
Photo via Superintendency of the Sea, Sicily
Fabled 'Atlantis Alloy' Recovered in Greater Numbers From Ancient Shipwreck
The newly found ingots of orichalcum come in addition to a cache of bars that were originally recovered in 2015 from the same shipwreck, making up a unique stockpile.
Legendarisch metaal ‘afkomstig van Atlantis’ gevonden in scheepswrak

Voor de kust van Sicilië is in een 2600 jaar oud scheepswrak opnieuw orichalcum aangetroffen, een zeldzame legering die in verband wordt gebracht met het legendarische eiland Atlantis. Dat schrijft Seeker.
Het wrak, dat dateert van 600 voor Christus, werd in 2015 ook al onderzocht. Onderwaterarcheologen troffen toen 39 stukken orichalcum aan.
Gezegd wordt dat het erg lijkt op messing. Filosoof Plato beschreef het als een zeldzaam metaal dat werd vervaardigd in Atlantis.
Plato beschreef een tempel voor Poseidon met een pilaar die geheel uit orichalcum bestond. In het computerspel Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis komt het ook voorbij.
De stukken metaal bestaan uit zink, houtskool en koper. Oorspronkelijk werd de legering gemaakt van koper, goud en zilver.
Of het metaal uit dit scheepswrak daadwerkelijk afkomstig is van Atlantis of niet, het is hoe dan ook een vreemde en zeldzame ontdekking.
“Volgens één theorie was het [metaal] bedoeld als een offer aan de goden,” zei archeoloog Sebastiano Tusa. Hij vermoedt dat het schip is gezonken tijdens een storm.
Het wrak is op enkele honderden meters van de stad Gela gevonden op een diepte van zo’n drie meter. In hetzelfde gebied liggen nog twee andere scheepswrakken.
Nooit eerder is het mysterieuze metaal in zulke grote hoeveelheden aangetroffen. Volgens de Griekse mythologie is orichalcum uitgevonden door Kadmos, de eerste koning van de stad Thebe.
[Seeker]
Mysterieus object gespot op bodem van Grote Oceaan

Op de bodem van de Grote Oceaan is een vreemd object gespot dat zich langzaam verplaatst. Het object bevindt zich op een diepte van zo’n 1000 meter en heeft een doorsnee van 4000 meter.
Sommigen hebben gespeculeerd dat het kunstmatig is, omdat het voor de kust van Californië een kilometers lang ‘spoor’ heeft achtergelaten, meldt het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
Het object is door SecureTeam10 ontdekt op Google Earth. “Je ziet hier hele vreemde lijnen die haast doen vermoeden dat een groot voertuig zich over de zeebodem heeft verplaatst,” zei groepslid Tyler.
“Sommige sporen lijken in de bodem te zijn gegraven en hebben hun eigen schaduw,” voegde hij toe. “Het lijken geen beeldartefacten te zijn.”
Tyler suggereert dat het object het werk zou kunnen zijn van intelligente aliens. “Bepaalde gebieden in de oceaan zijn onherkenbaar gemaakt,” zei hij.
Volgens hem is de diepzee voor een ander ras of een andere groep wezens de beste plek om zich te verbergen.
“Terwijl we de hele dag naar de lucht staren en ons afvragen wat daar is, is 90 procent van de oceanen nog niet verkend,” zei hij.
Sommigen reageerden sceptisch op de vondst. “Je kijkt hier naar een algoritme dat is toegepast op dieptegegevens,” reageerde iemand. “Dit zijn geen foto’s van de zeebodem die we hier zien op Google Earth.”
Volgens een ander gaat het hier om tektonische scheuren. “De sporen zijn waarschijnlijk gevormd door onderzeese stromingen. De ronde vorm is ontstaan als gevolg van erosie,” klonk het.
[Sputniknews]
Oud-president Bush houdt kaken stijf op elkaar over UFO-files: “Ik zeg helemaal niets”

Door de jaren heen zijn er veel Amerikaanse presidenten en presidentskandidaten geweest die iets hebben gezegd over UFO’s.
President Truman zei bijvoorbeeld op televisie dat het onderwerp vaak aan bod kwam tijdens vergaderingen.
Daarnaast zijn er vele duizenden geheime UFO-stukken vrijgegeven en hebben honderden klokkenluiders zich uitgesproken over het fenomeen.
De Amerikaanse tv-presentator Jimmy Kimmel vroeg zowel de Clintons als Obama wat zij weten over UFO’s. Deze week legde hij die vraag ook voor aan oud-president George W. Bush.
Die weigerde ook maar iets te zeggen over geheime overheidsdocumenten over UFO’s.
Op de vraag of hij als president UFO-stukken onder ogen had gekregen, antwoordde Bush: “Misschien. Het grappige is dat mijn dochters mij diezelfde vraag hebben gesteld.”
Kimmel vroeg of Bush zijn dochters mocht vertellen wat er in de stukken stond. “Nee,” antwoordde de oud-president resoluut.
“Nu je niet langer president bent kun je doen en laten wat je maar wilt toch?” reageerde Kimmel.
“Klopt,” zei Bush. “Maar ik ga je helemaal niets vertellen.”
Bekijk het fragment hieronder terug:
[Newsmax]
NU OOK GROOT MOEDERSCHIP EN DIMENSIEPORTAAL BIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO )
NU OOK GROOT MOEDERSCHIP EN DIMENSIEPORTAAL BIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO )

