Throughout the 1960s, Fortean researcher John Keel, author of The Mothman Prophecies and a number of other decidedly weird, but thoughtful books on the unexplained, was almost equally renowned for his active correspondence with his contemporaries in the field. And, as expected, if the contents of the excellent John Keel blog maintained by Doug Skinner (which can be seen here) is any indication, some of Keel’s exchanges were pretty strange, too.

Like, for instance, the letter where Keel wrote a private correspondence to himself, which he refrained from sending out to anyone specific, but instead used as a sort of test to see whether a group of entities he called the “Androids” were able to read his mind. Keel was very much an open-minded adventurist, both in practice, and in thought, and his troves of letters and personal documents featured at Skinner’s site over the last few years have offered a fascinating inside-look at Keel, his beliefs, and his attitudes on various things.

Keel was often on the receiving end of messages too, a number of which were weird enough that Keel, referring to them as “crank” letters, created an entire subcategory for them in his extensive notes and documentation, dubbing them “anomalous mail.” An all-time favorite example of such unusual mail had been a letter Keel received in the fall of 1967, purporting to have been from a shadowy group of individuals identified only by the name appearing at the letter-head: “The International Bankers.”

The ominously-toned message read as follows:

It continued to say that, “Others have tried, without success, to find out things that do not concern them, such as Dr. Jessup, Al Bender and others who you do not even know about.

“Do not overstep your bounds Mr. Keel, even your own government cannot protect you from our powers.

“Remember Mr. Keel 1968 A.D. will have Black as its symbol.”

Keel noted one especially peculiar aspect of these sorts of “anomalous letters”; the fact that, in Keel’s opinion, they contained various misspellings, which at times appeared to be intentional:

“You will note that the word “comping” is misspelled. Misspellings of simple words are a common factor in mail of this sort. These often seem quite deliberate. (i.e., a witness in West Virginia received a note containing the word “want” instead of the intended “won’t”.) The vague prediction that 1968 would be a “black year” proved disturbingly accurate. 1968 proved to be a year of widespread civil disturbances and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.”

Rather obviously, someone had been pranking Keel with these dark, and at times rather elaborate letters. Commenting on the possible source of the letters, Doug Skinner notes that, “Somebody, though, went to the trouble of printing stationery and sending out crank letters.  I suspect that it was Gray Barker, cooking up confusion again; although I suppose it’s unfair to blame all ufological pranks on him.” Whether or not this is indeed the case remains undetermined.

In some ways, one might argue that the tradition of “crank letters” has continued to some extent. With the recent “addenda” to the famous Majestic 12 documents that surfaced last week, we saw a similar, “traditional” pairing of absurdities (an alien purportedly sitting and having a tree-huggerish, “save your planet” moment with USAF officials, for instance) with numerous common misspellings… something my fellow Mysterious Universe blogger Nick Redfern also took issue with.

In fact, in another recent post here at Mysterious Universe, Redfern made a similar connection between the hoax-letters of yesteryear, as well as their perpetrators… some of them had been Keel’s contemporaries. Redfern notes a document that had been carefully altered by ufologists Gray Barker and Jim Moseley, which led to a convincing looking hoax letter that was sent to the alleged contactee George Adamski.

“Moseley and Barker were just having a bit of fun during a late-night drinking session,” Redfern points out. “The idea that the new MJ12 documents are the work of someone in Ufology who is desperate to see Roswell vindicated – as a UFO event, at least – is not out of the question.”

In fact, I spoke with Nick about this on a recent edition of my Gralien Report Podcast, in which the subject was raised by Race Hobbs as to whether there might be legalities concerning the alteration of real government documents, or borrowing letterhead from them in order to make bogus documents look more convincing.

“That’s an interesting sort of concept,” Nick said. “The idea that if you’ve got… let’s say legitimate, DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) headed papers on, I don’t know, North Korea, and you white out certain bits and insert new material in the spaces on Roswell, then you photocopy it, and photocopy it again to make it look a bit older… is it actually a crime to do that?”

Whatever the case, with the new alleged “Majestic 12” documents that have been released, what we’re seeing is by no means anything new… in fact, it seems to be a sort of continuation of a time-honored tradition of ufological hoaxes that have surfaced over the last half century.

