J. ALLEN HYNEK FROM DEBUNKER TO BELIEVER

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J. ALLEN HYNEK FROM DEBUNKER TO BELIEVER

  J. Allen Hynek, a once UFO skeptic, began classifying the most compelling and promising scientific cases of UFO sightings and alien encounters.  As he studied and categorized the various UFO/Alien cases, Hynek began to become less of a skeptic. It his research and expertise that led to the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is considered to be one of the most accurate portrayals of alien/UFO eyewitness accounts in a fictional movie.  Just about any investigator (UFO, Criminal, Paranormal, etc.) will tell you that the eyewitness account of an event is normally the most unreliable piece of evidence gathered during an investigation. Yet, often times, it is the only piece of evidence that investigators have to go on.  Moreover, the more complex or traumatic an event is, the more difficult it is to rely on these accounts.

Additionally, it is even more difficult to categorize and organize these accounts into a coherent fashion which would allow others to study these accounts. This difficulty in categorization definitely holds true for eyewitness accounts of UFO sightings and alien encounters.  The difficulty lies in how different each eyewitness account is from one another. As the UFO Casebook put it:  “Witnesses to UFOs report many different shapes and sizes; from discs to cigars to triangles and almost anything you could imagine.”  Such varying accounts make it almost impossible to categorize them into any sort of neat classification system. However, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a UFO skeptic, set out to do so.

According to Hynek, even though UFO sightings and alien encounters vastly differ from one another, there is usually some common thread that can tie various sightings/encounters together, such as distance, time of day, shape of object, etc.  He began looking at eyewitness accounts under a new light. Once he made his break with the Air Force, the former skeptic began to study these various accounts on his own; still categorizing them in his home-grown classification system. To date, the Hynek system is the most widely used UFO/Alien sighting classification system.  Also see the UFO Casebook article: The Hynek Classification System.
 

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Area 51 Remains A Subject Of Speculations About Aliens And UFOs Despite Official Acknowledgement  (Video)

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(N.Morgan) Area 51 has been a point of mystery and debate, as to whether it is real or what it’s true mission is. Many have come forward, from former military and other officials, claiming that not only does Area 51 exist, but that it is a housing unit for alien life forms and experiments. Located around a hundred miles north of Las Vegas is one of the most guarded and mysterious pieces of land in the U.S. called Area 51.Tours at Area 51 is prohibited without authorization, but people are always finding ways to enter beyond the gates. Author of the book “Area 51 Black Jets” Bill Yenne said that the term impossible can be applied to the effort in spying the highly guarded facility, but that is not always true. He explained that there have been prying eyes looking into the mysteries of Area 51.

Government was asked by curious individuals for many decades on the real activities inside the facility, but no reliable answer was provided. It slightly change last year with the official disclosure by the CIA of what the public had speculated for years, Area 51 exists. The declassified documents contain records on the development of advanced planes such as the U-2 spy plane from the late 1950s, SR71 Blackbird, and A-12. All these things were used to be classified and eventually declassified. However, Yenne said many other activities in Area 51 are still not officially disclose until today. Speculations about reverse engineering of alien technology and alien body experimentations are still up in the air despite the released of formerly classified documents by the CIA.

While the U.S. government, via the CIA, officially acknowledged the existence of Area 51 in 2013, curious individuals are not satisfied because that was all the government did and they said nothing about what is inside today. Every person that would cross the line into the facility without clearance is likely to be arrested by the federal officers or Lincoln County sheriff. There is a warning sign that the lethal force is authorized against someone who will be caught trespassing the area. So the general public continue to speculate and imagine what transpires inside Area 51.

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LARGE BLACK UFO OBJECT WITNESSED OVER AUSTRALIA

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LARGE BLACK UFO OBJECT WITNESSED OVER AUSTRALIA
 NOVEMBER 4, 2014    …..   BROADMEADOW AUSTRALIA

The event took place in District Park, next to Energy Australia Stadium in Broadmeadow NSW at 19:40 AEST.  While I was jogging in the park, I looked up at a 70 degree angle in a NE direction where a moving yellowish light shone at me and caught my attention.  I stopped jogging, removed my earphones and stood there to observe this strange light. The stars were yet to be visible and the moon was large and bright. I was more aware of the sky that night because I knew the space station was going to be visible at approximately 20:10 AEST.  I have previously observed satellites and the space station; this was neither. At first I thought it was a helicopter as the Westpac Rescue Helipad is right next to the park.  When I realized there was no sound, I became more concerned. The light was rotating from left to right in sporadic motion while moving up and down as though searching or observing.  When the light was directly above me I could see the light positioned on the side of a matte-black disc object approximately 40 meters in diameter and at a height of approximately 250 meters.  I became terrified and fearful for my safety. The object continued on a general path of approximately 60 km/h towards SE direction, although moving in a jolted and intermittent motion.  At 20:10 AEST the space station rolled across the sky as expected. 

NOTE: The above image is a rendering.

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UFO CRAFT LINKED TO MASS BLACK OUT OF SEPTEMBER 1965

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UFO CRAFT LINKED TO MASS BLACK OUT OF SEPTEMBER 1965

 In a Nov. 19, 1965, Ontario Hydro Hydroscope article, system supervising engineer Jim Harris was at a loss to explain the incident.  “It’s incredible! I would have said this was impossible if I hadn’t seen the evidence,” he said.  Just two weeks before the blackout, on Sept. 22, 1965, in an article entitled “Many report seeing two UFOs,” the Gazette chronicled the activity near the power plants.  “Dozens of persons Tuesday night watched two unidentified flying objects moving and hovering over this area for more than an hour,” the article stated. “The objects, bright lights which changed color, were below cloud level and remained at a fairly low level during most of the period they were observed. “Observers said the objects were not helicopters or conventional aircraft. At one point, about 8 p.m., the two objects, which had been widely separated when viewed earlier, approached each other on a collision course until they ‘teamed up’ and moved off close together toward Buffalo,” the article added. The objects were first sighted “on the Canadian side of the river, at a point opposite Lewiston.” In other words, over Queenston and the Sir Adam Beck plant.  Among the witnesses named in the article were State Trooper John Riehl, Alden residents Roselle Simon and Leonard Butler, and V.D. Price and Raymond Bright, employees of the American Standard Division in North Tonawanda.  “This was not a satellite. Satellites travel in straight lines and within a few minutes they are gone,” Bright told the Gazette. “This hung in the sky for about half an hour. It would move off in one direction and then stop. Then it would change direction and move off again.”  The relationship between the blackout and reported UFO activity wasn’t lost on the scientific community. In a statement prepared for hearings held on the blackout by the Federal Power Commission, University of Arizona physicist Dr. James McDonald contended that magnetic fields accompanying UFOs could cause sudden power surges and could, theoretically, trigger a blackout.  Writing about the event on April 2, 1968, Gazette reporter Joe Donaldson recalled the reports on the night of the blackout.  “After the big blackout, spokesmen for the power firms denied a strange light was spotted over the Beck Station the night of Nov. 9. Since then, however, they have admitted that sightings were reported by hundreds of people,” the veteran newsman wrote.  But gradually, the “broken two-dollar switch” theory as to the cause of the disaster became the accepted version of events. This would not mark the end of credible reports of UFOs in Niagara Falls, however.  On Aug. 4, 1966, the Gazette reported “Bright, high-flying, fast moving objects observed during the night and similarly described by three Niagara Falls residents.”  This time the witnesses were Mrs. George Haberle of the Parkway Apartments and 91st Street residents Russell Sorenberger and Bill Nelson. Ironically, attempts by the paper to reach Capt. Harry Meir, chief of operations and training at Niagara Falls Air Base, were unsuccessful because Meir had been in Erie, Pa., investigating another UFO report.  Two Niagara Falls city policemen and a former Air Force radar chief had their own close encounters over a 48-hour period in August 1967. 
 
According to an Aug. 25, 1967, Gazette article, the two officers, Patrolmen Anthony Caraglin and David Greene, saw a pair of UFOs while patrolling at 19th Street and Mackenna Avenue. They filed an official report of the incident.  “We saw two objects in the sky — one object went in an easterly direction then went northeasterly. As the object went out of sight it appeared to give off different colored lights. While the object was in sight it was a solid white light and appeared to be round.  “Object Two was the same as Object One but went from south to north and went out of sight. Both objects were in view for approximately 15 minutes and appeared to be very high,” the report stated. Howard Kay of Youngstown was working at DuPont that night. An eight-year Air Force radar chief, he told the Gazette the object he saw over the Niagara River near Buffalo Avenue looked like “an inverted cereal bowl and was lit up.” Perhaps predictably, USAF Information Officer Thomas White said he knew nothing about the UFOs.  “I have checked with the U.S. Air Force Station in Lockport, and the 763rd Radar Squadron there reports no objects logged by their radar screens at these times,” he told the Gazette.  Eight months later, on April 2, 1968, no fewer than three NFPD patrolmen reported UFOs from two separate locations  The pulsating lights hovered for nearly an hour in the vicinity of the Beck Station, the officers said.  Patrolmen Thomas Shumway and William Wells watched the lights from Lewiston Road and Hyde Park Boulevard.  “They were like something I had never seen before,” Shumway told the Gazette. “They were in formation and they were pulsating.”  Shumway said the red, white and blue lights did not come from an airplane and were motionless until they suddenly shot away to the northwest at a tremendous rate of speed.  At the same time, Patrolman Richard Adkins confirmed the lights were hovering across the Niagara River from the Robert Moses Power Plant and near the Beck Station. He said the lights were about 1,000 feet in the air and that, from time to time, a red streak of light would pass through the formation. While strange lights are still occasionally reported in the Niagara skies, it appears that 1965 to 1968 represented something of a golden age for UFO sightings here.  And in the presence of so much documentation and credible testimony by trained observers, it seems difficult to deny that something was going on. What — exactly — the mysterious objects were will likely never be known. It is interesting to note that the Air Force employed a device to disrupt electrical power in the city of Belgrade during the Kosovo war. Could some early testing of a similar device have resulted in the 1965 blackout? – www.niagarafallsreporter.com 

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http://www.openminds.tv/roswell-ufo-researcher-claims-picture-aliens/30977

American University UFO Panel (credit: WTOP)

Roswell UFO researcher claims to have picture of aliens

Roswell researcher and author Tom Carey told the crowd at American University yesterday that he has the “smoking gun” to prove once and for all aliens are real. According to an article by WTOP in Washington, Carey claims to have a picture of an alien, but did not have the picture with him.

Carey has been researching the alleged crash a flying saucer in Roswell, NM since 1991. He is a co-author and researcher of a couple of books on the topic with his research partner Don Schmitt.

Don Schmitt and Tom Carey signing books and talking to visitors in the Roswell UFO Museum. (image credit: Alejandro Rojas)

He told the crowd that the images are on Kodachrome color slides and that their research on the legitimacy of the slides has been promising.

Carey says: “What’s interesting is, the film is dated 1947. We took it to the official historian of Kodak up in Rochester, New York, and he did his due diligence on it, and he said yes, this filmstrip, the slides are from 1947. It’s 1947 stock. And from the emulsions on the image, it’s not something that’s been Photoshopped like today. It’s original 1947 images, and it shows an alien who’s been partially dissected lying in a case.”

