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.
Vrijdag 24 november 2017
Atlas, The Next Generation
Atlas, The Next Generation
A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain, help with navigation and manipulate objects. This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs.
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$50,000 humanoid robot built from scratch in Hong Kong
Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamed of building his own one day.
Unlike most, however, Ma has realised his childhood dream at the age of 42, by successfully constructing a life-sized robot from scratch on the balcony of his home.
The fruit of his labours of a year-and-a-half, and a budget of more than $50,000, is a female robot prototype he calls the Mark 1, modelled after a Hollywood star whose name he wants to keep under wraps. It responds to a set of programmed verbal commands spoken into a microphone.
The blue he drew on his artistic rendition of Kepler-186f was too blue—too suggestive of an exoplanet with abundant water. “Too inviting,” he says. “The public might think we discovered another Earth.”
Not quite the statement NASA wanted to send, even though Kepler-186f sure seemed like Earth—about the same size, probably rocky, and yes—possibly holding water.
“But we didn’t want to say that,” says Pyle. “We’re very careful with our messaging. We might imply something that’s not accurate.”
So the deep blue became sky blue—softer, more pastel, less definitive—and the green had to go. Green might translate as trees, flowers, grass. “People interpret green as plant life,” he says. “We try to avoid green.”
Credit: NASA / Ames / SETI Institute / JPL-Caltech / T. Pyle
Exoplanet Kepler-186f, 490 light years from Earth.
Drawing that fine line between scientific precision and artistic inspiration is the daily predicament faced by Pyle and his colleague Robert Hurt at their Caltech office in Pasadena, California.
Pyle, a multimedia producer, and Hurt, a visualization scientist, collaborate to create the stunning and ethereal exoplanet images, viewed worldwide by millions via media—television, newspapers, billboards, apps, video games, and online.
“We’re sort of the Yin and Yang,” says Hurt, who has a Ph.D. in astronomy. “I come from the science side, he comes from the art side, and we speak enough of the same language to find the right balance.”
When designing a planet (with off-the-shelf software), the two invariably have little to go on; no detailed photograph of an alien exoworld exists.
But they do know the planet’s size, distance from the host star, whether it’s rocky or gaseous, and perhaps the approximate temperature. “Relatively small pieces of information,” says Hurt. “Beyond that there’s a tremendous amount of science speculation.”
Too much creative overreach, and NASA researchers let them know. “It’s rare we nail it the first time out,” says Pyle, a former visual effects animator for Nickelodeon (Invader Zim,SpongeBob SquarePants). “Almost always we get a change request.”
Often the change seems like minutiae. Just before NASA announced the discovery of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets last February, Pyle encountered an objection to one of his renderings: “It was about the shape of the icebergs. The scientists said those shapes implied an atmospheric model of rain that would not exist. So I had to come up with a different shape.”
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt
Exoplanet KELT-9b, a hot gas giant orbiting its star.
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / T. Pyle
Artist's conception of the surface of TRAPPIST-1f.
Neither artist minds the input—and the astronomers, says Pyle, are happy to help. “I think we encountered more resistance years ago than we do now. There’s no real resistance now. Scientists understand how important public communication is.”
Indeed, one of NASA's goals with the space art is coverage—media attention. And facts alone aren’t always enough.
“The quickest way to get a press release ignored is to send it out as a bunch of words on paper, with no illustrations at all,” says Hurt.
Certainly, the lay public won’t care about the shape of icebergs; they only want to see an enchanting otherworldly image. Even so, Pyle says the process is intimidating. “When people think of those planets, they now think of our specific artwork,” he says. “A huge responsibility goes with that. Like, we better get it right.”
Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt
Abstract of the TRAPPIST-1 system.
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The Buzludzha monument near Kazanluk, Bulgaria looks like a UFO that’s been decaying for centuries, but it’s actually only 36 years old.
Have little green men from outer space been taking an increased interest in our planet over the past twelve months?
UFO sightings near you." data-reactid="32" style="text-align: justify;">A new UFO Stalker map on the MUFON website – which hosts thousands upon thousands of sightings from the general public – lets you see UFO sightings near you.
recent sightings in British areas such as Lisburn in Northern Ireland and Aberdeenshire, with the site claiming that sightings are up 12% since 2016." data-reactid="33" style="text-align: justify;">The UFO Stalker map shows off recent sightings in British areas such as Lisburn in Northern Ireland and Aberdeenshire, with the site claiming that sightings are up 12% since 2016.
Earlier this year, authors Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa analysed sightings reported to UFO groups such as Mufon and Nuforc.
And contrary to popular myth, UFO sightings are not dying off – in fact, the opposite is true, at least in North America, where sightings rose to 11,868 nationwide in 2015 from 3,479 in 2001.
New map shows where UFOs have been spotted near you, as sightings triple
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said, ‘UFO Stalker is a brilliant visual guide to the location of UFO sightings, and shows the sheer scale of this phenomena throughout the country over the last few years.
‘For UFO researchers it can help them identify UFO hot spots, trends and patterns of activity. This is useful for those trying to establish if UFOs follow specific flightpaths, particularly for those who think UFOs are related to geomagnetic and seismic activity.
‘This theory tries to prove that UFOs, especially strange lights or luminous objects, are caused by teutonic strains in the Earth’s crust. The maps could also help show if UFOs follow so-called Ley Lines that criss-cross the planet, or if they cluster around military sites.
‘The downside of such a map is the quality of the sightings in its data base, these should be carefullyfiltered if anyone really wants to establish geomagnetic or other links with UFO activity. Clusters of sightings might for example be caused by increased media activity in an area, or a bright meteor or other mundane phenomena could also trigger a wave of UFO sightings.’
‘Nonetheless, this is a handy way of presenting UFO data and is very helpful in helping pin down the weird things seen in our skies.’
The Sherbrooke stones: Evidence of Africans visiting America 2,500 years ago?
Located in the Museum of the Seminary of Sherbrooke are a set of mysterious stones that, according to many who have researched them, could offer conclusive evidence that neither the Vikings, nor Columbus traveled to America first, but a culture from Northern Africa, and 2,500 years ago.
The stones inscriptions allegedly tell the story of northern African explorers who traveled to the American continent some 2,500 years ago.
The stones, which are located at the museum since 1910 are believed to have been discovered in the early 19th century. One of the stones was found 100 miles east of Montreal, in a field near Bromptonville, five miles north of Sherbrooke, while the other one was discovered on a hill overlooking Sherbrooke.
So, did African explorers reach the American continent thousands of years ago?
According to the inscriptions of the two stones made of limestone, the answer is a profound yes.
The two stones are approximately 22 by 32 inches.
The man who supposedly delivered the inscriptions on the stones was Professor Thomas Lee, an archaeologist from the University of Laval.
According to a newspaper slip, Professor Lee argues the inscriptions on the stones were written in an ancient Libyan script.
“The Libyans would have been operating, in my opinion, out of Carthage, which was a Phoenician city at the time,” Professor Lee is quoted in the newspaper.
