Alien silence explained? Snowden says encryption could be squashing space signals

Snowden's comments were made during an interview on the 'StarTalk' podcast of astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson.

The whistleblower was speaking from Moscow via a robot video link called a “beam remote presence system.” Controlling the robot from Russia, he was able to roll straight into Tyson's office at the Hayden Planetarium in New York.

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Neil Tyson chats with whistleblower Edward Snowden via robot. In Part 1, they discuss Isaac Newton, education, chemistry, encryption and privacy, and more.

When Tyson asked Snowden if a highly intelligent alien civilization might be communicating with encrypted messages, Snowden began by saying that most advanced societies realize they need to encrypt their communications, and that this could be the reason why we've never heard from other civilizations.

“If you have an an alien civilization trying to listen for other civilizations, or our civilization trying to listen for aliens, there’s only one small period in the development of their society when all their communication will be sent via the most primitive and most unprotected means,” Snowden said.

“So when we think about everything that we’re hearing through our satellites or everything that they’re hearing from our civilization (if there are indeed aliens out there), all of their communications are encrypted by default.”

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He added that encryption would render communication indistinguishable from “cosmic microwave background radiation.”

“If you look at encrypted communication, if they are properly encrypted, there is no real way to tell that they are encrypted,”Snowden said. “You can’t distinguish a properly encrypted communication from random behavior.”

Snowden is less famous for his views on extraterrestrials and more so for leaking classified documents which revealed the US government's secret mass surveillance program. The whistleblower now resides in Russia, where he was granted asylum after Washington charged him with theft and espionage.

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Advanced alien civilisations are absent from local universe – or we are too stupid to find them

ET, are you there? The Green Bank Telescope is one of many radio telescopes being used by SETI to detect alien radio signalsJarek Tuszynski / Wikimedia Commons

Alien civilisations are either extremely rare or absent from our local universe, or as a species we are not advanced enough to detect them. Michael Garrett, from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, used radio measurements to scan the cosmos for waste heat – thought to be a signature of advanced alien life able to harness huge amounts of energy.

Kardashev Scale

Firstly, it is worth noting scientists have categories for how advanced any alien civilisation is depending on the power available to them – called the Kardashev Scale. Humans are almost Type I, being able to harvest resources from our own planet and produce energy equivalent to the solar insolation on Earth.

Type II is a civilisation capable of harnessing all of the radiation energy from its own star. Type III civilisations can harness energy on the scale of their own galaxy. Kardashev Type III civilisations are expected to be detectable in the mid-infrared part of the spectrum through the emission of significant waste heat.

Candidate Galaxies

Previously, astronomers had identified several hundred candidate galaxies where there are unusually extreme mid-IR emissions. However, this kind of emission can also be generated by natural astrophysical processes.

Garrett looked at these candidate galaxies with radio measurements and found most of the systems have an emission best explained by natural processes – most likely dust generated and heated by regions of massive star formation.

"The new analysis suggests that this is probably an understatement, and that advanced Kardashev Type III civilisations basically don't exist in the local Universe. In my view, it means we can all sleep safely in our beds tonight - an alien invasion doesn't seem at all likely!" Garrett said.

"Some of these systems definitely demand further investigation but those already studied in detail turn out to have a natural astrophysical explanation too. It's very likely that the remaining systems also fall into this category but of course it's worth checking just in case."

Kepler-444 hosts five ancient Earth-sized planets.Tiago Campante/Peter Devine

However, Garrett also noted it is concerning that Type III civilisations do not appear to exist, as it is contrary to what is predicted by our physical laws used to explain the universe. "We're missing an important part of the jigsaw puzzle here," he said.

"Perhaps advanced civilisations are so energy efficient that they produce very low waste heat emission products - our current understanding of physics makes that a difficult thing to do. What's important is to keep on searching for the signatures of extra-terrestrial intelligence until we fully understand just what is going on."

Humans are too stupid to find aliens

Another explanation for the lack of contact with advanced civilisations is that we are just too primitive to detect the signals they may be sending out. Nathalie Cabrol, who leads the search for alien life at the Seti Institute in California, told the Daily Mail that while we might find a simple lifeform outside our planet within the coming decades, anything more advanced is off our radar – quite literally.

