Two airplanes chasing a UFO near Zucchelli Station, Antarctica, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.

Two airplanes chasing a UFO near Zucchelli Station, Antarctica, Nov 2018, UFO Sighting News.
An exploding meteor may have wiped out ancient Dead Sea communities

ANCIENT WIPEOUT Preliminary evidence indicates that a low-altitude meteor explosion around 3,700 years ago destroyed cities, villages and farmland north of the Dead Sea (shown in the background above) rendering the region uninhabitable for 600 to 700 years.
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DENVER — A superheated blast from the skies obliterated cities and farming settlements north of the Dead Sea around 3,700 years ago, preliminary findings suggest.
Radiocarbon dating and unearthed minerals that instantly crystallized at high temperatures indicate that a massive airburst caused by a meteor that exploded in the atmosphere instantaneously destroyed civilization in a 25-kilometer-wide circular plain called Middle Ghor, said archaeologist Phillip Silvia. The event also pushed a bubbling brine of Dead Sea salts over once-fertile farm land, Silvia and his colleagues suspect.
People did not return to the region for 600 to 700 years, said Silvia, of Trinity Southwest University in Albuquerque. He reported these findings at the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research on November 17.
Excavations at five large Middle Ghor sites, in what’s now Jordan, indicate that all were continuously occupied for at least 2,500 years until a sudden, collective collapse toward the end of the Bronze Age. Ground surveys have located 120 additional, smaller settlements in the region that the researchers suspect were also exposed to extreme, collapse-inducing heat and wind. An estimated 40,000 to 65,000 people inhabited Middle Ghor when the cosmic calamity hit, Silvia said.
The most comprehensive evidence of destruction caused by a low-altitude meteor explosion comes from the Bronze Age city of Tall el-Hammam, where a team that includes Silvia has been excavating for the last 13 years. Radiocarbon dating indicates that the mud-brick walls of nearly all structures suddenly disappeared around 3,700 years ago, leaving only stone foundations.
What’s more, the outer layers of many pieces of pottery from same time period show signs of having melted into glass. Zircon crystals in those glassy coats formed within one second at extremely high temperatures, perhaps as hot as the surface of the sun, Silvia said.
High-force winds created tiny, spherical mineral grains that apparently rained down on Tall el-Hammam, he said. The research team has identified these minuscule bits of rock on pottery fragments at the site.
Examples exist of exploding space rocks that have wreaked havoc on Earth (SN: 5/13/17, p. 12). An apparent meteor blast over a sparsely populated Siberian region in 1908, known as the Tunguska event, killed no one but flattened 2,000 square kilometers of forest. And a meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 injured more than 1,600 people, mainly due to broken glass from windows that were blown out.
A new airplane uses charged molecules, not propellers or turbines, to fly
ION POWER A new aircraft (illustrated) is propelled forward by streams of charged molecules moving among wires.
H. XU ET AL/NATURE 2018
A newly designed airplane prototype does away with noisy propellers and turbines.
Instead, it’s powered by ionic wind: charged molecules, or ions, flowing in one direction and pushing the plane in the other. That setup makes the aircraft nearly silent. Such stealth planes could be useful for monitoring environmental conditions or capturing aerial imagery without disturbing natural habitats below.
The aircraft is the first of its kind to be propelled in this way, researchers report in the Nov. 22 Nature. In 10 indoor test flights the small plane, which weighs about as much as a Chihuahua, traveled 40 to 45 meters for almost 10 seconds at a steady height, even gaining about half a meter of altitude over the course of a flight.
Most planes rely on spinning parts to move forward. In some, an engine turns a propeller that pushes the plane forward. Or a turbine sucks in air with a spinning fan, and then shoots out jets of gas that propel the plane forward.
Ionic wind is instead generated by a high-voltage electric field around a positively charged wire, called an emitter. The electricity, often supplied by batteries, makes electrons in the air collide with atoms and molecules, which then release other electrons. That creates a swarm of positively charged air molecules around the emitter, which are drawn to a negatively charged wire. The movement of molecules between the two wires, the ionic wind, can push a plane forward. The current design uses four sets of these wires.

