Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
As reported to ASD by phone today: I was driving South on Woods Chapel Road last night at approximately 7:00 p.m. when I noticed several bright orange lights above the cars behind me in my rear-view mirror. At first I thought it must have been some strange light on someone’s antenna, but realized that it was floating above the cars in the distance. The shape of the object was oval and there were orange lights spinning around the edge of it. I could not see the object itself, only the lights which remained in the same position as they spun around the oval object, however the object was tumbling around in the sky. It was very strange and I’ve never seen anything like it. I watched it for two or three minutes while driving and at a stop light– until the road dipped down. When I went back up the hill the object was no longer there. The direction of the object was towards Lake Tapawingo. I saw a car on Ligget road that had its emergency flashing lights on where the location would have been good to see the object so there may be another witness. The size of the object was large – it was the width of the cars behind me but I could not tell the distance. There was no sound. I’m hoping someone else saw this and will report it. I’m quite shaken by the experience. NOTE: the above image is a rendering.
Read other New UFO Reports added today @ Chris Holly’s Paranormal Wolrd
Interview with Jacques Vallee Implications of UFO Phenomena
Interview with Jacques Vallee – Implications of UFO Phenomena
Jacques Fabrice Vallée is a venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California.
In mainstream science, Vallée is notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA and for his work at SRI International on the network information center for the ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet. Vallée is also an important figure in the study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), first noted for a defense of the scientific legitimacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and later for promoting the interdimensional hypothesis.
UFO Planet EP91 Multiple Spheres Over South Carolina
UFO Planet EP91 – Multiple Spheres Over South Carolina
UFO Planet Episode 91 – Take a journey into the unknown with Darin Crapo and examine UFO Sightings recorded over Alexandria, Virginia, USA; Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Colonia, Del Sacramento, Uruguay; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada and Saint Stephen, South Carolina, USA.
Iranian Air Force Grumman F-14A Tomcat (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
As if the Iran-UFO connection (the Axis of Alien-ness?) couldn’t get any weirder, it now appears that the Iranian Air Force attempted to shoot down aircraft that didn’t seem very Earth-like.
Before I go any further, the following does not come from a conspiracy Web site. It’s from an article last October in Combat Aircraft Monthly, a military aviation magazine that features some well-respected writers. The article on Iranian F-14 Tomcat fighters by Babak Taghvaee, who has written extensively on the Iranian Air Force, also recounts how Iran attempted to intercept what it believed to be U.S. spy drones overflying its nuclear facilities.
What’s interesting in Taghvaee’s piece is how Iran describes the intruders, which the Iranians called “luminous objects” in the belief that they were emitting light to enable night photography:
According to Iranian sources, the CIA’s intelligence drones displayed astonishing flight characteristics, including an ability to fly outside the atmosphere, attain a maximum cruise speed of Mach 10, and a minimum speed of zero, with the ability to hover over the target. Finally, these drones used powerful ECM that could jam enemy radars using very high levels of magnetic energy, disrupting navigation systems.
In one intercept over the Arak nuclear facility in November 2004, an Iranian F-14 Tomcat tried to lock its radar on to a luminous object, only to have the radar beam disrupted. “The pilot described the object as being spherical, with something like a green afterburner creating a considerable amount of turbulence behind it,” according to the article. The intruder then increased its speed and “disappeared like a meteor.”
The tale took a deadly turn in January 2012, when an F-14 was scrambled to intercept an intruder flying towards the Bushehr nuclear power plant. Seconds after take-off, the F-14 exploded, killing both crewmen. No cause for the tragedy was determined.
This is not the first time that Iranian fighters tangled with alleged UFOs: In 1976, during the reign of the Shah before the fundamentalists took over, Iranian F-4 Phantoms unsuccessfully attempted to intercept fast, bright objects, only to have some unknown force knock out their instruments. Yet note that nowhere in Taghvaee’s article do Iranian authorities describe the luminous objects in 2004 and 2012 as UFOs (indeed, the only time the word “UFO” is used at all is in a single sub-headline). It is possible that jamming could have disrupted the dated 1970s radar of Iran’s F-14s in the 2004 incident, while an aging aircraft kept flying by parts smuggled past a Western embargo may have exploded in 2012 for reasons other than extraterrestrial action.
In that case, the question becomes, what kind of aircraft flies at Mach 10? That’s 10 times the speed of sound, or 7,612 miles per hour (the legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy aircraft flew at around Mach 3, or 2,283 miles per hour). An obvious candidate is a hypersonic aircraft like NASA’s experimental X-43 hypersonic aircraft, which flew at Mach 9.68 in 2004. That program was terminated, and briefly resurrected as the Air Force X-51 Waverider, which flew at Mach 5 for nearly four minutes last May before plunging into the Pacific.
But these projects are more like experimental missiles that one day might become manned or unmanned aircraft. If the “luminous objects” described by Iran really did fly at Mach 10, jam radars and zoom away from jet interceptors, then this suggests a hypersonic aircraft mature and reliable enough to be trusted with sensitive reconnaissance missions. Perhaps the semi-mythical Aurora?
Without a lot more evidence, such as a crashed spacecraft of an alien pilot, I am not inclined to believe that UFOs felt a need to peek at Iran’s nuclear sites. It’s more likely that the Iranian military – perhaps through an honest mistake – exaggerated the performance of the intruders. But if they didn’t, and the U.S. was able to deploy Mach 10 reconnaissance aircraft a decade ago, then here’s the biggest mystery: Why is America spending a trillion dollars to develop a troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that can’t even fly Mach 2?
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Tall White Nazi Space Aliens Are Not -- We Repeat NOT -- Invading
Tall White Nazi Space Aliens Are Not -- We Repeat NOT -- Invading
The craziest story to emerge from the Edward Snowden leaked documents affair probably has nothing to do with Edward Snowden ... or reality.
According to a story posted by Iran's Fars News Agency, the U.S. government has been under the control of a shadow government overseen by extraterrestrials who helped Nazi Germany's rise in the 1930s.