"See how much progress we have made in the past 100 years. If there is a civilisation out there that is only 1,000 years older than we are, who knows what type of technology, or what type of process, they've put into communicating with others. We're just scratching the surface here. We're looking at the universe from our own standpoint," said Cabrol.

"We tend to ask questions in the way we do. But what kind of thought process an alien civilisation may have, we really don't know. We are somewhat advanced, but we are a teenage civilisation. We are playing with toys and technologies but we don't know the rules very well yet."

New Giant Telescope to Join the Hunt for Alien Life

In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists are about to get a major boost. Slated to begin construction in 2018, the Square Kilometer Array will scan the stars, hunting for the radio signals of distant civilizations.

Since the early 20th century, mankind has communicated massive amounts of data through wireless transmissions. Radio programs, television shows, military radar signals have all traveled across the globe.

But those signals don’t stop at our atmosphere. Boundless, they travel out into the universe at the speed of light.

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Are We Too Late? Astronomers Look for Ruins of Ancient Space Civilizations

Meaning, theoretically, that Plutonian squid monsters could be watching our old reruns of "Two and a Half Men."

But it works both ways. Working on the assumption that any advanced civilization will inevitably develop radio technology, scientists with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have been combing the skies, looking for signs.

"A unique aspect for the search of life in the universe is the question of whether advanced life evolves intelligence," Andrew Siemion, with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, said during the Astrobiology Science Conference in June.

"The only way to answer that in the foreseeable future is to look directly for evidence," he added. "For that, you need a large telescope."

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And a large telescope is exactly what SETI researchers are about to get. With plans for construction in both Australia and South Africa, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) has been funded by a number of different countries and will be comprised of thousands of small antennae.

Massive radio telescopes already exist for such purposes. The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, for example, is the world’s largest, stretching 1,000 feet across the jungle. In addition to SETI research, it’s used for a number of purposes, including atmospheric science and radar astronomy.

A group of international financial terrorists even use the observatory to control an electromagnetic pulse satellite in 1995’s "Goldeneye." In real life, however, the dish is not camouflaged by an artificial lake. Sorry.

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It also wasn't blown up by James Bond.

While the SKA would be composed of thousands of small antennae, taken as a whole, they would be significantly larger than the Arecibo Observatory. This will allow scientists to detect even fainter signals.

How faint? In theory, SKA could pick up a signal equivalent to an aircraft’s radar within a range of 200 light-years.

A Galactic Goose Chase?

While many are excited about SKA’s prospects, the project isn’t without criticism.

For one, some are skeptical about the idea of spending such vast amounts of money on a telescope when similar devices already exist. Though the search for extraterrestrial life is only one of SKA's objectives, SETI itself strikes some as a fruitless pursuit. If we truly are alone, their reasoning goes, it seems wasteful to endlessly pump millions into a search that looks for signs it will simply never find.

We’ve been searching for 30 years, after all, with little to show for it.

But there’s also another problem. If we look at humanity as a model – and really, what other alternative do we have – radio wave technology is little more than a century old and is already being phased out in favor of new, digital technology. Aliens may enjoy old episodes of "The Honeymooners" from network television, but they’re going to have a harder time picking up the latest season of "True Detective" – not that they’re missing much.

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Could anyone in the galaxy really buy this performance?

If alien civilizations follow a similar trajectory, then artificially created radio waves could have a relatively minor presence in the universe.

Still, that’s not deterring SETI researchers. While SKA will certainly search for the kind of random signals which would emanate from alien broadcasts, they’re also hoping to detect something a little more focused:  transplanetary communications.

It’s possible that if extraterrestrial societies exist that would spread beyond their host planet. Just as NASA is developing plans to colonize Mars, distant civilizations could also spread throughout their own solar system. In that event, the best way to communicate between planets would still be via wireless radio waves.

Intentionally focused out into space, those waves would be even easier to detect, especially for an instrument as sensitive as SKA.

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Home Away From Home? NASA Says They’ve Discovered ‘Earth 2.0’

It’s certainly possible that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence will never bear fruit. It’s hard to imagine that we’re alone in the massive depths of the universe, but until we find at least one other instance of life, we don’t really have enough data to make any estimates. It’s also possible that even if life exists elsewhere, it may not overlap with our own.

In the thirty years of scanning the stars, have scientists found any promising signs? One.