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Mars Curiosity: Conspiracy Theorists Rejoice Over NASA Photos Of Spaceship And Bones

‘Biological Teleportation’ Edges Closer With Craig Venter’s Digital-to-Biological Converter

By Shelly Fan

 

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IT'S COMING: Shock claim that we are on the brink of being told aliens have visited Earth

THE US Government could soon crack and admit it has secretly been hiding evidence of alien visitations of Earth for the last 70 years, it has astonishingly been claimed.

NASA announcement after ‘Anonymous’ claims space agency is about to CONFIRM aliens exist

NASA has released a statement after a video reportedly produced by hactivist group Anonymous said the US space agency was about to reveal that intelligent aliens exist.

US government on BRINK of ‘confirming alien life’ as boffins close in on 70-year secret

THE US government could soon crack and admit it has secretly been hiding evidence of alien visits to Earth, it has been claimed. 

By Tom Evans 

After the discovery of a new “Earth-sized alien world” at the weekend, boffins have been waiting with bated breath for an update on extraterrestrial life.

And the development paved some groups to claim that a NASA confirmation of alien life was imminent.

But now investigators believe that the US government could be about to expose a 70-year secret and reveal that aliens have visited Earth.

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“For 70 years this truth has been embargoed by your government”

Paradigm Research Group

The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), which campaigns to bring an end to an alleged "truth embargo", believes there will soon be no going back for government insiders.

Steve Bassett, executive director of the group, is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the issue of alien disclosure.

He is convinced that secrets have been withheld amid fears of the impact such an announcement would have on religion and the rule of law.

He is now seeking $50,000 (£38,000) to help fund the campaign to put pressure on the White House with an “End The Truth Embargo” gofundme page.

"This funding effort is in service to every citizen of every nation now convinced the world should not wait one more day for confirmation we are not alone is this universe,” he writes.

“For 70 years this truth has been embargoed by your government.

"After 20 years of engagement of the issue, I know this embargo can end soon with your help."

The funding campaign is being conducted in conjunction with Coast to Coast AM with George Noory – described as "the most listened to late night talk program in America."

Coast to Coast AM has for the past 25 years provided a platform for researchers, activists, "alien contactees" and other UFO witnesses.

So far, Mr Bassett has raised $6,123 (£4,600).

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AI to Ensure Fewer UFOs

To respond to a plague of drones, airports and other venues deploy AI systems to track and identify intruders

By JEREMY HSU

Is it a bird? A plane? Or is it a remotely operated quadrotor conducting surveillance or preparing to drop a deadly payload? Human observers won’t have to guess—or keep their eyes glued to computer monitors—now that there’s superhuman artificial intelligence capable of distinguishing drones from those other flying objects. Automated watchfulness, thanks to machine learning, has given police and other agencies tasked with maintaining security an important countermeasure to help them keep pace with swarms of new drones taking to the skies.

The security challenge has only grown over the past few years: Millions of people have bought consumer drones and sometimes flown them into off­limits areas where they pose a hazard to crowds on the ground or larger aircraft in the sky. Off-the-shelf drones have also become affordable and dangerous weapons for the Islamic State and other militant groups in war-torn regions such as Iraq and Syria.

The need to track and possibly take down these flying intruders has spawned an antidrone market projected to be worth close to US $2 billion by the mid-2020s. The lion’s share of that haul will likely go to companies that can best leverage the power of machine-learning AI based on neural networks.

But much of the antidrone industry still lags behind the rest of the tech sector in making effective use of machine learning AI, says David Romero, founder and managing partner of Black Sage Technologies, based in Boise, Idaho. “With machine learning, 90 percent of the work is figuring out how to make it so simple so that the customer doesn’t have to know how machine learning works,” says Romero. “Many companies do that well, but not in the defense community.”

He and Ross Lam, his Black Sage cofounder, are poised to take advantage of this opening for the upstarts looking to take on the defense industry’s giants. They initially collaborated on a project that trained ­machine-learning algorithms to automatically detect deer on highways based on radar and infrared camera data. Eventually, they realized that the same approach could help spot drones and other unidentified flying objects.

Since the self-funded startup’s launch in 2015, it has won multiple contracts from the United States government—including for U.S. military forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan—and from U.S. allies.

