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Declassified Drawings from the British Government’s UFO Desk

Allison Meier

The National Archives AIR 2-18961

(courtesy the National Archives and Four Corners Books)

Between 1962 and 2009, the British Government’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) had a UFO desk and telephone hotline that collected around 11,000 cryptic sightings from across the United Kingdom. The files are now accessible to the public, and among the reports on flying saucers and inexplicable lights in the night sky are drawings that attempt to describe their fleeting forms. As part of its new Four Corners Irregular series on modern British visual culture, Four Corners Books has published selections of this alien art in UFO Drawings From The National Archives by David Clarke.

A US release of the book is planned for February 2018. As Clarke, a reader and principal lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, explains in a book essay, the first release of UFO documents in 2007 came after years of effort:

The opening of these formerly secret files was a personal victory for me. For a decade before the MoD’s announcement I had waged a long campaign, using new powers under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act (FOI), for the full disclosure of Britain’s UFO files. From 2005, when the act came into force, I used a series of targeted FOI requests under the new act to persuade the Ministry of Defence to make their UFO material available for academic researchers. I argued there was a genuine public interest in how the government had investigated sightings of mysterious objects in the sky and that, by embracing greater openness, they could dispel many misconceptions about a subject long mired in unnecessary secrecy.

Then there was a strange twist where Clarke, long on the other side of access, was invited to work with the British National Archives during the release of the MoD UFO files. The project culminated in 2017, with a dedicated online UFO portal from the National Archives with thousands of digitized files. In UFO Drawings, Clarke delves into the history of MoD and the rise of UFO sightings following World War II. The overriding question, as put forth by Winston Churchill in 1952, was: “What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?”

Clarke was particularly interested in how UFOs were depicted in art, whether crude crayon on construction paper drawings by elementary school children who collectively witnessed a flying saucer in 1977, or a beautifully painting bright white object observed over a roof in Harborne in 1975.

“Viewed from a purely aesthetic viewpoint, sketches of UFOs made by schoolchildren or policemen might appear naïve or worthless,” he writes. “But as visual evidence of unusual sightings that are deeply meaningful and significant to those individuals who see UFOs, they are uniquely valuable historical documents in their own right, and shed light on how the events and popular culture of the age imprinted on people’s imaginations.”

Indeed, UFO sightings spiked around cultural moments such as the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. A rocket-shaped craft viewed through a telescope in Hampstead in 1972 looks strikingly like one from the 1960s science fiction television show, Thunderbirds. Yet there’s an incredible diversity of shapes, colors, and movement of the UFOs, ranging from huge hovering eggs, to dark triangular ships and soaring discs.

Each of the sketches, paintings, and even a few photographs in UFO Drawings is joined by a personal account. For a 1998 illustration of a salmon-hued, crop circle-creating orb adorned with Egyptian ankhs — a vision that seems fueled by Sun Ra’s cosmic Afrofuturism — the Oxfordshire correspondent wrote: “I have developed contact with this craft and their energy forces but unfortunately the designs I am perceiving are too complex for me to draw … these include anti-gravitational fields that allow the craft to access time.” A police officer in 1966 soberly diagrammed an object “the length of a bus” that “emanated a greenish grey glow.” An RAF intelligence officer later interviewed the man, and reported “there is no reason to doubt the fact that this constable saw something completely foreign to his previous experience.”

Every drawing is an artifact of the modern enigma of UFO sightings, and how our hopes and anxieties for a connection with other worlds rose in the late 20th century. The MoD desk may now be closed, but these personal experiences, and their visual record, are evidence of a widespread, mysterious phenomenon.

UFO Drawings From The National Archives by David Clarke is out now from Four Corners Books.

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The good guys call themselves the Future of Life Institute. The bad guys are smart drones called Slaughterbots that can swarm a crowd yet kill precisely, delivering an explosive to the forehead of selected individuals while letting the others run in terror … or cheer the killing. While it sounds like a great plot for a dystopian movie or a sci-fi series, the Future of Life Institute is a real organization. And the Slaughterbots?

“Slaughterbots” the video (link here) was released this week by the Future of Life Institute at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons held in Geneva. The purpose of the Convention “is to ban or restrict the use of specific types of weapons that are considered to cause unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering to combatants or to affect civilians indiscriminately.” The mission of the Future of Life Institute is “To catalyze and support research and initiatives for safeguarding life and developing optimistic visions of the future, including positive ways for humanity to steer its own course considering new technologies and challenges.” The purpose of the video is “safeguarding life” from tiny autonomous armed drones that can kill without human initiation based on things like data collected from social media.

Uh-oh.

The Future of Life Institute created the fictional (for now) video in conjunction with the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, an international coalition working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons. It sound like the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons is the perfect place to fight for such a ban … if it’s not too late.

Stuart Russell — Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading AI researcher – closes the video with a warning about Slaughterbots:

“Its potential to benefit humanity is enormous, even in defense. But allowing machines to choose to kill humans will be devastating to our security and freedom. Thousands of my fellow researchers agree. We have an opportunity to prevent the future you just saw, but the window to act is closing fast.”