He also described what the slides show: “3 and a half to 4 feet tall, the head is almost insect-like. The head has been severed, and there’s been a partial autopsy; the innards have been removed, and we believe the cadaver has been embalmed, at least at the time this picture was taken.”

He says he received the slides from a couple in Texas. “The woman was a high-powered Midland, Texas, lawyer with a pilot’s license. We think she was involved in intelligence in World War II, and her husband was a field geologist for an oil company,” claims Carey.

The UFO community has been excited about the American University presentation, which was largely made up of very credible researchers. The event was a panel discussion called UFOs: Encounters by Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials. And American University described as including ” four prominent national figures,” and is based on the Honors Colloquium, Alien Contact: Science and Science Fiction, by professor and filmmaker John Weiskopf.

Investigative journalist Leslie Kean

The panel also included investigative journalist and author Leslie Kean. The title of the event was taken from her New York Times best-selling book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record. Another panelist was Dr. Richard Haines, the co-founder of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), and is a former NASA researcher.

However, the WTOP article says the “The most riveting presentation of the night came from retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Charles Halt, one of the witnesses of a famous series of UFO sightings in England in 1980 known as the Rendlesham Forest incident.”

Apparently, WTOP did not think much of Carey’s claims, but it is hard to fault them since claims are all they were. It is difficult to get too excited when a UFO researcher says he has the “smoking gun,” but he can’t show it to you yet. I think the public often characterizes UFO research as a lot of spectacular claims, without spectacular evidence.

Leslie Kean was quick to distance herself from the alien pictures. On Facebook she wrote: “I had nothing to do with the Roswell part. Just want to make that clear.”

An alleged student that who was part of the honors course also commented on her Facebook explain why they added Carey to the panel. Brian Shin wrote: “I’m a student in the honors course. The Roswell section was deemed as a necessary balance in order to show different faces of the ufo investigation. While some could say that it could damage the integrity of what others are trying to accomplish, having Tom Carey acted as a immediate juxtaposition for those new to serious investigations into ufos. The judgments were left for the audience to make rather than the panel, by trying to make different parts of ufo investigation come together.”

Carey and Schmitt’s books are full of very interesting and credible testimony. Perhaps Carey would have been more convincing had he shared that information, which is not well known to the general public. Although many in the UFO community do believe Carey to be a credible researcher, the general public does not know him from the charlatans they hear about in the news.

Now the pressure is on for Carey to produce this amazing evidence. He says the images will be revealed early next year.

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Survols de nos centrales : et si ce n’était pas des drones ?  - Magonie

Depuis le 5 octobre, les Français dorment à poings fermés, une bombe sous l’oreiller. Ils font tous le même rêve : d’inoffensifs drones survolent impunément d’inoffensives centrales nucléaires. Tout est sous contrôle et tout est mis en œuvre pour mettre rapidement fin à cette mauvaise plaisanterie… À NEXUS, quand il est question du nucléaire, on a le sommeil léger. Nous avons donc décidé de nous rendre sur place et d’enquêter auprès d’experts, de pilotes, de gendarmes et de témoins.

En comptant le survol de la centrale de Cattenom, en Moselle, dans la nuit du 10 au 11 novembre, on dénombre à ce jour 19 survols détectés depuis le 5 octobre dernier, sans qu’aucun n’ait donné lieu, officiellement, à une interception. Plus étonnant encore, aucune image n’a jamais été diffusée, les médias en étant réduits à passer en boucle le survol historique de Greenpeace ou des images d’archives des centrales sous un ciel désespérément vide.

Incroyable que personne n’ait eu le réflexe de sortir son mobile ou sa caméra pour capturer la moindre image de ces drones, non ? N’y a-t-il aucune trace radar, aucune anomalie captée par une caméra de surveillance ? Pourquoi aucun JT ne s’est-il risqué à reconstituer la trajectoire d’un de ces objets ? Même si EDF avait voulu interdire la diffusion d’images, rien n’empêche aujourd’hui le moindre témoin anonyme de poster son trophée sur la Toile. Seraient-ils impossibles à photographier ?

L’hypothèse ufologique 

Plus le phénomène se prolonge et plus s’éloigne la piste de drones civils. Leur portée limitée, la difficulté à les piloter la nuit et sous les intempéries, la taille évoquée par certains témoins (2m, 6 à 7 m), leur silence (les drones civils produisent un bruit d’hélice), etc., laissent plutôt penser à des appareils militaires. Pourtant, les spécialistes que nous avons interrogés (lire plus loin) ne reconnaissent aucun modèle connu, civil ou militaire, dans les descriptions faites par les témoins. Une question vient alors à l’esprit : pourquoi parle-t-on de drone, alors qu’EDF lui-même fait à chaque fois état d’ »aéronef assimilable à un drone » ?

Parce qu’il est impossible, en France, d’oser parler d’ufos, d’ovnis ou de PANs (phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés) sans risquer sa crédibilité et sa carrière. Paradoxe : nous sommes pourtant l’un des seuls pays au monde à disposer d’un organisme d’État chargé de les étudier. Nous avons ainsi contacté au Cnes (Centre national d’études spatiales), à Toulouse, le Geipan – Groupe d’études et d’informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés – qui a en charge officiellement le dossier ovni en France. Sa réponse est nette : « Nous n’avons pas été saisis. C’est EDF et les gendarmes qui ont repéré ces drones et les ont identifiés comme tels. Si un seul témoin lambda les avait vus, sans les identifier comme drones, le rapport d’observation serait arrivé sur le bureau du GEIPAN. » Dont acte !

5 novembre 1990

Cette piste ouvre pourtant d’intéressantes perspectives. Les connaisseurs savent que depuis une cinquantaine d’années, de nombreux ovnis ont été observés au-dessus d’installations nucléaires du monde entier (1). Les survols actuels ne sont pas sans rappeler la vague d’ovnis du 5 novembre 1990… il y a tout juste 24 ans (2). Ce jour-là, à partir de 18 h 30, des objets lumineux avaient été aperçus dans le ciel au-dessus de la France. On estime à plusieurs milliers le nombre de témoins français. À l’époque, on ne parlait pas de drones. Le Cnes conclura à la chute d’un étage d’une fusée russe et l’affaire sera classée. On avait pu lire que certains de ces « débris » projetaient vers le sol des faisceaux lumineux, comme c’est le cas de certains drones actuellement au-dessus de nos centrales . Mais une autre ressemblance nous a frappés : celle entre un croquis d’objet non identifié dessiné par un témoin de cette vague de 1990, à Vert-Saint-Denis (Seine-et-Marne), et le dessin que nous avons recueilli auprès d’un témoin du survol de Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne), le 30 octobre 2014 (lire plus loin).

Ces deux événements ont-ils un lien ? En dépit des messages « rassurants » des autorités, le phénomène actuel est autrement inquiétant : les objets de 1990 se sont contentés de traverser l’hexagone d’ouest en est, ceux de 2014 montrent un grand intérêt pour notre parc nucléaire, point névralgique de l’approvisionnement énergétique de toute l’Europe, dont la dangerosité n’est plus à démontrer depuis Tchernobyl et Fukushima.

Témoignage : une image, enfin !  

S’agit-il d’engins-espions ou militaires ? Nous avons interrogé des spécialistes de l’aérospatiale, de l’armement et de la sécurité nationale. Mais nous avons d’abord entendu un témoin du survol de Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne). Nous devons ce témoignage à un enquêteur privé, Michel Turco. Le témoin est âgé d’une quarantaine d’années, il est ingénieur et réside à proximité de la centrale, sur laquelle il a une vue dégagée.

Le soir du 30 octobre, avec un ami, il remarque vers 21 heures environ, dans le ciel, un point lumineux intense. Il pense d’abord à une étoile, mais réalise aussitôt l’absence de corps stellaire aussi bas dans le ciel. La luminosité augmente, faisant penser à un projecteur d’avion « type Airbus ou Boeing, mais c’était trop bas pour que cela soit possible ». Les amis prennent une paire de jumelles, pour mieux voir les détails de cet objet. L’un regarde avec l’optique, l’autre à l’œil nu. Le phénomène est fixe durant une minute. Il semble être au-dessus de Donzac, commune très proche de la centrale, à environ 5 km des observateurs. L’altitude est estimée à 200 m, « pas beaucoup plus haut que les tours de la centrale », précise l’un d’eux.

L’objet prend des photos !   

Quelques instants plus tard, le point commence à bouger à faible vitesse tout en pivotant sur lui-même, comme pour amorcer un virage. Une seconde lumière apparaît sur l’objet, comme un flash se déclenchant très rapidement en continu. L’un des témoins pense que des photos sont réalisées par cet appareil. L’objet bouge toujours et se dirige vers les observateurs, accélérant à une vitesse  comparable à celle d’un avion de type Cessna. Lorsqu’il est à environ 500 m des observateurs, ceux-ci discernent surtout son gros projecteur de lumière blanche. Il semble s’immobiliser pendant environ 20 secondes. À ce moment, la silhouette de l’engin apparaît nettement aux deux amis : « Il avait la forme d’un avion ou d’un drone [ndlr : type drone américain, avion stylisé), ne faisant aucun bruit. On pouvait entendre un engin agricole sur un coteau à droite, mais rien venant de cet objet ». Le témoin principal souligne qu’il a pu voir « deux ailes longues », dont il estime l’envergure entre 6 et 7 m.

D’autres détails apparaissent aux jumelles : deux autres points jaune-blanc aux extrémités des ailes et le spot blanc à l’avant, toujours bien visible. Un autre point lumineux, rouge, situé sous l’objet se détache encore visuellement. L'engin continue alors sa trajectoire vers Agen avant de disparaître aux yeux des deux observateurs. Le témoin principal insiste sur un détail : « Les contours étaient flous, gris sombre ». En fait, cet objet n’aura pas cessé d’évoluer par phase de mouvements et d’arrêts, flashant régulièrement son environnement avec une sorte de spot avant, tout en émettant une lumière rouge ventrale et deux lumières jaune-blanc sur l’arrière.

L'avis d'un expert en aéronautique

Un expert en aéronautique à qui nous avons confié la description des témoins explique : « Un drone de 6 m, c’est très grand, il faut une lourde technologie embarquée. Le profil de l’objet ressemble à celui d’un aéronef furtif, comme certains drones US à turboréacteur. Un bruit très important se fait entende à la sortie de la tuyère. Cette lumière blanche à l’avant est curieuse. Une tuyère d’éjection émet une lueur rougeâtre due de la combustion interne (1 000° environ), une lumière blanche de combustion signifierait une température beaucoup plus importante. Le contour flou fait penser à un effet de rayonnement magnétique. C’est une hypothèse.  Les autres lumières n’ont visiblement aucun intérêt, à part celui d’un camouflage pour passer pour un aéronef civil ».

