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Aarde slorpt eigen oceanen gulzig op - HLN.be
Bron: Nature
De oppervlakte van de aarde bestaat uit zeven grote tektonische platen en acht kleinere. Die platen verschuiven jaarlijks enkele millimeters (5 tot 85 millimeter), op een zeer traag tempo. Dat proces wordt aangeduid met de wetenschappelijke term ‘platentektoniek’. Wanneer de aardplaten verschuiven wordt er een beetje water mee onder de aardkorst getrokken. Maar dat beetje blijkt drie keer meer te zijn dan eerst gedacht werd.
Dat roept natuurlijk een aantal vragen op. Hoe komt het dat wetenschappers zich zo lang vergisten, wordt de inhoud van onze oceanen daardoor kleiner, en zal de aarde zichzelf uiteindelijk uitdrogen waardoor er binnenkort geen oceanen meer bestaan?
Wetenschappers veronderstelden jarenlang dat de hoeveelheid water die onder de aardkorst verdwijnt veel kleiner zou zijn. Dat komt omdat er ook wat water vrijkomt bij de beweging die de aardplaten maken. Er is geen water vermist, de inhoud van de oceanen bleef met andere woorden tamelijk stabiel. Dat veronderstelt dat de hoeveelheid die naar buiten wordt gestuwd ongeveer gelijk is aan de hoeveelheid die onder de aardoppervlakte verdwijnt.
Voor onze oceanen maakt de grotere hoeveelheid water die de aarde opslokt dus geen groot verschil. Anderzijds speelt de hoeveelheid wel een belangrijke rol bij het ontstaan van aardbevingen en tsunami’s.
De aanwezigheid van water kan de temperatuur waarop gesteente smelt immers sterk beïnvloeden. Daardoor draagt het water onder de aardoppervlakte bij tot de ontwikkeling van magma –het vloeibare gesteente dat ook in de vorm van lava uit vulkanen stroomt. Die magma doet de platen trouwens ook bewegen. Wanneer de hoeveelheid magma groter wordt, kan een tektonische plaat plots sneller verschuiven. En door het enorme gewicht van de aardplaten kan de verschuiving een grote spanning creëren. Vervolgens barst die in één ruk los, in de vorm van een aardbeving.
De nieuwe bevindingen kunnen helpen bij het accurater voorspellen van zulke aardbevingen.
Voor hun onderzoek bestudeerden wetenschappers hoe snel de trillingen van aardbevingen zich voortbewegen. Eenmaal die beweging vertraagt, ontstaat een subductiezone waarbij een oceanische aardplaat –zwaarder dan de continentale platen- onder een continentale schuift en water met zich meetrekt. Aan de hand van de vertragingen konden ze de breuken detecteren die zich vulden met water.
De zes grote tektonische platen zijn de Afrikaanse, de Antarctische, de Australische, de Euraziatische, de Noord-Amerikaanse, de Pacifische en de Zuid-Amerikaanse Plaat. Daarnaast zijn er nog acht kleinere platen.
Wetenschappers ontdekken ijskoude ‘superaarde’ - HLN.be
Bron: Nature
In de afgelopen twintig jaar ontdekten onderzoekers een paar duizend exoplaneten, planeten bij andere sterren dan de zon. Daar zitten veel ‘superaardes’ tussen: planeten die een flinke slag groter zijn dan de aarde en een paar keer zo zwaar. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat Barnard b minstens 3,2 keer zoveel massa heeft dan onze aarde.
Wetenschappers onthullen dat er geen leven mogelijk is op Barnard b. De planeet doet immers 233 dagen over een rondje rond zijn moederster, een zogeheten rode dwerg. Dat is een kleine, koele ster die maar weinig licht geeft. Daardoor krijgt de planeet maar 2 procent van de hoeveelheid licht en energie die de aarde van de zon krijgt.
Daarnaast is de afstand tussen Barnard b en de moederster klein: ongeveer 0,4 keer de afstand tussen de aarde en de zon. Hoewel de planeet zich dichtbij de moederster bevindt, is het op Barnard b bijzonder koud, zo’n -170 graden Celsius. Er is met andere woorden geen vloeibaar water, een noodzakelijke voorwaarde voor de levensvormen die we tot nu toe kennen.
“De ontdekking van de planeet biedt astronomen de mogelijkheid om theorieën over het ontstaan, de evolutie en de fysica van exoplaneten te toetsen”, zo zegt het European Southern Observatory (ESO). Een filmpje, gemaakt door het ESO, toont hoe het oppervlak van Barnard b er vermoedelijk uitziet:
UFOs might have been extra-terrestrial vehicles: retired McGill prof
"There are cases going back 50 years of pilots seeing" UFOs, says Don Donderi, adding that some sightings have been unnervingly detailed.
Just as Harvard scientists weigh in on that massive thingamajig that zipped past the sun last year — the flat, elongated ‘Oumuamua’ was possibly a probe sent to Earth by “an alien civilization,” they said — British pilots flying home from Montreal have reported other UFOs off the coast of Ireland.
This time, the unidentified objects were bright lights, heading north, at “Mach 2” speed, they told air-traffic controllers.
But they might also have been extra-terrestrial vehicles, says Don Donderi, a retired McGill professor who has studied UFOs since 1965.
It wouldn’t be the first sighting, Donderi said. Some pilots have seen them up close.
“There are cases going back 50 years of pilots seeing what we call nocturnal lights,” Donderi said. “They provide some evidence that some of what people see in the sky and call UFOs are extra-terrestrial vehicles.”
A Perseid meteor flashes across the night sky above Corfe Castle in the U.K. in August.
In this most recent case, two sets of pilots, from British Airways and Virgin Airlines, both flying over the Atlantic last Friday, reported the sightings to air-traffic control, inquiring about any military exercises in the area.
“It was moving so fast,” the BA pilot said of the object that appeared along the left side of the aircraft “then rapidly veered to the north.”
It was “a very bright light,” she continued, that “disappeared at very high speed.”
The Virgin Airlines pilot, flying from Orlando to Manchester, reported the same thing, but described it as a “meteor or another object making some kind of re-entry.”
Whatever is was, it was enough for the Irish Aviation Authority to open an investigation under the “normal confidential occurrence investigation process.”
It was also enough for the Twittersphere, if not the stratosphere, to light up.
The news, including audio of the pilots’ conversation with Irish air traffic control, travelled across the globe, at Mach internet speed, while others turned to mockery.
“As a skeptic, I think it’s probably nothing stranger than flying leprechauns up to their usual mischief again,” said one commenter.
It was the same attitude taken by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, a renowned American astrophysicist and author, when asked to comment on the existence of extra-terrestrial UFOs. “Call me when you have a dinner invite from an alien,” he said.
But Donderi, who was a professor of psychology but now teaches a class called “UFOs: History and Reality,” says some sightings have been unnervingly detailed — and harder to dismiss.
“People have close encounters of the second kind,” Donderi said. “Pilots have reported seeing vehicles within 100 yards of them. They see an actual shape, an object suspended in the sky, hovering over them, with windows, surrounded by a luminous glow — and then it moves off abruptly.”
Some of the reports, by qualified individuals, backed up by instruments (like radar) turn out to be things humans can’t make, Donderi said.
“Machines that fly faster and manoeuvre more abruptly than (vehicles) we can make.”
He situates himself somewhere between the DeGrasse Tyson “establishment,” which denies there is any evidence of extra-terrestrial contact with Earth, and those who see in UFOs proof of the second coming.
The revelation in December of the U.S. Department of Defence’s now-defunct Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, along with footage of pilots seemingly chasing UFOs, have bolstered Donderi’s beliefs.
Luis Elizondo, one of two Pentagon officials who resigned at the time because he felt the program was too secretive, described the objects they researched: “These aircraft — we’ll call them aircraft — are displaying characteristics that are not currently within the U.S. inventory nor in any foreign inventory that we are aware of,” he told CNN.
“Those who study it say that some of the UFOs are extra-terrestrial vehicles,” Donderi said Tuesday. “They’re here. And sometimes there’s interaction between aliens and people. There is evidence. But what it means and where we go from here, I don’t know.”
Donderi says humans find it easier to convince themselves there is no evidence, and prefer to see those affirming the existence of ETs as crazy, or seeking adventure or profit.
“If everyone realizes we’re being surveilled by extra-terrestrials who have better machinery than we do, we have a potential problem,” he said. “But any sensible person will say the first step in dealing with any problem is admitting it exists.”
Soms is er sprake van contact tussen mensen en aliens, er is bewijs. Professor reageert op UFO-meldingen piloten bij Ierland
Harvard-wetenschappers suggereerden onlangs dat ons zonnestelsel is bezocht door een buitenaardse ruimtesonde. Piloten maakten daarnaast melding van UFO’s voor de kust van Ierland.
Het ging om felle lichten die met Mach 2 langs de piloten vlogen.
Mogelijk waren het buitenaardse vaartuigen, stelt de gepensioneerde professor Don Donderi van de McGill University, die al sinds 1965 onderzoek doet naar UFO’s.
“Het zal niet de eerste waarneming zijn,” zei hij. “Sommige piloten hebben ze van dichtbij gezien.”
Uit waarnemingen die al tenminste 50 jaar worden gedaan blijkt volgens hem dat in ieder geval sommige UFO’s buitenaardse schepen zijn.
“Diverse piloten hebben deze vaartuigen op minder dan 100 meter afstand waargenomen,” zei Donderi. “Ze zagen een vorm, een object in de lucht, met ramen, omgeven door een lichtgevende gloed.”
Sommige waarnemingen worden gedaan door getrainde individuen en ondersteund door instrumenten (zoals radar), merkte hij op, toevoegende dat het dingen bleken te zijn die mensen niet kunnen maken.
