It’s often said about science that the more we learn, the less we know. That is certainly true when it comes to fast radio bursts – these millisecond pulses have been difficult to detect, challenging to track, nearly impossible to predict and frustrating to explain. Yet our knowledge of them continues to grow as more are found … but that new knowledge typically negates what we thought we knew. A recent example is FRB 20200120E – a fast radio burst discovered in 2020 and traced to a globular cluster about 11.7 million light-years away, making it the closet known FRB outside of our own galaxy. Yet the good look that its proximity gives us doesn’t reinforce previous theories on fast radio bursts — FRB 20200120E instead defies a big one.

In 2021, astronomers using the Hubble space telescope discovered five fast radio bursts and traced them to the spiral arms of five distant galaxies. These FRBs conformed to the prevailing theory that they come from young magnetars – neutron stars with unusually high magnetic levels. They also fit into the idea that magnetars are generally found in galaxies that are actively creating new stars. In the blink of an FRB, FRB 20200120E may have challenged both of those theories

“Here we conclusively prove that FRB 20200120E is associated with a globular cluster in the M81 galactic system, thereby confirming that it is 40 times closer than any other known extragalactic FRB. Because such globular clusters host old stellar populations, this association challenges FRB models that invoke magnetars formed in a core-collapse supernova as powering FRB emission.”

In a new paper on the preprint server arXiv, astronomers put FRB 20200120E in a globular cluster containing objects billions of years old — some of the most ancient in the observable universe. That’s not the kind of neighborhood conducive to magnetars created when young massive stars explode and die. This is like seeing a pharaoh painted on the wall of an ancient Egyptian tomb watching television – FRB 20200120E doesn’t belong in this picture. And yet … there it is. The more we learn …

If FRB 20200120E isn’t a magnetar created by the death of a young star, the authors of the paper theorize it could have formed when a low-mass white dwarf interacting with another star and gained enough mass to collapse into a neutron star. Or it’s the result of a merger or collision of two white dwarfs. Or … what we know about FRBs themselves is wrong — FRB 20200120E may not have come from a magnetar at all. They propose its source could be a low-mass X-ray binary pairing a white dwarf and a neutron star. Or an even stranger binary pair of a neutron star and an exoplanet. It might even be a growing black hole.

The more we learn about fast radio bursts, the less we know about them. The same could be said about the field of astronomy – what we once thought were just people peering through a telescope and drawing what they see has become a field where being a detective leads to greater success … and more questions.

The field of astronomy – like the universe it explores – is wide open.

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© Image by ASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Discovered by the German astronomer Johann Elert Bode in 1774, M81 is one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky. It is located 11.6 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major and has an apparent magnitude of 6.9. Through a pair of binoculars, the galaxy appears as a faint patch of light in the same field of view as M82. A small telescope will resolve M81’s core. The galaxy is best observed during April. This stunning Hubble image was assembled using observations in visible and infrared light. The galaxy’s spiral arms, which wind all the way down into its nucleus, are made up of young, bluish, hot stars formed in the past few million years. They also host a population of stars formed in an episode of star formation that started about 600 million years ago. Ultraviolet light from hot, young stars is fluorescing the surrounding clouds of hydrogen gas. A number of sinuous dust lanes also wind all the way into the nucleus of M81. The galaxy’s central bulge contains much older, redder stars. It is significantly larger than the Milky Way’s bulge. A black hole of 70 million solar masses resides at the center of M81 and is about 15 times the mass of the Milky Way’s central black hole. Previous Hubble research showed that the size of the black hole in a galaxy’s nucleus is proportional to the mass of the galaxy’s bulge.

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 04 - 06 -2021

UFO Sighted Over São Paulo, Brazil ( June 2, 2021 )

STATEMENT : Objeto estranho no céu nesse exato momento alguém vendo?????
TRANSLATE : Strange object in the sky at this exact moment, does anyone see it?????

• credit : Stifler Rafael

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Strange Atlanta Sunset ( May 25, 2021 )

Strange Atlanta, Georgia Sunset was sighted on May 25, 2021 

STATEMENT : Weird and Wild sunset I captured Atlanta, GA 5.25.21

• credit : Gail Lane

UFOs Sighted Over Lake Grove, New York ( May 29, 2021 )

UFOs were sighted over Lake Grove, Long Island, New York 

STATEMENT : Multiple lights Multiple orbs passing over the trees..
Mufon Case :115949
Date Submitted : 2021-06-01
Date of Event : 2021-05-29 / 8:30PM
MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 20210529204633.mp

UFO Sighted Over Dallas, Texas ( June 2, 2021 )

UFO sighted over Dallas, Texas on June 2, 2021

STATEMENT : Luminous object not north of DALLAS

ORIGINAL : Objeto luminoso no norte de DALLAS O

El RIGINAL VIDEO OWNER : Niño Verde 33

ORIGINAL VIDEO URL :

• https://youtu.be/TXNwpCGjePU

VIDEO 2 : credit : Ignacio Ruiz Altamirano : September 20, 2020

UFO Sighted Over Comachuén, Mexico ( June 3, 2021 )

Comachuén, Michoacan De Ocampo, Mexico : From Comachuén, Michoacan De Ocampo, Mexico : June 3, 2021

• credit : Jhonny Jhosh Callejero Aviles

VIDEO 2 : Envigado, Colombia : June 1, 2021

STATEMENT : Este vídeo lo grabo un Mexicano que está en Envigado - Colombia donde yo vivo y se lo envio a mi mejor Amigo y el me lo reenvío Se 100% real aca en Envigado se ven muchos Ovnis Yo los he visto con mi Esposa y mi mejor Amigo también.

TRANSLATE : This video was recorded by a Mexican who is in Envigado - Colombia where I live and send it to my best friend and he forwarded it to me Be 100 % real here in Envigado you see many UFO I seen them with my Wife and my best Friend too.

• credit : Rodrigo Alzate

UFO Sighted Over Area 51, Nevada ( June 2, 2021 )

STATEMENT : What do you think of this video my brother sent me this is from the area 51 in the United States in the place where this is desolate there are no people

ORIGINAL : Que opinan de este video mi hermano me lo envió el esta a del área 51 en Estados Unidos en el lugar donde el esta es desolado no hay personas

• credit : Melina Rondon

A Return Visit.3 Large UFOs Spotted On 5/2021 Over The Moon, Have They Been Here Before in 2019!?

Three Large Objects recorded over the moon in May of this year but it appears the same UFO's were recorded in 2019. Have they returned or have they never left are they stationed behind the moon or is there a outpost or a base or a shipyard you be the judge and tell me what you think.

Video Source MrMBB333 https://youtu.be/biMUULRd4jg?t=336

Don R. author

Second video of UFO's moving behind the moon, Original source has been deleted. I can give the source to the video I made in 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s209...

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Bright White UFO "Orb" Sighted Over Ecuador Leaves Witnesses Baffled

This object was sighted over Ecuador's capital Quito sometime in May.. Sorry in know i said March in the video but it was in May. I am still waiting for the exact details and when i have them i will amend it here...

Thanks to forniciorivera for posting the footage and to view the original

• https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comment...