According to Professor Lee, the ancient African expedition most likely reached the area after successfully sailing up the Sint. Francis River.
The inscriptions written in stone were deciphered by Howard Barraclough Fell, a professor of invertebrate zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
Despite the fact that Fell’s primary professional research included starfish and sea urchins, he is best known for his controversial work in New World epigraphy, arguing that various inscriptions in the Americas are best explained by extensive pre-Columbian contact with Old World civilizations.
Professor Fell’s work was—unsurprisingly—rejected by most mainstream scholars who firmly reject the notion that African explorers arrived in the American continent around 2,500 years ago.
According to Fell’s translation of the stones, they read: “Expedition that crossed in the service of Lord Hiram to conquer territory.” While the other of the pair discovered together bears the inscription: “Record by Hata, who attained this limit on the river, moored his ship and engraved this rock.”
Researchers argue that the text carved on the stone is called Boustrophedon, in which “you read the first line left to right and the next line right to left.”
Professor Fell is quoted saying that “barabarous lands at the end of the world” is probably a description of the Americas. Fell argues that the people who left the stones behind most likely made two more expeditions, one towards the Yucatan Peninsula. Professor Fell is quoted in the newspaper saying: One stone found there “gives the area its name”.
Evidence of trans-oceanic voyages?
Interestingly, there are many ‘controversial’ pieces of evidence that suggest ancient cultures from America and Africa were interconnected, thousands of years ago.
For example, it is well known that a researcher called Dr. Svetla Balabanova discovered traces of Coca and Tobacco in ancient Egyptian mummies. Curiously, there is no evidence of coca or tobacco cultivation in Africa, Europe or Asia before the time of Christopher Columbus.
The Fawn Hood Mummy
Another curious discovery was made some 200 years ago when miners discovered a strange mummy in one of the largest cave systems in America: The Mammoth Cave. Inside it, miners found an extremely well-preserved mummy with red hair prepared and embalmed in an eerily similar way as the ancient Egyptians. After examining the mummy in the late 1800’s, the Smithsonian Institute ‘lost’ the mummy.
Take 2 minutes to watch this stunning NASA timelapse showing sea salt, dust, and smoke flowing around Earth during 2017’s active hurricane season.
Tracking the aerosols carried on the winds let scientists see the currents in our atmosphere. This way-cool visualization, by the NASA Goddard Media Studios, follows sea salt, dust, and smoke from July 31 to November 1, 2017, showing how these particles are transported across the globe. Check out the hurricanes!
This visualization is a result of combining NASA satellite data with sophisticated mathematical models that describe the underlying physical processes.
UFO hunter who 'found alien buildings on Mercury' says 'Men in Black' tried to silence him
A UFO hunter behind one of the most popular conspiracy theory websites has made astonishing allegations so-called "Men in Black" have been trying to take him offline, in a bid to quash the "evidence of alien life" he claims to produce.
Scott C Waring made the staggering claim in an article on his conspiracy theory website ufosightingsdaily.com which also claim to reveal evidence of alien buildings on the surface of Mercury.
The Men in Black myth began in the 1950s, when some UFO witnesses across the US, who spoke out about their sightings, claimed to be visited by shadowy anonymous Government officials dressed in black suits and dark sunglasses, who warned them to stay quiet or something bad might happen.
The conspiracy theory emerged against the backdrop of claims the government is involved in a major cover up over the existence of aliens, because it fears public knowledge of this would lead to the breakdown of religion and the rule of law.
Mr Waring claimed in a post the US government had teamed up with search engines to try and cause harm to his website, suggesting he may have been hacked.
In the post entitled "Site Is Being Attacked By US Gov To Stop The Public From Viewing This Evidence," he said: "For some time I have had this site taken offline due to Google working with the US government to hide certain information from the public.
MEN IN BLACK: UFO hunter Scott C Waring claims his website has been hacked.
"Some people are reporting spam warnings, others are reporting 404 errors.
"There is no way in hell that this will stop me from doing what I do.
"So, to Google and the US Government, I say get the f**k out of my way and off my site!
"I am sick and tired of all the reports and warnings I have been getting."
Getty*Scott C Waring
He used the same post to announce the discovery of what he claimed was evidence of alienbuildings on the surface of Mercury that he found in NASA space probe images taken from above.
Mr Waring said: "Below are close up structures on planet Mercury.
"As you see they are deep under the surface and reach above the surface.
"The difference in lighting tells you these objects are there. Any professional photographer could tell you this.
NASA
ALIEN HOMES? For some reason Scott C waring feels these look like buildings on Mercury.
For some time I have had this site taken offline due to Google working with the US government to hide certain information from the public.
Scott C Waring
"Yet, the public has been programmed since birth to believe that aliens don't exist, that NASA tells them all the truth.
"I am here to say they are lying to you all. Take a look for yourselves."
This is despite temperatures on Mercury reaching a blazing 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celcius) by day, and a freezing -290 degrees Farenheit (-180 degrees Celcius) at night due to outs lack of atmosphere.
Mr Waring has made a series of outlandish claims about finding evidence on planets in the solar system, mainly Mars.
There, he claims to have seen in NASA images evidence of a menagerie of earth-like animals, fossils, ruined buildings, and even live alien beings.
Sceptical debunkers say these are the result of pareidolia, a phenomenon when the brain tricks the eyes into seeing familiar objects or faces in patters like clouds or the surface of a rock, combined with Mr Waring's over active imagination.
NASA denies yet finding any evidence of even the most simplistic forms of life in our solar system.
The US government claims to have no interest in UFO3s and denies frustrating the work of alien truth seekers.
BOOK REVIEW: Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers by Jacques Vallee (Daily Grail Publishing) 2014/ 1969
Having further familiarized myself with the 50-plus year old writings of John A. Keel these past few months, finally getting down and reading long-loved cult classics like Operation Trojan Horse (1970) and The Mothman Prophecies (1975), the repeated references to the works of French-American scientist and ufologist Jacques Vallee – a contemporary, and friend, of the late John A. Keel – finally convinced me that Vallee’s own classic, Passport to Magonia, was required reading.
Why? Because Keel, in his entertaining and entirely readable way, helped pull away the masks of the manipulative pranksters (“ultraterrestrials”) of the Superspectrum, essentially reporting that these entities have taken on different guises over the millennia –and that they have always shared our planet, despite humanity not knowing who they really are or where they live.
They are here. It’s just they are the ones who decide when they appear before human beings and in what form. Most commonly, in the Middle Ages, they were seen as the fairies and elves of ancient folklore, and so forth.
But with time came change and the “costumes” and methods also changed, as we entered the age of the airplane and the “Space Age,” with the increased appearance of “craft,” allegedly piloted by “aliens” who are here to help mankind and steer us to a New Age, or so we are told.
And so it is interesting how both Keel and Vallee both tapped into the idea that took them from believing the extraterrestrial angle regarding aliens and UFOs to promoting the interdimensional idea, which dismisses the theory that the "visitors" are travelers from another planet.