“Machines die sneller vliegen en manoeuvreren dan vliegtuigen die wij kunnen maken.”
“Ze zijn hier,” zei de gepensioneerde professor. “Soms is er sprake van contact tussen mensen en aliens. Er is bewijs.”
Donderi wees erop dat mensen het makkelijker vinden om zichzelf ervan te overtuigen dat er geen bewijs is en mensen die het bestaan van buitenaards leven bevestigen liever afschilderen als gekkies of aandachtszoekers.
“Als iedereen beseft dat we in de gaten worden gehouden door buitenaardsen die over veel betere machines beschikken dan wij, hebben we een potentieel probleem,” zei hij.
“Maar om een oplossing te bedenken voor een probleem, moet je eerst erkennen dat het bestaat,” besloot hij.
[Montreal Gazette]CLOSE ENCOUNTER BOVEN IERSE KUST ( VIDEO )
CLOSE ENCOUNTER BOVEN IERSE KUST ( VIDEO )
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Er is zo langzamerhand geen nieuwskanaal ter wereld dat geen aandacht heeft besteed aan de UFO waarnemingen van een aantal piloten.
De Ierse luchtvaartautoriteiten gaan onderzoek doen naar meldingen van piloten over ufo's. Een piloot meldde afgelopen week een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object toen hij boven Ierland vloog. Het incident gebeurde afgelopen vrijdag, tijdens een vlucht van het Canadese Montreal naar Londen, aldus nieuwszender BBC. Ook andere piloten deden melding van snel bewegende vliegende objecten. De piloot vroeg omstreeks zeven uur ’s ochtends de verkeersleiding van het vliegveld Shannon of er een militaire oefening was, omdat het voorwerp zich ‘razendsnel verplaatste’. Dat bleek niet het geval. Het volgende is een korte reportage van de Ierse televisie: Hoe de afgelopen decennia is omgegaan met betrouwbare UFO informatie door overheden blijkt uit de gebeurtenissen rondom vlucht 1628 van Japan Airlines.
Na de landing werd alles wat er gebeurd was gerapporteerd door de bemanning, inclusief tekeningen van de UFO's en het moederschip.
Als beloning voor het rapporteren van deze waarneming werd de gezagvoerder Captain Kenju Terauchi geschorst en mocht de eerstvolgende jaren niet meer vliegen. Zoals je ziet zijn er door de jaren heen betrouwbare meldingen geweest van piloten in verkeersvliegtuigen. We zullen moeten afwachten of bij de gebeurtenissen in Ierland een officieel vervolg komt, of dat dit weer één van de zoveelste waarnemingen is die in een archiefkast zullen verdwijnen net zoals al de voorgaande. Kans is ook aanwezig dat het onderdeel uitmaakt van gecontroleerde disclosure. UFO's op het Brexit toneel! Mensen gaan twijfelen omdat ze piloten toch hoger inschatten voor wat betreft waarnemingen dan doorsnee burgers. Dus, als het allemaal echt is dan zou het mooi zijn als vliegtuigbemanningen wereldwijd alles zouden rapporteren wat ze zien. Dat dit dan de nodige problemen kan opleveren blijkt uit de volgende video van Tyler van Secureteam.
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The Dark Side of the Moon and the Oncoming War in Space
There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it’s all dark.
China’s march towards domination of Earth and space alike continues as the Middle Kingdom prepares to be the first to launch a spacecraft to the far side of the moon next month. You know – the Dark Side. There’s still a lot we don’t know about the uncharted territory on the far side of the moon, and the mission has the potential to open up whole new avenues of lunar study. A second mission planned for 2019, meanwhile, will be the first to return moon rocks to Earth in over forty years. The missions are named after Chang’e, the Chinese moon goddess, and show that the Chinese fully intend to become a leading superpower when it comes to space exploration.
The voyage to the dark side of the moon presents several new technical challenges. Because the moon is tidally locked, meaning the same side always faces us, astronomers here on Earth won’t be able to communicate directly with the Chang’e-4 rover on the dark side because the moon would block all transmissions. To overcome this, the Chinese space agency has launched a transmission relay satellite to the other side of the moon to bounce signals back and forth between the far side of the moon and Earth.
That satellite, named Queqiao, has defense analysts in the West worried. Any craft or satellite sitting in at the far equatorial side, or L2 point, would remain almost completely undetectable by current defense satellites if it should come flying back towards Earth. At a recent Air Force Association event, senior intelligence engineer Jeff Gosse of the Space and Missile Analysis Group at the Air Force’s National Air and Space Intelligence Center says that such a satellite could pose a unique threat to American defense satellites in traditional geostationary orbits (GEO):
You could fly some sort of a weapon around the moon and it comes back — it could literally come at [objects] in GEO…and we would never know because there is nothing watching in that direction. Why do you need a relay satellite flying around L2? So you can communicate with something that’s going to land on the other side of the moon — or so you can fly around the other side of the moon? And what would that mean for our assets at GEO?
Defending communications and support satellites has become a chief concern of the armed forces, particularly as Russia and other actors seem to be waking up their space-based arsenals. When politicians talk of war in space, they don’t mean zero-gravity laser rifle battles; they mean satellite-to-satellite warfare.
Taking out another nation’s GPS and communication satellites are an easy way to cripple forces on the ground.
Still, others aren’t so convinced that the Chang’e missions represent a new mineshaft gap for the Space Force, as there are perfectly peaceful reasons why a space agency would want a satellite on the dark side of the moon – particularly one sending a rover to said dark side. When the U.S. launched the Space Shuttle program, the Soviet Union feared that the shuttle was a new form of space weapon, and we all know how wrongthose fears turned out to be, right?
We better turn some satellites around.
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Artifacts Discovered In Utah Link To Lady of Elche As An Anunnaki Queen
The Lady of Elche is one of the most enigmatic faces of human history that dates back of the Iberian culture. Despite the Lady high lineage clothing, her identity is not known. However, as the years passed by, enigmas have become more evident, and new hypotheses are at least surprising.
A medal discovered in 1966 in Utah has an engraved lady similar to that of Elche, particularly the ritual earrings and necklaces. It has been thought that the two relics reveal a connection despite the vast distances between Utah and Elche.
The earmuffs were Atlantis representative as well. In Bolivia, Peru and the Andes there has always been a trail of Atlantis, which had capital on Lake Titicaca. The lake is in the mountains and with remains of Anunnaki. Legends say that there had been Venus men visited the area and had that type of earmuffs.
With the interesting link from the medal to the statue, the mystery only deepens.
Multiple Pilots Report UFO Sightings Off Ireland Coast
Reports of UFOs and bright lights off the southwest coast of Ireland have reached the Irish Aviation Authority, and they are investigating the case.
According to the report, the strange aerial activity started at 06:47 local time on November 9, Friday. Shannon air traffic control received a question from a British Airways pilot.
The pilot wanted to know if military exercises were conducted in the area after seeing something moving so fast.
The air traffic controller answered there was none.
The pilot reported seeing a very bright light while flying from the Canadian city of Montreal to Heathrow. The object was reportedly coming along the left side of the aircraft before it quickly veered to the north.
She had no idea about the strange object, which did not appear to be heading for a collision.
Another pilot from a Virgin plane joined in suggesting that it might be an object or a meteor re-entering the atmosphere of the Earth.
He said there were several very bright objects following a similar trajectory. He saw two bright lights over to the right that climbed away at speed.
Another pilot said the speed was around Mach 2, which was astronomical and twice the speed of sound.
The Irish Aviation Authority said they received reports from a small number of aircraft on November 9 of the strange air activity and filed a report. According to the IAA, the report will be investigated according to the confidential occurrence investigation process.
UFO sightings recorded closer to Dublin as Ireland becomes hotbed of alien activity
Pat Flanagan
Aliens (Image: Getty)
The sightings of UFOs over the coast by three sets of airline pilots has led to Ireland being seen as a hotbed of alien activity.
It has emerged the crews who reported an unidentified object streaking through the skies over Co Kerry are not alone.
Dublin Live has been inundated with reports of similar sightings around the country in recent weeks.
The Irish Aviation Authority has begun an investigation into the appearance of the mysterious objects which were first spotted by a British Airways pilot early last Friday.
But at around 4.30pm the next day Donal Brady reported another strange sighting while looking towards Cork city from Bishopstown.
He said: “I don’t know what it was. I was at my friend’s house and I’d just dropped off my daughter and stepped out to have a cigarette and just noticed this thing in the sky.
“It was extremely bright, a beautiful day. At first I thought it was a high-altitude airliner reflecting in the sun.
“I observed it for a minute or two and I noticed it was stopping, hovering and moving side to side.
“It wasn’t going in a straight line and it wasn’t going away from and wasn’t coming towards me.
“Then along came this plane and it wasn’t reflecting anything and I thought that was unusual.
“That’s when I started to video it. If it was an airliner you’d expect contrails and some lights, which there weren’t.”
Mr Brady thought no more about it until it was reported pilots from British Airways, Virgin and Norwegian Air saw an unidentified object over Co Kerry just before 7am last Friday.
He added: “I watched the video again and thought it was something that might be related to that. I’m not pushing it in any shape or form, it is what it is.”
Another Irish Mirror reader sent in a video of what appears to be a UFO in Co Carlow.
Gerard Pollard said: “On the 2nd November at 8.32am I saw two lights in the sky coming from the south west, over Mount Leinster.
“I thought at first it was an airplane heading to Dublin Airport.
“Then I noticed it was going too fast for a plane. They seemed very high in the sky.µ
“I took my phone from my belt and took a photo. I enhanced the photo to my iPad and you can just see two small light dots in the sky.
“I can say these two craft were travelling at great speed, but there as no sound from them.”