Naast een toename van UFO waarnemingen wereldwijd zijn er ook steeds meer verschijningen die lijken te wijzen op bepaalde portalen.
Eerder deze week werd weer duidelijk dat ze soms voor komen als een soort grote vermomde onweerswolk waarbij je overal bliksemschichten ziet en als je geluk hebt UFO’s die in en uit die wolk vliegen.
Een teken dat wij in bijzondere tijden leven, is toch wel dat mensen nu dingen waarnemen die eigenlijk niet of misschien heel sporadisch voor kwamen.
Enkele dagen geleden hadden een paar mensen die vroeg op weg waren naar een strand in de Amerikaanse staat Californië ook een vreemde gewaarwording. Het was nog donker toen ze op pad gingen om te gaan surfen en opeens zagen ze iets vreemds in de lucht.
Het was geen “normale” UFO, maar een soort opening in de nachthemel, van waaruit een licht tevoorschijn komt dat naar beneden straalde.
Het zag er ongeveer als volgt uit:


Het vreemde licht bleef een tijdje hangen, maar verdween dan ook op een gegeven moment volkomen in het niets zonder ook maar een spoor achter te laten.
In de volgende video zijn na enkele minuten bewegende beelden te zien en hoor je de verbaasde stemmen van de mensen in de auto wanneer het licht plotsklaps weer volledig verdwijnt.
Wanneer UFO’s inderdaad door de ruimte reizen en gebruikmaken van dimensieportalen, dan kunnen ze onmetelijke afstanden afleggen waarbij in aardse tijd misschien maar enkele minuten verstrijken.
Als dit zo is, dan zou je ook natuurlijk ook dimensieportalen verwachten op andere plaatsen dan alleen bij onze aarde. En het lijkt alsof we op onze wenken worden bediend door het universum, want iets dergelijks deed zich afgelopen week voor bij onze zon.
Al heel lang schrijven wij over dat daar regelmatig (grote) ruimteschepen worden waargenomen en ook nu is dat weer het geval.
Alleen dit keer is er ook duidelijk zo’n dimensieportaal zichtbaar zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding.

In de buurt van de zon is een enorm moederschip, met daarnaast een dimensieportaal en een aantal kleinere UFO’s. Dat moederschip is enorm en zou waarschijnlijk in staat zijn om een fors deel van de aardbewoners te huisvesten.
Hebben we hier te maken met een buitenaardse reddingsmissie die klaarstaat om straks in een oogwenk een deel van de mensheid te evacueren? Die via een dimensieportaal en de kleinere UFO’s her en der mensen zou kunnen oppikken op aarde en ze via het dimensieportaal in een oogwenk naar het moederschip transporteren?
NASA PETST COMPLEET GEBOUW OP MARS VAN FOTO
NASA PETST COMPLEET GEBOUW OP MARS VAN FOTO

De planeet Mars is niet bepaald naast de deur en daarom kan het publiek nog niet zelf even een kijkje nemen op de beroemde “rode planeet”.
Dit betekent dat NASA de bevolking voor kan spiegelen wat ze willen, behalve als ze betrapt worden bij het wegpoetsen van een compleet gebouw.
Mensen die nog steeds geloven dat instanties zoals NASA ons echt wel de waarheid vertellen en dat die aluhoedjes iedere keer dingen zien die er niet zijn, willen wij graag het volgende voorleggen:
Wat als er nu een foto is van NASA uit 2013, genomen door één van de NASA rovers op Mars, waarop duidelijk een gebouw is te zien?
Het gaat om een zwart/wit foto die is genomen op 6 september 2013 en waarop je in de verte duidelijk een soort (flat)gebouw ziet staan, achter de heuvels.

Wanneer je wat verder inzoomt, dan wordt duidelijk dat daar iets staat wat niet anders omschreven kan worden dan als een constructie, een gebouw.

Wie de originele foto wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen. Dan wordt er enkele jaren later opnieuw een foto gemaakt van hetzelfde gebied op Mars en de datum op de foto is dan 11 februari 2017.
Dit keer is het een kleurenfoto en ziet er als volgt uit.

