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Filer’s Files #48 – 2016 Earth must be Warned - PART I
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In special reports, this week’s files cover: “Earth Must Be Warned!”Nike and UFO events from 1958 through 1970, Witnesses Watch UFO Make Crop Circle
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Bosnia, Canada, Cuba, France, Iraq, Israel, New Zealand, Portugal, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over one hundred UFOs reported each week represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when I chased one over England while flying for the US Air Force. I’ve been investigating them ever since. The US Air Force under Project Blue Book investigated UFOs for more than twenty years, we continue this research. It is my belief that God has spread his kingdom of intelligent civilizations throughout the universe. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
Astronaut Claudie Haignere
I heard today on the radio that a French Astronaut committed suicide and as she was dying she was heard to say “The world must be warned“. She then went into a coma. She was also married to another Astronaut. Claudie Haignere was the first French female to visit space.
A six minute YouTube conspiracy film by UFOmania has resurfaced this week examining her story. It has been viewed nearly a million times. In 1993 esteemed scientist Claudie was a back-up crew member for the 1993 Mir Altaïr mission, which included her future husband Jean-Pierre Haigneré.
She made it to the Mir space station in 1996 as part of the Russian-French Cassiopée mission and in 2001 became the first European woman to visit the International Space Station.
ISS spots UFO
Most peculiar report stating that the renowned scientist and France’s first female astronaut Claudie Haigneré had to be ‘forcefully restrained’after screaming “Earth Must Be Warned!” prior to her falling into a coma from a reported overdose of sleeping pills in an apparent attempt at suicide. After recovering Claudie entered French politics and worked as minister delegate for Research and New Technologies from 2002 to 2004 and minister delegate for European Affairs from 2004 to 2005. The asteroid 135268 Haigneré is named after Claudie and her husband.
Claudia blamed the incident on “burnout syndrome” and is now the director of the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie – the largest science museum in Europe. This could be very significant especially with the item that came out a couple of weeks ago about the UFO investigator who died mysteriously in Poland
Alien enthusiasts believe she was trying to warn the Earth about dangerous life in outer space. We can speculate she saw UFOs in space and has inside knowledge concerning the aliens. France is believed to have an alien body within one of its Labs. I had two military friends who were assigned to UFO related jobs in the Air Force with promising careers. After one year in the job both resigned their officer commissions, one became an alcoholic and the other an Episcopal Priest. I asked what they knew, they said,”You don’t want to know.”
The YouTube video, which is narrated by a robot voice, is a conspiracy that blends fact and fiction.
Both US Astronauts and Soviet Cosmonauts have reported seeing UFOs in space. Reptilians are alleged to be taking over large parts of the universe and will eventually attack Earth.
The mysterious death of conspiracy Max Spiers in October may have triggered the latest interest. Spiers was found dead on a sofa at a friend’s house in Poland days after warning his mum to “investigate” if anything happened to him. Friends also claim he had vomited a black liquid before his death.
Old Timer astronauts have mentioned aliens living on and around our planet with a laissez faire attitude. They’ve seen so much of it; it’s no big deal to them. During the Eisenhower era, the Greada Treaty set the groundwork for the compliant and secret existence for friendly aliens to work with us.
I have talked to a movie producers who claimed the government encouraged them to make alien movies to make the public aware of the potential problem. They even helped with UFO footage and military hardware to be used in the movies. They wished to inform the public but to have denial ability to prevent panic.
While in my Air Force uniform I sat next to Michael Rennie on a flight from LA to Chicago. He told me had spent much of his career doing movies for the Air Force. He was trained as a pilot in the West during the war. He played Klaatu in the movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” He implied the military helped produce the film. The government felt they needed to educate the public in case they were unable to keep the UFOs secret.
Gort was a robot and Michael Rennie played Klaatu the extraterrestrial.
In the movie Klaatu corrects the work of Professor Barnhardt showing his other-worldly brilliance and association with destructive power that could threaten the existence of the world. The movie was ranked #5 on the American Film Institute’s list of the 10 greatest “Sci-Fi” films in 2008. This was the first big budget science fiction feature film to be released by a major American studio after the war.
20th Century-Fox studio chief was Darryl F. Zanuck and Robert Wise was the movie’s director. The movie was first post-war, large-budget, science-fiction film. It was a serious, high-minded exploration of mid-20th century suspicion and paranoia, combined with a philosophical overview of humanity’s coming place in the larger universe.
In the film Klaatu states, “I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression. The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war.”
The humanoid alien protagonist of the film, Klaatu (Michael Rennie), instructs Helen Benson (Patricia Neal) that if any harm befalls him, she must speak to the robot to save the Earth.:
Klaatu: I’m worried about Gort. I’m afraid of what he might do if anything should happen to me.
Helen: Gort? But he’s a robot. Without you, what could he do?
Klaatu: There’s no limit to what he could do. He could destroy the Earth. You must tell Gort, “Klaatu barada nikto.”
There are parallels between Klaatu and Jesus Christ. Klaatu comes from another world and chooses the name of Mr. Carpenter (the occupation of Jesus Christ). He came to warn about the destruction Earth is going to face if they don’t believe him and his words. Jesus Christ said to the people that they will face destruction if they don’t believe in him and in his words. Like Jesus prophesying about the destruction of Jerusalem, Klaatu prophesies that Earth may have to face destruction like leveling New York City or sinking the Rock of Gibraltar. Both Jesus Christ and Klaatu die and later come back to life. Like Klaatu’s flying saucer seen by people in the film,
People in Jerusalem and in Judea saw flying chariots and soldiers in the sky right before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. This was recorded by Hebrew Historian Josephus, Roman Historian Tacitus, Eusebius, Document “Pseudo Hegesippus”, and Jewish History Document “Sepher Yosippon”. It‘s known that many aircraft have not returned after chasing or firing on UFOs. Thanks to www.google.com/
Canadian Injured by UFO
Stephen Michalak of Winnipeg, was prospecting near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, when he encountered two UFOs, one of which landed on a large, flat rock about 160 feet away from him. After having approached the object and looked inside, the object moved, and something like an exhaust vent was now in front of him. A blast of hot gas shot from these holes onto his chest, setting his shirt and undershirt on fire and causing him severe pain, and leaving burn marks in the shape of a grid. There are many abductees who claim they have been kidnapped against their will.
