mutual UFO network when the clouds appeared after a spate of severe weather. UFO enthusiasts believe that lenticular clouds are actually flying saucers in “disguise”. Thanks to Scott C. Waring ufosightingsdaily. News Source:

Spain Disc

Cartagena – I saw a disc shaped object flying at low altitude while driving my car at sunset on May 17, 2015, so I asked my son to take some pictures with my iPhone. The object was moving but the road had some curves so I couldn’t see its movements well.

However, it disappeared quickly because after the curve shown in the last picture, we couldn’t see it anymore. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Switzerland Light

Lausanne – I am hoping MUFON may be able to help with something I managed to photograph on July 21, 2015 around 11 pm. Sitting in my lounge I noticed a strange orange light that I thought was a plane as we can often see them heading to Geneva. I saw a single point of orange light similar to the headlight on a commercial airplane. Next to it, I saw an orange streak which appeared quite quickly. After probably 30 seconds, the orange streak went away and the single point of light persisted and then also faded out. I thought it might be a plane on fire. Several minutes later, I notice the light again this time larger and more of a streak than a point of light.

I called my wife to have a look and she commented it may be a Chinese lantern. I snapped a photo using a Canon EOS 650D with a 55 to 250mm lens towards Vallee du Joux. You can see that it is definitely not a plane as it was just much too low, too large and too strange to be a plane. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/England Light

Bewdley — Whilst I stood in my back yard on July 30, 2015, I saw two objects flying erratically in the sky. I got my camera and took a couple of photos. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Venezuela Lights

Caracas — Walking I saw in the sky two figures on July 3, 2015, and took a photo with my telephone.

When lowering my glance and reestablishing it the object was missing. I did not see its trajectory, when it departed. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Lost Papyrus Reveals Extraterrestrials Visited Ancient Egypt

Video: Lost Papyrus Reveals Extraterrestrials Visited Ancient Egypt

One of the most intriguing ancient texts, the Tulli Papyrus chronicles one of the earliest mass UFO sightings.

It also has an interesting backstory. In 1933, Alberto Tulli, director of the Egyptology section of the Vatican Museum, discovered a unique papyrus in one of Cairo’s antique shops.

Unfortunately, it was priced too high—even for the Vatican—so Tulli resorted to copying down its contents.

When he later returned, the papyrus was gone. Two decades later, Italian Egyptologist Prince Boris de Rachewiltz announced that he had located the original papyrus, “untranslated and unpublished.”

While incomplete, the papyrus painted a pretty clear picture:

“In the year 22, of the third month of winter, sixth hour of the day […] among the scribes of the House of Life it was found that a strange Fiery Disk was coming in the sky. It had no head. The breath of its mouth emitted a foul odor.

Its body was one rod (172 feet or approximately 50 meters) in length and one rod in width. It had no voice. It came toward His Majesty’s house. Their heart became confused through it, and they fell upon their bellies. They [went] to the King to report it. His Majesty [ordered that] the scrolls [located] in the House of Life be consulted. His Majesty meditated on all these events which were now going on.

A copy of the Tulli Papyrus

A copy of the Tulli Papyrus Continue Reading after this brake: After several days had passed, they became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shined in the sky more than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four supports of heaven[…] Powerful was the position of the Fiery Disks.

The army of the King looked on, with His Majesty in their midst. It was after the evening meal when the Disks ascended even higher in the sky to the south. Fish and other volatiles rained down from the sky, a marvel never before known since the foundation of the country.

And His Majesty caused incense to be brought to appease the heart of Amun-Re, the god of the Two Lands. And it was [ordered] that the event [be recorded for] His Majesty in the Annals of the House of Life [to be remembered] for ever.”

The pharaoh in question is Thutmose III, and the event happened in the first years of his reign, somewhere around 1480 BC. As evidenced by the existence of this text, this event was one of great importance. The scribes’ reactions of fear and bewilderment are consistent with the unprecedented apparition of an enormous flying object.

It is described as being silent while its exhaust emitted toxic gasses. Its shape is described as a disk with “no head”, possibly metallic due to its high reflectiveness. A few days after being visited by this scout, the entire UFO armada reveals itself.

The fleet’s departure is marked by a strange, unprecedented event: fish and “other volatiles” raining down from the sky. Did the UFOs refuel using water from the Nile and then dump the extra passengers scooped up? Could be.

The Tulli Papyrus does not mention whether a contact was established with the visitors, but it’s interesting to see that a decidedly alien civilization was interested in the Egyptian Empire while it was at its height.

Nobody knows where the original papyrus is today. When researcher Samuel Rosenberg wrote to the Vatican Museum to get the chance to examine the ancient text, he got the following reply: “Papyrus Tulli not property of Vatican Museum. Now it is dispersed and no more traceable.”

Ian Paxton - Locklip

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Giant Mystery Ring of Galaxies Should Not Exist

An image of the distribution of GRBs on the sky at a distance of 7 billion light years, centred on the newly discovered ring. The positions of the GRBs are marked by blue dots and the Milky Way is indicated for reference, running from left to right across the image. Credit: L. BALAZS View full size image

Astronomers are constantly uncovering the "most distant," "most massive" or "most energetic" objects in our universe, but today, researchers have announced the discovery of a truly monstrous structure consisting of a ring of galaxies around 5 billion light-years across.