En wanneer we hier wat inzoomen, dan blijkt opeens het gebouw uit de foto van enkele jaren geleden te zijn verdwenen.

Wie deze originele foto wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen. Er bestaat geen enkele twijfel over de locatie en er bestaat ook geen enkele twijfel over dat er in de zwart/wit foto’s een soort gebouw is te zien. Ook in het geval het gebouw op de slooplijst heeft gestaan.... iemand heeft het dan dus gesloopt, Mars is dan bewoond en dat weet NASA dan ook.
En toch? Wij zijn degenen ze zien vliegen en de mainstream media en de politiek zullen zich nooit eens achter de oren krabben en zich afvragen hoe dit kan?
Als er op het ene moment iets staat en het volgende moment niet meer, dan betekent dat simpelweg dat er wordt geknoeid met foto’s door NASA. Dat betekent dat wanneer ze dat met bovenstaande opnames doen, ze dit veel vaker doen. Dit betekent dat ze tegen ons liegen.
Iemand die dat ook bevestigt, is Donna Hare. Zij heeft in het verleden voor NASA gewerkt en in de volgende video hoor je haar uitleggen hoe het werkt bij bij deze ruimtevaartorganisatie.
Donna spreekt dan over foto’s waar UFO’s op voor komen en die door het personeel van NASA vakkundig worden weggepoetst. Hoe mensen die daar werken als de dood zijn om te praten, omdat ze dan niet alleen hun werk zullen verliezen, maar ook hun pensioen.
Waarom wordt al het bovenstaande systematisch genegeerd door de mainstream media en de politiek? Bewijst dat niet dat ook zij net zo corrupt en doortrapt zijn als NASA? Bewijst dat niet dat journalisten van de mainstream media geen onderzoek doen zoals ze be weren wel te doen, maar neerpennen wat hen wordt opgedragen?
En zij moeten degenen zijn die bepalen wat de waarheid is?
Jimmy Kimmel Asks George Bush The Big Question, Do Aliens Exist? March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Moon Size UFO Shoots Out Of Our Sun, But NASA Wont Tell You About It, March 4, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFOs Show Up On National TV Show 48 Hours, March 4, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Abduction - A True Story (with photos of the crafts)UFO Abduction - A True Story (with photos of the crafts)
On a crisp spring night, Bill left his home to take a closer look at the eerie bright object hovering over the electrical lines near the Charleston Air Force Base...four hours later he was dazed, frightened, confused and standing in a field miles from his home.
Months earlier he had taken remarkable photographs of a disc-shaped craft that had intruded into military airspace near the base, prompting inordinate interest from the military and a "credentialed UFO investigator" who, in fact, was an imposter. Naively, Bill agreed to a hastily contrived polygraph unaware that the imposter intended to use drugs as a catalyst for the answers.
Harassment and surveillance from an unknown source entered his life and the lives of those around him, including the witnesses that collaborated his story and the international team that was now investigating the case.
Hypnotic regression was his only key to piecing the puzzle together, dramatically revealing...who the abductors are...where they come from...and why they have come to earth.
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All Herrmann's best photos, diagrams and sketches here:
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EXPOSED! HUGE BUILDING ON MARS ERASED FROM CURIOSITY IMAGE
MAVEN-ruimtesonde voorkomt botsing met maantje Phobos
Tim Kraaijvanger