MIT aeronautics researcher Steven Barrett thought differently. With the right aircraft design and light enough batteries, flight might be possible, his initial calculations suggested. So he and his team used mathematical equations to optimize various features of the airplane — its shape, materials, power supply — and to predict how each version would fly. Then the researchers built prototypes of promising designs and tested the planes at the MIT indoor track, launching them via a bungee system.
“The models and the reality of construction don’t always match up perfectly,” Barrett says, so finding the right design took a lot of tries. But in the new study, he and his collaborators report success: 10 flights of the aircraft, which has a 5-meter wingspan and weighs just under 2.5 kilograms.
Barrett’s team isn’t the only one who thought the ionic wind method might take off. Based on calculations done in his lab, “we were confident that this could be done,” says Franck Plouraboue of the Toulouse Fluid Mechanics Institute in France, who wasn’t part of the research. “Here they've done it — which is fantastic!”
It’s an example of distributed electric propulsion, says Plouraboue — spreading out the thrust-generating parts of the plane, instead of having one centralized source. That’s a hot area for aircraft research right now. NASA’s X-57 Maxwell plane, for example, bears 14 battery-operated motors along its wings. Increasing the number of propellers makes the plane go farther on the same amount of energy, says Plouraboue, but also increases the drag. With ionic wind propulsion, increasing the number of wires doesn’t increase drag very much.
The plane still needs some upgrades before it’s ready for the real world: Its longest flight was only 12 seconds. And while the aircraft can maintain steady flight for a short time once launched, it can’t actually get off the ground using ionic wind.
Even with improvements, ion-propelled aircraft won’t find their niche as passenger planes, predicts Daniel Drew, an aerodynamics researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the work. (Drew has designed miniature flying bots that fly using ionic propulsion.) It’s probably not feasible to scale up to something the size of a 747 — there are efficiency trade-offs as planes get bigger, he says. But down the road, the approach might be useful for small, uncrewed planes or drones.
World’s first ion-drive airplane can fly without any moving parts
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Researchers at MIT have achieved the first sustained flight powered by ionic wind. Their small unmanned aircraft prototype has no moving parts and creates lift by ionizing the atmosphere around it in an electric field, instead of pushing the air with a propeller or turbine.
In order to move air around it, the world’s first solid-state aircraft generates an ionic wind. By applying a high voltage to a pair of electrodes, electrons are stripped off nearby air molecules, and the ionized oxygen and nitrogen molecules collide with neutral air molecules as they move from one electrode to the other. It’s this bulk movement of atmospheric molecules — the ionic wind, flowing in one direction and pushing the aircraft in the opposite direction — that enabled MIT’s drone-sized aircraft to stay airborne.
The ion-drive aircraft’s design is fairly simple: a thin wire acts as the leading edge, where nitrogen and oxygen get ionized by 20,000 volts of electricity. Behind the wire is a thin airfoil covered by the second electrode, which is charged with negative 20,000 volts, creating a difference of 40,000 volts. The winged body, a 40 kilovolts custom-built battery, and an electronic control system round off the rest of the setup.
Ion drives have been used in spacecraft for decades, but getting them to work in Earth’s gravity had not been possible until now. It’s thanks to advances in electronics and batteries that researchers were able to design an ion-drive aircraft capable of generating practical amounts of thrust.
There is a series of inherent trade-offs due to physical limitations that scientists had had to constantly joggle. For instance, an ion-drive generates the most thrust with a lower electric field strength. However, if the field’s strength drops below a threshold, air molecules won’t get ionized in the first place. Then, if the mass of the aircraft is too great, you need more power, which implies bigger and heavier batteries — at some point, the thrust is just not large enough to carry the airplane’s weight.
After tweaking various thruster designs, the researchers finally found a version that is capable of sustaining flight. Their a 5-meter wingspan, 2.5-kilogram aircraft made 10 flights, flying up to 9 seconds over a distance of 45 meters at a speed of 5 meters per second. It had to be launched from a mechanical bungee system in order to give it a brief time to power up. A computer algorithm optimizes the electric field constraints so that maximum thrust is achieved during flight.
According to the MIT researchers, the ion-wind thruster generated 5 newtons for each kilowatt of power, which is on par with the output of jet engines. However, the overall efficiency of the system is just 2.5%m which is well below a conventional aircraft that pushes the air mechanically.
This is just a proof of concept, and the researchers are confident that they can come up with a much more efficient system. Their current design was limited by the fact that they had to fly inside an indoor track. By fitting larger wings, the authors say that they could up the efficiency of the system to 5% without changing the setup. Different designs for the electrode and better power conversion electronics could further boost efficiency.
An ion-drive might never be capable of generating enough thrust to carry human passengers or large cargo like conventional aircraft can. To move that much mass, you’d need a huge power input, which is not feasible with current battery technology. However, there are various applications where its low thrust density would be well suited to. A silent aircraft with no moving parts may be advantageous as an urban monitoring vehicle or for transporting small packages, thus avoiding the annoying noise pollution generated by mechanically propelled drones.