Romero says it’s fairly straightforward to apply machine learning to the task of automatically detecting and classifying flying objects. But because the stakes are high—mistakenly shooting down a small passenger plane or failing to take out an explosives-laden drone intruder could be equally disastrous—Black Sage puts its system through a rigorous training phase when it’s installed at a new site. The system’s radar and infrared cameras capture information about each unidentified flying object’s velocity, size, altitude, and so forth. Then a human operator helps train the machine-learning­ algorithms by positively identifying certain classes of drones (rotor or fixed-wing) as well as other objects such as birds or manned aircraft. For proof that it has learned its lessons well, the AI is tested against 20 percent of the positively identified data set—the part reserved specifically for cross validation.

Another company called Dedrone—originally based in Kassel, Germany, but currently headquartered in San Francisco­—is taking a similar approach. When a Dedrone system is being installed at a new site, humans label unfamiliar objects as part of the training process, which also updates the company’s proprietary DroneDNA library. Since its launch in 2014, Dedrone’s machine-learning software has helped safeguard events and locations such as a Clinton-Trump presidential debate, the World Economic Forum, and CitiField, home of the New York Mets baseball team.

“Each time we update DroneDNA, we process over 250 million different images of drones, aircraft, birds, and other objects,” says Michael Dyballa, Dedrone’s director of engineering. “In the past eight months, we’ve annotated 3 million drone images.”

Though Black Sage’s and Dedrone’s automated detection systems are said to be capable of running without human assistance after their respective training phases, the companies’ clients may choose to put humans in the loop for engaging active defenses, such as jammers or lasers, to take down flying intruders. Such caution is critical at sites like airports, where drone detection accuracy greater than 90 percent still means the occasional false alarm or case of mistaken identity. Even so, a human’s interpretive ability can only supplement the ceaseless vigilance that AI systems will need to provide as the number of drones continues to rise.

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US intelligence moles 'trying to leak alien truth that will be bigger than Watergate'

US SECRET service agents, who allegedly know about an alien cover up, are trying to expose the truth it has shockingly been claimed.

NASA TO ANONYMOUS: NO, WE DON’T HAVE EVIDENCE OF ALIENS

Why were the RAF ordered to ignore mysterious lights seen floating over Skegness for SEVEN hours?

BY ELAINE DAVIES

File photo. A UFO was spotted over Skegness in 1996 and the RAF were 'told to ignore it'

Mysterious lights were seen in the sky over Skegness for seven hours - but the RAF were ordered to ignore it, files have revealed.

The incident happened over the Skegness coast on October 5, 1996, and lights were reported in the sky for a period of seven hours - both by police and the public.

Now "Britain's X Files" show the object was spotted on a military radar but the RAF were told to ignore it after it was “overruled at the highest level”.

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A report by the Sun claimed an unnamed government official criticised the former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo for the military's "absolute shambles" of a reaction.

The letter, which is typed on House of Commons headed paper, said: "I am very concerned about an incident that occurred off the Anglian Coast recently, involving a visual unidentified flying craft sighting which was correlated by various different military radar systems.”

It added that it was "incredible" that "no aircraft were scrambled when an uncorrelated target was picked up so close to the coast” and that “this raises serious issues about the way in which we police the UK’s Air Defence Region”.

The letter also questions why RAF Coningsby was over-ruled when it wanted to scramble aircraft to the scene.

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It added: "The RAF is supposed, or so I believed, to be keeping a watchful eye on activity in the UK, but seem to have no idea what is going on.

“Do they have standard procedure for these incidents? They had enough time to think about it, because the object was on our radar for upwards of seven hours!

“While I am interested in finding out what was seen, my primary concern stems from the absolute shambles that such events seem to cause.”

Documents outlining the investigation into the incident concluded that several phenomena were to blame for the red, white and blue flashing lights that were seen above the horizon.

They are also named in the documents as a "celestial source".

The official file on the incident said: "The prolonged sighting of stationary coloured flashing lights reported by the Skegness Police on 5 October 1996 had no significance for the integrity of UK airspace and no associated air vehicle was detected by civil or military radars.”

The documents are part of 15 files that have been published by the National Archives. Three are still yet to be published.

The documents have not been digitised and can only be viewed at the National Archives in Kew, West London.

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Project Blue Book Origins — Part 1 of 3

By Cheryl Costa

 

Columnist Cheryl Costa begins a three-part series of articles on Project Blue Book.

