NORWAY HESSDALEN – CE-5 EVENT 
JULY 2015 
This is the report from the Hessdalen Norway CE-5 event that was organized by Roy Kristoffersen coordinator of the Norge CE-5 team and the CE-5 field work I lead last July. 
It includes what transpired during the week with photos and videos of the Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind we had. Including and ET flyby within 500 feet of the team and the Hessdalen Transmissions recording via a Trifield meter. 
The report was very well done by Linda Schouten who organized the documentation and wrote the blog report. 

NORWAY HESSDALEN – CE-5 EVENT JULY 2015

INTERNATIONAL CE-5 EVENT HESSDALEN NORWAY  2015

In this blog I would love to share with you our International Hessdalen CE-5 Event from last July where we had a very wonderful group of people participating.
Our special thanks goes out to Ricky Butterfass and Roy Kristofferson, they both have made this a great Event. Without their help it was not that successful.

Before going into our experiences of The Event, read some information about this wonderful place.

But first watch some incredible footage of The Hessdalen lights.

Hessdalen is a small valley in the central part of Norway as you can see on the map. Lots of people do not know about the Hessdalen UFO phenomena.

People there who were involved in this at this time were ridiculed and stigmatized among other things in the press. But the phenomenon continued to appear for local people and other interested.

Those who see the phenomenon now….  no longer go to media with their experiences, but inform the researchers or doing their own research.  As we know these lights are seen all around the world. The more we share these phenomenon events.. the more we step out of that old box and accept what in front of us is real. We are not alone in this therefore it is very important to share, learn from each other and what we witness. The more we open our minds the more  our Universe is ready to reveal.

There are explanations of this phenomenon they think its all about chemical reaction near the ground but the people know that the lights are far more than that. If we do not know we get explanations like this. There is so much to learn about our Universe and life beyond and what Earth is hiding. Lots of theories will come to mind but still no answers are given.
People were in the 1990s and 2000s often asked if “the UFO” had left Hessdalen.
The short film “some incredible footage of The Hessdalen lights” shown here above, confirms that “the light” still visits us.
And we know too because of THE incredible experiences with our CE-5 Team being present on The Hessdalen Event.

You can not expect that “this mystery” appears at the first visit, but for us it did right at the start using the CE-5 protocols.  In my knowledge it never had been done at this special place.

The time of our CE-5 Event was in the summer so it didn’t got dark during the Norwegian season. The sun never sets north of the Arctic Circle and for a couple of months the sun is visible 24 hours a day. It didn’t affect the Event.. It was great to experience this. There is no need to have CE-5 only in the dark but it would have been amazing if we could see the stars. There will be other occasions for that.

The Hessdalen Lights are an earth anomaly or call it UFO phenomena.

The phenomenon is for scientist tough to classify without knowing exactly what they are, seen in the Hessdalen valley in the central part of Norway. The mysterious lights, could be typically large or bright white, blue, red, or yellow lights floating above the ground or shooting at amazing speeds through the air. These have been witnessed since 1811 or even much earlier, they do not know how far back the phenomenon exists. It will stay a mystery to them.

This phenomenon is indeed tough if you do not know what it is. For us it was a well-known step and and certainly not unknown. Therefore despite the investigations we did our approach with the CE-5 protocols to make that contact.
And yes, we felt in the right place.

Back in the years of 1981 through 1984, residents of the Hessdalen Valley became concerned and alarmed about strange, unexplained lights that appeared at many locations throughout the Valley. Hundreds of lights were observed. Like these on the pictures

The lights sometimes remain still and sometimes flash, and can suddenly move at extreme (!) speeds up into the atmosphere or down into the ground, or into one of the many lakes in the area. In addition to lighted orbs, occasionally triangle, pyramid, cylindrical, or oval/disc-shaped objects are reported accompanying the glowing orbs of light. During the early 80’s, the activity became particularly active to almost 20 reports a week.

Strange spiral light in Norway since 1983 there has been ongoing scientific research called “Project Hessdalen”, initiated by Dr. Erling Strand. He seeks to find the source of the mysterious lights. In 1998, the Hessdalen AMS automated scientific research station was built in the valley. Hessdalen AMS registers and records the appearance of lights, and it has been very successful.

Project Hessdalen uses witness reports and photographic evidence to classify the lights into four different color patterns. White or blue-white lights flying high in the air are common. Yellow or white lights are the most common form reported (and often stand motionless for more than an hour. They reported black objects with lights attached to their surface. These objects move around slowly down in the valley and stop sometimes for minutes, and then start moving again. To classifying The Hessdalen Lights by their color, researchers also classify them into one of six different types: Doublet, fireball, plasma ray, dust cloud, flash, and invisible.

Scientists are not sure what causes the lights. Lots of theories range from combustible or ionized dust in the air, flammable crystals enclosed in plasma, to glowing alien extraterrestrial vehicles. The only thing is certain, is that the phenomena is for real. In 1984, an extensive field investigation was carried out in the valley by the Ostfold University College. Forty people were included on the team and 53 sightings were reported during the five-week investigation. Which is a great result of the investigation and they reported this:

1.A radar measured the distance and speed of the phenomena. The highest speed recorded was of a light travelling towards north at a speed of over 18,600 miles per hour (30,000 km/h). The radar also captured the phenomena, when they were invisible to the human eye.

2.A seismograph did not register any local seismic activity. All the recordings registered were from earthquakes from other places around the world. This seems to infer that the phenomena is not related to local seismic activity.

3.A magnetograph measured the changes in the magnetic field and noted that there were changes in the magnetic field when the phenomena showed up.

4.A Geiger-counter, which measures nuclear radiation, did not show any change in the counting rate when the phenomena showed up.

5.A spectrum-analyzer measured all the frequencies between 100 KHz and 1200 MHz, and could distinguish between any disturbances in radio or TV frequencies. There was noise sometimes. The harmonics between noise signals was 80MHz, covering the whole band. The amplitude moved up and down every 2 seconds (a frequency of about 0,5 Hz).

6.A camera, with a grating in front, showed the distribution of wavelengths of the lights. Three photographs which were good enough to be analyzed were captured.

7.Their final result reported was most baffling. Before their fieldwork, people had informed the researchers that the “lights” disappeared when a strong spotlight was directed onto the “light”. To test this, a He-Ne laser was directed as the glowing orbs. When they sighted a flashing light, they directed the laser beam onto it, and it became a double flashing light. As soon as they moved the beam away, the light returned to a regular flashing light again. When they directed the beam onto it again, it started double flashing once more. These results were repeated multiple times.

This is an example what you might could witness, filmed by one of the Hessdalen webcams. There are several cams stationed in Hessdalen Valley.

It was my wish.. for so many years to visit this wonderful place Hessdalen one day.. and it turned out more than I ever could expect. “Let the Universe work for you”

How it all began..