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• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcav... 

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On May 28, 2021, the Perseverance mars rover captured two images of the same landscape. Image 1 shows a possible UFO flying above the surface of Mars (Time 11.36.48) but Image 2, captured 10 minutes earlier, shows No UFO (Time 11.26.48). 

At first glance, the small light source looks like a camera artifact but after adjusting brightness and contrast, the image shows us the shape of a UFO and the thrust that moves the UFO forward. 

Source: 

• https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/LRF_0096_0675459494_571EBY_N0040136SCAM04096_0050I6J
• https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/LRF_0096_0675458878_572EBY_N0040136SCAM04096_0010I6J

  

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Filmmaker Claims Newly Disclosed Radar Footage Shows Mysterious Objects Swarming Navy Ship

The filmmaker, who leaked the footage that shows UFOs harassing a warship off the California coast in 2019, has released new radar footage that allegedly shows the USS Omaha being swarmed by UFOs.

Jeremy Corbell claims the video was recorded on July 15, 2019, in the ship’s combat information center. Earlier this month, he released a video taken aboard the USS Omaha showing a strange spherical UFO over the ship before disappearing into the ocean.

In his latest Tweet, Corbell said, “this is corroborative electro-optic data demonstrating a significant UFO event series in a warning area off San Diego.”

The newly released clip shows sailors aboard the Omaha observing up to nine UFOs swarming the ship at speeds about 160mph.

A sailor is heard saying, “Holy sh–t they’re going fast,” before adding, “Oh, it’s turning around.”

The Pentagon had previously confirmed that the leaked video of three UFOs hovering over the USS Russell in July 2019 disclosed by Corbell is authentic.

Corbell and investigative reporter George Knapp discussed the new clip during Knapp’s paranormal show “Mystery Wire.” On the program, Corbell said they have footage from the combat information center (CIC) from a crew that was specifically assigned to record these strange events.

According to the filmmaker, 14 UFOS could be seen at one point on the Navy radar, but that video was not provided. The Department of Defense is still mum on the latest footage.

The new revelation comes as defense officials are getting ready to present Congress with a report detailing all the government knows about UFOs next month, a mandate attached to the $2.3 trillion COVID-19 bill of President Donald Trump in December.

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PENTAGON UFO REPORT: WATCH NEW VIDEO LEAKED AHEAD OF LANDMARK DOSSIER

ON JULY 15, 2019, UNITED STATES NAVY PERSONNEL FILMED SOMETHING THEY COULDN’T EXPLAIN — OR AT LEAST, THAT IS WHAT A NEW VIDEO PURPORTS TO SHOW.

The video dropped Thursday afternoon on the website of Jeremy Corbell, a filmmaker and UFO enthusiast. In the new footage, we can see what appears to be a radar display with multiple objects moving across the field. At a point in the video, one of the people apparently monitoring the radar exclaims: “holy shit.”

The website describes the new footage thus:

This RADAR data release shows four clips; multiple unknown targets (and one civilian vessel). Some of the unknown targets drop off RADAR in this footage. This happened numerous times throughout the UFO encounter series. At the height of the contacts - there were at least fourteen unknowns observed at one time. The event series reached a crescendo with one of the unknown targets entering the water at 11pm. No wreckage found. None of the unidentified craft were recovered.

This is just the latest escalation in what is fast becoming an all-consuming obsession on the part of the U.S. public. Sarah Scoles, a journalist and author of the UFO culture book They Are Already Here, has been researching UFO incidents for four years but never imagined that things would get as heated as quickly as they have the last few months.

The video was not independently verified by Inverse. You can watch the new footage here:

The video comes weeks ahead of one of the most-anticipated events of 2021. Inverse, like Scoles, is keeping an eye on the Pentagon UFO report, which is set to be released in June.

“It's definitely not what I expected when I first started looking into UFOs around 2017,” Scoles tells Inverse. “This was not what I thought the end result would be, or even that public interest would sustain itself for this long.”

The government report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) is due to be delivered by June 25. The report has been preceded by a series of surprising statements by the Department of Defense authenticating grainy footage of UAP caught by Navy pilots. This has lead many who have been following the development of this story to wonder: Why are UFOs suddenly the big talk of the government?

Ahead of the release of the UAP report, Inverse breaks down what to expect from it, how much of it will be available to the public, and how it will likely change the narrative around UFOs.

WHY IS THE PENTAGON RELEASING A UFO REPORT?

The catalyst from the reports come from a series of leaked Pentagon videos purporting to show UFOs:

• The latest video, leaked on May 27, 2021 by Corbell, appears to show U.S. Navy encountering numerous unidentified objects on radar.
• In 2017 Navy videos leaked, stirring up a barrage of rumors online. The footage shows a cluster of odd-looking aircraft executing strange maneuvers. The Navy pilots can be heard saying: “what the f--k is that?”
• In April 2020, the Pentagon formally released the three videos of “unidentified aerial phenomenon” — the official term for UFOs — captured by the Navy pilots.
• The Pentagon release suggested the videos were legitimate, but it did not say what the crafts were or were believed to be.
• An amendment in the Intelligence Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2021 followed, which called for a thorough investigation of UAPs.
• In December 2020, the government made the Intelligence Authorization Act law and called for an unclassified report on UAPs to be published in 2021.

The Act was a part of the mammoth appropriations bill that also included financial aid checks for people living with the economic fallout from Covid-19.

The report is due in June. It will be compiled by the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense and it should pull together everything the U.S. military knows about the phenomena. It will first be presented to the congressional Intelligence and Armed Services committees.

For people like Corbell, the release of the report is like a dream come true.

“I was always hopeful that if we beat the drum, marched forward and shook things up and kicked down some doors, that we would see a day like this,” Corbell tells Inverse. “I’m an optimist so I had to believe that we would get more confirmation from what our military knows about the UFO presence on planet Earth.”

Corbell has previously shared footage captured by the U.S. Navy off the coast of San Diego in July 2019. The video, which he shared on Twitter, showed a dark, spherical shape disappearing into the water.

A few days later, the Department of Defense confirmed that the video was recorded by military personnel and that it would be reviewed by the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.

Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, says that the government was forced to confirm the legitimacy of the Navy videos because they leaked to the public — but notably, they didn’t confirm much else.

“I don’t think they were planning on releasing these videos,” Shostak tells Inverse. “And in releasing them, they said, ‘well, these videos are definitely videos.’”

WHAT IS GOING TO BE IN THE UFO REPORT?

As far as what is going to be included in the Pentagon’s report, Corbell is not one step ahead of the government this time.

“I don’t have a crystal ball so I can’t predict what will be in it,” Corbell says. “Anything they put out for me is good because it’s saying that the Senate Intelligence Committee is listening to the American public and that this is important to the American public.”

Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said in a high-profile interview with Fox News earlier this year that the report would contain information on “difficult to explain” sightings.

“NOW, COULD THEY BE ALIENS? SURE, THAT OPTION IS DEFINITELY FIRMLY SITTING ON THE TABLE.”

“We are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery, that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for, or are traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom,” Ratcliffe told Fox News in March.