Magnetisch schild moet Mars beschermen én terravormen
Tim Kraaijvanger

13,000 Year Old Satellite Orbiting Earth Sending Radio Signals – (BLACK KNIGHT)
Some of you may be familiar with the “Black Knight” satellite, and some may not; however, all the facts relative to it will be presented in the article below.
The “Black Knight” is much more than just some urban legend. It’s an artificial satellite, which can be seen on NASA’s official site. It’s often categorized as space junk, but its origins have remained a puzzle for astronomers to date.
The world first heard of the “Black Knight” in 1954, three years before Russia launched the Earth’s first satellite – Sputnik 1.
On Friday, May 14, 1954, a number of newspapers reported of a retired Marine Corps Major Donald E. Keyhoe, who stated that one or two artificial satellites were orbiting the Earth. The Major also stated that efforts were being made by U.S. Government scientists at White Sands, NM, to locate them and determine their origin.
The images below show coverage of the story by two national papers – the St. Louis Dispatch and the San Francisco Examiner.
The story didn’t end here as on August 23, 1954, Aviation Week magazine also reported of two satellites orbiting the Earth at 400 and 600 miles out. Although the magazine reported of natural satellites, this was later proved to be virtually impossible. No such natural satellites were ever claimed later on.
According to Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, an expert on extraterrestrial bodies from the University of New Mexico, and the identification project’s lead, one of the satellites is orbiting about 400 miles out, while the other one 600 miles from the Earth. It was a general opinion, including Pentagon’s, that the Russians had beaten the U.S. in space explorations.
The Defense Department hired Clyde Tombaugh, the scientists who discovered Pluto, to look for the mystery object.
The Black Knight was also included in a Pepsi commercial:
20 Facts about the Black Knight Satellite. The Black Knight wiki.
The “Black Night” has been a hot media topic for more than half a century. It’s actually one of the most covered space objects of all time. This artificial satellite has attracted public attention all over the world for decades now also because at one point it was actually believed to be a Russian spy satellite.
These are some interesting facts about the “Black Night”:
The Black knight satellite has been transmitting radio signals for over 50 years now according to monitoring agencies around the world.
The USA and Soviet Union are particularly interested in this “unidentified space object”.
It’s alleged that after building a high-voltage radio device in Colorado Springs, Nikola Tesla was the first man to “intercept” a signal from the black knight satellite in 1899.
Astronomers worldwide have been reporting strange radio signals supposedly coming from the “Black Knight” since the 1930′s.
In 1957, it was photographed by Dr. Luis Corralos of the Communications Ministry in Venezuela while taking pictures of Sputnik II as it passed over Caracas.
The Black Knight first got media coverage in the 1940′s when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th 1954.
On March 7, 1960, the Time Magazinewrote about the Black Knight Satellite.
In 1957, an unknown “object”, which was in Polar orbit, was seen “shadowing” the Sputnik 1 Spacecraft.
Neither the US, not Russia had the technology to maintain a spacecraft in Polar Orbit in 1957.
The first Polar-orbiting satellite was launched in 1960.
Polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites, which classifies the Black Knight as an observational Satellite.
In the 1960′s the Black Knight satellite was located once again in Polar Orbit. According to astronomers and scientists, the object weighed over 10 tons, meaning it was the heaviest artificial satellite to orbit the Earth at the time.
The Black Knight’s orbit was different from any other object orbiting Earth.
This mysterious “satellite” was given a lot of importance by the Grumman Aircraft Corporation. On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation’s Long Island factory took a photograph of the Black Knight satellite.
A committee was set up by the Grumman Aircraft Corporation to study the data received from the observations. However, none of the data has been published.
In 1963, Gordon Cooper was launched into space. When he was on his final orbit, he reported seeing a glowing green object in front of his capsule moving towards his Spacecraft. This unidentified object was picked up on Radar traveling east to west by the Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported the object to.
The Ham Radio operator allegedly decoded a series of signals received from the UFO Satellite, which was interpreted as a star chart centered on the Epsilon Bootes Star System.
Decoded message indicated that the Black Knight satellite originated from the Epsilon Bootes Star System 13.000 years ago.
A story about the Black Knight Satellite was published by the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technologyon August 23, 1954. Pentagon was angered by this and tried to keep the story undercover.
Official images showing the Black Knight Satellite have been released by NASA.
Earth's Mantle Is More Than 100 Degrees F Hotter Than Scientists Thought
How hot are Earth's scorching insides? A sweltering 2,570 degrees Fahrenheit (1,410 degrees Celsius), a new study finds.
The discovery reveals that the mantle under Earth's oceans — the area just below the crust that extends down to the planet's inner liquid core — is almost 110 degrees F (60 degrees C) hotter than scientists previously thought, the researchers said. The finding will help scientists more accurately model Earth's many geodynamic processes, including plate tectonics, they said.