On the day I began reading Passport to Magonia (Nov. 16th), I later learned that I was reading the book on the 40th anniversary of the release of the Steven Spielberg-directed film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In this film, a French scientist character named Lacombe (played by Francois Truffaut) was directly inspired by Vallee.
In any event, Passport to Magonia ("Magonia" being a mythological "cloud realm" populated by the entities so often encountered during modern cases of UFO sightings or in antiquity) highlights the idea, as Vallee writes in the preface, that "investigators (into UFOs) have never recognized the fact that belief identical to those held today have recurred throughout recorded history and under forms best adapted to the believer's country, race, and social regime."
Vallee also admits that when he wrote the manuscript for Passport to Magonia in the late 1960's, he "entirely forgot that I was a scientist by profession," confessing that he felt science was not pursuing questions that human beings have in their hearts. And as a scientist, he opted to delve into the lengthy history of folklore, from around the world, and in Europe and the Americas in particular, noting the large number of strange beings, aerial craft ("cloudships") and other odd events that perplexed man and woman alike over the centuries.
And what better way to interfere with the destiny of human beings as we become more technologically advanced. The forces that are appearing in various forms (short beings, tall beings, male or female, with masks, gas masks, helmets, long hair, no hair, big eyes, small eyes, mouth movement or telepathy ...) over the years seem to understand that, as Vallee writes, "(h)uman actions are based on imagination, belief, and faith, not on objective observation ..." Yes, we are human and fallible.
Continuing, Vallee writes: "Even science, which claims its methods and theories are rationally developed, is really shaped by emotion and fancy, or by fear. And to control human imagination is to shape mankind's collective destiny, provided the source of this control is not identifiable by the public." Indeed!
From the fairies, "wee folk" "Gentry," "Good People," and dwarves that haunted to European countryside to today's seemingly solid "flying saucers," Vallee makes valid arguments that the phenomenon, over the centuries, are one and the same, as the book's cover seems to indicate.
But the cases are utterly fascinating - and shocking! Some involve pleasurable sex with alien women, as in the case of Brazlian famer Antonio Villas-Boas, back in 1957.
And going back to 17th century Scotland and the research of a Reverend Kirk, of Aberfoyle, he wrote a manuscript at the time titled The Secret Commonwealth of the Elves, Fauns and Fairies. Kirk offered up 16 bullet points about these "Elementals" who have "chameleon-like bodies" and have "fluid" bodies that allow them to appear and vanish at will. Sounds like many of the latter-day UFO sightings from folks who say they saw a craft one second and the next second it was gone.
The strange 1896-97 airship scare was particularly baffling, with Vallee recounting the case of a train engineer working near Texarkana, Arkansas (near Homan in Miller County) and while out hunting in May 1897, encountered an "airship" and a pilot, with whom he conversed. Was this a human? Was it something else? People all over the country, particularly in the middle of the country, were seeing these airships.
So, what happened to the First Fourth Norfolk, a British regiment fighting in what is now western Turkey in 1915? These men marched into a strange cloud at ground level and hundreds of British soldiers "disappeared" as the cloud lifted and the soldiers had vanished. The Turks told the British government they did not have these men as prisoners of war, not even knowing of their existence.
Then there is the curous case of Private First Class Gerry Irwin, a Nike nuclear missile technician stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, near El Paso. On Feb. 28, 1959, Irwin was driving between Nampa, Idaho and Fort Bliss when passing near Cedar City, Utah, he thought he saw a plane crash nearby. Going to investigate, Irwin would lose track of time and later be found unconscious.
Irwin was soon hospitalized and was found to be in decent health, and later discharged from the hospital at Fort Bliss. But life would not be the same for Irwin, as Vallee tells us the doomed man fell unconscious on an El Paso street and later felt compelled to take a bus to Cedar City, where the initial event had taken place, and find his jacket, which was still on a bush where he had left it.
Writes Vallee: "There was a pencil in a buttonhole with a piece of paper wound tightly around it. He took the paer and burned it. Then he seemed to come out of a trance." Irwin was perplexed as to why he was back in Utah. More psychological examinations were ordered, but by summer, it seemed Irwin had other plans, as he would soon disappear.
"On August 1," writes Vallee, "(Irwin) failed to report for duty. One month later he was listed as a deserter. He was never seen again."
Where did Private Irwin go? Is this the whole story?
It seems as though the entities that are bedeviling humanity seem to have a particular interest in folks serving in the military. And the Irwin case, we must note, took place during those early, volatile years of the Cold War, when nuclear war was considered a real threat.
And while Passport to Magonia is only 160 pages or so, there is a lengthy appendix to go over, followed by Vallee's collection of "UFO landings" over a century's time, from 1868 to 1968. One of the more interesting cases - and there are many! - were on Aug. 2 and Aug. 3, 1965 here in Oklahoma City. On Aug 2, "five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings, close to the ground int he 600 block of NW 63rd Street, which, even today, is an open area with railroad tracks crossing it. The following day, on Aug. 3rd, "a young man saw an object rise from (Lake Hefner)." The distance between the two locations is several miles.
Passport to Magonia has earned its rightful place as an essential tome covering the more occult and folkloric angles in these ongoing mysteries that continue to perplex us to this day.
Unencumbered by a physical body and its many vital needs for survival such as oxygen, can souls or ghosts travel, apart from the seven astral worlds, to other planets? Can a soul be reborn on another planet? The UK Mirror recently carried a fascinating article headlined : “ ‘Genius’ Russian boy can remember previous life on Mars in astounding detail”. Steve Robson wrote that “…The curious case of Boriska Kipriyanovich, now aged 20, continues to startle experts… From an early age, he began telling experts about his previous life on Mars. Boris believes he lived among an alien civilisation that was ravaged by war and then a nuclear catastrophe. The Martians were seven feet tall and breathed carbon dioxide, he said.
“He claims he was a Martian pilot and travelled to earth where he was “reborn” in 1996.The human race has much more knowledge to unlock, and the Great Sphinx in Egypt holds the key, he says. “The human life will change when the Sphinx is opened, it has an opening mechanism somewhere behind the ear; I do not remember exactly,” claims Boriska… Boriska is said to have displayed much higher than average intelligence from young age and was reading, writing and speaking by just 18 months.”
Over the years, three different categories of “explanations” have covered strange happenings: supernatural or paranormal, the time-warp theory, and extraterrestrial. Does the case of Boriska Kipriyanovich fall in the extraterrestrial category or does it fall somewhere in between the paranormal—since it was a non-earthling born on earth—and the extraterrestrial categories? Incidentally, when I was travelling through remote villages in the Garhwal Himalayas, a village woman had narrated in minute detail a very interesting encounter with an alien who had a green skin. Curiously, a few months after this encounter she gave birth to a queer looking baby with green skin. News of the happening spread fast even from such a remote area and photographs of the “green baby” were taken but unfortunately, the baby died before it could be “scientifically” examined. However, after hearing the accounts scientists dismissed them as those of “gullible” people.