Version officielle vs témoins civils

La presse locale a précisé que les gendarmes avaient bien suivi un drone sur 9 km, globalement dans la même direction que celle indiquée par les deux témoins. Mais la version officielle, celle livrée par les gendarmes, diffère totalement de celle des deux témoins : « Ce n’est pas un jouet, mais un drone pro à quatre hélices qui a été vu vers 21 h [le 30/10], d’une envergure de 60 cm! ». Ainsi, on peut s’étonner que la seule centrale au-dessus de laquelle deux témoins ont affirmé avoir aperçu un drone « non conventionnel » est aussi celle pour laquelle la presse locale a obtenu des descriptions précises des autorités. Les deux témoins civils de Golfech peuvent-ils s’être trompés à ce point ? Pour ce qui est des autres centrales, il semble que les témoins soient tous des agents d’EDF ou des gendarmes. Sauf information contraire, on ne parvient à obtenir de ces témoins-là aucun détail sur les directions, la motorisation et la taille desdits drones. Golfech semble avoir reçu en fait la visite d’un drone qui n’a rien de civil et qui dépasse le cadre du « droniste » amateur.

Creys-Malville : Un drone de 2 m

Le 3 novembre, vers 19 h 30, deux drones sont aperçus au-dessus du site de Creys-Malville (Isère). Un dispositif est aussitôt mis en place, comprenant notamment  un hélicoptère de la section aérienne de gendarmerie de Bron (Rhône). Cette unité militaire est équipée d’un Eurocopter EC135 doté d’une caméra infrarouge pouvant filmer une plaque minéralogique à plusieurs kilomètres, couplée à un projecteur capable d’éclairer de nuit un stade de foot dans son intégralité. Le drone n’a pas été « retrouvé ». L’on sait seulement que l’un des deux appareils non identifiés mesurait deux mètres de diamètre. Le couple de drones se déplaçait dans le sens Sud-Nord.

L’avis d’un pilote

Un pilote d’avion connaissant bien la région nous confie : « L’affaire de Creys-Malville m’étonne. Au moment de l’observation, il faisait nuit, avec une météo très pluvieuse et venteuse. Pour se repérer dans la nuit avec ces conditions – avec un drone mesurant 2 m – il faut être à l’affût, et le pilote du système radio-télécommandé doit être super fort. Je ne connais pas un amateur de modélisme chevronné qui puisse faire voler son appareil avec des rafales de vent de 70 km/h. De plus, il y a un réel danger. Faire voler deux drones en simultané la nuit, c’est un exploit. À part les militaires utilisant le guidage satellitaire avec des engins très performants, je ne vois rien d’autre. Peut-on imaginer des petits malins ayant piraté des satellites GPS. C’est une option complexe ».

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Encadré : Les drones du commerce

Les drones civils vendus dans les magasins de modélisme sont à structure carrée ou ovale. Ils mesurent de 30 à 90 cm de diamètre en moyenne, pour une épaisseur de 15 à 40 cm. Il ressemble à des sortes d’insectes, mais pas à des avions ni à des disques volants. Sans vraie ossature, ils sont munis de petites hélices et sont difficiles à piloter la nuit. Dans tous les cas, leur portée est limitée à quelques centaines de mètres. Ce sont des distances théoriques, car même équipé de petite caméra, il est recommandé de ne pas perdre le drone de vue pour éviter d’en perdre le contrôle. Certains sont équipés de GPS pour qu’ils restent en contact radio avec la télécommande. Les prix des drones civils varient de 150 à 2 000 euros en moyenne. Des jouets de moins de 10 cm peuvent coûter quelques dizaines d’euros.

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L’embarras des autorités

« Nous n’avons aucune piste pour le moment », lançait le 2 novembre Ségolène Royal, ministre de l’Environnement, avouant ainsi que les autorités n’avaient pas identifié la source des survols illicites. Le 6 novembre, nous avons interrogé le secrétariat général de la Défense et de la sécurité nationale qui nous a renvoyé au communiqué officiel diffusé le 1er novembre,   selon lequel « des survols de drones sont actuellement effectués de manière répétée et simultanée sur certains sites nucléaires de notre pays. L’objectif manifestement recherché par ce type de provocation organisée est de perturber la chaîne de surveillance et de protection de ces sites. L’ensemble des services de l’État, en charge de la sécurité et de la sûreté des points d’importance vitale, sont mobilisés depuis le début des survols pour identifier les responsables de ces actes et y mettre un terme ».

Le 30 octobre, Bernard Cazeneuve,  ministre de l’Intérieur, indiquait que « des dispositions sont prises pour neutraliser les drones qui survolent illégalement les centrales nucléaires ». Plus de dix jours plus tard, ces dispositions n’ont pas démontré leur efficacité.

De son côté, l’armée de l’air tient à minimiser la menace éventuelle. Le colonel Jean-Pascal Breton, son porte-parole, souligne « qu’ils étaient de petite taille.  Le niveau de menace n’est pas jugé significatif pour nous, pour générer la mise en place de dispositifs particuliers, autre que ceux qui sont mis en place actuellement ».

Dans un communiqué publié en interne chez EDF, on apprend que le site du CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique), centre de recherche et d’innovations de premier plan au niveau européen, situé à Saclay dans l’Essonne, a également été survolé dès le 5 octobre, soit au tout début de la vague.

Vague de déni

Devant cette vague de drones, les autorités semblent s’enfoncer dans le déni. Quoi qu’il en soit, le phénomène aura mis en lumière, comme ont tenté de le faire auparavant des activistes anti-nucléaires,  la vulnérabilité  insoutenable de nos centrales. Il aura montré que le système de défense classique n’a pas tenu compte de certains scénarios… comme celui de phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés. Au milieu de toutes les interrogations que soulève cette  affaire et quels que soient les responsables de ces intrusions, la question essentielle est peut-être :  quelles peuvent être leurs motivations ? Nous sauver, nous espionner, nous surveiller, nous détruire ? Dans tous les cas, ils nous dominent.

Notes : 

1. Y compris la neutralisation de missiles, lire les articles de Fabrice Bonvin dans NEXUS n° 59 et 76.
2. Voir l’article paru dans NEXUS n° 62 sur le  sujet.
3. Croquis fournis par des témoins de la vague de 1990. Notez la ressemblance entre celui  de la deuxième ligne, à droite, et celui fourni par le témoin de Golfech.

Croquis fournis par des témoins de la vague de 1990 — Magazine NEXUS

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15-11-2014 om 23:12 geschreven door peter  

The French Government Has An Official Agency Of UFO Hunters

Image: GEIPAN.

Inside the French Space Centre headquarters, a small team consisting of four staffers and a dozen volunteers is tasked with analyzing reports of unidentified flying objects — and sometimes, the agency dispatches trained investigators to visit the locations of the strange sightings. They are the Agents of G.E.I.P.A.N.

Okay, in truth, their acronym is not the least bit cool. It stands for Group d’Etudes et d’Informations Sur Les Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non Identifies (Study Group and Information on Non-Identified Aerospace Phenomenon). And, as the agency explains on its website, it is not a research organization “dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life or the existence of very advanced extraterrestrial technologies.”

But, GEIPAN does take its actual mission very seriously — playing “a vital role to make the information it collects available to the scientific community and, of course, the general public.”

As the BBC reports:

The team receives, on average, two UFO sightings a day. The department insists an 11-page form is filled out for each one. The idea is to provide details including photographs where possible but also weed out jokers and time-wasters.

If someone claims to have seen strange lights in the skies, the UFO team might go online to see whether the observation took place on a flight path— it can trace commercial air traffic going back more than a week.

The team also has access to military flight paths and is in touch with the air force and air traffic controllers.

Sometimes if its staff is really intrigued by photos they have seen or if there have been several witnesses to the same sighting, they will call the local police to ask whether they can be considered credible.

The department can explain away nearly all these phenomena and, believe it or not, the most common culprits are Chinese lanterns sent up at night during parties. The investigators often telephone the local town hall to ask if, perhaps, there had been a wedding going on at the time.

But there are around 400 UFO sightings going back to the 1970s that the French team cannot explain. One, an alleged flying saucer landing near Aix-en-Provence in 1981, they take very seriously— there were landing marks and multiple witnesses.

One point that the BBC report overlooks is that GEIPAN doesn’t like the term UFO, preferring instead the acronym PAN. As their website explains:

The acronym UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) is the translation of the English term UFO (Unidentified Flying Object). The review of the evidence and the results of investigations show that this term is often misused: in most cases, observations describe a phenomenon known or unknown, generally light but no evidence of the presence of a material object with characteristics comparable to those of flight of an aircraft. The use of the general term PAN (Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena) is more appropriate.

Whether you call them UFOs or PANs, GEIPAN’s website offers an extensive library of the software tools they use in their analyses. The only software not publicly available is an in-house tool developed for tracking satellites. It’s called — wait for it — “Scully.”

{http://nationalufocenter.com/}

15-11-2014 om 23:02 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: Taxi Driver Witnesses Crop Circle Appearing at Stonehenge

Taxi driver witnesses crop circle appearing opposite Stonehenge. Dramatic story behind this event.

Lucy Pringle reports:

This event is especially noteworthy for several reasons; a pilot flying a light aircraft from Exeter to Thruxton flew over the field opposite Stonehenge at on the afternoon of Sunday 7 July with a passenger taking photographs, at which time the field opposite on the A303 was unmarked.

The pilot disembarked at Thruxton, completed the necessary landing and flight forms, refuelled and then got back into the same plane to fly back to Exeter. Imagine his surprise on when flying over the same field opposite Stonehenge some 40 - 50 minutes later he observed an enormous formation measuring 915.2 X 508 ft imprinted in the wheat below. A gamekeeper and a guard at Stonehenge both confirmed that it had not been there that morning.

The formation was named the `Julia Set` as it represented a complex computer generated fractal image to the mathematicians; to musicians, a base clef, and to marine biologists the cross section of a nautilus.

Veteran researcher Colin Andrews tells me "The formation was first spotted from an aircraft at 6.15 PM. The pilot crossed over the field with a passenger (a medical doctor taking photographs) at 5.30pm"

There was nothing in the field at that time but “When the pilot returned at 6.15 PM he saw the formation in the field."

"At about the same time (6:30 PM) his previous passenger drove past Stonehenge to see cars pulled off the side of the busy road."

"When I interviewed the Wiltshire Police I was told that the police emergency lines received several 999 calls just before 6.00 PM reporting a large number of vehicles pulled off the road causing a hazard."

German researcher Andreas Mueller has also supplied some vital information as a result of when he visited the formation after its appearance . He wrote telling me that he had listened to a man he took to be the farmer telling a group of people that he had had farm workers working in the field mending the fence until approximately 17.30 hrs that day.

Related article: Scientific Studies Confirm: "Crop Circles Are Made by Balls of Light”;

Many strange things happened to people visiting this formation, the most important being several reports that led me on to develop my research into hormone levels.

This report has remained one of the most important in the history of the crop circle phenomenon as rarely do crop circles appear during day light hours.

In April this spring of 2009, I had been giving a talk at Alton College in Hampshire. Shortly after that a friend telephoned me to say that a friend of hers had been in a taxi and had mentioned to the taxi driver that she had just been to a fascinating talk on Crop Circles. M, the taxi driver said "I saw one appear opposite Stonehenge."

Thinking she meant this year, my friend telephoned me but after making extensive enquiries, I realised that here was no circle anywhere near Stonehenge. I was given M’s telephone number and told her what I had heard.

“O dear me, no, it was years ago.” 

I mentioned that only two formations had appeared close to or opposite Stonehenge, 2002 and 1996.

"It was 1996 as my son who was in the army was on holiday and I was driving down to see him."

I eventually managed to arrange a mutually convenient date to meet M and get her story down on tape.