For so many years, like most of us did and still do, I followed the disclosure project of Dr. Steven Greer. That is a long way back in the 90’s.
When I was a young child I believed without a doubt about life beyond our Earth, we are not alone.
At clear night sky’s I was laying in the garden observing the stars without light-pollution. Before going to sleep I watched from my bedroom window the dark sky and always messaging..  “I am here”
Most of you would recognize these feelings. It was not done  to express yourself in that way so I was stuck in my own mind like many of us.

ET is just out there.

After the movie Sirius in 2013, I met so many wonderful people and by meeting and sharing we became real good friends. Its amazing how many people are involved.
One of these friends is Roy Kristofferson from Norway. We share in our group of friends many experiences.

Els and Roy I met after their Ambassador training with Dr Steven Greer in England in 2013. The story how we met each other is something special, how roads cross in life.

Roy made my wish come true and made it possible to have our international CE-5 Event in Hessdalen Norway. Since I have been there.. I can’t wait to go back and meet these wonderful people again..

It is great having all those CE-5 groups and thanks to Dr. Steven Greer. 
He is the owner and founder of THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT. CSETI Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) THE ORION PROJECT – NEW ENERGY- STAR NEW ENERGY LAB The movie Sirius and his CE-5 ambassador trainings all over the world.

I am thankful to Kosta Makreas, owner and founder of “EtLetsTalk” The movie Sirius.

We met through the internet and contacted many times. He is a rolmodel to me and helped me on my way to meet people around me through his website.
Kosta his interest in world for peace & positive planetary transformation compels him to create & sponsor projects that empower others.
“Envision A New America”, “Friends of Kucinich International”, “The Great Invocation Video Project”, “The Disclosure Project Prayer/Meditation Group”, “Spirit of Goodwill” and “The Global CE-5 ET Contact” Initiative, are some of the incredible projects he’s helped manifest from ideas to powerful realities.

Kosta is right to believe that we are living in a unique, challenging, and wonderful point in history as we transition to a new mode of enlightened and spiritual living where planetary peace reigns between Humanity and all life forms on and off Earth.
Also his passion drives his dedication to doing his part to establish peace, goodwill & right human relations on Earth by providing this site and community to build the CE-5 Initiative. He invites you into this joyful activist community. And he is making it all possible to have the “Monthly Worldwide Global CE-5
Where the Mission is, To Reach Out & Connect”

Nice interview with Dr Steven Greer and Kosta Makreas

Worldwide we have amazing groups where we can share our feelings about the Earth, the Universe, CE-5 and more. We experience the change in one and another and by connecting we meet people all over the world. The awareness on Earth is growing and leading us to that Oneness we are all looking for.
After you discover the CE-5 Initiative, you will never be the same and never go back to the old life you had.

We really are blessed for finding a new way to continue the change and stay in that process. Its magical how we all came together for a better understanding and awareness of our life on Earth. Many of us experience that change within.
CE-5 is a definite a wonderful way for us. It’s such a relieve to feel free and talk about The ET’s. Witnessing all sorts of activity around us and meetings for sky watch and be a part of the CE-5 Initiative. We as a group are growing spiritually to a higher level and this is so important for our life on Earth. We are Ambassadors on Earth and teachers to others. Its good to know that more people are awakening and changing their direction in life to live a fuller life and connect more to others.
We are.. One Universe.. One People.

Back to the Event…

End of last year in 2014, Roy came to the Netherlands. We started talking about this perfect Hessdalen place.. to have an international CE-5 Event. Roy put all his effort to arranged the event. July 2015 finally was a fact. The Event had 3 days of ceremonies too. Some days we were with a smaller group doing CE-5.

Meetings, Reports and Experiences

Among us we had a wonderful man to guide our CE-5 Event and were very grateful that Ricky Butterfass came all the way from the States to be with us in Hessdalen. After a few days in Oslo, the 5 of us, Ricky, Roy, Els, Vivian ( Linda) traveled to Hessdalen where we met all the others.

We all lived in the Hessdalen village in private lovely houses and the area was more than amazing. It was great to experience a huge group where we all could share the most wonderful and personal stories. What a great group of loving people..

Our Event started the 8th of July, everyone was focused and into the experience of contact. Ricky guided the group and all the meditations. The first day he explained the protocols and answered lots of questions. He is a wonderful teacher, driven and focused. We had great conversations and many of the group members experienced after the meditations sightings on their way walking back to their cabins. One of our group had seen a blue craft of blue lights flying over him and experienced daily amazing visits in his bedroom.

Something need to be mentioned, one of our group members, Henrik had drawn this picture what he had seen.

I just didn’t believe my eyes.. this picture I knew. I had it on my IPhone. When I showed it to him, Henrik said: Yes that’s what I had seen. Something came out in the middle when he looked at it. It must have been portals of some sort. I do not know.

My picture…

The second day on Thursday,  we drove to the top of one the mountains of the valley and found us a little hideout. Our view was amazing, a bit cold and overlooking some snow next to us.

After our protocols we were gazing.. while doing that I was looking to an other part of the valley far away in front of me.  In a fraction I witnessed a huge linear circle of white bright light, appearing in a gap of that valley.

See picture.

When I mentioned it, Els en Eva witnessed it too on the right side appearing in the sky where we were sitting. The 3 of us have witnessed more lights elsewhere later on that week.

On Friday we went to that part on the other side of the valley where the linear light had appeared. Shown on the picture above. It was more than a feeling to go there and explore that part, because something was out there.

Ricky, Els, Eline (Linda) we did our CE-5 up there. The feeling of being there was amazing. We could suddenly see crafts appearing in the clouds and experienced feelings of presence. It was quiet and a huge space of green in front of us. We could not walk on that spot  because it felt like quicksand.

It was pretty cold, so we decided to stay in the car. The Trifieldmeter in front of us.
Ricky scanned us and the area, the meter didn’t do anything.
Suddenly we felt something was going to happen, we could feel it in our bones.
After our meditation Ricky guided, I started to film all on my IPhone.
Els had seen a ship while meditating and it had appeared years ago in Wiltshire England in a field.
When we talked about this, the Trifieldmeter started to make noise.
We got conformation.
Ricky was signaling with his laser outside the car.
From that moment the Trifield got ballistic.
A real transmission was given to us.

Later on while filming I couldn’t handle my IPhone anymore. It kept on filming the transmission of 28 minutes.
My Phone was been taken over, Ricky told me that its normal they do that.
We all could see the phone filming, it took me half an hour after the event to get my phone back in use it was just frozen.
I checked my material of film and found out I lost almost 18 minutes of the transmission.
Luckily we were very happy to have at least 10 minutes of film.
Why the 18 minutes of film disappeared we do not know, but they know..

HESSDALEN TRANSMISSION VIDEO PRESS HERE 

On Saturday, the 4 of us, Ron, Ricky, Eline and me went to a plateau in the valley.

This evening Ron Schaafsma captured this amazing speeding craft right in front of us.