The news agency story suggests that documents revealed by Snowden are part of a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) report which states the information provides "incontrovertible proof that an alien/extraterrestrial intelligence agenda is driving U.S. domestic and international policy, and has been doing so since 1945."
But what has yet to be clarified is how the reputation of one prominent member of the community of UFO believers -- former Canadian defense minister Paul Hellyer -- has been exploited and misrepresented.
As this story spiraled out of control, Hellyer allegedly confirmed the Fars story was totally accurate. But let's do a little fact checking.
It is true that Hellyer is outspoken about his belief that Earth has been visited by ETs. Nevertheless, he denies any connection to the original source of this Nazi space alien yarn.
The Toronto-based ZlandCommunications News Network, on behalf of Hellyer, sent correspondence to the Washington Post, including:
Mr. Hellyer categorically rejects all and any statements and sources ... which in any manner serve to associate Mr. Hellyer with the following: Edward Snowden, Mr. Snowden's documents, the NSA, the FSB (the Russian Federal Security Service), the website Whatdoesitmean.com and the Fars News.
At no time was Mr. Hellyer ever in communication with the FSB, Fars News or What Does It Mean. ... We insist that the Washington Post publish a full retraction as well as a public apology to Mr. Hellyer.
In fact, the only reason why Hellyer is involved with this story is because of his recent appearance on Russia Today's TV program, "SophieCo."
Hellyer, 90, was Canada's minister of defense during the 1960s. After his retirement, he became the first cabinet-level politician from a G8 country to go on the record claiming that extraterrestrials are already on Earth.
On the "SophieCo" program, Hellyer was outspoken about Earth's interaction with many extraterrestrials, including a race of "Tall Whites" that are allegedly mentioned in Snowden's documents.
While some might link "Tall Whites" to Hitler's idealized super race of white Aryans, Hellyer never made such an association. That false connection seems to be how the Canadian politician got snagged in this mess.
It turns out that Fars didn't even write the story described above. By its own admission -- at the very bottom of the web page -- it acknowledges that it merely reprinted the whole thing, word-for-word. The story originated a day earlier on what the Washington Post refers to as "the ultra-fringe conspiracy theory website, whatdoesitmean.com." Their story was written by one "Sorcha Faal," who is further identified as "Sister Maria Theresa, the 73rd Sorcha Faal of the Sorcha Faal Order, elected as Mother Superior 3 February 2007."
Faal's story contained references to Hellyer's appearance on Russia Today, where he mentioned the Tall White aliens. Then, Faal reported that these Tall Whites were included in Snowden's alleged alien-related documents. Of course, there's no proof that Snowden's documents had such a reference, either.
And then, Fars News picked up Faal's story, saying, "This report has been wired from whatdoesitmean.com. ... All responsibility for the veracity, authenticity and reliability of this report lies with its original source, whatdoesitmean.com."
It probably would've helped clarification of all of this if Fars had added that piece of information at the top of its story rather than all the way down at the bottom.
Fars even explains why it decided to reprint the whatdoesitmean.com story in the first place:
To those of you who may ask why we have basically carried this story, we should say that FNA has been seeking to inform its viewers of those stories which are ignored by the mainstream media, specially in the West. A part of our daily efforts is focused on such reports. In doing so, we sometimes try to cover some -- specially controversial -- topics with different reports to give our viewers a chance to study them from various perspectives.
And there it is, in a nutshell, or nutcase. Fars is essentially off the hook re. where this entire story originated.
Timeline: It all started in December, with Hellyer's televised appearance where he continued his claims about ETs on Earth -- claims he's made for years.
Hellyer was one of many speakers who testified in front of six former members of Congress at the 2013 Citizen Hearing On Disclosure in Washington, D.C.
Shortly after Hellyer's TV rant -- purely coincidental with the ongoing Snowden stories that have seeped into our consciousness -- all of a sudden, whatdoesitmean.com comes out with a story that combines Snowden's leaked documents with Hellyer's comments, and places that far-fetched nonsense into a general environment where people often believe anything they read, especially when the elements of UFOs, aliens, world domination and Nazis are tied together.
That's exactly what happened with this story. In fact, the only thing we know for sure is that Hellyer was on television. But, even that is filled with credibility gaps, as the former Canadian defense minister hasn't come up with even a shred of real evidence of the things he talks about.
Where does credibility begin and end here?
Here are some excerpts from the Hellyer interview after Sophie Shevardnadze asks him why he believes UFOs are as real as airplanes flying over our heads:
Because I know that they are. As a matter of fact, they've been visiting our planet for thousands of years. ... There's just so much evidence, if anybody will take time off to do a little bit of research and study. Some people are interested and will take the time, and others just say, 'Oh, you know it's just fantasy.' Since I've been public on this subject, I get probably three or four emails a week from all over the world, from people who've actually witnessed sightings, and some of them who've actually been on the ships, and some of them who've actually been transported to another planet.
The latest reports that I've been getting from various sources are that there are about 80 different species (of aliens) and some of them look just like us and they could walk down the street and you wouldn't know if you walked past one. They are what we call Nordic Blondes and also the Tall Whites who were actually working with the U.S. Air Force in Nevada. They're able to get away with that -- they had a couple of their ladies dressed as nuns go into Las Vegas to shop and they weren't detected.
Here's the complete interview with Paul Hellyer broadcast on Russia Today's "SophieCo":
All that's really left are the continuing questions about Hellyer and why he maintains his story about aliens visiting Earth. If only he could offer some real, tangible evidence for his claims. That would be nice.
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23-01-2014
Paul Hellyer reageert op artikel 'VS wordt bestuurd door buitenaardsen'
Paul Hellyer reageert op artikel 'VS wordt bestuurd door buitenaardsen'
Enige dagen geleden meldde het Iraanse persbureau Fars dat de Verenigde Staten worden bestuurd door buitenaardsen.
Volgens het persagentschap wordt de VS al sinds het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog bestuurd door een buitenaardse schaduwregering.
Het stuk werd afgedrukt in de krant Al Arabiya, inclusief de zogezegde bewijzen van de buitenaardse invloed op het beleid van het land. Er werd onder meer verwezen naar onthullingen door Edward Snowden, die een rapport van de Russische veiligheidsdienst FSB in handen had weten te krijgen.