"Having such a hot mantle could mean that the mantle is less viscous (flows more easily), which could explain how tectonic plates are able to move on top of the asthenosphere," the upper layer of Earth's mantle, said study lead researcher Emily Sarafian, a doctoral student in the Geology and Geophysics Department at a joint program run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. [Photo Timeline: How the Earth Formed]
The temperature's effect on the asthenosphere isn't very different from that of hot temperatures on honey, she said.
"If you put honey in the fridge for an hour, it will barely flow when you take it out," Sarafian said in an email to Live Science. "If, instead, you put honey on the stovetop, it will flow very easily, because it's hotter."
There are many clues that the mantle under Earth's oceans is blazing hot. For instance, it generates the lava that bursts out of underwater volcanoes. However, for obvious reasons, scientists can't travel to the mantle and directly measure the temperature at which it melts.
Instead, scientists create mantle rocks in laboratories by combining powders of mineral building blocks, Sarafian said.
"Once they have a synthetic mantle rock, they then subject the rock to mantle pressures and temperatures to determine the temperature at which the rock melts at a given pressure," she said. By increasing the temperature in small intervals and at different pressures, scientists can note exactly when their synthetic mantle rock melts — a condition known as mantle solidus.
But there's a major problem with this experiment: water.
Mantle rocks contain a small amount of water, but it's incredibly challenging to ensure that the correct amount of water is in these laboratory samples, Sarafian said. Moreover, the atmosphere contains water, "so your experiments are adsorbing some unknown amount of water, and they aren't completely dry," she said.
Scientists are aware of this problem, "but they were never able to quantify how much water was in their experiments because the mineral grains that grow during an experimental run at mantle pressures and temperatures are way too small to measure with current analytical techniques," Sarafian said.
Understandably, scientists need to account for water in these experiments, as water in rocks can lower the rocks' melting temperature. In the past, researchers opted to do their experiments on dry synthetic rock, and then mathematically add water to the equation, she said.
But, as Sarafian and her colleagues later found out, because of the water in the atmosphere, these "dry" experiments were not actually dry; rather they contained roughly the same amount of water that is in the mantle, she said. Thus, correcting the results by mathematically adding water was unnecessary and made the results inaccurate.
A mineral called olivine helped Sarafian and her colleagues solve the puzzle another way. Olivine grains are about the size of fine sand, and large enough that researchers can accurately measure water within the grains. In addition, olivine is a good candidate because it occurs naturally in the mantle, Sarafian said.
"We performed melting experiments the same way that previous scientists did, putting a synthetic rock to high pressure and temperatures, but by adding these grains to our experiments, we were giving ourselves a target that was large enough to analyze for water content," she said. [50 Interesting Facts About Earth]
Conveniently, the sample ended up having the same amount of water as the mantle does, Sarafian said. This meant they didn't have to use any equations to correct their data, she said.
Their results suggested that the mantle melts when it is relatively close to the Earth's surface. That runs counter to another recent finding, which showed that the mantle actually melts deep beneath the Earth's surface.
"This had to mean that the accepted mantle temperature estimate was too low, and actually, the mantle is 60 [degrees] C (about 110 F) hotter," Sarafian said. "That's a very significant jump!"
The discovery is "an appreciable correction" for the temperature of the mantle under the ocean, Paul Asimow, a professor of geology and geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology who was not involved with the study, wrote in an accompanying commentary in the journal Science.
The finding "will change interpretations of geophysical observations of the asthenosphere worldwide," Asimow wrote.
The study and commentary were published online today (March 2) in the journal Science.
Original article on Live Science.
NASA Spacecraft Avoids Collision with Martian Moon Phobos
Close call! NASA's Mars-orbiting spacecraft shifted course this week to avoid a future collision with Mars' dark moon Phobos.
The MAVEN spacecraft — short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN — has been orbitng Mars for more than two years, monitoring the Red Planet's atmosphere. On Feb. 28, it performed a rocket motor burn to speed up just a little bit and change trajectories to avoid crossing paths with Phobos, NASA officials said in a statement. The total speedup was just 0.4 meters per second, which is less than 1 mile per hour.
Researchers noticed that Phobos and MAVEN had a chance of colliding March 6. That gave them a week of advance notice in order to pull off the small maneuver to avoid a crash. Now, the two will miss each other by about 2.5 minutes (before, their orbits were crossing the same point within just 7 seconds of each other). This is the first time the spacecraft has moved to avoid encountering Phobos, officials said in the statement. [Mars Photos from NASA's MAVEN Probe]