Some footage of Ricky, Ron, Eline (Linda)

We just finished our CE-5 protocols, we (Ron and Linda) were filming the exact the same view.
When the Trifieldmeter went off, I pointed my camera to the meter. Ron filmed the Craft.

See the pictures of the view where the craft passed by with an enormous speed. It was so fast you could not even see it on film. Ron made an slow motion where you can see the craft passing by.

See next two films,  Hessdalen Craft, and then watch Hessdalen Craft slow motion

Hessdalen Craft slow motion

Monday we all came up to the plateau in the valley. There was a clear message in the group that ET’s were coming down on a special spot. It was a bit chaotic, because we lost track of 2 cars, while driving in narrow bumpy roads. When we needed to turn we lost Roy and the others. So we went back to the plateau. What amazes us after some time, we (Els Eva Linda) had seen lights at a certain moment, speeding away above our heads. They came from behind where Roy and the others were. Those lights were like balls  shooting with enormous speed from left to right and disappearing just like that.

The next day we met for debriefing in the group.
Roy and the others they had went to the other part of the valley. They had felt where they needed to go to. On that spot they witnessed lights coming down, these guys were in total bliss.
After a while a military aircraft came flying into the valley and suddenly all the lights were speeding away from them.
We, with our group were on the other side of the valley where we had seen flashing balls at some moment speeding away above us, like on the picture shown.
When we shared this it was a conformation for what we all had witnessed.

Our event almost came to an end, because the next day people had to go back home.

To come back to my wish.. being at such a wonderful place and with these amazing people, it was more than I ever could expected.

I will miss this group of people. We lived… and did so much together that it had hurt a bit to part ways.
Ricky mentioned, we always can go back in our minds and meditations to the place where we had The Event.
All is saved into The Akashic Records the “hidden library” in space, a secret hall of records which can be revealed by diving into the subconscious mind in deep state of meditation. This may be better understood in our technologically advanced world as our astral internet or Universal Wide Web where anyone can access any information they need at anytime about anything and anyone.

My first day I walked alone down a hill in Hessdalen and came nearby a river.
I felt like I was watched by something. When I came back, someone told me that Wolfs live in the forest and could be around. Only you can’t see them, they see you. That feeling I kept deep inside because I really love animals.
Before going back to Oslo, Roy had a surprise for me…
One of his friends live with Wolfs and they gave me a chance to meet these wonderful animals.
What an amazing experience that was..” Norway is so special and not only for his nature but for so much more.. I will definitely come back next year.

This story is coming to an end and now you can watch an impression video of our amazing group of people.
I think you will recognize yourself in it.
This Event had an amazing impact to everyone of the group.
We felt a deep respect for everyone’s personal shared story and it fulfilled our hearts on every level with warm feelings to be connected for life.

Thank you all for being so Awesome

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The White Alien Gods of Mesoamerica: Viracocha, Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan

Viracocha is the great creator god in the pre-Inca mythology. He was one of the most important deities in the Inca pantheon and seen as the creator of all things. According to ancient legend, Viracocha created the universe, sun, moon, stars and time by commanding the sun to move over the sky and created afterwards, civilization itself. Viracocha was worshiped as god of the sun and of storms. Interestingly, like many other Mesoamerican gods, he traveled across the lands teaching ancient mankind and bringing order and civilization to the inhabitants of South America.

Just like other Gods from Mesoamerica, he too said to return one day to its people. He was considered one of the most important, if not the MOST important deity in the Inca culture. According to mythological accounts, Viracocha rose from Lake Titicaca during the time of darkness to bring light. He made mankind out of stones, but his first creation were brainless giants that displeased him. A feathered serpent deity has been worshiped by many different ethno-political groups in Mesoamerican history: Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan. Where is the connection well… It seems that Viracocha, Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan are closely connected. The worship of a feathered serpent is first known documented in ancient Teotihuacan dating back to the  first century BC or first century AD

In the Maya area he was approximately equivalent to Kukulcan and Gukumatz, names that also roughly translate as “feathered serpent” in different Mayan languages.

Like the Maya, the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco mysteriously disappeared around 1100 AD. Tiahuanaco is a true masterpiece of ancient construction, not only did they have incredibly well designed temples and plazas, Tiahuanaco had mayor features in political development,  agriculture and in several industries in the region making it one of the most advanced cultures in ancient times.

Mythologically, Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco are very connected. Ancient legend has that Tiahuanaco was built as a religious site to celebrate the arrival of sky gods at Puma Punku. During excavations in the 60’s a Temple was unearthed at Tiahuanaco, present at this “sunken temple” several odd features are carved on the walls, the most interesting ones are the carvings of several faces, which according to some researchers, depict all of the races of mankind ranging from heads with elongated skulls, faces that have thick lips, turbans and many other examples of different human species.

Spanish chroniclers from the 16th century claimed that when the conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro first encountered the Incas they were greeted as gods, “Viracochas”, because their lighter skin resembled their God Viracocha.

Similar accounts by Spanish chroniclers describe Viracocha as a “White God”, often with a beard.

Viracocha, Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan: The White Alien Gods of Mesoamerica

One of the most prominent features at Tiahuanaco is the statue that is located at the center of the sunken temple. Believed to be a statue depicting their creator God Viracocha, the look of this God is particularly strange. Viracocha is represented as having a beard and a mustache something very unusual because American Indians did not have these long beards and mustaches, even more strangely the representation of Viracocha is very much like the ancient Gods of ancient Sumeria in Mesopotamia. Why would the designers of this statue depict their most important God with features unlike their own?

Mysteriously, as the Incan god Viracocha, the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl and several other deities from Central and South American pantheons, were described in legends as being bearded. The beard, once believed to be a mark of a prehistoric European influence and quickly fueled and embellished by spirits of the colonial era, had its single significance in the continentally insular culture of Mesoamerica.

Kukulkan is closely related to the god Q’uq’umatz of the K’iche’ Maya and to Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs. Little is known of the mythology of this pre-Columbian deity. The cult of Kukulkan/Quetzalcoatl was the first Mesoamerican religion to transcend the old Classic Period linguistic and ethnic divisions

The Construction of Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku: A challenge to modern construction methods

Were ancient cities such as Tiahuanaco, Puma Punku, Teotihuacan built by the help of the “White Alien Gods”?

Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku are amazing, the details and precision present at these two ancient cities is unique. Recent studies at Tiahuanaco has led scientists to believe that the structures were positioned in such a way that they had to be based on an astronomical principle called ‘the obliquity of the ecliptic’, which is the angle between the plane of the ecliptic (or the plane of the earth’s orbit) and the plane of the earth’s equator; the “tilt” of the earth.

The Gate of the Sun, an incredible gateway believed to be by some an ancient portal, was carved from a single block of Andesite granite with incredible depictions with complex astronomical connotations which according to scholars was an ancient calendar. But the most mysterious part about Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco is how ancient mankind managed to precisely cut and move blocks of stone that weigh up to 150 tons.

