Daily 2 Cents: Holy Grail in North America? — Modern Russia’s Psychic Obsession — Tallest Meets Shortest

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Do Spirit Pond Inscriptions Show That the Holy Grail Was Taken to North America?

Forensic geologist, Scott Wolter, has put forward a radical new theory concerning a set of three inscribed stones found near Spirit Pond in Phippsburg more than 40 years ago.  According to Wolter, the controversial stones are evidence that the Knights Templar fled Europe for North America after their persecution in 1307, bringing with them the Holy Grail. 

The Spirit Pond rune stones, as they are often called, were found in 1971 by a Walter J. Elliott, Jr., a carpenter born in Bath, Maine. The stones, currently housed at the Maine State Museum, have been dismissed by some scientists as a hoax or a fraud, but others maintain that they are authentic and provide evidence of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact and Norse colonisation of the Americas.

The mysterious stones measure about six by eleven inches. One stone features a rough map on one side and inscriptions on the other. The second stone bore a dozen letters on one side, and the third contained a long message of sixteen lines neatly inscribed on both sides of the stone.

Upon finding the stones, Walter Elliott took them to the Bath Maritime Museum, where director Harold Brown suggested that the marks might be in the Norse runic alphabet. Subsequently, the stones found their way to Einar Haugen, Harvard professor of Scandinavian languages and history. In his published evaluation, he was adamant the stones were a fraud and dismissed them as “gibberish”. Continue reading at The Epoch Times

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Widow digs up husband’s body before dumping coffin on roadside

A grieving widow faces jail after exhuming the corpse of her dead husband before dumping his coffin on the roadside and attempting to smuggle his body across a border.

Verica Zunjic, 60, had driven 230 miles from her home in the town of Doboj, Bosnia, to Danilovgrad, Montenegro, where her husband Milograd was buried in a family plot.

It is thought that she had fallen out with her late husband’s family and wanted his resting place to be closer to home.

After sneaking into the graveyard where he was buried, she continued to exhume his body by digging up his coffin, before putting it in the back of her car and attempting to head home.

She had faced difficulty in closing the boot once her husband’s body was inside the vehicle and had consequently laid him on the back seat, hoping to tell border officials that he was sleeping.

However, fellow motorists became suspicious when Mrs Zunjic was spotted pulling over and opening the coffin, before putting her husband’s body in the car.

Her plan came undone when she was stopped by a police patrol a few miles down the road, after police were able to survey CCTV footage to identify the pensioner.

A police spokesman said: ‘When officers stopped her she denied any wrong-doing and said she was “just taking what was rightfully hers”.

‘Unfortunately, exhuming a corpse without official permission is illegal, no matter what the reasons.’ - Metro

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Tallest & Shortest Men Meet

The remarkable meeting of opposite extremes was organized to celebrate Guinness World Records Day.

Sultan Kosen of Turkey, the tallest man in the world at 2.51m in height, attended the event in London where he shook hands with Nepal's Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the world's smallest man who measures just 55 centimeters tall.

"I was very interested how tall he was going to be, about how far up my legs he would go, and of course once I saw him I realized how tiny he was," said Kosen who also holds the world record for the world's largest hands.

"Even though he is short and I am tall, we have had similar struggles throughout our lives and when I look into Chandra's eyes I can see he is a good man."

His counterpart Mr Dangi, who is now 74, barely reached his knees when standing up.

"I was very pleased to see the tallest man in the world, I was curious to meet my extreme opposite," he said. "I'm so pleased to be a Guinness record holder. Thanks to this I have visited many countries and met many people. I really love it."

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Modern Russia's obsession with psychics and the occult

Modern Russia is, apparently, a hotbed of psychic activity. Recent reports have estimated that Russia's psychic industry is worth between $15 million and $2 billion. These aren't super-reliable figures, but that they exist at all indicates the scale of psychic devotion in Russia. A new book, by freelance journalist Marc Bennetts, explores the scale of this phenomenon — and the reasons behind it.

In a tweet advertising his book, Bennetts advertises stories of "Kremlin-backed psychics, 'resurrections' for $1,500 a corpse, [and] urban witches with too much make-up." His previous reporting on Russia's psychic underground, like this piece in Sabotage Magazine last year, certainly delivers some equally crazy stories:

"Town halls that had once hosted Communist Party meetings [and] now saw sorcerers armed with ouija boards attempting to conjure up Lenin's spirit."
A Moscow witch who promised that her "mixture of psychic and magical abilities as yet unknown to science" could help a client land a promotion (maximum six year guarantee).

