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Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie! Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek! België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch. Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen! Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie. Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen. Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek! Blijf Op De Hoogte! Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren! Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.

Watch an Octocopter Drone Fire Assault Rifles From the Air

On the modern battlefield, it appears drones are here to stay — and the latest development may see them bearing arms far more precise than a bomb or grenade.

Duke Robotics, a private company that specializes in military technology, announced the TIKAD last week, an eight-rotor drone platform capable of carrying and shooting infantry small arms. The TIKAD is one of the small drones to carry direct-fire weaponry like rifles and grenade launchers. Although the company appears to be in the first stages of development, it represents a new force on the battlefields of the future.

Smaller military drones, like the U.S. military’s fixed-wing RQ-11 Raven, are usually used for observation, not direct combat (with the exception of small, kamikaze drones). While guerrilla forces in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, and other battlefields have utilized commercial quadcopter drones to drop bombs and spy on enemy positions, firing a projectile weapon like a gun from a small airborne platform is incredibly difficult. The recoil of a typical infantry rifle would heavily distort any shot the drone could take, which the TIKAD claims to solve with a complicated rig that it claims “takes the full force of the weapon’s recoil” and readjusts its aim to fire again.

Duke says it has already supplied an early version of the system to the Israeli military, which used it in combat, according to Defense One. They also report the Israeli military has agreed to purchase several TIKAD units.

Duke Robotics was founded by Lt. Col. Raziel “Razi” Atuar, a 20-year veteran of the Israeli military and a reservist in the Israeli Special Forces, who told Defense One he wanted the flying weapons system to address the challenges of precision targets in a dense, urban battlefield. For instance, a larger drone, helicopter, or artillery system can take out hostile forces on top of a building but usually not without significant destructive force.

“You have small groups [of adversaries] working within crowded civilian areas using civilians as shields,” Atuar told Defense One. “But you have to go in. Even to just get a couple of guys with a mortar, you have to send in a battalion and you lose guys. People get hurt. The operational challenge, it bothered us.”

The company’s promotional video — it’s still openly trying to attract investors — features a few shots of a weapon firing from the platform. It’s clear it still has a lot to address to make it a viable weapon (accurate sustained fire at range is important, the video does not show that), however.

Photos via Duke Robotics
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Is This The Terminator? New Robot Has Self-Healing Powers

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Is This The Terminator? New Robot Has Self-Healing Powers

“In this research, we propose to construct soft robotics entirely out of self-healing elastomers. On the basis of healing capacities found in nature, these polymers are given the ability to heal microscopic and macroscopic damage.”

Robots can now regenerate themselves

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Robots can now regenerate themselves using soft materials

That doesn’t sound so bad … unless you add the following three words:

“I’ll be back.”

Scientists at the Brije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium have invented robots with self-healing appendages that can “recover” after being stabbed, cut, smashed, shot, blown to bot bits or anything else its human overlords can do to it. OK, stabbed and cut – yes. The rest? Those capabilities aren’t available … yet.

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The process, described in the current edition of the Science Robotics Journal , is surprisingly simple. The team built robotic arms and grippers covered with soft rubbery polymers. When bumped, bruised or dented, the polymers bounce back to their original shapes on their own almost immediately. When cut or gouged, no bandage is needed to stop any bleeding or polymer leakage and the robot doesn’t require a painkiller or workmen’s compensation. All it needs is a little heat and a little time. According to the study, the material will close and seal after just 40 minutes at 80 degrees C (176 degrees F) and will return to full strength and flexibility after 24 hours at 25 degrees C (77 degrees F).

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This seemingly slow but miraculous healing depends on the soft polymer’s network of cross links that allow the heat-induced process known as the Diels-Alder reaction to take place. According to professor and researcher Bram Vanderborght of VUB in an interview with Wired UK, the heat causes the cross link molecules to break, creating mobility that allows them to realign and, when the heat is removed, close the gaps, heal the ‘flesh’ and completely repair the damage.

“Realistic damage could be healed completely without leaving any weak spot. The prototypes were able to fully resume their tasks.”

If you just imagined a robot looking at a human holding a blowtorch to its severed finger and yelling, “Come on! Hurry up! I’ve got work to do!”, you’re not far off. Vanderborght already sees applications for the self-healing robots with the soft polymer hands in the grocery industry — for picking up delicate items – and on factory floors where the machines that smash human thumbs and cut off fingers will not be held liable when doing the same thing to a robot’s self-healing hand.