The galactic ring, which was revealed by 9 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), is located 7 billion light-years away and spans an area of the sky more than 70 times the diameter of a full moon.

ANALYSIS: Mysterious 'Cold Spot': Fingerprint of Largest Structure in the Universe?

GRBs are thought to be detonated when a massive star reaches the end of its life. As the star implodes after running out of fuel, a black hole is formed and vast quantities of energy are blasted in collimated beams. Should Earth be aligned with these beams, an incredibly luminous signal can be observed and these beacons can be used to precisely gauge the distance to the GRB and the location of the galaxy that hosts it.

The GRBs are all cataloged in the Gamma Ray Burst Online Index, which precisely records each GRB distance and location, like pins on a cosmic map.

Astronomers believe these GRBs (and therefore the galaxies they inhabit) are somehow associated as all 9 are located at a similar distance from Earth. According to its discoverers, there's a 1-in-20,000 probability of the GRBs being in this distribution by chance — in other words, they are very likely associated with the same structure, a structure that, according to cosmological models, should not exist.

NEWS: Universe's Largest Structure is a Cosmic Conundrum

"If the ring represents a real spatial structure, then it has to be seen nearly face-on because of the small variations of GRB distances around the object's center," said Lajos Balazs, of Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary, and lead author of a paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. "The ring could though instead be a projection of a sphere, where the GRBs all occurred within a 250 million year period, a short timescale compared with the age of the universe."

But what could possibly be creating a sphere an unprescedented 5 billion light-years across?

According to most cosmological models, the universe should have a roughly uniform distribution of matter over the largest scales. This is known as the "Cosmological Principal" and observations by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and Europe's Planck space telescope, which both studied the distribution of the universe's ancient cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, seem to agree. However, other results have recently challenged this idea hinting that structures as large as 1.2 billion light-years may exist. But a growing list of discoveries in the cosmic abyss seem to contradict even the 1.2 billion light-year "limit."

NEWS: Scientists Discover Universe's Largest Structure

The GRB ring is 5 times larger than the 1.2 billion light-year limit; a pretty huge anomaly by anyone's standard. And this latest discovery isn't even the biggest. In 2013, another distribution of GRBs revealed a 10 billion light-year structure. Other large structures also defy this theoretical limit.

So what could be causing this particular ring of GRBs? One idea focuses around the large-scale structure of the universe where clusters of galaxies amass together in a web-like structure, thought to be clumped around concentrations of dark matter. The "holes" in this web are referred to as voids — regions of the cosmos that are conspicuously near-empty of any matter. The largest voids are called, unsurprisingly, "super-voids."

But this new structure dwarfs all known super-voids.

"If we are right, this structure contradicts the current models of the universe. It was a huge surprise to find something this big — and we still don't quite understand how it came to exist at all," added Balazs.

So is the Cosmological Principal flawed? It's certainly looking that way.

Source: Royal Astronomical Society

 This article was provided by Discovery News.

Kan jij de vrouw op Mars spotten? - HLN.be

Bron: ufo sightings daily

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Alienjagers zijn nog maar net aan het bekomen van de vermeende krab die uit een grot op de rode planeet kwam gekropen of ze hebben alweer iets merkwaardigs gespot: een mysterieuze, deels gesluierde minivrouw. "Dit lijkt écht en het zou elk land in de wereld moeten bezorgd maken", klinkt het in de niet-wetenschappelijke middens. Een echt vrouwtje, dus?

Marsjeep Curiosity blijft foto's spuwen vanop de rode planeet, tot groot jolijt van een hele schare geïnteresseerden op het internet. Die lijken alsmaar meer bewijs van buitenaards leven te zien in de beelden. We hebben hier al aangehaald dat het brein van sommige medemensen nu eenmaal dingen ziet die het WIL zien.

Nu hebben ze het weer over het bestaan van "complex leven op Mars". Wat dat precies betekent, lijken ze zelf niet te weten. Maar in de foto hierboven ontwaren sommigen een geklede vrouw van 8 tot 10 centimeter lang. "De vrouw lijkt borsten te hebben, zo suggereert de schaduw op haar borstkas. We zien ook twee armen die lichter van kleur zijn en iets wat op een hoofd met lang haar lijkt. Moeilijk te zeggen of het om een levend wezen gaat of om een beeldje van een wezen van lang geleden", aldus Scott C. Waring op UFO Sightings Daily.

Op dezelfde site wordt gewag gemaakt van het donkere, vierkante beeld links op de foto. Dat zou een gebouw of een alien-woning kunnen zijn. Of ook niet. Oordeelt u vooral zelf: hier is de originele foto van NASA.

De wilde speculaties draaien duidelijk overuren, maar het internet is er dol op. Gelukkig worden er ook grapjes over gemaakt op Twitter: "Het is gewoon een aardse vrouw die nog niet ver genoeg van Donald Trump kon gaan lopen."