Meanwhile, Laura Byrne shared pictures of three dots she spotted over Wicklow town.
NASA-wetenschapper waarschuwt voor recordlage temperaturen. Hier heeft het mee te maken
Vanwege een gebrek aan zonnevlekken kunnen we recordlage temperaturen verwachten in de bovenlagen van de aardatmosfeer, zo heeft een NASA-wetenschapper gewaarschuwd.
Het kwik in de thermosfeer zou als gevolg van de afgenomen zonneactiviteit weleens kunnen gaan kelderen.
Zonnevlekken worden nog niet volledig begrepen. Wel is bekend dat ze ontstaan in gebieden waar intense magnetische activiteit wordt waargenomen.
Deze zonnevlekken produceren ultraviolette straling die in botsing komt met deeltjes in de atmosfeer van de aarde, waardoor ze opwarmen.
Op het zonneoppervlak zijn dit jaar vrijwel geen zonnevlekken waargenomen, waardoor de bovenste lagen van de aardatmosfeer zijn afgekoeld.
“Hoog boven het aardoppervlak raakt onze atmosfeer warmte kwijt,” zei dr. Martin Mlynczak van NASA’s Langley Research Center.
“Als de huidige trend doorzet, wordt het temperatuurrecord in het hedendaagse ruimtetijdperk mogelijk spoedig verbroken,” voegde hij toe.
En dat betekent dat het hier beneden ook kouder zal worden.
Mlynczak baseert zich op gegevens die zijn verzameld door de TIMED-satelliet van de NASA, die veranderingen in de atmosfeer van de aarde registreert.
De satelliet heeft ontdekt dat de thermosfeer op dit moment afkoelt en krimpt.
Met behulp van de satelliet wordt vastgesteld hoeveel warmtevasthoudende moleculen zoals koolstofdioxide (CO2) en stikstofmonoxide (NO) in de ruimte belanden.
“We meten momenteel 33 miljard watt aan infrarode straling afkomstig van NO,” zei dr. Mlynczak.
“In vergelijking met meer actieve fasen van de zonnecyclus is dat 10 keer zo weinig,” vervolgde hij. “Mogelijk wordt het record binnen enkele maanden verbroken.”
De zonneactiviteit doorloopt een cyclus die ongeveer 11 jaar duurt. Momenteel is de zon relatief inactief, zoals blijkt uit het gebrek aan zonnevlekken.
NASA-adviseur Ron Turner zei verder dat de huidige zonnecyclus ‘één van de zwakste ooit gemeten’ is.
[WND]Filer’s Files #45 – 2018 UFO Sightings Increasing - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Increased UFO Sightings, Moon Mining, NASA’s Photos from Mars, Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is Able to Host Life, Great Pyramid Star Map 9200 BC, Hieroglyphics and the Ancient Alien Gods, Underwater Alien Base, The Olmec Heads, and Bizarre Truth of WHY People Disappear in National Parks
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Hungary, India, Puerto Rico, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Increased UFO Sightings
The UK Sun News reports Strange footage has emerged of a mysterious UFO moving and changing shape in the sky over Sweden. The intriguing footage was captured by baffled motorists inside the city of Gothenburg which sparked rumors of whether the footage is conclusive proof of extra-terrestrial life.
The footage, captured by onlookers travelling in their car, shows an unidentified flying object move through the sky and appear to change shape. Huge UFO in the sky above Gothenburg, Sweden, appears to hover before moving and changing shape
The number of UFO sightings is currently flying at an all-time high, according to data cruncher and blogger Sam Monfort. The alien expert reckons there have been more than 100,000 recorded UFO sightings in the past 100-plus years. And Sam is far from the only believer on our planet. Eye witnesses claim they saw UFOs in Roswell in 1947, and in Rendlesham Forest in 1980
What happened at Rendlesham Forest?
Dubbed the “British Roswell”, a similar incident happened in Rendlesham Forest in 1980.
On December 26, military personnel from RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, in Suffolk, saw strange lights in a nearby forest – and three of them were sent out to investigate. Two of them encountered a small, triangular shaped craft – which they later drew images of. One man, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object receiving a message. Two nights later, Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team also encountered the UFO – and were left baffled by the entire experience.
In January 2018, unseen footage revealed former base commander Charles Halt made explosive claims that airmen involved in the case “aliens”. In UFO documentary Unacknowledged it is claimed that Marilyn made the threats after having affairs with both President JFK and Bobby Kennedy, and was seeking revenge as they both simultaneously ended things with her.
Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer have spent years travelling across the US investigating hundreds of UFO sightings and other paranormal occurrences. The pair believe that the 37th latitude line is a kind of UFO or paranormal “highway” along which extra terrestrial craft enter and exit the earth. Their theory is now the subject of a book called the 37th Parallel, written by Ben Mezrich.
Chuck told Sun Online: “Back in 2006 I was looking at my cattle mutilation investigations – there were huge similarities between them all – most of them were laying on their right side, they’re laying east to west and then I noticed that lots of them were on the 37 degree latitude.
“I called my sister at midnight and I said, ‘”Didn’t you have cattle mutilations on the 37 degree latitude in Missouri?’ “And she said, ‘Yes‘ and we started looking more into it. We soon realized it wasn’t just cattle mutilations – there were all kind of events. “We’re up until 2.30 in the morning going through all these cases and started seeing these amazing patterns.”The 37th latitude line runs from California through Nevada, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and across to Virginia.”
In April 2018, it was reported that Buzz Aldrin, along with three other astronauts, had passed lie detector tests over claims they had experienced alien encounters.
Allegedly, Aldrin, Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper all took part in the study which took place at the Institute of BioAcoustic Biology in Albany, Ohio, the Daily Star reported. Aldrin, now 88, claimed he saw a spaceship on his way to the moon, adding: “There was something out there that was close enough to be observed… sort of L-shaped.”
Ingo Swan the remote viewer used to stay over at my house for the weekend with a dozen other researchers remote viewing the moon. Swann helped develop the process of remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute in experiments that caught the attention of the Central Intelligence Agency and developed intelligence collection techniques for the government. He is commonly credited with proposing the idea of controlled remote viewing, a process in which viewers would view a location given nothing but its geographical coordinates, which was developed and tested with CIA funding with 90% accuracy, Ingo attempted to teach us the concept of remote viewing various places on earth and the moon. Bob Durant a commercial pilot and Ingo were excellent and could view the moon and told us they could see mining going on the moon by aliens with large space ships. They were mining a dark mineral that looked something like coal, but they didn’t think it was coal. Much of the mining was underground in craters. They gave us a detailed description of the mining with heavy machinery and alien looking humanoids. The aliens apparently became aware of our attempts at remote viewing. Personally, I viewed a ship leaving a crater and some of the dust came attached to the ship and as it flew away the dust blew off and left markings on the ground as the ship gained altitude. Ingo Swan said, “The aliens know we are viewing them and he quickly told us to stop, since they were getting angry.”
We did some research and found that Titanium on the moon is primarily found in the mineral ilmenite, a compound that contains iron, titanium and oxygen. This and other minerals is likely what the aliens were mining.
If humans one day mine on the moon, they could break down ilmenite to separate these elements. Mercury, Uranium. gold and silver are also known to be on the moon according to a more detailed analysis of the chilled lunar soil near the moon’s South Pole,
The main minerals on the Moon are “plagioclase” minerals (aluminum silicates of which anorthite — calcium aluminum silicate — is the most common plagioclasemineral), “olivine” (predominantly magnesium and iron silicates — Mg2SiO4 and Fe2SiO4), and ilmenite shown.
A sample of soil from the rim of Camelot crater was brought back to Earth by the crew of Apollo 17. Little did we know at the time, on December 13, 1972, that sample 75501, along with samples from Apollo 11 and other missions, would provide the best reason to return to the moon in the 21st century. That realization would come 13 years later. In 1985, young engineers at the University of Wisconsin discovered that lunar soil contained significant quantities of a remarkable form of helium. Known as helium-3, it is a lightweight isotope of the familiar gas that fills birthday balloons.
Small quantities of helium-3 previously discovered on Earth intrigued the scientific community. The unique atomic structure of helium-3 promised to make it possible to use it as fuel for nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun, to generate vast amounts of electrical power without creating the troublesome radioactive byproducts produced in conventional nuclear reactors. Extracting helium-3 from the moon and returning it to Earth would, of course, be difficult, but the potential rewards would be staggering for those who embarked upon this venture. Helium-3 could help free the United States–and the world–from dependence on fossil fuels.
Helium 3 Mining
On January 14, 2004, when President George W. Bush challenged NASA to “explore space and extend a human presence across our solar system.” It was an electrifying call to action for those of us who share the vision of Americans leading humankind into deep space, continuing the ultimate migration that began 42 years ago when President John F. Kennedy first challenged NASA to land on the moon. We can do so again. If Bush’s initiative is sustained by Congress and future presidents, American leadership can take us back to the moon, then to Mars and, ultimately, beyond. We need to hurry as the Chinese also plan to conduct mining on the moon.
Although the president’s announcement did not mention it explicitly, his message implied an important role for the private sector in leading human expansion into deep space. In the past, this type of public-private cooperation produced enormous dividends. Recognizing the distinctly American entrepreneurial spirit that drives pioneers, the President’s Commission on Implementation of U.S. Space Exploration Policy subsequently recommended that NASA encourage private space-related initiatives.
I believe that if government efforts lag, private enterprise should take the lead in settling space. We need look only to our past to see how well this could work. In 1862, the federal government supported the building of the transcontinental railroad with land grants. By the end of the 19th century, the private sector came to dominate the infrastructure, introducing improvements in rail transport that laid the foundation for industrial development in the 20th century. In a similar fashion, a cooperative effort in learning how to mine the moon for helium-3 will create the technological infrastructure for our inevitable journeys to Mars and beyond.