Teotihuacan: This gigantic citadel was home to over 200,000 people thousands of years ago. It is an ancient city unlike any other in the region. It was an ancient metropolis whose builders are unknown to history.  The Pyramid of the Sun, the Moon and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl were constructed at the main plaza of the city, these were the main landmarks of a city meticulously planned, obsessed with astronomical alignments. Interestingly, the Pyramid of the Sun is exactly half as tall as the Pyramid of Giza and the Temple of the Sun, the Temple of the Moon, and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl are in the same layout as Orion’s Belt.

If that isn’t enough there is more to leave you baffled: Archaeologists have found large quantities of Mica at Teotihuacan, yet this mineral is found 3,000 miles away in Brazil, Mica is present almost in every single building at Teotihuacan. Mica was known to ancient Indian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman and Chinese civilizations, as well as the Aztec civilization of the New World. Mica is stable when exposed to electricity, light, moisture, and extreme temperatures. It has superior electrical properties as an insulator and as a dielectric, and can support an electrostatic field while dissipating minimal energy in the form of heat and is thermally stable to 500 °C

Puma Punku: How did the ancients do it? Are the White Alien Gods Responsible?

Puma Punku is so unique in the way that it was constructed, shaped and positioned, that it is the most intriguing ancient site on the planet. If you look at the stones carefully, you can see some intricate stonework, as though they used machine tools or even lasers. Evidence of ancient civilizations using modern technology? Or are the white Alien Gods responsible? Several theories have been proposed as to how this labor force transported the stones from the quarries to Puma Punku but these theories remain speculative. It is believed that the builders of Puma Punku used llama skin ropes and ramps and inclined planes to move these incredible blocks to the site. But this explanation is not accepted widely, at least in our opinion it takes more than llama skin rope and ramps to move stones of block that weigh over 100 metric tons through distances of 10 – 100 kilometers.

Ivan Petricevic

Ivan is a freelance writer, editor-in-chief of ancient-code.com, he also writes for EWAO, Share Knowledge, Svemir Online and Ancient Origins.

History, Archaeology, Space and world’s mysteries are some of the topics he writes about.

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A Weird Black ‘UFO’ Ball Falls From the Sky In Spain.. What Is It? (Video)

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It is not the first time an unknown artificial space object has fallen out of the sky. This time a mysterious black Orb has been found in the middle of a Spanish field, after apparently falling from space.

After goat farmers spotted the orb on November 4, 2015, investigators from the Civil Guard immediately rushed to Calasparra, Murcia, and put the area under quarantine.

Independent researchers suggested the object may be a pressurized gas container which has fallen to Earth from space, according to El Pais.

Locals agreed, suggesting the mystery ball “had to have fallen from heaven”.

The Civil Guard also said it may have come from a rocket or satellite. “These objects are made of a material as strong survive almost intact reentry into the earth and even catastrophic explosions.”

Independent researchers have now attempted to provide an explanation for the mysterious black object.

You might wonder what is going on in outer space.

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‘Mile-Wide UFO’ Spotted by British Airline Pilot – The Alderney UFO Sighting (Video)

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One of the largest UFOs ever seen has been observed by the crew and passengers of an airliner over the Channel Islands, UK. on April 23, 2007 – the Alderney UFO case.

Aurigny Airlines captain Ray Bowyer, 50, flying close to Alderney first spotted the object, described as “a cigar-shaped brilliant white light”. As the plane got closer the captain viewed it through binoculars and said: “It was a very sharp, thin yellow object with a green area.

“It was 2,000ft up and stationary. I thought it was about 10 miles away, although I later realised it was approximately 40 miles from us. At first, I thought it was the size of a Boeing 737.

“But it must have been much bigger because of how far away it was. It could have been as much as a mile wide.”

Continuing his approach to Guernsey, Bowyer then spied a “second identical object further to the west”.

He said: “It was exactly the same but looked smaller because it was further away. It was closer to Guernsey. I can’t explain it. This was clearly visual for about nine minutes.

“I’m certainly not saying that it was something of another world. All I’m saying is that I have never seen anything like it before in all my years of flying.”

The sightings were confirmed by passengers Kate and John Russell. John, 74, said: “I saw an orange light. It was like an elongated oval.”

The sightings were also confirmed by an unnamed pilot with the Blue Islands airline.

The Civil Aviation Authority safety notice states that a Tri-Lander aircraft flying close to Alderney spotted the object.

“Certain parts of the report have not been published. I cannot say why,” said a senior CAA source.

  

 

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Are These 6 Unexplained Historical Artifacts Proof Of Alien Existence?

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Are These 6 Unexplained Historical Artifacts Proof Of Alien Existence?

History is crammed full of strange and mysterious artifacts and events that we are still not able to full explain even to this day. As you will see in the video below there are some incredible artifacts that simply do not fit any any form of tradition history as we know it.

How did these items come to be? How were they made and why? These are all questions that spring to mind when you see these strange objects.

The one BIG question that will be in all of our heads is if they prove if Aliens have visited earth in the past. Check out the video and see for yourself!

Source: http://educateinspirechange.org/nature/6-unexplained-historical-artifacts-proof-alien-existence/

Former NASA Engineer Talks About 9-Foot Tall Alien Meeting With ISS Astronauts

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Former NASA Engineer Talks About 9-Foot Tall Alien Meeting With ISS Astronauts

Another mysterious case of alien disclosure has emerged, this time from a former NASA employee who claims to have witnessed the most bizarre sighting.

While on a routine space mission, Clark McClelland, a now-retired aerospace engineer who worked for NASA’s Shuttle Fleet at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from 1958 to 1992, witnessed a meeting between a 9-foot tall humanoid alien and two astronauts in a cargo bay of the space shuttle.

He claims that the tall alien being was wearing a similar astronaut costume, adjusted for his particularly tall size and that it appeared to be in charge as it was giving indications to the other two cosmonauts.

• I, Clark C. McClelland, former ScO, Space Shuttle Fleet, personally observed an 8 to 9 foot tall ET on my 27 inch video monitors while on duty in the Kennedy Space Center, launch Control Center. The ET was standing upright in the Space Shuttle Payload Bay having a discussion with two tethered US NASA Astronauts.

• I also observed on my monitors, the spacecraft of the ET as it was in a stabilized, safe orbit to the rear of the Space Shuttle main engine pods. I observed this incident for about one minute and seven seconds. Plenty of time to memorize all that I was observing. It was an ET and Alien Star Ship!

On July 29, 2008, when he released the story on his website – Stargate Chronicles, the UFOand alien enthusiasts believed this to be the ultimate ET evidence and that NASA might finally admit his story, because his background as an astronaut was really impressive and there could be no doubt about his mental health or any other similar issues that could put his testimony in a bad light.

• With my verifiable background, there is no Federal Government Agency that can say I am crazy! I am a space program pioneer. I assisted in launching the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Deep Space Missions and the International Space Station. I have received honored mentions from US Senators, Congressman, Military Officers and Scientists.