Since 2008, the Russian government has required an official license to advertise any services as "magic." In other words, the Russian state is formally licensing magicians, as well as any sorcerers, wizards, witches, or other characters who would like to sell themselves as performing magic. But it does not require a license to advertise "paranormal" services.

So why is this so prevalent?

The basic explanation offered by Bennets and others has to do with Soviet communism's collapse. Since the Warsaw Pact began falling apart in the late 80s, large numbers of Russians turned to psychic and spiritual beliefs to make up for the ideological void that communism left.

Take faith healer Anatoly Kashpirovsky, who first became famous in October 1989. Kashpirovsky "would appeal to viewers to place pots and pans full of water by their television sets during his show, so that their contents would be charged with healing properties by being exposed to his waves of telepathic energy," Radio Free Europe correspondent Tom Balmforth writes in Russia Profile. According to Balmforth, a 1990 poll found that 52.3 percent of respondents believed that Kashpirovsky's techniques could cure illnesses. - VOX

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Murder makes Hong Kong 'haunted apartments' a hard sell

There's a grim phenomenon in the real estate market in Hong Kong: discounts of as much as 50 per cent for home-seekers willing to live in an apartment where a murder has occurred.

Unnatural deaths typically result in rental discounts of 10 per cent to 20 per cent and can be more than double that for sinister killings, according to Sammy Po, head of the residential department of realtor Midland Holdings. Chinese believe such places, known as "hung jaak," the Cantonese term for "haunted apartments," are unlucky, he said.

"The Chinese really do care" about living in these places, Po said.

The rent for a Wan Chai district apartment where police found two women's bodies on November 1, HK$29,000 (NZ$4,750) a month at the time of the murders, will probably drop by half when it's released from being a crime scene, cleaned and rented again, according to a director of the company that owns the unit, who didn't want his name or firm identified because he isn't permitted to speak publicly. The sales value of the unit in the luxury J Residence would decline from HK$9 million to HK$6m if it were sold immediately, the person said.

Hong Kong had almost 190 sites where an unnatural death took place, including murders and suicides, this year, according to a database compiled by Squarefoot.com.hk.

Squarefoot lists the date of the incident, the address, the district and a brief description of the death. Among recent listings were an apartment where an 18-year-old male student slipped a plastic bag over his head last month and jumped to his death; one where a middle-aged couple, plagued by financial troubles, committed suicide by inhaling burning coal smoke; and another where a mother was hacked to death by a mentally unstable neighbor while protecting her two daughters.

Hong Kong is certainly not the only place where home- seekers can be wary of a residence marred by tragedy. Nevertheless, in a comparably high-demand market like New York City, the stigma is less marked, according to Jonathan Miller, president of real estate appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. in Manhattan. Where sales inventory in the city is scarce and rents are near records, a crime or other negative event wouldn't have much effect on price, he said.

In Britain, a particularly notorious crime can cause a home to become unsaleable, requiring it to be knocked down and rebuilt, said Richard Sexton, a director at e.surv, the country's largest provider of residential property valuations.

"Equally, if it's a folklore situation, the U.K. can be different," he said. "The house with the friendly ghosts can sometimes be marketed that way as a positive."

Hong Kong property agents aren't required by law to disclose if a death occurred in a unit, but they should provide information when asked under the industry's code of ethics, according to the Estate Agents Authority, a government agency. Potential tenants or buyers should ask whether a suicide or homicide took place because there's no legal definition of a "haunted property," the agency said in an e-mailed response.

Hong Kong is otherwise Asia's priciest real estate market. Private residential rents hit a record high in August, reaching almost HK$25 a square foot, or HK$12,500 for a 500-square-foot apartment, according to Midland. Residential sales prices, which have more than doubled since the start of 2009, hit a record last month despite government measures to curb demand.

The city is the world's most expensive after London for multinational companies to base staff because of its real estate, according to property brokerage Savills Plc.

C S Group, a Hong Kong property-services firm, is auctioning a 550-square-foot "hung jaak" on Nov. 18 with a starting price of HK$3.18m, according to its website. An apartment of the same size in the same complex sold last month for almost 27 per cent more, or HK$4.33m, according to data from Midland.