Back on May 25 of this year, a news item in Variety magazine announced that famed director Robert Zemeckis had teamed up with A&E to produce a 10-episode drama series about Project Blue Book for the History Channel. For those unfamiliar with Blue Book, it was an Air Force’s effort from 1952 to 1969, charged with the responsibility to investigate reports of Unidentified Flying Objects. Let’s take brief a look at the convoluted origins of Project Blue Book.

PROJECT SIGN

During World War II numerous bomber crews reported seeing luminous balls and discs in their air space while flying missions. These unknown high performance flying objects became known as “foo fighters.” The Army Air Force’s investigative effort into foo fighters was very first by intelligence officers into the mysterious topic of UFOs.

In 1947, the Air Force separated from the Army and became a branch onto itself. That same year, Air Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Field received orders to direct the Technical Intelligence Division to conduct a classified inquiry into UFOs. The principle reason was that the Air Force had taken a keen interest in UFOs because they had been frequently observed near various sensitive military facilities in the Southwest. In addition, during June and July of that year, UFO reports came in from over 38 states and were widely reported in the press.

Under pressure to come up with answers, Major General L. C. Craigie, director of Research and Development for the Air Force, directed the establishment of a research group code named Project Sign.

After eight months of interviewing highly credible witnesses, conducting investigations and analyzing the data, it was time to report some findings. The Technical Intelligence Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in concert with personnel from Project Sign, decided to author the Estimate of the Situation document.

By all accounts the top secret document allegedly concluded that some of the UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin. These conclusions did not sit well with Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, who was reported to have rejected the Estimate of the Situation findings. It is alleged that all copies of the report were subsequently destroyed.

PROJECT GRUDGE

It’s been my observation that military generals who aren’t happy about the performance of a unit or perhaps the results of a project frequently clean house of at least key command personnel, and sometimes there’s a clean sweep within the ranks.

General Vandenberg, being less than happy or confident with the results of Project Sign, ordered a massive change in personnel. The replacement staff had a new set of operating principles; simply that all these UFO reports could be explained in realistic and conventional terms. The new unit was renamed in February of 1949 with a new code name: Project Grudge.

It was the Project Grudge team that established the cultural perspective that UFOs were:

1. Misinterpretations of various conventional objects.
2. A mild form of mass-hysteria and war nerves.
3. Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetuate a hoax or to seek publicity.
4. Psychopathological persons.

The Project Grudge team also put forth the concern that an enemy could release strange aerial objects, augmented with psychological propaganda. The effect of an enemy action like this, they proposed, could be used to generate mass hysteria. The Pentagon’s Office of Psychological Warfare confirmed this notion of psychological warfare to induce war nerves and mass fear among the civilian population.

As a secret UFO investigation military entity, Project Grudge didn’t do much better than Project Sign in getting to the bottom of the UFO phenomena. The unit only lasted about eight months. In the final report of their UFO investigations, it listed UFO sighting reports totaling 273. Despite Project Grudge’s policy that UFOs are just misidentified conventional objects, hysteria, war nerves, hoaxes and deranged persons, their final report listed 23 percent, or 63 cases, as “unidentified.”

If you are interested in joining a monthly UFO discussion group in the Onondaga County area, drop Cheryl an email at Blogger@CherylCosta.com. If you have a UFO sighting to report, you can use either one of the two national database services: nuforc.org or mufon.com. Both services respect confidentiality. Follow me on Twitter @American_Skies.

Attention, Central New York residents: Join a monthly MUFON-sponsored speakers presentation and discussion group in Syracuse. Regularly held the last Saturday of the month, it runs from April 29 through October 28, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m, May Memorial, 3800 E. Genesee St. Plenty of off-street parking is available.

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Orlando witness reports object hovering over building

A Florida witness at Orlando reported watching a cylinder-shaped object silently hovering over a nearby building, according to testimony in Case 84126 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The witness was driving along Conway Road near the Judge Road intersection when the object was observed hovering over a nearby building.

(Credit: Google)

The witness was driving along Conway Road in Orlando, heading north from Tradeport Avenue at 9:12 p.m. on June 1, 2017, when the incident began.

“This is a common area that planes are landing in, so seeing lights in the sky approaching us was very normal to see,” the witness stated.“I drive down this street almost daily around the same time, so am used to seeing certain sights along the way.”

While approaching a red light at Judge Road, the witness and a sister noticed planes approaching them when one looked out of place.