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• Wat komt er daar uit grot op Mars gekropen?

liz splawn. @lizsplawn

There was a woman like creature spotted on Mars in a NASA video. #WeAreNotAlone

4:59 AM - 8 Aug 2015

funburger jones @JohnSeaborn

Mysterious woman-shaped figure on Mars is just normal Earth woman who still feels she is not far enough away from Donald Trump

4:32 AM - 8 Aug 2015

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Jim Roberts 

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Yes, that is definitely a long-haired woman standing on the surface of Mars. http://mashable.com/2015/08/06/nasa-mars-lady/ …

5:49 PM - 6 Aug 2015

Wat komt er daar uit grot op Mars gekropen? - HLN.be

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Marsjeep Curiosity heeft een bizar beeld geschoten op de bodem van de rode planeet. Wie inzoomt, lijkt wel een alien-krab te zien, die uit een grot komt gekropen. Ruimtefanaten likken weer duimen en vingers af op sociale media.

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• Nooit geziene bewegende beelden van de 'donkere kant' van de maan vanop 1,6 miljoen km

Bewijs van leven ginder boven, luidt de vraag daar. Nee, toch niet. Het is optisch bedrog, geven wetenschappers aan. Het gaat om een geval van pareidolia, het psychische verschijnsel waarbij het menselijk brein een interpretatie geeft aan een onduidelijke waarneming die niet overeenkomt met de werkelijkheid. We zien dus eigenlijk gewoon wat we WILLEN zien. Net zoals we soms herkenbare vormen in wolkenformaties menen te ontwaren.

Seth Shostak, astronoom bij het Centre for SETI Research, reageerde in The Mirror: "Wie mij dit soort foto's laat zien, is meestal nogal opgewonden, omdat zoiets lijkt op iets dat je niet zou verwachten op de roestige, stoffige bodem van de rode planeet. Meestal is het een of ander dier, maar soms ook vreemdere voorwerpen als auto-onderdelen. Denken ze dan dat er auto's op Mars zijn?" Die buitenaardse krab is dus nog niet voor vandaag...

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Military Guards Spot Alien Craft Over Fort Hood

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MILITARY GUARDS SPOT ALIEN CRAFT OVER FORT HOOD  AUGUST 5, 2015  …………   FORT HOOD TEXAS  

First, I must apologize. I wish me and my subordinate had a specialized camera to have a close-up of this object. At the moment, we are on guard duty and noticed the object for a duration of 75 minutes. We witnessed this object appear within an approximate 16-20 miles from our location: 31 degrees 8 minutes 38.328 seconds N 97 degrees 47 minutes 5.82 seconds W. Throughout the 75 minutes, we have guessed that the object is spinning, zig zagging across the sky, changing its color and traveling in a WNW direction slowly away from the Fort Hood Military Reservation. By the naked eye, we conclude with the fact that this object has gone far as Lampasas County (and still going). At one point during the 75 minutes, we thought that the object was heading toward our direction but did not. The lights were impressive as it was very bright. Too bright to be an aircraft. The angle of our observation was at 35-45 degrees and at the end, it was a lot lower given the distance. This observation is a continuing trend of sightings that has been going on this whole summer. 

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U.S. Government Releases Document With Details Of Extraterrestrial Bodies, Craft & Home Planet

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Mysterious Black Knight Satellite Is REAL – Alien Coverup Uncovered

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Very Close Alien Craft Encounter In Madison New Jersey

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 VERY CLOSE ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTER IN MADISON NEW JERSEY 8-20-83 MADISON NEW JERSEY 

It happened in the summer, in the town of Madison NJ, the town in which I lived at the time. I was 17-18 years old. I and a friend were waiting in my car for another friend to come out of his house so we could start the evening. Just driving around town and stuff (we were teenagers). We were parked on the side of the road facing east, in front of a small field next to the towns YMCA. The street is shaped like an ell making a 90 deg turn 500 to 1000 ft ahead of us. From where we were parked you could see thru the backyards through the ell shape to the road farther up at a 45 degree angle. As we were talking, I was parked on the wrong side of the road, so I could see through the yards, and I saw what appeared to be a cars headlights pulling into a driveway of a house and the lights were reflecting off the windows. But something seemed strange about it, and as we talked I noticed my friend glancing in the same direction taking double takes or looks, and I could  tell he thought something was off too.

Finally I said, do you see that? And he said yea, what is that? Then I said, isn’t that that the second floor? By that time I had realized the reflection of the lights, which were unusually bright were reflecting directly off the houses 2nd floor windows. By that time my interest had peaked and I started the car and raced up the street turned right at the ell and preceded to the house were we saw the lights. At that point the object or craft was hovering above the house. I pulled up in front and I saw a large craft, about the size of a large house, just hovering. It was completely silent. It had four or more lights evenly spaced around the bottom. I was really excited and really scared at the same time. I wasn’t sure what to do. I wanted to get out of the car but was too scared. I was very close, about 100 ft give or take a few feet, away. Even though I had a clear line of sight the craft was very difficult to see. I could see the lights on the bottom and could only make out the shape by the amount of sky it blacked out. I feel like I saw more, being I was so close but its really fuzzy in my mind for some reason. This has always bothered me because it seemed to get fuzzy right after the event. I know this is something I would never forget. I had better than average eyesight at the time.