Will the robot sneer at the hurtful factory machine and snarl, “I’ll be back” Only time will tell.

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HAWKING: 'THERE ARE ASPECTS OF REALITY BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF HUMAN BRAINS.'

HAWKING: 'THERE ARE ASPECTS OF REALITY BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF HUMAN BRAINS.'

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Extraterrestrials are out there for sure, Hawking says, but he added that it is "probably in our best interests to avoid any contact rather than seeking them out." In a recently released documentary series, he reveals his latest thinking on some of the universe’s greatest mysteries.

In the new series aired on the Discovery Channel, Stephen Hawking made the following conclusion:

"A few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity, with aliens raiding our planet for resources and then moving on."  

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HE GOES ON TO SAY:

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet,” Hawking says. “Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.” 

HAWKING CONTINUES:

“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans,” he concluded.

Recently, another popular astronomer, Lord Rees, issued the following warning about alien life for humanity in a lecture.

“I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive,” he said. “Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our own brains.”  

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HAWKING: 'THERE ARE ASPECTS OF REALITY BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF HUMAN BRAINS.'

HAWKING: 'THERE ARE ASPECTS OF REALITY BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF HUMAN BRAINS.'

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Extraterrestrials are out there for sure, Hawking says, but he added that it is "probably in our best interests to avoid any contact rather than seeking them out." In a recently released documentary series, he reveals his latest thinking on some of the universe’s greatest mysteries.

In the new series aired on the Discovery Channel, Stephen Hawking made the following conclusion:

"A few life forms could be intelligent and pose a threat. Contact with such a species could be devastating for humanity, with aliens raiding our planet for resources and then moving on."  

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HE GOES ON TO SAY:

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet,” Hawking says. “Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.” 

HAWKING CONTINUES:

“If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans,” he concluded.

Recently, another popular astronomer, Lord Rees, issued the following warning about alien life for humanity in a lecture.

“I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can’t conceive,” he said. “Just as a chimpanzee can’t understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our own brains.”  

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UFO HUNTERS SPOT 'WEIRD ORBS' IN THE BLUEHILL SKIES NEAR BOSTON

UFO HUNTERS SPOT 'WEIRD ORBS' IN THE BLUEHILL SKIES NEAR BOSTON

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UFO hunters took a video of a mysterious objects glowing in the sky while they were lost in Bluehills near Boston.

According to reports three young hikers set off looking for UFOs on BlueHill reservation area in Boston.They were later lost in the woods and had to be rescued. Ramona DeFranco,18 of Plymouth one of the hiker said their harrowing night in the forest paid off when they spotted several UFO's in the sky during their expedition, she saw 2 UFO's in the Sky they have never seen before in night sky at this time of the year

"well, we saw these two ships that had these bright spotlights and then we saw a weird orb that looks sort of a beacon in the sky," she told reporters

She showed the reporter a photo of mysterious objects she said had been taken with her smart phone. The UFO's were reported to the National UFO Reporting Center [NUFORC] and remains unexplained. 

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Infinite Solar Power Technology Could Completely Change Our Future

Infinite Solar Power Technology Could Completely Change Our Future

 
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  • According to an energy expert, the proliferation of solar energy is going to allow for cheap and effectively infinite energy, with prices plummeting to as little as a penny per kW.
  • Solar energy is slowly being integrated into major infrastructure projects, which will only help speed it along the path to energy dominance.

THE SUN GOES UP, AND OIL GOES DOWN

Last 2016, solar power saw a resurgence — from cheaper solar panels to innovative roofing for houses and cars, to solar powered roads, and even to powering an entire island. It seems we have entered a new age in solar energy. Well, it doesn’t end there. In the years to come, we may see the rise of solar power, according to Thierry Lepercq, French energy company Engie SA’s head of research, technology, and innovation.

“The promise of quasi-infinite and free energy is here,” Lepercq declares, in an interview with Bloomberg. His arguments aren’t based on any environmental concern. Rather, he takes the perspective of price.

“Solar, battery storage, electrical and hydrogen vehicles, and connected devices are in a ‘J’ curve,” Lepercq said. “Hydrogen is the missing link in a 100 percent renewable-energy system, but technological bricks already exist.” Lepercq believes that the price of solar power will probably fall below $10 per megawatt-hour (roughly 1¢/kWh) in the world’s sunniest places.

As a consequence of the rise of renewables, oil prices are expected to plummet. “Even if oil demand continues to climb until 2025, its price could drop to $10 if markets anticipate a significant fall in demand,” he said.