• I have received character substantiations from Walter Cronkite, Major Donald Keyhole, NICAP Director; Richard Hall, Assistant Director of NICAP Astronomer. I served as the Assistant State of Florida and KSC Director of MUFON, the Director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena at Cape Canaveral and KSC.

Any doubts about his astronaut background are being diminished by his claims and also by the many authentic photos and documents from his time spent with NASA that have been posted on his website.

Because NASA cannot dismiss his claims about his career as a space engineer, one can accept him as a reliable source of information about ET life and alien contact with humanity. Another relevant fact is McClelland’s friendship with NASA astronomer Edgar Mitchell, Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 and 6th man to walk the surface of the Moon, who also supported the alien theory. He claimed that:

• 90 percent sure that many of the thousands of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, recorded since the 1940s, belong to visitors from other planets.

The former space engineer, Mc Clelland, also claimed that NASA is hiding the truth about alien encounters here on Earth and that the ISS is being used as a meeting point for alien and human representatives.

• NASA is not a civilian space agency. The Pentagon owns NASA. Some of the Department of Defense missions I participated in were top secret. Those missions carried TS Satellites and other space mission hardware into orbit where several crews met with ETs.

Even though his simple claims are not consistent enough for some, he has a strong alibi that comes with his irreproachable background. We have to consider that being an aerospace engineer at NASA is not quite an easy task for everyone to pass and the agency is taking all the precautions when it comes to hiring professional personnel.

Apart from this, recent proof of the International Space Station terminating the livestream when a grey UFO made its presence noticed has brought even more credibility to this case.

via UFOholic

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Alien in SELFIE jaagt vrouw stuipen op het lijf..

Natasha Boden, een 26-jarige vrouw uit het Engelse Blackpool, had haar haar blond geverfd en nam een selfie om het resultaat te bewonderen. 

Ze schrok zich echter een hoedje toen bleek dat ze niet alleen op de foto stond. Net zoals ze weken eerder schrok toen een doodgraver een niet bestaand lijk bij haar wilde ophalen. 

Nadat Natasha het vreemde figuur ontdekte achter haar op de selfie, bedacht ze zich geen moment en ontvluchtte de flat waarin ze woonde in het Engelse Blackpool. 

De 26-jarige moeder van een eenjarig kind nam een foto van zichzelf nadat ze haar haar had blond geverfd. Toen ze echter het beeld bekeek, zag ze een spookachtig gezicht achter zichzelf. 

Ze was al een beetje nerveus want zes weken daarvoor had er zich een vreemd voorval voorgedaan. Er werd door een begrafenisondernemer aangeklopt met de mededeling dat hij het lijk kwam halen. Echter, er was helemaal geen lijk. 

Na het spookachtig gebeuren met de selfie besloot Natasha geen minuut langer in het huis te blijven en ging naar een plaatselijk hotel om daar een kamer te huren. 

Ze heeft inmiddels de huur van de flat opgezegd en is samen met haar partner Mark Donohue op zoek naar iets nieuws omdat het volgens Natasha spookt in de flat en ze weigert om daar terug te keren.

Natasha zei verder, “Ik heb nooit in geesten of iets dergelijks geloofd. Als iemand anders die foto had genomen zou ik gezegd hebben dat het totale onzin was, maar het gezicht is zo duidelijk”. 

“Ik was doodsbang. Ik was alleen thuis en ik wist dat ik onmiddellijk moest maken dat ik weg kwam. Ik had daar echt met geen mogelijkheid nog een nacht kunnen slapen”.

Ufoloog Scott Waring is helemaal opgewonden na het zien van deze foto. Niet vanwege Natasha die erop staat, maar omdat hij ervan overtuigd is dat het gezicht op de foto die is van een kleine Gray alien. 

Deze zijn ongeveer een meter twintig hoog en volgens Scott is het duidelijk dat deze alien de vrouw observeert. Hij baseert zijn idee op dat er geen haar is te zien en dat het wezen een soort groenige glanzende huid heeft. 

Hij zegt dat als je goed kijkt naar de ogen van het wezen je duidelijk kunt zien dat deze naar de vrouw kijkt. 

Voor Natasha is het een spook en voor Scott is het een alien. Het is hoe dan ook iets dat normaal gesproken niet zomaar op een foto verschijnt. 

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Massive Blue UFO Over Los Angeles And Parts of California, Nov 7, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: November 7, 2015
Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA

The US military tried to say they fired a rocket and this was that rocket, but I really doubt it. I do believe the military knew tens of thousand of people witnessed the UFO, so they had to make up a story to calm people down. Similar UFOs have been seen over areas of Russia in the past. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
Hey guys, so we were just randomly up on the target parking structure shooting some night footage, timelapses etc. for the vlog and as we were literally walking back to the car Jason pointed out this ufo that wasn't anything but a suspicious orange looking light moving fast..I was able to begin recording right then and there, and as you can see in the video, it turns into something that releases some sort of giant blue light in a circular haze.. It was easily the craziest thing I've witnessed. I rushed home to upload this..comment below what you think or have heard it might be..skip to 1:19 to see to when the UFO releases a giant light.

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Car Size White UFO Over Xinzhuang, Taiwan On Nov 6, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Above is normal untouched close up of orb above it. Below is enhanced with contrast. 

Date of sighting: November 6, 2015 at 5:00-5:15pm 
Location of sighting: Xinzhuang Dist, New Taipei City, Taiwan

I was watching some passenger jets fly from right to left and another from left to right, coming and going from China to our Taipei airport about 20 min away. Thats when I noticed this orb. It was on the far left, so I pushed the window wider open and hung out a 5th floor window from the waist up to get this recording. 

It was about half as thick as the body of the passenger jets, but the color was the same...white. As I got my iphone 6s ready (4k video), I saw it moving to the right slowly. When I lifted the camera, the UFO stopped. I tried my best to hold the camera still out the window, so I apologize for the shaking, but it was do to the full zoom on the camera and me being excited. I tried to steady my hand against the side of the window as I held it up. 

I was late for teaching a class by about 4-5 minutes, but I had my wife check the window 15 min later and take a small 1 min video of the object. She checked a third time and the object was gone 20 minutes later. She couldn't stay to watch because she teaches a homework class.

This car size white UFO was my first close up daytime catch on camera, although I have had many sightings, but no camera at the time. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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Dr. Michio Kaku on Why Aliens May Exist, But Aren’t Landing on the White House Lawn

NASA Makes Major Discovery About Atmosphere On Mars

Solar wind stripped the red planet of its atmosphere, scientists say.

An Earth-like atmosphere on Mars was once violently stripped away by solar wind, according to new findings from NASA's ongoing exploration of the red planet.

In a press conference on Thursday, the space agency confirmed that solar wind played a major role in the disappearance of the red planet's atmosphere and water.