Anyway the craft started move up the street just above the houses and treetops. I chased it in my car and then it stopped. At that point it was farther away from me so I got out of my car to get a better view. As soon as I got out, I was just in time to see it shoot straight up at an incredible rate of speed. I followed it with my eyes till it appeared to look like a small star in the sky and then it shot off to the north in a right angle and disappeared making no sound at all during the whole time I witnessed the event. I thought it was very strange it made no sound at all, no engine sound or movement of air.I was so excited I couldn’t wait to tell people about what we saw. My friend was too, but he didn’t see as much as I did because he stayed in the car. Some people were very receptive about our story, most weren’t. I soon learned not to talk about it because of looks I would get from people. I could see it in their eyes. I only discuss the incident now with close friends and my kids, or people I deem open minded to such a thing. I have an intense interest in cars, aircraft, motorcycles, boats, ships, computers or anything mechanical. I have taken flying lessons and have flown several different types of airplanes. I have a very good working knowledge of aircraft and there flight characteristics. This was not any type of aircraft I have ever seen in my life and I am 50 years old.

I have studied all aircraft types, just because I am very interested in them. Have been to countless air shows. This thing was not from here! It did not behave like any known air craft I have ever seen. The way it accelerated and turned would have killed anyone on board. This was a life changing event for me. Thirty two years later I still think about it almost every day. Occasionally I will run into my friend who was in the car that knight and will ask him about what his thoughts were about that night and he acts very weird. Doesn’t say much. That’s out of character for him. Just another puzzling detail about this whole experience. 

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Onderwater ‘Stonehenge': Mysterieuze 10.000 jaar oude monoliet gevonden voor de kust van Sicilië

Voor de kust van Sicilië is een mysterieuze Stonehenge-achtige monoliet ontdekt. De drie meter hoge steen geeft inzicht in oude beschavingen die zijn verzwolgen door de golven.

De monoliet, die is ontdekt door wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Tel Aviv, bevat drie gaten met ongeveer dezelfde diameter. De onderzoekers denken dat het object 10.000 jaar geleden is gemaakt door mensen.

Atlantis

“Er zijn geen natuurlijke processen bekend die deze elementen kunnen produceren,” schreef Zvi Ben-Avraham van de Universiteit van Tel Aviv. De monoliet is gevonden op 40 meter diepte op een zandplaat die Pantelleria Vecchia wordt genoemd. Het gebied werd gekoloniseerd door een oude beschaving, die 9500 jaar geleden werd opgeslokt door de golven.

Volgens sommigen zijn er veel overeenkomsten tussen de verhalen van filosoof Plato over het legendarische ‘verloren’ eiland Atlantis en Sicilië.

Vuurtoren

“Het Kanaal van Sicilië is één van de gebieden waar de gevolgen van de veranderende zeespiegel het meest dramatisch en intens waren,” schrijven de onderzoekers. “Deze ontdekking laat zien dat de mesolithische bewoners van het gebied rond het Kanaal van Sicilië een hoge mate van technologische innovatie en ontwikkeling hadden bereikt.”

De onderzoekers denken dat de monoliet onderdeel is geweest van een soort vuurtoren of werd gebruikt om iets te verankeren. Het onderzoek is verschenen in het Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Vind je dit een interessante ontdekking? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

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‘UFO’ gezien bij ruimtestation ISS: Worden astronauten in de gaten gehouden door aliens?

Op internet is een filmpje verschenen waarin wordt geclaimd dat er een UFO bij het internationale ruimtestation ISS is gezien. De waarnemingen wijzen er volgens sommigen op dat astronauten aan boord van het ruimtestation ‘in de gaten worden gehouden door aliens’.

De nieuwste video bevat NASA-beelden die zijn gemaakt door één van de camera’s van het ISS. Het object, dat een lichte kleur en een roze staart heeft, komt korte tijd in beeld. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie voedt complottheorieën door te weigeren een verklaring te geven voor de herkomst van de vreemde objecten die zo af en toe in beeld verschijnen bij het ruimtestation.

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Hoewel het publiek toegang heeft tot de opnames, claimen ufologen dat NASA doelbewust informatie over UFO’s achterhoudt. In de beschrijving van de video staat dat NASA een roze- en goudkleurig object oppikt op het moment dat de camera twee minuten lang beweegt. De beelden dateren van 3 augustus jongstleden.

Eén van de reageerders vraagt zich af of het object onderdeel is van ‘ons geheime ruimteprogramma’. Iemand anders zei dat het de staart van een meteoriet kon zijn geweest of een lens flare. Denk je dat dit een UFO is? Deel dit artikel dan met je vrienden op Facebook.

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Veroorzaakte UFO onweersbui boven Moskou, Rusland ( Video )

Verschillende mensen in de Russische hoofdstad Moskou maakten eind juli mooie opnames van een UFO die door het luchtruim schoot. 

Die als het ware ronddartelde en plezier leek te hebben en door sommigen verantwoordelijk wordt gehouden voor de onweersbui die even later losbarstte. 

Op 27 juli vond er een vreemde gebeurtenis plaats boven de Russische hoofdstad Moskou. 

Diverse mensen wisten opnames te maken van een soort vliegende orb, een kleine ronde UFO. 

Wanneer je de opnames bekijkt dan zie je heel duidelijk dat je hier te maken hebt met intelligent bestuurde objecten. 