Earle Navy Base Pier
Joe Foster writes, Events take place on a daily basis that for the most part are not readily associated with other events having taken place over the span of years. It may take many years for the events to eventually make their way to a point whereas linkages are more easily defined. This report highlights how this can evolve.
It was the summer of 1958 and I was a child ready to enter the sixth grade. My family and I lived on an idyllic farm known as Dorbrook Farm (now Dorbrook Park). In 1958, this was a working dairy farm owned by a “gentleman” farmer who owned a string of successful shoe stores. The cows that he acquired for his farm were all of champion stock and very expensive. The farm itself was located in Colts Neck, New Jersey and was adjacent to what is known as the “Navy” road also known as Normandy road. This road linked NAD Earle (Naval Ammunition Depot) storage facilities located in Colts Neck to its pier facilities 13.2 miles away in the Leonardo section of Middletown Township, NJ. The pier is located on Raritan Bay and is the largest finger pier in the world.
The Navy road was used to ship munitions from the storage to the ships and vice versa. It has long been rumored (never acknowledged by the Navy) that there were also nuclear munitions stored and shipped as well. This I believe is where the linkages for events spanning 12 years involving the Navy, the adjacent Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules sites and my August of 1958 daylight sphere sighting, also on the Navy road.
1958, unbeknownst to me was really a watershed year for Nike Ajax, UFO’s and the most deadly of Nike Ajax accident ever to take place. Most of these events were also co-located with the Normandy (Navy) road with the exception of what was known as the Olney/Derwood event.
In May of 1958 there were reported UFO sightings near a Nike Ajax site located in Olney/Derwood Maryland. These occurrences included visual as well as radar thus creating a very compelling story going forward. However, it gets stranger yet, one of these unidentified craft was seen to crashed in a field, lose some debris (later reported to be radioactive) and take off again. The site was then covered by Air Force personnel in hazmat suits. The report of this event I came across only several months ago. Harlan Bentley was videotaped for the Disclosure Project and a report was also filed with MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network). Harlan was in the Army and a reported Nike radar operator who witnessed this crash himself.
Coincidentally, this same month (and 3 months before my Navy road sighting) the worst accident in the history of Nike Ajax took place at the Nike site known as NY-53. This site is also adjacent to the same Navy road I had my sighting on. A workman was reported to have been working on the missiles (all armed with conventional warheads and fully fueled, above ground on their launchers) doing some type of safety retrofit. One of these missiles reportedly accidentally fired its liquid fueled sustainer motor thus causing a chain of events setting off the other missiles and either exploding the fuel, warheads and/or launching these missiles in a chain reaction type of event. Ten men (6 military and 4 civilian) were all killed. The site itself was demolished.
A couple of months later, I and my family witnessed the daylight, silvery sphere displaying randomly blinking red and white that were displayed all around the object. This craft was also flying from the direction of the pier facilities on Raritan bay towards the ammunition storage facilities located in Colts Neck. Here is the second seemingly unconnected Nike Ajax event that coincided with the Olney/Derwood reported crash. Could there have been a tie-in? Nike was always a classified system, but even more so when they upgraded to the nuclear capable, Nike Hercules which were deployed at NY-56 in 1960.
This brings us to the events of July 1970 that included; several reported landings in the Port Monmouth section of Middletown Township (also about a mile and a half from the Navy pier). Several of these landings were investigated at the time by the Middletown Township Police Department. There were also a number of scientists and other investigators that participated as well. Again, synchronicity rears its head because that summer of 1970 also included the nuclear armed, Nike Hercules missiles located at Fort Hancock NJ at the NY-56 site. It should be noted that this site is now one of the two remaining intact facilities that are being restored for the NPS to be used as a Cold War museum. I am also part of the volunteer group providing tours between April and November every year. The site is now part of the Gateway National Park (Sandy Hook, NJ). The NY-56 site is also just 7 driving miles from the NY-53 Nike Ajax site that blew up and, about 2 miles as the crow flies from the Navy pier.
The summer of 1970, an event took place that caused the arming of 16 Nike nuclear missiles that we were actually prepared to launch in anger. This was also the only time in the 16 years (1960 – 1974) that any of NY-56 nuclear missiles were ever armed for an intercept. Again, was there some synchronicity related to the events in Port Monmouth and this amazing (and scary) nuclear event? Because of the nature of the nuclear Nike system, there was the expected compartmentalization and the strict adherence to following the “Need to know” edict. The crew in the Launcher area had no need to know anything about what went on in the IFC (Integrated Fire Control) and the site only reacted to commands from a higher authority located at its ADDCP (Army Air Defense Command Post). How much information that was provided was dictated only by what the crew needed to know in order to accomplish the mission?