The goal of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is not to restrict innovation in AI and drones but to stop the use if AI for selecting and killing without having a human in the decision-making process or pulling the trigger. The AI technology shown in the video is admittedly fictional but the components are recognizable in current devices, drones and social media.

Perhaps the most disturbing part of the video is not the killing but the cheering. It’s just as easy to imagine this happening as well. Maybe that’s what the powers-that-be should focus on when deciding whether to ban slaughterbots.

Thoughts?

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We live in an ever developing, technological world full of amazing new discoveries, slick gadgetry, and constant incredible breakthroughs in science. It sometimes seems that in this rapidly advancing society of technological wizardry that there is no place anymore for such arcane things as charms, totems, or cursed items or haunted items, and that these are surely the relics of a fading, dying past mired in the murky word of the supernatural and occult. Yet these things still lurk out in the periphery, and in at least one case the worlds of high technology and the supernatural have managed to collide in the oddest of ways.

One of the more fascinating inventions of recent times is the process of 3D printing, in which a 3-dimensional object is recreated layer by layer based on computer controlled data and scans of a model. Such objects can be fashioned of almost any material and can be a wide range of sizes or shapes, making the potential applications of the process virtually limitless. Indeed, 3D printing has been used in the automotive industry, the medical field, the military, the clothing industry, you name it. Tools, toys, parts, firearms, automotive and electrical components, scientific instruments, medical implants, prosthetic limbs, even food, it seems almost anything can be conjured up seemingly from thin air by 3D printing in this day and age. Bizarrely, and perhaps inevitably, 3D printing has even been used to reproduce actual haunted, cursed objects. Wait, what?

3D printing

The whole weird experiment started with the alleged discovery of a strange hand-carved statue supposedly found by some hikers stashed away and abandoned, quite possibly hidden, in a dim cave somewhere in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The doll is creepy to say the least, with a length of filthy cord wrapped around its neck and rusty nails driven into its eyes, and it seems like the sort of thing most people would cringe at and leave lying where it was, but in this case the hikers took it home with them. It is a decision they would apparently later regret.

Almost immediately strange phenomena purportedly began to occur around the house, starting with inexplicable bumps, knocks, thuds, thumps, and other anomalous noises in the night when no one else was around, mixed with the persistent, intangible sense of being watched, but it quickly graduated to more frightening fare. Shadowy apparitions began to be seen lurking about, odd smells such as that of stagnant water or decay would appear and disappear, and it was reported that the strange doll would move on its own, changing locations when no one was looking and almost always later found in a different room from where it was left, and even tiny muddy footprints were allegedly discovered around the house. The pet dog of the house was apparently terrified of it and peed in the house on several occasions even though it never had done that before, and would often refuse to enter the premises at all. On one occasion the homeowner claims that they saw an entity crouching in a darkened room that looked like a haggard old crone completely naked and dripping with water, with reflective eyes like those of a cat, leading to the doll’s sinister nickname “The Crone of the Catskills.”

The seemingly possessed object drew great interest from paranormal investigators Dana Matthews & Greg Newkirk, who were able to acquire it for their spooky Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and Occult, a vast repository of some of the world’s most haunted or cursed objects. It is definitely one of the creepier museums out there, and it seems that the Crone would be perfectly at home here. And it was, in the sense that it went right on with its scary bag of tricks. On various occasions the figure was said to knock over furniture and a plastic figure of Jesus Christ on a wooden crucifix from the wall, pulling out the nails out in the process that were never found, as well as leave its muddy footprints all over the museum and the smell of fetid pond water in its wake, and there is one instance in which the Warrens claim to have captured video footage of the statue actually moving.

There were times when heavy furniture toppled over for no apparent reason to almost smash the museum owners or their guests, and the doll was known to roll off of tables on its own. More sinister still were reports of those who touched or even looked at the Crone the wrong way becoming violently ill or ending up in freak accidents. A burning, itching sensation was not uncommon for people who gazed at it too long, and there was a general natural aversion people felt in its presence, as if they were being repelled and pushed away. People who physically touched the figurine had it the worse, allegedly being overcome with sudden and inexplicable violent seizures and prompting the enactment of a strict no-touching rule for the cursed object. Indeed, the Crone was soon wrapped up in a pillowcase, stashed in a padlocked box, and taken out of the exhibition. The statue did not respond to any attempts to placate it, and things supposedly got so bad that the directors, who remember were housing the scariest, most haunted items on the planet, didn’t even want it anymore, and they mulled over putting the doll back into the cave where it had been found. For now it remains with the museum on a no-touch basis, and is rarely shown to visitors.