The Basics of Limitless Power: Albert Einstein’s famous E=MC2 equation reflects the enormous energy that can be released by fusing atoms. Hydrogen atoms fusing together to create helium powers the sun.
I believe that helium-3 could be the resource that makes the settlement of our moon both feasible and desirable.
Researchers have tried several approaches to harnessing the awesome power of hydrogen fusion to generate electricity. The stumbling block is finding a way to achieve the temperatures required to maintain a fusion reaction. All materials known to exist melt at these surface-of-the-sun temperatures. For this reason, the reaction can take place only within a magnetic containment field, a sort of electromagnetic Thermos bottle.
Substituting helium-3 for tritium allows the use of electrostatic confinement, rather than needing magnets, and greatly reduces the complexity of fusion reactors as well as eliminates the production of high-level radioactive waste. These differences will make fusion a practical energy option for the first time.
It is not a lack of engineering skill that prevents us from using helium-3 to meet our energy needs, but a lack of the isotope itself. Vast quantities of helium originate in the sun fortunately, the conditions that make helium-3 rare on Earth are absent on the moon, where it has accumulated on the surface and been mixed with the debris layer of dust waiting for the taking.
Harrison H. Schmitt became the first and only fully trained geologist to explore the moon with a doctorate from Harvard University. He was already on the staff of the U.S. Geological Survey’s astrogeology branch in Flagstaff, Ariz. His job included training astronauts during simulated lunar field trips. On Dec. 11, 1972, he and Eugene Cernan landed in the moon’s Taurus-Littrow Valley. On the first of three moonwalks, Schmitt’s scientific knowledge became evident. So did his enthusiasm. Four years after returning with 244 pounds of moon rocks, Schmitt was elected U.S. senator from New Mexico. Now chairman of Albuquerque-based Interlune-Intermars Initiative, he is a leading advocate for commercializing the moon.–
Lunar Mining for Helium 3 on top 9 feet
Samples collected in 1969 by Neil Armstrong during the first lunar landing showed that helium-3 concentrations in lunar soil are at least 13 parts per billion (ppb) by weight. Levels may range from 20 to 30 ppb in undisturbed soils. Quantities as small as 20 ppb may seem too trivial to consider. But at a projected value of $40,000 per ounce, 220 pounds of helium-3 would be worth about $141 million.
Because the concentration of helium-3 is extremely low, it would be necessary to process large amounts of rock and soil to isolate the material. Digging a patch of lunar surface roughly three-quarters of a square mile to a depth of about 9 feet should yield about 220 pounds of helium-3–enough to power a city the size of Dallas or Detroit for a year.
Although considerable lunar soil would have to be processed, the mining costs would not be high by terrestrial standards. Automated machines might perform the work. Extracting the isotope would not be particularly difficult. Heating and agitation release gases trapped in the soil. As the vapors are cooled to absolute zero, the various gases present sequentially separate out of the mix. In the final step, special membranes would separate helium-3 from ordinary helium.
The total estimated cost for fusion development, rocket development and starting lunar operations would be about $15 billion. Thanks to Stefano Coledan
Frank Jacobs has found some astounding images of Mars that indicate precision cuts on stone of ancient archeological ruins.
This image appears to show some type of truck or vehicle carrier. If it represents stone it is obvious the stone has been cut in the past similar to that found on Earth in the building of the pyramids at Giza, Egypt. Speculation suggests Martians left Mars and came to Earth.
Mars image found by Frank Jacobs shows Mars from space taken by the Hubble telescope. It appears to show clouds or at least strong winds blowing up dust. The pictures indicate some kind of atmosphere.
Not usually known is that temperatures around the Mars equator in the summer months reach 90 degrees.
Life apparently existed on Mars and the archeological remains are available for all to see who wish to take the time to investigate the images.
See the trailer Packing for Mars. Thanks to NASA images. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBOBZooqcN4
Angelic Being Seen On Mars Near NASA Rover In Three Photos! Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
Strange Bright Light on Mars
Date of discovery: Nov 2018 Location of discovery: Mars, Sol 362 NASA photo of angelic being or energy source.
NASA photo 1: https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/1/p/362/1P160329880EFF4200P2365R1M1.JPG
NASA photo 2: https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/1/p/362/1P160329880EFF4200P2365L7M1.JPG
NASA photo 3: https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/1/p/362/1P160330084EFF4200P2365R1M1.JPG
While scanning over photos from Mars, I found an unusually bright object that appears to have its own light source. This photo is zoomed in on the bright object. The NASA photos show the object at considerable distance. I thought maybe this was a reflection…but how? It’s an overcast sky, yes, Mars has clouds…a lot on this day. Then I thought it might be gamma radiation hitting the surface of the planet…but three times in a few hours? That like the same guy winning the mega lottery in the same day…the odds are way out there. So…this object had to have come into the photo, had its own light source and lingered for a while changing shape…as the photos attest too. Its alive!
So why didn’t NASA go to investigate? Fear…of what its close proximity to the rover might do…shut it down, cause glitches, take control…act.
Date of discovery: Nov 9, 2018
Location of discovery: Mars
Source photo: http://www.gigapan.com/galleries/13331/gigapans/184111
Scott C. Waring found a lot of ancient structures in a Mars photo today. These structures are long and almost resemble walls, but are buildings in long lines. I also discovered a face carved into a hill top, but is so ancient, it may be hard for some to see its details. This is 100% proof that ancient civilizations once flourished on the surface of Mars, and that NASA doesn’t want you to know about it. Thanks to Scott C. Waring UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY
Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Is Able to Host Life
Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights reports.
Ever since studies started suggesting that chemical reactions between water and rock on Saturn’s
moon Enceladus could provide enough energy in the water to feed microbial life, scientists have been searching for proof that the right sort of reactions really do occur.
And during its last dive through the icy plumes that Enceladus erupts into space in October 2015, the Cassini spacecraft has finally managed to find it – in the form of molecular hydrogen. The finding, published in Science, means the moon can now be considered highly likely to be suitable to host microbial life. In fact, the results should undermine the last strong objection from those who argue it could not. Water 200 degrees fare height bursts up from the ocean.
Great Pyramid Star Map 9200 BC
The etching of a star map centered exactly above Gantenbrink’s Door, in the “airshaft’ running up and away south from the Queen’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid, depicts some amazing surprises for us all, if we would only do the research.
No hieroglyphs here at all; just celestial markings. These markings were NOT purposeless graffiti; because if you track the positions of the stars it dates to 9200 BC some 6000 years before Egyptologists claim it was built. Similar age is found on the Sphinx if you consider the deep erosion from rain water.
Hieroglyphics and The Ancient Alien Gods
Egyptian hieroglyphics
It is possible that hieroglyphics might have come from the same source? The aliens could have brought it here in the distant past. Many ancient nations claim to have been taught by alien visitors. A plausible explanation would be that a civilization not of this earth has brought them here. But this is not enough evidence to arrive at such a conclusion. Occam’s Razor theory states that the simplest explanation is usually the most likely to be correct.
These Egyptian hieroglyphics often depict flying, gods and the like. Humans could have been brought here from other planets. Our eyes and skin are unusually sensitive to the bright sun indicating we may be from a planet with a darker sun. Unlike most animals most humans have back problems indicating our original planet had much less gravity.
Mars fits this scenario and disaster on Mars may have made them decide to come here. There is evidence that Mars once had an advanced civilization that could had flown here.
Martian statues are often depicted with large heads as are Egyptian pharoses and leaders of their society. Does the object in the sky depict the sun or a spaceship?
Underwater Alien Base
Scott C. Waring believes this alien base is connected to all the UFO sightings coming out of Mexico and the entire Central America. This base is huge and it’s no wonder why we hear about so many UFO sightings over Mexico,” he writes. “This base is just 45 miles away from the Mexican coast. The chances of this being an intelligently-made structure… I put that at 100 percent.”
It’s interesting to note the similarity between the structure’s arrangement and that of an airport’s landing strips when viewed from above. However, the sheer size of the tubular structures that make up the underwater network means they must have served a different purpose. It is unfortunate that we might never know what that purpose was, but unless the scientific community decides to investigate the matter in a thorough, transparent way, we’ll remain clueless. Coordinates for the underwater base here. UFO Sightings Daily’s
The Olmec Heads
The giant stone heads of the Olmecs found in La Venta, Tres Zpotes and other sites in Mexico can be classed as artifacts of a similar type. These colossal heads carved of black basalt are from 1.5 to 3 meters high (5-10 feet), weighing from 5 to 40 tons. They are placed on stone stands like similar large globes also found in the area. The globes would be easier to role to various locations and later carved into heads.
The nearest basalt quarries are 50 to 100 kilometers (31-62 miles) away. How could a people without a wheeled vehicle or pack animal bring the masses of rock across swamps and jungles to the erection sites?
These immense faces of La Venta and San Lorenzo have been dated to 1200 BC – another surprise for the historians of science. (CC by SA 3.0)
Olmec head. Parque-Museo La Venta, Villahermosa, Tabasco (Steve Bridger)
Bizarre Truth of WHY People Disappear in National Parks
David Paulides, an ex-cop from San Jose, California, is the founder of the North America Bigfoot Search. His obsession shifted from Sasquatch to missing persons when, he says, he was visited at his motel near an unnamed national park by two out-of-uniform rangers who claimed that something strange was going on with the number of people missing in America’s national parks. (He wouldn’t tell me the place or even the year, “for fear the Park Service will try to put the pieces together and ID them.” So in 2011, Paulides launched the CanAm Missing Project, which catalogs cases of people who disappear—or are found—on wild lands across North America under what he calls mysterious circumstances. He has self-published six volumes in his popular Missing 411 series, most recently Missing 411 Hunters: Unexplained Disappearances. Paulides expects Missing 411: The Movie, a documentary codirected by his son, Ben, and featuring Survivorman Les Stroud, to be released this year.