“As carmakers offer more electrical vehicles with a range exceeding 500 kilometers, charging stations being progressively deployed and more cities banning gasoline and diesel cars, a shift will progressively take place,” Lepercq added.

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Indeed, gone are the days when people viewed renewable energy sources as too expensive. Instead, we are moving away from conventional coal-based sources, which could even be more expensive in the future.

SOLAR POWER SHINES

Lepercq isn’t alone in seeing the price potential of renewables, particularly solar energy. The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently published a report showing how solar power now costs cheaper than fossil fuels.

[R]enewable energy technology, especially solar and wind, has made exponential gains in efficiency in recent years, enough to achieve economic competitiveness and, in an increasing number of cases, grid parity. For instance, the unsubsidized, levellized cost of electricity (LCOE) for utility scale solar photovoltaic, which was highly uncompetitive only five years ago, has declined at a 20% compounded annual rate, making it not only viable but also more attractive than coal in a wide range of countries.

This is all because, as mentioned above, we have seen an increased use of solar energy. Innovations thrived. Nations and private corporations were both in on it, too. We are seeing the construction of large-scale solar energy infrastructure.

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We now have a farm that uses seawater and solar power to grow crops, we’ve built the largest solar desalination plant, and we’ve even managed to have supercomputers that run on solar power. And the ways that solar power is being used will only get better in the next couple of years.

Indeed, quasi-infinite and free energy is well on its way.

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UFO Seen at US Capitol 65 Years After Famous DC UFO Incident

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UFO Seen at US Capitol 65 Years After Famous DC UFO Incident

Are extraterrestrials watching what’s going on in Washington these days? It would be nice to know that someone or something is and perhaps that’s why some people believe they saw a UFO buzz past the US Capitol Building on a Fox News broadcast. Has this ever happened before? Yes! It turns out this year is the 65th anniversary of the 1952 UFO sighting that has come to be known as the Washington National Airport Sightings, the Invasion of Washington or the Washington Flap. Flap? Sounds like these sightings might be related. Let’s find out.

The 2017 Washington Flap II started on August 14 when a story about college interns on Capitol Hill showed a clip of the US Capitol Building that appeared to include a yellow saucer-shaped UFO flying in front of it. The blurry object appears to be much closer to the camera than to the Capitol, which prompted speculation that it’s a plastic flying disc (you know the brand), a flying creature or a CGI graphic. Are people REALLY tossing discs that close to Capitol security guards these days? And if it’s CGI, it’s pretty poor. Since there were no reports of any unknown aircraft breaching DC airspace on August 14 (Would we really hear about them? Definitely.) and the witness is one of the thousands of anonymous sources in DC, that’s all we have on this sighting. For now, you’ll have listen very hard to hear any flapping.

On the other hand, the flapping in 1952 was loud and clear.

“Never before or after did Project Blue Book and the Air Force undergo such a tidal wave of (UFO) reports.”

Aerospace historian for the Smithsonian Institution and UFO skeptic Curtis Peebles sets the stage for the 1952 sightings – yes, there were more than one. At 11:40 p.m. on July 19, 1952, Washington National Airport (now known as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) air traffic controller Edward Nugent saw seven objects on his radar 15 miles (24 km) south-southwest of the city and notified his superior, Harry Barnes, who watched them with him. Upon checking, Nugent found that other controllers in the control tower and controllers at nearby Andrews Air Force Base also saw the UFOs, which had increased in number and were traveling randomly across the sky at an estimated 130 miles per hour. The objects vanished when two Air Force jets arrived and returned again after the jets left to refuel.

One week later on July 26, UFOs were spotted by a stewardess and a captain on a flight into Washington National Airport. The strange lights were seen by other pilots in the nearby airspace and an officer at Andrews Air Force Base.

Both incidents made national news and President Harry Truman demanded explanations. In what was called the largest Pentagon press conference since World War II, Air Force Major Generals John Samford and Roger Ramsey said the UFOs were “misidentified aerial phenomena” like stars or meteors and the blips on radar screens were caused by temperature inversions. A 1969 scientific report released by the Air Force concluded that a temperature inversion strong enough to create the radar blips was meteorologically impossible, but the theory has joined swamp gas and weather balloons in the annals of non-alien UFO explanations.