The Crone of the Catskills

It seems like a good plan to put it back, as it is apparent that disturbing its resting place caused whatever ominous and malignant force is attached to it to lash out, but before doing that it was decided to make it the subject of an off-the-wall experiment thought up by paranormal researchers Karl Pfieffer and Connor Randal. They proposed trying what is perhaps the world’s first attempt to 3D print a haunted object, while at the same time attempting to communicate with the malevolent, restless entity attached to it via psychic and livestreaming the whole thing on a museums member’s only Facebook page, on Halloween night no less. Other 3D scanning projects soon followed, including that of a haunted mask and various cursed idols, in a project meant to create a 3D catalogue of haunted and cursed items. 3D printing a cursed object inhabited by a very pissed off, very aggressive evil force or spirit, what could possibly go wrong? Apparently, making 3D prints of these haunted objects had some strange consequences, including freak equipment malfunctions, almost as if the objects did not want to be scanned, and museum founder Greg Newkirk explained some of these unexplainable issues thus:

We’ve had equipment malfunction in bizarre ways, artifacts mysteriously go missing before we can scan them, and just two weeks ago, we went to print a 3D duplicate of a haunted mask we’ve named The Fetid Face and it completely melted the printer. It destroyed the equipment.

Some artifacts are so plagued with problems that no successfully scan can be made. On top of this, some of the 3D scan prints have been claimed to have exhibited strange phenomena in their own right after the printing, as if some of the ghostly energy from their progenitor has attached itself to these copies as well. Concerning the strange defiance of being printed shown by some objects and the odd tendency for the prints to mimic certain aspects of the paranormal from their parent, Newkirk has said:

In hindsight, I guess we should have anticipated this, but when it comes to working with haunted artifacts in new, unexplored ways, you never know what’s going to happen. We’re attempting something that’s never been done before, laying the groundwork for future study of paranormally-active objects. There are going to be quirks we can’t see coming. Members will email us and let us know that something strange is happening with their copy. Maybe it’s possible that we’ve captured more than just the image of these artifacts in the scan – maybe we’re actually capturing a bit of their essence.

It seems like with 3D printing people will try and make or replicate just about anything, and it seems that we have officially stepped into the world of recreating cursed objects. Good idea or not (probably not), there are some interesting issues this raises, not the least of which is just what quality does an object possess that makes it haunted in the first place, and what anchors a spirit or ghost to it? Is it the object itself or some mysterious unseen quality permeating it? Are these prints upsetting or confusing the spirits? If the object were to be replicated perfectly down to the last molecule would the entity then be anchored to that thing as well or would a curse cling to the replica? It is all a curious little mental exercise to contemplate, and a new dimension on the nature of ghosts and cursed items. Or maybe it is all a bunch of rubbish and there are not ghosts or curses to begin with? Whether one believes in the supernatural or not, the project of 3D printing haunted items is certainly an odd little curiosity that melds the dark world of the paranormal with the shiny toys of modern technology.

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Saucers, triangles and orbs appear to be so yesterday when it comes to UFO shapes these days. Just this week, stories came in from China and California about UFOs shaped like donuts, bowls and rings. Is this the start of the new model year for alien spacecrafts? If so, the photographs and video are unusually clear and suitable for ad campaigns.

The first comes from Lake Dianchi in China’s Yunnan Province where John Chen, on vacation from Taiwan, took some nice clear pictures of birds in the sky above the lake using a camera that was much more in focus than he was because he didn’t see the donut-shaped UFO floating over the horizon until looking at the pictures at home.

“It’s very curious. I don’t know what it is so my suggestion is that it’s a UFO. It doesn’t make any sense.”

The UFO actually looks more like a French cruller than a donut, but the image (seen here) was sharp enough to convince Chen to send it to British UFO researcher Philip Mantle, who reportedly shared it with fellow experts and could not determine what exactly the UFO was. Since Chen doesn’t remember seeing it, there’s no data on its movements. It’s definitely an odd shape for an aircraft, so lighter-than-air trash seems to be leading in the polls.

“This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable. Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes, perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear.”

Unfortunately, he didn’t get a video of the bowl-on-a-bowl-shaped UFO, nor of the helicopter flying above and around it. He says he suspects the helicopter may have been controlling it and the craft was too small for a human to ride in. Nonetheless, his photo also ended up in the hands of Philip Mantle, who reportedly said he’s never seen anything like this in 40 years and:

“This could turn out to be one of the most controversial UFO photo cases on record.”

Or it could be a fake. Other experts pointed out that it could be a sophisticated (for 2007) drone, and noted the military would have had more security if it was something truly top secret. ‘Hoax’ is getting the most votes here.

The third sighting – a ring-shaped cloud tinged orange from the sun – was allegedly taken in Shangrao in the Jiangxi Province. It looks like there were plenty of witnesses. (video and photos here). This type of UFO is generally identified as a vortex ring, which can be the result of a cannon firing (these are popular at festivals), an explosion or a spherical mass of fast-moving air meeting another mass of stationary air. One thing is for sure – they’re not alien spacecrafts or deemed worthy of evaluation by UFO experts.

That’s this week’s edition of New Shapes in UFOs.