The discovery, which was published in the journals Science and Geophysical Research Letters, sheds new light on how the planet evolved from having an early, warm and wet environment that might have hosted life to becoming the cold, arid world we see today. Solar winds may have not had the same effect on Earth, because of our planet's strong magnetic fields.

"If you look at Mars today, it's a cold, dry desert planet," Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters, said during the conference. "What happened?... The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind."

NASA scientists have been examining and analyzing the upper atmosphere on Mars using theMars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft.

Watch the announcement above, and scroll down for the latest comments.

“Mars appears to have had a thick atmosphere warm enough to support liquid water which is a key ingredient and medium for life as we currently know it... Understanding what happened to the Mars atmosphere will inform our knowledge of the dynamics and evolution of any planetary atmosphere.”John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the NASA Science Mission Directorate

NASAA look into the past when Mars may have had abundant water some 3.7 billion years ago.

             "When we want to learn about life and the potential for life, we have to study the atmosphere, the geology, and the upper atmosphere to learn about the history of the climate and what drove climate change on Mars... Mars appears to meet all of the conditions required for life, or to have met them at the surface in the past, and that begs the question of whether there ever was life there" Bruce Jakosky, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution principal investigator

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The solar wind hitting Mars, stripping away its atmosphere. The color shows the density of particles in the solar wind.

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Unlike Earth, Mars does not have a magnetic field to shield its atmosphere from solar wind: http://go.nasa.gov/1PdjRqZ 

8:18 PM - 5 Nov 2015

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The sun releases particle winds, causing some atmospheric loss on Mars.

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Earth has a magnetic field that protects its atmosphere, whereas Mars does not have that protection.

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On the right, Mars being hit by solar winds. On the left, Mars during a solar storm.

Previously: Mars Used To Have Massive Lakes And Streams, NASA Say

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Alien Life in the Universe could be Robotic in nature says British Astrophysicist

Is deep space travel a step closer to reality? Nasa reveals successful test of 'impossible' fuel-free engine that breaks the laws of physics 

• EM Drive Fuel-free engine could take a spacecraft to Mars in 10 weeks
• Creates thrust by bouncing microwaves in chamber, using solar power
• Nasa has conducted more tests using an improved experimental process
• Test designed to remove errors from earlier study but still produced thrust 
• Scientists still aren't sure how this happens as it defies the laws of physics

By ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD 

An 'impossible' fuel-free engine, which could take a humans to Mars in just 10 weeks, is still defying science after another batch of tests by Nasa suggested the thruster does work.

The so-called EM Drive creates thrust by bouncing microwaves around in an enclosed chamber, and uses only solar power.

When the concept was first proposed, it was considered implausible because it went against the laws of physics - and subsequent tests of the engine have shown that the idea could revolutionise space travel.

Now Nasa has provided the first update on the test in months, and it seems to suggest that the futuristic engine does, in fact, work.

A prototype of the 'impossible' fuel-free engine that could power a spacecraft to Mars in just 10 weeks

Scientists, however, still don't know why.

The update was given by Paul March, one of the top engineers working the EM Drive thruster at the Eagleworks Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center in Texas.

He said Nasa has managed to remove some of the errors from earlier tests - but still found signals of unexplained thrust. 

Among the criticisms of previous experiments were that the tests were not carried out in a vacuum, thereby mirroring the conditions in space.

But the latest Nasa test appears to have addressed these concerns.

March's announcement is the first direct announcement in months, with the space agency largely remaining silent about any developments on the controversial project.

March posted on the Nasa Spaceflight forum in reply to an unpublished paper that claims the unaccounted thrust is generated by something known as the Lorentz force.

The Lorentz force is the force that is exerted by a magnetic field on a moving electric charge.

But March says his tests prove this is not true.

'I will tell you that we first built and installed a second generation, closed face magnetic damper that reduced the stray magnetic fields in the vacuum chamber by at least an order of magnitude and any Lorentz force interactions it could produce,' he said

'And yet the anomalous thrust signals remain.'

March also says that in the latest developments, thermal expansion of the thruster is taken into account to reduce all possible sources of error.

But the thrust can still be seen, and engineers still can't explain what's causing it.

If it becomes operatonal, the EM Drive propulsion system would permit travel at speeds until now only seen in science fiction and have other implications for space exploration.

The fact that it's a recurring phenomenon now makes the EM Drive appear less of a ridiculous concept and more of real solution to deep space travel. 

One of the images from an as-yet unpublished paper on the EMDrive, revealing the magnetic fields of the device

Researchers say the new drive could carry passengers and their equipment to the moon in as little as four hours, or to Mars in 10 weeks. 

A trip to Alpha Centauri, which would take tens of thousands of years to reach under current methods, could be reached in just 100 years. And as the thrusters are solar powered, propulsion would be generated along the way. 

The system is based on electromagnetic drive, or EM Drive, which converts electrical energy into thrust without the need for rocket fuel.  

While there has been some scepticism surrounding the EM Drive, in April Nasa released results of their own test which showed that the EM Drive did in fact create thrust.

Nasa's test set-up for the futuristic EM Drive in its 'Eagleworks' lab

'Thrust measurements of the EM Drive defy classical physics' expectations that such a closed (microwave) cavity should be unusable for space propulsion because of the law of conservation of momentum,' announced NasaSpaceFlight.com in April 

The site has become an unofficial source of EM Drive news, with Nasa engineers reportedly posting on its forum.

While there has been some scepticism around the EMDrive, in April Nasa released results of its own test which showed that the EMDrive did in fact create thrust.  Pictured is an experimental set-up to test the system

Earlier this year, German scientists also backed Nasa's claim that the engines do work.

Martin Tajmar, professor and chair for Space Systems at the Dresden University of Technology, presented a paper to the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics' Propulsion and Energy Forum in July.

Tajmar wrote: 'Additional tests need to be carried out to study the magnetic interaction of the power feeding lines used for the liquid metal contacts.'

'Nevertheless, we do observe thrusts close to the magnitude of the actual predictions after eliminating many possible error sources that should warrant further investigation into the phenomena.

'Next steps include better magnetic shielding, further vacuum tests and improved EM Drive models with higher Q factors and electronics that allow tuning for optimal operation.' 

According to classical physics, the EM Drive should be impossible because it seems to violate the law of conservation of momentum.

The law states that the momentum of a system is constant if there are no external forces acting on the system – which is why propellant is required in traditional rockets.

Researchers from the US, UK and China have demonstrated EM Drives over the past few decades, but their results have been controversial as no one has been exactly sure how it works. 

The concept of an EmDrive engine is relatively simple. It provides thrust to a spacecraft by bouncing microwaves around in a closed container. Solar energy provides the electricity to power the microwaves, which means that no propellant is needed

The propulsion system may make deep space travel as in Star Trek a realistic possibility

When London-based Roger Sawyer came up with concept in 2000, the only team that took him seriously was a group of Chinese scientists.