So! I leave it to readers to draw their own conclusions about the inter-relatedness of these events. There is ample circumstantial evidence to lend credence to the synchronicity aspect involved in these events. Thanks to Joe Foster
Nancy Talbott BLT reports, “.Last month Robbert v/d Broeke and an unknown “farmer” watched a UFO hover low over a Dutch field for several minutes, then discharge a “visible energy” down to the grass, creating a new crop formation. Robbert tried to touch the UFO, but was unable to, due to a “magnetic-field-like” force which repelled his hand
Geshe-la
Back at his apartment a few hours later he felt a “holy” energy present and took multiple highly anomalous photos, one of a “woman” (whom Robbert thought might be one of the UFO’s occupants), then a Buddhist monk named Geshe-la (whom Robbert had never heard of, but who is the spiritual founder & leader of many Buddhist organizations)–one of which BLT fieldworker Laurel Konrad, visiting me on this weekend, belongs to….during which visit Robbert took these photos. This is the first time that the face of a human KNOWN TO BE LIVING has appeared when Robbert feels “energies” present & then takes photos. {Photo above}
What may be a “Seeing Eye” dog also appeared, as did a “Crown of Thorns” image Robbert had taken on Good Friday, 2014 (posted in a previous BLT report, “Spiritual Icons”
(http://www.bltresearch.com/robbert/spirit_icons_UMMO_EVP/IconsPart1.pdf).
The most peculiar thing about this “Crown of Thorns” image is that Robbert has both a new computer & new phone—and THIS IMAGE DOES NOT EXIST ON EITHER OF THEM. How it “manifested” as Robbert was sending me the new images via FB is a mystery. Also of note is the fact that 2 of the Geshe-la images are dated in the FUTURE—1 day after Robbert took them (Oct. 14th, Dutch time) and 2 days after both Laurel and I had seen them here in the States (evening of Oct. 13th).Link to new report: http://www.bltresearch.com/robbert/2016UFOcc&Geshe-la.pdf
Thanks to Nancy Talbott
Filer’s Files #48 – 2016 Earth must be Warned - PART II
Sedona — My guardian angel told me to take pictures of this one area. He told me to take three pictures on November 21, 2016.
I looked at the object and it looked like a small perfect cloud. I took three pictures but the disc only came out in one picture the one I’m going to send you.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brentwood — At 11:20 pm on November 19, 2016, I saw a bright orange light in the distance from my upstairs bedroom window traveling north east. The light was larger than an airplane headlight, and was orange. I went outside to get a better look as it flew over my neighbor’s house. It was very close and about 2000 feet in the air traveling slowly. I called for my daughter to come and look and she saw the orange light continue on a steady path toward the north east. The light was clearly under intelligent control as it moved east, slowed down and hovered. We then noticed a small orange orb shooting out of the right side of the object going toward the ground. Next, it emitted another larger orange orb downward in a straight path and disappeared. We watched as this happen three times and both the falling orb and the object itself just disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Fillmore — My son and I went for a drive on a rough, little-traveled mountain road into the condor sanctuary on October 18, 2016. We stopped to take some photos of the sunset. Neither of us is sure whether we noticed the glowing object at the time. I recall that on our way home, he mentioned that he had seen a light in the distance, which he assumed to be a parked car. His photo does include some car lights on a distant highway, but it’s unlikely they would have appeared stationary or that he would have remarked on them.
When I noticed the object in my photos, I found it curious and joked that I had photographed a UFO, but I assumed it had a mundane explanation. Several days later, my son showed me his own photo of the object that appeared to be distinct lights on its surface. My son and I took our photos with identical Samsung S6 Galaxy models. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Marianna – I never actually saw the objects. I took a picture and noticed the objects hours later. My father and I were looking for arrowheads in a cotton field a few miles south of Marianna.
If the picture is zoomed, one object is visible just above my father. Three other objects, in a triangle formation can also be seen off in the distance to the right of the closest one about the middle of the picture. Thanks to MUFON
Acworth — On November 17, 2016, I took pictures but, I am not sure what this is. It was stationary and there were no other lights around it. My sighting was on Glade Road. My photos look like ones sent on November 14.
Note: The witness is referring to the photo taken of a bright in Taylorsville, UT on Nov 14, 2016.
Louisville — I was on my way home from the grocery with my husband and kids on November 18, 2016. I was taking pictures when my son pointed at a cloud that was the color of a rainbow.
I didn’t notice the object until I got home and zoomed in to one of my pictures. The sun was on the left, the rainbow cloud was in the middle of my picture and the object was on the left. When I zoomed in it looked like two rows of lights. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Laughlin — Following the Star Works UFO conference, Witness #2 (or W2) and I walked along the Colorado River front from the Aquarius Resort upriver to the Highway 163 bridge along the river walk in front of the Laughlin casinos. We walked across the bridge and noticed the beautifully lit Riverfront casino. We were taking pictures of the scenery from the Arizona side of the river when we first noticed the object.
She asked, “What’s that?” and pointed toward the casino. I looked up and saw a fleeting glimpse of the first object as it moved out of light beam. We watched for a few moments more when she said, “There’s another one“. Both objects were shadowy and indistinct, roughly crescent, boomerang or chevron shaped. I could only see the leading edge clearly. They traveled smoothly from N to S, over the Riverfront casinos.
Second one moved same way as first, illuminated by hotel lights moving at trotting speed. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Harlem – On November 8, 2016, at 2 PM, I saw a UFO, just sitting there. I saw it for 4 to 5 seconds and zip it went away. I got a picture this time of a flying football. Well I am traumatized with this very painful experience.