In addition to the three videos the Pentagon confirmed as real footage in April 2020, the Department of Defense also confirmed the authenticity of several photos and videos of UAPs taken in July 2019.

The footage shows mysterious lights encircling the USS Russell and the USS Omaha at the Naval Base in San Diego — a major point of operations for the U.S. Navy.

A Defense Department spokeswoman confirmed to CNN in April 2021 that the footage of triangle-shaped flying objects was indeed recorded by Navy pilots, but that the Department could not explain what they were.

It’s still not clear whether the report will also include footage that the public has already seen, or if it will release new video footage.

“They’re kind of trying to keep all of this under wraps right now, so I don’t really think we have a sense of what it will contain,” Scoles says. “It would be great if we saw more of their cases because I’ve seen all of the videos and photos that we have about a thousand too many times.”

Meanwhile, Shostak believes that parts of the report will be classified and not available to the public.

“It’s going to be a mix, that’s often the case with these reports,” Shostak says. “Some of it is going to be classified simply because the military doesn’t want to tell you too much about the capabilities of their cameras.”

HOW WILL THE UFO REPORT AFFECT US?

When the Pentagon released the footage of the UAPs, they admitted they cannot explain the maneuvers pulled by the aircraft seen in the videos. So it’s pretty safe to assume that the report will not confirm whether or not the UAPs are in fact alien spaceships or some form of foreign technology.

“I think in the end, it is above all else an unclassified government report and it will read like that,” Scoles says.

But Scoles believes the report may still serve a purpose as it will lay the groundwork for figuring out what to do with the information that has been released and provide a way to systemize information that may be available in the future.

WILL THE UFO REPORT CONFIRM ALIENS?

The short answer is, no. The language adopted by the side of the government has emphasized that they themselves are not sure what these flying objects are.

“You have a transparent, honest response from our military that they don't know what these are,” Corbell says. “So they’re telling the truth.”

Corbell himself remains agnostic as to whether they might be aliens.

“I’m not saying that they’re aliens, I’ve never said that once in my life,” Corbell says. “What I’m saying is that these are unidentified and we have a right to know, a need to know, and a duty to find out from a safety standpoint, from a national security standpoint, as well as for understanding our place in the universe as humanity.”

“Now, could they be aliens?” he adds. “Sure, that option is definitely firmly sitting on the table.”

Although alien enthusiasts have been rejoicing over the government finally confirming the footage of UAPs, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are admitting these are alien spaceships. Instead, the government’s main concern appears to be whether or not this poses some form of threat.

“It will probably be focused on whether UAP presents a national security threat which is a very terrestrial, very grounded concerning,” Scoles says. “And so that I think will tether a lot of people to Earth.”

But in most cases related to alleged UFO sightings, it only takes an incident of an unidentified aerial phenomenon for people to claim that it is the work of an alien civilization and that will most likely happen with the release of this report.

“UFOs have a very good way of sustaining their own history,” Scoles says.

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Ellis Silver: “The Earth was colonized, we are the aliens”

A few years ago, a balloon returned from a high-altitude flight covered in microscopic non-terrestrial life forms. In this way, Doctor Ellis Silver reignited the debate about the true birth of life on Earth.

The book “Humans are not from Earth” by Ellis Silver

Ellis Silver tops a list of scientists who believe that life originated on Mars . This is due to a mineral found in Martian meteorites , an essential concept for the birth of life.

Another experiment showed that amino acids could have landed on Earth by comets. This would mean that life is not just limited to the Solar System.

Ellis Silver and the origin of life

The American ecologist Ellis Silver, in his book “Humans are not from Earth,” suggests that humanity could easily come from another world , such as Mars.

The expert gives arguments that are based on human physiology . It has not evolved according to the terrestrial ecosystem, as if they did other species.

This indicates that humans “came” to the planet from somewhere else. Perhaps, brought by aliens a few tens of thousands of years ago.

Silver is currently working on a project to clean up plastic waste from the Pacific. He assures that the objective of his book is to generate debate , based on scientific work on the differences between humans and other species.

The ecologist told Yahoo News that the Earth meets all our needs as a species, but not with the effectiveness of the planet where we possibly come from.

For example, lizards can sunbathe for whole days. The human can only go out for a week or two. But what happens if it is exposed to UV rays for a long time? You could even get a deadly disease like cancer.

Another argument is that of chronic diseases ; Back or muscle problems are a sign that we are from a less serious world .

The difficulty women have in giving birth, which, without the advancement of science, could be fatal . However, no other species native to Earth has that problem.

Problems such as heat stroke are a sign that humanity does not belong to Earth.

Problems not suffered by another species

It is also necessary to point out the 223 extra genes of the human being, which are not present in another creature. And, obviously, there is no “missing link” to complete the human evolutionary chain.

Silver focuses especially on disease; the human is chronically ill. There is no person in the world who is 100% healthy .

The ecologist’s conclusion is that most of our problems as a species are simply because our internal clocks evolved to live 25-hour days .

In fact, there is a scientific study that supports this claim. But the Earth only has 24 hours a day. And this problem has been traced throughout the known evolution of mankind.

There is a possibility that early pre-humans, such as Homo Erectus, may have been interbred with other species. In addition, it is also possible that our origin comes from the Solar System closest to the Sun: Alpha Centauri .

Despite the fact that humanity is far above the development of other species, it has too many problems that are related to the environment. This should already be an indication that something strange is happening.

Panspermia and the life forms that keep coming to Earth

Panspermia and the possibility that life comes from space.

Another controversial claim by Ellies is that the bacteria came from space . In this way the theory of panspermia was born . In short, Earth could have “pollinated” nearby worlds.

NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay once stated that “curious things” have been found in the atmosphere, in relation to bacteria originating in space.

Professor Milton Wainwright , along with colleagues from Sheffield University, are working to identify that there are biological entities originating in space . This means that, continuously, there are forms of life arriving on Earth .

Chemical engineer Nir Goldman suggests that simple molecules in comets, such as water, ammonia or carbon dioxide, could have served as raw material and the impact on an early Earth could “ignite” the prebiotic reaction .

The results of their experiments confirm that previous predictions of impact synthesis of prebiotic material, where the impact could produce life-capable compounds.

Goldman is sure that this is an important step in understanding the origin of life. In addition, it increases the possibility that life does not originate from Earth and may have been spread throughout the Solar System.

• This theory, as Ellis Silver originally put it, has generated great controversy. In fact, the origins of the Earth and the possibility that they came from Mars are still being investigated and debated.

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Spacecraft are able to peer through the thick atmosphere of Venus, revealing an alien surface that in some ways is eerily Earth-like.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL

NASA had a surprise in store for planetary scientists today: During a “State of NASA” briefing, the agency announced that roiling, toxic Venus will be the target of the next two missions in its highly competitive Discovery program.

“These two sister missions, both aimed to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface—they will offer the entire science community the chance to investigate a planet we haven’t been to in more than 30 years,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during the briefing. “We hope these missions will help further our understanding of how Earth evolved and why it’s currently habitable, when other [rocky planets] in our solar system are not.”

One spacecraft, called DAVINCI+, will study the planet’s toxic atmosphere—a thick shroud of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid clouds. The other, VERITAS, will make detailed maps of the planet’s surface and try to reconstruct its geologic history.

