UFO the ‘size of a BUS’ spotted at International Space Station

UFO hunters have spotted an “alien spaceship the size of a city bus” on the NASA feed from the International Space Station.

By Rachel O'Donoghue 

The eagle-eyed viewers saw the bizarre disc-like “craft” zooming off into space from the ISS.

Video apparently shows the craft get close to the station, which is constantly manned by astronauts from NASA, Roscosmos and the ESA.

Alien enthusiasts online have claimed it is further proof there is a large population of ETs in space.

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UFO blogger Scott Waring hailed it as an excellent example of an alien spaceship.

He wrote: “It is seen on the other side of the solar panels in the far distance.

“It looks like it is the size of a city bus and is disc-shaped.”

He also claimed that if you regularly watch the live feed of the space station you are guaranteed to see a UFO.

It’s just the latest “alien” sighting at the ISS.

Last month, outlandish claims emerged of a NASA alien cover up over accusations the US space agency cuts the feed to the station when a UFO approaches.

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ENCOUNTER WITH BLACK EYED KIDS TERRIFIES AIRMAN ON TEXAS MILITARY BASE

Take the following account sent in to us from an airman at a Texas military base. It’s one thing to scare a woman alone in her home, but to terrify a trained military man on base? That only goes to show how frightening these kids really are. Buckle up, this story is a good one. 

Modern urban legends are widely publicized by the power of Internet dispersion, which often ends up working as a form of creation or increment of these stories. Whether they are true passages or not, we really can not know for sure. But the fact is that some reports of events have attracted the attention of Internet users around the world.

One of the main current topics that have gained more and more repercussion is the one that deals with children with completely black eyes. Known in the American milieu as BEK ("Black-Eyed Kids" or literally "black-eyed children"), the reports that mention these entities are always more or less the same.

It seems that somebody is alone somewhere indoors (home, car or other), when approached by a child or teenager, who asks permission to enter the place. 

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NASA'S NEW MARS ROVER PROTOTYPE LOOKS LIKE A BATMOBILE

The Kennedy Space Center reveals new Mars buggy on social media.

The latest project of NASA’s privately owned Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex has taken even the most ardent space buff completely by surprise. It has transpired that since last year, the company has been involved with the creation of a high-tech concept vehicle which is capable of acting an exploration rover on Mars. 

The space center trailed images of videos of the space buggy on social media before releasing the news to the mainstream media. A video was shared to Instagram showing the rover in action, slowly moving across the road in front of the Kennedy Space Center. This video particularly caught the attention of the general public who noted that the buggy bears more than a passing resemblance to the Batmobile in ‘Batman Begins.'

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The cinematic reference would most certainly not be lost on the buggy’s creators, Marc Parker and his brother Shanon Parker. Over the years, the brothers have made their names designed audacious and high-spec vehicles for the use in television programs and action movies. Speaking to the press, Marc Parker explained that the buggy had been specifically designed to withstand the obstacles that a voyage to Mars will present. He described the buggy as a ‘dual-purpose vehicle’ that separates into two pieces. The rear section in a full lab and the front section is a cockpit which can be used for scouting. The two pieces of the buggy can act independently of one another and perform their research tasks separately.

However, the buggy will not be used for a visit to Mars. Instead, the buggy is going to be the centerpiece of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s ‘Summer of Mars.' This is a planned educational event that will be conducted in conjunction with NASA to teach the public, especially children, about the mysteries of the Red Planet and the exploration of outer space.

Marc Parker explained that he was incredibly enthusiastic about this project. "Movies are cool, TV is cool, but it's something else to be part of a thing that could inspire kids to go Mars and live in outer space, "he said to reporters. He also revealed that the making of the Batmobile-rescue Mars buggy had been captured in full by a television documentary crew and the whole story should be hitting screens at some point this year.

NASA UNVEILS BATMOBILE MARS ROVER

NASA in conjunction with the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, have unveiled their new concept Mars rover, a six-wheeled vehicle oddly resembling the Batmobile.