Message d'Arecibo: pourquoi aucun extraterrestre n'a répondu à notre appel?
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will look for ancient life in a former river delta
Ireland UFO: New theories emerge on what baffled pilotsA week on from the mysterious sighting of a UFO by pilots flying over Ireland, there's still no confirmation as to what it was that sped through the night sky.
Could it have been a rogue aircraft in unauthorised airspace? Or some junk thrown into the depths of space by humans?
We still don't know - but here are the three main possibilities:
As you can hear in the air traffic control recording, the captain of a British Airways flight asked if there were any military exercises taking place in the vicinity of the sighting.
The response from controllers was that they weren't aware of any military activity and no other aircraft were shown on radar.
In 2003, then US President George W Bush boarded Air Force One near Washington DC on a top secret mission to visit American troops stationed in Iraq.
Given the extreme risk of taking the president into a war zone, it was critical that no one knew he was coming.
This meant the crew had to fly a distance of 10,000km, taking 10 hours and flying over the busy airspace of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, without the iconic giant blue and white aircraft being spotted by anyone.
Most of Air Force One's communication equipment was switched off, and the crew identified themselves to air traffic control as a much smaller Gulfstream private jet. This would be their cover when they appeared on radar screens during the journey.
The entire mission was almost called off when the presidential aircraft flew over London.
An observant pilot jumped on the airwaves.
"Did I just see Air Force One?" they asked
There was some silence, then the Air Force One captain replied.
"No. Gulfstream."
Luckily for the president and his team, the British Airways pilot took his observation no further and President Bush landed in Iraq before anyone even knew he was coming.
Air Force One, one of the most identifiable of all aircraft in the world, was flying within UK airspace and none of the air controllers had any idea.
This theory is so far stacking up to be the most likely explanation.
One of the pilots who witnessed the lights shared his thoughts on the cause.
"It may have been a meteor or some other object making some sort of re-entry. [It] appeared to be multiple objects heading on the same trajectory. It was very bright," he said.
Additionally, newly emerged video filmed in Ireland at the same time of the sighting seems to back this up. The object appears to break up and fade into thin air as it streaks across the night sky.
Sandy Laverty, the driver who captured the lights on her dashcam, said it was much larger and brighter in real life and said she didn't hear the story about the pilots until the following day.
A letter to the editor published in the Irish Times by a Mr John Bergin says the object was a UFO because it is exactly that, an unidentified flying object. If it turns out that it was being used by alien lifeforms, then it will lose that title.
Loman Ó Loingsigh also wrote to the paper with his thoughts. He said the little green men are already here.
"They have been helping people cross the road safely for years," he said.
It does seem likely that if little green men were to make anywhere on Earth their home, it would be Ireland.
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Unbelievable 'UFO' captured in stunning picture above South Lanarkshire
Fiona Pagett got the shock of her life when she spotted a strange flying saucer shape in the sky.
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The personal trainer says she did not expect to capture "some sort of spaceship".
She said: "Well I had headed there to try and take some pictures of the beautiful sunset but I noticed some sort of spaceship cloud.
"It was a bit surreal especially considering we had the most beautiful weekend with beautiful blue skies.
"When I did some research regarding the type of cloud it was, I noticed they are unusual clouds and some people have got them mistaken for ufos.
"I put the picture on Facebook, it was pretty cool to get a positive response."
Fiona enjoys doing photography in her spare time.
She added: "I've always been doing it. It's a hobby of mine."
UFO sighting on LIVE TV is ‘100 percent’ PROOF of aliens
Are aliens watching the ISS? 'UFOs' appear on live feed sparking NASA cover-up claims
THE ISS celebrated its 20th anniversary this week – and conspiracies continue to emerge over baffling footage taken from the space station.
Construction on the groundbreaking station started on November 19, 1998, and continued until 2011, floating through space as one of mankind’s proudest endeavours to date.
However, it has been the subject of all kinds of conspiracies and cover-ups as we step ever closer to answering the age-old question: Do aliens exist?
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Irishwoman spooked after spotting 'UFO' hovering over Dublin Airport
She was in the airport when she saw a bright light in the sky
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UFO SPOTTED FLYING OVER CRUMLIN, DUBLIN
A northside woman who was at Dublin Airport at the weekend managed to get a photo of a strange unidentified light she spotted in the sky.
The Dubliner - who asked not to be named - was in the airport when she saw a bright light appear to hover in the sky above the busy plane hub.
She told her husband what she'd seen and he mentioned that very similar lights had been spotted over Crumlin last week , just days after pilots reported seeing UFOs off the coast of Kerry, Dublin Live reports.
He said that his wife had heard nothing about the alleged UFO sightings of the past week, but after they discussed it, they decided to get in touch with Dublin Live.
The man told us: "My wife was at the airport on Sunday morning when she saw this strange light appear in the morning sky. It was at around 7.20am, and it was there for a while in the one spot and then moved before disappearing.