Reactie
De Canadese oud-minister van Defensie Paul Hellyer zou hebben bevestigd dat de informatie van het persbureau klopt, maar zelf weet hij van niets. Hellyer liet de Washington Post weten dat hij niet geassocieerd wil worden met Edward Snowden, diens documenten, de NSA, de FSB, de website Whatdoesitmean.com en Fars News. Hij is nooit benaderd door de FSB, Fars News of Whatdoesitmean en eist dat de Washington Post het artikel verwijdert en excuses aanbiedt.
Hellyer werd in het stuk genoemd vanwege zijn recente uitspraken tijdens het programma SophieCo van Russia Today. De 90-jarige Hellyer zegt al enkele jaren openlijk dat buitenaardsen onze planeet bezoeken.
Tijdens de uitzending sprak Hellyer over de vele buitenaardse beschavingen die interacteren met de aarde, waaronder ook de ‘tall whites’ of de Nordics.
Ruimteschepen
Fars News heeft het artikel overgenomen van de complotsite Whatdoesitmean.com/Eutimes.net van Sorcha Faal, die de uitspraken van Hellyer heeft verdraaid en daarmee diens reputatie op het spel zet. Fars heeft het stuk naar eigen zeggen overgenomen omdat het persbureau zich ook wil richten op onderwerpen die worden genegeerd door de reguliere media, met name in het Westen.
Hellyer getuigde in 2013 in Washington, DC voor zes Amerikaanse oud-congresleden en mocht zijn opvattingen afgelopen december op televisie kracht bijzetten. Volgens de oud-minister bezoeken buitenaardsen onze planeet al duizenden jaren. Hij krijgt iedere week wel een aantal e-mails van mensen die zeggen aan boord te zijn geweest van ruimteschepen of zelfs zijn meegenomen naar een andere planeet.
Dit doet denken aan de uitspraken van de Japanse voormalige First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama, die enige jaren geleden aangaf met een driehoekige UFO naar de planeet Venus te zijn gereisd. “Het was een prachtige wereld en het was er heel groen,” zei ze.
Tijdens het tv-programma legde Hellyer uit dat er zo’n 80 soorten buitenaardsen zijn en dat sommige niet zijn te onderscheiden van mensen. Dit zijn onder andere de ‘Nordics Blondes’ of ‘tall whites’, en zij werken samen met de Amerikaanse luchtmacht in Nevada, aldus Hellyer.
Er zijn op dit moment zeer bijzondere verschijningen in het luchtruim. Zijn het vuurballen of onbekende objecten?
In de afgelopen dagen zijn vuurballen gezien boven Saoedi-Arabië, diverse Amerikaanse staten, Australië, Duitsland en Groot-Brittannië.
Eind december waren honderden Amerikanen getuige van een overvliegende vuurbal boven Iowa. Een camera van een lokaal weerstation registreerde de vuurbal, die werd waargenomen in de staten Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri en Tennessee.
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In oktober vorig jaar was IJsland in de ban van een lichtgevend object dat in een tuin van een stadje terechtkwam en vervolgens uitdoofde. Er zijn nog geen sporen aangetroffen van het object.
Komeet ISON raasde eind november vorig jaar langs de zon. In januari 2013 zag ruimtesonde Swift dat de kern van ISON iedere minuut meer dan 50.000 kilogram stof naar buiten spuwde.
Komeetonderzoeker Paul Wiegert van de University of Western Ontario zei dat de aarde rond 12 januari dit jaar een aantal dagen in aanraking zou kunnen komen met brokstukken van komeet ISON. Hij voegde toe dat de deeltjes te klein zouden zijn om te verbranden in de atmosfeer.
Fel licht
Er is op dit moment met name aandacht voor een vuurbal die dinsdagochtend is vastgelegd boven de stad Dillon in de Amerikaanse staat Montana.
Ruth Jackson reed vlak voor zonsopkomst met haar man en twee kleindochters door Dillon toen ze een fel licht in de lucht zag. Het gezelschap stopte langs de kant van de weg om foto’s te maken.
Het beeldmateriaal werd opgestuurd naar het Montana Space Grant Consortium. Directeur Angela Des Jardins reageerde: “Het eerste wat ik zag was iets wat door de lucht vloog en in brand leek te staan.”
“Het zijn in dit geval geen buitenaardsen en hoewel ik geen autoriteit ben op het gebied van meteoren, kunnen we in dit geval aannemen dat het geen meteoor is geweest,” ging ze verder.
Het onderzoeksinstituut krijgt geregeld foto’s toegestuurd van mensen, maar heeft zoiets nog nooit gezien, aldus Des Jardins.
A Star Just Exploded 'Next Door' And It's A Huge Deal
While you were sleeping, a supernova was spotted "practically next door" and it is, to paraphrase Joe Biden, a big freaking deal.
The stellar explosion occurred in the galaxy Messier 82 (M82), about 12 million light years from Earth. This means the star exploded nearly 12 million years ago and we're just seeing it. University College London claimed to be one of the first to spot the supernova, one of the closest since the 1980s.
It's a huge deal.
This animation, from Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes and Martino Nicolini, shows the before and after:
Want to see the supernova for yourself? Look into the constellation Ursa Major in the Northern Hemisphere. Skymania provided this map:
The best time to see the supernova "is as soon as the sky gets dark when it’s already up in the northeastern sky above the Dipper Bowl," reports Universe Today.
Researchers speculate this may be a type Ia supernova, which is "the type we use to measure the expansion of the Universe and so that would be especially exciting."
Astronomer and cosmologist Brad Tucker made this timelapse of a similar supernova beginning Oct. 24, 2012:
Ce choix de l’atome d’antihydrogène pour percer les mystères de l’antimatière et tenter de trouver des traces d’une nouvelle physique n’est pas anodin. Il y a d’abord le fait que l’hydrogène constitue environ 75 % de la matière observable. Surtout, c’est l’un des systèmes physiques les plus simples et les mieux décrits théoriquement avec les protons et les électrons. Or, il existe un théorème très profond, issu des lois de symétrie, qui s’applique à toutes les théories quantiques relativistes des champs, donc au modèle standard : le théorème CPT.