Note: The witness sent other photos for different dates and times. It is not clear if the motion that he is describing was for the above football shaped object or if it describes objects in other pictures. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Ayden — On October 26, 2016 at about 14:12 in the small town of Pitt County while flying my DJI Phantom 3 Professional aerial camera drone, I captured an object flying from SE to NW. This object traveled a distance of about 1.2 miles in a 1/3rd of a second. My position was at the Ayden District Park and my drone was headed back to my position. At the time my drone captured this object on video, it was about 1/2 mile from me. The air speed of my drone was 26 MPH at 187 feet high. My drone was recording video in 4K resolution at 30 Frames/Second. Upon video review I noticed this object on video on my UHD TV. I then ran the video through my editing software. I received a call from Sandy Davis, an investigator with MUFON within 30 minutes. He was totally amazed by what my drone’s camera caught but was unable to determine what I caught on video. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Lake Jackson — I was at my kids swim lessons at an outdoor pool at 7 pm, on August 4, 2016. My son was in the water and my daughter was sitting with me. I noticed a yellow helicopter circling the area a few times. After it flew off sw, I looked up and saw what I thought was Venus. I went back to watching my son and noticed the object had moved. There were several other faint spheres slowly descending in perfect formation going in west. I pulled out my phone and snapped a few shots. lt took place between 7 to 7:30 pm. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Response of Witness to Questions: Yes, all photos were taken with a cell phone and an 8″ mirror telescope except for the one in 2013. I would like to contact some local investigator when I see things if possible.
Note: No stars or planets of the brightness seen in the witness photos were present in the northeastern sky. A local investigator was immediately contacted in the Salt Lake City area to view the sky. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Hampton — I was watching TV then my TV kept buffering. So I went outside with my phone when I seen the UFO. I quickly went to the app camera and started recording. It was triangle shaped UFO with a red light in the center. I thought it was landing at Langley Air Force Base. Unfortunately I couldn’t drive to the base because deadly force is authorized. And after I finished recording I quickly went to the internet and looked up what I saw.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Weirton — on September 21, 2016, a week or 2 after coming back from Las Vegas Nevada my fiancé and I experienced allot of bizarre events. During our trip to Las Vegas, being interested in the truth in EBE’s we drove out to Rachel Nevada, visiting the “black mailbox” I left behind an old student id card (with an old address) in black mailbox. We continued on our way to the back entrance of Area 51 and got as close to the gate as lawfully possible. As we walked to the gate jokingly I said to my fiancé, little do they know that we know the truth. When we came back to West Virginia my fiancé was on the back porch at night and saw a very low triangular orb set glide across the sky. She called me and I saw silent objects too low to be an airplane. The object was just 3, 4 or 5 solid white lights slowly disappeared behind a wooded area.
After we got done recording it I decided to upload it to Facebook and Facebook added this most bizarre sound. Facebook can’t integrate sound into videos you upload. I still cannot figure out how the audio got added, I’m a Systems Engineer and know technology and a MUFON member. Thanks to MUFON CMS
On November 14, 2016, I was watching and filming the super moon when I observed a fast moving UFO.
It is located at about 29 seconds into the video. The object flew across above the moon. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Banja Luka — I was picturing a flag on a building on November 19, 2016, so I took around 20 photos.
I noticed it a minute later because it seemed strange. Now when I move pictures frame by frame the “object” is moving, and is scary.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oshawa, Ontario — On Sunday November 6, 2016, I took notice of the ‘X ‘pattern trails in the sky created by jets southwest over the lake Ontario.
Funny how the ‘X’ pattern disintegrated in the center so quickly. I then thought to take a few pictures in capturing the moment. In one of the four pictures I caught an unknown long white anomaly at 4:41 pm near the trail,
. Enjoy Paul Shishis
Cabanas Bay — Objects of unknown origin buzzed a military facility on Cabañas Bay in 1967. The troops quartered at this installation were jolted out of bed shortly after midnight by a blast of machine gun fire from the sentry box manned by Isidro Puentes. A squad was rushed to the area, but the sentinel was not at his post. Dozens of spent rounds were later found in the area, completely crushed as if they had impacted a very solid object upon impact. Even more ominous was the discovery of burn marks that suggested the landing of a large object with an estimated weight of ten tons.
The missing guard was found later in the morning, completely unconscious. He was taken to a military hospital, where he remained in shock and unable to speak for nearly seven days. The hapless soldier was then transported to a neurology unit, where scans showed that he had no brain damage, but still remained unresponsive. When he finally emerged from his trance-like state, the soldier told the medical staff and investigating officers that he had seen “strange lights” behind the trees, and upon investigation, was faced with a large object shaped like a “luminous sphere.” Believing that the object could be the spearhead of a U.S. invasion force, the soldier fired at it, and could remember little else.
NOTE: The above image is CGI. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ www.worldufophotos.org
Sarralbe — On a very dark cloudy day, I happen to look up in the clouded sky on September 2015. If I hadn’t good eyes (12/10 after laser operation) I might have overlooked it. For a split 20 to 30 seconds I saw three cigar shaped objects with polished metallic appearance going straight. They flew silently.
It flew much faster than a jet plane.
The poor meteorological conditions forbid me to see them again, and I have never seen them again in a year. The path the ufos took was the same as those I always see in the night sky, but those have blinking eyes and may be normal planes going way slower. Thanks to MUFON CMS
At an unspecified location in Northern Iraq I noticed a light that at a glance you would think is a flare. It was bright enough and close enough to keep my attention. It was slightly brighter than a flare and didn’t have the orange light associated with a flare. What also made me notice was it was above a populated area where no known activities were happening that would need a flare due to light the city. The object stayed stationary for maybe ten seconds, emitting a white light. Almost like if you put a standard household light bulb in the air. The light went out for 5-8 seconds then came back on. Another 5-8 seconds later it dimmed to the brightness of what I can best describe as the smallest star you could see in the sky. When it did that it began to move horizontally almost in an “s” pattern to the south varying in speed throughout its movement. I lost sight of it due to how fair it was and haven’t seen it since. I’m not sure what it was, I have a background in military and unmanned aviation. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Ra’ananav — I was invited on the eve of the Super Moon on November 14, 2016 to a gathering of five people on the top roof of my friend’s flat for a spiritual process. At the beginning of the process, she asked us to “take pictures”. For the first time ever, I took my cell phone camera and decided to film a suddenly a green rectangle appeared on the video.