In 1977, a scientist working with the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University caught a strange signal emanating from the constellation Sagittarius. Lasting 72 seconds, the signal bore all the signs of having a non-traditional, none-Solar System origin. It’s now commonly referred to as the "Wow! Signal," as it surprised its discoverer so much that he circled the data on a printout, writing "Wow!" in the margins.

Despite many attempts, that signal has never been detected since, and scientists still have no explanation for it.

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Topwetenschapper SETI: Mensen niet slim genoeg om buitenaardse signalen op te vangen

Het is goed mogelijk dat een hoogontwikkelde buitenaardse beschaving op dit moment probeert contact met ons op te nemen. Dr. Nathalie Cabrol van het SETI Institute in Californië zegt dat wij mensen mogelijk nog niet slim genoeg zijn om de signalen op te vangen.

Dr. Cabrol verwacht dat het niet lang meer duurt voordat we microbieel leven in ons zonnestelsel en intelligent leven elders in het heelal zullen vinden. Ze denkt dat we binnen een generatie buitenaardse organismen in de buurt van de aarde en een replica van onze planeet in een ander sterrenstelsel gaan ontdekken.

“We hebben geen idee hoe een buitenaardse beschaving denkt”

“In de afgelopen 100 jaar hebben we veel vooruitgang geboekt,” zei Cabrol. “Als er een beschaving is die ook maar 1000 jaar ouder is dan de onze, kun je niet weten wat voor technologie zij gebruiken om met anderen te communiceren.”

“We kijken vanuit ons eigen standpunt naar het universum,” ging ze verder. “We stellen vragen vanuit ons eigen referentiekader, maar we hebben geen idee hoe een buitenaardse beschaving denkt.”

De zoektocht naar buitenaards leven is momenteel vooral gericht op het opvangen van radiosignalen. Eerder dit jaar pikten wetenschappers bijvoorbeeld mysterieuze signalen op van buiten ons zonnestelsel.

Mysterieuze radioflitsen

De signalen volgen een opmerkelijk wiskundig patroon. De kans dat zoiets toevallig gebeurt, is slechts 5 op 10.000. De 11 korte signalen zijn zogeheten radioflitsen die maar enkele milliseconden duren. Niemand weet waar ze vandaan komen. Opmerkelijk genoeg zijn de eenheden bij deze signalen steeds een veelvoud van 187,5.

Britse astronomen stelden onlangs dat we op zoek moeten naar tekenen van aliens die zichzelf de das om hebben gedaan. Als een verre beschaving zichzelf vernietigt door middel van een wereldwijde kernoorlog zou dat leiden tot een korte uitbarsting van gammastraling, die lijkt op de gammaflitsen die sterrenkundigen geregeld waarnemen.

Oud-astronaut John Grunsfeld zei eerder dit jaar dat aliens – als ze er zijn – al weten dat we bestaan. Hij denkt dat iemand met een grote telescoop ons al op 20 lichtjaar kan detecteren. “Als er leven in de ruimte is, intelligent leven, weten ze dat we er zijn,” zei hij.

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Red Glowing UFO Shoots Over Farmingville, New York Faster Than Jet, Sept 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: September 19, 2015
Location of sighting: Farmingville, New York, USA
Source: MUFON #70627

I saw one of these glowing red UFOs once, moving slowing from the ocean area toward the beach here in Taiwan. The closest land in the opposite direction was 1 hour by jet  (China. They do exist and are as silent as the night, except this guy in NY was lucky enough to see it change direction and and it came back. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
Letting dogs out at night clear sky's. I saw huge red orange light not meteor come up over tree line across street a little lower than normal flight levels no sound moving faster than I've seen. I'm ex military and current NYC detective never seen fighter or helicopter or commercial plane move this fast. It came toward me east then changed direction north bobbled a lot and straightens out going higher in front of a plane that was much slower. The plane changed course and followed it that's when the light seemed to just turn off. Called my wife outside to tell her and within two minutes it came again starting about where it was when it first came above trees but followed a different course no bobbling but seemed faster we videoed it, but it's a little crappy was from cell phone. It went to the same area north and disappeared. I looked for a bit, seemed to come back where we lost it, but was hovering lost it again hard to see with ambient light and trees. I can send the video if this looks like something your interested in.