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Filer’s Files #46-2017 President Carter Saw UFO - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Light

 Sierra Vista — I was photographing the sunset from a moving car on November 6, 2017, through an open window and took 12 photos. I reviewed them and noticed the object. Lens flare has been ruled out, as it strobed, and moved independently. Upon review, I zoomed in on the object, and observed an unusual appearance that doesn’t look like the space station. There were no obvious planets or moon in the area. Thanks To MUFON CMS

California Objects

Huntington Beach — Walking my dogs last night I looked up to observe movement of a satellite on October 26, 2017. It was a light grey flying wing with little sweep to it and little variation in width of the wing. There were no lights with constant speed. I estimate roughly 15,000 feet high, similar speed or slightly faster than an airliner with a similar wingspan flying west. It looked like an airliner minus the fuselage and lights with a very flat bottom. Having been around aviation my whole life and lived with a father who wrote for Aviation Week for 22 years, my impression is it was an aircraft, not alien.

Cabazon — My girl friend and her mother, were stopped at a rest stop, in Cabazon, California and had someone walking by, take this photo. This photo was taken in February 2015.

While looking through some of my pictures, from three years ago, I noticed the flying saucer shaped object on the upper left hand side of mountain, behind us. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Florida Lights

Miami — The time was nine-thirty P.M. and I was now sitting in the Sterns’ patio with my wife and Richard Boswell. We were facing the west looking over Indian Creek and I said jokingly, “No saucer yet.” She gave me a warm smile, which was broken by a shriek from across the creek. A startled woman said, “There it is again.” She was Mrs. Hunt who lives at Miami Beach, I learned later.

Immediately I jumped to my feet, checked the camera and shouted, “Where is it?”
Could this be the same Saucer from the night before? Actually the reply was instant. Mrs. Hunt said, “to your left above the apartments.”
My wife excitedly said, “There it is!” I was as well prepared to meet the situation and there is nothing in this world that this saucer could be compared with. I held my breath and pressed the camera tightly against my cheek and followed the disk the best I could. My pictures were weird with all 50 feet of film. The disk could be seen clearly with the naked eye. I followed the image with my naked eye instead of through the viewer. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Massachusetts Lights

Westford — A friend of mine who is of sound mind was driving and saw what he described as fireball like objects flying like birds.

He took a few photos and I thought they were amazing, so I decided it was worth reporting.

He was on Highway 495. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Michigan Light

Hessel — Woke up and was looking out the window at 3 AM on November 7, 2017. I saw something flashing in the sky by the stars it seemed. There was a trail of about 7 lines in a triangle shape of white, green and red. I took about 50 pictures as it moved very slow and seemed to change shape. I watched it for about 30 minutes and took pictures of it and went back to bed. I live in the woods with no city lights around. This thing just flashed and changed shapes as the pictures show. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Jersey Unknown Objects

Burlington Township — I was flying my drone at a local lake about a mile from my house videotaping the fall foliage. I did not see the objects until I got home and reviewed my video tape. There are a total of three high speed unknown objects flying under and to the left of my drone. All three incidents were at different time frames. The first was noticed at the 52 second mark and the other two at the 11:35 and 11:40 mark. All three objects are moving in straight lines. Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Lights

Brooklyn — I was walking along the water at Caesar’s Bay shopping center around 11:45 PM on August 4, 2017. The Verrazano bridge was just to the right. I was looking west over New York Harbor, when I noticed 4-5 bright steady lights in unusual pattern hovering in the distance. They maintained their formation consistently, but were not aircraft. I watched for 20 minutes, but the lights did not come closer and were consistent. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Pennsylvania Lights

 Mckeesport — I went out on my back porch on November’7, 2017, and saw the orange lights in the sky.

I was amazed and had chills up my spine.

There were many lights and then they flew off into the sky.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington Disc

Kettle Falls — My father delivered newspapers every night in this area. about 2 PM he saw large disk hovering over Columbia River on June 17, 1967. It had a tube from disc to water…he watched about two minutes. Then the tube retracted and disc flew away..He told me two weeks later, we talked every day. He said he couldn’t talk about it. A deputy sheriff also saw it, but didn’t tell anyone for ten days.

Note: A delay in telling about seeing a UFO is common and people later report they had received telepathic instructions not to reveal abductions and sightings.

Worldwide UFO Sightings

Canada Object

 Scarborough, Ontario — I was at work and went outside within one minute I see a ‘dark ‘ brightly flashing white light object on November 6, 2017.

It  must of went over our roof heading southward Once I noticed the object south couple hundred feet away, my camera was out of my pocket within seconds to film it! I started to film at 4:49 PM, as it was moving fast under about 1000 feet. It stopped for a moment before the hydro lines south for 25 seconds giving me a great opportunity to film it! It then moved on southward towards Lake Ontario flashing brightly. A couple minutes later I lost sight of it. Thanks once again for your interest into the matter Thanks to Paul Shishis

Germany Alien

 Donauwörth — I know computer diction on November 4, 2017.

I know her communications flashing light will be caused by one alien! The light is itself the arm! The light is only visible with night vision. I think they coordinate their devices and her devices could change the state of aggregation in a lightning beam!

You can see 4 small dots on the body only with night vision that are her devices! They are still by me and invisible! Communication is a sound wave like transformer and there are three in the film!