De UFO was zichtbaar voor ongeveer een kwartier en enkele minuten nadat deze was verdwenen begon het te stormen en te regenen. Degenen die deze UFO gezien hebben vragen zich dan ook af of de storm is veroorzaakt door de UFO. 

Ufoloog Scott Waring zegt er het volgende over: 

Deze gloeiende orb vloog stilletjes over de boomtoppen in de buurt van wat gebouwen in Moskou. De getuige gelooft dat het bolbliksem is, maar bolbliksem is veel kleiner dat dit object. Bolbliksem is nooit groter dan enkele centimeters in doorsnee. Deze UFO was ongeveer zo groot als een motorfiets. 

Bolbliksem duurt altijd minder dan een minuut en deze UFO was tenminste een kwartier lang zichtbaar. 

Wanneer je naar de twee hiernavolgende screenshots kijkt dan zie je twee verschillende versies van de orbs vanwege het toepassen van bepaalde filters. Je ziet een tweede lichtcirkel rondom het centrum van de UFO.

De twee video’s hieronder zijn gemaakt door verschillende mensen onafhankelijk van elkaar en we kunnen er dus van uitgaan dat de opnames echt zijn. 

Scott Waring: 

     De UFO vliegt rond alsof het leeft en nieuwsgierig is. Je hoort ergens in de achtergrond een meisje schreeuwen en op hetzelfde moment schiet de UFO naar boven alsof het bang werd van het geschreeuw. De UFO heeft bewustzijn. 

Ik vraag mij af of de UFO inderdaad de storm veroorzaakte die enkele minuten later losbarstte. Ik denk het wel. 

 

 

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UFOs over Guadalajara, Mexico

Report by The Third Millennium about this mass UFO sighting that happened over Guadalajara in Mexico last year.

NASA and the European Space Agency Finally Prep Public for Alien Disclosure

First NASA chief scientist, Ellen Stofan openly admitted that alien life is ‘imminent’ and just last Tuesday, Dr. John Grunsfeld of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate announced that the agency was ‘on the verge’ of discovering life on planets other than earth.

Stofan and Grunsfeld hide the fact that NASA has been lying to the public about known extraterrestrial life for decades now, and that ETs have likely have been visiting earth for centuries.

Grunsfeld told a House Committee:

“Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know…. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question.”

And Stofan’s recent comments were even more bold:

“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years. We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”

Her declaration is synchronized with the agency’s recent discovery of water of five of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s moons. We were also told by NASA recently, that their Kepler mission found another ‘earth’ in the ‘habitable zone’ in our Universe circulating around a star that resembles our sun. NASA defines ‘habitable’ based on the ability of a planet to pool water ostensibly to support life as we know it.

And then there’s the Guardian article titled “Is Kepler 425b humanity’s best chance to find alien life?” that discusses how earth’s twin – an exoplanet more similar to our own than has ever before been known is a likely case for alien life – never mind the 12 other hospitable planets that theSeti Institute is researching, and the fact that we’ve assumed all life would require the same things as ourselves, without considering that other sentient beings might not even have physical form.

Russia has even threatened the US, essentially saying, “tell the world about aliens or we will.”

But there is more to the story – as usual – than NASA and the European Space Agency, or even Seti are revealing.

Beginning in early March 2015, there was an alleged meeting on the moon involving up to 70 private individuals along with about 120 officials representing different secret space programs and national governments who heard plans about disclosing the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Dr. Michael Salla and David Wilcock have been giving ‘air time’ or you could say ‘Internet real estate’ to a whistleblower named Corey Goode. He is also known as GoodETxSG. He has his own Facebook page titled after the Sphere Being Alliance, a life-form(s) he has been working with to help disclose the massive extent of our corporate military industrial complex into space.

Whether you believe his wild testimony of secret space programs and bases on the moon or not, the very fact that thousands of people are signing up to see him be interviewed by Wilcock on Gaiam TV is a testament to just how ready people are to be told the truth about extra terrestrial life.

While it may be difficult to swallow the facts as Goode tells us – particularly that dozens of extra terrestrials have been manipulating our genetic code, and that the military industrial complex is even more bloated in space as it is here on earth – his testimony is at least worth hearing, and then deciding upon for yourself.

You can catch up rather quickly on what Goode has already ‘disclosed’ via Divine Cosmos, David Wilcock’s website, or you can go directly to Gaiam to watch his interviews. Coupled with NASA’s recent statements, and Russia’s threats, it seems something is brewing – perhaps the pressure is truly immense enough finally, that these agencies will now have to tell the truth.

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Scientists now think we could find alien life in our lifetimes. Here's how.

Jupiter's moon Europa — which could harbor life under its icy shell.(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute)

Astronomers have dreamed about finding alien life for centuries. It's just always been considered a far-fetched possibility — the stuff of science fiction. That's why it's so surprising that in recent years, many scientists have started taking the search for life on other planets much, much more seriously.

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That's partly due to new astronomical discoveries. A generation ago, we didn't even have evidence that there were any planets orbiting other stars. But in the past few decades, scientists have found thousands of distant "exoplanets," including several that seem like they might have the right conditions for life. At the same time, scientists have discovered several moons right in our own solar system that appear to have liquid oceans underneath their icy surfaces and perhaps other ingredients necessary for life.

"FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY, WE MIGHT HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO DO THIS"

It's all extremely promising. So astronomers have decided to double down on the search for extraterrestrials. They've moved beyond the traditional methods, which involved simply hoping that intelligent aliens might contact us via radio signals, à la the SETI Institute. Instead, they're now planning missions to nearby ocean worlds and finding new ways to peer at distant planets.

Some astronomers— including NASA's chief scientist — even believe we could find alien life within our lifetimes. "With new telescopes coming online within the next five or 10 years, we'll really have a chance to figure out whether we're alone in the universe," Lisa Kaltenegger, the director of Cornell's new Carl Sagan Institute, told me last year. "For the first time in human history, we might have the capability to do this."

Granted, if life does exist on any of these planets or moons — either in our solar system or outside it — it's far more likely to be in the form of simple, single-celled organisms rather than little green men. These microscopic aliens would be extremely hard to definitively detect, especially if they're orbiting other stars. But it would be a monumental discovery, a sign at last that we're not alone.

Here's a step-by-step guide to how we'll actually go looking for alien life.

Step 1: Survey our solar system's ocean worlds

A rendering of the Europa Clipper. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

It'd be a lot easier to find definitive evidence of extraterrestrial life within our own solar system than it would be to explore other stars. So the first step is to identify and explore all the ocean worlds orbiting our sun.

Ocean worlds are planets or moons that are icy on the surface but harbor a warmer liquid ocean underneath. They're promising for a simple reason: temperature. Most of the other planets in our solar system (i.e., those besides Earth) seem to be either too hot or too cold for life to survive, too close or too far from the sun. But a planet with an ocean might be able to get around this constraint — because there are lots of possible ways an ocean on a distant icy world could have the right temperature for life to occur.

For instance, scientists have recently found evidence of water oceans on at least three moons: Jupiter's Europa and Ganymede and Saturn's Enceladus. (Saturn's moon Titan also has an ocean of liquid methane.) Even though these moons are frigid on the surface, their insides appear to be warmed by various mechanisms.

Europa gets squeezed continually back and forth by Jupiter's immense gravity. "That results in friction, which generates heat, which is part of what we think helps maintain that liquid water ocean beneath the icy shell," NASA scientist Kevin Hand told me in May. These oceans could theoretically be home to life — and there might be similar oceans on other icy moons and space objects.(NASA/JPL-Caltech)

An animation shows how Europa is squeezed as it orbits Jupiter.

So far, we don't know a ton about these oceans. Most of the evidence for them is indirect, like the geysers of water vapor we've spotted erupting from Enceladus. To know more, we have to send initial probes to them. Which is what we're doing.

The first mission will likely be NASA's Europa Clipper, tentatively scheduled to launch sometime in the mid-2020s. Current plans call for it to enter Jupiter's orbit, then fly by Europa an estimated 45 times over the course of three or so years, gathering data on composition and temperature of the ocean, plumes, and icy surface. (There aren't any planned missions to Enceladus or Ganymede yet.)

Step 2: Explore nearby ocean worlds with follow-up probes

Saturn's moon Enceladus. (NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)

The Europa Clipper probably might not be able to determine for sure whether there's life there. That's because it'd be too expensive to give the probe every possible tool for exploration, such as a lander with the capacity to drill through the ice and collect water. After all, we're still not certain what life would look like on such a world and don't know exactly what we'd measure to test for it.

Instead, the initial probe will focus on understanding the size, composition, and temperature of Europa's ocean and creating high-resolution maps of its surface, so that afuture mission might land and directly study the moon's ice and water. The Clipper might also sample plumes shooting out of Europa's surface, to look for indirect evidence of hydrothermal activity in the ocean, which could be fuel for life.

Then the follow-up probes could conceivably search for life, although there's still much debate about what they'd look like. Some scientists have proposed submarines that could explore Europa's oceans after drilling through the ice. Similar missions, in theory, could someday be executed on Enceladus and Ganymede.

These missions could collect all sorts of data on activity within the oceans, perhaps providing stronger evidence for conditions that could be right for life. And if the oceans do have hydrothermal vents, then a submarine mission could even more fruitful. On Earth, these vents emit heated water and dissolved chemicals, which feedchemosynthetic bacteria, which in turn feed diverse groups of animals. It's a long shot, but similar ecosystems could have evolved on Europa and on other moons' sea floors.

Of course, the technology needed to carry out these sorts of missions is still years away. These follow-up probes would also be far more expensive than NASA's Clipper, in part because the extra equipment for a lander requires more fuel to launch into space. And that will undoubtedly prove a tough sell, given NASA's dwindling budget for planetary exploration.

Step 3: Bring ocean samples back to Earth

An artist's impression of Europa's subsurface ocean. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

If these ocean worlds did contain any life, they'd most likely harbor exotic microscopic organisms (rather than more complex ecosystems). If that's the case, we'd probably want hard proof that life actually existed — and it'd be extremely hard to provide that remotely. That would entail bringing a water sample back to Earth.