"She knew nothing about the sightings last week over the airport - she also said a plane flew over past it at one stage."
Last week, Crumlin man Craig Keogh said he spotted an unidentified flying object as he was leaving for work.
He quipped: "I wasn't freaked - I was more puzzled to know what it was like.. someone needs to give answers or come up with some reason because me little bro is scared big time, and I'm not helping him either."
Dublin Live has contacted the Irish Aviation Authority for a comment.
Bishopstown mystery UFO video goes viral online

A CORKMAN's video of a UFO over Bishopstown has gone viral with over 155,000 viewings on YouTube since being uploaded last week.
Douglas resident Donal Brady was in Bishopstown at a friend's house when he spotted a bright light in the sky. He then took out his phone to film it as a plane flew past.
The jerky video shows the object moving very slowly across the Cork sky.
A number of commercial airline pilots flying near Kerry reported similiar sightings in the south-west of the country the day before but these have been dismissed by experts as possibly a meteorite or the reflection of a high flying plane's hull.
Others have dismissed the object as the International Space Station passing over or a large satellite but some people commenting on the video are saying it could be proof of an alien species visiting our skies due to the trajectory of the object and the movements reported by the airline pilots.
Both a British Airways pilot and a Virgin Airlines pilot reported sightings of a UFO to Shannon Air Traffic Control on Friday, November 9.
Mr Brady told the Evening Echo that reaction to the video has gone “off the wall” and the media interest has been “crazy” since he posted it.
The Irish Aviation Authority has opened an investigation into the sightings which have extended as far as Carlow.
FORMER WORKER OF AREA 51 SAYS: I FLEW IN A UFO AND TRAVELED IN TIME