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Original photo 2: http://www.mufoncms.com/files_jeud8334j/70627_submitter_file2__image.jpg

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Area 51 soldiers terrorize family to try to force them to leave the land, Sept 2015, UFO Sighting News

Date of interview: Sept 2015
Location of interview: Area 51

The US government is forcing this family to take the money and get out. They are terrorizing this American family, who just wants to be let alone to mine for their gold. Is 5 million enough? Probably not for a gold mine. Sounds like bread crumbs, but what they need is support, so if you are in the area call up the congressman near Area 51 and give him something to remember!
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
The Sheahan Family has owned the Groom Mine along with 400 acres of land in the mountains of southern Nevada since 1889. In the 1950's the Federal Government began using the mountain ranges and valleys near the Sheahan's property as nuclear testing grounds as well as developing the most secretive, high-tech aircraft. Those areas are commonly known as the Nevada Test Site and Area 51. Through the years the Federal Government took control of a large chunk of the land and used it for various military testing. The Sheahan's property was essentially swallowed up. After 60 plus years of being neighbors, the Federal Government offered to buy out the Sheahan family.

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UFO Seen Over Drummondville, Canada On Sept 17, 2015, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: Sept 17, 2015
Location of sighting: Drummondville
News source: http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/09/18/un-ovni-a-drummondville

Canada seems more open about revealing the truth about UFOs than America. What I mean is the Canadian Defense Minister often tells the press about how the movements are hiding aliens information. But the number of UFO researchers is growing daily, and we will break the government wall soon. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
Thursday night around 22:15, Jennifer Cyr was with a friend on her balcony, on St. Frederick Street in Drummondville, when she saw a strange light shining in the sky. "I said," Look Claudine, there is something special in the air! '"She told us on the phone. "It went on, but always in a horizontal line. It was orange, she added, it was reminiscent of Chinese lanterns. " She said the unidentified object, which had somewhat the look of a "lamp" or a "fireball" moved slowly to the end of the street. "It was still at low level was too low to be an airplane or a helicopter," she says. The 26 year old woman has just had time to take a photo with his smartphone before the light disappears. Pictured (below), one can see a very bright point in the center and another, more diffuse, up the image.

"When you really zooms the photo earlier in the photo you see there as a second point," Ms. Cyr tip. "It's like a spark of light with as bars on the side, as if it would be something solid." Intrigued, Jennifer Cyr, who confessed we believe in aliens, did some research on the Internet to see if similar phenomena had already been observed. Indeed, another object "orange ball" similar to that described by Ms. Cyr had already been observed in Victoriaville on 15 August. A witness quoted on the website of the Quebec Association of Ufology reports seeing "orange spherical object and he had a light beam of a pale orange".

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Unidentified Flying Orbs Caught On Video Travelling Against The Wind

Orbs over Utah

A man videotaped four orb-like objects travelling against the wind above Salt Lake County, Utah, according to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) reporting database Case 64303. The witness first saw the object at around 6:40 p.m. on March 29, 2015.

According to the report, the witness firs saw four objects altogether. One object then left, and another one followed. The other two remained stationary.

The witness then started recording the strange phenomenon.

The objects then drifted slowly towards the east until they disappeared to the view of the witness.

Investigators Erica Lukes and Heather Giesen closed the case as an unknown. In their report, Lukes and Giesen stated that the witness first thought they might be balloons, but realized that they were moving against the wind.

The investigators reviewed the weather data and confirmed that the wind was moving in the opposite direction of the objects in question. After speaking with the witness and reviewing the footage, the investigators were convinced the objects were not behaving like weather balloons or Google Loon balloons.

Investigators did not rule out the possibility of drones, but at this point they classify the case as unknown. They are ready to amend the file and case disposition if new information is received.

Salt Lake County in Utah has a little more than a million population.

Spectaculaire UFO verschijnt uit de zee bij Mexico

Er is hoop voor al die mensen die het fenomeen UFO fascinerend vinden, maar er nog nooit zelf één hebben gezien. 

De Mexicaanse Manuel Loría Alejos die al meer dan 20 jaar als amateur onderzoek doet naar UFO’s, is zo iemand. 

Voor hem is het dubbel frustrerend omdat hij in Mexico woont en waar vergeleken met bijna alle andere plekken op aarde, de meeste UFO's gespot worden. 