"M and Tim (her son's friend) were driving to Somerset in July 1996 to see her son who was in the army and driving down the hill towards Stonehenge she saw a lot of cars pulled in on the grass verge on the A303 opposite the stones. She mentioned that when people see maybe two cars or more pulled in and looking down into the field, other cars stop and gradually the traffic builds up and more and more cars draw in to have a look."

As she drew nearer Tim said, 'Mrs M there's a corn circle there'.

A car drew out and she managed to pull into the empty space and got out and joined the crowd of other people who were also watching what was happening.
There was an apparition, an isolated mist over it and as the circle was getting bigger the mist was rising above the circle. As the mist rose it got bigger and corn circle got bigger.

There was a mist was about 2-3 feet off the ground and it was sort of spinning around and on the ground a circular shape was appearing which seemed to get bigger and bigger as simultaneously the mist get bigger and bigger and swirled faster.

It was gradual and you are standing there and you are thinking what is going on and everyone is discussing it and more and more traffic is building up and everything and you just think that all the time you don't really realise what is happening and then you think then that's it and the thing is getting bigger and you are thinking of the beginning and end. But you don't realise what you are looking at. I didn’t understand what was happening.

"The mist wasn't anything from the ground as there was a clear space between the ground and the mist. There was no wind and no dust (she is an asthmatic). It was strangest thing I have ever seen. It was a calm summer’s day."

When I asked her how long she stayed looking at the event, she said it was hard to say, but maybe 20 minutes or so, but she couldn’t say as she had lost track of the time as she could not believe what she was seeing. The mist was still there when she left but whether the formation was still expanding she couldn't say.

What colour was the mist?

"Well it wasn’t brown or blue or pink; it wasn’t coming off the ground. And it didn’t go far up into the sky."

Did you feel strange?

"I felt My God what is going on, look what’s happening, are we going to see a leprechaun or the men for Mars or a Sputnik in a minute or something." 

When I asked M which date it had appeared she thought a bit and then took my pad and wrote Sunday 7 July, 1996. She said she remembered this particularly as being a Sunday she was driving against the traffic.

"Why haven’t you heard about this before? There were so many people watching what was happening, not just me. Why didn’t the other people talk about it?"

Indeed it was only by chance that I got to hear about it some thirteen years after it happened due to a passenger in M’s car who had been to my lecture!

M hadn’t mentioned it herself except to her family and friends.

On leaving M, I was puzzled by the time element of approx 20 minutes. I could not budge M on this; she was adamant and insisted that that was what she had witnessed and nothing I could say would make change her mind. As all the other reliable reports I have had of people witnessing crop circles appearing, they have all quite independently mentioned that the circle took between 4 and 20 seconds to happen.

So why had this one taken so long? Was it due to the fact the other circles had just been small single circles whereas this one was large and complex?

I made several enquiries and I understand that it is generally accepted that as a result of work conducted in the 1990’s, it is possible to calculate the time a formation takes to appear based on the size and number of circles.

The method relates to the earth’s gravitational and magnetic fields. This predicts a velocity of the resulting vortex filament of some 10ft/sec. The filament propagates not unlike a solar flare, repeatedly looping through the earth’s surface `embroidering` a gradually evolving pattern.

To create the 151 circles in the 915.2 x 508 ft pattern would take of the order of 20-25 minutes to create.

The descending force emits an electrical discharge which releases bubbles from the underground aquifers which rise up through the surface of the ground and patterns are formed. The anchor point of the force is always off centre.

This aspect as been observed many times over the years in certain complex crop circles.

These patterns develop like `embroidery`, half about the ground and half under the ground in a sort of looping manner.

There is significantly less pressure inside than outside, therefore there is a sort of sucking motion from inside which bends or `sucks down` the crop at the base.

The mist would appear to be as a result of cool water vapour rising from the aquifer (underground spring) beneath and behaves in a manner similar to what happens in the lab when electrical discharges are created through water and different patterns emerge on the surface.

Mist forms a little distance from the triggering point, which would support what occurred in this case, M could see the circle growing. It is when the hydrogen atoms re-combine that all this happens as it draws in ambient energy.

This is where the excess energy appears from. As for height, it would be no higher than the radius of the formation created and the mist cloud would grow as the formation grew.

However the more complex patterns have additional information contained in the sphere and who or what presses the button to make these is not within our present knowledge or understanding.

Indeed not only does it appear that M was correct is every aspect but it also corroborates the report by the pilot, the guard at Stonehenge and the gamekeeper. A truly remarkable event.

By Lucy Pringle; http://humansarefree.com/

15-11-2014 om 22:52 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: Is there an alien base inside Rosetta’s comet? Five reasons rock is not what it seems

The fact that a strange ‘clicking’ radio transmission seems to be coming from inside the comet – sounding eerily like a Predator’s jaws opening and closing – has just stoked the fires of conspiracy theorists, just as the Rosetta craft’s Philae Lander touches down.

Strange crackling sounds have come from inside the comet (Picture: ESA)

15-11-2014 om 22:37 geschreven door peter  

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The U.S. government has suppressed information about UFO activity at American nuclear weapons sites for decades. Researcher Robert Hastings believes that people everywhere have a right to know the facts and has been speaking out since 1981. His 2008 book, UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites, exposed the truth for thousands of readers.

On September 27, 2010 CNN streamed his press conference from Washington D.C. resulting in considerable, widespread publicity. A Google search for the press release announcing the event had as many as 2.7 million results.

But more needs to be done if this public information campaign is to be successful.

Hastings’ nearly-completed documentary film, UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed, will inform millions of people worldwide about longstanding and ongoing incursions by UFOs at U.S. nuclear ICBM sites, sometimes resulting in the missiles malfunctioning. Documents smuggled out of Russia confirm that the Soviets also experienced such incidents.

But the $100,000 budget for the production—donated in 2013 by a supporter who wishes to remain anonymous—is nearly exhausted and an additional $25,000 is needed to complete it. Here is an excerpt:

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14-11-2014 om 22:45 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: Glowing light surveying surface of Mars caught on NASA rover camera

Date of discovery: November 2014
Location of discovery: Mars
Photo source: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00527/opgs/edr/fcam/FRB_444281880EDR_F0251860FHAZ00216M_.JPG

Man has joked about little green men from Mars since 1955 when newspaper reporters employed journalists’ license in reporting an alleged alien encounter. While NASA has yet to encounter any humanoid creatures on Mars, let alone little green men, new evidence has surfaced that has many believers talking. A glowing orb has been spotted in images sent back from the Mars Curiosity rover in November. This mysterious ball of light shows up in eight images. According to a Nov. 12 report on UFO Sightings Daily, the orb moves with intelligence. It was filmed with the Sols Front Hazz Camera.

14-11-2014 om 22:33 geschreven door peter  

MJ-12,Secrecy, UFOs

by STANTON FRIEDMAN

I was out of town at the Travis Walton Sky Fire Summit conference in Arizona and have gotten behind. A number of postings made recently seem to me to be inaccurate:

1. The claim has been made that there really hasn’t been much UFO information covered up. I have, as previously noted, several reasons for saying this isn’t true. Yes, we have 156 pages of NSA TOP SECRET UMBRA UFO Documents “released”(the NSA admitted they had them) way back in the 1980s because of the CAUS legal actions. Dozens of TSU CIA documents were also released. Doesn’t sound like much. Unfortunately the NSA documents were entirely whited out except for one sentence per page because supposedly the rest was Sources and Methods info. The only reason for the “release” was President Clinton’s signing of Executive Order 12958. Implementation was of course delayed. The new EO is 13526.Originally the CIA released no documents above SECRET. It took me 2 years to get the TSU documents usually with only a few words legible per page. All of these are of course roughly 30 years old. Also the NSA HQ told its various offices that if they should receive a request from me, not to handle it in the fashion described in regulations. Instead of replying to me, send the request to HQ, thus avoiding releasing the fact that they had materials. Is there any reason to think there is more data?
2. Surely more was accumulated in the past 30 years. Perhaps more important we have the statement told to me first hand by USAF General Carroll Bolender (and obtained under FOIA by Robert Todd) that UFO reports which could effect National security were not part of the Blue Book System and that if BB was closed, reports which could effect national security would continue to be investigated using the procedures designed for that purpose. Namely JANAP 146 and Air Force Manual 55-11. Note these apply only to the Air Force. To the best of my knowledge none of these have been released
3. Surely the Aerospace Defense command personnel (pilots, radar operators, spy satellite operators)have been made aware of loads of other sightings by personnel working under security. Furthermore we have all the sightings made by Navy (and army)personnel all over the world. The Navy office said they had no UFO information even after I sent them a joint ONI OSI report.
4. It has been claimed that governments aren’t very good at keeping secrets. Let us not forget that old and powerfully wrong notion that absence of evidence is evidence for absence. Good examples of very large scale government secret keeping include the Manhattan District effort to develop atomic bombs involving tens of thousands of personnel and huge classified facilities in Oak Ridge, TN, Hanford ,WA, Los Alamos, NM,etc and the use of 5% of the electrical power in the United States. Let us not forget the Stealth Aircraft Program under Lockheed.. $10 Billion. Let us not forget the more than 10,000 people involved in breaking the German and Japanese communications codes..kept quiet until 25 years after WW 2 ended. At one time Boeing Corp. had a contract with the NRO to improve the architecture of their spy satellites. It was cancelled after many billion dollars were spent.
5. The objection was made that when lots of secrets are kept there is a major impact on society as a kind of reaction. Best example I know is the very widespread release of false and misleading statements about UFOs by the government and media. This is demonstrated by the serious failure of the press and scientific communities to dig for truth about flying saucers. It is demonstrated also by loads of fiction being broadcast and shown, movies about aliens. Official government lies do indeed have an impact..in this case very negative
6. We have been told that academic historians and experts on intelligence have exposed loads of classified information even though they do not have a need to know or appropriate clearance. No need for guys like me to dig into archival files. The Intelligence agencies would very much like for the public to believe that nonsense. Perhaps they could provide us with the NSA,NRO, and CIA UFO files (that we can read) ? Have they revealed much data from the $52.6 Billion spent on Military Intelligence in one recent year..most by CIA,NSA,NRO?
7. Some have complained about the FOI being an inept procedure. I agree but it can be useful. Remember there is no central clearing house. John Greenewald has managed to dig out a ton of data as demonstrated by his Black Vault web site.. I admire his patience and skill. I have been lied to, but also been helped by FOIA people
8. Perhaps people have forgotten the findings of the Senator Frank Church Congressional committee which found in the early 1970s that at least 400 journalists were closely connected to the CIA, some even on the payroll. Many were associated with major media groups including the New York Times, CBS, Time etc. Perhaps it is no coincidence that they haven’t blown the lid off the Cosmic Watergate. Carl Bernstein, Co-Pulitzer Prize winner of 1973 of Watergate fame, had a 25,000 word article in Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977. It appears that the public was blissfully ignorant, despite those historians and Intelligence Experts

14-11-2014 om 22:29 geschreven door peter  

Scientists Speechless At What They Find Beneath Egypt! One of the Most Controversial Mysteries Ever–Solved! (On-Site Video Footage and Photos)

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For many generations, it has been questioned and debated. Many long hours and much time has been spent pouring over the evidence, yet with no clear answers and no hard proof.