The gym-fit Paulides, who moved from California to Colorado in part for the skiing, is right out of central casting for a detective film.
David Paulides—founder of the CanAm Missing Project and author of Missing 411 Hunters: Unexplained Disappearances—is committed to finding missing persons. (Courtesy of David Paulides)
“I don’t put any theories in the books—I just connect facts,” he told me. Under “unique factors of disappearances,” he lists such recurring characteristics as dogs unable to track scents, the time (late afternoon is a popular window to vanish), and that many victims are found with clothing and footwear removed. Bodies are also discovered in previously searched areas with odd frequency, sometimes right along the trail. Children—and remains—are occasionally found improbable distances from the point last seen, in improbable terrain. Many of the disappearances indicate a flying object picking up the hunters similar to abductions by aliens or the use of helicopters.
It’s tempting to dismiss Paulides as a crypto-kook—and some search and rescue professionals do—but his books are extensively researched. On a large map of North America on his office wall, Paulides has identified 59 clusters of people missing on federal wild lands in the U.S. and southern Canada. To qualify as a cluster, there must be at least four cases; according to his pins, you want to watch your step in Yosemite, Crater Lake, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Rocky Mountain National Parks. But then, it would seem you want to watch your step everywhere in the wild. The map resembles a game of pin the tail on the donkey at an amphetamine-fueled birthday party. Thanks to Patty Blackwell
Filer’s Files #45 – 2018 UFO Sightings Increasing - PART II
Phoenix — My wife and I were on holiday and visited the 2018 Arizona State Fair where we took some pictures on an Apple IPhone.
Later, I transferred the photographs to my PC I noticed 3 lights in the sky in two of the photos.
From what I can see in the two pictures, 3 orbs or sources of light seem to move from right to left.
I don’t believe the light sources in the two pictures are reflective light, because of their position in both photos. The images are original and have not been altered or enhanced in any way. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Capitola — I started this video at 9:17 am, and it lasted over 8 minutes. at 2155 Wharf Road facing east. It was only upon review of the video that I became aware of that it included a tremendous amount of UFO activity It is my intuition that these events (the chemtrails and UFOs) were not a coincidence. I saw white lights behind a treetop that would grow long and then short. It was there for over ten seconds in the video. A descending UFO appears to change forms during its flight. There might be two rows of multiple orbs around a dark center, but then very complex changes occur. To begin with, there were three flights moving toward the south over Wharf road. That already is unusual. Flights 2 and 3 crossed over each other, creating a huge X, and flight 2 crossed over a the top portion of an impressive segment trail from flight 1 Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Light
Monument Park — We were flying to Raton, NM for a mountain flying trip. I wanted to get some photos. We departed KEWK at about 0830 landed in KLBL at about 1230. after I got back I found odd images on my photos that I did take. I would just like to know what I have. I have about 90 photos that I took on the trip if you guys would like them I would be glad to give you a copy of the entire trip. Photos taken on October 27, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Light
Freetown — I was taking a smoke break at work and chatting with my girlfriend on the phone at the time on November 8, 2018. All of a sudden a light in the distance caught my eye. At first I figured it was an airplane in the distance and that the sun was reflecting off of it. However, I realized it wasn’t getting closer and the glow was increasing. I kept my eye on it a few moments longer and then saw it start to slowly move north stop intermitted.
It continued like this until it was behind the tree line. I work security, so I hopped in the patrol vehicle and drove to where I had access to our security cameras. It took me less than 2 minutes. By the time I got the cameras locked on to that position in the sky, the object was gone. I drove back to the spot I had observed it from at the beginning, and it was gone from the sky all together. I felt a combination of creeeped out and the adrenaline rush of a hunter. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Object
I noticed a white cloud turning and moving fast, turning, rising, and then slowly moving down. A military helicopter fly’s by very quiet and then it disappears.’
Photo was taken on November 3, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Lights
Evanston — Myself and 3 others were driving down Clark Street on November 3, 2018. There were three objects hovering and descending slowly. One or two intermittently gave off large trails of sparks. Lights were far too slow to be meteors and a plane would not have sparked in this way. They were moving around each other in a somewhat irregular patterns blinking on and off irregularly. They were giving off a trail of sparks intermittently and could be meteors, as some had been reported the night before, but they never disintegrated and continued to hover and intermittently move downward slowly. We lost sight of them behind buildings. Soon thereafter, a helicopter appeared to be circling around the area. The whole event lasted 2.5 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kentucky Lights
Grayson — I was sitting in the living room when my step dad called me to come there to look outside. He said there was a light in the hill adjacent to our house; he thought it was coon hunters. I step outside and there’s a UFO and not a plane.
It just hovered, then it started moving slowly with two enormous lights to the side with another one beneath it. The sound was faint and buzzing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Cylinder
Lafayette — I get to work and I see the moon is full and it has a rainbow shining on top of it so I take two pictures and I go inside and I show my friend the pictures on September 29, 2018and he says what is that green thing I said where and then I see it one picture shows that it moves a little then we look at the next one and it moves way to the right within 3 minutes I it was in front of the moon I should have video it thanks. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Hampshire Light
Kingston — I was driving through New Hampshire at 10 pm on Route 107 and notice extremely bright lights in the sky. The lights seemed to be too bright to be a plane.. I slowed down my car and as it got closer and could see the lights were shaped differently than on planes. The craft was shaped basically like a”V” and on each wing there were two very big bright lights positioned close to each other. There were also two bright white lights in the front of the craft but those were much smaller than the ones on the wings. The craft flew right over my head and it was extremely big and silent and much bigger than a passenger airplane.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Clinger
Port Orford — At a beach just south of Port Orford taking photos, I did not see or hear anything at the time, I was talking to a lady just before and after and she did not mention anything about this. I saw this the next day while going through my photos.
I shot this in Jpeg and CR2 RAW. The object is almost centered in photo above the flat roc. Photo was taken on September 24, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina ‘Objects
Hilton Head Island — On the beach around 3:30 pm, on October 29, 2018, I saw boats on horizon and then looked up and saw two strange shaped clouds that looked like an upside down mushrooms with a circle in the mushroom head. It seemed unnatural for a cloud. Then both small clouds changed shape at the same time. Shape changed to a more natural small cloud shape. No clouds anywhere in the sky except these two. Took photo and didn’t think anymore about it until I got home and looked at the photo and zoomed in. Saw black dots over both clouds and some around the cloud. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Light
San Antonio — I am in leadership seminar for my client looked up and saw a large Chevron/inverted V shaped ‘airplane’ with a white flashing light at the V point flying low and slow, no sound. I couldn’t believe my eyes – it was so low and over the highway 1604 going SW along the road, right next to a large shopping center area with a lot of lights and cars. I grabbed my iPhone to try and video and photograph it. My video didn’t record but I did get ONE ‘live’ iPhone photo which shows the object (changed shape/color!) as a yellow-orange disc that appears to be a fluid energy source? There was movement from left to right. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia object
Monroe Institute — This is the same photo, (IMG_5082A1), that I sent you a little while ago, however, it is slightly bigger. I was in error. It was taken on November 6, 2018, one day after I took my photo (DSC06516A), which was taken on 11-5-18. They are very similar except maybe they were taken from different angles. Love and Light, Dan Johnson
Wyoming Triangles
Buckhorn — Photo was taken October 15, 2018, of a herd of Black Angus cattle on Highway 85 some 5 miles from crossing into South Dakota. There were about 200 head of cattle and cowboys on horseback, the calves were scared and bellowing, Took me 20 minutes to drive through the wandering and upset cattle and took photos.
Later on after checking into the Elk Ridge Resort cabin in Spearfish, North Dakota, I took a look at the attached photo….that’s when I saw the 4 white triangles that look like spacecraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
I was sitting in car around 6:30 am on my phone on August 29, 2018. it was dusk, just becoming light. I couldn’t get off the phone quick enough as I saw this light traveling across the sky, which appeared to have come from the west coast, the ocean is a few kilometer’s away from where I live near the west coast of western Australia. I quickly started my Samsung galaxy s5 phone camera and filmed it for a few minutes, It traveled in easterly direction, making no noise at all. there is an airport just out of town and I hear them flying most days very clearly, however this light object made no noise at all. it disappeared into smallish cloud and came out other side, then I followed it as it moved into more cloud cover and never came out Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Cigar
Vaughan — Was taking a picture of the cool clouds outside the house.
When I looked at the pictures I noticed in the second picture what appeared to be a black cylinder hovering in front of the clouds.
Photo was taken on November 3, 2018. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Guatemala Light
Antigua –This photo was taken in December 2011 and was taken above the Volcano “El Agua” with a little light above the clouds. It was the fifth picture of a sequence of 12 pictures I took in the same direction, in just a few minutes. No one of the other photos showed the light. The light that appears above the clouds did not appear in the other photos.
I noticed it later when I checked the photo a few minutes later. Although the clouds were well focused, the strange light was blurred suggesting high speed Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hungary Lights
Budapest l — I was watching a live webcam feed on Earth Cam at around 6 pm UK time on November 7, 2018. I noticed strange lights in the sky. I was watching on my iPad. As you can see I fumbled around with my phone then turned out the light to show the footage better. This is live and in real time. I was amazed and fascinated. The actual display lasted at least an hour before the webcam changed angles. The craft were almost playing with each other. Their movements are so fluid like a dance and they are leaving light trails behind themselves. They are moving in all directions at great speed. Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Disc
DAIPUR – RAJASTHAN — Yes, it was 07:30 pm, on November 8, 2018, and my sister and I were standing on our balcony. We saw an orange and white colored thing in the sky, which was coming towards us I asked, “What’s that?” It was totally different in color from a helicopter and suddenly it stopped there and stayed for 5 seconds, so we waved towards that thing,
and it went back a little. We realized that we had seen something we were not supposed to see. That made us bring out our phone and record that incident, and when i was recording it just disappeared in thin air. we were so excited that we were shouting and shocked. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Puerto Rico Object
Naguabo – I found cigar shape object after reviewing sequences of photos on left of photo.