Alles veranderde enkele dagen geleden toen Manuel op bezoek ging bij zijn ouderlijk huis aan de kust van het Mexicaanse schiereiland Yucatan. 

Hij zegt daarover het volgende: 

Al tientallen jaren lang heb ik alles gelezen wat ik kon vinden over het UFO-fenomeen, maar tot vorige week vrijdag heb ik er nog nooit zelf één gezien. Ik was in het gezelschap van mijn vader, vrouw, broers en mijn kinderen. We zagen een vreemd licht aan de horizon. 

Het was blauwachtig en eerst bewoog het in een rechte lijn om vervolgens te gaan zigzaggen. 

Ik was de eerste die het zag toen ik op het strand was. Ik belde onmiddellijk mijn familie omdat ik het gevoel had dat het geen normaal licht was. 

In totaal waren er zes getuigen en we zagen na een minuut of twee dat het sneller begon te bewegen en uiteindelijk verdween.

Commentaar van ufoloog Scott C. Waring: 

Een UFO-onderzoeker in Mexico zag zijn eerste UFO en het detail op de foto diehij maakte, is het beste dat ik in dit jaar ben tegengekomen. 

We kunnen zien dat het een halve schijf is met een groter lager oppervlak. Onderaan zie je duidelijk een witachtige vervorming die waarschijnlijk wordt veroorzaakt door het voortstuwingssysteem. Dit is dan weer vermengd met het water dat er vanaf druipt. 

Deze UFO werd vastgelegd boven de oceaan omdat hij uit het water kwam. Het is een welbekend feit dat buitenaardsen geen bases hebben onder het water, maar kilometers diep onder de bodem van de oceaan. Wat opvalt is de prachtige bronskleur. 

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Ufo Sigthings Daily

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Queensland Man Records A Video Of A UFO Moving Side to Side Over Sunshine Coast

A Queensland witness in Sunshine Coast recorded a UFO in the sky near his home on video. Joshua Ross captured a mobile video of a yellow/white glow hovering above houses. In an interview with Channel 7 News, he said the UFO was going side to side, up and down, then round and round. He saw it went in one direction and shot back the other direction. The mysterious aerial object then went under a tree and disappeared from the witness’ view.

The video has reached to Facebook and received mix comments from social media users. One said that it could be a plane, a fireball, or even a bird.

Mr Ross can’t determine its identity, suspecting it was a UFO. However, astronomers believe it was likely a fist-sized meteor and the hovering effect may be due to the cloud covering in the sky.

The UFO sighting report came after the new documentary film hoping to shed light on an increasing number of reported extraterrestrial encounters in Australia broke into the news.

The movie, Australian Skies, features the alleged evidence of UFO sightings across the country and skywatchers who have spied something from the outer-space.

The film’s director Don Meers said he made the film because he wanted to see if we can understand the UFO phenomenon. Secondly, he wanted to know what are these objects, and lastly, he wished to see these objects personally up close.

A qualified UFOlogist, Damien Nott, is one of the key personalities of the documentary. Nott claimed he had more than 200 photos and videos of UFO sightings. Many of Nott’s sightings feature bright objects floating in the sky.

Nott said in a preview release of the film that he had a number of very strange experiences, but he’s not going to claim that he has spoken to aliens and that they told him all these things about the planet.

The documentary also included the Liam Freaney story about the men in black who approached him after his UFO encounters that started in March 2013.

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Romans Recorded Some Of The First UFOs

One of the first recorded examples of a UFO actually came from Rome, although most people tend to think of them as a modern phenomena. In 218 B.C., a written account reports that a fleet of gleaming ships appeared to be floating in the sky of Rome. That wasn’t the only one, either—in A.D. 150 a report from an area right outside of Rome described “a beast like a piece of pottery about one hundred feet in size, multicolored on top and shooting out fiery rays, landed in a dust cloud.”

The Roman author Julius Obsequens, believed to have lived in the fourth century A.D., drew on Livy as well as other sources of his time to compile his book Prodigorium liber, which describes many peculiar phenomena, some of which could be interpreted as UFO sightings. Here are just a few examples:

216 B.C. Things like ships were seen in the sky over Italy… At Arpi (180 Roman miles, east of Rome, in Apulia) a round shield was seen in the sky. At Capua, the sky was all on fire, and one saw figures like ships…

99 B.C. When C. Murius and L. Valerius were consuls, in Tarquinia, there fell in different places… a thing like a flaming torch, and it came suddenly from the sky. Towards sunset, a round object like a globe, or round or circular shield took its path in the sky, from west to east.