However, today, more evidence keeps piling up that proves the ancients did have technology far beyond what we can even begin to imagine. 

Brien Foerester takes you down dark tunnels, beneath pyramids, and inside places you have only seen in your imagination. 

More Amazing Evidence of Ancient Technology!

But now he goes even further and takes you beneath Egypt, where mysterious 100 ton stone boxes were discovered.  Some people believe they were used for burial purposes, but Brien clearly shows us how they were used for ancient ‘high’ technology.

Is it possible that the technology of the ancients was so advanced, it goes above and beyond ours today?

The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes 1:9,  “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”

Where we believe we have gone forward and advanced throughout history, is it possible we are actually far behind, and that someone else a long time ago knew all the secrets we have yet to uncover?

I can honestly say yes.  The fallen angels had the knowledge handed down to them by God, and they taught their children, the nephilim, and all of humanity the secrets of technology they had acquired.

Time and again, mankind has been stunned by the ancient megaliths, wondering how they could possibly have been erected by the humans of that time.  But the nephilim and raphaim were extremely intelligent, insanely strong, and quite frightful to look upon.  They were also giants!  This is exactly how it was that ancient megalithic structures were built. 

Ancient technology is indeed a reality, and Brien shows you in the videos I have included below just how it could have happened.

Brien writes:

Inside a tunnel system carved out of the solid limestone bedrock in the desert of Egypt, more than 20 granite boxes made of precision shaped Aswan granite are a true enigma. Said by some to have been the burial places of prized bulls, their real function is far more intriguing. And they are clear examples of Lost Ancient High Technology created before the time of the Dynastic Egyptians. 

Egypt Underground: The Ancient 100 Ton Stone Boxes of the Serapeum

Great Pyramid: Ancient Machining Evidence

Red Pyramid Of Egypt: Acoustic Resonance Testing

To read more about ancient technology and Brien Foerester’s tours, CLICK HERE

14-11-2014 om 20:32 geschreven door peter  

UFO mania: Sol 416. Never mind the shape of these rocks, just look at the way they are floating

Sol 416. Never mind the shape of these rocks, just look at the way they are floating!

from: Rami Bar Ilan Exclusive mars Images

SOURCE: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00416/mcam/0416MR0017120120302384E01_DXXX.jpg

Read also: Debunk This One - Levitating Rock on Mars.....

14-11-2014 om 20:24 geschreven door peter  

Ten amazing inventions from ancient times

Dating back thousands of years are numerous examples of ancient technology that leave us awe-struck at the knowledge and wisdom held by people of our past. They were the result of incredible advances in engineering and innovation as new, powerful civilizations emerged and came to dominate the ancient world.  These advances stimulated societies to adopt new ways of living and governance, as well as new ways of understanding their world. However, many ancient inventions were forgotten, lost to the pages of history, only to be re-invented millennia later. Here we feature ten of the best examples of ancient technology and inventions that demonstrate the ingenuity of our ancient ancestors.

1. The ancient invention of the steam engine by the Hero of Alexandria

Heron Alexandrinus, otherwise known as the Hero of Alexandria, was a 1^st century Greek mathematician and engineer who is known as the first inventor of the steam engine.  His steam powered device was called the aeolipile, named after Aiolos, God of the winds. The aeolipile consisted of a sphere positioned in such a way that it could rotate around its axis. Nozzles opposite each other would expel steam and both of the nozzles would generate a combined thrust resulting in torque, causing the sphere to spin around its axis. The rotation force sped up the sphere up to the point where the resistance from traction and air brought it to a stable rotation speed. The steam was created by boiling water under the sphere – the boiler was connected to the rotating sphere through a pair of pipes that at the same time served as pivots for the sphere. The replica of Heron’s machine could rotate at 1,500 rounds per minute with a very low pressure of 1.8 pounds per square inch.  The remarkable device was forgotten and never used properly until 1577, when the steam engine was ‘re-invented’ by the philosopher, astronomer and engineer, Taqu al-Din.

2. Is the Assyrian Nimrud lens the oldest telescope in the world?

The Nimrud lens is a 3,000-year-old piece of rock crystal, which was unearthed by Sir John Layard in 1850 at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud, in modern-day Iraq.  The Nimrud lens (also called the Layard lens) is made from natural rock crystal and is a slightly oval in shape.  It was roughly ground, perhaps on a lapidary wheel. It has a focal point about 11 centimetres from the flat side, and a focal length of about 12 cm.  This would make it equivalent to a 3× magnifying glass (combined with another lens, it could achieve much greater magnification). The surface of the lens has twelve cavities that were opened during grinding, which would have contained naptha or some other fluid trapped in the raw crystal.  Since its discovery over a century ago, scientists and historians have debated its use, with some suggesting it was used as a magnifying glass, and others maintaining it was a burning-glass used to start fires by concentrating sunlight. However, prominent Italian professor Giovanni Pettinato proposed the lens was used by the ancient Assyrians as part of a telescope, which would explain how the Assyrians knew so much about astronomy. According to conventional perspectives, the telescope was invented by Dutch spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey in 1608 AD, and Galileo was the first to point it to the sky and use it to study the cosmos. But even Galileo himself noted that the 'ancients' were aware of telescopes long before him. While lenses were around before the Nimrud lens, Pettinato believes this was one of the first to be used in a telescope. 

3. The Oldest Calendar in Scotland

Research carried out last year on an ancient site excavated by the National Trust for Scotland in 2004 revealed that it contained a sophisticated calendar system that is approximately 10,000 years old, making it the oldest calendar ever discovered in the world. The site – at Warren Field, Crathes, Aberdeenshire – contains a 50 metre long row of twelve pits which were created by Stone Age Britons and which were in use from around 8000 BC (the early Mesolithic period) to around 4,000 BC (the early Neolithic). The pits represent the months of the year as well as the lunar phases of the moon. They were formed in a complex arc design in which each lunar month was divided into three roughly ten day weeks – representing the waxing moon, the full moon and the waning moon. It also allowed the observation of the mid-winter sunrise so that the lunar calendar could be recalibrated each year to bring it back in line with the solar year. The entire arc represents a whole year and may also reflect the movements of the moon across the sky.

4. Ancient Roman Concrete was Far Superior to Our Own

Scientists studying the composition of Roman concrete, which has been submerged under the Mediterranean Sea for the last 2,000 years, discovered that it was superior to modern-day concrete in terms of durability and being less environmentally damaging. The Romans made concrete by mixing lime and volcanic rock. For underwater structures, the combination of lime and volcanic ash with seawater instantly triggered a chemical reaction in which the lime incorporated molecules into its structure and reacted with the ash to cement the whole mixture together. Analysis of the concrete found that it produces a significantly different compound to modern day cement, which is an incredibly stable binder. In addition, the ancient concrete contains the ideal crystalline structure of Tobermorite, which has a greater strength and durability than the modern equivalent. Finally, microscopic studies identified other minerals in the ancient concrete which show potential application for high-performance concretes, including the encapsulation of hazardous wastes. "In the middle 20th century, concrete structures were designed to last 50 years," said scientist Paulo Monteiro said. "Yet Roman harbour installations have survived 2,000 years of chemical attack and wave action underwater.”

5. 2000-year-old metal coatings superior to today’s standards

Research has shown that artisans and craftsmen 2,000 years ago used a form of ancient technology for applying thin films of metal to statues and other items, which was superior to today’s standards for producing DVDs, solar cells, electronic devices and other products. Fire gilding and silvering are age-old mercury-based processes used to coat the surface items such as jewels, statues and amulets with thin layers of gold or silver. From a technological point of view, what the ancient gilders achieved 2000 years ago, was to make the metal coatings incredibly thin, adherent and uniform, which saved expensive metals and improved its durability, something which has never been achieved to the same standard today.  Apparently without any knowledge about the chemical–physical processes, ancient craftsmen systematically manipulated metals to create spectacular results. They developed a variety of techniques, including using mercury like a glue to apply thin films of metals to objects. The findings demonstrate that there was a far higher level of understanding and knowledge of advanced concepts and techniques in our ancient past than what they are given credit for.

6. The incredible 2000-year-old earthquake detector

Although we still cannot accurately predict earthquakes, we have come a long way in detecting, recording, and measuring seismic shocks. Many don’t realise that this process began nearly 2000 years ago, with the invention of the first seismoscope in 132 AD by a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, engineer, and inventor called Zhang (‘Chang’) Heng.  The device was remarkably accurate in detecting earthquakes from afar, and did not rely on shaking or movement in the location where the device was situated.  Zhang's seismoscope was a giant bronze vessel, resembling a samovar almost 6 feet in diameter. Eight dragons snaked face-down along the outside of the barrel, marking the primary compass directions. In each dragon's mouth was a small bronze ball. Beneath the dragons sat eight bronze toads, with their broad mouths gaping to receive the balls. The sound of the ball striking one of the eight toads would alert observers to the earthquake and would give a rough indication of the earthquake's direction of origin.  In 2005, scientists in Zengzhou, China (which was also Zhang's hometown) managed to replicate Zhang's seismoscope and used it to detect simulated earthquakes based on waves from four different real-life earthquakes in China and Vietnam. The seismoscope detected all of them. As a matter of fact, the data gathered from the tests corresponded accurately with that gathered by modern-day seismometers!

7. Mythical sunstone used as ancient navigational device

An ancient Norse myth described a magical gem used to navigate the seas, which could reveal the position of the sun when hidden behind clouds or even before dawn or after sunset. Now it appears the myth is in fact true. In March 2013, a team of scientists announced that a unique calcite crystal, which was found in the wreck of an Elizabethan ship sunk off the Channel Islands, contains properties consistent with the legendary Viking sunstone and that shards of the crystal can indeed act as a remarkably precise navigational aid.  According to the researchers, the principle behind the sunstone relies on its unusual property of creating a double refraction of sunlight, even when it is obscured by cloud or fog. By turning the crystal in front of the human eye until the darkness of the two shadows are equal, the sun's position can be pinpointed with remarkable accuracy.

8. The Baghdad Battery

The Baghdad Battery, sometimes referred to as the Parthian Battery, is a clay pot which encapsulates a copper cylinder. Suspended in the centre of this cylinder—but not touching it—is an iron rod. Both the copper cylinder and the iron rod are held in place with an asphalt plug. These artifacts (more than one was found) were discovered during the 1936 excavations of the old village Khujut Rabu, near Baghdad. The village is considered to be about 2000 years old, and was built during the Parthian period (250BC to 224 AD). Although it is not known exactly what the use of such a device would have been, the name ‘Baghdad Battery’, comes from one of the prevailing theories established in 1938 when Wilhelm Konig, the German archaeologist who performed the excavations, examined the battery and concluded that this device was an ancient electric battery. After the Second World War, Willard Gray, an American working at the General Electric High Voltage Laboratory in Pittsfield, built replicas and, filling them with an electrolyte, found that the devices could produce 2 volts of electricity. The question remains, if it really was a battery, what was it used to power?