The event took place during sun, 26 August 2018 at 08:51 am in saguaro, Puerto Rico.
I was taking a ride through the rainforest. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Orb
Cardiff — I was on the beach with my partner and two children at around 19:08 on September 29, 2018. I started to film the sea because it was so calm/ My partner mentioned seeing the moon because of how bright the light was. After I watched the film back I showed my partner the light but it was no longer there. The sky was very clear?
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The Mothman of Point Pleasant: An Extraterrestrial?
Certainly, that’s a very controversial question to ask. It was put to me last week, while doing radio. For many researchers, the Mothman is perceived as being a creature of purely cryptozoological proportions. Others take the view that the Mothman was (and, perhaps, still is) something of a definitively supernatural nature. But, to get back to the matter of that question put to me, let’s see what the evidence, testimony and data provides. But, first a bit of background on the weird winged-thing is required. There can be few people reading this who have not at least heard of the legendary Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, who so terrorized the town and the surrounding area between November 1966 and December 1967, and whose diabolical exploits were chronicled in the 2002 hit Hollywood movie starring Richard Gere: The Mothman Prophecies, so named after the book of the same title written by Mothman authority John Keel.
A winged monster with red eyes, Mothman came out of nowhere. Some say its presence culminated in high tragedy and death. But what was the Mothman of Point Pleasant? And how did the legend begin? To answer those questions we have to go back to the dark night of November 12, 1966, when five grave-diggers working in a cemetery in the nearby town of Clendenin were shocked to see what they described as a “brown human shape with wings” rise out of the thick, surrounding trees and soar off into the distance. Three days later, the unearthly beast surfaced once again. It was at the highly appropriate time of the witching-hour when Roger and Linda Scarberry and Steve and Mary Mallette – two young, married couples from Point Pleasant – were passing the time away by cruising around town in the Scarberrys’ car.
As they drove around the old factory, the four were puzzled to see in the shadows what looked like two red lights pointing in their direction. These were no normal lights, however. Rather, all four were shocked and horrified to discover that, in reality, the “lights” were the glowing, self-illuminating red eyes of a huge animal that, as Roger Scarberry would later recall, was “…shaped like a Mothman, but bigger, maybe six and a half or seven feet tall, with big wings folded against its back.” Not surprisingly, they fled the area at high speed. Unfortunately for the Scarberry’s and the Mallette’s, however, the beast seemingly decided to follow them: as they sped off for the safety of Point Pleasant, the winged monster took to the skies and shadowed their vehicle’s every movement until it reached the city limits.
Water River Point Pleasant Bridge West Virginia
The four raced to the sheriff’s office and told their astounding story to Deputy Millard Halstead, who later stated that: “I’ve known these kids all their lives. They’d never been in any trouble and they were really scared that night. I took them seriously.” And even though a search of the area by Halstead did not result in an answer to the mystery, the Mothman would soon return. Again and again. And again. As far as the question concerning Mothman being an extraterrestrial is concerned, I would be inclined to completely dismiss this “E.T.” theory were it not for one thing. Namely, that there was indeed a great deal of UFO- and alleged alien-themed activity going on at that time – and in relatively close proximity to Point Pleasant. In other words, where UFOs were seen, so were strange lights in the sky. Moving on…
Susan Sheppard is a friend of mine, who has expert knowledge of the strange tale of a man named Woodrow Derenberger and a creepy character named Indrid Cold. I’ll now turn you over to Susan: “…strangeness that enveloped West Virginia and Ohio Valley did not begin with the Scarberry encounter along route 2 north of Point Pleasant. There had been another puzzling event that occurred in Parkersburg 12 days before. This happened on November 2, 1966 one mile south of the city limits of Parkersburg. It involved a sewing machine salesman whose life was about to be disrupted in such a way that he would never entirely recover. His name was Woodrow Derenberger, but everyone called him ‘Woody.’ It was shortly after 6 p.m. in the evening, when Woody Derenberger was driving home from his job as a sewing machine salesman at J.C. Penny’s in Marietta, Ohio to his farmhouse in Mineral Wells, West Virginia. The ride home was overcast and dreary. It was misting a light rain.
“As Derenberger came up on the Intersection of I-77 and Route 47, he thought that a tractor trailer truck was tailgating him without its lights on, which was unnerving, so he swerved to the side of the road and much to his surprise, the truck appeared to take flight and seemed to roll across his panel truck. To his astonishment, what Derenberger thought was a truck was a charcoal colored UFO without any lights on. It touched down and then hovered about 10 inches above the berm of the road. Much to Derenberger’s surprise a hatch opened and a man stepped out looking like “any ordinary man you would see on the street – there was nothing unusual about his appearance.
“Except the man [Indrid Cold] was dressed in dark clothing and had a ‘beaming smile.’ As the man proceeded to walk toward Derenberger’s panel truck the ‘craft’ jetted up to about 40 feet in the air where it floated above the highway. What happened next was unsettling, because as the darkly-dressed man came up toward the vehicle Woody Derenberger heard the words, ‘Do not be afraid, I mean you no harm, I only want to ask you a few questions.’ Derenberger did become afraid because as the man spoke to Woodrow his lips did not move. The man then moved to the opposite of the truck and told Derenberger to roll down his window so they could talk better, which he did. Next what formed in Derenberger’s mind were the words, ‘Now you can speak, or you can think… it makes no difference, I can understand you either way,’ … this is what the dark man said. Later, when Derenberger was questioned on local live television he was scrutinized over what seemed a contradiction because if the dark man communicated through a type of mental telepathy why would Derenberger need to roll down his window to talk? Wouldn’t it be easier just to talk mentally?
“Woodrow Derenberger explained it was because Indrid Cold wanted to look directly at him as they spoke and he felt that, really, Cold wasn’t so interested in what was said but more interested in keeping up a communication with him. To Derenberger, that seemed the entire point of it all. Derenberger also noted that when Cold stared into his eyes, it was as if he knew everything about Woodrow Derenberger, and also, if he could only let go of his fear and do the same, he felt he would also know and understand all about Cold. In any event, Cold spoke through the passenger side window the entire time. The physical description of Cold was commonplace. Derenberger described him as about 35 years of age, having a trim build, was about six feet tall, 185 pounds with dark eyes and dark hair slicked straight back. Cold wore a long dark coat and beneath the coat Woodrow Derenberger was able to glimpse the fabric of his “uniform” that glistened beneath the coat. He also described Cold as having a ‘tanned complexion.’ Throughout the conversation Cold kept a frozen smile and curiously hid his hands beneath his armpits most of the time.
“Cold did, however, point at the city lights above the distant hills of Parkersburg and asked Mr. Derenberger, ‘What do you call that over there?’ Derenberger said, ‘Why, that’s Parkersburg and we call that a city.’ Cold responded, ‘Where I come from we call it a gathering.’ Cold later added the curious statement that “’I come from a place less powerful than yours.’ As the men talked cars passed under the craft which drifted above the road. The occupants were seemingly unaware of the spaceship being there. After all, there were no lights that could be seen. Cold then asked about Parkersburg, ‘Do people live there or do they work there?’ Woody Derenberger answered, ‘Why, yes, people live and work there.’ Cold interjected ‘Do you work, Mr. Derenberger?’ (Woodrow told Cold his name as the conversation began) Derenberger answered, ‘I am a salesman. That’s what I do. Do you have a job?’ Cold answered, ‘Yes. I am a searcher.’
“After that the conversation became mundane. Cold seemed to notice Woodrow Derenberger was scared and commented on it. Mr. Derenberger claimed Cold asked him, ‘Why are you so frightened? Do not be afraid. We mean you no harm. You will see that we eat and bleed the same as you do,’ and then added an emotive note, ‘We only wish you happiness’ which Cold said to the frightened man more than once. While Mr. Derenberger was being interviewed on live television on WTAP-TV, he attributed this puzzling statement to Indrid Cold, “At the proper time, the authorities will be notified about our meeting and this will be confirmed.” The entire conversation took between five and ten minutes and then Indrid Cold looked inside Woody’s car with his ever-present smile, and said, ‘Mr. Derenberger, I thank you for talking to me. We will see you again.’
There ends an extract from an excellent paper that Susan very generously prepared for me.
Moving on, there’s the matter of the Men in Black. In his classic book, The Mothman Prophecies, John Keel said of one such case: “On a rainy night in April a man from Ohio had been driving along Route 2 near the Chief Cornstalk Hunting Grounds when a large black form rose from the woods and flew over his car. ‘It was at least ten feet wide,’ he claimed. ‘I stepped on the gas and it kept right up with me. We were doing over seventy. It scared the hell out of me. Then I saw it move ahead of me and turn toward the river.’” Keel continued: “Months later, late in October, he returned home from work and found a prowler in his apartment. ‘When I opened the door I saw this man standing in my living room,’ he reported. ‘I think he was dressed all in black. I couldn’t see his face, but he was about five feet nine. I started to fumble for the light switch when he took my picture. There was a big flash of light, so bright I couldn’t see a thing. While I was rubbing my eyes the burglar darted past me and went out the open door. I guess I arrived just in time because nothing was missing.’”