“I joked about how it could be a UFO because of how odd the flight pattern and lights were. We both kept steady on it; I watching while trying to pay attention to the cars in front of me. It approached us closer and closer and we both got nervous because it was the size of a plane hovering over the building off to the right side of us, maybe 50feet or less away from where we were.”

The two watched as the object hovered over a building, with lights flashing, with no sound.

“We waited to see if we were seeing things, if it was actually moving and maybe we didn’t see the movement for whatever reason. No movement, still hovering over the building and flashing lights. About 10-15 seconds after we realized it was not a plane and that we were in fact seeing a giant object hovering over a building next to us, it disappeared.”

The witness could hear so sound coming from the object. Pictured: Conway Road near the Judge Road intersection.

(Credit: Google)

The witness pulled off to the side of the road to see if the lights appeared anywhere.

“Nothing. The area was clear, its path had no obstructions, yet it was nowhere to be seen. So where could it have possibly gone? The rest of the way home, 15 minutes total, we talked about what to do next. Tell someone? File a report? Keep it to ourselves? We are definitely sure of what we saw. This was not normal and definitely not a plane.”

Florida MUFON Field Investigator Robert Andrews investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown UAV.

“In speaking with the witness,” Andrews stated in his report,“she said the sky was clear (no low hanging clouds) and she did not observe any smoke or other anomalies in the area. She remains quite certain that she saw ‘something’ that seemed to be hovering over the buildings with white and blue lights, but has no idea of what it may have been.

“I also considered that maybe there were low clouds and the light reflecting from the ground or overhead aircraft caused an optical illusion for the witness. However, I did not find any evidence to support that theory.

“The location of these building in relation to the airport flight path and the very low altitude of planes normal landing approach would seem to rule out the likelihood of any commercial or private aircraft flying through this area except as in a landing approach.

“The only other plausible scenario is that the witness viewed reflections from street lights, landing aircraft and interior lights of her vehicle reflecting unusual images on the windows of her car. I could not duplicate this occurrence, but I believe other MUFON cases contain many instances of this occurring.

The object seemed to disappear and the witness was unable to find it again. Pictured: Conway Road near the Judge Road intersection.

(Credit: Google)

“According to FlightRadar24.com, there were five planes flying over these buildings for landing at 9:04, 9:07, 9:08, 9:09 and 9:21 p.m. This is consistent with the witness estimate of 9:12 p.m. for her sighting.

“Witness said she was fairly certain of the time – plus or minus a few minutes.While I was there, I observed the same landing pattern – planes one to two minutes apart.

“If there had been an aerial obstruction – these planes would have been directed to 17R, which is parallel and about two miles east of runway 18L. While there, I observed planes landing on both runways. Planes landing on the other runway cannot be seen except farther out on their approach because of terrain and distance.”

Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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26 juin 2017 : conférence de Jacques Vallée, Paris, FRANCE

Ce lundi 26 juin 2017, Jacques Vallée donnait une conférence à l’espace 104, rue de Vaugirard à l’invitation de l’Institut Métapsychique. Près de 200 personnes étaient présentes à cet événement très attendu.

Après une brève présentation de l’invité par les organisateurs, celui-ci prend la parole et précise d’emblée le sujet de son intervention « What do we know about the material composition of UFO’s ? » ("Que savons-nous sur la composition matérielle des Ovnis ? »). 
Résumé de cette soirée exceptionnelle, en espérant n'avoir pas dénaturé la pensée de Jacques Vallée.

En préambule, si vous n'êtes pas familier avec la personne de Jacques Vallée, je vous invite à lire cet article de Thibaut Canuti : "Le Collège invisible et l'apport fondateur de Jacques Vallée" et bien entendu la fiche biographique de Jacques Vallée sur Wikipedia.

D'emblée, Jacques Vallée s’excuse que les slides de sa présentation soient en anglais, mais les non-anglophones n’ont pas eu de mal à suivre ses propos malgré tout.
L’objet de la conférence est en fait une étude en cours sur la composition des ovnis et prolonge un article que Vallée avait publié il y a 19 ans sur ce thème lié à la physique des matériaux.