9. 1,600-year-old goblet shows that the Romans used nanotechnology

The Lycurgus Cup, as it is known due to its depiction of a scene involving King Lycurgus of Thrace, is a 1,600-year-old jade green Roman chalice that changes colour depending on the direction of the light upon it. It baffled scientists ever since the glass chalice was acquired by the British Museum in the 1950s. They could not work out why the cup appeared jade green when lit from the front but blood red when lit from behind. The mystery was solved in 1990, when researchers in England scrutinized broken fragments under a microscope and discovered that the Roman artisans were nanotechnology pioneers: they had impregnated the glass with particles of silver and gold, ground down until they were as small as 50 nanometres in diameter, less than one-thousandth the size of a grain of table salt. The work was so precise that there is no way that the resulting effect was an accident. In fact, the exact mixture of the metals suggests that the Romans had perfected the use of nanoparticles.  When hit with light, electrons belonging to the metal flecks vibrate in ways that alter the colour depending on the observer’s position.

10. The ancient Antikythera mechanism

The Antikythera mechanism was discovered in 1900 during the recovery of a shipwreck off of the Greek island, Antikythera, in waters 60 meters deep. It is a metallic device which consists of a complex combination of gears, and dates back to the 2nd century BCE. The Antikythera mechanism is one of the most amazing mechanical devices discovered from the ancient world.  For decades, scientists have utilized the latest technology in attempts to decipher its functionality; however, due to its complexity, its true purpose and function remained elusive. But in the last few years, a number of scientists appear to have solved the mystery as to precisely how this incredible piece of technology once worked. Peter Lynch, professor of meteorology at University College Dublin, explains: “The mechanism was driven by a handle that turned a linked system of more than 30 gear wheels…The gears were coupled to pointers on the front and back of the mechanism, showing the positions of the sun, moon and planets as they moved through the zodiac. An extendable arm with a pin followed a spiral groove, like a record player stylus. A small sphere, half white and half black, indicated the phase of the moon. Even more impressive was the prediction of solar and lunar eclipses.” Amazingly, the device even included a dial to indicate which of the pan-Hellenic games would take place each year, with the Olympics occurring every fourth year.  Just one small cog out of 30 remains a mystery and it is hoped that further research can place this last piece in the puzzle.

By April Holloway

- See more at: http://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-technology/ten-amazing-inventions-ancient-times-001539#sthash.AApcDDfp.dpuf

14-11-2014 om 20:22 geschreven door peter  

Het blijft druk in Friese luchtruim

Na de enerverende gebeurtenissen in het Friese luchtruim enkele weken geleden is het daar nu allesbehalve rustig.

We ontvingen weer een waarneming van een vreemde onweerswolk en UFO's die door de lucht schieten.

Er zijn bepaalde plekken op aarde waar meer UFO-verkeer wordt waargenomen dan op andere. Een dergelijke plek is bijvoorbeeld Mexico, waar het letterlijk krioelt van UFO's en waar ook met vrij grote zekerheid een buitenaardse basis is.

Dichterbij huis is er ook zo'n plek en dat is de provincie Friesland. Volgens ingewijden heeft dit te maken met een bepaalde energievortex die zich daar bevindt, wat in overeenstemming zou zijn met de theorie dat de vreemde wolken/moederschepen in feite dimensie/sterrenpoorten zijn naar andere dimensies.

Wij ontvingen het volgende bericht uit Friesland (dank!):

Eigenlijk is het altijd wel druk met UFO's in Friesland en is er voldoende te zien. Zo ook gisteren (10-11-2014) weer in de NoordWesthoek. 

Boven de kust boven Franeker waren wolken te zien waarin allerlei lichtflitsen als bij bliksem te zien, alleen was er geen onweer en geen bliksem waar te nemen.  Het leek wel een beetje op dat bericht van 5 november op Niburu.co.

Om de 15 tot 20 seconden waren flitsen van verschillende kleuren te zien die naar boven flitsen i.p.v. naar beneden. De waarnemingen waren op 10 november 2014 tussen 19:00 en 20:00 uur.

Na 20.00 uur zag ik een fel-rode maan die natuurlijk niet helemaal meer vol was en die was erg groot. Ik vond 'm erg mooi en ik nam toen een foto.

Toen ik later de foto bekeek, zag ik 2 gekleurde bollen die gezien de segmentatie vrij snel langs gegaan moet zijn.

De foto is nauwelijks bewogen en dat kan je je zien aan de maan die er boven hangt.

Volgens een niet nader te noemen bron waren dit inderdaad ufo's die een connectie hebben met het moederschip wat eerder in oktober in een paarse wolk boven de vliegbasis in Leeuwarden zweefde.

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14-11-2014 om 20:18 geschreven door peter  

The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965: Were UFOs Responsible?

The following narrative includes several observations from that fateful day...the official reports and the speculations. Though we were not affected in south-central Pennsylvania, the incident did create a major stir worldwide. The U.S. Government was clamoring for answers while, at the same time, people where asking the question...was UFO activity responsible for the greatest electrical blackout in U.S. history?

On November 9, 1965, the northeast power system broke up 4 seconds after the initial disturbance, and 30 million people were without electricity for as long as 13 hours. Later that day, President Lyndon Johnson wrote to the chairman of the Federal Power Commission:

"Today's failure is a dramatic reminder of the importance of the uninterrupted flow of power to the health, safety, and well being of our citizens and the defense of our country.

"This failure should be immediately and carefully investigated in order to prevent a recurrence.

"You are therefore directed to launch a thorough study of the cause of this failure. I am putting at your disposal full resources of the federal government and directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Defense and other agencies to support you in any way possible. You are to call upon the top experts in our nation in conducting the investigation.

"A report is expected at the earliest possible moment as to the causes of the failure and the steps you recommend to be taken to prevent a recurrence."

Signed,
Lyndon B. Johnson

The Event

The Great Northeast Blackout of November 9, 1965 began at 5:16 p.m., near the end of an otherwise typical work day.

The event started at the Ontario - New York border, near Niagara Falls.

A single transmission line from the Niagara generating station tripped (opened).

Within 2.5 seconds, five other transmission lines became overloaded and tripped, isolating 1,800 MW of generation at Niagara Station.

After their isolation, the generators became unstable and tripped off-line.

The northeast power system became unstable and separated into isolated power systems (islands) within 4 seconds.

Outages and islanding occurred throughout New York, Ontario, most of New England, and parts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Most islands went black within 5 minutes, due to imbalances between generation and load (generator overspeed/underspeed tripping).

The massive blackout left 30 million people without electricity for as long as 13 hours.

This was "the big one" and it all started with the operation of a simple overcurrent relay on a transmission line. The design and operation of electric utility systems changed after that, due to the lessons that were learned from this event.

Areas of Separation
5:17 PM - November 9, 1965

Orange: Ontario Hydro System
Yellow: St. Lawrence - Oswego
Blue: Western New York
Red: Eastern New York - New England
Green: Maine and part of New Hampshire

The green area did not lose power during the blackout.

Regional Reliability Councils

The regional reliability councils were formed in the wake of the 1965 Northeast blackout:

Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC) was formed in January, 1966.

Federal Power Commission's blackout report was issued June, 1967.

National Electric Reliability Council, now North American Electric Reliability Council, (NERC) was formed in June, 1968.

NPCC, our regional reliability council, was the first one. Today, there are ten regional reliability councils. (Florida is the newest, creating its own in 1996, after having been in the Southeastern Electric Reliability Council). NERC is an association of the regional reliability councils. Although the organization and workings of each regional reliability council are different, they have a common factor - each one has its own criteria, which establish minimum standards. An important aspect of assuring reliability is sharing information necessary for system analysis, and coordination of system design and operation.

Then and Today

Compared to today's system, the 1965 system was much less networked. Some areas had strong interconnections while others were weak. In fact, the State of Maine survived the 1965 blackout because of its weak ties to the rest of New England, which tripped.

System impedance (electrical "distance") between Bangor, Maine and Portland, Maine is about 8 times less today than it was in 1965. In terms of electrical distance, Bangor is as close to Tennessee or Michigan today, as it was to Portland in 1965. This is approximate, and based on broad estimates. However, it illustrates the interdependency of today's system, compared to 1965. We must be much more careful today if we are to avoid a widespread disturbance, simply because of the close ties we have with other power systems.

Today's Power System

New England now has a well-developed 345 kV network, with 345 kV ties and High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) ties to neighbors.

In northeast North America, we design to what we call "Normal Contingencies", and we use redundant, independent protection systems where required. We test system resiliency with "Extreme Contingencies". We monitor what we call Special Protection Systems (SPSs), which are fast-acting relay, communication, and control systems for generator, line, load, or other cross -tripping. There are more devices with fast controls today.

The North American Interconnected Systems today are four major independent systems, or networks:

Eastern Interconnected Network (east of the Rockies). This system is all but the ERCOT and WSCC reliability councils, and the Quebec portion of the NPCC reliability council.

Quebec. This system is part of the NPCC reliability council.

Texas. This system is the ERCOT reliability council.

Western Interconnected Network (west of the Rockies). This system is the WSCC reliability council.

These four systems are asynchronous, tied together only by DC interconnections. These systems include continental Canada, the contiguous United States, and northern Baja Mexico. Other systems are: Alaska, Mexico, and Labrador. These systems are illustrated in the following NERC map of reliability councils.

The eastern interconnected network is, arguably, the largest machine in the world. The network has thousands of sources, hundreds of millions of miles of lines, and over a billion individual loads. Despite its complexity, this network operates in continuous synchronism as a single system. The power systems are so well connected, a single disturbance can be detected thousands of miles away.

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The Great Northeast Blackout
November 9, 1965

Excerpted from:

UFO Canada
by Yurko Bondarchuk

Published by: Methuen Publications, Toronto, 1979
ISBN 0-458-94160-3 

From Chapter 9 - The E.M. Effect and Power Blackouts
(pages 130 - 137) 

On November 9, 1965 the Northeastern region of the United States and Canada was abruptly plunged into blackness. The worst blackout on record came to be known as the "Big Blackout". 

The facts are well known. At 5:16 pm, at the height of the evening rush hour, electrical power to one-sixth of the continent's population was suddenly cut off, trapping millions of people on expressways, in elevators and in office buildings. Altogether, thirty million people in eight U.S. states and in the province of Ontario were affected by the disruption (1) 

In Ontario the blackout was confined to the eastern portion of the province - from Timmins in the north, across to Cornwall in the east and south toward Sarnia. Windsor, Ottawa and Sudbury were the only eastern centres to escape the blackout.(2) Yet within three hours power was restored to most parts of the province. 

Mass media coverage naturally focussed on the human aspect of the blackout and to a lesser extent, on the delay in determining the cause of the breakdown. 

There was, however, an even more dramatic story. 

UFOs had been reported in the vicinity of strategic hydro installations at the time of the blackout. The impressive number of credible sightings led many researchers to consider the possible role these craft may have played in the power collapse. 

The researchers included the late Dr. James E. MacDonald,(3) a physicist at the University of Arizona; former NICAP director Major Donald E. Keyhoe; and astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the current director of the Centre for UFO Studies. 

Immediately following the breakdown, the U.S. Federal Power Commission and the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission launched a full-scale investigation into the cause. At first, it was reported that the trouble originated with a mechanical breakdown in a high voltage line between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. 

According to the Toronto 'Globe & Mail': 

The report turned out to be false. Then a sub-station near Syracuse was reported to be the cause of the failure, but repairmen found it in perfect condition. (4) 

Finally, six days after the blackout, Ontario Hydro engineers traced the trouble to the mammoth Sir Adam Beck No.2 Generating Station at Queenston, Ontariom north of Niagra Falls. 