 The pair beat out two other finalists, which would have sent probes to Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io or Neptune’s moon Triton—destinations that have been high on planetary science wish lists for decades.

The announcement comes amid surging interest in a U.S.-led mission to Venus, which some planetary scientists have considered “the forgotten planet.” Venus is remarkably similar to Earth in size and mass. And although it is a hellish, inhospitable world today, it may once have been a temperate, ocean-covered planet like our own. Understanding how Venus became such an extremely unfriendly world is crucial for understanding how common truly Earth-like planets might be.

“We have an Earth-size planet next door that is nothing like Earth—why? That’s a pretty important thing to figure out,” says Paul Byrne, a planetary scientist at North Carolina State University. “We have some pretty big questions to answer regarding the formation, characteristics, and evolution of an Earth-size world.”

Double the fun

NASA’s Discovery program supports smaller, less expensive missions than those in its New Frontiers and flagship categories. Launching roughly every 36 months, Discovery missions are typically capped at $450 million, excluding launch vehicle and mission operations costs, while New Frontiers expeditions are capped at $850 million. Flagships—such as the Perseverance and Curiosity Mars rovers—can cost billions. 

Currently, NASA is flying two Discovery missions. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched in 2009, has spent more than a decade mapping the moon’s surface. The InSight Lander, launched in 2018, is studying the Martian interior.

In 2021, two more missions will launch: Lucy will study multiple asteroids and use them to uncover secrets about the early solar system, while Psyche will visit a giant, extremely metal-rich asteroid of the same name. At the time, some scientists grumbled about two asteroid missions being selected—especially given that they beat out several proposed Venus missions, including VERITAS and DAVINCI+.

A long time coming

Now, those missions will at last have their chance to fly, exposing new truths about the shrouded world next door.

The last U.S. mission to Venus, Magellan, ended in 1994 as the spacecraft executed a programmed plunge through the planet’s atmosphere. Since then, European and Japanese probes have visited Earth’s twisted sister, and scientists have continued to aim Ed telescopes at the intriguing planet.

Soon, perhaps by 2030, the Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, or DAVINCI+, spacecraft will set sail for Venus. It will then descend through the planet’s atmosphere, which is 90 times denser than Earth’s, collecting samples and relaying data that will help scientists understand how it evolved, and whether the planet ever had oceans.

While DAVINCI+ studies the Venusian shroud, the Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy, or VERITAS, spacecraft will be busy mapping the planet’s surface from orbit. Those images, plus detailed information about surface chemistry and topography, will help reconstruct Venus’s geologic history—and perhaps solve the mystery of how it evolved into the hellhole next door.

“My poor dog really thought our house was under attack from the way I was screaming when I found out our mission was selected,” tweeted the Planetary Science Institute’s David Grinspoon, a member of the DAVINCI+ team.

 “I’ve been pushing for this for literally my entire career,” he also tweeted. “Last U.S. Venus mission launched in 1989, year I finished grad school. So much to learn about climate, history of Earth-like worlds & life in the universe.”

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Robots may be taking away our jobs, but one consolation (perhaps the ONLY consolation) is that they don’t ever seem to look like they’re enjoying it. Then again, how many of you look like you  enjoy your job … at least pre-pandemic? Well, some robots have decided to rub our human noses into our job losses by curling that thing underneath THEIR useless noses into the creepiest smile ever. If you’ve been searching for incentive to rise up against our robot overlords, that look may be it.

“The idea for EVA took shape a few years ago, when my students and I began to notice that the robots in our lab were staring back at us through plastic, googly eyes.”

Hod Lipson, James and Sally Scapa Professor of Innovation (Mechanical Engineering) and director of the Creative Machines Lab at Columbia Engineering (Columbia University), explains in a press release how an observation by students who hadn’t yet gotten jobs that they would eventually lose to robots turned into a study called “Smile Like You Mean It: Driving Animatronic Robotic Face with Learned Models” which led to the development of EVA, an autonomous robot with a soft face and AI Learning algorithms it used to mimic the facial expressions of humans around it.

EVA

(CREDIT: Creative Machines Lab/Columbia Engineering)

“The greatest challenge in creating EVA was designing a system that was compact enough to fit inside the confines of a human skull while still being functional enough to produce a wide range of facial expressions.”

Undergraduate student Zanwar Faraj led the team in developing artificial cable-and-pulley facial muscles to replace the more than 42 tiny muscles in a human face. That gave the robot the ability to express the six basic emotions of anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, and surprise, plus an array of more nuanced feelings. Over the mechanics they stretched a blue skin resembling a member of the popular and much-loved Blue Man Group performance art company. To make the robotic face closer to a human one than the animatronic robots at theme parks, they gave EVA deep learning artificial intelligence to “read” and then mirror the expressions on nearby human faces, and then learn more by watching videos of itself. In that way, EVA obtained a ‘self-image’.

Did it work?

“I was minding my own business one day when EVA suddenly gave me a big, friendly smile. I knew it was purely mechanical, but I found myself reflexively smiling back.”

Hod Lipson was one of the first to come under the control of EVA. He admits that his reflex response to the smiling EVA was one of the goals of the project – he had noticed that grocery stores using restocking robots often decked them out in name badges and clothing to give them a human identity, and decided the next step was to make a robot that could control that identity and its responses itself.

“Our brains seem to respond well to robots that have some kind of recognizable physical presence.”

That’s true … but is it wise? Boyuan Chen, a PhD student who led the software phase of the project, added this:

“Robots are intertwined in our lives in a growing number of ways, so building trust between humans and machines is increasingly important.”

What could possibly go wrong?

What’s the harm in making a robot smile? What’s the first thing a con man does? Or a politician? Or a pusher? A kidnapper? Anyone looking to win your trust before they violate it?

We now have a smiling robot that can make you reflexively smile back. What do you think it’s going to say as it smilingly leads you away and you ask it to tell you where it’s taking you? You’ve seen this movie before.

“I’m sorry Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

Who’s in the blue man group now?

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South Australia's X-Files: Curious Adelaide cracks open our most mysterious UFO cases

It seems there is no X-Files division in Australia, so we at Curious Adelaide stepped up.

( Fox Broadcasting Company)

It's a question many of us have asked ourselves: are we alone in the universe?

From flying saucers to balls of light rocketing through the sky, South Australia has had its fair share of reported UFO encounters.

One avid ABC reader has asked us to delve into the history of the state's major cases, as part of our Curious Adelaide campaign.

So we dusted off some of South Australia's oldest X-Files to find answers.

Nightmare on the Nullarbor

We'll start in the outback, where a traumatised family was allegedly lifted off the ground by aliens.

It was still dark in the early hours of January 20, 1988, when the Knowles family was driving along the remote Nullarbor Plain.

The seemingly mundane trip from Perth to Melbourne quickly turned to terror when they encountered an unidentified flying object that tormented them for 90 minutes.

A large glowing object "like a big ball" chased Faye Knowles and her adult sons Patrick, Wayne and Sean down the highway, before landing on their roof and plucking them into the air.