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Japan Lights

On November’7, 2017 I saw some strange lights in the sky and decided to look closer with my smart phone. When I zoomed 8x, I saw a strange square shaped flying object, but the weird thing is that it does not move. It just stayed there, shinning with some abnormal light surrounding itself. I cannot see its exact shape, because it gets rounding all the time.  It does
not look like an airplane, helicopter, satellite, drone or balloon.. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Spain Object

Palma — I was sitting having a coffee on the first morning of my holiday and decided to take a selfie to wind a couple of friends up.
Once I took the photo I went back into my camera role to have a look when I noticed a strange object. I zoomed in on the object to have a closer look and my stomach turned. To this day it makes me feel sick when I look at it I’d just like other people who have a good knowledge of these kind of things to have a look at my pics and tell me what they think I found.  I was watching a MUFON UFO files episode a half hour ago. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Sweden Cigar

Cigar-shaped object with changing lights, radiated a bright dazzling light in brightness like the Moon.
When the large lights went small, a cigar-shaped silhouette appeared and flew very slowly below the clouds.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK/Wales Orb

Cardiff — I was travelling east on the M4 motorway between Cardiff and Newport on November 5, 2017, at 4.05 PM. In the sky to my left was a white object which did not appear to be moving. I took two photos on my iPhone 7 but they are not very clear. Once home, I enlarged the images and saw that the object was definitely nothing I recognized, appearing as 4 vertical rectangles side by side. Had I been alone I would have pulled off the toad to view the object further. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Chester —  On the 8th November 2017 at 06:44 AM. I was letting my dogs into the garden as I had just got up for work. It was a very clear but cold and frosty morning, visibility of the sky was very good.
I noticed a circular light travelling along the sky and thought it was a plane at first but it was going to quickly to be a plane so I got my phone and started recording. Later
I noticed some strange movements as it changed direction slightly but sharply. It did not seem to be the movement of a standard aircraft.
At the very end of the video it suddenly darts in the opposite direction. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Tewkesbury — I was going for a walk and I seen something out of the corner of my eye on November 10, 2017. Amazed when I turned to look this thing was massive I took a pic too it’s in the clouds more to the right on the picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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The robot dog of the future is getting smarter. SpotMini, created by Boston Dynamics, has improved dramatically since its June debut. It’s designed to complete household chores while using its four legs to maintain balance, and a new video released Monday shows the incredible progress the company has made.

In the 24-second video, SpotMini runs up to the camera, peers down to look at the viewer, then lifts itself up and hops along on its way. Unlike its predecessors, which looked like a mesh of wires and metal bars, the new version has a fetching yellow exterior that makes it look more like a cute toy than some sort of military bot. If this dog-like machine is going to live alongside the rest of a family, you want it to look as friendly as possible.

The bot also appears to have a smoother motion. In previous demonstrations, the 55-pound SpotMini has been seen using a retractable arm located in its back to help out around the house, carefully moving objects to avoid dropping them. It can pick up cans, load up a dishwasher, and even do a little dance. During the 16 months since its debut, SpotMini has come on leaps and bounds to develop into a bot that wouldn’t look amiss alongside the Roomba autonomous vacuum cleaner or the Amazon Echo A.I. voice assistant.

At this stage, it’s unclear where SpotMini’s future lies. Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank announced its purchase of Boston Dynamics back in June, taking over from Google parent company Alphabet. SoftBank is known in robotics for its Pepper customer assistant, a humanoid bot with a touchscreen on its front for taking orders in hi-tech stores.

“Smart robotics are going to be a key driver of the next stage of the information revolution, and Marc (Raibert) and his team at Boston Dynamics are the clear technology leaders in advanced dynamic robots,” SoftBank Group Chairman Masayoshi Son said at the time of the purchase.

Hopefully SpotMini leaps its way into homes soon.

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UFO IN NASA MOON IMAGE? HERE ARE THE MOST RIDICULOUS 'SIGHTINGS' OF THE LAST MONTH

BY JOSEPH FRANKEL

From Roswell to War of the Worlds, the prospect of making first contact is thrilling, terrifying, and a surefire way to grab public attention. That’s part of why stories of UFO sightings, like this week’s tabloid reporting of a reemergence of the “Black Knight Satellite ” can be so compelling. While so far all these stories have been of course proven false, Newsweek has chosen to highlight a few stories that may have got your hopes up.  

Just last month, there were since deleted reports of a “giant glowing ball” of light near the Arctic in Siberia possibly believed to be a UFO. The source, perhaps less romantically, turned out to be ICB missile tests. At the time, some sources interviewed for The Siberian Times expressed concern that the impressive display was rooted in alien activity or “a gap in the space-time continuum” rather than a military exercise. But, alas, the Northern lights were predicted to be especially bright that night so photographers by coincidence had their lenses trained on the sight.

Yesterday, a U.K.-based site reported directly on an online video observing that a perfectly triangular dent had been found on the surface of the moon. The video goes on to make the claim that the photographs of a small dent in the surface of the moon could be “providing cover for existing bases” for extraterrestrial creatures.