It doesn’t look like the 2017 Washington Invasion was a temperature inversion. Was it a toy disc, a bird or a bug? Possibly. CGI? Maybe. Will it go down in history like the 1952 Flap? Highly unlikely.

And whatever happened to those UFOs seen before and afterthe inauguration? Shouldn’t someone find out why those aliens haven’t done anything for us yet?

Or maybe they have.

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Clouds on 'Failed Stars' Resemble Those on Neptune

Clouds on 'Failed Stars' Resemble Those on Neptune

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Researchers have found Neptune-like bands of clouds circling the surface of a brown dwarf, an object in between the size of a planet and a star.
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For the first time, scientists have seen bands of clouds drifting across the skies of failed stars known as brown dwarfs.

This work could help scientists analyze Earth-like planets someday, the new study's researchers said.

In the past 25 years or so, astronomers have confirmed the existence of more than 3,500 exoplanets, or planets outside Earth's solar system. Scientists have also detected numerous so-called brown dwarfs, objects that are about 13 to 90 times the mass of Jupiter — too big to be planets, but not quite big enough to be true stars. Researchers sometimes call brown dwarfs "failed stars," because nuclear fusion never ignited in their cores. [Brown Dwarf Photos: Failed Stars and Stellar Misfits Revealed]

Scientists have previously detected evidence of clouds on exoplanets and brown dwarfs. However, this is the first time that cloud bands have been spotted on one of those objects, study team members said. 

Previous work suggested that brown dwarfs have much in common with giant exoplanets in terms of size, temperature and composition. As such, study lead author Daniel Apai, who is an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his colleagues investigated brown dwarfs to learn more about giant exoplanets.

The fact that many brown dwarfs are located away from stars makes them easier for astronomers to examine than many giant exoplanets, Apai told Space.com. In contrast, giant exoplanets are typically obscured partly by the brightness of their stars, he added.

In the past five years, a number of studies have found that the infrared light from many brown dwarfs could vary in unusual ways over time. However, until now, there was no convincing explanation for this phenomenon.

To help solve this mystery, Apai and his colleagues analyzed data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. They focused on the way the infrared brightness of three brown dwarfs changed over time as the objects completed a total of 192 rotations over the course of 1.5 years. 

The observations of these brown dwarfs helped "derive crude maps for how their clouds are distributed and how they evolve," Apai said.

The scientists discovered rotating bands of clouds in the atmospheres of these brown dwarfs that are broadly similar to bands of clouds seen on Neptune. As the bands on the brown dwarfs rotated, slight differences in the speeds of the bands generated a pattern of beats in their infrared light, explaining the mystery regarding their shifting brightness, Apai said.

"This is the first time that the presence of bands is shown in brown dwarfs," Apai said. He added that scientists have not yet reported any evidence for bands of clouds in exoplanets.

Although the researchers looked at only three brown dwarfs, "the fact that all three brown dwarfs behaved the same way suggests that what we see should be a common, perhaps general behavior," Apai said. "What we learn from brown dwarfs should be applicable to the majority of the gas giant exoplanets, too."

In the future, the next major NASA space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, will help researchers analyze brown dwarfs and exoplanets in even greater detail, Apai said."The same technique we used for brown dwarfs now could be used to build crude maps of Earth-like planets, once we have the right telescopes, and NASA is exploring some designs that could do that in the future," he added.

The scientists detailed their findings in the Aug. 18 issue of the journal Science.

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The Mars Colony of the Future Could Be Powered by This Advanced Microgrid

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'Explosive Auroras': What Causes These Strobe Light Displays?

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Revealed: Why so many people believe in conspiracy theories

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Shining A Light On Fermi's Paradox

Shining A Light On Fermi's Paradox

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Back on June 4th, 2017 I wrote about the West Virginia county where Cell phones and other electronic appliances give way to a giant telescopic “ear” with which earthlings listen for interstellar messages. Since then I have given much thought to some of the possible implications of Fermi’s Paradox, which that research pointed me toward; an invitation as it seemed to explore some subject matter I would not ordinarily take the chance of boring my readers with. The name of Enrico Fermi, the father of the nuclear age, has been well-known to me ever since I came under the influence of a New Jersey junior high school teacher who was devoted to educating her students on much more than the Math her contract specified.

Fermi, an Italian-born physicist and Nobel laureate who escaped his fascist homeland just in time to head up the Manhattan Project and the development of the atomic bomb, had the chance in his short lifetime (he died of stomach cancer at age 53) to think logically of possibilities beyond the earth’s sphere and even the outer reaches of our galaxy. In a discussion with some of the best scientific minds of his day, he discussed what has famously become known as The Fermi Paradox. I note here that there are those who argue that the “question” is not a true “paradox”, and that beyond that, it does not have any support in established science.