"The demand is there, whether from investors seeking rent or for self use," said Alger Cheng, general manager of the group's auction department.

First-time homebuyers are also drawn to these cheaper properties, Midland's Po said.

Superstition and geomancy beliefs run deep. Hong Kong people also shun sites close to cemeteries, hospitals and churches, which can be considered unlucky. Buildings typically omit the fourth floor because the number is a homonym for the Chinese word for death. Property developers rely on feng shui, which translates as "wind and water," the Chinese practice of arranging the physical environment in harmony according to beliefs about energy and design.

"For those growing up in Hong Kong, feng shui is hammered into your mind, even if you don't believe or understand it," said Ng Wai-pok, a former lecturer of feng shui at the University of Hong Kong. "A large part of it is psychological, but there is also the metaphysical."

Expatriates tend to be less concerned with living in "haunted apartments," said Asif Ghafoor, founder of property- listing website Spacious.hk.

For them, "location is by far the most important thing," he said. - Stuff

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Source: http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2014/11/daily-2-cents-holy-grail-in-north.html

16-11-2014 om 00:24 geschreven door peter  

INCREDIBLE UFO ENCOUNTER AND POSSIBLE ABDUCTION

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INCREDIBLE UFO ENCOUNTER AND POSSIBLE ABDUCTION  1980  EAST HAVEN CONNECTICUT

 It began in my childhood home on one ordinary night and not unlike any other. My family all went to sleep and as I had done many times before, I got out of bed in the middle of the night. I quietly took my blanket and laid on top of the heater vent in the hallway. The vent came up through the floor in the middle of the hall at the top of the stairs. It was centered between four bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor where I would often fall asleep.  This time I was awakened by what I thought was a young boy standing at my feet smiling at me. He was about three feet tall with dirty blonde straight hair. I thought that maybe my sister Janet had been sitting and the child woke up wandering. But then I thought it was probably a dream.  because that didn’t make sense. So I rubbed my eyes but the child was still there. I did it again only harder and again he was still there. I remember thinking that I had to wake myself up. I rubbed my eyes two more times, still there.

Only now because of the look on his face I started getting scared. It began to occur to me that this wasn’t what it seemed, so I ever so slowly stood up. He was looking right at me, and smiling with an uncanny knowing smile. Something in his expression seemed to me as if he was thinking “I know something about YOU!” Suddenly he started to move, he went around me from my right hand side to my left. As he passed, I followed him in through my mom’s open door at the end of the hall. There he stopped at the end of her bed while still looking at me. I slowly circled around him, making no quick or jerky moves. I didn’t want to arouse any suspicion of what I was about to do. I stood between him and the end of my mom’s bed. He was right under the hanging light switch. I was going to grab for the switch quick before he has a chance to react. “NOW!” I quickly pull the switch! The damn light blows out, but during the flash, I could see he or it was gone. I instantly leaped into my mother’s bed and frantically woke her so I could tell her. “Mom, Mom,” she’s like, “what’s the matter?” “I just saw a ghost at the end of your bed.” She says, “that’s because you’re so bad.” I was around 9 years old at the time and that was real encouraging. The next morning I told my brother but he didn’t believe me. He went upstairs with me to turn on the light, it was blown. “See, I wasn’t lying.”  I first believed it was a ghost but later experiences brought me to the conclusion that it was more likely an extraterrestrial. 1982   ……   

NEW HAVEN CONNECTICUT Now several years would pass and the next event would change me permanently. It was what I’ve heard referred to as a plasma UFO and now I began to think that someone was trying to get my attention. Now the first visual event of the little boy wasn’t a fluke anymore. Now I’m about 11 or 12 and WOW! What the hell is that in the sky, Venus? It must be a planet I thought. I’ve heard about these things before, colorful lights always turn out to be a planet. But it couldn’t be a planet because it’s too big and close and moving too weird.  Let me back up about five minutes. I was just an average boy and there I was walking home as usual one summer night. When I got to my street one block from the shoreline I took a left at the Town Beach Park. It was a small dimly lit neighborhood park with a few picnic tables and a swing set area. My house was only four short blocks away. I walked another block where my street crossed the main road in and out of my neighborhood. There was never much traffic at night, except for area residents. When I crossed the street, something in the sky caught my eye. A very large multi-colored luminous cloud like object appeared.  It was a clear star lit night with no clouds in the area. The object was about the same altitude as a low cumulus cloud so I would have to judge the size to be about a mile wide. It was slightly oval horizontally but not rounded. I would describe it as globular. It was what appeared to be a luminous plasma made up of about twelve different distinct but separate colors.