Le conférencier commence par rappeler que dans le domaine de l’ufologie, il existe trois types de matériaux à étudier :

- les scories de métal en fusion éjectés par les ovnis qui sont comme des éjectas. Comme cela ressemble souvent à du mâchefer, les témoins n’y accordent pas d’importance et ne les ramassent hélas pas.
- Les implants : ce sont de petits objets à l’usage inconnu que des témoins disent retrouver dans des parties de leurs corps (sur ce sujet, Jacques Vallée qu’il s’y intéresse davantage qu’autrefois)
- des pièces structurelles récupérées sur les sites de crashes, voire des entités biologiques ! L’affaire de Roswell est le cas le plus archétypique de ce genre de récolte, même si les éléments de preuve manquent toujours et qu’un nuage de rumeurs et de faits non établis entoure le récit.

Comme il s’agit de pouvoir ramener quelque chose de tangible en laboratoire, Jacques Vallée a préféré délaisser les histoires pour se tourner vers des objets concrets. Or, les seuls disponibles, ce sont ces « éjectas » récupérés ici et là lors d’observation d’ovnis. Vallée précise qu’on ne se trouve pas dans la culture du secret, au contraire, il veut médiatiser ses recherches.

L'ufologue rappelle un point important : longtemps, on s’est limité aux analyses chimiques, désormais il faut se tourner vers l’étude des isotopes.
Pour mémoire, un isotope est un atome qui possède le même nombre d’électrons et de protons (afin de rester neutre) mais un nombre différent de neutrons. Il mentionne l’exemple de l’hydrogène qui a trois isotopes : classique (pas de neutron), deutérium (1 neutron), tritium (2 neutrons). Un autre exemple bien connu : celui de l'uranium qui a 17 isotopes, tous radioactifs. Ils possèdent tous 92 protons mais ils ont entre 125 et 150 neutrons.
Seulement trois sont présents naturellement sur Terre (uranium 234, 235 et 238) et surtout l’un d’eux, à plus de 99% : l’uranium 238.
L’étude des isotopes sur des échantillons issus de projections d’ovnis pourrait donc permettre d'identifier des éléments qui ne sont pas terrestres.

Jacques Vallée passe en revue rapidement 15 cas connus de rejets de matériaux, depuis Aurora au Texas en 1897 jusqu’à Newark en 1996, un seul cas français : Ratheau. 
Et parmi ces affaires, seulement 4 donnent accès à des échantillons : Ubatuba (Brésil), Bogota (Colombie), Council Bluffs (USA) et « Sierra » (lieu secret, USA).

Vallée souligne les difficultés à mener des études poussées sur les isotopes : l’équipement coûte cher et comme il est rare, il est peu disponible. Il faut donc faire prendre son mal en patience. 
Le conférencier propose d’ailleurs de faire des échanges de bons procédés et de partager des échantillons avec les laboratoires français (Pierre et Marie Curie, Orsay, etc.) d’autant que certains laboratoires font déjà des tests d’isotopes sur des météorites. 
Grâce à la spectrométrie de masse, il est possible de détecter les isotopes. Un faisceau d'électrons de haute énergie est utilisé pour ioniser les atomes et les molécules. Les ions ainsi formés sont ensuite soumis à l’action d’un champ magnétique qui permet de les dévier et de les séparer en fonction de leur rapport masse sur charge, et donc de déterminer les différents isotopes.

Vallée a fait analyser plusieurs échantillons, a priori rien de spécial. Sauf dans le cas d’Ubatuba (Brésil, 7 septembre 1957). Il a déniché deux nouveaux échantillons dans un musée d’ufologie à Victoria en Argentine. Vallée a eu accès à ces deux échantillons, l’un étant au Dr. Olavo Fontes, l’autre ayant été apporté par un marin argentin du nom d’Hercente et témoin de l’apparition de l’OVNI en 1957.

Si le premier morceau présente des ratios isotopiques de magnésium normaux et terrestres, le second en revanche a des ratios très différents ! Non seulement ce ne sont pas des ratios que l’on observe sur Terre, mais pas non plus dans l’espace que l’on connaît. C’est comme si cet échantillon de magnésium avait été décomposé en isotopes puis « recombiné » en suite selon des proportions inédites, c’est totalement inexplicable en l’état actuel des connaissances. Qui était capable de le faire en 1957 ? D’autres analyses, plus poussées, seraient forcément nécessaires car il faut des analyses dans plusieurs laboratoires pour confirmer cette découverte mais cela nécessite des moyens et du temps.