It seems that just prior to the blackout, power was flowing from Sir Adam Beck No.2. into Ontario, then across the border via Cornwall into New York State. In graphic terms, power was flowing clockwise in a loop around Lake Ontario. 

At 5:16pm, a backup relay on one of the six lines linking Sir Adam Beck tothe rest of the province mysteriously tripped the line's circuit breaker, which acts much like a household fuse. 

In quick succession the cut-off power jumped to the other five lines, causing an overload that tripped the circuit breakers on these lines as well. 

A veritable tidal wave of electricity - 1.1 million kilowatts - flowed in the opposite direction into New York State. (5) Inexplicably, the relays on the New York lines failed to isolate and contain the overload. Within seconds, the entire grid of thirty-one interconnected power utilities of CANUSE (Canada-United States Eastern Grid) had broken down. 

Although experts could pinpoint the origin of the blackout, they were baffled by the cause of the relay malfunction and the failure of the protective systems to contain the overload. 

In the words of Ontario Hydro's system supervising engineer, Jim Harris: "It's incredible! I would have said this was impossible if I hadn't seen the evidence." (6) 

The mystery deepened when it was discovered that the relay had not in fact malfunctioned, but had merely reacted to a sudden surge of power from an unknown source. 

As stated in the final report of the U.S. Federal Power Commission: "The precise cause of the backup relay energization is now known." (7) Where did the unexplained surge of power come from? To this day that question has remained unanswered. 

Or has it? 

Although inconclusive, one answer might lie in the findings of the late Dr. James McDonald who contended that the magnetic fields accompanying UFOs can create sudden power surges in transmission lines as the craft flies overhead.(8) In theory, these power surges could produce blackouts of massive proportions. 

Since the 'Big Blackout', McDonald's theory has gained considerable support in the light of strong evidence confirming widespread UFO activity on that fateful evening. 

The Syracuse Herald-Journal was inundated with calls reporting more than one hundred sightings in the Syracuse area. 

One of the first came from Syracuse Deputy Aviation Commissioner, Robert C. Walsh, who was flying over Syracuse at the time of the blackout.(9) Despite the darkness, he managed to land safely at Hancock Airport. 

Standing on the runway, with some airport officials he suddenly noticed an enormous circular ball of light, drifting overhead. "It appeared to be one hundred feet in the air and fifty feet in diameter.(10) It rose for several seconds, then suddenly disappeared. Moments later, a bewildered Walsh and his companions watched an identical device ascending over the airfieldm before mysteriously 'blinking out', as did its predecessor. Unlike the known high-speed plunges of fireballs, these craft moved upward at moderate speed - clearly under some form of intelligent control. 

At the same time, the mysterious craft were also being observed overhead. Veteran flight instructor Weldon Ross and his student, James Brooking, were approaching the darkened airport when they spotted a second fiery object below. 

The Giant craft, estimated at well over one hundred feet in diameter, appeared to be positioned directly over the Clay sub-station, a strategic installation that channels power from Niagara Falls to New York City.(11) 

It was the same sub-station where hydro investigating teams had initially pinpointed the origin of the blackout. 

In a relentless pursuit of a possible UFO-blackout relationship, Herald-Journal reporters succeeded in uncovering even more explosive evidence. In a front page story seven days after the blackout, the paper carried photographs of the mysterious red craft taken by Mr. William Stillwell, a sexton at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. He described what he had observed through a 117-power telescope: 

The centre was rotating, around and around and around. It came from the direction of DeWitt and shot off at an angle and then went back the way it came. (12) 

He had watched the glowing object for as long as two hours before it streaked away. 

While investigating teams continued to dig for the mysterious cause of the power failure, press coverage of a possible UFO connection gained momentum. 

In a strongly worded editorial, the Indianapolis Star urged: 

The answer is fairly obvious - unidentified flying objects! It is one angle the multi-pronged investigation should not overlook.(13) 

Support for the UFO possibility intensified as news of other sightings became known. In New York City, twenty minutes into the blackout, witnesses in the Time-Life Building spotted a peculiar glow in the sky over darkened Manhattan. According to Major Donald Keyhoe: 

It appeared to come from a round object hovering over the city. This was tewenty minutes after the lights began to go out. Several photographs were taken by a Time Magazine photographer, one of which appeared in the November 19th issue. (14) 

Although clearly visible in the photograph reproduced here, Time editors failed to make any reference in their photo-caption to the spindle-shaped craft. Journalistic oversight or deliberate omission? The only hit of any unusual aerial activity came in a facetious reference to a Soviet satellite: 

Some New Yorkers, claiming that they had seen a satellite pass over at the moment the lights failed, argued that the Russians had done it again. (15) 

But UFO investigator and author, the late Frank Edwards disagrees with both the UFO and the Soviet satellite explanations: 

The spindle-shaped thing could have been a UFO--but it certainly wasn't. It was nothing more than an optical ghost, the result of reflections between the elements of an air-spaced lens.(16) 

While disputing the validityof the Time photo, Edwards strongly supported the contention the UFOs were somehow involved in activating the blackout. In fact, while conducting his own investigation into the cause of the blackout he discovered that U.S. military authorities had been well aware of the UFO presence, at least forty-five minutes prior to the power failure.(17) 

This startling disclosure came from two commercial pilots, Jerry Whitaker and George Croninger, who were flying over Tidioute, Pennsylvania, when they spotted two disc-shaped 'shiny objects' overhead. 

Even more surprising was the sight of two military jets chasing the mysterious craft. 

Moments later, one of the discs put on a 'burst of speed' and quickly outdistanced its pursuers. While watching the fast-disappearing UFO, the dazed pilots lost sight of the other object, which had presumably departed in the same manner. 

The most spectacular UFO revelation, however, came one day prior to the release of the 'official' explanation when, speaking before a nationwide televison audience, NBC commentator Frank McGee announced that a private pilot had spotted a "round, glowing object near the Niagra Falls power plant".(18) 

Associated Press picked up the story and numerous newspapers subsequently carried it. The following morning, a well-documented article appeared in the New York Journal American blaming UFOs for the disastrous power-grid breakdown. 

Any further media focus on the UFO connection was brought to an abrupt halt, however, with the release of the 'broken relay' explanation. 

Despite mounting evidence, the Federal Power Commission had predictably chosen to side-step the possible UFO connection. This ommission was eventually confirmed by Dr. James E. McDonald who, as a respected scientist, was allowed to interview certain FPC officials. 

They admitted they had the Syracuse and Niagara Falls reports, also most of the others on that night. But they wouldn't discuss the UFO possibility....No matter what they believed, I think they were convinced the facts shouldn't be given tothe public, and that's why they agreed to the 'broken relay' story. At any rate, it was obvious they were covering up (19) 

Under the circumstances there seems to be a strong possibility that Canadian authorities were also involved in the cover-up. Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission investigators, having become aware of the UFO reports, collaborated with the FPC by exchanging information that eventually led to the 'broken relay' explanation.(20) 

Furthermore, this explanation had apparently been pre-arranged and was released simultaneously in both countries.(21) 

The Ontario Hydro press statement similarly neglected to include UFOs as the possible cause for the blackout. 

One reputable American ufologist went so far as to point an accusing finger at the late Lester B. Pearson, then prime minister. Major Donald Keyhoe contends that: 

To shift attention from the UFO explanation, the 'broken relay' story was invented. Since this could be construed as blaming Canada, the Prime Minister must have been convinced it was best for both countries not to disclose the true situation.(22) 

It that was the case, then it represents one of the most shocking deceptions ever perpetrated - leaving the heads of thirty-one utility companies and thirty million people to grope around in the dark in more ways than one! - MUFON Ontario

(1) Time Magazine (November 19, 1965) Canadian Edition, p.24.
(2) Ibid. p.23B.
(3) John G. Fuller, 'Aliens in the Skies: The New UFO Battle of the Scientists' (New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1969), p.85.
(4) Toronto Globe and Mail, November 16, 1965.
(5) Ibid.
(6) Ontario Hydro, Hydroscope, Vol. 2. No. 40 (November 19, 1965) p.2.
(7) James M. McCampbell, 'Ufology: New Insights from Science and Common Sense' (Belmont, Ca.: Jaymac Company, 1973), p. 57.
(8) James E. McDonald, Statement prepared for the Hearings before A Committee of the U.S. Federal Power Commission.
(9) Frank Edwards, 'Flying Saucers: Serious Business' (New York: Bantam Books, 1966), p. 147.
(10) Ibid.
(11) Donald E, Keyhoe, 'Aliens From Space' (Toronto: The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1973), p. 172.
(12) Frank Edwards, op. cit., p. 148.
(13) Donald E. Keyhoe, op., cit. p. 176.
(14) Ibid. p. 172.
(15) Time Magazine, op. cit., p. 28A.
(16) Frank Edwards, op. cit., p. 149.
(17) Ibid.
(18) Donald E. Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 177.
(19) Ibid., p. 182.
(20) Toronto Globe and Mail, op. cit.
(21) Ibid.
(22) Donald E. Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 180.

Links to sources describing the incident - Archive - 1965 Blackout

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Evidence looking at the possible UFO – New York City blackout connection was even brought in front of congress. Dr. James E. McDonald, a top Ufologist of the day and University of Arizona professor, testified on the possible UFO connection to the northeast blackout in front of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics at July 29, 1968, Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Rayburn Bldg., Washington, D.C. Among the congressmen who listened in was the former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

The congressmen were impressed enough with the evidence that they questioned Dr. McDonald on his theory of UFO electromagnetic effects being able to black out huge sections of the country. One exchange occurred with Representative William F. Ryan, a Democrat from New York City.

Mr. Ryan: Let me ask a further question: In the course of your investigation and your study of UFO sightings, have you found any cases where contemporaneously with the sighting of UFO's allegedly, there were any other events which took place, which might or might not be related to the UFO's?

Dr. McDonald: Yes. Certainly there are many physical effects. For instance, in Mr. Pettis' district, several people found the fillings in their mouth hurting while this object was nearby, but there are many cases probably on record of car ignition failure. One famous case was at Levelland, Tex., in 1957. Ten vehicles were stopped within a short area, all independently in a 2-hour period, near Levelland, Tex. There was no lightning or thunder storm, and only a trace of rain.

There is another, which I don't know whether to bring to the committee's attention or not. The evidence is not as conclusive as the car stopping phenomenon, but there are too many instances for me to ignore. UFO's have often been seen hovering near power facilities. There are a small number but still a little too many to seem pure fortuitous chance, of system outages, coincident with the UFO sighting. One of the cases was Tamaroa, Ill. Another was a case in Shelbyville, Ky., early last year.

"Then there are scattered instances in which substantial power distribution systems have failed at or very near the time of observation of aerial phenomena similar, broadly speaking, to one or another UFO phenomenon. I have personally checked on several such instances and am satisfied that the coincidence of UFO observation and power outage did at least occur. Whether there is a causal connection here, and in which direction it may run, remains quite uncertain. Even during the large Northeast blackout, November 9, 1965, there were many UFO observations, several of which I have personally checked..."