They were each somewhat globular as well, forming the whole. Each of the colors was changing shape and size while adjacent colors would either contract or expand in response. There were no borders between the colors and they were bright, saturated and fluorescent in appearance like neon. The overall size of the entire plasma cloud didn’t vary during the expansion and contraction of the individual colors. It was completely silent and as you can imagine, I was stunned frozen. It was both amazing and beautiful, but what was it? I’d never seen anything like it before or since and I’ve told the story so many times I can remember it like it was yesterday.  I seemed perfectly centered from left to right, beneath it and it was about 30 degrees south from directly over my head. This placed it over the shore of the Town Beach. There was nothing on that side of the street so my view was unobstructed. After about 30 seconds, the thing just shot straight back and disappeared into a clear sky full of stars.  Then suddenly, as quickly as it shot away, it came straight back to the same exact position and size with all the colors in the exact same places they were. It was only gone for about ten seconds. The speed was astonishing it took less than a second or about a second to travel the distance. From about a mile across to hundreds or even thousands of miles away in one second, WOW! It took no more than a second to return too. I remember thinking, “this is weird and I don’t think it’s from here” but here it was again.  This time it hovered for another 10 seconds beautiful and silent. Then again shot away for another couple seconds before shooting straight back to the same position and size. It went back and forth at the same speed 3 more times each time staying for about a second before shooting off for the last time. It was as if it was showing off its speed or something. I stood there still frozen for about thirty more seconds waiting for it to return. Then suddenly I was jolted by the realization of what I just saw. I instantly started running home the last three blocks faster than I’d ever run before. When I got home heart pounding, out of breath, I frantically told my older brother Frank, “I just saw a UFO!”  The next day, my brother told me that in the paper that other people reported it and that it was gases escaped from a test rocket.

That cover-story never sat right with me, I never heard of anyone testing rockets over populated New England towns. Anyway, since when does escaped gas take off and come back four more times before actually escaping? Now, what you should know is that the last contact was about a year ago which left physical marks on my person. Another thing is that a lot of very strange things have been happening to me since the first two contacts. These things probably number into the hundreds. However, it was the second encounter that altered my perception of reality. People have asked me if I was abducted, if it was aliens, if they did something to me? I don’t know if I was abducted I didn’t check the clock for missing time. I hadn’t heard the UFO missing time stories back then.  From what I understand however from a contact investigator and from documentaries, altered reality and extraterrestrial contact go hand in hand. Many people who have reported encounters have also reported lingering or permanent altered realities. Increases in paranormal activity, increases in synchronicity, psi events and so on. Also it has made me much more open to spirituality. Anything to me is now possible including the possibility of a greater consciousness and higher states of existence. I also feel a silent invisible presence just observing me, an almost tangible entity just beyond my five senses. I know it’s there and I know it’s aware of that. I don’t know what it or they are or what it or they want but I can psychically sense an existence just beyond my physicality.  

One of the very conscious conclusions I took away from this event was that I believe that whatever it was I saw in the sky, was there for ME! The way I was directly centered from left to right and the way it shot back and forth directly from my angle of vision are a couple of the things that years later would lead me to this conclusion. The accumulative effects of other anomalies before and after are other reasons. I also came to the conclusion that it wasn’t a craft but an entity. I believe from the rest of what has happened to me since, that there is an agenda I’m supposed to accomplish.  

NOTE: The above image is a rendering.   Deeper detail including the third contact and much more can be found in the newly published book “Sin Thesis”  This article was written using excerpts from the non-fiction book “Sin Thesis” available at Amazon written by the author Robert Torres. https://www.about.me/Towers3 

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Source: http://worldufophotosandnews.org/?p=8389

15-11-2014 om 23:56 geschreven door peter  

STRANGE UFO CRAFT WITNESSED OVER MANY STATES

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STRANGE UFO CRAFT WITNESSED OVER MANY STATES
 MARCH 15, 1995

 Traditionally, the Center identifies a given sighting by assigning to it the name of the nearest city, or other geographical feature or landmark. It the case of the cluster of sighting reports we received over the Hotline on the evening of March 15, l995, so many states and cities were involved, we are going to borrow a line from Shakespeare regarding the possible perils of that date…The first call we received was from Cannis City, FL, reporting that two males were walking along railroad tracks near that town and were stunned to see a luminous, white disc-shaped object streak across the sky, pass below or near several aircraft in the night sky, appear to ascend back up into the sky, and disappear to the north.