NASA plan to begin manned missions to Mars by 2033 and the rover is part of a larger event entitled 'Summer of Mars' held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, which is owned by NASA but run by a third party.

Being a conceptual design, it isn't clear how close the vehicle is to anything that will one day be exploring the surface of the red planet. What the rover will do however is raise interest in the idea of exploring Mars at a time when interest among the general public is fairly low.

The space agency tends to receive a higher or lower budget depending on several factors. Most influential are the economic and political conditions at the time the budget is drawn up. Public opinion of space exploration and the work that NASA is doing, however, go a long way towards influencing their budget as well. The more popular NASA is, the better funded it becomes and the more projects it can pursue.

The lofty goal of reaching Mars in a relatively short time is due in part to the new budget given to the space agency by the passing of a bill entitled the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017. The bill provides NASA with a budget of $19.3 billion per year or 0.5% of the total budget and focuses on reaching Mars and the continued development of the space launch system.

The budget does however dramatically cut certain sections of NASA's operations, namely the Earth sciences. These sections of NASA deal primarily with ecological and environmental issues and don't tend to attract as much press as space exploration.

The designer of the vehicle, Marc Parker, said of his creation:

"What we came up with was a dual-purpose vehicle. It separates in the middle. The rear section is a full lab; the front area is a cockpit for going out and doing scouting, "

The vehicle is solar powered as most rover designs tend to be, and features specially designed tires that allow the fine dust of the Martian surface to pass through them.

Design and construction of the vehicle began in November 2016 and was completed earlier this month. The concept design, although not directly mandated by NASA itself does follow broad guidelines that the space agency put in place. 

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Astronaut filmt onweer boven Europa vanuit de ruimte: "Zie hoe de atmosfeer verandert van groen naar oranje" - HLN.be

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VIDEO De Franse astronaut Thomas Pesquet verblijft momenteel voor zes maanden in het ISS-ruimtestation in opdracht van het European Space Agency ESA. Op Twitter deelde hij vandaag een filmpje waarin het onweer te zien is dat Europa donderdag teisterde.

"Nachtvlucht over Europa met onweders in de verte. Merk op hoe de atmosfeer verandert van groen naar oranje," schreef Pesquet bij het filmpje, waarin te zien is hoe tientallen bliksemschichten de hemel oplichten.

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Pesquet voert momenteel met enkele collega's wetenschappelijke experimenten uit in het ISS en houdt zich in zijn vrije tijd bezig met fotografie. Hij is een fervent twitteraar en houdt zijn volgers voortdurend op de hoogte van wat hij in het ruimtestation ziet en beleeft. 

Het is niet de eerste keer dat Pesquet indrukwekkende beelden vanuit de ruimte deelt. Zo maakte hij eerder deze week nog een adembenemende foto van het poollicht en deelde hij onlangs ook een foto waarop te zien is dat België 's nachts meer verlicht wordt dan eender welk ander Europees land.

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‘We’re not alone’ Aliens ALREADY on Earth but there's a huge cover-up, scientist claims

EXTRATERRESTRIALS are here on Earth and the truth about them will soon be known, a scientist has claimed.

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Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist, who worked on classified projects for for US defence contractors across 14 years in the 1950s and 1960s, believes the truth about a global cover up over the existence of aliens will soon be exposed, and it will have a positive effect on the world.

Mr Friedman, who has investigated the UFO mystery for more than 50 years and was the first civilian investigator of the infamous 1947 Roswell UFO crash unsolved case, revealed his thoughts in a new book compiled by author Miguel Mendonca.

The book, called We Are the Disclosure - Part I, tells the stories of a string of campaigners fighting for an alleged "truth embargo" on the existence of aliens to be lifted.

Mr Friedman, although never witnessing a UFO himself, said he was convinced we are not alone.