S’en suit une séance de questions/réponses avec le public durant laquelle plusieurs hypothèses sont évoquées sur la physique des matériaux, notamment des propriétés électromagnétiques. 
Il est fait allusion au personnage de Spielberg joué par François Truffaut et inspiré de Jacques Vallée, mais aussi aux momies péruviennes de Thierry Jamin. Jacques Vallée ne se prononce pas mais rappelle l’affaire de l’humanoïde Ata (désert d’Atacama au Chili), une relique d’un soi-disant « alien » qui était en réalité le squelette d’un enfant de sept ans atteint, cas exceptionnel, de deux maladies génétiques rares. A l’époque, la revue Science y avait consacré un article.
Parmi les autres sujets brièvement abordés, la théorie des univers gémellaires de Jean-Pierre Petit, le phénomène des vagues d’observation d’ovnis qui semble répondre à des règles cycliques, ainsi que la participation de Jacques Vallée aux travaux du SRI à Menlo Park en Californie, notamment sur Arpanet (le réseau ancêtre d’Internet) et sur la vision à distance (« remote viewing »). 
Jacques Vallée précise pour finir qu’on peut trouver des points communs entre le phénomène ovni et la parapsychologie, les témoins d’observations ayant souvent après coup des visions ou des facultés inhabituelles.

Mon commentaire : 

- une soirée passionnante, très stimulante pour l'esprit. L'analyse des matériaux retrouvés apparait beaucoup moins spectaculaire que toutes ces news sensationnalistes dont on nous abreuve sur Internet mais il se peut qu'au final, les véritables preuves proviennent de ces analyses fastidieuses et peu "glamour".

Je me suis posé la question : si ces isotopes de magnésium d'Ubatuba ne sont pas terrestres, mais ne correspondent pas non plus à ce que l'on est en droit de s'attendre à trouver ailleurs dans le cosmos, d'où viennent-ils ?

Et en repensant à l'intérêt de Jacques Vallée pour les univers à plusieurs dimensions, j'en suis venu à imaginer (hypothèse purement théorique, cela va de soi) que ces échantillons proviendraient peut-être... d'une autre dimension ? Une autre dimension dont l'existence resterait à prouver, bien entendu, mais dont les lois de la physique seraient peut-être différentes de celles de notre univers... ?

Auquel cas ces échantillons d'apparence très ordinaire seraient porteurs d'une révélation incroyable : les ovnis existent et ils viennent non pas d'un espace lointain mais d'une autre dimension. Je le répète, c'est une hypothèse personnelle et très vraisemblablement le fruit de mon imagination d'auteur ;-)

- Crédits photo : Joslan F. Keller - 

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The hunt for EXTRA DIMENSIONS begins: ESA approves gravitational wave-chasing spacecraft for 2034 - and it could help us find parallel universes

• Ripples in the fabric of space and time are called gravitational waves
• ESA has approved a trio of gravitational wave hunting satellites for 2034
• The satellites will orbit the sun in a triangular formation while firing lasers
• Gravitational waves will make tiny changes to the distances between the lasers
• An extra dimension would change the way gravitational waves stretch space 
• If these changes can be detected, it could help discover an extra dimension

By Harry Pettit For Mailonline

The existence of parallel universes within an unseen dimension has long been one of the universe's biggest 'what ifs'.

Now the European Space Agency (EA) has approved a mission that will hunt for gravitational waves - mysterious space-time disturbances that could finally prove the existence of extra dimensions.

Physicists think that unknown dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying these gravitational waves.

Since gravity is likely to occupy all dimensions that exist, its waves are a promising way to detect unknown dimensions.

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The LISA mission (artist's impression), now scheduled for 2034, will be made up of three identical satellites separated by 2.5 million km (1.5 million miles) in a triangular formation. The craft will follow Earth in its orbit around the sun while firing lasers between one another

In search of these waves, ESA has now given its Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission (LISA) the green light for 2034 after decades of development and delays.

'I think there's a mixture of super-excitement and "at last",' Professor Mark McCaughrean, ESA's senior adviser for science & exploration, told New Scientist.

'We're finally over the starting line – it's great.'

LISA will be made up of three identical satellites, separated by 2.5 million km (1.5 million miles) in a triangular formation, that will follow Earth in its orbit around the sun.

The three craft will beam powerful lasers between one another as they search for ripples in space-time caused by gravitational waves.