My whole focus was on the green rectangle, I did not notice at all what really happened during the shooting. I filmed for 2.36 minutes and turned the camera off. We went home around 11:10 PM.
I excitedly showed the video to my son, age 27. He noted that the green rectangle related to the fluorescent light at top right, and immediately recognized the crazy flight that took place in the video and said: “Mom, leave the green rectangle, what is that?” and pointed to a bright spot that flew at top speed across the sky.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico City — My wife and I were on vacation and since I’m an avid photographer, I took a lot of images with my Nikon professional camera of the city and its cathedrals. As I always do, once I returned home, I cleaned up some of my images using Photoshop. On November -18, 2016, I noticed a foggy section on one of my untouched images and a disc-shaped objet in the upper left corner of one of those images. It was clear that I had captured something unusual. I then jumped to the next image, and sure enough, there it was on the next image. On this next image it had now moved towards the center of the image. It seems the object was coming in at an angle and then straightened out as it flew over the city. This is the first time I have been compelled to report a possible sighting. The original is untouched. Thanks to MUFON CMS
On November 19, 2016, around 7:10 PM I saw a fireball looking south just above the tree line. Moving left to right it looked like it had a tail.
It was rather bright and after maybe 4-5 seconds, it fragmented. I have seen 3 other fireballs in my life, but this one was different.
It moved slower and I was able to keep up with it across the horizon. I would love to know if anyone else saw what I did. www.weatherwatch.co.nz
Ponta Delgada Azores — I was photographing a couple for tourism promotion on the island of São Miguel, Azores on the lake of the village of Sete Cidades on August 13, 2013. I made 2 identical photos and in the second picture the object appears and immediately disappears. I only saw the object later on the computer because I was aware of the subject. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Piddlehitton — I was coming back from school on November 18, 2016, I first noticed the object was moving in close. The object was moving in a straight line, when I saw it. I didn’t worry me as I believe in aliens and don’t believe they cause harm and I lost sight of it when trees were covering it up.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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MYSTERIOUS GEOGLYPHS FOUND ON THE MOON (video)
Travis Walton, UFO Abductee Q&A with Richard Dolan, Victor Viggiani, Chris Russak (Modern Knowledge)Travis Walton, UFO Abductee Q&A with Richard Dolan, Victor Viggiani, Chris Russak (Modern Knowledge)
Travis Walton live in Toronto. MANY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE STORY OF TRAVIS WALTON AS PORTRAYED IN THE HIT 1993 MOVIE 'FIRE IN THE SKY' THAT WAS HOLLYWOOD, BUT ABDUCTIONS ARE DEFINITELY NOT SCIENCE FICTION.
HEAR THE TRUTH OF THIS AMAZING STORY FROM TRAVIS WALTON HIMSELF, IN A RARE PUBLIC SCREENING AND QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION WITH THE WORLD'S MOST DOCUMENTED ALIEN ABDUCTEE.
TRAVIS, Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton, recounts the experiences of the work crew that day in the forest and the weeks that followed this incident. They and Travis struggled to make sense of the event enduring humiliation, and job losses. Travis has encountered lifelong ridicule regarding his experiences.Driving home after a day of clearing underbrush in the Sitgreaves National Forest, seven loggers come upon a 40 foot shiny disc hovering on the crest of a ridge. As if spellbound, Travis jumps from the passenger side of their work truck and runs toward the craft for a closer look. That decision November 5, 1975 would change him and these loggers forever. Travis’s story became a book called “Fire in the Sky” and a movie (1993). The Paramount Picture feature film enhanced his “close encounter of the third kind,” (a term coined by ufologist J. Allen Hynek denoting human observations of actual aliens or “animate beings”). The Travis Walton UFO story remains one of the most well documented stories of all time that will soon commemorate the 40th anniversary of this incident.
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Freightening Alien Craft Close Encounter In Russia
FREIGHTENING ALIEN CRAFT CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN RUSSIA
AUGUST 15, 1663 ………… ROBOZERO LAKE RUSSIA
On August 15, 1663, between 10 a.m. and noon, local time, a “great noise” resounded over Robozero Lake, located in the Vologda Region; about 50 kilometers southwest of Belozersk.
From the north, out of the clear sky appeared a huge flaming sphere no less than 40 meters in diameter. From its fore part emitted two “flame” beams, about “20 sazhens ahead of it” (i.e. around 40 meters; asazhen is 2.13 meters). From its sides poured blue smoke. This huge ball of fire, its height like that of a modern 15-story building, hovered over the lake.
The phenomenon was observed by a multitude of people. It was the day of the Assumption, and villagers from all of nearby villages gathered for Mass at the parish church, situated on the lake shore. The “great noise” occurred just as the prayer singing had begun. Terrified by this noise, the people emerged from the church to the vestibule, but upon seeing the “frightful sight” they went back into the church and “prayed to the Lord and the Virgin Mary with tears and weeping,” whereupon “the great flame and the two smaller ones vanished.” However, soon after “the fiery flame” again appeared over the lake, somewhat to the west, “about half a versta (approximately 1750 feet) from the spot where it had vanished.” Its appearance was just as unexpected as the first time and it had “dimmed.”
A little later the same body, seemingly becoming even brighter and more terrifying, reappeared another half kilometer to the west, and then, moving westward, it dimmed and disappeared from view. The “flame” hovered over Robozero for about an hour and a half. The lake is quite small, its size “two versts long and about one wide.”
