ALIEN MONOLITH FOUND ON SATURN'S MOON IAPETUS?

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Visit To Antarctica Confirms Discovery Of Flash Frozen Alien Civilization

Russia: Thousands Of People Observe A Mysterious “VORTEX OF LIGHT” In The Skies Of OMSK

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I touched a UFO: ex-air force pilot

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James Cameron links find of bronze-age anchors to lost city of Atlantis

Myth? History? Or just a good storytelling opportunity?

The idea of an advanced ancient civilisation lost to history certainly has eternal appeal.

It’s certainly been a favoured subject among documentary makers.

Now Oscar-winner James Cameron joins them.

His National Geographic series Atlantis Rising goes to air in the United States this weekend.

Suitably, he’s got a tantalising find to pin his narrative upon.

The mystical nature of Atlantis has made it a popular subject of books, television and and movies.

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MEGA-MYTH

Is there more to Atlantis than just an ancient fireside tale?

The idea exploded among the modern popular imagination with pseudoscientific books such as Erich von Daniken’s Chariots of the Gods in 1968 and, more recently, the likes of Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock.

Atlantis has been linked to just about everything: The pyramids were really an astral power station to charge its technology. Its survivors seeded just about every ancient civilisation. It was buried under Antarctica’s ice (or off the Bahamas, or Japan, or just about any mysterious place).

There are more plausible, though equally unproven, theories.

COMET ENCKE: Did it destroy Atlantis? Is it coming back?

It could be a distorted memory of the Black Sea Flood which saw a vast swath of Europe engulfed about 5600BC. Or a memory the Minoan palace vaporised on the island of Santorini erupted, sending tsunamis through the Eastern Mediterranean at some point around 1600BC.

That last one looks particularly enticing.

But the fact remains all we really have is a few throwaway lines included in two moral tales written by the Greek philosopher Plato. Most academics feel this was likely to have been an allegorical warning to the then vibrant city-state of Athens not to turn its back on the gods.

James Cameron’s Atlantis Rising documentary series has been picked up by National Geographic. Picture: Alistair Guthrie

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CAMERON’S TWIST

Oceanic explorer Robert Ballard beat Cameron to the Titanic in 1985. Now Cameron’s attempting to go one better.

“We set out to investigate the most interesting theories that argue that there is some kind of history behind the myth of Atlantis,” Cameron says.

Expedition leader Richard Freund (an archaeologist from the University of Hartford) is more ebullent: “This is the world’s most sophisticated and extensive search ever made.”

The plot sounds familiar.

It’s the most “sophisticated and extensive search ever made”. They use ‘cutting edge technology’ to explore a ‘virtual map’ built from Plato’s ancient writings.

While the show travels throughout Greece, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean tracking ‘sightings’ of Atlantis, much is made of the discovery of a cluster of Bronze Age anchors on the Atlantic side of the Strait of Gibraltar — which some believe to be the “Pillars of Hercules’ Plato states the civilisation was ‘beyond’.

DELVE DEEPER: Does a shipwreck contain Atlantis’ mythical metal?

“These anchors could be 3500 to 4000 years old and establish a harbour in the Atlantic, where I didn’t even dare dream to find anchors,” filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici said in a statement. “It’s easier to find a needle in a haystack than Bronze Age anchors in the Atlantic.”

The fun part will be linking them to Plato’s 4th Century BC writings.

The ancient Minoan civilisation, based on Crete, was an advanced race of ocean-going traders. Snake and bull worshipping goddesses feature prominently among their art.

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ANCHORED IN REALITY?

A map of ancient Santorini found on the wall of a ruined Minoan building, buried deep under volcanic ash.Source:Supplied

Plato mentions Atlantis in his works ‘Temaeus’ and ‘Critas’, but provides only an outline sketch of this mysterious civilisation.

He describes it as an island, formed of concentric rings. At its heart was a great city. It’s inhabitants were half-god and half-human. They were rich in resources and mysterious metals. They were proficient seagoers.

The story goes that, through their greed, they upset the great god fo the sea Poseidon. So he got rid of them through enormous earthquakes and floods.

There is one historic event that fits Plato’s tale remarkably well.

It’s the story of the eruption of the volcano Thera (now called Santorini) in 1650BC.

EXPLORE MORE: Anatomy of ‘Atlantis’ killer volcano revealed

Archaeologists in recent decades have uncovered the remains of an ancient settlement there belonging to the then remarkably advanced Minoan civilisation.

Among the ruins they found a map. It shows a palace on an island in the middle of volcanic caldera.