"It apparently picked the car up off the road, shook it quite violently and forced the car back down on the road with such pressure that one of the tyres was blown," a police spokesman told media at the time.

In a state of shock, Sean Knowles put his foot on the accelerator as his mother screamed but, according to reports, their voices distorted like time was slowing down.

"I wound down the window and I felt this thing on the roof... all of this smoke stuff started coming into the car, the car was covered in black stuff," Faye Knowles told reporters after the incident.

"It was a small light and all of a sudden it became big like this, like a big ball.

"We thought we were dying, then we got out the car and we hid behind a little tree and the bushes and it couldn't find us."

The family eventually made it to Ceduna and reported the bizarre events to police who took the report seriously, given the state of the car, which was dented and had dust over it.

The story made headlines around the world with sceptics and believers alike trying to make sense of what happened on that lonely stretch of road.

Flying saucers and lights in the sky

UFO reports in the state can be traced back to the beginning of the twentieth century but it wasn't until the early Cold War that they started appearing all over the place.

Rockets were a new invention, originally for military purposes, that made the stars seem closer than ever before.

It seems that, in an atmosphere of heightened political tension, people became spooked by strange lights in the sky.

UFO researcher Keith Basterfield said Port Augusta was home to one of the state's first sightings.

"Even in the beginning of the flying saucer era in 1947 when the whole thing took off, we had one of the earliest sightings in Port Augusta," Mr Basterfield said.

"Five metallic objects were seen by three people working at the Commonwealth railways there.

"Even the government astronomer — we had such a person at the time — couldn't explain that sighting."

Reports made the front pages of newspapers of strange objects sighted from Eyre Peninsula to the outskirts of Adelaide.

On January 22, 1954, The Bunyip newspaper reported three people had sighted a flying saucer over Gawler.

"As the object approached at terrific speed they could make out the perfect shape of a saucer — pure white," the report stated.

"It looked no bigger than an ordinary saucer because of its great height."

One case that still stumps Mr Basterfield took place outside the remote community of Kimba on the Eyre Highway on the night of February 4, 1973.

Four people in three separate cars all spotted it in a clearing they passed — an orange rectangle similar to an illuminated door in the scrub, with a strange figure standing inside.

Police were baffled, so Mr Basterfield and his team drove out to investigate.

"We had a look at the site, we took soil samples from the area, we had the samples analysed looking for something unusual there," he said.

"That's not your typical flying metallic saucer but it's a very, very strange set of observations by a group of independent people.

"And we never did get to the bottom of it."

Another possible UFO sighting captured in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1960 and released by the FBI.

(Supplied: CIA)

Another strange happening, in South Australia's Flinders Ranges in 2006, was witnessed by scores of people many kilometres apart.

Service station owner John Teague was outside pumping tyres when something plummeted through the sky.

"For some reason I glanced up and I yelled, 'look at that Lloyd', and this thing was hurtling through the air," he said.

"Looked like [it was] about the size of a baseball just flying through the air rapidly."

Mr Teague made such a noise that a group across the street looked up and saw the same thing.

"Then all of a sudden, and this was quite some time later, a huge sonic boom rattled through the air," he said.

"I thought it might have been a meteor going through the air in daylight, I didn't know what it was, maybe space junk coming back.

"But it would have had to be pretty big for space junk for it to be that size way up in the air."

To this day, what it was remains a mystery.

So how common are UFO sightings in South Australia?

South Australia's Astronomical Society's Paul Curnow said it's pretty common.

"The average city person doesn't look at the sky very often and sometimes when they do look up and see something strange, they can't really explain it," Mr Curnow said.

Late last year, the Pentagon admitted that up until 2012, it had been running a secret investigation into UFOs, but it seems that Australia's aerospace and security agencies don't keep detailed records or data on UFO sightings — at least, that's what they told us.

When Curious Adelaide phoned SA Police to check whether it could shed some light on the matter there was a moment of silence, before some laughter.

Senior constable Mick Abbott did however make the following comment:

"If you stay on the line, I'll transfer you to agents Mulder and Scully from our X-Files division."

When the ABC contacted the CSIRO there was a similar reponse.

According to Paul Curnow, it's still common to get several dozen to hundreds of UFO reports each year in South Australia alone.

But what's being reported is changing, he told us, with fewer sightings of flying saucers hovering over the land.

"Probably for every 10 cases you get, nine can be explained in mundane terms," Mr Curnow said.

The majority of cases, unfortunately for those hoping for an encounter with the extra-terrestrial, have a logical explanation.

"Quite often people report a little silver dot in the sky [and it] turned out to be an aircraft," he said.

"A lot of these things like planes, satellites, planets, even searchlights sometimes, can all add to what people are reporting."

So is the truth really out there?

UFO researcher Keith Basterfield was based in Adelaide when the Knowles family incident occurred.

"My first thought was 'here is a very interesting story that we can carry out some hard science on'," he said.

"We've got a vehicle, we've got reported unusual dust on a vehicle, we've got a number of witnesses.

"If we could document all that we'd have a very strong case for saying something unusual occurred."

However, the conclusion he reached was far from the extra-terrestrial encounter portrayed by the media.

The car had been forensically tested with nothing unusual found, and Mr Basterfield had a more ordinary explanation for the bright light.

"We figured it was potentially a mirage caused by a temperature inversion that night," he said.

That kind of mirage can make lights a long way in the distance curve over the Earth's horizon and appear to be much closer than they actually are.

"Although they saw the light approaching them, they never saw the [source of the] light reach them, so it never actually got to them," Mr Basterfield said.

"It disappeared at that point in front of them so we figured a mirage of a track light several kilometres away could explain that."

He also had a simple explanation for the car jumping and vibrating.

"If a tyre explodes under your car going at really high speed you're going to get vibrations, you're going to get brake dust entering the vehicle," Mr Basterfield said.

"It was simply a case of misunderstanding, of seeing a light in the distance, a tyre bursting and those things had built up into a story."

While it seems science offers an explanation for many of the sightings in the state, you'll need to decide for yourself whether it's more tale than truth.

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For whatever reasons, some places seem to draw to them more UFO activity than others. These places log in more sightings than other places, often by a fair margin, and it is not easy to ascertain just exactly why that should be. One place that is perhaps little known to the outside world as a UFO hotspot is the wilds of South Australia, consisting of largely of sparsely inhabited arid and semi-arid rangelands, with several low mountain ranges. It is a wild, remote place in many areas, and it is here where the dark rural roads that meander through the outback have long been seemingly plagued by UFOs.

Our earliest report here comes from the files of UFO Research South Australia (UFORSA), in the year 1955, near the town of Tintinara. On April 22 of that year, a young, unnamed man was driving along a dusty rural road at around 7:45 a.m. when he was startled to see something hover across the road in front of him. He would describe it as a “three metre diameter silvery sphere, surrounded by a flange,” with a total diameter of around 10 meters. According to the witness there were no external portholes or markings, the entire thing completely smooth and metallic. The object crossed over the road, hovering about 1 meter above it, after which it circled around and crossed behind the vehicle before taking a parallel course beside it, matching the speed of the astonished man’s car. The mysterious object reportedly followed him for about 25 kilometers before it either lost interest or found something better to do, launching straight up into the sky at phenomenal speeds.