"I interviewed a woman in Seacliff, N.Y. She saw a disk hovering and going up and down. And then shooting away from New York just after the power failure. I went to the FPC for data, they didn't take them seriously although they had many dozens of sighting reports for that famous evening. There were reports all over New England in the midst of that blackout, and five witnesses near Syracuse, N.Y., saw a glowing object ascending within about a minute of the blackout. First they thought it was a dump burning right at the moment the lights went out. It is rather puzzling that the pulse of current that tripped the relay at the Ontario Hydro Commission plant has never been identified, but initially the tentative suspicion was centered on the Clay Substation of the Niagara Mohawk network right there in the Syracuse area, where unidentified aerial phenomenon has been seen by some of the witnesses."

This extends down to the limit of single houses losing their power when a UFO is near. The hypothesis in the case of car stopping is that there might be high magnetic fields, d.c. fields, which saturate the [ignition system solenoid] core and thus prevent the pulses going through the system to the other side. Just how a UFO could trigger an outage on a large power network is however not yet clear. But this is a disturbing series of coincidences that I think warrant much more attention than they have so far received.

Mr. Ryan: As far as you know, has any agency investigated the New York blackout in relation to UFO?

Dr. McDonald: None at all. when I spoke to the FPC people, I was dissatisfied with the amount of information I could gain. I am saying there is a puzzling and slightly disturbing coincidence here. I'm not going on record as saying, yes, these are clear-cut cause and effect relations. I'm saying it ought to be looked at. There is no one looking at this relation between UFO's and outages.

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Although the Pentagon was reporting nothing had been seriously affected, there were facts that showed this was not true. There was secret information that indicated that the situation was much more complex than just a power blackout.

Only a couple days after the blackout a book called "Strike From Space" appeared in the bookstores. Conservative activists Phyllis Schlafly and Rear Admiral Chester Ward (Ret) authored the book. Although it dealt mostly with the growing threat of Soviet space weapons and the Johnson White House’s inability to deal with the problem, the book did describe some serious events that were never really made public.

Schlafly and Ward relied on the counsel of a cast of military advisors for their book. Some of those names that included some names that have become very prominent in the UFO community. One was General Cutis LeMay who told Senator Barry Goldwater that not only could he not see the rumored Blue Room at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, but he should never even ask about it again. The second key advisor to the book was Hoover Institution strategic theorist Dr Stefan Possony, who had been attendee at the 1953 CIA UFO Scientific Advisory Panel meetings.

The book claimed that not only had the lights gone out all over the eastern United States, in an underground command post called High Point, near Berryville, Virginia, Air Force Colonel J Leo Bourassa was picking up nuclear alerts from a national network of nuclear blast detection devices called System 210-A, or "Bomb Alarm.":

"The Bomb Alarm display board at High Point was blazing with yellow lights, indicating that communications links to the BMEWS site in Thule, Greenland, as well as twenty-one other System 210-A sites, had gone down. But worse – much worse – two of the sensors, the ones for Salt Lake City and Charlotte, North Carolina, were showing red. Red for nuclear detonations. Bourassa assumed the worst – that a surgical nuclear attack was under way – and placed Mt Weather on full alert. It was the one and only time that the facility went on alert during the Cold War."

Bourassa called the full alert and called it off a couple days later. It was probably the type of action that he liked, in light of the fact that in November 1954 Bourassa quit his government job "because of not enough work to do."

Exactly one month later he would be busy again. This time it would involve the possible recovery of an object in Kecksburg Pennsylvania. - www.presidentialufo.com

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Mysterious Lights Over Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls Reporter - 10/25/2005

In a Nov. 19, 1965, Ontario Hydro Hydroscope article, system supervising engineer Jim Harris was at a loss to explain the incident.

"It's incredible! I would have said this was impossible if I hadn't seen the evidence," he said.

Just two weeks before the blackout, on Sept. 22, 1965, in an article entitled "Many report seeing two UFOs," the Gazette chronicled the activity near the power plants.

"Dozens of persons Tuesday night watched two unidentified flying objects moving and hovering over this area for more than an hour," the article stated. "The objects, bright lights which changed color, were below cloud level and remained at a fairly low level during most of the period they were observed. "Observers said the objects were not helicopters or conventional aircraft. At one point, about 8 p.m., the two objects, which had been widely separated when viewed earlier, approached each other on a collision course until they 'teamed up' and moved off close together toward Buffalo," the article added. The objects were first sighted "on the Canadian side of the river, at a point opposite Lewiston." In other words, over Queenston and the Sir Adam Beck plant.

Among the witnesses named in the article were State Trooper John Riehl, Alden residents Roselle Simon and Leonard Butler, and V.D. Price and Raymond Bright, employees of the American Standard Division in North Tonawanda.

"This was not a satellite. Satellites travel in straight lines and within a few minutes they are gone," Bright told the Gazette. "This hung in the sky for about half an hour. It would move off in one direction and then stop. Then it would change direction and move off again."

The relationship between the blackout and reported UFO activity wasn't lost on the scientific community. In a statement prepared for hearings held on the blackout by the Federal Power Commission, University of Arizona physicist Dr. James McDonald contended that magnetic fields accompanying UFOs could cause sudden power surges and could, theoretically, trigger a blackout.

Writing about the event on April 2, 1968, Gazette reporter Joe Donaldson recalled the reports on the night of the blackout.

"After the big blackout, spokesmen for the power firms denied a strange light was spotted over the Beck Station the night of Nov. 9. Since then, however, they have admitted that sightings were reported by hundreds of people," the veteran newsman wrote.

But gradually, the "broken two-dollar switch" theory as to the cause of the disaster became the accepted version of events. This would not mark the end of credible reports of UFOs in Niagara Falls, however.

On Aug. 4, 1966, the Gazette reported "Bright, high-flying, fast moving objects observed during the night and similarly described by three Niagara Falls residents."

This time the witnesses were Mrs. George Haberle of the Parkway Apartments and 91st Street residents Russell Sorenberger and Bill Nelson. Ironically, attempts by the paper to reach Capt. Harry Meir, chief of operations and training at Niagara Falls Air Base, were unsuccessful because Meir had been in Erie, Pa., investigating another UFO report.

Two Niagara Falls city policemen and a former Air Force radar chief had their own close encounters over a 48-hour period in August 1967.

According to an Aug. 25, 1967, Gazette article, the two officers, Patrolmen Anthony Caraglin and David Greene, saw a pair of UFOs while patrolling at 19th Street and Mackenna Avenue. They filed an official report of the incident.

"We saw two objects in the sky -- one object went in an easterly direction then went northeasterly. As the object went out of sight it appeared to give off different colored lights. While the object was in sight it was a solid white light and appeared to be round.

"Object Two was the same as Object One but went from south to north and went out of sight. Both objects were in view for approximately 15 minutes and appeared to be very high," the report stated. Howard Kay of Youngstown was working at DuPont that night. An eight-year Air Force radar chief, he told the Gazette the object he saw over the Niagara River near Buffalo Avenue looked like "an inverted cereal bowl and was lit up." Perhaps predictably, USAF Information Officer Thomas White said he knew nothing about the UFOs.

"I have checked with the U.S. Air Force Station in Lockport, and the 763rd Radar Squadron there reports no objects logged by their radar screens at these times," he told the Gazette.

Eight months later, on April 2, 1968, no fewer than three NFPD patrolmen reported UFOs from two separate locations.

The pulsating lights hovered for nearly an hour in the vicinity of the Beck Station, the officers said.

Patrolmen Thomas Shumway and William Wells watched the lights from Lewiston Road and Hyde Park Boulevard.

"They were like something I had never seen before," Shumway told the Gazette. "They were in formation and they were pulsating."

Shumway said the red, white and blue lights did not come from an airplane and were motionless until they suddenly shot away to the northwest at a tremendous rate of speed.

At the same time, Patrolman Richard Adkins confirmed the lights were hovering across the Niagara River from the Robert Moses Power Plant and near the Beck Station. He said the lights were about 1,000 feet in the air and that, from time to time, a red streak of light would pass through the formation. While strange lights are still occasionally reported in the Niagara skies, it appears that 1965 to 1968 represented something of a golden age for UFO sightings here.

And in the presence of so much documentation and credible testimony by trained observers, it seems difficult to deny that something was going on. What -- exactly -- the mysterious objects were will likely never be known. It is interesting to note that the Air Force employed a device to disrupt electrical power in the city of Belgrade during the Kosovo war. Could some early testing of a similar device have resulted in the 1965 blackout? - www.niagarafallsreporter.com

There were also a number of reports of anomalous lights, and speculation that the blackout may have been the related to UFO activity in some way - UFO reports on November 9, 1965

Sources:
cmpco.com
Original Life Magazine from November 19, 1965 - Manhattan power blackout, New York
virtuallystrange.net
MUFON Ontario
NICAP
Time Magazine November 19, 1965 the Biggest Blackout
blackout.gmu.edu
presidentialufo.com
When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America
niagarafallsreporter.com
mt.net
coasttocoastam.com
ufocasebook.com
ufodigest.com
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? An enlightening souvenir of the big blackout, November 9, 1965

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Daily 2 Cents: Conspiracy Theorists Calling Rosetta's Comet 'Alien Base' -- Levitating Rocks on Mars? -- 1/3 of Brits Believe Their House is Haunted

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Conspiracy Theorists Calling Rosetta's Comet 'Alien Base'

The fact that a strange ‘clicking’ radio transmission seems to be coming from inside the comet – sounding eerily like a Predator’s jaws opening and closing – has just stoked the fires of conspiracy theorists, just as the Rosetta craft’s Philae Lander touches down.

Explore the internet too long, and you’ll be firmly convinced Ming the Merciless and Darth Vader are enjoying a final Martini inside before obliterating our planet, and using us all as sex-slaves in the brothel-pits of Proxima Centauri.

Nigel Watson, author of the Haynes UFO Investigations Manual says there are five main ‘theories’ as to what the rock might REALLY be.

To any UFO enthusiast, the idea that it might just be a lump of ice is preposterous, an obvious cover-up and frankly boring. Here’s what they REALLY believe…

Read more w/ images at Metro

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One Third of Brits Believe Their House is Haunted

A third of Britons believe their house is haunted and some spooked homeowners are certain they have seen a ghost walking their corridors.

A quarter of those who feel their home has a supernatural presence were convinced a poltergeist had moved around their possessions.

And a sixth of those who thought their house was haunted said doors open or closed by themselves while a further sixth said they had even seen a ghost.

The figures come from a survey conducted Confused.com. Their head of home insurance Gareth Lane said: "Ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night are usually seen in films and TV programmes.

"But for some homeowners, they are a very real concern with three in 10 Britons saying they thought their home was haunted.

"Whilst the most common cause for people thinking their home was haunted was strange noises, more than a quarter say their belongings would disappear without explanation.

"Whilst your nightmare neighbours are more likely to be the ones causing you problems, protecting yourself from unexplained disappearances and damage is vital."

The surgery also found more than a quarter of Britons would be put off buying a house if they believed it was haunted.

Two fifths would not contemplate living in a home if they knew something bad had happened there, such as a murder.

Of those who believed their home was haunted nearly a quarter tried to research the history of their house and area.

A tenth tried to contact the spirits to get an answer while a sixth had been forced to sell up and flee. - Express

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Levitating Rocks on Mars?

Optical illusion or Martian pranksters?

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00527/opgs/edr/ncam/NRB_444283128EDR_

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http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00527/opgs/edr/ncam/NLB_444283159EDR_

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