And on the same day, another outlet published a story raising the possibility that the ‘Black Knight Satellite’ had been spotted in images taken by NASA Apollo 16. Something of a Loch Ness Monster of outer space, the Black Knight Satellite has been purportedly ‘spotted’ many times over the years with little if anything to back it up. According to Vice, the myth dates back over 100 years to Nikola Tesla's early experimentation with radios in 1899. To that publication’s credit though, they raised the much more likely possibility that the dark spot on the screen was “a thermal blanket accidentally dropped from a space shuttle.”

But why all the hype? While there's a deeply human impulse to imagine and seek out life outside of what we know, as the almost spiritual nature of the true efforts to search for extraterrestrial life attest to, more likely than not, these articles are more likely tapping into market demands than any deeper psychological need. 

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peter2011 : this is written by a sceptic journalist and not all is confabulation or a hoax.  I publish his story on my log, so you can read the "logical" thinking of a sceptic. Sorry, but it's to easy to write that is all false without proof!!!

Floating terror: Deadly jelly-like sea creature features in next 'horrifying' Blue Planet 2 episode

Portuguese man-of-war or the floating terror is most likely to be mistaken for a jellyfish.

By Sutrishna Ghosh

The jelly-like Portuguese man-of-war can harness sail power to fish with its deadly tentacles 

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Sir David Attenborough's popular BBC One series continues with its great exploration in the big blue next weekend. After the hair-raising segment on the 'alien-like' Bobbit worm, Blue Planet 2 viewers are all set to explore the life of a deadly sea-creature that hunts using its venomous tentacles in next Sunday's (19 November) episode.

Known as Portuguese man-of-war or the floating terror, the creature is most likely to be mistaken for a jellyfish. But, according to a description available on the National Geographic's site, the man o' war is an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together.

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‘Most Controversial UFO Photo on Record:’ UFO Sighting in California Desert

The pictures were reportedly taken by Keith Bradshaw in 2007, but he was too nervous to reveal them to the world until this week. Bradshaw claims that he went out to the desert after an old friend working on the base told him about the mysterious sighting. 

"This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable," he told the Daily Star.

"Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes, perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear."

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Bradshaw also claims to have heard a helicopter as he walked toward the base, before seeing the silver craft. He watched the UFO for approximately 10 minutes and noticed the military helicopter flying around near the craft at the same time.

"I don't believe anyone could have been riding on the inside, but I got the idea the helicopter was somehow remotely controlling it," he said.

"It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it, sometimes because they would do little tricks with it."

Bradshaw sent his pictures to the world's top UFO experts, who are unsure whether the photos are real or not.

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British UFO hunter Philip Mantle said, "This could turn out to be one of the most controversial UFO photo cases on record," adding that he has never seen anything like the images in his more than 40 years of research.

"The photo analysts contacts cannot come to an agreement about these photos. Are they fake or genuine? Who knows."

Jason Gleaves, a former Royal Air Force and current British defence contractor with BAE Systems, believes the sighting could be real, according to the Daily Star.

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Britain’s UFO files EXPOSED: Rare images reveal ‘alien ships’ spotted across UK

TOP secret pictures revealing UFOs spotted across the UK have been revealed after being declassified by the Ministry of Defence.

By Henry Holloway 

Sketches drawn by people who claimed to have seen alien spacecraft for over 60 years were submitted to the Ministry of Defence’s so-called UFO Desk.

“The striking images in the new book were sourced from these and an older collection of UFO files”

Dr Clarke

Odd accounts include a drawing for a white orb-shaped UFO spotted at a school in Macclesfield in 1977.

Children described the object with an opening and ladder landing near Upton Priory Junior School.

Dr Clarke said: “Their teacher, Mrs Hindmarsh, ushered the children inside and asked to draw what they had seen, separating them to ensure that no copying took place.

“The youngsters used pencils and coloured crayons to produce the images that ended up in an MoD file.”

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SKETCH: A detailed drawing of an 'alien craft' spotted over Smethwick

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ALIEN WORLD: This picture was sent to the Ministry of Defence claiming to be of another plant

Meanwhile, another sketch shows a lamp-shaped object with a flashing blue which flew over Smethwick in 1954.

With the name redacted, the UFO experiencer wrote a detailed account saying the craft hovered around 12feet above the ground for five minutes.

They wrote the craft was “totally silent, releasing a trail of smoke from the rear”.

Another strange picture sent to the Ministry of Defence in 2003 alleges shows to the “home world of the Procyons/Andromedons”.

Other stories detailed in the book include an alien spotted on the A1, and flying saucers cruising over Hampstead.

Dr Clarke is a lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University and specialising in researching modern folklore.

He said: “The striking images in the new book were sourced from these and an older collection of UFO files, some dating back to the Second World War, that have been opened to public inspection under the 30 year rule.”

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FLYING SAUCER: Alien ships spotted by school children at their school in Macclesfield

Earlier this year, a massive trove of UFO files were released by the MoD as alien hunters hoped for a smoking gun.

Since 2008, Dr Clarke has worked with The National Archives in releasing a trove of previously classified UFO files held by the MoD.

The book has been published by Four Corners Books.

Scientists have not yet discovered proof of the existence of aliens. 