In 2009, the team allegedly produced 720 millinewton (or 72g) of thrust, enough to build a satellite thruster. But still, nobody believed they had achieved this.

Last year, Pennsylvania-based scientist Guido Fetta and his team at Nasa Eagleworks published a paper that demonstrates that a similar engine works on the same principles.

On the NasaSpaceFlight.com, those allegedly involved in the project claim that the reason previous EM Drive models were criticised were that none of the tests had been carried out in a vacuum.

Physics says particles in the quantum vacuum cannot be ionised, so therefore you cannot push against it. But Nasa's latest test claims to have shown otherwise.

'Nasa has successfully tested their EmDrive in a hard vacuum – the first time any organisation has reported such a successful test,' the researchers wrote.

'To this end, Nasa Eagleworks has now nullified the prevailing hypothesis that thrust measurements were due to thermal convection.'

However, Nasa's official site said earlier this year: 'There are many "absurd" theories that have become reality over the years of scientific research.

'But for the near future, warp drive remains a dream.

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How the biggest believers in UFOs plan to find proof of alien life

When I asked Ohio State University political science professor Alex Wendt what his students thought about his enthusiasm for UFOs, he told me reactions are mixed. His PhD students fear Wendt’s interest in gathering data on UFO sightings will undermine the credibility of their research. Other graduate students, he said, “hide their heads…they’re tolerant, but try to ignore it.” But his undergrads are more open. “Some are skeptical,” he told me. “But some are quite excited.”

This gives him hope that his new project, UFODATA, has a chance of drawing in the talent—or at least the cash—of young, curious, UFO agnostics. It’s going to need those things to survive.

UFODATA debuted online Oct. 14 of this year. One member of the team, journalist Leslie Kean, announced the still bare-bones effort in a Huffington Post blog post. She wrote:

• The organization has one goal and one goal only: to design, build and deploy a global network of automated surveillance stations that will monitor the skies full time looking for UFOs. UFODATA has no interest in alleged government conspiracies or adding more witness reports or FOIA documents to the thousands already on file. The idea here is that only a complete change of methodology toward a purely scientific approach to the UFO issue will enable us to move forward.

When Kean talks about changing methodology, she means moving away from witness accounts of UFO sightings that are often dismissed out of hand. By using cameras and other instruments to snap photos, Wendt, Kean, and the rest of the UFODATA team (which includes, among others, scientists and engineers) hope to collect unsullied evidence of the unidentified objects. And, if they see something truly remarkable, present it as evidence of extraterrestrial life to mainstream scientists and to the public. The second goal is an old one, but the first marks a departure from traditional UFO data collecting organizations like the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).

The government-sanction search for alien life

From 1947 to 1969, the Air Force compiled reports on UFO sightings as part of Project Blue Book. In January of this year, more than 130,000 pages worth of declassified Blue Book files were made available for browsing online. It took years of FOIA requests and lawsuits to bring these reports to the public. Several other declassified documents can be found on the NSA’s website. For a time, at least, UFO reports were apparently taken quite seriously by government officials.

And, it should be noted, NASA is always looking for communication from alien life forms through its Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program. SETI, which was established in the 1960s, scans radio and TV waves for anomalies that could be messages from extraterrestrials. Youcan even install a SETI program on your home computer if you want to be a part of the search.

But there are certain outspoken, charming, and dedicated individuals who also take the recording of UFO sightings very seriously. If you ever think you see something, say something to them.

A UFO reporting home office

NUFORC, according to its website, was founded in 1974 by Ufologist Robert J. Gribble. Today, it is run by director Peter Davenport out of his home in Harrington, Wash. It’s a small operation: Davenport is the only current member of NUFORC, save for webmaster Christian Stepien.

When I called Peter Davenport, he was relieved it was me and not a prank caller. Still, he was wary. Davenport asked if I was recording our phone call (I was not) and then told me, politely, that recording phone calls without permission is illegal. He also told me, repeatedly, that the media has done a very bad job of reporting on UFOs. He said things like, “the average person walking on the city street knows more than the average journalist [about UFOs],” and “most journalists are totally oblivious to what’s going on vis a vis UFOs,” often. But he was also very patient, extremely open, and endearingly earnest. Whenever he was joking he would tell me, “I’m being facetious.” It’s hard not to like Peter Davenport.

Davenport said he first became intrigued by UFOs when he was six. “The reason you are talking to me today goes back to July of 1954. I witnessed a UFO together with my family and hundreds, perhaps thousands of other people.”

He described the incident in a report posted to the NUFORC website. He wrote that he, along with his parents and older brother, were at a drive-in theater near St. Louis when they noticed a commotion:

• I looked out the right passenger’s window, and immediately witnessed a generally oval shape, EXTREMELY brightly luminous, red object hovering virtually motionless in the sky. I vaguely recall that the object may have been casting a faint red light over the theater and surrounding area. The object’s apparent size (from my vantage point) was approximately from 50% to 100% the diameter of the moon, and its long axis appeared to be horizontally oriented.

The object, Davenport wrote, hovered for a few moments before it flew away.

The experience stayed with him. “I have been intrigued by the UFO phenomenon ever since.” Davneport took over the independent operation from Gribble in July of 1990. He heard that Gribble, then head of NUFORC, was considering shutting down the hotline, and called him up to offer to help. Instead, Gribble offered him control of the center. “Before that telephone call was over he said, ‘Peter it’s, yours.’” Now Davenport mans the phone. According to the NUFORC site, calls are preferred between 8 a.m. and midnight, but it remains a 24-hour hotline.

When people call to report a UFO, Davenport mostly calms them down. Usually, he said, the report is “all jumbled up.” The caller “presents facts as they come to mind, it’s not a very well-ordered presentation of information…What we typically urge people to do is to immediately, as soon as they can, sit down at the computer and compose what is hopefully a literate, grammatically correct” report.

NUFORC has two goals, Davenport explained: The first, is to collect information. The second is to make it available to the public. He added that there are groups like NUFORC collecting data throughout the world, and that many of them share NUFORC’s goals. But not all of them collect what Davenport calls primary data, like NUFORC and MUFON.

The international juggernaut

MUFON, or the Mutual UFO Network, is what NUFORC would be if there were 3,000 Davenports. The group is headed by executive director Jan C. Harzan. This is a retirement gig for him; before MUFON, Harzan spent 37 years at IBM.

MUFON predates NUFORC by five years, and has now become a large organization with a rigid, bureaucratic infrastructure: There’s Harzan, an executive board, state directors, and national directors in about 40 countries. Altogether, there are about 3,000 members of MUFON around the world. Harzan told me his is the only UFO organization with a corporate office.

Fundamentally, MUFON operates in a manner very similar to NUFORC. Witnesses submit their account of what they saw through MUFON’s website. A member of the team evaluates the report and then selects it for one of three categories: Category one, a light in the sky; category two, a physical evidence of contact (for example, a broken tree limb or a magnetized object); and category three, an alien sighting. MUFON officers reach out to the witness for follow-up information, and sometimes send out a field investigator to check things out.