Les membres de l’expérience Atomic Spectroscopy And Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (Asacusa) au Cern viennent de faire savoir qu’ils se préparaient à un nouveau bond dans la mesure précise des propriétés des atomes d’antihydrogène en annonçant, dans un article de Nature Communications, qu’ils avaient réussi pour la première fois au monde à produire un faisceau de tels atomes.
80 atomes d'antihydrogène en vol
Jusqu’à présent, les champs magnétiques qui permettaient de stocker un grand nombre d’atomes d’antihydrogène s’opposaient aussi à l’augmentation de la précision des mesures des niveaux d’énergies hyperfins de ces atomes. Pour contourner ce problème, il fallait pouvoir produire un faisceau d’atomes d’antihydrogène loin des gradients de champs magnétiques élevés de leur piège qui brouillaient les mesures spectroscopiques de ces niveaux. C’est chose faite avec la détection non ambiguë de 80 atomes d’antihydrogène à 2,7 mètres de leur lieu de production.
Il reste encore aux chercheurs à améliorer la qualité des faisceaux d’atomes d’antihydrogène qu’ils peuvent produire ainsi que leurs techniques de mesure sur ces objets. De nouvelles expériences sont prévues pour l’été 2014. Celles avec le LHC ne reprendront qu’en 2015.
Any pilot flying holidaymakers between Manchester and Ibiza must be prepared for outlandish sights.
But perhaps nothing so apparently unworldly as this.
The captain of a Thomas Cook airliner flying tourists back from the Spanish holiday island to the north of England reported a "near miss" with a "rugby ball"-shaped UFO, which passed within feet of his jet.
The encounter, over Reading, Berks, was reported to the aviation authorities, who launched an investigation. But no earthly identity for the object could be established.
However, following an analysis of flight data recorded on the internet, the Telegraph has established it was a Thomas Cook plane, with the flight number TCX24HX. It was an A320, with the registration G-KKAZ, which was made in 2003.
The jet was flying to Manchester International airport, from Ibiza, on July 19th 2013. For years, the island has enjoyed a hedonistic reputation, attracting thousands of tourists each summer, many attracted to its vibrant nightlife. In recent years, it has attracted an increasingly upmarket clientele, among them David and Samantha Cameron.
The aircraft was flying at 516mph, at an altitude of 34,000ft, when it was passed by the UFO.
The encounter occurred in daylight, at around 6.35pm. It only emerged following publication of the report, which concluded it was “not possible to trace the object or determine the likely cause of the sighting”.
The captain said he spotted the object travelling towards the jet out of a left hand side, cockpit window, apparently heading directly for it. He said there was no time to for the aircrew to take evasive action.
He told investigators he was certain the object was going to crash into his aircraft and ducked as it headed towards him.
The incident was investigated by the UK Airprox Board, which studies “near misses” involving aircraft in British airspace.
The report states: “(The captain) was under the apprehension that they were on collision course with no time to react. His immediate reaction was to duck to the right and reach over to alert the FO (First Officer); there was no time to talk to alert him.”
It adds: “The Captain was fully expecting to experience some kind of impact with a conflicting aircraft.”
He told investigators he believes the object passes “within a few feet” above the jet.
He described it as being “cigar/rugby ball like” in shape, bright silver and apparently “metallic” in construction.
Once it had passed, the captain checked the aircraft’s instruments and contacted air traffic controllers to report the incident. However, there was no sign of the mystery craft.
As part of the inquiry, data recordings were checked to establish what other aircraft were in the area at the time. However, all were eliminated. The investigation also ruled out meteorological balloons, after checking none were released in the vicinity. Toy balloons were also discounted, as they are not large enough to reach such heights. Military radar operators were contacted but were unable to trace the reported object.
A spokesman for Thomas Cook Airlines said, “All our pilots are trained and required to report any unexpected events that occur during the flight to the aviation authorities.”
The Ministry of Defence closed its UFO desk in December 2009, along with its hotline for reporting such sightings. Following that change, the Civil Aviation Authority took the decision that it would continue to look into such reports, from aircrew and air traffic controllers, because they could have implications for “flight safety”.
In 2012, the head of the National Air Traffic Control Services admitted staff detected around one unexplained flying object every month.
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Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash: 40 years on, it's still a mystery
Berwyn Mountains UFO Crash: 40 years on, it's still a mystery
A UFO allegedly crashed into Berwyn Mountains in January, 1974
On January 23, 1974, people reported hearing a huge bang, felt earth tremors and saw a brilliant light in the sky above the Berwyn Mountains. Families in the villages of Llandderfel and Llandrillo were settling down to watch TV when an explosion was heard and the ground shook. It measured 3.5 on the Richter scale. As people ran from their homes fearing another tremor, they saw a blaze of light on the mountainside.
A nurse who believed an aircraft had crashed drove to the site and saw a pulsating orange and red glow on the hillside and other lights.
Police converged on the area and emergency services were put on standby. Although searches were undertaken, officially nothing was found – leading to claims of a cover-up.
In the four decades since there has been a huge debate as to what exactly happened that night, with TV documentaries made and books written on the subject.
Some researchers have claimed a UFO crashed, with further claims “bodies” were retrieved and taken away by soldiers. Other theories suggest it was a meteor shower combined with an earthquake – the epicentre of which was at Bala Lake – and the misperception of poachers on the hillside carrying lamps.
Over the years more information has surfaced which has added to the enigma. In 2008 the Daily Post acquired official documents showing how Gwynedd Police were bombarded with calls and eye witness accounts of the strange event, with some convinced they had seen a UFO. They gave a fascinating insight into what was going on that night.
Did aliens crash into Berwyn Mountains?
Gwynedd Police Constabulary Major Incident Log – explosion – 21.10pm PC receiving 999 calls of UFO.