Continuing into the 50s, according to a report in the Adelaide “Advertiser, on March 13, 1959, two men were in a truck near a place called Purnong Landing when they crested a hill and were astounded to see a “dome illuminated by colored lights,” measuring around 10 meters in diameter. They were so in awe of the object that they stopped the truck to watch it. The object eerily hung there in one place, flashing through a pattern of alternating hypnotic sequences of different colored lights, before it without warning went completely dark. The men approached out of curiosity, the thing now just a black, indefinable shape, but it then sped off silently without illuminating again. In that same month, on March 31, witness Barry Neale was driving near Port Elliott when he passed a strange object resting about 100 meters off the road, which he described as 2 meters wide and looking like a “a glowing reddish orange object with a row of portholes.” Neale drove off onto a dirt side road through the trees to try and get closer, but the object then took off at an incredibly high speed.

Moving into the 1960s, there are several notable reports. On May 19, 1963, a 17-year-old local mechanic was driving home near Mount Gambier and noticed a strange metallic object travelling along near the road. As he approached it, the object allegedly flashed him with a blinding light before hovering directly above his vehicle. At this point he could see that it was oval-shaped, about 6 meters long, and with an array of lights as bright as “the arc lights in electric welding.” It apparently followed him for several miles before drifting off into the distance. The very next day there was another report from the same general vicinity, this time given by a witness who says he was followed for 3 miles along a desolate stretch of barren road by a mysterious silent object that was “bright red/white and shaped like a bull-dozer.” The object apparently only flew off when another car appeared coming the opposite direction. The following month, on July 28, 1963, a witness was near a place called Sandy Creek, making his way towards the town of Gawler when he was forced to slam his brakes when he almost collided with a “blood-red colored object extending across the roadway” as he rounded a bend. The object had a concave top and a flat base, the whole of it bathed in that eerie red glow. It then ascended, the color of its light changing to yellow as it did, then turned on its side and flew off, streaming a trail of vapor behind it.

In July of 1967, a witness was driving near Murray Bridge on his way to Karoonda through thick fog when his radio began to go haywire, distorting and morphing until it became an ear-piercing, high pitched whine, causing him to turn it off. Shortly after this, his engine died for no apparent reason and a warning light came on telling him his key was not in the ignition, even though it was. As the car rolled to a stop he noticed a patch of fog suddenly clear to reveal a “large dark shadow” about 120 feet wide and with a greyish-blue glow above it hovering 20 feet above the road. As he looked on in amazement, the hole in the fog suddenly closed again, making it appear as if the enigmatic object had just vanished into thin air. As soon as it was gone, his car jumped back to life and the radio worked normally.

In the 1970s we have first a report of a Mr. Boyce, who on August 8, 1971 was on his way from the town of Wallaroo to Kadina when he was bathed in an orange glow as his car died. He guided the powerless car to the side of the road and got out of the vehicle to see “an oval shape with three to four windows” hovering almost directly over his car and emitting a low buzzing noise. It allegedly hovered there motionless and silent for around 3 minutes before moving off out of sight, his car coming back on when it did.

In February of 1972, a witness named Hunt was driving outside the town of Kimba with a passenger called Finkler, when Hunt saw a “red and orange rectangle of light” hovering nearby about 3 feet over the ground. In this case he could allegedly see the occupant of the craft within the light, which appeared to be a 6-foot-tall humanoid decked out in “a white space suit with a mask over the head and face.” Hunt woke his passenger, who had been sleeping, who also saw it, and they reported it to police. Authorities would then find out that two other independent witnesses had reported seeing the orange light in the same location within a 15-minute period, although no one else reported the alien figure. In February of 1974 there was another sighting of a humanoid being in conjunction with a UFO in the same area, when four people in three separate vehicles saw an orange lighted rectangular object sitting in a clearing off the road. There was also allegedly seen a “two-meter-tall ‘man’ in a white space-suit” hovering within the rectangular light like an insect in amber.

In the 1980s we have the strange case of two young men only known as “Messrs P.” and “J”, who were driving outside of Port Lincoln when they saw an odd bright light in the sky. After that they apparently drove into a “white endless space,” after which they woke up in their car on the dark road several hours later with no memory of what had happened after entering that white landscape. Under hypnosis they would recall fragments of walking into a big room and a tall, humanoid figure, but nothing else could be dredged up from their subconscious. Perhaps the most famous case of all occurred on January 20 of 1988, in the barren badlands of the remote Nullarbor Plain. In the early morning hours, the Knowles family was travelling from Perth to Melbourne when they were aggressively chased by a glowing object “like a big ball” that would reportedly terrorize them for the next 90 minutes. At one point, the object landed right on top of their car to spew smoke into their windows before picking the vehicle clear up into the air. They then felt the car shake violently and noticed that their screams of terror were distorted and slowed down as if they were in some sort of time warp, after which they were dropped so hard back onto the road that one of their tires burst. They ended up running into some brush to hide until the marauding UFO went away. Police would later examine the car to find it scratched and dented, but no radiation or any other evidence of the bizarre encounter could be found.

These are just some of the many other UFO reports from the remote and desolate roads that meander through South Australia, and indeed the region in general has gathered about itself a reputation as a UFO mecca. Why should this be? What is it about this place that should attract so many such stories? Is it something about the land itself? There have been theories that this place lies upon some sort of earth energy line, or that it possesses certain geographical features that may attract such strange forces, so could that be it? Why are they so keen to patrol the roadways here and terrorize vehicles? No one really knows, and South Australia remains a pretty active and strange UFO hotspot, where it might be best to keep your eyes to the sky the next time you are driving through.

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Earthquakes have a very flexible time period that they can last, such as a few seconds, several minutes, days, weeks, or months. But based on new analysis of an ancient coral, the longest lasting earthquake in Earth’s history dragged on for a whopping 32 years.

Researchers in Singapore (specifically at the Nanyang Technological University) were able to confirm the 32-year-long earthquake by studying odd and ancient coral structures called “microatolls” off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. Microatolls grow at a very slow rate which provides experts with important information regarding changes in land elevation and sea levels throughout history.

The experts determined that between the years 1738 and 1829, the baseline readings were normal based on the fact that the microatolls were sinking between 1 and 2 millimeters each year. However, they noticed a significant change around the year 1829 when they began sinking at an astonishing rate of 10 millimeters annually. They continued sinking at the faster rate until around the year 1861.

With the rapid sinking of the microatolls, which is connected to the movement of tectonic plates, this revealed that there was a slow earthquake that lasted 32 years – the longest in all of Earth’s history. (A picture of the microatolls can be seen here.)

The earthquake lasted 32 years.

When two tectonic plates push up against one another so much that they end up shifting, that’s when earthquakes happen. While the majority of the time, they shift very quickly which causes vibrations to rise to the surface of the planet (aka earthquakes), occasionally the shifting process can take much longer with those living above the plates to not even feel anything. In fact, sometimes the vibrations can only be detected by experts using specialized equipment.