He said: "There's an enormous amount of evidence from all over the world from respectable, responsible individuals whose testimony you'd accept about anything else.

"We're not alone and that bothers the heck out of some people, some religious people.

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"Some of the fundamentalists have explained that the only place in the universe where there are thinking, communicating people is right here on Earth, and that this UFO stuff is the work of the devil.

"And that the Earth was created in 4004 BC.

"Sorry guys all those things are wrong."

He said the subject had been surprised through ridicule by agencies such as the CIA.

He said: "(This) was established by the Robertson Panel report done for the CIA back in 1953.

"They recommended the use of all the tools of propaganda, including Walt Disney and so forth, to persuade people that aliens are not visiting.

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"I see people being much more willing to hold their heads up."

Conspiracy theorists claim the US Government is aware aliens have visited Earth, but have put in place a "truth embargo" to prevent it getting out to the public.

Disclosure activists, such as Steve Bassett, head of Paradigm Research Group, campaign for the embargo to be lifted.

Earlier this month Express.co.uk revealed how Mr Bassett believes that disclosure could be imminent after the CIA put thousands of formerly classified files, including stuff on UFOs, on its website.

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8 Creepy Sounds Recorded in Space by NASA

Spacecraft traveling to the far reaches of the solar system pick up some spooky sounds

BY EVAN DASHEVSKY

"In space, no one can hear you scream," reads the tagline for the original Alien movie. And that's true: for the most part, interplanetary space is just a big bag of nothing. But that doesn't mean it's completely silent.

Human ears are specially designed to translate changing pressures traveling through a medium (i.e. sound waves). These sound waves are rendered mute once the medium they are traveling through comes to an end (say, when the atmosphere on Earth gives way to the emptiness of space). However, there are plenty of waves that can move through a vacuum. We can then translate these vacuum-friendly waves into sounds that humans can hear (that's how things like radio transmissions work).

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Over the past few decades, we've sent a number of satellites to the far reaches of the solar system (and beyond, as you'll see below). For research and communication reasons, these vessels left with sensors designed to "hear" things like radio and plasma waves that flow freely through interplanetary space. Using a technological intermediary, humans are able to "hear" these space waves as audible sounds.

Turning space waves into sounds has a scientific advantage—evolution has cultivated the human brain to be really good at discerning tiny sonic nuances. This ability helped our ancestors know a growling predator was in the area and was instrumental in developing the complexities of speech. In the days before beefy analytical software, listening to audio interpretations of space waves was one of the best ways to learn what was going on.

However, on a more visceral level, these literally alien noises have a definite effect on the human brain—they're super spooky! These audio files are just about the only ways we can appreciate what it's like to actually be in outer space. Here are eight creepy sonic experiences captured by NASA over the past few decades.

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Is ET trying to contact Earth? Source of the latest 'alien' signals has left astronomers baffled

• Fast radio bursts are rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves
• FRB 150215 was first detected in 2015, and researchers have studied it since
• They have used 11 telescopes around the world to search for the source
• But they have admitted that they're still clueless about where it comes from 

By Shivali Best For Mailonline

Since they were first detected 10 years ago, rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves, known as fast radio bursts, have remained one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics.

And the latest fast radio burst, called FRB 150215, might be the most perplexing one yet.

Despite spending the last two years using telescopes to find anything associated with it, researchers have admitted they're still clueless about where this one came from.

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Since they were first detected 10 years ago, rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves, known as fast radio bursts, have remained one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics. And the latest fast radio burst, called FRB 150215, might be the most perplexing one yet

Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy first detected FRB 150215 in 2015, and have been working since to understand its source.

Speaking to Gizmodo, Emily Petroff, who is leading the study, said: 'We spent a lot of time with a lot of telescopes to find anything associated with it.

'We got new wavelength windows we've never gotten before.

'We're still trying to figure out where this one came from.'

Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly, making them not only hard to find, but also hard to study.

The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst.

This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding to artificially created messages.