Yet significantly, the majority of worldwide sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs and often their occupants have not come from illiterate, gullible people or people of unsound mind or prone to hallucinations. Many unimpeachable accounts of sightings are on record. Jimmy Carter, the former US President was quoted by the “National Enquirer” as saying, “I am convinced that UFO’s exist because I’ve seen one… It was a very peculiar aberration but about 20 people saw it… It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big; it was very bright; it changed colours; and it was about the size of the moon…”
I for one would much rather believe documented accounts by such personalities of repute and many others like Nicholas Roerich, the famous Russian painter with such close connections with India, Sir Francis Chichester, the well known flier, sailor and navigator, than what scientists would have one believe. One of the most fascinating sightings of UFO occupants took place in Brazil. Jose C. Higgins, a member of a survey crew, was left to face three alien entities after other crew members fled. “One of them”, said Higgins, “used a stick to make eight holes in the ground that suggested a solar system with seven planets. The entity pointed to the outer one as being their home and called it Torque…”, later interpreted by UFO enthusiasts to denote that they came from Uranus.
The majority of scientists, including the well-known astronomer and writer Carl Sagan have been skeptical about UFOs and the existence of extraterrestrial beings. After all, they argue, it would require not only highly advanced technology to conquer time and space and travel to earth but a high level of not just intelligence but evolution and development as well. In any case, why would such advanced beings want to visit us—clearly primitive by comparison—on earth? Even if they do so and travel at the speed of light—186,000 miles per second—it would take several hundred or thousand years in planetary time to visit us and return to their planet.
Now, as to why they would want to visit us, who are we to decide on their reasons? On earth, don’t so called “advanced” people visit so called “primitive” tribes or communities, often spending long periods with them documenting their way of life? Talk of several hundred or thousand years in planetary time is no doubt based on presently known “scientific” calculations, but we all know that time is relative. Moreover, nobody has been able to measure the speed at which our thoughts or mind travels. In less than a second, your mind can be in London, New York, Tokyo, etc. etc, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, etc., etc.
Of course, the mind is not a metallic spaceship but then the scientists are assuming that interstellar travellers, if they exist, must have conquered time and space. To illustrate a point, remember that ancient time—mythical or otherwise—when Icarus tried to fly with wings of wax? The human race at that point would have been astounded to hear about the supersonic Concorde. Yet the supersonic possibility existed even then, has existed all along, but the means to recognise it and harness it was not known.
Similarly, spirit guides and reliable personal accounts—too long to enumerate here—have confirmed that it is possible though not commonplace for certain souls to travel to other planets. It is known that souls and ghosts can cross time and space in a jiffy but for most people a lot still remains in the realm of the unknown. In fact, who really knows how many unrecognised and unharnessed possibilities exist upon earth, in the universe and beyond? An excerpt from the Song of Creation is particularly thought provoking in this context: “Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence this creation comes? / The gods are later than this world’s production. Who knows, then, whence it first came into being?/ He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, / Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.”
Open Minds UFO Radio: Dr. Robert Davis, an internationally recognized scientist, graduated with a PhD in sensory neurosciences from Ohio State University and served as a professor for over thirty years. He has published over forty articles in scholarly journals and lectured at national and international conferences. His research into the UFO phenomenon convinced him that the phenomenon remains unresolved, is a source of considerable debate among millions worldwide, and is a very important concern unfortunately ignored by mainstream science. Dr. Davis serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Research Team of the Dr. Edgar Mitchell Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters (FREE). The FREE was established to provide a scientific exploration of the relationship between advanced physics and the UFO phenomenon.
Dr. Davis has written a book on the UFO phenomenon, entitled The UFO Phenomenon: Should I Believe?. His latest book: Life after Death: An Analysis of the Evidence, by Schiffer Publishing was recently released. In this episode we discuss FREE’s latest findings and the connection between abduction research, life after death and all of the phenomena in-between.
The Sibiu Manuscript—a 500-year-old text that describes multi-stage rockets
The Sibiu manuscript discovered in 1961, is a collection of around 450 pages that include among many other things, three-stage rockets and manned rocket flight.
Most of us are unaware of the fact that there are countless ancient manuscripts scattered across the globe, describing what many consider as improbable achievements of the past.
What would you say If I told you that there is an ancient manuscript that dates back nearly 500 years, and describes liquid fuel, multi-stage rockets, and even manned rockets?
You’d either say I’m crazy, or it’s just fake news.
*Have you noticed how people these days call out as fake news anything that they find hard to believe or goes against their belief system?
Anyway, the Sibiu manuscript is real, it’s not fake news, and it does, in fact, describe—among other things— liquid fuel and multi-stage rockets, and it was officially published in the 16th century, although many believe it was written using texts that go back further in time.
The Sibiu Manuscript was found in 1961 by Doru Todericiu, a professor of Science and Technology at the University of Bucharest. The manuscript contained around 450 pages which were recovered from the archives of the city of Sibiu, in Romania.
To the surprise of Todericiu, the ancient text was flooded with drawings and technical data on artillery, ballistics and detailed descriptions of multistage rockets.
Referred to as the Sibiu manuscript ever since, the ancient text is believed to have been written by a man called Conrad Haas, between 1550 and 1570.
Conrad Haas is believed to have been a military engineer who worked for the Kingdom of Hungary and the Principality of Transylvania.
The ancient manuscript origins aren’t very clear, nor are the origins of its author who according to historians is believed to have been born in either Austrian or Transylvania and became the head of the arsenal of the Austrian Empire under King Ferdinand I.
Description of a rocket by Conrad Haas.
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Sibiu manuscript, written entirely in German, was found to be a theoretical treatise on the construction of different types of weapons, including—for the first time in history—multistage rocket technology. It also includes details on the combination of fireworks with weapons, the design of fins in the shape of a hang glider as well as the creation of fuel mixtures with the use of liquid fuel.
It remains a mystery whether or not Haas managed to use his designs and put into practice, but there are some who claim that a rocket launch was carried out in Sibiu in 1550, but there is no documentary evidence to support these claims.
We do know from history that Johann Schmidlap, a 16th-century Bavarian fireworks maker, and rocket pioneer, was the first to experiment with two-stage and three-stage rockets around 1590.
Before the discovery of the Sibiu manuscript, the earliest details of a three-stage rocket was attributed to Kazimierz Siemienowicz, a Polish specialist in artillery, who published details about rocketry in his 1650 treatise Artis Magnae Artilleriae Pars Prima.
Conrad Haas wrote down a few interesting sentences in his manuscript in which he talks about the military use of rockets (translated):
“But my advice is for more peace and no war, leaving the rifles calmly in storage, so the bullet is not fired, the gunpowder is not burned or wet, so the prince keeps his money, the arsenal master his life; that is the advice Conrad Haas gives.”
Mysterious ISS Footage: Are Space Agencies Hiding Proof of Alien Life? (VIDEO)
When one of the crew at the International Space Station (ISS) captured footage of a mysterious object entering the Earth’s atmosphere, conspiracy theorists quickly concluded that it was footage of a UFO, despite claims by the European Space Agency’s that the object is just a meteor.