"Kudos to the [Jet Propulsion Laboratory] navigation and tracking teams for watching out for possible collisions every day of the year, and to the MAVEN spacecraft team for carrying out the maneuver flawlessly," Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator and researcher at the University of Colorado in Boulder, said in the statement.
Phobos is a lumpy, asteroid-size moon orbiting very close to Mars, streaked with stretch-mark grooves. Phobos and its slightly smaller sister moon Deimos are both dark gray, which makes them among the least reflective objects in the solar system. Phobos has been moving closer to Mars over time and is destined for an eventual descent into the planet — one collision that moon won't avoid.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her @SarahExplains. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
One of the Best Explanations For Why We Haven’t Found Alien Life

So far, the only examples of sentient life we’ve found are right here on our own planet. It’s not for lack of trying, though—we’ve sent out spacecraft deep into our solar system and, so far, still remain alone. What if the problem isn’t where we are looking, though, but when?
A forthcoming study in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticlelooks at the possibility that life as we know it may not require a star similar to our sun but could emerge on planets orbiting much smaller, weaker stars. If we do allow for the possibility of life around non-sunlike stars, then it turns out that the universe is likely to be much more habitable in the distant future than it is today.
“It’s natural for us to think that we are the most common form of life, simply because that’s the only one that we know of,” lead author of the paper, Harvard University’s Avi Loeb, told Gizmodo. “Therefore, people assumed that being next to star like the sun was the most likely place for life to emerge.”
If you throw out the assumption that we need a sun-like star, though, then there’s a whole new class of stars—smaller and less powerful than the sun, but far more common—that suddenly start to look like good candidates. They’re called low mass stars.
Although these stars throw out less light and heat than our powerful sun, they still emit enough to create potentially habitable zones that could support liquid water on close-orbiting rocky planets. Not only are these types of stars more common in the universe than sun-like stars, but they also have much considerably longer lifespans of more than 1,000 times that of the sun.
Using this information, Loeb calculated that it was much more likely for life to have emerged in the distant future around one of those low mass stars than to have emerged in our time on a sun-orbiting planet like Earth.
“If you allow low mass stars to have life, just like we find here on Earth, then the probability of life emerging in the future 10 trillion years from now is one thousand times bigger to find life,” noted Loeb.
Proxima Centauri, a low mass star just four light years away from us
(Image: ESA/Hubble/NASA)
And yet, we are not orbiting a low mass star, trillions of years in the future. We are here and now, orbiting our Sun—and this is the only place we’ve ever found sentient life. That suggests an intriguing explanation. Perhaps we are simply searching way too soon.
In other words, we may be alone in the universe right now. But that’s only because we showed up long before life really started to get going. If this hypothesis is the correct one, then the real explosion of life in the universe hasn’t yet happened—and likely won’t happen for trillions of years after us.
There’s also a second, alternate explanation that would account for all the facts. Perhaps there’s something about low mass stars which, even in zones that are technically habitable, suppresses life from ever forming.
“We still keep the notion that, perhaps, we are at the center of the biological universe, that we are really the only ones or special in that regard, or in terms of intelligence,” Loeb said. “If it turns out that we are rare and early on in the game then that would be really surprising to me because, so far, whenever we look we have found that we are not special and we are not the center of the universe.”
Figuring out which of these two possibilities are correct hinges on the question of whether low mass stars can indeed support life. We won’t necessarily have to wait several trillions of years to find out, though. Instead, Loeb suggests that the answers could be found in the next decade or so.
By sampling the atmospheres of planets around nearby low mass stars, researchers can search for biomarkers that would suggest whether these planets are capable of supporting life. If they keep finding atmospheres devoid of signs that they are capable of supporting life, then it’s likely that something about these low mass stars—perhaps their frequent solar flares or some other attribute—renders the planets orbiting them sterile.
If, however, they find that these planets do appear able to support life then it may be that the lack of other life in the universe is simply because we showed up too soon to see any of it.
Source gizmodo.com
Grey Aliens: Where are they from?

About the Greys
First, I will stop referring to the grey skinned, short alien as a “Zeta”. The name was derived from the starmap shown to Betty Hill during her abduction which was later believed to show the star system Zeta Reticuli. Betty has vehemently denied that her encounter was with this type of being.
Almost everything that we know about the Greys comes from people who have been abducted by them, or with their help. Some of this information is from hypnosis therapy, but a good deal of it is from actual memories.
Although there have been over 50 different kinds of aliens reported and cataloged in abduction scenarios, the Greys have been the most common since about 1980. Greys have been witnessed working with almost all of the other species. They are usually the beings that do the actual abduction, moving their victims to locations where the other types of aliens perform tests and conduct interviews.

Greys are about 4 to 4 1/2 feet tall, have no hair, unusually large heads (especially the cranium) and pointed jaws. Their mouths are very small and seldom move. Their noses are either extremely small by human comparison or completely missing, with two small holes showing. But perhaps the signature feature of Greys are their two large, almond shaped, black eyes.
People always remark that the body of Greys is extremely thin. They appear to have no striated muscles on their arms or legs. Their necks are so thin that it is often remarked that they shouldn’t support such a large head, yet they do. Their arms are longer than humans, ending below their knees, and they have hands with only four fingers of differing lengths.
The physical descriptions of Greys is always consistent when recalled by abductees. They also report that Greys are capable of limited telepathic communication — mostly reassuring their victims that “Everything will be fine”. They seem able to put humans into a trance by staring at them and it is often reported that “they read my soul”, referring to their ability to scan the mind of their victims.
You will notice that I am using the word “victims” here, since the abductees are most often taken against their will, traumatized by painful examinations and surgical procedures, and left with mental and physical damage. Indeed, their reassurance that everything will be “fine” is the first of many deceptions.
Have YOU been abducted?
You might think this is a foolish question but it’s not. A recent survey conducted by the Roper Organization asked American subjects certain questions designed to reveal abductees. Their results showed that, back in 1998, 1 of every 50 subjects had experienced an alien abduction. Typically, abductions are on-going and often begin in childhood.
According to Dr. Karla Turner, who has worked with over 400 abduction cases and has written the book “Into the Fringe”, the abduction phenomena includes some of the following details:

“I’ve come away from this experience convinced of one thing: if there aren’t demons out there, there might as well be, because these guys are indistinguishable from demons. Indistinguishable. To see them, to look into their eyes, is to be less — forever…”
— Whitley Strieber (MUFON Journal, Sept. 93)
Good and Bad Greys
OK. That’s pretty bad stuff — and very frightening. But it gets worse. So let’s get all the bad stuff out in the open before we explore the good side of Greys. The following is a well known conspiracy theory about a secret base where humans (military) and Greys work together. Apparently the Greys have the upper hand as you will see in this eye-witness account of what happened when their secret underground dwelling was accidentally disturbed.
We have no way of knowing if the accounts of Grey activity at Dulce, New Mexico are true. Even the local people are a bit paranoid about what lies under the nearby mountains. Strange lights are often seen and some ranchers have reported seeing steam coming from air vents in the valleys. It’s almost sure thatsomething is under the earth — but whatever it is must be very secret.
Harvesting Souls?
Nigel Kerner has written books describing the Greys as a race of biologic robots, created long ago by some superior civilization that they outlived. Although they are self-aware, Greys are like the Tin Man in the Wizzard of Oz — only instad of a heart, Greys need our souls. Kerner describes the abduction phenomenon in terms of a “Harvest” where potential human candidates are examined and nurtured for that moment when they will have their spirit essence transferred to a waiting Grey.
This theory has some interesting support from social scientists who open our eyes to cultural trends that can only be described as pure “evil.” The widespread introduction of materialism, free pornography and secularism seem to have no other reward but to destroy personal integrity and morality. Poverty also enslaves the population and destroys the family structure. All these trends diminish our spiritual strength making our souls vulnerable and ripe for the harvest. And all these cultural shifts could well be the fruit of abductions and implanted ideologies.
As crazy as these theories sound, the abduction phenomenon is itself crazy, but very real. We should not easily dismiss the association of Greys with the underworld, decpetion and evil. “By way of deception thou shall do war.”
Next up… the other side of Greys
Next we’ll take a look at the side of Greys that some people consider beneficial to humans. We’ll see how they interact with some people to reveal future events and help our species. We’ll also see that all Greys are not alike. And some Greys are trying to correct the harm that has been inflicted on humans by their own race.
After the horrific stories of what humans have endured, and continue to endure in abductions, it seems an uphill battle to portray the Greys as benevolent and altruistic. Yet that is what many people believe. Their argument deserves consideration but requires a serious upgrade in our concept of good intentions and wise intervention.
Us and Them
Let’s get off planet Earth for a moment and consider the unimaginable vastness of the universe and its possibilities. Countless inhabited planets have evolved with intelligent life capable of technologies and philosophies that are thousands, millions or even billions of years ahead of what we understand. In this scenario we, humans, are part of the mix. We too are aliens.
While an extrateresstrial species visiting our planet must have the prerequisite understanding of the “big picture”, we don’t yet have this. In fact, we are still debating whether there is life anywhere else. Our experience with other species is limited to our interactions with the human, animal, plant and marine life on Earth, which we have routinely exploited.
Although diverse, the universe appears to have laws and patterns. Undoubtedly, intelligent beings have a pattern of evolution that can be recognized by beings who are familiar with, and have studied, a variety of inhabited worlds. The challenges faced by homo sapiens sapiens are likely not unique and extraterrestrial observers can assess our progress and pitfalls with some objectivity.
One of the “laws” of nature is that progress is the result of trial and error. Error is important — it is the great teacher. Once burnt, twice as shy. And so the concept of the Prime Directive, as introduced by Roddenberry’s Star Trek series, is valid.
This is perhaps the reason Greys do not stop wars, plagues, over population, pollution or famines. Like children, we must learn our lessons the hard way. Their apparent indifference does not justify our perception of evil intent.
But what about the abductions? Can we justify them?
Microcosm and Macrocosm
One of the reasons that the prime directive was instituted was to prevent evolving civilizations from obtaining technologies that outpaced their culture. Giving young children handguns is a recipe for a catastrophe. Our own tribal and warfare culture is experiencing this with the recent discovery of atomic fission.
What is true on Earth is also true in the universe. Unless a civilization has reached some type of peaceful wisdom or moral spirituality, interplanetary travel will bring with it those same unresolved competitive and exploitive traits. We should expect to see these same traits in some of our encounters with extraterrestrial visitors. But again, this pattern should be known and some aliens will likely try to prevent our exploitation.
I guess I am trying to paint a picture of “good” and “bad” encounters that are possible and likely have happened to us in our history. To some aliens we are seen as interesting and potentially good creatures, worthy of respect. To others we are seen as cattle. The nature of the abduction experience can thus be varied.