So far, 22 FRBs have been detected, but astronomers believe that there could be up to 2,000 in the Universe every day.

While astronomers can usually use telescopes to pinpoint the likely source of the burst, FRB 150215 has left the Dutch team baffled.

It can be viewed through several telescopes, but has not left any detectable signal or trace of light.

In their paper, published in arXiv, the researchers said: 'The burst was followed up with 11 telescopes to search for radio, optical, X-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino emission.

FRB 150215 can be viewed through several telescopes, but has not left any detectable signal or trace of light

'Neither transient nor variable emission was found to be associated with the burst, and no repeat pulses have been observed in 17.25 hours of observing.'

Adding to the mystery is the fact that FRB 150215 shouldn't have been detectable from Earth given the direction in space it is coming from.

It had to pass through an extremely dense region of the Milky Way to reach us.

The galaxy's magnetic field should have changed the way the light from the radio burst travelled – but it didn't.

Speaking to Gizmodo, Ms Petroff said: 'It probably travelled through some kind of hole in the Milky Way that makes it easy to find compared to normal searches in the galaxy.'

While some have questioned whether FRBs are signs that aliens are trying to contact us, Ms Petroff does not think that this is the case.

Fast radio bursts are radio emissions that appear temporarily and randomly. The mystery stems from the fact it is not known what could produce such a short and sharp burst. This has led some to speculate they could be anything from stars colliding (artist's impression)

On Twitter, she said: 'Just to be clear, we don't know what is causing the fast radio bursts we see, but we don't think it's anything to do with aliens!' 

But the researchers added that they weren't disheartened by their findings. 

Ms Petroff added: 'It's not very often in science that you get to work on something that's so brand new and so unknown that you get to answer the fundamental questions.'

While some have questioned whether FRBs are signs that aliens are trying to contact us, Ms Petroff does not think that this is the case. On Twitter, she said: 'Just to be clear, we don't know what is causing the fast radio bursts we see, but we don't think it's anything to do with aliens!'

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RAADSELACHTIG OBJECT BOVEN ZEEBRUGGE, BELGÏE

Een passagier is vanuit het Engelse Southampton aangekomen in Zeebrugge in België en neemt nog even een foto van het schip. 

Echter, later ontdekt deze dat er boven het schip een bijzonder object vliegt in de vorm van een bekende klassieke of retro UFO. 

Het volgende voorval is ingediend bij Mufon en staat geregistreerd onder nummer 83616. 

Het gaat om een bijzondere foto die volgens getuige is gemaakt in de haven van Zeebrugge, na aankomst vanuit Southampton. 

Het verhaal erbij is als volgt: 

Ik was op een cruise van Southampton naar Zeebrugge in België. Op zaterdag 6 mei 2017 rond kwart voor twee ’s middags nam ik een foto va het cruiseschip vanuit de bus (door het raam). 

Op dat moment zag ik niets in de lucht. 

Toen we later weer aan boord kwamen, ging ik door de foto’s die ik had gemaakt en zag het object. 

De foto was genomen met een Samsung S7 Edge op de maximum resolutie van 12M. 

Dit is de foto waar het om gaat:

Wanneer we het wat uitvergroten, zie het er zo uit:

En met nog wat dichterbij halen, zien we iets dat duidelijk lijkt op een klassieke retro UFO, met bovenop een kleine koepel en daarnaast nog een kleine ronde UFO.

Wat door de getuige zelf niet is gemeld en misschien ook helemaal niet is gezien, is dat er op een ander deel van de foto nog zo’n kleine ronde UFO voorkomt.

Dus, waar hebben we hier mee te maken? 

Feit is dat de getuige zegt niets met het blote oog te hebben waargenomen en dat zegt vaak niets omdat dit soort objecten soms zo snel vliegen of in een frequentiegebied verkeren wat onze ogen niet kunnen zien waardoor ze met het blote oog nauwelijks worden waargenomen, maar wel worden “gevangen” door een moderne camera. 