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli captured the clip, which shows a ball of light approaching the Earth's atmosphere, November 5.
Tyler Glockner, who runs the alien hunting YouTube Channel SecureTeam10, is convinced that the strange sighting is further proof the government is covering up the existence of aliens.
In a video uploaded to the SecureTeam10 channel, Glockner says, "I don't think it's a meteorite at all."
"You're seeing the Earth spinning at a high rate of speed and we see this flash of light coming from space. It does look to be moving at 85,000 miles per hour. But when you account how fast the Earth would have actually been moving, had this not been sped up, it would have been moving much, much slower."
In a statement released by the European Space Agency on November 16, researchers at the agency describe the object as a fireball.
"A fireball is basically a very bright meteoroid — a small bit of natural ‘space rock' — entering Earth's atmosphere and burning brighter than the background stars. This particular meteoroid was moving much faster than typical, with an estimated speed of about 85,000 miles per hour," the statement states.
SecureTeam10 is also suspicious about how fast the European Space Agency released a statement regarding the sighting.
"They've never jumped on a story so fast," Glockner said.
"Why are they claiming it to be a meteor if they aren't sure? Why aren't they going to the suspected location where this is meant to be falling, and recover it? Why does it look nothing like a meteor? Why are they only giving us the sped-up time lapse version and pretending it's just normal speed?" Glockner asks.
In his video, the YouTuber also compares the photo to one of a meteor taken during the 2011 Perseid meteor shower.
"If you compare this to what they are calling a meteor in this new footage, at no time does this so-called meteor look like anything that was captured back in 2011 — it just doesn't," Glocker explained.
Mysterieuze beelden ISS. Verdoezelen ruimteagentschappen bewijs van buitenaards leven?
Toen een bemanningslid van het internationale ruimtestation ISS een mysterieus object vastlegde dat de dampkring van de aarde binnenkwam, concludeerden complottheoretici dat het om beelden van een UFO ging.
Het Europese ruimteagentschap ESA claimt dat het object een meteoor is.
De Italiaanse astronaut Paolo Nespoli legde op 5 november een lichtbol vast die de atmosfeer van de aarde naderde.
Verdoezelt
Tyler Glockner van YouTube-kanaal SecureTeam10 is ervan overtuigd dat de vreemde waarneming bewijst dat de overheid het bestaan van buitenaards leven verdoezelt, schrijft het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
“Ik denk dat het helemaal geen meteoriet is,” zegt hij in een video.
In een verklaring schrijft de ESA dat het object volgens onderzoekers van de ruimtevaartorganisatie een vuurbal is.
Zo snel
“Een vuurbal is in feite een zeer heldere meteoroïde – een klein stuk ruimterots – die de atmosfeer van de aarde binnengaat en helderder is dan de sterren,” klonk het.
“Deze specifieke meteoroïde bewoog zich voort met een snelheid van zo’n 136.000 kilometer per uur,” aldus de ESA.
SecureTeam10 vindt het ook verdacht dat het ruimteagentschap al zo snel na de sighting met een verklaring kwam. “Ze hebben nog nooit zo snel op een bericht gereageerd.”
Versnelde beelden
“Waarom claimen ze dat het een meteoor is terwijl ze het niet zeker weten?” vraagt Glockner. “Waarom gaan ze niet naar de locatie waar het object is neergekomen?”
“Waarom lijkt het in niets op een meteoor? Waarom laten ze ons versnelde beelden zien en doen ze alsof ze op de normale snelheid worden afgespeeld?” vervolgt hij.
Hij toont een foto van een meteoor die in 2011 is gemaakt tijdens de Perseïden-meteorenzwerm en concludeert dat het object dat bij het ISS is vastgelegd er heel anders uitziet.
Deer Hunter caught bright spheres above and beams of light below cloud over the Missouri River, US
A quality inspector for Boeing who has worked before on or near fighter jets since 1980 received an image from his friend showing a strange phenomenon in the sky during sun set on November 20, 2017. The image was so intriguing he felt compelled to post it to MUFON case 88249 to see if anyone else witnessed the objects.
His friend and another guy were making their way back to the boat ramp after a day of deer hunting along the Missouri River; the sun had set approximately 15 minutes earlier, when they noticed a strange group of lights above the clouds and beams of light reflecting off the river.
Although the event only lasted seconds and was gone, his friend managed to take a picture of the phenomenon.
Quality inspector: “This may be just a very cool sun dog-type reflection, but I was having a hard time explaining the chevron shaped group of lights above the cloud, and the 'way too evenly spaced' beams of light coming off what appears to be the sun shining down from the cloud.”
“Looking at the bottom of the clouds in the picture you can tell that the sun is reflecting off the bottom of the cloud and the beams are apparently reflecting off the river.”
NASA’S ‘VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORDS’ ARE GETTING AN OFFICIAL RELEASE
The records were blasted into space with the hope of being discovered by aliens in the 70s
PATRICK HINTON
In 1977, NASA and Carl Sagan sent a collection of golden vinyl records containing the sounds of humanity such as greetings in over 50 languages and classical masterpieces from Bach and Mozart with detailed playing instructions into space in search of extraterrestrial life.
Last year a Kickstarter campaign was launched by David Pescovitz of Boing Boing to raise the funds to release copies of Carl Sagan and NASA’s ‘Voyager Golden Records’ upon the 40 year anniversary of the project.
The crowdfund has been successful, and now ‘The Voyager Golden Record’ is coming out via OZMA Records on CD on December 1, with an extensive 3 LP box set following in February.
Pre-order it via Light In The Attic and stream the various recordings of life on earth NASA included on the original vinyl below.
Patrick Hinton is Mixmag's Digital Staff Writer, follow him on Twitter
STORIES OF THE WEEK
The Londoner talks to us about her burgeoning popularity, Rinse FM and social media
Ever since we discovered other planets in the universe, we have wondered if life exists there. One of the most popular manifestations of this wondering is the sighting of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), which have become synonymous with alien sightings.
Many creative minds, including those in Hollywood, have imagined these UFOs as saucer shaped, glowing discs that unleash super-intelligent, extra-terrestrial mayhem on Earth, usually New York City.
The number of these UFO sightings has increased drastically over the years, and now a “UFO Stalker,” based on MUFON Case Management System, shows that this year alone a whopping 83,715 UFO sightings have been recorded.
UFO Stalker website says that there has been a 12 percent climb in the number of sightings reported this year from that in 2016.
The website has a map that shows all the areas in the U.S. and the rest of the world where UFO sightings have been reported by people.
The website allows users to view an interactive map where pictures of UFO’s are strewn across the world, which when clicked, reveal the date, time and type of sighting, with several users describing their sightings in great details.
According to the map, the U.S. has reported an approximate 30 sightings this month, with a huge concentration of sightings near the boroughs of New York City.