Because I am a story-teller and not a papered professor with a scholarly reputation on the line, I feel free to continue anyway.

At the heart of the so-called paradox is the increasingly evident fact that not only are we surrounded in our galaxy by billions of other planetary systems – that is a central star (or two) such as our sun, around which a family of circling and associated planets have organized – but that many of them are similar enough to our own to suggest the possibility of a life-sustaining, earth-like environment. Add to that the likelihood that many of them would be older – perhaps much older – than our planet’s teenage level of maturity.

The big question that possibility poses for an earth-bound thinker boils down to this: If there are other human-like populations in advanced development stages elsewhere who know about us and “our world”, and have the technological prowess to do so, why haven’t they made contact with us?

Setting aside all the cosmic and scientific hypotheses which make Dr. Fermi’s list of 22, I am fascinated most by these two:

1.    It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself.  And . . .
2.    It is the nature of intelligent life to destroy others. 

If either or both of these be true, perhaps potential “visitors” may have destroyed themselves just about the time they might have said “hello” to us; OR perhaps they observed just enough of our earthly doings from a distance to decide they couldn’t afford to get involved with folks who were building big bombs and exhibiting so limited a respect for the doctrine of “loving one’s neighbor”.

[In 1954, I was briefly tasked by the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigation (OSI) to interview citizens reporting UFO sightings near Washington’s Hanford Atomic Works as part of Project Blue Book (UFO investigations 1949-1969). Since “declassified”, I will still only mention that most of my reports came from experienced pilots, control tower operators, aviation professionals and on one occasion a gathering of 50 adult RC (radio control) hobbyists who all saw the same thing. Please don’t ask me what I think of all this; I really don’t know what to say.] 


As an octogenarian who reads history, has seen war, watches several hours of TV news every day, and has a large and loving family, I am a worrier. Why then do I work so hard at what I do every day?  I still believe that living a good life and loving my neighbors, and doing everything I can to contribute something worthwhile is important. I hope you feel the same.
                                        
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Bigfoot, UFOs and Prehistoric Birds: Documentary Depicts How These Creatures Call Pennsylvania Home

Bigfoot, UFOs and Prehistoric Birds: Documentary Depicts How These Creatures Call Pennsylvania Home

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Area 51 and the Bermuda Triangle are familiar names around the world, but how about Kecksburg, Uniontown and Keystone State Park? 

A new documentary makes the case that southwestern Pennsylvania is among locations with the most instances of paranormal activity in the country. 

"Invasion on Chestnut Ridge," from the production company Small Town Monsters, recreates stories told by locals who say they have experienced paranormal activity in and around the small town of Chestnut Ridge, Pa., about an hour south of Pittsburgh.

90.5 WESA's Allyson Ruggieri interviewed the film's director and producer Seth Breedlove, the filmmaker behind "Boggy Creek Monster," "Beast of Whitehall," and "The Mothman of Point Pleasant."

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The movie poster for "Invasion on Chestnut Ridge"
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Their interview has been edited for length and clarity.

ALLYSON RUGGIERI: The trailer gives off uneasy vibes as it invites viewers to "uncover the secrets of the Ridge." Can you describe the premise of the movie and what those secrets center on?

SETH BREEDLOVE: Basically, it's about Chestnut Ridge's bizarre history of unusual happenings that have been occurring for over a century. I don't use the word anthology too much, but I think it's kind of like an anthology. It's a series of very unusual stories from the Ridge starting with the Kecksburg UFO crash and ending with a sighting these two guys had in a forest of basically a weird little light that was chasing them around and all stops in between. It's from UFO sightings to sightings of strange, possibly prehistoric birds. Where other films are about a monster, this film is about a place. So the place is actually the monster. 

RUGGIERI: Is this type of film, one focused on a place rather than a person or monster, something new for your team? How does this differ from your other documentaries? 

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The production team on location
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BREEDLOVE: It's funny because our other movies have these very simple premises where, it's basically the entire Small Town Monsters series revolves around unusual creature sightings in rural areas and the affect that can have on a small community. But with "Invasion on Chestnut Ridge" it's very different because there are multiple communities involved, and rather than focused on one small town, it kind of covers this entire range, like 72-mile mountain range. So it's a little bit different from our other films in that way.