Een tweede belangrijk punt is dat de foto is genomen door het raam van de bus, waardoor je allerlei mogelijke reflecties kunt krijgen die lijken op een object buiten, maar dit niet zijn. 

Een leuk voorbeeld daarvan hadden we twee jaar geleden, toevalligerwijze op ongeveer dezelfde plek toen we een plaatje kregen van een lezer die een foto had genomen vanuit een casino waarbij vreemde lichten waren te zien boven de Belgische kust.

Alhoewel de lezer ons toen bezwoer dat het absoluut geen reflectie kon zijn, bleek dit later toch wel degelijk het geval. 

Dat wil niet zeggen dat de foto uit Zeebrugge ook automatisch een reflectie is, maar die kans is aanwezig. 

Mochten er mensen zijn die slimme ideeën hebben, dan horen we dat graag. 

Wie de originele Mufon foto wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen.

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UFO OVER AREA 51, MAY 2017

A couple of UFO enthusiasts went to Area 51 and captured this interesting footage. A bright object appeared out of nowhere and started to accelerate until it reached an unreal speed. It did not make any sound and no sonic boom was heard.

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UNACKNOWLEDGED - STEVEN GREERS NEW UFO DOCUMENTARY

Dr. Steven Greer’s new documentary “UNACKNOWLEDGED” presents brand new, top-secret evidence supporting Extraterrestrial contact including witness testimony, classified documents, and UFO footage while also exploring the consequences of ruthlessly enforcing such secrecy.

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'ANCIENT TANK' SPOTTED ON THE MOON SHOCKS UFO EXPERTS?

The Moon definitely has it's share of mysteries. We know for a fact that astronauts have stepped on the Moon's surface and collected some samples here and there, which was an historic moment for all of humanity as quoted by Neil Armstrong: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind".

But there have been several conspiracy theories since then about a 'Moon landing hoax' where it was staged here on Earth. And other creepy theories regarding alien encounters on the Moon being one of the reasons why nobody ever returned there with fears of an invasion. 

Many think that the Moon is actually hollow and has an extraterrestrial base inside overlooking our World.

But there are quite some strange things that have been spotted on the moon like strange looking objects and some that even resemble things we see here on Earth.

One such strange sighting is a TANK found near several other bizarre objects.

Watch the following video to know more!

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BRIGHT ORANGE ORB HOVERS "MOTIONLESS" OVER CALIFORNIA AND SCARES WITNESS

A MUFON report has just been submitted that details an "orange reddish sphere" hovering over Orinda, California in January 2011. Although the sighting occurred a while ago, it clearly affected the witness, who is only just now coming forward with testimony and a photo. According to the witness, the ball of light hovered before taking off at great speed. What do you think this UFO could be? Ball lightning, a ghostly orb, an inter-dimensional alien traveler, or something else entirely?

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UFO MAKES "U" SHAPED TURN ACROSS THE MOON

New video from France shows several UFOs changing direction in space. The first UFO makes a subtle course correction from its original trajectory, while the second UFO turns completely around. No known aircraft or technology is known to be able to accomplish such a feat.

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INDIAN UFO INVESTIGATOR INTRIGUED BY UFO MYSTERY KONGKA LA PASS, LADAKH

In January 2017, the CIA declassified and shared 930,000 UFO documents on its website. One of these included a document from 1968 detailing six UFO sightings in India, Nepal, and Bhutan.

An April 1968 report - part of the 930,000 disqualified documents recently posted online by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - details six sightings of unidentified flying objects on Ladakh, Sikkim (then Protectorate of India), Bhutan and Nepal in the previous months. 

Although the American security establishment has largely demystified the UFO issue in recent years, the CIA and the US Air Force have taken reports of flying saucers in the 1950s and 1960s so seriously that the intelligence office of the intelligence agency formed A scientific advisory panel to study the phenomenon.