Peasants were sailing in a boat in the lake at the time, but the scorching heat did not let them come closer. They saw that light from the unknown object penetrated the water, and reached the bottom of the lake that was “about four sazhens down.” They observed “fish fleeing from the flame towards the shore.” And where the flame touched the water, appeared a brown film of oxide on the surface, resembling rust (“just like rust”); it was later dispersed by wind.
Ivan Rzhevsky was an educated and intelligent man, as his observations reveal quite clearly. He went as far as to check out the testimony of an eyewitness, a peasant by the name of Levko Fedorov. He also received written confirmation from the local priests that “such a sign was observed on that date;” only then did Rzhevsky report the occurrence to his superiors.
The Russian author provides a detailed description of the phenomenon, but does not offer any subjective interpretation of it. Others tried to interpret the Robozero Phenomenon. Russian astronomer D. Svyatski, in his book “Astronomical phenomena in Russian chronicles (Petrograd, 1915),” claims that the eyewitnesses saw pieces of a meteorite that flew apart after an explosion.
How could the people in the boat approach a hovering body? Some have tried to explain it as a ball lightning. But there was no storm and no rain that day. A lightning’s life span is short. Its diameter is not larger than a meter, certainly never 40 meters. Then, there were two rays that emitted from the body. Ball lightning does not emit rays. Yuri Roszius analyzed Rzhevsky’s report. His detailed analysis included the study of one interesting episode related by eyewitnesses. The document notes a change in the outer appearance of the object: an increase in its brightness when it came into view for the third time.
For some reason this change preceded the start of the object’s progressive movement westward. In modern times, such increase in brightness could be attributed to the firing a cruise engines (increase in its trust). Is it by chance that the object’s brightness increased before its departure?
NOTE: The above image is the witness rendering.
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Deepest water found 1000km down, a third of way to Earth’s core
Priceless imperfection
Mederic Palot
JULES VERNE’s idea of an ocean deep below the surface in Journey to the Centre of the Earth may not have been too far off. Earth’s mantle may contain many oceans’ worth of water – with the deepest 1000 kilometres down.
“If it wasn’t down there, we would all be submerged,” says Steve Jacobsen at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, whose team made the discovery. “This implies a bigger reservoir of water on the planet than previously thought.”
This water is much deeper than any seen before, at a third of the way to the edge of Earth’s core. Its presence was indicated by a diamond spat out 90 million years ago by a volcano near the São Luíz river in Juina, Brazil.
The diamond has an imperfection – a sealed-off inclusion – that contains minerals that became trapped during the diamond’s formation. When the researchers took a closer look at it with infrared microscopy, they saw unmistakable evidence of the presence of hydroxyl ions, which normally come from water. They were everywhere, says Jacobsen.
To work out the depth the diamond formed at – and hence the origins of this water – the team again turned to the inclusion. It is made of a ferropericlase mineral, which is composed of iron and magnesium oxide, and can also absorb other metals such as chromium, aluminium and titanium at ultra-high temperatures and pressures typical of the lower mantle.
“This water is much deeper than ever found before, at a third of the way to the edge of Earth’s core”
Jacobsen found that these additional metals had separated from the ferropericlase – something that happens in the milder conditions a diamond experiences as it edges up through shallower depths. But for the metals to be present at all, the diamond must have originated in the intense conditions of the lower mantle (Lithos, doi.org/btcn). “Based on the composition of the trapped mineral, we speculate that the depth was around 1000 kilometres,” says Jacobsen.
The clincher is that as the inclusion was trapped in the diamond the whole time, the water signature can only have come from the diamond’s place of formation in the lower mantle. “This is the deepest evidence for water recycling on the planet,” he says. “The big take-home message is that the water cycle on Earth is bigger than we ever thought, extending into the deep mantle.”
His team has previously found evidence of massive amounts of water some 600 kilometres down, mixed in with rock.
“Water clearly has a role in plate tectonics, and we didn’t know before how deep these effects could reach,” he says. “It has implications for the origin of water on the planet.” For example, it is possible that Earth had water from day one in the very dust and rocks that first formed it.
But it’s still not clear exactly how water got so far down. It may have arrived in the mantle even earlier than 90 million years ago, through sedimentary oceanic crust burrowing downwards as primitive tectonic plates thrust against and past each other.
The new study suggests cycling of subducted material, even at these depths, says Lydia Hallis at the University of Glasgow, UK. “Ultimately, this research will help us better understand the way our planet recycles itself.”
Jacobsen thinks that this water may help explain why Earth is the only planet we know to have plate tectonics. “Water mixes with ocean crust and gets subducted at convergent plate boundaries,” he says. “Introducing water into the mantle promotes melting and weakens rock, likely helping out the motions of plates like grease.”
The hope is that such research will yield insights into how our oceans and atmosphere formed in the first place.
This article appeared in print under the headline “Oceans of water in deep Earth go 1000 km down”
Oceanen aan water in de aarde bereiken diepte van 1000 (!) kilometer
Jules Verne schreef in zijn boek ‘Reis naar het middelpunt van de aarde’ over een oceaan diep onder het aardoppervlak. Waarschijnlijk zat hij er niet ver naast, schrijft New Scientist.
De aardmantel bevat namelijk vele oceanen aan water, waarvan de diepste zich op zo’n 1000 kilometer onder de grond bevindt.
“Als die er niet zat, zouden we allemaal onder water leven,” zei Steve Jacobsen van de Northwestern University in Illinois, die de ontdekking heeft gedaan.
“Dit wijst erop dat onze planeet over een grotere voorraad water beschikt dan voorheen werd gedacht.”