The LISA satellites will read how these waves warp space by detecting tiny changes in the distances the laser beams travel.

Gravitational waves are often created by by celestial objects with very strong gravity, such as pairs of merging black holes.

The primary targets for LISA's observations will be merging supermassive black holes, Professor McCaughrean said, in a bid to better understand the powerful celestial bodies.

This is not the first time that scientists have delved into the origins of gravitational waves. 

Earlier this year, researchers suggested that gravitational waves could also be evidence of an unseen, extra dimension.

The LISA satellites (artist's impression) will read how gravitational waves warp space by detecting tiny changes in the distances the laser beams travel

While scientists don't yet have the technology to prove this, by 2034 LISA could provide a route to testing ripples in space-time for evidence of parallel universes.

Speaking to New Scientist last month, Gustavo Lucena Gomez, who is leading a study into extra dimensions at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, said: 'If there are extra dimensions in the universe, then gravitational waves can walk along any dimension, even the extra dimensions.'

Gravity is weaker than other fundamental forces, and experts have long wondered whether this is because some of it is escaping into an extra dimension.

The German team set out to calculate how an extra dimension would affect gravitational waves, and found two strange effects – extra waves at high frequencies, and a change in how gravitational waves stretch space.

As gravitational waves move through an extra dimension, the researchers found that they should generate a 'tower' of extra gravitational waves with higher frequencies.

But observatories are currently unable to detect frequencies that high, and instead focus on lower frequency gravitational waves.

Unknown dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying gravitational waves - changes in the space-time fabric. Since gravity is likely to occupy all dimensions that exist, its waves are a promising way to detect unknown dimensions (artist's impression)

Physicists think that unknown dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying gravitational waves - changes in the space-time fabric. These waves can also be triggered by two colliding planets or black holes (artist's impression)

This could make spotting the gravitational wave towers a challenge.

But detecting the change in how gravitational waves stretch space could be easier, according to the researchers.

Dr Lucena Gomez said: 'If extra dimensions are in our universe, this would stretch or shrink space-time in a different way that standard gravitational waves would never do.'

Gravitational waves stretch space as they ripple through the universe a bit like a rubber band – the ellipse gets longer in one direction and shorter in the other, before returning to its original shape.

The targets for LISA's observations will be merging supermassive black holes in a bid to better understand the powerful celestial bodies (artist's impression) but it could eventually be used to test ripples in space time for signs of an extra dimension

The existence of parallel universes within an unseen dimension has long been one of the universe's biggest 'what ifs' (stock image)

But an extra dimension could add another way for gravitational waves to stretch space, called a breathing mode.

In the same way that lungs expand as you breathe, gravitational waves cause space to expand and contract, in addition to stretching.

Dr Lucena Gomez said: 'With more detectors we will be able to see whether this breathing mode is happening.'

Dr Emilian Dudas, from the Ecole Polytechnique in France told New Scientist: 'Extra dimensions have been discussed for a long time from different points of view.

'Gravitational waves could be a new twist on looking for extra dimensions.'  

Read more:

• Gravitational waves could show hints of extra dimensions | New Scientist
• ESA approves gravitational-wave hunting spacecraft for 2034 | New Scientist

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Opportunity images show ET presence on Mars?

Streetcap1 believes he has found strange objects in images NASA's Mars Opportunity rover took in 2005. He wonders whether these objects are extraterrestrial or not.

The first image shows something something what looks like an alien craft, while the second image appears to show a white Martian object in the distance.

As usually there is much discussion on social media on these objects.

The white Martian object could be an alien, a humanoid, while something bigger standing behind the humanoid. Explanations for the object in the first image vary from an alien craft to a Mars vehicle with begs, etc.

Without doubt, many images captured by the Opportunity and the Curiosity have already shown overwhelming evidence of past and present ‘intelligent’ life on Mars but if we take a closer look at the two objects depicted in the 2005 images it’s clear that it has nothing to do with aliens, humanoids or any kind of alien craft or vehicle.

It turns out the kind of alien craft is just a part of the Lander Shell (heat shield) of the Opportunity while the white Martian object is a reflection of sunlight on another part of the Lander Shell.

Above images were taken by the Opportunity in 2005 (SOL 319 to SOL 344) and show besides the heat shield, several other parts of the Lander Shell as well as some mechanical parts reflected by sunlight.

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