The fallout of the eruption, and its subsequent tsunamis, are believed to have triggered the collapse of the entire civilisation as it engulfed much of northern Crete.

Into the ruins marched tribes of Greeks - the predecessors of the great nations of Sparta, Corinth and Athens.

So the idea that the disaster that destroyed the Minoans may have somehow wound its way through the centuries down to Plato certainly seems enticing. Though unsubstantiated.

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Alien Base Entrance That The American Gov Doesn't Want You To Know About! Jan 2017, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: January 27, 2017
Location of discovery: Turks And Caicos Islands
Google Earth Coordinates:  21°43'44.66"N 71°48'59.23"W

Hey, this new HP Pavillion computer really kiss @#$. Love it, thanks 54. Google Earth works smoothly with it. Found this with it today.

I found an entrance to an underground base. There is a large circular entrance that goes deep below the ground on the island of Turks and Caicos. Not far from Cuba.

The hole is huge! I mean its 500+ meters across, big enough for the US military to build a submarine base down there. This is massive. 

Now, think of the most isolated place on Earth that could hide an alien base. Are you thinking the ocean...good job, and maybe a isolated small island in the middle of nowhere...great work. Here it is. The alien base entrance that alien don't want you to know about. 
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan

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Black UFO Hides Over Clouds Caught By NASA Space Station Cam, Jan 27, 2017, UFO Sighting Daily.

Date of sighting: January 27, 2017
Location of sighting: NASA/Russia Space Station, ISS

I was watching the live cam and was a bit irritated that they were going to blue screen and glitch screen about 65% of the time this week. Either they are trying to hide UFOs or they are causing their own glitches so they can finally shut down their spy cameras to the public. Yes, the two new cams which the public are not allowed to use can read a license plate of a car anywhere on the planet. 

A dark object passed on the clouds below the space station. The object has openings and was very black, making it easy to spot on top of the white clouds. Its non reflective black, much like a lot of the structures I have found on Earths moon. That is where the USAF got their stealth materials, alien tech. 
Scott C. Waring

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UFO Lights Filmed Over Goodyear, Arizona – January 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 2017

Location of sighting: Goodyear, Arizona, USA

 

A lot of skeptics would say that the lights are on the mountain top. So I added some light to the above photo so you can clearly see, the lights are far above the mountains. The are lined up, as if military formation to watch out for one another. Probably UFOs from the Tall White base at Nellis AFB old firing range. Nice video byTheSkyUFO of Youtube. 

Scott C. Waring

 

Eyewitness states: 

My daughter and I were driving at night in the dark when we noticed 4 lights that looked very bright above the distant mountains. Four of them lined up next to one another from right to left. They stayed stationary for a few moments and then 1 would fly swiftly away from the others leaving 3 in a linear horizontal line before it disappeared. It would spontaneously reappear and then fly above the other 3, move left again and then realign with the other 4 leaving 4 brightly shining in the sky. We also saw a distant airplane but it appeared farther away, higher and with blinking lights. The UFOS we saw were solid bright white/yellow and were brilliant against the night sky. They flew fluidly, and would move great lengths across the sky in an instant, disappearing and reappearing. They were much larger than stars in the sky and brighter than the brightest star. We felt excited and in awe, and happy they would reappear so we could get good pictures and videos. Our neighbors also saw them while out driving. We finally left to go home. We have seen them before in a dark night sky over the Estrella mountains to the East. They are common in this part of Goodyear. We see them several times a year.

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Deleted from Web! UFO Fleet Over Mexico Stops Traffic! Jan 26, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: January 26, 2017
Location of sighting: Mexican Boarder

Here is a mind-blowing video from Tyler of SecureTeam10. He got hold of a video of a fleet of glowing UFOs during the day over Mexico. And Just in time too, because the original was deleted by either its source or government hackers. That happens a lot more than you know. If Tyler hadn't saved this video for us, it would have been lost forever, so click here to subscribe to his Channel and stay up to date on the latest sightings. Mexico is a hotbed of UFO activity and there are a lot of things in the sky their daily, that the world governments don't want you to see. 

Its just amazing to watch this video as traffic almost comes to a stop. You can hear the angry people honking their horns and guys pointing their cameras to the sky. Awesome raw footage. 
Scott C. Waring

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Interesting UFO video from Japan – January 2017

Here’s a new footage of a bright unidentified flying objects hovering in the sky above Japan. This footage was filmed this month (in January 2017).