Het water zit veel dieper dan ooit eerder is waargenomen, op een derde van de afstand tot de aardkern.
Een diamant die 90 miljoen jaar geleden werd uitgespuwd door een vulkaan in het Braziliaanse Juína, bracht de wetenschappers op het spoor van het water.
De diamant bevat mineralen die bestaan uit hydroxyl-ionen, die normaal gesproken afkomstig zijn uit water. “Ze waren overal,” zei Jacobsen.
Zijn team stelde vast dat de diamant in de lagere mantel gevormd moet zijn, op een diepte van circa 1000 kilometer.
Nooit eerder werd op zo’n grote diepte water gevonden. “De watercyclus op aarde is groter dan we dachten en strekt zich uit tot diep in de mantel,” lichtte Jacobsen toe.
Zijn team ontdekte eerder al bewijs voor gigantische hoeveelheden water op een diepte van 600 kilometer, gemixt met gesteente.
Hij zei dat de aarde mogelijk al sinds haar ontstaan over water beschikt. Het is alleen nog onduidelijk hoe het water zo ontzettend diep kan reiken.
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Did NASA Mars Rover Find a Signature of Past Life?
Home Plate opaline silica (left) occurs in nodular masses with digitate structures that resemble those at El Tatio (right).
Credit: ASU/Ruff & FarmerDuring its wheeled treks on the Red Planet, NASA's Spirit rover may have encountered a potential signature of past life on Mars, report scientists at Arizona State University (ASU).
To help make their case, the researchers have contrasted Spirit's study of "Home Plate" — a plateau of layered rocks that the robot explored during the early part of its third year on Mars — with features found within active hot spring/geyser discharge channels at a site in northern Chile called El Tatio.
The work has resulted in a provocative paper: "Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
As reported online last week in the journal Nature Communications, field work in Chile by the ASU team — Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer of the university's School of Earth and Space Exploration — shows that the nodular and digitate silica structures at El Tatio that most closely resemble those on Mars include complex sedimentary structures produced by a combination of biotic and abiotic processes.
"Although fully abiotic processes are not ruled out for the Martian silica structures, they satisfy an a priori definition of potential biosignatures," the researchers wrote in the study.
Spiritlanded on Mars in January 2004, a few weeks before its twin, Opportunity, touched down in a different part of the Red Planet. Both golf-cart-size rovers were tasked with looking for signs of past water activity during their missions, which were originally planned to last three months.
Spirit encountered outcrops and regolith composed of opaline silica (amorphous SiO2nH2O) in an ancient volcanic hydrothermal setting in Gusev crater.
An origin via either fumarole-related acid-sulfate leaching or precipitation from hot spring fluids was considered possible. "However, the potential significance of the characteristic nodular and [millimeter]-scale digitate opaline silica structures was not recognized," Ruff and Farmer noted in the new study.
The physical environment of El Tatio offers a rare combination of high elevation, low precipitation rate, high mean annual evaporation rate, common diurnal freeze-thaw and extremely high ultraviolet irradiance.
"Such conditions provide a better environmental analog for Mars than those of Yellowstone National Park (USA) and other well-known geothermal sites on Earth," suggested Ruff and Farmer. "Our results demonstrate that the more Mars-like conditions of El Tatio produce unique deposits, including biomediated silica structures, with characteristics that compare favorably with the Home Plate silica outcrops. The similarities raise the possibility that the Martian silica structures formed in a comparable manner."
Previously, a NASA science team defined a potential biosignature as "an object, substance and/or pattern that might have a biological origin and thus compels investigators to gather more data before reaching a conclusion as to the presence or absence of life."
"Because we can neither prove nor disprove a biological origin for the microstromatolite-like digitate silica structures at Home Plate, they constitute a potential biosignature according to this definition," Ruff and Farmer wrote.
Spirit bogged down on Mars in May 2009, becoming stuck in soft soil.
In late January 2010, after months of attempts to free the rover, NASA dubbed the wheeled robot a stationary research platform. The lack of mobility and the harsh climes of Mars conspired to seal Spirit's fate, with attempts to regain contact with the robot ending in May 2011. Subsequently, NASA announced the end of contact efforts and the completion of Spirit’s mission. (Opportunity is still going strong today.)
The ASU researchers suggested that a future and specially instrumented rover mission could perhaps provide a more definitive assessment of possible biogenicity of Home Plate silica structures.
"However, because of the challenges in obtaining unambiguous evidence in situ, coordinated microscopic and compositional analyses of samples returned to laboratories on Earth may be required to reach a robust conclusion as to the presence or absence of past Martian life in these rocks," Ruff and Farmer stated.
The new study can be viewed here: http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13554
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet." The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series airing in November. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookor Google+. Story published on Space.com.
Scientists Uncover New Evidence for Life on Ancient Mars
In 2007, NASA’s unmanned Spirit Rover wheeled across Mars, taking photographs and data, until it eventually got stuck in soft red soil two years later. Photographs of hot spring silica deposits were seen, but was thought to be just another geological structure. That is until quite recently when two geologists discovered similar deposits here on Earth, and found that these structures are made by tiny organisms—now suggesting existence of the organisms on the Red Planet.
Arizona State University geologists Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer’s research is detailed in Nature Communications. They contrasted the Spirit’s study on the Mars Home Plate with their findings in the El Tatio Chilean hot springs, a place known to be the best“Mars analog” because of its high elevation, extreme freeze-thaw temperatures, and high exposure ultraviolet rays. Ruff described the mineral outcrops found in El Tatio to be “the most Mars-like of any silica deposits on Earth.”
Left: Silica deposits on Mars; Right: Silica deposits from El Tatio.