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Shocking UFO sighting above US Navy base in the California desert raises the possibility of alien visitors

The pictures were taken in 2007 but have only now been revealed to the public

By Jeff ParsonsTech/Science Reporter

These stunning pictures appear to show an alien spacecraft hovering in the air over the desert and have been seized upon by the UFO community.

They were taken by a man using the pseudonym "Keith Bradshaw", who says he went out to the desert near the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in California after being told about the craft by a friend.

He snapped the pictures in 2007 - but says he has been too nervous to show them until now.

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“This thing would wobble along close to the ground, very unstable," he told the Daily Star .

“Then it would freeze in position, go up to a certain height and sit there for a few minutes perfectly still. It made no noise that I could hear."

Keith said that he watched the craft for about ten minutes. He also claimed he saw the silver UFO while a number of military vehicles were parked nearby.

There was even a military helicopter flying around at the time.

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“I don’t believe anyone could have been riding on the inside, but I got the idea the helicopter was somehow remotely controlling it," he said.

“It looked like whoever was controlling it was having fun with it, sometimes because they would do little tricks with it.”

By opening the pictures up to the world now, Keith hopes to open the conversation about whether we've been visited by extraterrestrials - or whether it was simply some new kind of military hardware that he witnessed.

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He provided the pictures to 54-year-old UFO sleuth Philip Mantle, who says he hasn't seen anything like this in over 40 years of research.

Mr Mantle has described them as "the most controversial UFO photos on record" and adds experts are unable to agree if the photographs are real.

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Astronomers are on the lookout for low-frequency gravitational waves generated by merging supermassive black holes

In just a year, scientists have confirmed not one but five gravitational waves. But don’t worry, if you thought gravitational waves — essentially ripples in the fabric of space-time — are now dull and mundane, scientists found new ways to keep them interesting. New research showed that it’s theoretically possible to pick up the low-frequency gravitational waves generated by events such as the merger of two supermassive black holes. The discovery could be ten years away.

Intergalactic waves

Gravitational waves have made a lot of headlines lately so what’s with all the hype?

The existence of gravitational waves, which were first predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity about a hundred years ago, was only confirmed only last year. The event was recorded by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), whose founders were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. 

Gravity waves are essentially ripples in the fabric of spacetime which are generated by interactions between very massive accelerating cosmic objects, such as neutron stars or black holes. Physicists liken gravity waves to the waves generated when a stone is thrown into a pond.

Gravity waves are basically ripples/distortions in the medium that we live in, space-time itself.

Credit: ESO/NASA.

LIGO was founded in 1992, so it took them 25 years to prove their existence. That’s because detecting a gravity wave is no easy feat. To spot gravitational waves directly for the first time, scientists had to measure a distance change 1,000 times smaller than the width of a proton using interferometers, basically mirrors placed 4 kilometers apart.

In the case of the September 14, 2015, observation which was announced on February 11, 2016, scientists observed gravitational waves produced by the collision of black holes with a mass about a dozen times that of the Sun. Since then, gravitational waves have been spotted another four times. The most recent observation of a gravitational wave was generated by the merger of two neutron stars, which are the collapsed cores of large stars — they’re the smallest and, at the same time, densest stars we know of. The event was detected both by LIGO and by traditional telescopes which picked up light from the gamma-ray bursting out of the neutron star merger.

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Astronomers, however, would like to also detect far stronger gravitational waves, such as those produced by the merger of supermassive black holes — behemoth black holes whose mass can be millions if not billions of times greater than that of the Sun. The problem is that neither LIGO nor VIRGO can register low-frequency signals such as those generated by extremely massive events.

Thankfully, scientists have already thought of a solution. According to a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, it’s quite possible to detect gravitational waves from merging supermassive black holes by studying the subtle anomalies in pulsars.

A pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star which emits electromagnetic signals. These objects are also very dense, holding the mass of the sun in about the size of a large city. Pulsars radiate two steady, narrow beams of light in opposite directions. Although the light from the beam is steady, pulsars appear to flicker because they also spin. For this reason, pulsars have earned the nickname of ‘cosmic lighthouses’.

With enough data, by studying the periodicity and strength of the pulsar signals, scientists can infer the presence and strength of a gravitational wave if the pulsar signal is delayed even by a tiny amount.

“A difference between when the pulsar signals should arrive, and when they do arrive, can signal a gravitational wave,” says Chiara Mingarelli, lead author of the new study and a research fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. “And since the pulsars we study are about 3,000 light-years away, they act as a galactic-scale gravitational-wave detector.”

In order to predict where and when supermassive black hole mergers might occur, researchers employed data from the 2 Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS), which they combined with galaxy merger rates recorded by the Illustris simulation project. 

Out of the 5,000 galaxies that they studied, the scientists narrowed the list down to 90 pairs of supermassive black holes, the most massive of which are expected to merge within the next four million years. Mingarelli and colleagues are confident that by expanding the “pulsar timing array over the next 10 years or so, there is a high likelihood of detecting gravitational waves from at least one supermassive black hole binary.”

Ultimately, detecting a gravitational wave generated by merging supermassive black holes could teach us more about how galaxies form and merge, helping us unravel the secrets of the universe.