In November alone, the numbers went up 28 percent from the number of sightings in October.
One of the sightings made on Nov. 21, 2017, in Kingsley, Pennsylvania, is described in great detail in a post by an observer who was not named.
“I was laying down watching tv when I heard this ‘thump thump’ and a whirring buzzing sound and I got up to look out my window when I saw a white almost glowing object flying almost straight up into the sky and another object sitting still next to it I was unsure the still object was craft and not a star or something when it started flickering I went to take a video on my phone and took the picture on accident then when I switched to video my phone went dead. at this point when I looked up to continue observing the object there was only the mobile one left in the sky as it flew over my house."
"I then them on my slippers and ran outside and watched it fly over. I turned my head, I saw another identical craft to the one I was watching when it turned direction and appeared to then go downward. by the time they were done it almost looked like exhaust trails or something ,I’m not sure but same as in the picture and that was all that was left after a few minutes and there cris crossing pattern in the sky above me,” one of the sighting reports on the website added.
Major cities also show a much higher number of sightings, which can be chalked up to a higher awareness and a higher internet affinity.
This is evident in countries like India where only big cities recorded sightings compared to under-developed areas.
Ufologists explained the increase in sightings to test flights of secret military aircraft or natural flashes, and they also have said time and again that internet has a key role in the growth of UFO sighting reports during the last couple of years.
Most of the sightings also seem to be concentrated toward coastal areas across the world, with a majority of sightings clustered around water bodies.
The Great Lakes region of North America also shows a high number of UFO sighting reports.
NASA’S ‘VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORDS’ ARE GETTING AN OFFICIAL RELEASE
The records were blasted into space with the hope of being discovered by aliens in the 70s
PATRICK HINTON
In 1977, NASA and Carl Sagan sent a collection of golden vinyl records containing the sounds of humanity such as greetings in over 50 languages and classical masterpieces from Bach and Mozart with detailed playing instructions into space in search of extraterrestrial life.
Last year a Kickstarter campaign was launched by David Pescovitz of Boing Boing to raise the funds to release copies of Carl Sagan and NASA’s ‘Voyager Golden Records’ upon the 40 year anniversary of the project.
The crowdfund has been successful, and now ‘The Voyager Golden Record’ is coming out via OZMA Records on CD on December 1, with an extensive 3 LP box set following in February.
Pre-order it via Light In The Attic and stream the various recordings of life on earth NASA included on the original vinyl below.
Patrick Hinton is Mixmag's Digital Staff Writer, follow him on Twitter
BOOK REVIEW: Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers by Jacques Vallee (Daily Grail Publishing) 2014/ 1969
Having further familiarized myself with the 50-plus year old writings of John A. Keel these past few months, finally getting down and reading long-loved cult classics like Operation Trojan Horse (1970) and The Mothman Prophecies (1975), the repeated references to the works of French-American scientist and ufologist Jacques Vallee – a contemporary, and friend, of the late John A. Keel – finally convinced me that Vallee’s own classic, Passport to Magonia, was required reading.
Why? Because Keel, in his entertaining and entirely readable way, helped pull away the masks of the manipulative pranksters (“ultraterrestrials”) of the Superspectrum, essentially reporting that these entities have taken on different guises over the millennia –and that they have always shared our planet, despite humanity not knowing who they really are or where they live.
They are here. It’s just they are the ones who decide when they appear before human beings and in what form. Most commonly, in the Middle Ages, they were seen as the fairies and elves of ancient folklore, and so forth.
But with time came change and the “costumes” and methods also changed, as we entered the age of the airplane and the “Space Age,” with the increased appearance of “craft,” allegedly piloted by “aliens” who are here to help mankind and steer us to a New Age, or so we are told.
And so it is interesting how both Keel and Vallee both tapped into the idea that took them from believing the extraterrestrial angle regarding aliens and UFOs to promoting the interdimensional idea, which dismisses the theory that the "visitors" are travelers from another planet.
On the day I began reading Passport to Magonia (Nov. 16th), I later learned that I was reading the book on the 40th anniversary of the release of the Steven Spielberg-directed film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In this film, a French scientist character named Lacombe (played by Francois Truffaut) was directly inspired by Vallee.
In any event, Passport to Magonia ("Magonia" being a mythological "cloud realm" populated by the entities so often encountered during modern cases of UFO sightings or in antiquity) highlights the idea, as Vallee writes in the preface, that "investigators (into UFOs) have never recognized the fact that belief identical to those held today have recurred throughout recorded history and under forms best adapted to the believer's country, race, and social regime."
Vallee also admits that when he wrote the manuscript for Passport to Magonia in the late 1960's, he "entirely forgot that I was a scientist by profession," confessing that he felt science was not pursuing questions that human beings have in their hearts. And as a scientist, he opted to delve into the lengthy history of folklore, from around the world, and in Europe and the Americas in particular, noting the large number of strange beings, aerial craft ("cloudships") and other odd events that perplexed man and woman alike over the centuries.
And what better way to interfere with the destiny of human beings as we become more technologically advanced. The forces that are appearing in various forms (short beings, tall beings, male or female, with masks, gas masks, helmets, long hair, no hair, big eyes, small eyes, mouth movement or telepathy ...) over the years seem to understand that, as Vallee writes, "(h)uman actions are based on imagination, belief, and faith, not on objective observation ..." Yes, we are human and fallible.
Continuing, Vallee writes: "Even science, which claims its methods and theories are rationally developed, is really shaped by emotion and fancy, or by fear. And to control human imagination is to shape mankind's collective destiny, provided the source of this control is not identifiable by the public." Indeed!
From the fairies, "wee folk" "Gentry," "Good People," and dwarves that haunted to European countryside to today's seemingly solid "flying saucers," Vallee makes valid arguments that the phenomenon, over the centuries, are one and the same, as the book's cover seems to indicate.
But the cases are utterly fascinating - and shocking! Some involve pleasurable sex with alien women, as in the case of Brazlian famer Antonio Villas-Boas, back in 1957.
And going back to 17th century Scotland and the research of a Reverend Kirk, of Aberfoyle, he wrote a manuscript at the time titled The Secret Commonwealth of the Elves, Fauns and Fairies. Kirk offered up 16 bullet points about these "Elementals" who have "chameleon-like bodies" and have "fluid" bodies that allow them to appear and vanish at will. Sounds like many of the latter-day UFO sightings from folks who say they saw a craft one second and the next second it was gone.
The strange 1896-97 airship scare was particularly baffling, with Vallee recounting the case of a train engineer working near Texarkana, Arkansas (near Homan in Miller County) and while out hunting in May 1897, encountered an "airship" and a pilot, with whom he conversed. Was this a human? Was it something else? People all over the country, particularly in the middle of the country, were seeing these airships.
So, what happened to the First Fourth Norfolk, a British regiment fighting in what is now western Turkey in 1915? These men marched into a strange cloud at ground level and hundreds of British soldiers "disappeared" as the cloud lifted and the soldiers had vanished. The Turks told the British government they did not have these men as prisoners of war, not even knowing of their existence.