Credit: ASU
The finger-like silica deposits found in Home Plate were poorly misunderstood. Now, the geologists have determined that microbes play a major role in forming the silica deposits, suggesting that the same has been occurring on Mars.
The ASU researchers’ discovery prompts future explorations to search specifically for the possible biosignatures in the silica structures. NASA has announced plans to send a new rover to Mars in 2020, and this new mission, which is yet unnamed, could be specifically instrumented and prepared for the search for microbial life.
NASA's Spirit rover imaged this cluster of fingerlike silica nodules near Home Plate in the Columbia Hills in April 2007. The nodules appear to have the same size and shape as silica nodules at the El Tatio hot springs on Earth, where biological activity contributed to their formation.
Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech
ASU astrobiologist Jack Farmer studies an outflow colored by microorganisms that flows from the hot springs at El Tatio in Chile. Farmer and ASU planetary scientist Steve Ruff have identified silica structures at El Tatio that formed with the help of microorganisms and which appear nearly identical to silica structures found by the Spirit rover at a site on Mars.
Photo by Steve Ruff
Today, continued study about Mars’ dynamic system is ever-imperative as plans to send humansthere loom closer to materialization. These discoveries could greatly alter preparations from SpaceX and NASA before we can finally set up camp on the Red Planet.
Test of 'Impossible' EmDrive Space Engine Passes Peer Review
Good news for all you EmDrive enthusiasts: A new study suggesting that the seemingly impossible space engine may actually work has passed the peer-review process.
The study — which was led by physicist Harold "Sonny" White, of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston — found that an EmDrive design generated small amounts of thrust in the lab. These results were leaked online recently, and now the paper has been published, in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Journal of Propulsion and Power.
Development of the EmDrive was begun by British scientist Roger Shawyer about 15 years ago. The engine works by bouncing microwaves around inside a chamber; it requires no propellant and could therefore usher in a new era of superfast and efficient spaceflight, advocates say.
There's just one little issue: The EmDrive shouldn't work, if you put any stock in Newton's Third Law of Motion ("for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"). The EmDrive doesn't blast anything out the back, so just how it produces thrust (the equal and opposite reaction) is a mystery.
The new study is just a lab test, and it doesn't prove that the EmDrive definitely works — White and his team couldn't rule out all sources of experimental error, for example — so don't let visions of EmDrive-powered spaceships fill your head. However, its publication is the latest in a series of recent steps suggesting that the technology may be more than a sci-fi dream.
Read more about the EmDrive and the recent lab test here.
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Is there life on Mars? Evidence of aliens may have been found on the Red Planet – in 2007
Nasa's Spirit rover may have photographed evidence for life on Mars in 2007, but nobody noticed until now CREDIT: NASA Evidence of alien life on Mars may have already been found by Nasa’s rover but scientists failed to notice, a new study suggests
In 2007, the Spirit rover photographed intriguing finger-like rock formations at the Home Plate plateau, a 300 square foot area in the Gusev crater near the Martian equator.
Scientists from the University of Arizona decided to look for similar features on Earth to determine how they were formed, and found nearly identical structures at El Tatio, Chile, which were created by a combination of hot springs and crucially, micro-organisms.
The team chose to study El Tatio because it has conditions which are very like Mars. Situated at 14,000 feet above sea level even in summer temperatures often drop below freezing at night, and by day huge amounts of ultraviolet light from the Sun comes through the thin, dry air.
The formations on Mars appear to be similar to structures on Earth known as stromatolites, which are formed when microbes form colonies in wet environments and trap sediment on their sticky surface coatings.
That sediment eventually reacts to calcium carbonate in the water and forms a build up of nobbly limestone layers.
“We went to El Tatio looking for comparisons with the feature found by Spirit at Home Plate,” said Dr Steve Ruff, of the school of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona.
“Our results show the conditions at El Tatio produce silica deposits with characteristics that are most Mars-like of any silica deposits on Earth.
"The fact that microbes play a role in producing the distinctive silica structures at El Tatio raises the possibility that the Martian silica structures formed in a comparable manner – in other words with the help of organisms that were alive at the time."
Mars is thought to be the best chance of finding evidence of extra-terrestrial life because it once had running water and an atmosphere. The hope of discovering life was also raised in December 2014 whenintriguing burps of methane were recorded by Nasa’s curiosity rover.
On Earth, around 90 per cent of methane is produced by organisms, so the expectation is that some kind of life is also emitting the gas on Mars.
However the Spirit rover mission has since been decommissioned after the robot became stuck in soft soil in 2011 so it cannot go back to check for signs of life or take new pictures.
The current active rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity, are also too far away to take a detour, and Nasa’s next rover is not due to launch until 2020, so it could be a while before the suspicions are confirmed.
Fortunately, the Home Plate is one of eight suggested sites for the next rover mission, and the new findings could help persuade controllers to land near to where the original images were taken.
But Dr Ruff added: "We know exactly where to land and where to go collect samples.”
Writing in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers say that no firm conclusion will be reached until Martian rocks are brought back to labs on Earth.
Astrophysicist Dr Dan Brown of Nottingham Trent University said: “Finding live on Mars or even the past presence of live has been a driving goal and infamous challenge for missions to Mars.
“The current findings presented in Nature seem to add to this chapter of Martian exploration. But as always carrying out Martian geology in search for life is never straightforward.
“I find myself wondering what we actually can achieve using rover, landers and orbiters alone to find clear evidence of past Martian bacterial life. Does this not require human researchers to be on Mars that could then investigate and interrogate the evidence far more comprehensively and creatively than we could ever anticipate a rover to do?
“However it shows how data gathered by missions now nine years ago, still brings forth valuable results."