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Experts find ‘secret passageway to an underground cave’ beneath Mexican Pyramid

Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery after revealing a ‘secret’ passageway located beneath the ancient pyramid of Kukulkan in the ancient city of Chichen Itza in Mexico.

The Mayan pyramid located in Chichen Itza is one of the most visited sites in modern-day Mexico.

Erected more than a thousand years ago, the stunning structure built by the long-lost civilization has been the subject of debate among experts, who have revealed a number of secrets hiding in the Pyramids interior.

Now, experts have found what appears to be a secret passageway leading to an underground chamber, or cave, filled with water beneath the ‘El Castillo’ Pyramid at Chichen Itza.

The cave, according to experts, is a cenote (a kind of flooded hole) that leads to the temple and could reveal the “sacred geography” of the place.

The theory is that there is a system of underground sumps interconnected around the pyramid at its cardinal points.

The Pyramid of El Castillo holds many secrets.

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The discovery was made by a team led by underwater archaeologist Guillermo de Anda, who used advanced imaging techniques, like ground penetrating lidar—a form of radar, to send electromagnetic signals through the walls and other architectural elements of the pyramid and its surroundings—and make a 3D model of the structures that make up the subsoil around the pyramid.

However, although there is certainty of the existence of the passage, the first explorations have not been made.

De Anda said in a statement to Milenio, that if the cenote was verified, it would “totally change” the vision we have of “the patterns of the Mayan settlement.”

This image shows the tunnel that leads to the interior of the Kukulcán pyramid at Chichen Itza.

Image Credit: INAH

The discovery was made through a smaller burial chamber referred to as the Ossuary.

In an interview with El universal, Dr. De Anda said: “Through the Ossuary, we can enter the cave beneath the structure and there we found a blocked passageway, probably closed off by the ancient Mayans themselves. We will enter again and this time we will try to open it to see if the passageway leads us to the entrance of the cenote beneath the pyramid.”

Unlike the European cosmogony that places the deities in heaven, Mayan spirituality believed that the Gods came from the underworld. The most sacred and alive was the earth, that is why formations such as caves and cenotes were so sacred because they were an access road to the inside of the earth, that is, leading to the presence of the gods,” said Dr. James Brady from the California State University, Los Angeles.

ERT-3D scans have revealed a smaller substructure within the walls of the Temple of Kukulkan.

Image credit: UNAM

Dr. Brady is a worldwide pioneer in the study of the relations established by the Mayans between architecture and caves.

Experts believe the ancient Maya built one of their most sacred pyramids around 1,000 years ago on top of a cavern, due to their religious beliefs.

Furthermore, archaeologists note that the cenotes that are located around the Pyramid may represent the four cardinal points.

Researchers also note that the river located at the center may represent the center of the Maya universe, which they envisioned as a tree with roots reaching below ground.

Source: INAH

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Hey all you citizen inventors! On November 7, 2017, NASA opened team registration for Phase 3 of its 3D Printed Habitat Challenge – the On-Site Habitat Competition. Get a team together and grab this awesome opportunity to share your ideas – plus there’s a $2 million total prize purse.

If humans plan to live on Mars – and beyond – future missions won’t be able to carry all of the necessary building materials from Earth, so we’re going to need some innovative options for shelter. NASA’s 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is looking for ways to develop technologies to create such habitats on-site, and challenges citizen inventors to lead the way.

In other words, NASA wants America’s best and brightest to help them figure out how to build a house on Mars, using advanced 3D printing technology in the most efficient and sustainable way possible.

Competition details, schedule and rules.

According to a NASA statement:

The goal of the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is to foster the development of new technologies necessary to additively manufacture a habitat using local indigenous materials with, or without, recyclable materials. The vision is that autonomous machines will someday be deployed to the Moon, Mars or beyond to construct shelters for human habitation.

First place winner in Phase 2: Ice house by SEArch/Clouds Architecture Office. Read more about this design here.

Image via NASA.

The 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is divided into phases. The Phase 1: Design Competition called on participants to develop state-of-the-art architectural concepts and was completed in 2015.

The Phase 2: Structural Member Competition focused on manufacturing structural components and was completed in August 2017.

The now-open Phase 3: On-Site Habitat Competition challenges competitors to fabricate sub-scale habitats using indigenous materials with or without mission-generated recyclables, and offers a $2 million total prize purse.

Mars Artificial Atmospheric Envelope (M.A.A.E.) – a finalist from Phase 2. More info about this design here.

Image via NASA.

Phase 3 has five levels of competition. Interested teams may register through February 15, 2018. Find full details, schedule and rules here.

Monsi Roman is program manager of NASA’s Centennial Challenges. Roman said in a statement:

The ideas and technologies this competition has already produced are encouraging, and we are excited to see what this next phase will bring. The solutions we seek from our competitions are revolutionary, which by nature makes them extremely difficult. But this only fuels our teams to work harder to innovate and solve.

Bottom line: On November 7, 2017, NASA opened team registration for Phase 3 of its 3D Printed Habitat Challenge – the On-Site Habitat Competition

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