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U.S. Navy Photo Showing UFO Landing On Aircraft Carrier Is Genuine, Claims Retired Aerospace Engineer

Retired aerospace engineer William Tompkins said a photograph showing a flying saucer that is apparently landing on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck is genuine. Tompkins, who had served leading U.S. corporations for four decades up until 1984, discussed the photo on May 4 in a radio interview.  He stressed that the picture was taken from one of the landings by friendly Nordic extraterrestrial UFOs, which were considered regular incidents on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.

Tompkins career started in 1942 as a Naval Intelligence operative. His duties include giving intelligence briefings to select U.S. aerospace corporations on Nazi Germany’s secret development of anti-gravity spacecraft. To support his claims, he supplied multiple documents as proofs he was assigned to such secret operation and operated out of Naval Air Station in San Diego.

Tompkins said that the extraterrestrial craft would land to get the admiral of the naval battle group and bring him to the mothership in space to hold meetings with commanders of a Nordic Space Navy.

Tomkins explained that the alien craft would go down to talk to the admiral in command on a particular battle group. They would then conduct other programs and meetings. The admiral, together with some other people, would get into the extraterrestrial craft to go to the alien mothership.  These aliens, of course, brought them back later, according to Tompkins. Tompkins further emphasized during the interview that the UFOs landed on their aircraft carriers many times.

Frank Chille, the one who got the photo, shared the story about it.  He said the original photograph that shows the disk landing on the aircraft carrier was shown to him by Graham Bethune over 15 years ago. The photo was on thick paper and the back side it said “U.S. Navy, top secret, eyes only, 1955.” Chille stated that Bethune allowed him to make a copy of it.

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U.S. Navy Photo Showing UFO Landing On Aircraft Carrier Is Genuine, Claims Retired Aerospace Engineer

Retired aerospace engineer William Tompkins said a photograph showing a flying saucer that is apparently landing on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck is genuine. Tompkins, who had served leading U.S. corporations for four decades up until 1984, discussed the photo on May 4 in a radio interview.  He stressed that the picture was taken from one of the landings by friendly Nordic extraterrestrial UFOs, which were considered regular incidents on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers.

Tompkins career started in 1942 as a Naval Intelligence operative. His duties include giving intelligence briefings to select U.S. aerospace corporations on Nazi Germany’s secret development of anti-gravity spacecraft. To support his claims, he supplied multiple documents as proofs he was assigned to such secret operation and operated out of Naval Air Station in San Diego.

Tompkins said that the extraterrestrial craft would land to get the admiral of the naval battle group and bring him to the mothership in space to hold meetings with commanders of a Nordic Space Navy.

Tomkins explained that the alien craft would go down to talk to the admiral in command on a particular battle group. They would then conduct other programs and meetings. The admiral, together with some other people, would get into the extraterrestrial craft to go to the alien mothership.  These aliens, of course, brought them back later, according to Tompkins. Tompkins further emphasized during the interview that the UFOs landed on their aircraft carriers many times.

Frank Chille, the one who got the photo, shared the story about it.  He said the original photograph that shows the disk landing on the aircraft carrier was shown to him by Graham Bethune over 15 years ago. The photo was on thick paper and the back side it said “U.S. Navy, top secret, eyes only, 1955.” Chille stated that Bethune allowed him to make a copy of it.

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Apparent Fleet OF UFOs Photographed Over Telecoms Towers In Mexico

Claims of space aliens intercepting human messages have sparked after a stunning image of apparent green and blue UFOs over a telecommunications tower made the rounds online.

The picture of the towers in Mexico was snapped on May 2, 2006, but only recently made some noise after it was submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for expert analysis.

The unnamed photographer said he was about 800 meters away from the telecommunications towers when he snapped the photo with a long exposure. He claimed that he took other rounds of pictures of the same towers in similar conditions three weeks later, but nothing unusual appeared in them.

Some observers say that it is just lens flares, which typically appear when a camera pointed at bright artificial lights or sunlight that refracts inside the lens, and the light reflection then appears on the printed image.

However, others conclude that these were alien craft wanting to intercept data from the telecommunications towers. They say that one photograph actually shows four glowing green disks recording data and information from those towers. They speculate that the so-called lens flares do not appear in other pictures because the aliens already realized that they had been seen. They further explain that powerful lights below, which some of them contain infrared lights, reveal the UFOs to the camera for a few moments until the aliens altered the shield harmonics to hide them.