The protagonist of the video is Robert Miller. He worked in Area 51, he is famous for his alleged UFO research, and that he was recruited by the US government.
He piloted an alien ship with only his mind and with the ship he also traveled in time.
It is hard to believe him. We know. But he also claims that he films the video because he somehow feels the responsibility to reveal the truth about how the evidence of extraterrestrial life systematically hides us at the Groom Lake facility. That’s why Miller decided to tell his story in the first person.
IN HIS HANDLING OF THE SHIP, HE DETAILS:
“I remember being taken inside a boat and in the pilot’s seat. There was only room for one person in the giant boat. I looked around the cabin and saw only one seat. No joystick, no steering wheel, no other controls.
However, there was a helmet. They told me that the ship controlled itself telepathically. They told me to imagine that the ship was beginning to float on the ground, but it did not work.
I had to imagine that I was the boat, as part of it, and I began to think of myself floating. ”
REALLY AMAZING
Especially because he explains that after the experience he fainted and could have traveled in time. In his own words: “(The ship) was falling to the ground and I was unconscious.
The next thing I knew, I was in the hospital. A man in a black suit came in and explained what happened. He said that just before.
The ship touched the ground, it simply disappeared, exploded, disappeared. Then, in the middle of the night, they heard a loud noise outside and the ship crashed in the same place.
The scientists hypothesized that the ship had traveled in time. Have you seen the video?
Is it possible that they are hiding what is happening outside our planet so blatantly? For us, it is about believing or revealing.
What do you think about these revelations and affirmations?
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UFO MYSTERY: Pilots break silence on incredible ‘ALIEN’ sighting in Ireland
Three separate pilots were left baffled when they encountered a bright light whizzing through the sky. The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday, November 9, when a British Airways pilot contacted Shannon air traffic control (ATC) as 06.47 local time. The pilot wanted to know if any military exercises were taking place as she claimed the object was "moving so fast”.
ATC said no exercises were taking place, yet the mystery deepened when two other pilots contacted ground control stating "multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory” were spotted in the same region.
ATC said there were no military exercises had been planned, before eerily adding: “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary radar.”
The pilot said: "OK. It was moving so fast. We saw a bright light and it then just disappeared at a very high speed.”
She claimed that it did not appear to be on a collision course with the plane but admitted she was still "wondering" what it could be.

To the surprise of ATC, a third pilot called in to report the same sighting, adding: "I'm glad it wasn't just me.”
They reported that the 'UFO' was moving at "astronomical speeds - it was like Mach 2."
For reference, Mach 2 is 2,500 kph – twice the speed of sound.
However, pilots, who were not involved in the sightings, have offered their theories and believe there is a more plausible explanation than that of an alien visit.

Speaking on the Professional Pilots Rumour Network (PPRuNe) internet forum, user Cygnet720 explained that the sighting is probably down to meteors hitting the planet’s atmosphere.
Cygnet720 wrote: “I remember about two years ago coming out of Nice under Milano radar, seen quite a bright one, was far from the first time seeing them, but apparently Alitalia E-190 crew were more impressed and reported to ATC asking about military activity in the area.
“No idea why, but we were quite accustomed to seeing meteors and were quite surprised our Italian friends were so impressed, and much less cool about them.”
Aviation journalist Gerry Byrne agreed with this sentiment, stating: "In all probability they were meteorites and it's not uncommon for meteorites to come in at a low angle, a low trajectory into the Earth's atmosphere.”

Nonetheless, the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) will investigate the incident.
The IAA said in a statement: "Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday 9 November of unusual air activity the IAA has filed a report.
"This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process."
Alien abduction HORROR: Aliens ‘cause human PARALYSIS while fully conscious’
CITY BENEATH THE WAVES? - Ancient flooded ruins off Spanish coast are lost city of Atlantis, satellite experts claim
Research leader Tim Akers said the find would have huge implications for how we view ancient history
Salyut -6 The Real Close Encounter

Salyut 6, DOS-5, was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth flown as part of the Salyut programme. Launched on 29 September 1977 by a Proton rocket, the station was the first of the “second-generation” type of space station.
On June 18, 1981, Gosplan called for an extraordinary conference, with the presence of UFO experts, cosmonauts and Soviet authorities, including military officers.
Its moderator was the chief of the Soviet Space Program, General Georgi Timofeevict Beregovoy. Beside him was Vladimir Kovalyonok [Kovalenok], the cosmonaut who, along with Viktor Savinikh[Savinykh], stayed 77 days in space, aboard the Salyut-6 station. … The revelation they made was to shock the world.
It’s quite simply the story of a close encounter of the second kind – which didn’t go the third kind because mission control ordered: NYET. Salyut-6 made contact with an alien spaceship for 4 days (with interruptions) and together they orbited Earth.