A witness who saw an object on the hillside said in a statement: “Saw bright red light, like coal fire red. Large perfect circle. Like a big bonfire. Could see lights above and to the right and white lights moving to bottom. Light changed colour to yellowish white and back again.”
A message in a police log said: “There’s been a large explosion in the area and there is a large fire in the mountainside. I can see the fire where I am.”
Telex message to chief constable Gwynedd constabulary. 22.00pm approx 23/1/74: Saw bright green lights, object with tail – travelling west. Saw about Bangor direction – dropped down.
At approx 10pm on 23/1/74: Saw a circular light in the sky at an estimated height of 1,500 feet. This object exploded and pieces fell to the ground. Mr ...... estimates the pieces would have fallen into the sea between Rhyl and Liverpool.
In 2010 key witness, retired nurse Pat Evans, insisted she saw something strange on the mountainside. At the time she said: “It (the object) couldn’t have got there any other way apart from being flown there, so it had to be a UFO of some sort. I’m talking about something that could only have got there by flying and landing.”
Ms Evans, who was living in Llandderfel, near Bala, added: “We just saw this huge ball glowing and pulsating on the mountain. Some lights seemed to be scattered around it and I just wish we’d stayed to see what the end result was – whether it would just disappear or fly away.
“We didn’t see anybody on the road even though there were various reports that we were told to go away by armed police and military etc, which was all totally untrue.
“We’d heard an almighty bang and we live at the foot of the mountain. I thought it might have been a plane crash. Me being a nurse and my girls being in St John (Ambulance), I thought we could help.”
She told how the object glowed orange, red and yellow and was “moon like, but without windows or doors”. Mrs Evans added: “I’ve never seen anything like it before or since. I have no idea what it was.”
A document from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency revealed a military operation, codenamed Photoflash, was scheduled for that evening. It involved about 10 military aircraft and a series of powerful flashes across the North Wales coast and Liverpool Bay.
The MCA letter said: “During the late afternoon and early evening of 23rd January 1974 there was an exercise from Jerby Range on the Isle of Man. The exercise was called ‘Photoflash’ and coastguards were advised to expect at least 10 aircraft taking part and at least 80 flashes around the Liverpool Bay area and the North Wales coastline.”
There was no more information from official sources on that specific exercise and if it was connected to Berwyn. A spokesman at the RAF Museum Research Department suggested photoflash operations were used for training exercises to illuminate the ground below.
UFO researcher Russ Kellett
"But the mystery still remains. Researcher Russ Kellett still believes the answer is out there: “I have been researching this for years and I am convinced there was more than one UFO involved that night,” he said. “All the evidence that we have uncovered over the years has consistently pointed that way.”
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Dwarf planet Ceres may be home to alien life
Dwarf planet Ceres may be home to alien life
(Before It's News)
Scientists have detected water on Ceres, a dwarf planet residing in our solar system’s asteroid belt.
The Herschel Telescope detected water vapor spouting from Ceres. According to Michael Küppers of the European Space Agency, “This is the first clear-cut detection of water in the asteroid belt.” The Weather Channel explains that scientists have suspected the presence of substantial water on Ceres for decades. Those suspicions haven’t been confirmed until now.
Researchers postulate that when Ceres moves closer to the sun, part of its icy surface is melted. And according to Popular Science, if all this ice were melted, “it would be more fresh water than is available on all of Earth.”
Marc Rayman of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told Reuters, “One of the things that’s intriguing here is the possibility of there being liquid water as opposed to ice . . . Certainly all life that we know depends on water. And so this is part of the larger question of where can life exist.” But Rayman says it is premature to declare Ceres a potential habitable environment for alien life. Rayman continued, “There’s a lot more than just water that’s required for life. And whether Ceres has those other ingredients – which include, for example, a source of energy and all of the nutrients that life requires, the rest of the chemistry – it’s too early to say.”
NASA’s space probe Dawn is scheduled to take a closer look the surface of Ceres in the spring of 2015.
Water Discovered on Dwarf Planet Ceres, May Erupt From Ice Volcanoes
IMCCE-Observatoire de Paris/CNRS/Y. Gominet, B. Carry
An artist's impression of water outgassing from two sources on the dwarf planet Ceres, which is also the largest asteroid in the solar system.
Astronomers have discovered direct evidence of water on the dwarf planet Ceres in the form of vapor plumes erupting into space, possibly from volcano-like ice geysers on its surface.
Using European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, scientists detected water vapor escaping from two regions on Ceres, a dwarf planet that is also the largest asteroid in the solar system. The water is likely erupting from icy volcanoes or sublimation of ice into clouds of vapor.
"This is the first clear-cut detection of water on Ceres and in the asteroid belt in general," said Michael Küppers of the European Space Agency, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain, leader of the study detailed today (Jan. 22) in the journal Nature.
The research has implications for how Ceres formed, and supports models that suggest the planets moved around a lot within the solar system during its formation, Küppers told SPACE.com. [See more photos of the dwarf planet Ceres]
Ceres, a dwarf planet or giant asteroid (depending on the definition used), is the largest object in the asteroid belt, orbiting at 2.8 astronomical units (the distance from Earth to the sun).
The "snowline" is thought to partition the solar system into dry objects inside the asteroid belt, and icy objects such as comets further out. But the finding of water on Ceres suggests more mixing has occurred.
Scientists have suspected that there is a substantial amount of water on Ceres for about 30 years. A study found hints of water in the form of hydroxide, a product of water's dissociation, on Ceres in 1991, but the finding wasn't confirmed by later observations. Now, Küppers and his colleagues have confirmed the finding.
The researchers used the Herschel Space Observatory's spectrometer to look for signals of water. Clouds of water vapor around Ceres absorbed the heat that radiates from the dwarf planet, which Herschel's instrument detected.
ESA/ATG medialab
An artist's depiction of the dwarf planet Ceres. Observations by ESA's Herschel space observatory between 2011 and 2013 find that the dwarf planet has a thin water vapor atmosphere.
The team found that Ceres produces about 2×10^26 molecules, or 13 lbs. (6 kilograms), of water vapor per second from its surface.