Mary Hyre was a woman who played an integral role in the series of 1960s-era events that led John Keel to write The Mothman Prophecies. In January 1967, Hyre was visited by a creepy, bowl-haired MIB of around 5-feet in height and who had oddly hypnotic eyes. Throughout the encounter, the black-clad “man” kept staring at Hyre’s ballpoint pen. To the point where Hyre told him he could keep it. He took it, laughed loud in a strange fashion, and vanished as mysteriously as he first arrived. As The Demoniacal notes: “Mary Hyre was the Point Pleasant, WV, correspondent for the Athens, OH, newspaper titled, The Messenger. Hyre documented strange occurrences happening in Point Pleasant in 1966-1967 and was well loved by locals due to her professional and open-minded take on the subjects. In one weekend alone, Hyre received 500 reports of UFO sightings from locals. Hyre’s fascination with flying saucers stemmed from her own sighting of a UFO which she claimed flew over her backyard.”
All of which brings us back to the matter of the Mothman. As we have seen, at the same time the Mothman was soaring around the skies of Point Pleasant, Mary Hyre had a close encounter with a weird Man in Black. The MIB are, of course, inextricably linked to the UFO phenomenon. Not only that, Hyre was the recipient of hundreds of UFO reports and someone who became one of Keel’s closest friends. Add to that the saga of Indrid Cold and what we have is an area that was dominated by not just the famous, flying monster, but by a number of UFO-related issues too. I consider it highly unlikely that the Cold controversy, the experiences of Mary Hyre, and the Mothman and MIB presences were completely unconnected. So, that’s why I am at least open to the idea that the Mothman just may have been an extraterrestrial – and not a creature of Cryptozoology or even of something of paranormal origins.
UFO – A Myth or a Fact – Real Life UFO Sightings
The world is full of strange phenomena and one of them happens to be the UFOs. Even after 71 years since the first sighting, the UFO remains a mystery. Many believe that aliens visit our planet in flying saucers. On the other hand, some believe that it’s just a regular aircraft that somehow appears like a strange object. Some even disregard it as any kind of flying machine but consider it merely a balloon or a cloud.
Nonetheless, for the past 71 years, the UFO craze has taken the world by storm. It has provided the mainstream media and authors enough room to explore and come up with all sorts of explanations. Yet, most of us are still trying to figure out the reality behind UFOs.
So, without wasting any time let’s find out more about UFOs. Are aliens visiting us in UFOs or it’s just an interesting story created by the media?
Though people have reported about seeing strange objects in the sky since ancient times, UFO is a rather new-age phenomenon. Basically, UFO is an acronym for Unidentified Flying Object. This particular term appeared for the first time in the 1950s. Until then the strange flying objects were referred to as Flying Saucers.
Does it ring any bell?
Yeah, that’s the term that we’re more accustomed to.
The weird flying machines were called flying saucers because of their disc- like shape. The term flying saucers for the UFOs became a trend after a US pilot Kenneth Arnold reported about seeing a saucer-like object. He was flying over the Mount Rainier when he saw it. Until the late 1940s, the flying saucer was the term that defined UFOs.
Originally, the term UFO was used for almost any strange object seen floating or flying in the sky. Whenever a pilot saw an experimental plane that couldn’t identify, he believed it to be a UFO.
Gradually, the definition and specification of UFOs got more refined. After the 1940s, the aircraft sightings believed to be from another planet were labeled as UFOs. In fact, the idea became deeply embedded that UFOs were flown by aliens. People believed that UFOs were outer-worldly vehicles.
There were many reports of people being abducted by the aliens and taken along to an unknown destination. A majority of the UFO sightings have come from pilots. In many incidents, the pilot claims to have seen a strange flying object unlike any aircraft he’s seen before.
Unidentified Flying Object or UFO as a term for flying saucers was firstly recorded in 1953. It was firstly used in a book authored by Donald Keyhoe, a famous writer and US aviator. In 1956, the term UFO formally replaced flying saucer and the credit goes to Edward Rupplet, a USAF officer.
Rupplet was responsible for investigating the strange flying objects. He believed that flying saucer wasn’t a suitable term. UFOs offered a broader description of these objects, in his opinion. Thus, this is how the world was formally introduced to the UFO phenomenon.
Pretty soon there were reports of potential UFO sightings from around the globe. So extensive was the impact that investigations were launched to study the phenomenon. The study of UFOs was officially named as Ufology in 1959 and the field experts were categorized as Ufologists in 1963.
It all started from June 24, 1947. A civilian pilot Kenneth Arnold was flying over the Pacific Northwest in his private aircraft. There came a point when he realized that there was something else flying alongside his plane. As his plane closed in to the Mount Rainier, Washington, he spotted some objects. In his own words, there were “nine objects, glowing bright bluish-white.”
These 9 objects were flying quite close to his aircraft. Eight objects, claimed Arnold, were disc-shaped. The ninth one was much bigger than the rest and was shaped like a crescent. He also noted that all the objects were flying in a customary V-shaped formation at roughly 1,200miles an hour. He suspected it to be a military exercise. However, he was sure that the objects were saucer-like in shape. He hadn’t yet seen such a weirdly designed aircraft. Moreover, at the time no aircraft could fly in this formation.
While he was giving interviews to the press and at the radio station, his comment saucer was highlighted a lot. Physical description of the strange objects was, thus, associated with the term saucer since then on.
Immediately, rumor mills got activated and all sorts of theories emerged. The most popular one was that the objects were from outer space. This was regarded as a ground-breaking discovery as it indicated there was life on other planets.
However, by that time aliens weren’t specifically associated with the visitors in the strange objects. It was in the 1970s that people started speculating about the presence of aliens on UFOs. It was an era when environmental concerns were rising and the threat of a nuclear war was looming. Hence, conspiracy theorists came up with the idea of alien species visiting the earth.
By the 1990s, though, this narrative reached a new height of extremity. Not hundreds but thousands of reports about people being abducted by aliens emerged. It was believed that aliens are kidnapping humans to perform medical experiments. Even the thought of being abducted by the aliens is eerie. Isn’t it?
Theories of aliens and ancient astronauts have remained the center of human imagination for centuries. There are many legends and artifacts from thousands of years ago that describe sightings of unidentified flying objects. Their shape, size, and characteristics do vary though. Back then, aliens were referred to as the Sky People. It was believed that the sky people come from a highly advanced civilization.
Legend has it that the first ever contact with the sky people occurred soon after the cataclysm. Theorists proclaim that this contact has occurred several times in the history of the planet. This information has been substantiated by archaeological, geological, anthropological, and paleontological data as well. Evidence suggests that there have been several cataclysms on the planet. Every time there was a change at the global level such as climate change or mass extinction, this contact occurred.
One of the legends claims that after the catastrophe, human civilization was reduced to the Stone Age. Then the sky people descended on the Earth from their spacecraft and rebuilt the civilization. Could they be aliens or just an illusion?
It is evident from many historical accounts that there are various kinds of sky people who are part of legends. These could be gods, aliens or planetary bodies like the sun, moon, stars, etc. Investigators in the TV show Ancient Aliens attempted to know the reality behind ancient gods. Their conclusion was that they were aliens.
However, this judgment lacks substance. For instance, the Greek sun god Apollo is just that- a sun god. It cannot be an alien flying through the sky in a saucer-like spaceship. Moreover, the spacecraft that many legends refer to as vimanas and flying machines, could very well be from previous civilizations on earth.
Many legends state that the spacecraft transported some of the humans to another planet during the catastrophe. This planet could be the Moon, Mars or Venus. It may also be somewhere under the sea or the earth.
There isn’t any clear indication of the reality of the sky people. So, if the accounts are true and not mere myths, then sky people might be humans who somehow built flying machines.
We may disregard the concept of a UFO as a mere myth or product of crazy fiction. But, the unexplainable sightings in such a large number do hint that UFOs could be for real. Some of the famous sightings are listed below.
The 1940s-50s:
Nearly 12,618 sightings were reported only between 1947 and 1969. These sightings were reported to Project Blue Book. It was the name of an ongoing UFO research project headquartered at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Out of these, about 701 still remain unidentified.
The first and probably most talked about sighting involved Kenneth Arnold who identified 9 strange flying objects in 1947. We have already discussed this incident at length earlier in the article.
The same year, on July 8 New Mexico’s public information office reported about recovering a crashed flying disc. It was recovered nearby a ranch in Roswell. The military later explained that it was the debris from an experimental observation balloon. However, critics weren’t buying this explanation. They even criticized the government for hiding the truth. It was firmly believed that an extraterrestrial aircraft was found near Roswell. They were also certain that not just the spacecraft but its occupants were also captured from the location.
In 1948, a 25-year old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Captain Thomas Mantell died while chasing a UFO. He was an expert airman and had actively participated in the WWII as a pilot. So, it came as a surprise to many that he died in a plane crash. The two co-pilots who were flying with Mantell that fateful day couldn’t clearly explain the object they were pursuing.
In November 1953, First Lieutenant Felix E. Moncla Jr. received strange orders while he was flying. He was tasked to intercept an unidentified object. The object was tracked by the radars installed at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. As Moncla Jr. got closer to the object, his plane simply vanished from the radar. It was never found again.
The Mariana UFO Incident from 1951 is another popular case of UFO sighting. Great Falls’ pro baseball team’s manager managed to capture images of two UFOs. The spaceships were flying over Great Falls. The footages were analyzed quite extensively by the USAF and independent researchers too but they couldn’t explain it.
In 1959, a Pan American flight was traveling to San Francisco from Honolulu. The crew suddenly encountered a UFO while flying at 21,000feet over the Pacific. Pilots from two other airlines also confirmed the sighting. Reporters were later told by Captain George Wilson that there was a very bright light surrounded by smaller lights. The UFO was traveling at lightning speed.