The event involved five astronauts: Kovalyonok, Savinikh and three aliens aboard an unknown vehicle that had the shape of a sphere.”
[Brazilian Manchete magazine, September 24, 1984]
It’s an Amazing Story. The tale describe how the cosmonauts managed to contact the extraterrestrial intelligences, first by a failed attempt flashing a light in Morse code, but eventually succeeding with an alleged mathematical message. There is also the physical description of the aliens, essentially human beings, or “similar to human beings”:
“They used light helmets, such as tight hoods. … They had thick and long eyebrows and straight noses, like those of Greek statues. What most impressed the cosmonauts were the eyes – large and blue, twice as large as ours – fixed on them, without a trace of emotion. Their traces were handsome, very dark. They reminded of solemn Hindu men. But no muscle moved on their faces. They looked like robots.”
It’s even more amazing because, according to the story, the contact was fully recorded in many photographs and a long film footage, which was shown in the Gosplan conference and even today must be kept highly secret in some Russian vault.
Daytime UFO recorded over Kamloops, Canada 10-Nov-2018

Check out this interesting footage of a huge UFO that appeared in the sky above Kamloops in BC, Canada on 10th November 2018.
Witness report:
An unidentified object was flying under cloud lying as if it had wings. Directional changes.
1.I didn’t witness this UFO, I saw it on the local news but I don’t believe that it has been reported here. This is the most clear footage I have ever seen of a UFO and I think that it should be getting more coverage.
2. Seeing it on the local news
3. At first I thought it was a massive kite. But all I could come up with was that it was a flying object that could change it’s direction in the air. Looks like it had malleable wings that flexed in the air
4. Object was black, entering and exiting the cloud lining. It was able to change it’s direction and flew around as if it was a “sting ray” in the air.
5. I didn’t witness the event but what shocked me was it’s ability to change direction and elevation on command. From what I know, humans don’t have a aerial transportation machine that can do this. I was also shocked by how flexibile it was. Almost as if it was an animal flying in the sky.
6. Clouds
Author (source: MUFON)
Close Encounter With UFO Over Ireland Leaves Multiple Pilots Baffled

The Irish Aviation Authority has officially launched an investigation after multiple commercial aircrafts reported seeing an unidentified flying object off the southwest coast of Ireland last Friday. In the bizarre recording from air traffic control, the pilots seemed pretty confused when they radioed ground control to ask about the strange bright light they saw flying around them.
This already sounds like the opening scene of an alien invasion movie, so that’s why it’s not weird at all that I’m sitting in my basement writing this with a tin foil hat on.

At about 6:47 am on November 9, the pilot of a British Airways flight travelling from Montreal to Heathrow contacted Shannon Air Traffic Control (ATC) asking if any military exercises were going on in the airspace . There wasn’t. ATC responded, “There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar].” The pilot goes on to describe how the “bright light” appeared on her left-hand side then suddenly turned north and disappeared at a very high speed. “We were just wondering what it might be”
Moments after, another pilot from a Virgin Airlines plane radioed ATC about multiple objects following the same trajectory, and said they were very bright from where he was. After first commenting that maybe it was a meteor making re-entry, he goes on to say that it appeared as if the objects “climbed away at speed, at least from our perspective”.
A third pilot than chimes in, “glad it wasn’t just me”. In a separate recording, he claimed the object was travelling at “astronomical” speeds, at least Mach 2 (2,500 km/h).
You know what they say: if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and talks like a duck, then it’s probably an alien.
According to reports from the Irish Examiner, the British Airways flight was passing over Kerry at the time, while the other two flights were heading eastbound in high-level airspace, 24,500 ft and above.
The Irish Aviation Authority has since released a statement, “Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of unusual air activity, the IAA has filed a report. This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process.” In other words, just leave this one up to the Men in Black.
Unsurprisingly, “experts” are already pointing the finger at a meteor shower as the culprit of this strange sighting, which is obviously code for secret government cover-up, right?
Why Are Skies Turning Purple? Here's What The Media Won't Tell You...Bizarre!
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By Lisa Haven
Red skies at night shepherd’s delight. Red skies in morning shepherd’s warning…but what if the sky is purple? Have you looked up recently and noticed an unnatural color? Many from across the U.S. have as reports roll in from Coast to Coast. Something that has never occurred before is now a ‘normal’ occurance. One must ask themselves what has changed and what is different? What is causing this exterme phenomenon? All this and more in the video below.