One possible source of the water is icy volcanism. "It is like volcanism in that hot material from the interior is 'spat out' to the surface," Küppers said — much like a geyser. But these icy volcanoes eject water vapor instead of molten rock, he said.
Another possibility is that ice near the surface of Ceres sublimes, or goes directly from a solid to a gas, dragging with it dust from the surface and exposing more ice. A similar process occurs on comets.
"I personally consider cometary-style sublimation the most likely source, because I find it difficult to maintain the internal heat over the age of the solar system to maintain volcanoes," Küppers said, but he added that more studies were needed.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft, set to go into orbit around Ceres in early 2015, could answer some questions about the water on Ceres. Dawn recently visited the asteroid Vesta, a baked world whose surface is covered with volcanic eruptions.
"One of the most puzzling questions about the origin and evolution of asteroids is why Vesta and Ceres are so different," astrophysicists Humberto Campins and Christine Comfort at the University of Central Florida in Orlando wrote in an article in the same issue of Nature.
Water vapor can transport a lot of heat, so when Ceres formed 4.6 billion years ago, sublimation of water ice might have dissipated much of its heat into space, Campins and Comfort wrote. "This would have stopped Ceres from ending up with an igneous surface like that of Vesta."
Detecting water on Ceres supports models of the solar system in which giant planets, such as Jupiter, migrated to their current positions, mixing material from the outer and inner regions of the solar system.
This mixing could have moved Ceres and Vesta far from the sites where they formed. Ceres probably formed close to its current position, but accreted material from further out, Küppers said.
The findings also suggest that asteroids may have delivered some of the water in Earth's oceans.
God is responsible for the spiritual entities within our bodies, and more likely, aliens are the most likely candidates for the geniuses behind the amazing nanotech DNA which designs our life form physical bodies; there is no argument required.
What I find most objectionable in the Bible is that there's no humor in the Bible, not a single amusing anecdote and God, unlike the controlling entity described in that Book, has a refined sense of ironic humor.
The alien silhouette fingerprints, within our DNA, points to evidence that we were not at all ordained to this planet, by God, an acquired notion that will newly reveal our real destiny as a race, in this universe.
Everyone was religious, believed in religious myths when we were children, for we thought and reacted and learned as children, but as adults, we must now leave behind childish ideas.
Children, when it comes to God, very much like the children of Israel, ask no questions and believe what they are told to believe.
The notion of God, is true enough, but the Bible as a touchstone, with its myths and tales has no adult place in our amended and raised consciousness.
We were NOT ordained to this planet, by God.
There are many predominant planets whose entire intelligent life forms are spiritual entities who have no physical DNA required to house such a spirit being.
Our physical world is an anomaly, by virtue of the sheer numbers of many such noncorporeal worlds, by comparison.
Does human DNA reflect a computer code, an alien nanotech, and thus the not so hidden hidden fingerprint of a "Creator"?
Scientists have found that our genetic code has all of these key elements.
"The coding regions of DNA," expostulates Dr. Stephen Meyer, "have exactly the same relevant properties as a computer code or language" (quoted by Strobel, p. 237, The Case for a Creator, 2004)
Whose mind or what entity could shrink and miniaturize such information and place our DNA's enormous number of 'letters' in their correct sequence as a genetic building block instruction manual?
Could evolution in itself have progressively come up with a nanotech system like this?
It is difficult to fathom, but the quantum of information in our human DNA is roughly comparably equal to 12 sets of The Encyclopedia Britannica-an amazing 384 volumes worth of detailed data that would fill 48 feet long of required library shelves .
Yet in their precise size-only two millionths of a millimeter thick-a teaspoon of DNA, according to molecular biologist Michael Denton, has "all the information needed to build the proteins for all the species of organisms that have ever lived on the earth, and there would still be enough room left for all the information in every book ever written" (Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 1996,
p. 334).
Intelligent Design of our Human DNA
As scientists began to unravel and decode the human DNA molecule, they found something amazingly unexpected-a computer programmer's exquisite 'language' composed of some 3 billion genetic letters.
"One of the most extraordinary discoveries of the twentieth century," says Dr. Stephen Meyer, director of the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Wash., "was that DNA actually stores information-the detailed instructions for assembling proteins-in the form of a four-character digital code" (quoted by Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 2004, p. 224).
As George Williams explains it: "The gene is a package of information, not an object. The pattern of base pairs in a DNA molecule specifies the gene. But the DNA molecule is the medium, it's not the message" (quoted by Johnson, p. 70).
Design from an intelligent source
To any discerning mind, this type of nanotech high-level information has been deduced to originate only from a seemingly intelligent source.
As Lee Strobel explains: "The data at the core of life is not disorganized, it's not simply orderly like salt crystals, but it's complex and specific information that can accomplish a bewildering task-the building of biological machines that far outstrip human technological capabilities" (p. 244).
For example, the precise nature of this genetic language is such that the average error that is not caught turns out to be one error per 10 billion letters.
If an error occurs in one of the most important parts of the code, in the genes, it causes diseases such as sickle-cell anemia. Yet even the best and most apt typist in the world couldn't come close to making only one mistake per 10 billion letters-far from it.
Michael Behe, a biochemist and professor at Pennsylvania's Lehigh University, explains that DNA genetic data is primarily an instructionmanual.
He reasons: "Consider a step-by-step list of [genetic] instructions. A mutation is a change in one of the lines of instructions. So instead of saying, "Take a 1/4-inch nut," a mutation might say, "Take a 3/8-inch nut." Or instead of "Place the round peg in the round hole," we might get "Place the round peg in the square hole" . . . What a mutation cannot do is change all the instructions in one step-say, [providing instructions] to build a fax machine instead of a radio" (Darwin's Black Box, 1996, p. 41).
We therefore have in our human genetic code an huge complex instructionmanual that appears to have been eloquently designed by a more highly intelligent source than mere human beings.
The God agnostic and recently deceased Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of DNA, after decades of work deciphering it, admitted that "an honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going" (Life Itself, 1981, p. 88, emphasis added).