90 B.C. In the territory of Spoletium (65 Roman miles north of Rome, in Umbria) a globe of fire, of golden colour, fell to the earth, gyrating. It then seemed to increase in size, rose from the earth, and ascended into the sky, where it obscured the disc of the sun, with its brilliance. It revolved towards the eastern quadrant of the sky. [Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, pp.164-69]

A later chronicler of inexplicable phenomena, one Conrad Wolffhart (a professor of grammar and dialectics who under the pen name of Lycosthenes wrote the compendium Prodigiorum ac Ostentorum Chronicon, published in 1567), mentions the following events:

393 A.D. Strange lights were seen in the sky in the days of the Emperor Theodosius. On a sudden, a bright globe appeared at midnight. It shone brilliantly near the day star (planet, Venus), about the circle of the Zodiac. This globe shone little less brilliantly than the planet, and little by little, a great number of other glowing orbs drew near the first globe. The spectacle was like a swarm of bees flying around the bee-keeper, and the light of these orbs was as if they were dashing violently against each other. Soon, they blended together into one awful flame, and bodied forth to the eye as a horrible two-edged sword. The strange globe which was first seen now appeared like the pommel to a handle, and all the little orbs, fused with the first, shone as brilliantly as the first globe.

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UFO ‘FLEET’ SEEN ON NASA SPACE STATION VIDEO — RESEARCHER ASKS, ‘ALIENS OR SECRET GOVERNMENT TESTS?’

What appears to be a UFO “fleet” appears in NASA video taken from the International Space Station robotic camera, as discovered by a prominent YouTube online UFO archivist and researcher. The find, if indeed it is a find, is just the latest in a long series of UFO appearances on the NASA ISS video feed.

Just last week, a YouTube user in Australia found apparent evidence of a UFO “miles in diameter” hovering near the space station. The user, who posted the video under his screen name of “blubeard2011,” said that he had been combing the NASA ISS feed for two years hoping to find some evidence of a UFO observing the space station that orbits about 250 miles above the surface of the Earth.

But when he finally found one, as reported in the Inquisitr article that can be accessed at this link, it was a doozy.

That sighting came about three weeks after another UFO hunter examining the NASA feed found what was described as a cigar-shaped UFO flying past the space station at “warp speed.”

The new sighting was recorded by the prolific online UFO researcher who goes by the name Streetcap1. The video is viewable above. It was publicized by Scott C. Waring, another top online UFO researcher, on his blogUFO Sightings Daily.

“These UFOs visited the space station this week and were found by Streetcap1 of Youtube. Only one of the UFOs was clear enough to get a nice close up of it, but that’s all I needed to tell if it was a reflection or a solid object,” wrote Waring.

• “The UFO on the far left is 100% solid. The others are probably the same. I notice that the one on the left fades out, while the one on the far right fades in. Streetcap1 is right, its possible these ships are some covert project, like the old Aurora project, but still unidentified.”

If the UFOs are not clearly visible on the video, Waring isolated a screen capture of two of the UFOs hovering around the space station.

And then Waring zoomed in on one of the objects.

The Aurora project mentioned by Waring was alleged to be a secret testing program for a new, supersonic stealth surveillance aircraft. In December of last year, as the Inquisitr reported at the time, a series of ear-shattering and unexplained sonic booms over Britain were linked to the Aurora project.

Whether the UFO “fleet” captured in the NASA video is part of a similar program, albeit one based in space, remains to be seen. Of course, as some scientists have claimed about the repeated UFO sightings near the space station, the sightings could simply be the result of glitches in the video system.

[Image: NASA]

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Tom Sanger interview and new analysis of Independence Day UFO near Tucson

By Jon Kelly

NewsInsideOut.com

Vancouver, BC – An exclusive new video published to YouTube on September 17, 2015, catches up with night vision videographer Tom Sanger to discuss his evidence of a UFO over the Santa Catalina Mountains near Tucson recorded on Independence Day. Fireworks weren’t the only bright objects in Arizona skies that July 4, 2015, evening as the seasoned experiencer and his sky watch colleague teamed up to capture one of this summer’s most talked-about close encounters. While MUFON has declared the matter “case closed” a few questions remained concerning optics that even the so-called professionals of UFOlogy may be loath to consider.