The CIA report, originally not intended to be shared with foreigners, contains "details of bright objects seen on South Ladakh, Northeast Nepal, North Sikkim and Western Bhutan."

In incisive and precise terms, the report mentions that an object was tracked moving east and west over Chang La, Fukche and Koyul in Ladakh at 13h on March 4, 1968. "A white light and simultaneously two very loud bang were Ears. In addition, a reddish light followed by white smoke, "the report said in its description. 

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Stone Tablet May Be Proof That Tower of Babel Was Real

 Paul Seaburn

As an Assyriologist, I don’t deal in the Bible, and I am not a religious person, but in this case, I can say there is an actual building which does seem to be the inspiration for the Biblical narrative.

Assyriologist Dr. Andrew George, a professor of Babylonian at the University of London, is referring to a sixth-century BCE stone tablet with a carving of a ziggurat – a terraced step pyramid common in Mesopotamia. The ziggurat is flanked by a figure identified as King Nebuchadnezzar II and an inscription that reads, “Tower of Temple of Babylon.” The 2.600-year-old tablet was discovered a century ago. What took so long to connect these seemingly obvious dots?

For those not up on biblical or Babylonian history, Genesis 11:4 says, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the Earth.” It then explains that God didn’t approve, confused the languages and scattered the people building the tower, which is then called Babel, possibly from the Hebrew word balal, which means to jumble or confuse. Archeologists have attempted to link the biblical Tower of Babel to real structures – such as Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk by Nabopolassar, king of Babylonia – but they’ve never had any conclusive proof.

The Tower of Babel Stele (from the Schøyen Collection)

Until now. According to Dr. George, the tablet, discovered a century ago in the Babylonian area of Iraq, is currently in the private collection of Norwegian businessman Martin Schøyen and has never been available for close study until recently. In an upcoming series produced by the Smithsonian, George dates the baked clay tablet to around 600 BCE and illustrates how the faint carvings show the seven tiers of a giant ziggurat. He also shows how the outline next to it is a giant depiction of King Nebuchadnezzar II, who reigned from around 605-562 BCE.

But the key is the faint text carving, which Dr. George translates as:

NEBUCHADNEZZAR, KING OF BABYLON AM I – IN ORDER TO COMPLETE E-TEMEN-ANKI AND E-UR-ME-IMIN-ANKI I MOBILIZED ALL COUNTRIES EVERYWHERE, EACH AND EVERY RULER WHO HAD BEEN RAISED TO PROMINENCE OVER ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD – LOVED BY MARDUK, FROM THE UPPER SEA TO THE LOWER SEA, THE DISTANT NATIONS, THE TEEMING PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, KINGS OF REMOTE MOUNTAINS AND FAR-FLUNG ISLANDS – THE BASE I FILLED IN TO MAKE A HIGH TERRACE. I BUILT THEIR STRUCTURES WITH BITUMEN AND BAKED BRICK THROUGHOUT. I COMPLETED IT RAISING ITS TOP TO THE HEAVEN, MAKING IT GLEAM BRIGHT AS THE SUN

Painting of the Tower of Babel by Marten van Valckenborch the Elder, Flemish Renaissance painter

So what about the babbling and the collapse of the tower? In an interview with Breaking Israel News, George theorizes that the multitudes of languages referred to in the story of the tower may refer to the fact that a monument of that magnitude needed many workers from many countries.

The myth about the multitude of tongues comes from the context described in the stele about the multitude of peoples enlisted in the construction of the tower. There were many languages spoken on the construction site. From that it may be that the Bible got the idea of the confusion of tongues.

That ‘confusion of tongues’ may have also had led to construction problems which caused the project to take 43 years. That may also be why the tower didn’t withstand the test of time and is now most likely the rubble that is at the Etemenanki site.

Good evidence that the Tower of Babel existed and is depicted on a stone tablet? Yes. Undeniable? Not yet. A lesson for construction bosses on big projects? Definitely … always carry a translation app.

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