Dean Kenyon, a biology professor who repudiated his earlier book on Darwinian evolution-because of discoveries of information found in DNA-states: "This new realm of molecular genetics (is) where we see the most compelling evidence of design on the Earth" (ibid., p. 221).
As well, one of the world's most famous atheists, Professor Antony Flew, admitted that he couldn't explain how DNA was created and developed through evolution. He now sees the demanding need for an intelligent source to have been involved in the making of our human DNA code.
"What I think the DNA material has done is show that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinary diverse elements together," he said (quoted by Richard Ostling, "Leading Atheist Now Believes in God," Associated Press report, Dec. 9, 2004).
" I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made . ."
Written some thousands of years ago, King David's words about our constructed human bodies seems most true. He wrote: "For You formed my inward parts, You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made . . . My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought. . ." (Psalm 139:13-15, emphasis added).
Where does all this deposit the theory of evolution? Michael Denton, an agnostic scientist, concludes: "Ultimately the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century" (Denton, p. 358).
Thus we are left like a precipitate out of a solution with the astounding Creator notion that every life-form on Earth carries a genetic code for his extraterrestrial cousin and that evolution is hardly what we deduce that it is it .
This discovery shall shake our roots of humanity and confirm or deny our beliefs, both in our concept of a Creator as well as in our own concept of our destiny.
Within this very paradigm, all forms of life farmed throughout the Universe may well be seen as an enormous molecular nanotech creation by a intelligent Creator using amino acid thoughts expressed mathematically.
Crick, DNA's discoverer, perhaps, said it best:
"Life did not evolve first on Earth, a highly advanced civilization became threatened so they devised a way to pass on their existence.
They genetically-modified their DNA and sent it out from their planet on bacteria or meteorites with the hope that it would collide with another planet.
It did, and that's why we're here.
The DNA molecule is the most efficient information storage system in the entire universe.
The immensity of complex, coded and precisely sequenced information is absolutely staggering. The DNA evidence speaks of intelligent, information-bearing design.
Complex DNA coding would have been necessary for even the hypothetical first ‘so-called' simple cell(s).
Our DNA was encoded with messages from that other civilization.
They programmed the molecules so that when we reached a certain level of intelligence, we would be able to access their information, and they could therefore "teach" us about ourselves, and how to progress.
For life to form by chance is mathematically virtually impossible."
Right: A carbon nanotube. Copyright Prof. Vincent H. Crespi Department of Physics Pennsylvania State University.
Abductions and their remnant elusive memories have opened all this for Paul, a confirmed atheist, UNTIL he saw aliens float him out of his body, in his bed, at night. Then, he knew that they were interested in an essence he never suspected that he had; a soul. Our spiritual powers that interest and addict interdimensionals are the very powers that can be used to thwart further attacks.
They infect auras with attachments to themselves and ride the reincarnation roller coaster with people, to avoid the death that they fear and to steal the spiritual recycling that we have.
These joyriding grays can be sinister, discorporate alien souls ,stuck to your energies, who bring a new meaning to the concept of a silent invasion.
NASA Didnt Tell You About This Anomaly!! What Is It?
NASA Didn’t Tell You About This Anomaly!! What Is It?
(Before It's News)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this before. On January 20th, ten streaks hit the stars. Is it debris? Meteors? The camera lenses? UFO ships? What is it?
Catherine Austin Fitts, voormalig directeur en bestuurslid van de Wall Street-firma Dillon, Read & Co, ving in 1984 op haar werk een gesprek op.
Tijdens het gesprek bespraken topmannen van verschillende bedrijven hoe subliminale boodschappen via de televisie zouden worden verspreid met behulp van audiovisuele entrainment.
Fitts, die tijdens de eerstetermijn van president Bush werkzaam was voor het ministerie van Volkshuisvesting en Stedelijke ontwikkeling, was na het gesprek zo ontdaan dat ze haar televisie voorgoed de deur uit heeft gedaan.
Fitts waarschuwt dat de tv niet het enige telecommunicatiesysteem is waarbij deze technieken worden toegepast. Ook de mobiele telefoon, radio en het internet worden gebruikt om met behulp van geavanceerde technologieën consumenten over te halen, tegenstand de kop in te drukken en de status quo te behouden.
Financiële instellingen maken vaak gebruik van deze technologieën om de consument in een bepaalde gemoedstoestand te krijgen. De Schumann-resonantie kan worden gebruikt om verlost te worden van de invloed van mind control.
As I was pulling into the driveway this particular evening, I noticed a very slow and low flying aircraft just above the trees and roofs two houses down from mine. It seemed unusual so I stayed in the truck and watched as it slowly turned and flew over the neighbors houses and also noticed the irregular light blinking pattern which seemed atypical to that of other planes and helicopters. During this time I searched for my cell phone to take a picture and then it was over my house and I stepped out of the vehicle and realized that there was absolutely no noise or emissions coming from this craft either. I was able to obtain some kind of video, but by the time I was able to gather myself, the video I captured did not show all of the lights and their distinct pattern. As the craft flew over, I noticed it was the clear shape of a triangle and was a combination of black as well as a grey, with somewhat of a pattern or what seemed like lines which met in the center of craft out to the corners, and within each of those triangles had lines connecting the edge of the craft to the lines coming from corners to meet in the center. As mentioned earlier, I did obtain some video, but it unclear of the shape and all three of the lights blinking pattern, but as soon as I got back into the vehicle, it was higher in the sky and it seemed to by flying at a faster rate that before when going over the houses. I then got back into the vehicle to try and follow the craft. I was able to for about two or three miles, turned onto an upcoming street, and then it just disappeared and could not find it anywhere, in any direction nearby or off in the distance. I then went back to the house and kept watching out the window every so often to check if it would happen to be out and nearby again, but that was the last I saw of the craft. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor are thought to shoot up periodically from Ceres when portions of its icy surface warm slightly. Ceres is classified as a dwarf planet, a solar system body bigger than an asteroid and smaller than a planet.
"This is the first time water vapor has been unequivocally detected on Ceres or any other object in the asteroid belt and provides proof that Ceres has an icy surface and an atmosphere," said Michael Küppers of ESA in Spain, lead author of a paper in the journal Nature.