RUGGIERI: I noticed you describe this as "the most unusual area this side of the Bermuda Triangle." Can you speak a little bit on that?

BREEDLOVE: It's just that there's something going on there that all this weird, kind of bizarre activity takes place in this one area. There's all these different investigators who spend enough time up there investigating these strange occurrences looking for answers, and have been looking for answers since the '60s and '70s. And there don't seem to be any. 

RUGGIERI: What would you say was one of your most favorite or interesting stories or interviews while filming this documentary? 

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An interviewee on set.
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BREEDLOVE: We interviewed a guy named Barry. He's the first kind of "UFO abductee" that I've ever spoken to. I've never had a talk with anyone that claimed to have that experience before. It's always been something that's kind of freaked me out, like it's a very unnerving thing to talk to someone who's convinced they've had that incident, that occurrence happen to them. The stuff that had happened to him was pretty crazy, stuff I couldn't explain. I tend to be a little on the skeptical side, and some of the stuff he was saying to me I could not find an explanation for. 

RUGGIERI: What do you want viewers to take away from your film? What do you want everyone to know about your experience working on it?

BREEDLOVE: We make movies for everyone. Whether you're a skeptic or ardent believer or whatever, one thing I always want people to take away from our films is the fact that these locations we go to are amazing places and especially in the case of Chestnut Ridge. It's a place that should be explored. You should have your own adventure there. Whether it involves Bigfoot or a UFO, I can't guarantee, but it's a really amazing and beautiful place. People should embrace the history of these rural communities because this is the heartland of America.

"Invasion on Chestnut Ridge" will be available on DVD and Amazon video on Oct. 20. 

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Alien landt in een park en stapt uit. Lees hier 3 opmerkelijke UFO-verhalen uit Rusland

Alien landt in een park en stapt uit. Lees hier 3 opmerkelijke UFO-verhalen uit Rusland

Alien landt in een park en stapt uit. Lees hier 3 opmerkelijke UFO-verhalen uit Rusland

In Rusland vinden net als in de rest van de wereld onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen plaats. Er zijn genoeg Russen die ervan overtuigd zijn dat aliens bestaan.

Over de hele wereld zijn er mensen die stellen dat geheime diensten veel te verbergen hebben, waaronder informatie over buitenaardse beschavingen. Zo ook in Rusland.

Veel Sovjets meenden dat de KGB, de geheime dienst van de Sovjet-Unie, buitenaardse geheimen achterhield.

In 2005 zei Vladimir Krjoetsjkov, de laatste baas van de KGB, in een interview dat zijn geheime dienst geen bewijs had gevonden voor vliegende schotels of aliens.

Veel Russen geloofden hem niet en denken zeker te weten dat er beschavingen bestaan op andere planeten en dat sommige daarvan de aarde hebben bezocht.

Petrozavodsk

In 1977 gebeurde er iets vreemds in de stad Petrozavodsk. Op een avond in september zagen zo’n 200 inwoners van de autonome deelrepubliek Karelië een mysterieus object dat werd omgeven door wit licht.

Het vreemde object werd ook gemeld in Leningrad (Sint-Petersburg), Helsinki en andere Russische en Finse steden.

In eerste instantie werd verondersteld dat het ging om een satelliet, maar Lev Gindilis van de Academie van Wetenschappen van de Sovjet-Unie concludeerde dat het geen satelliet kon zijn.

Bijna 50 jaar later is nog altijd niet duidelijk wat mensen destijds hebben gezien.

Voronezj

In 1989 werd een uitzonderlijk incident gemeld in de stad Voronezj. Kinderen claimden dat er een schijfvormig ruimteschip in een park was geland en dat er een alien met drie ogen was uitgestapt.

Er waren ook enkele volwassenen die de UFO hadden gezien. De media besteedden veel aandacht aan het incident, dat zelfs het NOS Journaal haalde.

Er werden geen sporen gevonden op de landingsplek. Wel werden er hoge stralingsniveaus gemeten.

Dalnegorsk

In januari 1986 werd in de stad Dalnegorsk een bolvormig object gespot in de lucht. Het crashte op een heuvel, waar lokale ufologen later metalen vonden die niet van nature voorkomen in het gebied.

Het leger ontkende dat een militaire basis in het gebied er iets mee te maken had. Volgens ufologen was er een buitenaards schip of een satelliet neergekomen bij Dalnegorsk.

[Russia Beyond the Headlines] 
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