Greys seem to be both good and bad. This has led some to believe that they are at conflict with themselves. Abductees speak of “service to self” Greys as the bad ones and “service to others” as the good Greys. This apparent split in ideology came about in the 1980s. It is believed that the “service to self” Greys had either threatened or offered technology to the governments and military in return for their unhindered molestation of humanity and that certain “service to others” Greys revolted, forming their own camp.
Zeta Talk
The split in ideologies with Greys happened after Dr. Karla Turner’s documentation of the horrific alien abductions. Her descriptions led one to believe that the Greys were custodians or shepherds of human beings, allowing other malevolent aliens to have their way with us. Indeed Greys do appear to be the stewards of the planet. They have apparently been here a long time and have messed with us continuously.
The “service to others” Greys are a more recent phenomenon. These beings supposedly speak through selected humans, giving messages about peace, the environment and planetary change. Unfortunately, their method of communication with the public is distorted by the messengers and is greatly diluted.
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The main theme of the Zetas who communicate with Nancy is that the planet is about to experience a pole shift where the crust of the Earth will slide over the mantle, taking with it the oceans and continents. Initially earthquakes and extreme tsunamis will cull the human population and establish new climates. The Zetas give detailed maps and information on the best places to survive and how to prepare for this imminent change. The Zetas (Greys) seem intelligent, well versed in science and caring about the human population, but their track record was tarnished when, back in 2003, they had predicted the same events. Many people who followed Nancy’s revelations suffered financially and socially as they charged up their credit cards and made life decisions based on the end of the world as we know it. Roughly a week before the pole shift, Lieder appeared on KROQ radio in Los Angeles, and advised listeners to euthanize their pets in anticipation of the event. When asked if she had done so, she replied that she had, and that “The puppies are in a happy place.” After the 2003 date passed without incident, Lieder said that it was merely a “White Lie … to fool the establishment,” and that to disclose the true date would give those in power enough time to declare martial law and trap people in cities during the shift, leading to their deaths. Are you confused yet? Like 2003, the current ZetaTalk predictions are intimately mixed with the mysterious planet-x, described by Zecharia Sitchin as nibiru which has entered our solar system on its 3600 year orbit. It is the gravitational pull of this rogue planet that will trigger the pole shift. All this is according to the Zetas with whom Nancy converses on a regular basis. Here is one of Nancy’s videos describing planet-x, courtesy of YouTube:
Zecharia Sitchin denies any connection between his work and Lieder’s claims. In 2007, partly in response to Lieder’s proclamations, Sitchin published a book, The End of Days, which set the time for the last passing of Nibiru by Earth at 556 BC, which would mean, given the object’s supposed 3,600 year orbit, it would return sometime around AD 2900. Here is another video describing alien visitors to earth:
Recently (December, 2010) the Zetas have been predicting (through Nancy) that the Indonesian tectonic plate is going to slide under the Australian plate, causing a disaster to the entire Pacific rim. Referred to as the “7 of 10 event”, this has been predicted to happen before 2011. People who follow Nancy and the Zeta’s messages are preparing — some making dramatic changes in their lives in preparation for this monumental catastrophe which will begin the “end of days” for planet Earth. As we near the event I cannot help but wonder what will happen if it doesn’t happen?. So I asked Nancy about this. I really didn’t expect a reply but I got one! So I will give her credit for not hiding from scrutiny, like many false prophets and alleged “contactees.” Nancy is a regular person. She makes no money from what she does and seems to me, at least, to be sincere in her beliefs that the Zetas (Greys) communicate with her. Anyway, here is her response:
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I’m not sure what we can make of these kinds of interactions. Wikipedia has a list of over 40 alien contactees who have, over the years, given various predictions and information designed to save humanity. So far, the Greys track record has been abysmal. Yet each contactee apparently was sincere and took up the role of messenger with little financial reward. Many were also subjected to great ridicule, nevertheless, it seems they truly believed in the reality of their their abductions and special status.
We can only wonder why Greys — even good Greys — would treat their human associates with such disdain. Are they really good? Or is the whole idea about “service to others” just another deception?
Dr. Karla Turner reminds us that the Greys first claimed the abductions were to regenerate their dying species. Later they were to uplift our human species. Now they are sorry for their callous treatment and want to help us escape planetary disaster. Yet the horrific abductions and deception continues.
For now, the answer to the question of their origin remains a mystery. But their new residence is surely our planet. We can only hope that they intend to share this world with us and that they don’t have a more sinister agenda.
What are YOUR thoughts on this?
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