This would be yet another monumental engineering challenge. To date, we've only managed to return rock samples from the moon and dust from a comet and an asteroid relatively nearby Earth. Bringing back a sample from Europa or another icy moon would require some sort of spacecraft that's light enough to launch with our rockets, but big enough (and able to carry enough fuel) to escape its destination's gravity when it's time to return home. At the moment, that technology doesn't exist.

There would also be another problem to worry about: how to avoid contaminating Earth with any life forms that we might bring back. This risk seems small — if there were alien life forms, they probably wouldn't have evolved to survive on Earth — but the potential damage could be devastating, as no Earth organisms have evolved any sort of resistance to the threats these aliens might pose. Consequently, scientists have come up with aseries of recommendations to prevent this sort of threat, mostly involving thorough quarantine of returning spacecraft and samples.

These technical challenges mean that finding (and verifying) life in our own solar system probably wouldn't occur for decades, at the earliest. So in the meantime, we'll also want to look much farther away: to planets in other solar systems. Paradoxically, that search might end up yielding results even sooner, though they wouldn't be as definitive.

Step 4: Find planets in other solar systems

An illustration of Kepler-452b, the most Earth-like exoplanet discovered so far. (NASA)

The first step toward doing so is finding a planet alien life might reside on. We've already found thousands of exoplanets (and counting), mostly using NASA's Kepler space telescope and something called the transit method.

Here's how the method works. Imagine staring at a star far away. If there is a planet orbiting that star, it might occasionally pass between us and the star, briefly blocking it from view. Scientists can't actually see the planets doing this blocking, but they can indirectly detect their presence.

"We measure the brightness of a star, and when a planet passes in front of it, it blocks out some of the starlight for a period of a few hours," Thomas Barclay, an exoplanet researcher, told me in April. If scientists observe a star dimming by a consistent amount on a predictable schedule, they can infer the size of an exoplanet that's orbiting around it.

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A diagram shows how the transit method helped detect five planets in the star system Kepler-186.

There are a few other methods for detecting exoplanets, but the transit method is the most straightforward, and it has led to the most discoveries to date.

Step 5: Narrow down the list to planets suitable for life

Now that we've found exoplanets, we need to whittle down the list to the most promising ones.

Scientists are still working on this step. Most of the thousands of planets in other solar systems that we've found are too big, too gaseous, or too hot to be capable of supporting life as we know it. (Unfortunately, these planets are also easier to detect.) So for now, they're crossing these off the list.

Based on what we know about life on Earth, we'd expect life to be more likely to evolve on a rocky planet that orbits within its star's habitable zone — an area where there's enough warmth for liquid water, but not too much heat. (It's possible that a planet even farther off than this could evolve life, perhaps due to a heat-trapping layer of ice like Europa, but it'd be extremely difficult — maybe impossible — to detect signs of life in an icy world in another star system.)

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A chart showing the exoplanets discovered by Kepler that appear to be in their stars' habitable zones.

The good news is that there are definitely some exoplanets out there that meet these criteria. Scientists have already spotted about a dozen planets that are relatively close in size to Earth and which may lie in their stars' habitable zones. In July, for instance, astronomers discovered Kepler-452b, which is just 60 percent bigger than our planet and considered Earth's closest twin yet.

The catch is that our current telescopes aren't optimized to analyze these planets and look for signs of life. (Ironically, the Kepler telescope scientists currently use is toopowerful — it was built to observe distant portions of the Milky Way, not to look for planets relatively close by.) So scientists are building more suitable telescopes. NASA'sTransiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), set to launch in 2017, will be the first space telescope specifically designed to analyze exoplanets

An illustration of TESS. (NASA)

Step 6: Scrutinize the atmospheres of the most promising exoplanets

Most exoplanets are probably too far off for us to ever visit — even with uncrewed probes. So the best way to learn more about them is by analyzing the light spectra that pass through their atmospheres. That lets us know what gases are present — and, if we're lucky, may give us clues as to whether there's life, as well.

So far, scientists have been able to directly analyze the spectrum of light passing through the atmospheres of a dozen or so exoplanets. However, these have all been large, gaseous planets with thicker atmospheres. Again, we want to analyze rocky planets in the habitable zone of stars.

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A rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope.

This, too, will require better telescopes — and those are on the way. The James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2018, will help analyze the atmospheres of smaller, Earth-like planets that have been spotted by NASA's TESS. Meanwhile, theEuropean Extremely Large Telescope, a ground-based telescope to be built in Chile in 2024, may also be used for this purpose.

Step 7: Search for signs of life in these atmospheres

An illustration of the exoplanet Gliese 832c, one of the closest potentially habitable exoplanets. (Radialvelocity)

The reason we'd want to analyze atmospheres is to look for biosignatures — gases that could be signs of alien life. "We can't go to these planets," Kaltenegger told me. "So we're trying to figure out what a planet that has life might look like from far away, in ways that would be detectable by our telescopes."

At the moment, we only know of one planet with life — Earth — so scientists are using that as a model to determine what gases might support life. Kaltenegger and colleagues, for instance, have used our knowledge of Earth's history to generate what they call analien ID chart — a series of snapshots of Earth's atmospheric composition over the last few billion years, as it's evolved due to the presence of life.