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Austin Residents Spot UFOs

Some residents in Austin want to know if a UFO visited their area on Monday night after they recorded a video of a strange airborne object. It appears that they are not alone as many others reported seeing something mysterious in the sky over Texas.

Witness Rachel Jensen believes they are UFOs giving an impressive show in the sky over East Austin. Jensen says that by the time they arrived, they just went up and took off at a tremendous speed.

On Monday night, her roommate saw three lights in a triangle formation coming at him. He then called Jensen outside to check the fantastic aerial event.

Just when Jensen stepped out, she looked to the sky and noticed the triangle that just separated into three. She says there was one object in front and two others behind it. Jensen describes them as bright orange, glowing, and almost fiery.

At one point the two witnesses saw another light. They say it was moving back-and-forth erratically. Jensen grabbed her phone and captured as much of the mysterious light on camera.
After the unusual event, she called Austin 311 to report it.

On the same night, the American Meteor Society also got sighting reports of a fireball over Louisiana and Texas from at least five people.

Meanwhile, Austin Photographer Christopher Sherman captured a stunning photo showing Downtown Austin, but looking closely at it, a long curved light-streak passing through the tree can be seen, and another smaller streak to the left is also visible. The picture was also snapped around the same time Jensen saw strange lights in the sky.

For now, the aerial event in Austin is a mystery.

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Scientists: There is a Mirror Universe where Time moves backwards

Time as we know it is something extremely complex that according to many researchers around to globe, isn’t fully understood. We, humans, experience time in one direction meaning that we all get older, we remember our past but we cannot look at the future. However, nothing in the known laws of physics tells us that time MUST move forward.

Among other theories, some suggest the Big Bang was not the beginning of the universe and that we may be living in the past of a parallel universe.

In order to try and solve the biggest mystery of all, two separate groups of prominent scientists are creating models that are able to examine the initial conditions in the universe that might have created what we call ‘arrow of time’. Interestingly, both groups seem to show time moving in two different directions, a contradictory finding according to many researchers around the globe.

Scientists believe that when the Big Bang created our universe, it also created a second ‘mirror universe’ where time actually moves in the opposite direction. Looking at it from our perspective, time in the parallel universe moves backwards. However, ‘anyone’ inside the parallel universe would perceive our universe’s time as if it were moving backwards:

The first model which was published over a year ago in Physical Review Letters tells us that one of the most basic implications proposed in Newton’s theory of gravity creates the necessary conditions for time as we know it to move in a certain direction.

According to Julian Barbour from the University of Oxford, Tim Koslowski from the University of New Brunswick and Flavio Mercati from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, for any confined system of particles—a self-contained universe like the one we live for example—gravity creates a point when the distance between particles is reduced to a minimum. But, when the particles expand outwards, it occurs into different temporal directions, researchers argue.

According to quartz.com, Barbour and his colleagues created a simplified 1,000 particle point model of the universe showing this dual expansion, with gravity creating structure in both directions.

According to the Second Law of thermodynamics, systems like that converge and expand by necessity explains, Flavio Mercati.

According to researchers, the moment before the ‘expansion’ is referred to as the “Janus Point”.

In an interview with Quartz.com, Barbour explains “Time is not something that pre-exists.”

“The direction and flow of time we have to deduce from what’s happening in the universe. When we look at it that way, it’s natural to say that time begins at that central point and flows away in opposite directions.”

To simplify the explanations, Barbour compares the so-called Janus Point to the moment a river splits in two and flows in opposite directions.

“It’s the simplest thing,” he says. “You start at that central Janus point where the motion is chaotic –that’s like the Greek notion of primordial chaos—but then in both directions you get this structure forming. If the theory is right, then there’s another universe on the other side of the big bang in which the direction of experience of time is opposite to ours.”

While the above-mentioned theory isn’t accepted by all researchers, it did create excitement in the scientific community, what led towards more scientists exploring the theory.

Now, a new study, reported by popular website New Scientist suggest that two other researchers, —Sean Carroll from California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and Alan Guth from Massachusetts Institute of Technology— have come up with a similar model that demonstrates time moving in both directions, in ‘parallel universes.

Even though their study remains unpublished, the two researchers agree that their theory is, even more, simplified than that proposed by Barbour and his team since their study does not rely on gravity or particles confined in another system. According to reports, the study proposed by Carroll and Guth is based on the concept of entropy alone and does not include any other preconditions, meaning that it applies to particles in ‘infinite space’ rather than self-contained systems as in previous studies.

“We call it the two-headed arrow of time,” Guth tells the New Scientist. “Because the laws of physics are invariant, we see exactly the same thing in the other direction.”