“I’m a believer now” concluded Wilson.
1980s-90s:
In Belgium, between 1989 and 1990 a large object containing huge lights was identified by not one or two but hundreds of individuals. Those who saw the object included air traffic controllers, cops, and Air Force officials. However, their claims about seeing a UFO were rejected and the object was termed as a polystyrene fake. This was a rather hilarious logic offered to explain something witnessed by hundreds.
On July 11, 1991, Mexico City was observing an eclipse when many people saw and even recorded glimpses of a UFO.
A similar incident occurred in Belgium in 1997. It became famous as the Phoenix Lights. This particular incident was also witnessed by a multitude of people including politicians and air traffic officials. This story was featured on the National Geographic documentary titled “Secret History of UFOs” too.
The ex-governor of Arizona Fife Symington stated that he himself had witnessed the Phoenix lights.
“I suspect that, unless the Defense Department proves it otherwise, it was some form of an alien spacecraft,” said Symington.
Key Abductions:
Apart from UFO sightings, there have been countless reports about people being abducted by aliens. Travis Walton is one such abductee.
In NatGeoTV’s show Chasing UFOs the story of Walton was reported in which he claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens. He also identified witnesses who observed strange UFO activity soon after his alleged abduction.
Investigators although disagree with Walton but it’s a fact that his story remained consistent throughout the investigation, which continued for decades. This story made a sensational debut in the movie Fire in the Sky as well.
Another famous incident of abduction by aliens is that of Betty and Barney Hill. The couple was traveling to a road nearby Portsmouth, in 1961, when they believe aliens abducted them. While narrating the events, they said that a spaceship landed and they were taken inside the craft. There, they had to undergo thorough body inspection. They claim that aliens performed the inspection. This incident attracted worldwide attention and was also explored in the movie The UFO Incident.
If you think that only common people have seen UFOs so far then you are mistaken. The fact is that a majority of the UFO sightings have been reported by astronauts. In 1977, Stanford University’s space science and astrophysics professor, Peter Sturrock, decided to find out the same thing. He mailed over 2,500 questionnaires to the American Astronomical Society members.
The purpose was to find out more about their experiences of UFO sightings if any. Surprisingly, out of the 1,356 responses, 62 astronomers reported about witnessing unexplainable aerial occurrences. The rate of UFO sightings witnessed by astronauts turned out to be 4.6%. This is similar to 5% of the total UFO sightings that are still unexplained. Further investigation revealed that most of the UFO observations reported by astronomers occurred at nighttime.
The article titled “Apollo Astronaut Chats About UFO, Alien Belief” published in Discovery magazine explained more about the discovery at Roswell. In the article, Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell surprisingly admitted that the crash at Roswell involved aliens and a spacecraft. He also claimed that the Phoenix Lights was also an out-worldly event.
“Three humongous craft flew over Phoenix, very slowly in the middle of the night that clearly were not local stuff, home-grown stuff” confirmed Mitchell.
However, the government quickly came out in its defense. NASA released this statement:
“NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe.”
For decades, researchers have been trying to explain the phenomenon of UFOs. However, the biggest challenge that they face in studying it closely is that these spaceships appear suddenly. For science to explain something, it is important to verify conclusions using testable evidence. UFO sightings cannot be controlled or repeated. This is why Ufology is such a challenging study.
The general public has also been fascinated by the UFOs to such an extent that any explanation from experts is quickly dismissed. Most of the explanations provided by scientists and the governments declare them as weather phenomenon or human acts. There is no substantial evidence that could justify the sightings to involve aliens, extraterrestrial, spaceships, and flying saucers.
Experts believe that there has never been any extraterrestrial visit on the planet. There are no aliens and certainly no flying saucers. But, there is so little evidence that their theories can never be backed by solid arguments. The most they do is regard the topic as off-limits.
In 2010, Dr. Michio Kaku, a well-known scientist, settled all the confusion once and for all by admitting that the UFOs are real. In his statement, he clearly said that at least 5% of the sightings are unidentified objects. These objects, added Dr. Kaku, behaved oddly and scarily.
However, a majority of scientists believe that UFOs are simply planes and clouds. These could also be celestial events like meteors or planets that sometimes appear unusually bright.
Despite investigations, some of the cases of sightings remain unexplainable to date. Scientists argue that the sightings could be of common objects that appear different in the skies. Some say that it could just be a normal balloon that appears unidentifiable high up in the air.
It is simply not possible to dismiss thousands of UFO sightings as that of a balloon or the planet Venus. Still, a majority of the sightings are unexplainable while only a few could be regarded as manmade objects. In the past few decades, approximately millions of people have witnessed strange objects. There are pictures and videos available as well. So, can we disregard all of them and start believing that instead of a flying object, it could be a balloon?
What about the abductions? Are such incidents merely hallucinations?
Okay, hallucination can be the case once or twice but not always!
It’s been exactly 71 years since Kenneth Arnold first reported about a UFO. Science is nowhere near the truth as yet. Whether it is a secret spying project by the intelligence agencies or aliens visiting our planet, there is no clarity.
When there is doubt and mysteriousness surrounding an event, people will create theories. Despite that there isn’t any solid evidence of extraterrestrial involvement but can we completely rule it out? That’s not possible either.
So, let’s believe in the unbelievable until science gives us a credible explanation of the UFO phenomenon.
Un enquête ouverte sur la possible présence d'OVNI au large de la côte irlandaise
Le Pentagone reconnaît l'existence d'un programme d'étude des ovnis - © Belga
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L'Autorité de l'aviation irlandaise enquête sur des informations faisant état de lumières et d'OVNI au large de la côte sud-ouest de l'Irlande, selon la BBC.
Tout a commencé à 9 h 47, heure locale, le vendredi 9 novembre, lorsqu'un pilote de British Airways contacte le contrôle du trafic aérien de Shannon. Il voulait savoir s'il y avait des exercices militaires dans la région parce qu'il y avait quelque chose "qui bouge très vite".
Mais aucun exercice n'était en cours. Le pilote, qui volait de Montréal à Heathrow, a déclaré qu'il y avait une "lumière très brillante" et que l'objet était monté le long du côté gauche de l'avion avant qu'il ne "vire rapidement au nord".
Un autre pilote d'un avion Virgin a suggéré qu'il puisse s'agir d'un météore ou d'un autre objet pénétrant dans l'atmosphère terrestre. Il a déclaré qu'il y avait "plusieurs objets qui suivaient le même type de trajectoire" et qu'ils étaient très brillants. Le pilote a déclaré avoir vu "deux lumières brillantes" vers la droite qui s'éloignaient rapidement.
Un pilote a déclaré que la vitesse était "astronomique, c'était comme Mach 2", ce qui correspond à deux fois la vitesse du son. "Suite à des informations sur une activité aérienne inhabituelle annoncées vendredi par un petit nombre d'aéronefs, l'IAA a déposé un rapport", a déclaré l'Irish Aviation Authority (IAA). "Ce rapport fera l'objet d'une enquête dans le cadre du processus d'enquête normal sur un événement confidentiel."
Un porte-parole de l'aéroport de Shannon a déclaré qu'il ne serait pas approprié que l'aéroport fasse des commentaires pendant que l'enquête de l'IAA est en cours.
Is UFO a sign of alien life?
This follows a suggestion from scientists at Harvard University in the US that a cigar-shaped object that tumbled through our solar system in October last year, was a probe sent by an intelligent alien life form to spy on us.
The object was called “Oumuamua” which means “a messenger that reaches out from the distant past” in Hawaiian. It was picked up by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii.
Since its discovery, scientists have been at odds as they tried to explain its unusual features and origins.
Researchers first called it a comet, then an asteroid. When the object failed to satisfy the criteria of either, they labelled it a first of its kind: a new class of “interstellar objects”.
Given its high speed and its unusual trajectory, the reddish, stadium-sized whatever-it-is clearly came from outside our solar system.
But its flattened, elongated shape and the way it accelerated through the solar system set it apart from conventional asteroids and comets.
In a paper, researchers at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics raised the possibility that the elongated dark-red object, which is 10 times as long as it is wide and travelled at speeds of more than 300000km/* , could be of “artificial origin”.
“Oumuamua may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth vicinity by an alien civilisation,” they wrote in the paper, which has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The theory is based on the object’s “excess acceleration”, or its unexpected boost in speed as it travelled through and ultimately out of our solar system in January.
Religious leaders also expressed mixed views on the possibility of other life forms.
According to Bishop Rubin Phillip, head of the Anglican Church in KwaZulu-Natal, God created all life in the universe, not just on Earth.
As a result, it was his belief that Christianity could include the possibility of life beyond our planet.
“The Bible talks about God creating every living creature. God created all life and not just life on Earth alone, but in the whole universe.
“If life is discovered in the universe, this is not a contradiction of our beliefs, because God created life and we believe that there is life all over,” said Bishop Phillip.
Dr Faisal Suliman of the SA Muslim Network said there was nothing in the Qur’an that negated the possibility of other creations in the universe.
“Yes, we believe that we may not be the only creations in the universe.
“The Qur’an does not say that we are the only creation,” said Suliman.
However, Ashwin Trikamjee, president of the SA Hindu Maha Sabha, rejected the notion of alien life.
“Hinduism believes in Karma and that if you have been doing good, you come back again.
“The soul finds itself another body to live in.
“Therefore there is no space for any other life,” he said.
Shembe (Ebuhleni) spokesperson Thokozani Mncwabe also dismissed the idea that there could be life on other planets.
“I do not wish to stretch much on the matter, however, we strongly believe that all living creatures are on Earth and anything else is a fable,” said Mncwabe.
Glowing golden disc appears in the sky of Welches, Oregon