That, Harzan said, is one of the things that sets MUFON apart. “We are very detailed… [we] follow up on every report, that’s half the battle,” he said. Indeed, MUFON offers an exhaustive, multi-chapter guide to its field investigators, including a brief primer to natural phenomena that is often misconstrued as UFO activity. Think ghostbusters, but for aliens.

This, for what it’s worth, is similar to how the government used to keep tabs on UFO reports.

And like NUFORC, MUFON has clearly defined goals: to collect data and educate the public about UFOs, and to “to discover the true nature of the phenomenon, with an eye towards scientific breakthroughs, and improving life on our planet.”

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Still, MUFON’s method leaves room for mistakes. The goal of UFODATA is to reduce the margin of error, by relying on 21st century methods to indulge an age-old curiosity.

The future of UFO data collection

“It was in 2010 or 2011 when I had the idea that what we really need [is a way] to systematically look for UFOs,” Wendt, the Ohio State professor, told me. “Most of the UFO literature is about personal encounters, anecdotes, stories, people [say] that they see UFOs in the sky and then write it down or report it… they’re not scientific evidence, they’re just stories,“ he said. “The skeptics can easily dismiss them.”

UFODATA does away with anecdote completely. “What we’re proposing,” he says, “is taking advantage of the much better technology we have today, and the internet, to build a network of surveillance.”

Each hypothetical station would include a camera surrounded by a number of sensitive instruments that would help detect unexpected phenomena—a magnetometer to search for changes in the magnetic field, a spectograph to look for trails of light, and so on. The station is still just an idea; the team is looking to raise at least $30,000 for a prototype. Per the UFODATA website:

• All money raised in this stage will be used to buy the various station components (which we have already identified), construct the station, and begin to write the software to make it operational.

Once the prototype is set, the group plans to launch a formal crowdfunding campaign. But, Wendt said, a lack of funds isn’t UFODATA’s biggest problem, at least at this stage. “The key thing is trying to recruit volunteers with technical skills…especially what we need is programmers.”

Once the team is fully fleshed out, Wendt hopes to capture the attention of the general public. “Ideally an angel investor would come forward and give us the money,” he said, “but the real target is the mass public. Half of the American public thinks that UFOs are worth investigating. So that’s millions of people out there.” Just a small donation from a small portion of those interested in UFOs would be enough to make UFODATA real.

A community of believers

Davenport, Harzan, and Wendt had no qualms about identifying as believers in intelligent extraterrestrial (ET) life. Davenport told me that since he became the head of NUFORC, he is convinced not only that aliens are visiting Earth, but that they’re doing so on a regular basis. Harzan told me he saw a humming spacecraft as a child, one “that opened my eyes.” He added, “our belief is that these are advanced technology crafts that are visiting here.”

Wendt didn’t describe a witness experience, but said he was brought into a state of agnosticism after he saw a video of Harvard’s John Mack —aPulitzer-winner who researched those who claimed to have been abducted by aliens, and spoke widely about his findings—discussing alien visitations (perhaps similar to this one):

“I thought, this is crazy… [but] the more I thought about it the more I thought, I don’t know this is crazy,” Wendt says of watching Mack discuss his research into alien abductions. After that, Wendt started to think more about alien life as a possible truth. “That kind of got me hooked, not to believe in alien abductions, but it got me realizing that I was ignorant.” And though there might be other value in capturing images of UFOs, the search for aliens is UFODATA’s primary driver. “If we were convinced that UFOs were not ETs, we wouldn’t bother with the search.”

What Davenport, Harzan, and Wendt believe is not in line with the research of NASA scientists, who don’t necessarily not believe in aliens. Prominent NASA scientists predicted this year that we will find alien life within a decade or two. “I believe we are going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth in the next decade and definitive evidence in the next 10 to 20 years,” said chief NASA scientist Ellen Stofan in April. She added, “We know where to look, we know how to look, and in most cases we have the technology.” Her colleague Jeffery Newmark backed her up, saying, “It’s definitely not an if, it’s a when.”

The differences between believers like Davenport, Harzan, and Wendt, and mainstream scientists, then, are not worlds apart, but a few degrees. NASA scientists think we’ll be able to find life, but not intelligent life. In Stofan’s words, “we are talking about little microbes.”

And then there’s the question of where, and when, intelligent alien life would exist. If we assume that the laws of physics hold true throughout the universe, how can we explain a visitation from a galaxy tens of thousands of light years away?

I posed the question to Wendt. “That’s the strongest argument against the idea that UFOs are extraterrestrials. It’s a plausible argument I take very seriously.”

His answer, and that of most other UFO believers, is that we can’t know what kind of technology an advanced alien civilization has, especially if it’s been around for 1,000—or one million—years. After all, even our Earthly technological advances would likely have seemed impossible to early humans. “500 years ago the idea that people can fly through the sky would have been absurd… All of these technologies we’ve invented would seem like miracles.”

Kickstarting the search for aliens

It’s not hard to imagine UFODATA tapping into peoples’ curiosity, and their crowdfunding tendencies. If someone asking for $10 toward potato saladcan accidentally raise $55,000, a team asking for $200,000 to look for aliens should be able to reach the goal. If they don’t, and if a UFO-curious angel investor doesn’t come through (Wendt told me the group is talking to a couple) the project will probably be over.

The government, Wendt said, would never consider offering funding to an organization like UFODATA. “It wasn’t even worth filling out grant applications,” he said. “The taboo on UFOs, even talking about UFOs at the level of officialdom and authorities is so deep that we would have been laughed at.”

The question, then, is if this generation would be willing to bring to life a project like UFODATA. “I think younger people in general are more open to this,” says Wendt. “When the older generation, 30-somethings and up, when those people were growing up, Ufology was in a bad place. [It was] all about conspiracies, Roswell hiding bodies —[it] gave the whole field a bad rep.”

In other words, anything is possible.

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CARTE. La région serait très survolée par les ovnis

Près de 112 ovnis ont été signalés dans le ciel de la nouvelle grande région Alsace-Lorraine et Champagne-Ardenne.

Le Groupe d’études et d’information sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés (Geipan), rattaché au Centre national d’études spatiales, recueille chaque année des dizaines de témoignages de personnes ayant vu des ovnis.

La plupart du temps, il s’agit en vérité de lampions, de météores, d’avions ou encore d’étoiles. Mais il reste aussi quelques affaires non élucidées. Au total, 1 027 phénomènes qui n’ont pas encore trouvé d’explications, par manque de données le plus souvent.

Francetv les a rassemblés sur une carte et il semble que la Champagne-Ardenne et la Picardie ne soient pas en reste. 112 ovnis ont été observés dans la nouvelle grande région Alsace-Lorraine et Champagne-Ardenne. Et 76 en Picardie Nord-Pas-de-Calais.