Then there is the curous case of Private First Class Gerry Irwin, a Nike nuclear missile technician stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, near El Paso. On Feb. 28, 1959, Irwin was driving between Nampa, Idaho and Fort Bliss when passing near Cedar City, Utah, he thought he saw a plane crash nearby. Going to investigate, Irwin would lose track of time and later be found unconscious.
Irwin was soon hospitalized and was found to be in decent health, and later discharged from the hospital at Fort Bliss. But life would not be the same for Irwin, as Vallee tells us the doomed man fell unconscious on an El Paso street and later felt compelled to take a bus to Cedar City, where the initial event had taken place, and find his jacket, which was still on a bush where he had left it.
Writes Vallee: "There was a pencil in a buttonhole with a piece of paper wound tightly around it. He took the paer and burned it. Then he seemed to come out of a trance." Irwin was perplexed as to why he was back in Utah. More psychological examinations were ordered, but by summer, it seemed Irwin had other plans, as he would soon disappear.
"On August 1," writes Vallee, "(Irwin) failed to report for duty. One month later he was listed as a deserter. He was never seen again."
Where did Private Irwin go? Is this the whole story?
It seems as though the entities that are bedeviling humanity seem to have a particular interest in folks serving in the military. And the Irwin case, we must note, took place during those early, volatile years of the Cold War, when nuclear war was considered a real threat.
And while Passport to Magonia is only 160 pages or so, there is a lengthy appendix to go over, followed by Vallee's collection of "UFO landings" over a century's time, from 1868 to 1968. One of the more interesting cases - and there are many! - were on Aug. 2 and Aug. 3, 1965 here in Oklahoma City. On Aug 2, "five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings, close to the ground int he 600 block of NW 63rd Street, which, even today, is an open area with railroad tracks crossing it. The following day, on Aug. 3rd, "a young man saw an object rise from (Lake Hefner)." The distance between the two locations is several miles.
Passport to Magonia has earned its rightful place as an essential tome covering the more occult and folkloric angles in these ongoing mysteries that continue to perplex us to this day.
Unencumbered by a physical body and its many vital needs for survival such as oxygen, can souls or ghosts travel, apart from the seven astral worlds, to other planets? Can a soul be reborn on another planet? The UK Mirror recently carried a fascinating article headlined : “ ‘Genius’ Russian boy can remember previous life on Mars in astounding detail”. Steve Robson wrote that “…The curious case of Boriska Kipriyanovich, now aged 20, continues to startle experts… From an early age, he began telling experts about his previous life on Mars. Boris believes he lived among an alien civilisation that was ravaged by war and then a nuclear catastrophe. The Martians were seven feet tall and breathed carbon dioxide, he said. “He claims he was a Martian pilot and travelled to earth where he was “reborn” in 1996.The human race has much more knowledge to unlock, and the Great Sphinx in Egypt holds the key, he says. “The human life will change when the Sphinx is opened, it has an opening mechanism somewhere behind the ear; I do not remember exactly,” claims Boriska… Boriska is said to have displayed much higher than average intelligence from young age and was reading, writing and speaking by just 18 months.”
Over the years, three different categories of “explanations” have covered strange happenings: supernatural or paranormal, the time-warp theory, and extraterrestrial. Does the case of Boriska Kipriyanovich fall in the extraterrestrial category or does it fall somewhere in between the paranormal—since it was a non-earthling born on earth—and the extraterrestrial categories? Incidentally, when I was travelling through remote villages in the Garhwal Himalayas, a village woman had narrated in minute detail a very interesting encounter with an alien who had a green skin. Curiously, a few months after this encounter she gave birth to a queer looking baby with green skin. News of the happening spread fast even from such a remote area and photographs of the “green baby” were taken but unfortunately, the baby died before it could be “scientifically” examined. However, after hearing the accounts scientists dismissed them as those of “gullible” people.
Yet significantly, the majority of worldwide sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects or UFOs and often their occupants have not come from illiterate, gullible people or people of unsound mind or prone to hallucinations. Many unimpeachable accounts of sightings are on record. Jimmy Carter, the former US President was quoted by the “National Enquirer” as saying, “I am convinced that UFO’s exist because I’ve seen one… It was a very peculiar aberration but about 20 people saw it… It was the darndest thing I’ve ever seen. It was big; it was very bright; it changed colours; and it was about the size of the moon…”
I for one would much rather believe documented accounts by such personalities of repute and many others like Nicholas Roerich, the famous Russian painter with such close connections with India, Sir Francis Chichester, the well known flier, sailor and navigator, than what scientists would have one believe. One of the most fascinating sightings of UFO occupants took place in Brazil. Jose C. Higgins, a member of a survey crew, was left to face three alien entities after other crew members fled. “One of them”, said Higgins, “used a stick to make eight holes in the ground that suggested a solar system with seven planets. The entity pointed to the outer one as being their home and called it Torque…”, later interpreted by UFO enthusiasts to denote that they came from Uranus.
The majority of scientists, including the well-known astronomer and writer Carl Sagan have been skeptical about UFOs and the existence of extraterrestrial beings. After all, they argue, it would require not only highly advanced technology to conquer time and space and travel to earth but a high level of not just intelligence but evolution and development as well. In any case, why would such advanced beings want to visit us—clearly primitive by comparison—on earth? Even if they do so and travel at the speed of light—186,000 miles per second—it would take several hundred or thousand years in planetary time to visit us and return to their planet.
Now, as to why they would want to visit us, who are we to decide on their reasons? On earth, don’t so called “advanced” people visit so called “primitive” tribes or communities, often spending long periods with them documenting their way of life? Talk of several hundred or thousand years in planetary time is no doubt based on presently known “scientific” calculations, but we all know that time is relative. Moreover, nobody has been able to measure the speed at which our thoughts or mind travels. In less than a second, your mind can be in London, New York, Tokyo, etc. etc, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, etc., etc.
Of course, the mind is not a metallic spaceship but then the scientists are assuming that interstellar travellers, if they exist, must have conquered time and space. To illustrate a point, remember that ancient time—mythical or otherwise—when Icarus tried to fly with wings of wax? The human race at that point would have been astounded to hear about the supersonic Concorde. Yet the supersonic possibility existed even then, has existed all along, but the means to recognise it and harness it was not known.
Similarly, spirit guides and reliable personal accounts—too long to enumerate here—have confirmed that it is possible though not commonplace for certain souls to travel to other planets. It is known that souls and ghosts can cross time and space in a jiffy but for most people a lot still remains in the realm of the unknown. In fact, who really knows how many unrecognised and unharnessed possibilities exist upon earth, in the universe and beyond? An excerpt from the Song of Creation is particularly thought provoking in this context: “Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence this creation comes? / The gods are later than this world’s production. Who knows, then, whence it first came into being?/ He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it, / Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.”
Are aliens real? USA sees spate of crazy UFO sightings over two days
Alien hunters have been sent into a frenzy after a raft of UFO sightings were reported over two days.