When the 32-year-long earthquake finally ended, it left devastation behind as it caused a massive 8.5-magnitude quake that created a large tsunami that hit the shores and killed thousands of people (this is known as the 1861 Sumatra earthquake).

The quake caused a massive tsunami.

It’s incredible that this slow-motion earthquake was discovered as they have only been recognized since the late part of the 1990s when they were first detected in the Pacific Northwest of North America as well as off the coast of Japan. And there are slow-motion quakes that experts believe are happening right now in different locations of Indonesia. For example, Rishav Mallick, who is a Ph.D. candidate at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, said that the island of Enggano is “sinking a little too fast.” “It’s not just one isolated event in the 1800s.” “We’re seeing this happen right now.”

• The study was published in the journal Nature Geoscience where it can be read in full.

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Driving along the dusty stretch of the Stuart Highway between the towns of Alice Springs and Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory, Australia, you may be held in awe by the sheer expanse of completely flat and barren sun-parched desert all around you. This is an arid realm seemingly devoid of life for large stretches, save some scattered brush and bushes, seemingly like the surface of some alien world, uninhabitable to humans. It is this sheer desolation and lack of any civilization as you meander along the bumpy, unkempt road that may cause you to be surprised to see spring up a sign that boldly states “Caution: Alien Landing Site Ahead.” As you drive on you may pass another sign with a prominent alien head on it welcoming you, as well as plastic statues of aliens. Then a ramshackle collection of shacks, a tiny gas station, and a roadhouse in the middle of nowhere, adorned with murals of aliens, UFOs, and with more alien statues standing around staring at you, the whole of it sitting within this inhospitable realm of dust, dirt, and sun. Welcome to the outback settlement of Wycliffe Well, the self-proclaimed “UFO Capitol of Australia.”

The remote, only partially inhabited roadside settlement originally began its life as a watering point along the stock route for the Overland Telegraph Line in the 1860s, going on to serves as a way-station for servicemen during World War II. During this time the area became well-known for its intense UFO activity, with soldiers reporting all manner of sightings nearly constantly. Before long, the area was attracting not only soldiers, but curiosity seekers and UFO buffs as well, who came here hoping to see strange things in the sky and for the most part rarely coming away disappointed. In the years after the war the visitors kept coming, and so a man by the name of Lew Farkas decided to capitalize on the region’s UFO craze by purchasing the local roadhouse in the 1980s to turn it into the Wycliffe Well Holiday Park. A gas station was put up, a bar installed on the premises to serve what he says is the best selection of beers found anywhere else, with about 300 different labels when fully stocked for all of those thirsty alien hunters, and the roadhouse turned into a sort of gas- food- lodging- general store- curio shop one stop shop for the many UFO nuts coming through, even setting up a campground, a large artificial lake for fishing and recreation area, a souvenir shop full of alien-themed oddities, and a sort of UFO museum with all manner of alien paraphernalia, all covering around 60 acres and creating a sort of oasis in the desert for those looking for aliens. He has said of the genesis of this strange place in an interview with Vice Magazine:

I read a journal, it might have been an American journal, that called Wycliffe the “UFO Capital of Australia.” I picked up on that and went with it. Originally, Wycliffe Well was just a fuel stop. When the highway opened, I started working on the idea that rather than tourists leaving Alice Springs and just heading blindly north, they’d be heading to me. I first arrived in Wycliffe in 1985. It was supposed to be a five-year experiment but five years turned into 25. The problem being that during that time, I just kept on investing in the place. There was already UFO activity in the area. I came here to discover that tourists were coming in just to have some sort of memento for this UFO spot. That’s how I started making up the souvenirs. Then, we made a mural of a UFO based on a sighting we had in the area. People would come and take a picture of that mural and nothing else. That’s how we started converting everything—every wall, every bit of space in the area—to do with space, to do with aliens, to do with UFOs. It got famous very quickly and it put Wycliffe Well on the world map.

One of Wycliffe Well’s alien displays

Farkas made sure that the roadhouse was as alien-themed as possible. The roadhouse features a wide array of gimmicky plastic alien statues and mannequins, UFOs made out of junk, pictures of flying saucers and aliens everywhere. There is even an impressive UFO observation deck called “Mount Wycliffe,” which is built from corrugated iron nailed to the side of the machinery shed painted to look like rock and accessible by a stairway on the side. In the main lobby is a logbook for visitors to report any UFO sightings they’ve had, and it is bursting at the seams with hundreds of sightings reports and newspaper clippings of accounts from the area. Indeed, UFO reports have proven to be so frequent here that the Sun Herald newspaper and Time Magazine both ranked Wycliffe Well as one of the best spots in the world for seeing UFOs. In its heyday, it was claimed that you were more likely than not to see UFO activity here to some degree, and current owner Arc Vanderzalm has said of taking over the place and the many sightings here:

I don’t know what I was thinking when I arrived. My mind was boggling. There’s been four of five occasions when all the people out of the restaurant have gone out and observed something very unusual. It’s never the same twice. All types of different lights, changing direction, and colourful.

The original owner, Lew Farkas, said that during his decades-long tenure at Wycliffe there were hundreds of sightings, ranging from the odd to the truly fantastical, including people claiming to have seen aliens lurking about in the desert, and there were also some odd visitors to the site as well. Farkas has said of some of his weirder experiences during his years there:

On a lot of occasions people were getting chased down the highway by lights. They would pull up and be panicking so much that they would say, “Quick give us a room, we can’t stay out there.” So that was good for business… It chased people away at times, but it brought customers in too. One scientist came from England. He turned up with just a briefcase. He told us when he arrived that he was coming to investigate the sightings and that he could tell if there was anything in the atmosphere without even looking. When he opened up his briefcase, it was just like an old school lab. All these things would just fold out: little things zipping around, glass tubes, electronics. I don’t know how it worked, but he left happy.

The establishment has only a few permanent residents, but this little oddity out in the middle of nowhere still manages to pull in droves of visitors all the time. We are left to wonder just why this place should boast such nonstop UFO activity, and there have been plenty of theories, including that it is just headlights in the distance viewed over the flat landscape, misidentified planes, some sort of atmospheric or geological phenomenon, or of course actual alien spaceships. If these are truly alien UFOs, then what would draw them so heavily to this spot? Is it just the remoteness away from prying eyes? Is there some sort of base there? Perhaps it is a feature of the landscape or geology here that attracts them? Farkas has his own ideas, saying of it to Unexplained Australia:

Scientists say the sky is full of Ley Lines, which act like highways for the UFO’s to travel along. But these energy lines must meet somewhere and one of those crossroads or intersections lies directly above the middle of Australia. That’s why we see so many here.

What is going on here? Is there anything to this, or is it all just a cheesy marketing scheme? People continue to swear that they have come across UFOs here in this remote oasis of weirdness far from civilization, so it is hard to say. Whether there are any aliens and spaceships here or not, it is all a rather odd and wild ride, as well as an incredibly weird and yet undoubtedly charming roadside attraction in the badlands of Australia, perhaps worth checking out if you are ever passing through.