The results come at the right time for NASA's Dawn mission, which is on its way to Ceres now after spending more than a year orbiting the large asteroid Vesta. Dawn is scheduled to arrive at Ceres in the spring of 2015, where it will take the closest look ever at its surface.
"We've got a spacecraft on the way to Ceres, so we don't have to wait long before getting more context on this intriguing result, right from the source itself," said Carol Raymond, the deputy principal investigator for Dawn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "Dawn will map the geology and chemistry of the surface in high resolution, revealing the processes that drive the outgassing activity."
For the last century, Ceres was known as the largest asteroid in our solar system. But in 2006, the International Astronomical Union, the governing organization responsible for naming planetary objects, reclassified Ceres as a dwarf planet because of its large size. It is roughly 590 miles (950 kilometers) in diameter. When it first was spotted in 1801, astronomers thought it was a planet orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Later, other cosmic bodies with similar orbits were found, marking the discovery of our solar system's main belt of asteroids.
Scientists believe Ceres contains rock in its interior with a thick mantle of ice that, if melted, would amount to more fresh water than is present on all of Earth. The materials making up Ceres likely date from the first few million years of our solar system's existence and accumulated before the planets formed.
Until now, ice had been theorized to exist on Ceres but had not been detected conclusively. It took Herschel's far-infrared vision to see, finally, a clear spectral signature of the water vapor. But Herschel did not see water vapor every time it looked. While the telescope spied water vapor four different times, on one occasion there was no signature.
Here is what scientists think is happening: when Ceres swings through the part of its orbit that is closer to the sun, a portion of its icy surface becomes warm enough to cause water vapor to escape in plumes at a rate of about 6 kilograms (13 pounds) per second. When Ceres is in the colder part of its orbit, no water escapes.
The strength of the signal also varied over hours, weeks and months, because of the water vapor plumes rotating in and out of Herschel's views as the object spun on its axis. This enabled the scientists to localize the source of water to two darker spots on the surface of Ceres, previously seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes. The dark spots might be more likely to outgas because dark material warms faster than light material. When the Dawn spacecraft arrives at Ceres, it will be able to investigate these features.
The results are somewhat unexpected because comets, the icier cousins of asteroids, are known typically to sprout jets and plumes, while objects in the asteroid belt are not.
"The lines are becoming more and more blurred between comets and asteroids," said Seungwon Lee of JPL, who helped with the water vapor models along with Paul von Allmen, also of JPL. "We knew before about main belt asteroids that show comet-like activity, but this is the first detection of water vapor in an asteroid-like object."
IT COULD hardly be more timely. Less than a month after China's Chang'e-3 mission placed a rover on the lunar surface, an art show, Republic of the Moon, sets out its own exploration of our natural satellite. Put together by the Arts Catalyst, an organisation whose remit is "provocative, playful, risk-taking" art-science projects, the aim is to encourage public engagement with a field usually dominated by politics, science, business and space enthusiasts.
There is a publication, too: Manifesto for a Republic of the Moon, which works with the show to provide an alternative take on the moon's significance, focusing on wit, imagination, small-scale science and the unresolved issue of ownership .
Take the "Moon Treaty", which came into force 30 years ago. It was framed to put the moon under international control, but as the moon race reheats, only 15 states have signed up to it. Aside from China's rover Yutu (which means "Jade Rabbit", a mythical pet of moon goddess Chang'e), India, Japan and South Korea also have projects. And companies are lining up, spurred by mining potential, interest in space tourism and Google's Lunar X prize of $20 million to create a privately funded lunar rover.
These competing agendas are cleverly captured by artists Hagen Betzweiser and Sue Corke, who work together under the name WE COLONISED THE MOON. They are artists in residence at the exhibition. Entering their area, you are faced with a blackboard bearing the words: "Theme Park or Quarry".
Elsewhere in the show, whimsy and imagination feature strongly. In Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility, a film and elaborate control room by artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis, we see how she raised 11 geese, making them think she was their mother, and taking them on walks in a lunar-like landscape.
Similarly imaginative is Joanna Griffin's work, Moon Vehicle, created with P. Shreekumar, an astrophysicist at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in Bangalore. This documents a project set up at a top art school in the city. Students used "imagination" experiments, art, and visits to ISRO to explore the technologies used in India's first lunar probe, Chandrayaan-1.
Underlining the importance of other kinds of thinking, Griffin writes in the Manifesto: "Moon missions risk becoming a transport system whereby [only] certain ideologies and habits of thinking from Earth are projected onto the Moon." In other words, we are in danger of repeating the mistakes of the colonial era, but on an interplanetary scale.
This problem is crystallised in Liliane Lijn's art. Her ongoing Moonmeme work consists of a proposed projection of the word "SHE" across the face of the moon. Such an approach sees the moon as a blank canvas on which, she says, to "transform the meaning of an essential word".
Translation and transformation are also key to Katie Paterson's Earth-Moon-Earth. She turned Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata into Morse code, reflected it off the moon and deciphered it back on Earth for a self-playing baby grand piano. The result is recognisable but glitch-ridden because the moon absorbs some information in its shadows. The "moon-altered" score turns the gaps into enigmatic intervals and rests.
In Paterson's work, the moon is an agent of change. But in Leonid Tishkov's Private Moon, it is a fixed point. This set of photos, each coupled with a verse, tells of a relationship between a man who met the moon and stayed with "her" for the rest of his life. It is touching, but the images see the moon as alien, empty, passive; the man is the only active force.
Overall, the show is admirable for its attempts to engage the public and for suggesting that when it comes to the moon's ownership, narratives of colonialism and gender are never far away. But it remains open to charges of anthropocentrism: as if the moon only matters in how it relates to humanity. The exhibition repeats the logic that gave us anthropogenic climate change, and, for all its emphasis on imagination and wit, fails to offer us an escape route.
Tom Jeffreys is an art critic, and edits online magazine The Learned Pig
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
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Right: A carbon nanotube. Copyright Prof. Vincent H. Crespi Department of Physics Pennsylvania State University.