Events started in Texas this weekend, according to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
An unnamed witness filed a report about two high-speed bright lights.
It said: “I was wide awake early Saturday morning.
“I looked up in the sky where I usually tend to and saw two bright non flashing lights.
“Similar to stars, but slightly brighter.
“They caught my eye because they were both traveling north at a high rate of speed.
“They had a good distance apart, but were going the same exact speed.
“They were way to high to be aeroplanes and were going too fast. As they passed over they both started to dim and I lost sight.”
Next a triangle UFO with central orange light was seen being tailed by military helicopters over Springfield, Missouri, also on Saturday.
There were SIX further UFO sightings reported to MUFON yesterday.
A witness said they and a friend also saw two bright orbs over Plum City, Wisconsin, on Sunday.
They both watched as they discussed it on mobile phones.
The report said: “I realised that what I was looking at was something that I have never seen before.
“Shocked, I stood there and watched the whole time still talking with my friend on the cell phone as we both viewed the two orbs that were hovering in the sky then one before the other dimmed out of sight.”
Yesterday, a witness in Grand Forks, North Dakota, also saw two bright lights.
Their report said: “I’m still trying to figure out what these lights in the sky were.
“I’m in the city limits, but around eight or 8.30pm, I saw two more stars moving in the sky.
“I just came inside right now to report that. What is it?
“I never heard about this from anyone else.
“it’s amazing, I wish I had a good camera or at least some night vision binoculars.”
The same night a witness in Dover, Pennsylvania, reported: “I was looking up at the stars then noticed something bright shoot from a star up and disappear.”
In Hillsboro, Oregon, a witness claimed to see “six objects below the clouds rotating around each other.”
The report said: “My wife pointed out a group of lights, possible reflection of sunlight off the objects, which were ahead of us and underneath the cloud canopy.
“There were more than six objects rotating, diving, climbing around each other.”
MUFON has not released any footage, despite the couple claiming to video the event.
They said there were other witnesses and they saw a similar event in 2016.
The significance of a new finding is that it is compelling evidence of life elsewhere, even if it doesn’t prove life on Earth originated elsewhere.
According to the theory of panspermia, outer space seeded Earth with comet-borne primitive life forms over four billion years ago.
Credit: Yuri_B/pixabay
Aliens have reached Earth, say researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and Astronomy, basing their dramatic findings on a new study of fast-moving extraterrestrial dust that constantly rains down on our atmosphere. These particles serve as tiny ‘spaceships’ for microorganisms from alien worlds that traverse the vastness of interstellar space for eons before reaching Earth. This dusty downpour could also collide with biological particles in Earth’s atmosphere with enough energy to send them careening into space, and conceivably onwards to other planets in other solar systems.
Astrobiologists earlier found evidence of microorganisms reaching the planet in air samples taken at extreme altitudes, and from the discovery in 1984 of fossilised worms in a meteorite from Mars. Exciting data from the 1976 Viking space probes, which actually confirmed the presence of Martian microorganisms but were overlooked for 25 years by careless scientists, back these findings. In 2006, researchers from Columbia University discovered traces of amino acids – the building blocks of life – on meteorites that landed in Australia and the US less than a hundred years ago.
Some scientists argue that these extraterrestrial amino acids mixed with moisture in Earth’s ancient atmosphere to produce an acidic “soup” that then nourished the planet’s first organisms. This ties in with the panspermia theory, which says that outer space seeded Earth with comet-borne primitive life forms over four billion years ago. Panspermia never found favour with modern-day scientists till the 1970s, when the late Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramesinghe came across “traces of life” in interstellar dust. When cultured, two species of bacteria and a microfungus found in space rocks turned out to be similar to terrestrial organisms – just as panspermia had predicted. Hoyle and Wickramasinghe believed that a torrent of such “life-altering stuff from space” reaches Earth in cycles related to solar activity and has affected the evolution of terrestrial life. If this is indeed the reality, the ‘miracle’ of life could happen anywhere, and our microbial ancestors, or more evolved cousins, are scattered like chaff throughout the universe.
Bacterial spores can survive the immense space-time voyages from one planet of a solar system to another by piggybacking on meteorites, too. So do these vital elements traverse the vast interstellar distances on space rocks and comet dust to ‘cross-pollinate’ planets in another corner of the galaxy? Although such a journey is statistically possible, fast-moving atomic particles could hit the meteorite and destroy the spores or bacteria, so they would have to be embedded deep inside the rock to escape this onslaught. Being in a state of suspended animation, however, is a plausible way of undertaking such intergalactic journeys of millions of years. And by this yardstick, the probability of interplanetary travel within solar systems seems that much higher. Exobiologists are convinced that some space rocks even cover the distance from Mars to Earth in less than a year.
Space is so harsh and inhospitable that it may seem unlikely for any organism to survive there. But scientists have proven otherwise. In an experiment on the International Space Station in 2011, Bacillus pumilus spores survived the vacuum of space and the intense radiation found there for nearly 20 months. Researchers smeared artificial plasmid DNA (small, circular, double-stranded DNA molecules separate from a cell’s chromosomal DNA) and a fluorescent marker on the outer shell of the payload section of a rocket before launching it into space. The samples were daubed not only on the outer surface of the rocket but also in the grooves of screw heads on the experimental modules it carried. The rocket reached an acceleration rate of 18 G during reentry into Earth’s atmosphere, heating up to temperatures above 1,000°C. When it landed, the DNA molecules were not only found intact but were also still able to convey genetic information to bacterial cells.
This showed that spaceships could carry terrestrial DNA to other planets. It is not far-fetched to think that small pieces of rock dislodged from Earth millions of years ago are now travelling through space and could someday reach an alien planet, seeding that world with microorganisms. The flip side of this possibility is that alien DNA could reach us in extraterrestrial material contained in meteorites.
There is a very real possibility of such alien life turning out to be some kind of virulent and deadly microbes – a major worry for space agencies that go to great lengths to ensure astronauts are properly quarantined when they return from space. After his Moon voyage in July 1969, Neil Armstrong was actually asked to fill an agriculture, customs, immigration and public health declaration on his return! In the section about conditions onboard Apollo 11 that might lead to the spread of disease, he thought a bit and wrote: “To be determined.” The seriousness with which scientists consider “back contamination” (the transfer of extraterrestrial microbes back to Earth’s biosphere) is chillingly detailed in the book and subsequent film, The Andromeda Strain, in which microbial misfits from space spark a biological crisis on Earth.
About a tonne of microbial material enters Earth’s atmosphere every day. Much of this is sterile due to exposure to the Sun or is burnt in the higher reaches of the atmosphere. But a fraction of the incoming dust – evaporated from comets and possibly containing microbes – could survive the fiery descent. We still don’t know how, or where, life began. The significance of the latest finding is that it is compelling evidence of life elsewhere, even if it doesn’t prove life on Earth originated elsewhere. On the other hand, if the findings hold up, it means we are the aliens we seek.
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