Citing communications masts visible on Mt. Bigelow, Open Minds stated on July 22, 2015, that “out of focus lights can be seen on the far right of the screen” at the beginning of the video. This defocused status contrasts with a pin-sharp in-focus recording of the UFO, indicating how the mystery object and communications masts resided on two entirely different focal planes that evening.

During his NewsInsideOut.com interview, Tom Sanger emphasized that while recording fireworks that evening he had manually set focus at that time for nearby, not distant objects, recanting earlier remarks to Open Minds in which he described an object at 30 miles distance.

Huffington Post’s follow-up from earlier this month offered the report of Phoenix MUFON’s director of investigations whose on-site post-event survey determined that human activity (described by HuffPo as headlights from automobiles) near the summit of Mt. Bigelow was the cause behind the sighting. A gated roadway leading to a platform does exist at relative line-of-sight to the camera’s perspective, but according to the witness, this is no superhighway trafficked by a lineup of hundreds of vehicles passing through the trees over the 8 plus minutes accounted for in the video.

The strong possibility exists, supported by optical evidence, that the UFO was in fact located over Sanbino Canyon between the mountain and the observer. During his NewsInsideOut.com interview Tom Sanger described how the masts and peak of Mt. Bigelow both resolve along the same focal plane when imaged during daylight with the Luna Optics camera.

That the UFO resided upon a separate focal plane at variance with the distance to out-of-focus communications masts shown in the early frames of the video is abundantly clear to all parties concerned. In this reporter’s considered opinion, the evidence shows that the UFO was not on the mountain. It was recorded hovering in the foreground.

Digital magnification of the Tom Sanger UFO reveals possible structural details including three individual light sources separated by discrete gaps along the observer-facing portion of the object’s airframe.

The relationship between exceptionally bright bursts of light shown in the video and the operations of hand-held illuminators is further explored during the NewsInsideOut.com interview. The impact of a one Watt laser recorded at 13 miles distance on a 0 Lux broadcast camera’s sensor array is compared to overexposure suffered by the 0.03 Lux Luna Optics LN-DM50-HRSD when capturing fireworks. Lights from the UFO neither display streaming trails from sweeping hand-held light beams nor do they at any time overexpose on the sensor.

Archival footage from Mt. Adams in Washington provides a baseline for evaluating such claims, suggesting how the 300-times-more-sensitive Luna Optics camera would have struggled to display anything other than a whited-out image frame under similar conditions near Mt. Bigelow. The Tom Sanger video shows no evidence of the visual jitter associated with hand-held lights and their operations. It is as if the UFO lights were performing with machine-like precision at a separate focal plane from the summit.

Was it hundreds of dancers wearing headlamps rotating in a circle on the Mt. Bigelow platform? The focal plane evidence again denies such suggestions. What really happened is that members of the public equipped with affordable night vision optics exceeded the data collection performance of so-called UFOlogy experts who proceeded to attempt to bury the story under a mountain of spurious claims and paperwork.

Their loud and widespread protestations betray serious absence of real-time instrumental field operational experience and post-event critical analytic skills. The Tom Sanger video and its public consequences offer a revelation concerning how persons seeking answers to UFO contact mysteries are today empowered in pioneering independent avenues of research at these awe-inspiring frontiers of twenty-first century knowledge.

To paraphrase a line from Bad Boys II (2003), the Tom Sanger Independence Day UFO “just got real.” Readers can watch an exclusive NewsInsideOut.com enhanced version of the UFO below.

Resources

Tom Sanger UFO and ET Contact Website: http://pleiadesufo.weebly.com/

Tom Sanger NUFORC Report: http://nuforc.org/webreports/120/S120179.html

Further Tucson Witness 2014 NUFORC Report:http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/110/S110977.html

Further Tucson Witness 2014 NUFORC Report:http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/111/S111100.html

Further Tucson Witness 2014 NUFORC Report:http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/111/S111068.html

Tom Sanger Original July 4, 2015, UFO Video: https://youtu.be/UWH_WJGV2xU

Tom Sanger Critical Event Analysis: http://debunkingthedebunker.weebly.com/anomalies-that-just-dont-add-up.html

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