Meanwhile, other researchers are modeling how various life forms might alter the atmospheres of planets with geologic compositions that differ from Earth's. As far as we know, there are some gases (like oxygen and methane) that are abundantly produced by life but can also be produced by geologic processes. On the other hand, there are some rare gases (like dimethyl sulfide) that are produced only by life forms — as far as we know — but in much smaller quantities.

In either case, though, any potential biosignatures we find will be somewhat uncertain. It'd be impossible to say that the makeup of an atmosphere hundreds of light-years away is definitive evidence of life, even if it were chock-full of dimethyl sulfide. We might find strong suggestions of life, but when looking at planets so far away — rather than oceans in our own solar system — it'll be hard to know for sure.

Alien Invasion: A Brief History Of The Most Famous UFO Sightings

The aliens are coming! You have been warned.

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Humanity has always looked to the stars and wondered aloud if we are truly alone in the universe. In the case of these compelling UFO sightings the answer would seem no, we are not. While there are many extra-terrestrial encounters reported each year, only a handful have stood the test of time and remained without a rational explanation.

Here for your viewing pleasure are some of the most famous and convincing UFO photographs from the last 150 years. Before aeroplanes, and long before Photoshop the skies have been graced with mysterious saucer shaped flying objects, just see for yourself…

1870 – Washington, US

Often claimed to be the earliest picture of a UFO, this photograph was taken from the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in 1870.

1920’S – United States

Another fine example of an early photograph of an unidentified flying object. This picture was taken somewhere in the United States during the 1920’s.

1942 – Los Angeles, US

Searchlights converge on an unidentified object over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942. The bright blobs around the flashes are anti-aircraft shells exploding.

1942 – Tiensten, Hopeh Province, China

This UFO sighting was snapped by an American photographer in Tiensten, Hopeh province, China, in 1942. Several people in the photograph appear to be pointing up at the object.

1956 – Rosetta/Natal, South Africa

This photograph is one of seven taken by meteorologist Elizabeth Klarer just before a thunderstorm. Its authenticity has been confirmed in a notarized affadavit and she stood by her story until she died in 1994 at the age of 83.

We should also add that Elizabeth also claimed she was impregnated during a later encounter with a spaceship pilot.

1957 – Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, US

Ella Louise Fortune, who worked as a nurse at the Mescalero Indian Reservation near Three Rivers, New Mexico, took this picture while driving along Highway 54 on October 16, 1957, near Holloman Air Force base.

1964 – United States

The exact location in this photographs is unknown, it is however believed to be taken somewhere in the United States on June 10, 1964, and was discovered in an attic some years later.

1969 – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, US

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The Air Force project was based out of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and ran from 1947 to 1969. Throughout the project, the Air Force amassed a total of 12,618 recorded sightings. Out of that total, 701 incidents remain “unidentified.”

1974 – Viborg, Jutland, Denmark

Mr Lauersen was walking his dog in Viborg, Jutland, Denmark, in the early morning hours of November 17, 1974 when he saw a strange looking object shrouded in a white cloud. He took this photo as the object was 250-300 metres away.

1976 – Switzerland

Three discs are visible in this photograph taken on March 8, 1976 in Switzerland.

1988 – Puerto Rico

Running to his car to get his camera after claiming to have been abducted at the Laguna Calthena, Mr Amaury Rivera managed to capture a series of photos which seem to show a jet fighter chasing an UFO.

1996 – Denver, US

Photographed in Denver, Colorado, in January, 1996, by Joe Clower, who was photographing some workmen painting the gold balls on a city monument.

Clower was waiting for the workmen to get ready for the photograph when he saw this strange bell-shaped flying object in the sky.

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Here's a Map of UFO Sightings Around Philadelphia

Graphics via Metrocosm

Do you believe? A new map via Metrocosm says we all should. In sensational detail, the interactive map compiles more than 90,000 reports of UFO sightings in the United States since 1905, drawing from data from the National UFO Reporting Center and Mutual UFO Network.

Daily UFO Headlines 9/7/2015

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• Watch: Virgin Atlantic Plane Overtaken By ‘UFO’ Over Skies Of New York – Yahoo! New UK
• Here’s a Map of UFO Sightings Around Philadelphia – Curbed Philly
• Similar UFOs Appear Over Japanese, U.S. Cities – The Huffington Post
• Day Around the Bay: Every Bay Area UFO Sighting, Mapped – SFist
• Turkish ‘UFO’ Turns Out to be Israeli ‘Spy Balloon’ – Arutz Sheva

The Mysterious Crop Circle Phenomenon

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Crop Circles–formed in living grain–exemplify the archetypal feminine nature of this moment’s change: a calling toward conscious, felt engagement with a dynamic, living, mysterious world. Gary S. Bobroff offers a framework for the reader’s own deeper consideration of crop circles by examining both the phenomenon itself and the nature of the era into which it has arrived, with special consideration of its relevance to Jungian archetypal psychology.

A crop circle is a sizable pattern created by the flattening of a crop such as wheat, barley, rye, maize, or rapeseed. Crop circles are also referred to as crop formations because they are not always circular in shape. The documented cases have substantially increased from the 1970s to current times, and many self-styled experts alleged an alien origin.

SOURCE: Nibiru is Planet X 2015

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