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To paraphrase Jimmy Durante, “Everybody wants to get into the UFO act!” It started with the release of Navy radar images and photos of ship and pilot encounters and got hot when the Pentagon agreed to issue a report on UFOs – still scheduled for this month. Presidential candidates were asked about them during the 2020 campaign and late night talk show hosts seemed to ask every guest about them. Former President Barack Obama is already in the act, but he expanded his role recently, while the White House press secretary and a Pentagon spokesperson both got peppered with questions this week. What would Jimmy ‘The Schnoz’ Durante think?

“And so I would hope that the knowledge that there were aliens out there would solidify people’s sense that what we have in common is a little more important. But no doubt there would be immediate arguments about like, well, we need to spend a lot more money on weapons systems to defend ourselves. New religions would pop up. And who knows what kind of arguments we get into. We’re good at manufacturing arguments for each other.”

No, that wasn’t Durante’s answer — it came from former President Obama. In a wide-ranging interview with Ezra Klein of The New York Times, the questioning turned to his previously stated interest in knowing more about those recent UFOs. When asked what he thought would happen if they were proved to contain aliens, Obama suggested that instead of fighting them, humans would form new religions. To worship with them? To worship THEM? He didn’t say and the reporter unfortunately didn’t pursue that line of questioning.

John F. Kirby

“We’re participating in a DNI led study, again on, mandated by Congress, we’re providing context and information that we have on these phenomena. And our focus is on again on supporting the DNI efforts to produce this report. That’s where our focus is and, and, and, again, that’s our that’s our lane, that’s our place to be in is to provide the kind of context that we have the information that we have to help the DNI produce this report for Congress.”

Someone who would undoubtedly vote for weapons over bibles is John F. Kirby, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. In a recent press conference, he was asked repeatedly about UFOs, UAPs and the forthcoming Pentagon report on them. Kirby repeatedly deflected the questions to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Avril Haines – the first woman to lead the U.S. Intelligence Community. No, Haines wasn’t there to field the deflection. At least Lewis acknowledged them as “phenomena” rather than dismissing them.

What would DNI Avril Haines say?

“We take incursions into our airspace, both by identified and unidentified aircraft, very seriously and investigate each one.”

That’s what one would have expected from the DoD’s John F. Kirby or DNI Avril Haines, but that answer came from Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, at a briefing last week. However, she then mimicked Lewis.

“But ODNI would be working on that report and, in terms of disclosure, that would be up to them.”

When pressed on what President Biden thought about UFOs, Psaki said:

“Whether that is identified or unidentified aircraft, and we don’t discuss that publicly for a range of reasons, but certainly the President supports the ODNI putting together a report and following through on that commitment.”

What would Jimmy “The Schoz” Durante say about all of this?

“It’s time for Avril Haines to get into the act!”

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The Anunnaki Met With Our Leaders in 1954 Says Retired, Command Sergeant Major, Robert O Dean!

Among the group that greeted the Annunaki in 1954 at Rurak, which is now Edwards air force base. There was an Arch Bishop from Los Angeles by the name of Mike McIntyre, he had been invited to be present when they landed to meet them, because they thought somebody ought to be representing the church here, you know; and they brought McIntyre over from LA, to Rurak.

They were there for two days, and these guys scared the shit out of everybody with their technology, and they talked openly. The two hovered over the runway for two days, never landed, no legs or nothing they just hovered over the damn runway. Its all on film, but the other guys come out, landed right inferno of the hanger got out and went over shoot hands or whatever I don’t know what the hell they did. McIntyre was present because Icke had invited him.

After it was all over with after the second day and these guys get back in their ship and off they go; our intelligence people got a hold of McIntyre and says Arch Bishop you gotta understand something, you can’t talk about anything you’ve seen, this is beyond top secret, you can’t say a word about what we have just experienced here.

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - 03 - 06 -2021

UFO Sighted Over Bradenton, Florida ( June 2, 2021 )

STATEMENT : This object was flying behind a airplane a few miles back. But the plane was leaving a trail and the object wasn't. I would guess the size of it if on the ground would be about a city block and several stories high.

• credit : Wayne Buck

UFO Sighted Over Belgium ( May 29, 2021 )

Took this video last night in Belgium. I have seen the exact same thing a couple of times with my 20x80 binoculars. This was the first time you could see it with the naked eye. (The second video is the exact same video but with different lighting.)

• credit : Dries De Ruyck

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UFO Morse Code Sighted Over Germany ( June 1, 2021 )

LOCATION : Leverkusen, Germany 

STATEMENT : Hallo ihr lieben was ist das? MORSEZEICHEN , Ufos, Düsen Jets Wer weiß mehr
TRANSLATE : Hello dear what is this? MORSE MARKS, UFOS, Nozzles Jets Who knows more

• credit : Lothar Hans

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LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS - MUFON CASES - 03-06-2021

MUFON CASE : 115950 Kyle, Texas ( June 1, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS :

• objects flying in a curved line following each other

Long Description of Sighting Report

observed 6 to 10 objects flying silently, and against the wind, without any sound or emissions, there was no shape just a ball of light, this continued for hours and they followed the same exact line

Date Submitted : 2021-06-01
Date of Event : 2017-05-08
MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : IMG0383.mov

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Alien Figure Recorded Walking Along Road In India, video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: June 1, 2021
Location of sighting: Jharkhand, India

A strange figure was seen...resembling an alien or ghostly figure was recorded along a road in India this week. Motorists were riding past when one motorcyclist with a helm cam recorded a strange figure walking carelessly along the road. The figure looks human enough, however its arms are 20% longer than humans. The whitish figure looks to be wearing a skin tight outfit or they are nude. When the motorcyclist with the camera slowed down...the figure stopped and turned around slowly. The person on the motorcycle lowered the camera to look at the ground...possibly not wanting to provoke the person in any way. The figure looks at them, then turns and begins on its way again. Then the motorcycle rides away. So much for our deep meaningful meeting with aliens revealing to us the answers to the universe. Instead...we have a drive by video shooting that goes viral. Aliens are getting closer and closer, my advice when you see one, stop and chat with it. Perhaps its wanted to give the cure to covid to someone but no-one would approach it. Perhaps it wanted to give them the secrets to immortality, and yet, no one cared enough to approach it and greet the alien. This is the world we live in. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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UFO Exit Tunnel Collapses Leaving Sink Hole, Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.

 Above is an CGI example I made of what the UFO might look like as it created the tunnel.

Date of event: June 2021
Location of event: Central Mexico

 

I have said for years that sink holes are made by UFOs exiting and entering underground bases in locations where the entrances must be instantly filled in to avoid detection from the local humans on the surface. UFOs use technology that can compress the dirt, pushing it aside, and then traveling down the tunnel...as the tunnel behind them is closed in at the same time. Its a method that aliens often use to avoid the tunnels from being detected. However this one failed to fully fill in and caused a collapse which could eventually engulf and swallow the house near it. If we were to drill a hole 6km below this very tunnel...we would find a thriving city underground with around 5,000-10,000 alien residents. We UFO researchers have long known about the UFO bases below Mexico due to the huge amount of UFOs recorded entering and exiting the Colima and Popocatepetl on live cams over the last ten years. This hole is absolute proof that I was right about the alien base exiting below Mexico. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

 

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