The theory, however, is far from being accepted in the scientific community as reports suggest. According to New Scientist, there are initial stages in the model where the direction of entropy growth—and so the arrow of time—is not clearly defined, and so difficult to account for.

Barbour added that the work is being based on everything we know about classic physics.

Once questions of quantum physics are introduced, “all bets are still off.” He adds:

“Instead of having two streams emanating from a river, it could be more like a fountain where you have lots of pairs of springs. Or just a whole host of springs flowing out of a fountain in different directions.”

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Meteorite Studies Reveal Surprises About Earth's Formation

Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite on Jan. 9, 2017.

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Scientists now have a better understanding of three concepts regarding the early Earth: what kind of raw materials coalesced to form Earth long ago, when water arrived on our planet, and why Earth and its moon have such similar compositions. 

Two studies published Wednesday (Jan. 25) in the journal Nature suggest that Earth's main building blocks were rocks similar to meteorites known as enstatite chondrites, and that the planet got most of its water gradually during the formation process, rather than in one big burst toward the end.

"The results presented in these papers lead to the troubling conclusion that the meteorites in our collection are not particularly good examples of Earth's building blocks," Richard Carlson, a geochemist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., wrote in a commentary article that accompanied the two studies in Nature. (Carlson was not involved in either study.) [Photo Timeline: How the Earth Formed]

When did water come to Earth?

Scientists have known since the 1970s that Earth rocks' oxygen-isotope abundance differs from that of most meteorites, except for enstatite chondrites, Carlson wrote. (variants of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons in their atomic nuclei.)

But Earth rocks and enstatite meteorites differ in elemental composition, so most researchers have used Earth-formation models based on different meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites, which are rich in volatiles (compounds with low boiling points, such as water), he added. 

By tracking different isotopic abundances in Earth rocks and meteorites, both new Nature studies concluded that carbonaceous-chondrite-like building blocks were not common late in the Earth's formation history. 

Section of the enstatite chondrite meteorite Sahara 97096. Throughout its formation, Earth accreted material that was isotopically most similar to this group of enstatite meteorites. The dimensions of the section are 10 centimeters by 4 centimeters (4 inches by 1.6 inches).

Credit: Nicolas Dauphas

Specifically, one of the studies — by University of Chicago geochemist Nicolas Dauphas — suggested that several different meteorite types were likely responsible for the first 60 percent of Earth's growth, while almost all of the remaining 40 percent came from enstatite chondrites. 

The second study, performed by Mario Fischer-Gödde and Thorsten Kleine of the University of Münster in Germany, bolstered that conclusion, showing that enstatite-like rocks probably dominated Earth's late accretion history.  

These findings indicate that water came to Earth throughout the planet's formation history, and not just in a flurry of carbonaceous chondrites and/or comets near the end, as some researchers have proposed, Carlson wrote.

"If the last 0.5 percent of material accreted by Earth had been composed of a particular type of volatile-rich carbonaceous chondrite, known as a CI chondrite, an amount of water equivalent in mass to Earth’s oceans would have been added to the planet," he wrote. "Fischer-Gödde and Kleine's measurements instead show that this late-accreted material consisted of relatively 'dry' enstatite chondrites."

However, this conclusion still leaves a question: Why doesn't Earth's surface composition match that of enstatite chondrites? Carlson suggested two possible explanations: Earth's deep interior is very different from the surface (which is unlikely for a variety of reasons, he wrote), or, as Dauphas suggested in his paper, the enstatite chondrites were altered on Earth's surface as the planet evolved.

Why is the moon so similar to Earth?

Dauphas' study also sheds light on how the moon formed. Most astronomers think that, long ago, one or more Mars-size bodies smashed into the proto-Earth, blasting out material that eventually coalesced to form the moon. 

Models suggest that such giant impacts likely would have created a moon whose composition was different from Earth's, because proto-Earth and the impactor(s) likely would have been made of different stuff. But measurements of Earth, the moon and enstatite meteorites "have almost indistinguishable isotopic compositions," Dauphas wrote in his new study.

The apparent problem can be traced to older models that suggest a diversity of meteorites formed Earth, Dauphas added. His research, on the other hand, indicates that the proto-Earth and the moon-forming impactor(s) probably formed in the same "isotopic reservoir," which was dominated by enstatite chondrites.

"Accordingly, the giant impactor that formed the moon probably had an isotopic composition similar to that of the Earth, hence relaxing the constraints on models of lunar formation," Dauphas wrote.

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