The report seemed to be sincere, and bore several of the hallmarks that the Center knows to be characteristic of legitimate reports. However, it was so much like so many other reports the Hotline receives on a regular basis that we were not yet alerted to the possibility that other reports were soon to follow…..The third call we received minutes later from a gentleman in Jackson, TN, who reported witnessing a blue-green “cloud of light” hovering in the night sky. He had seen it streak from the northwest beneath, he thought, almost solid overcast, hover for approximately 30 or 40 seconds, during which time he could almost see some kind of object apparently imbedded in the cloud of light. The object then began to drift generally to the southwest, the caller reported, at which time it belched out a large “cloud” of sparks, and then streaked southwest, quickly disappearing from sight.  Minutes later, we received a call from a sergeant in the Missouri Highway Patrol communications headquarters in Jefferson City (“Troop F”). The officer had been on duty that night at his station on the east side of Jefferson City, when together with two Jefferson City police officers, he witnessed an intensely bright, green light hover in the sky over Jefferson City for approximately 5-7 seconds. The object began to descend slowly, at which point its color changed to yellow, and then it simply disappeared from sight instantly, like a light being switched off. The patrol officer reported that their “911” emergency dispatch telephone line had taken many reports from citizens regarding the same object, and one caller reported that his cellular phone and radio went dead while the object was near his vehicle.  While I was speaking with the patrol officer, another call came in from a retired commercial airline pilot, who resides in Vienna, VA. He and his wife were driving back to their home in Vienna, just a few miles west of Washington, D.C., after having picked up their daughter at National Airport. Their daughter is an airline pilot for the same airline that her father had flown for, and from which he had retired.  As they were driving west (at a heading of approximately 250 degrees magnetic) on Westford Avenue (?), approaching the exit for Chain Bridge Road, the father and daughter both simultaneously observed an bright object, apparently at some distance from them, streak down out of the sky almost directly ahead of them, descending at approximately 70-80 degrees from the horizontal plane. They both expected to observe some kind of explosion when the object reached ground level, but nothing happened! Rather than explode, the object simply disappeared from sight–uneventfully– when it reached the horizon…
The next call came from Fairmont, WV, perhaps a hundred miles (or more) to the northwest of Vienna, VA. A young woman called to report that, after visiting with her mother in Westover, WV, she had just sat in the driver’s seat of her car to leave, when a bright light had streaked silently over her car at a breath-taking velocity. She added that as she glanced up at the light, she thought she could make out the outline of an “egg-shaped” object imbedded in the orb of bright light. The back portion of the object was bright yellow.  Many other calls were received that night, and over subsequent days, regarding what appears to us to be the same sighting. Thousands (!) of calls reportedly were received by radio stations and “911” facilities in St. Louis, MO, after the object passed over that city, and we received two very convincing call from western Illinois, as well.  In summary, it appears that one or more egg-shaped objects, radiating intensely bright green, blue-green, and yellow light, and periodically spewing out a cloud of sparks, streaked over at least seven states, stopping from time to time, and the whole event occurred in a matter of minutes!!  I would like to close discussion of the case by extending congratulations to Mr. Tom Eckhardt, and the other UFO investigators, of the Acteon Group in St. Louis for their excellent investigation of this case. From our vantage point, their investigation and documentation of the events that occurred over their state on March 15 was second to none, and we are grateful for their wonderful written report regarding the incident. 

NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
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15-11-2014 om 23:52 geschreven door peter  

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.
 

HYNEK’S FBI FILE  http://theblackvault.com/m/articles/view/FBI-Files-The-Paranormal-Collection  …. Thanks to WWW.THEBLACKVAULT.COM 

15-11-2014 om 23:49 geschreven door peter  

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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15-11-2014 om 23:46 geschreven door peter  

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.

15-11-2014 om 23:43 geschreven door peter  

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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15-11-2014 om 23:25 geschreven door peter  

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

{ http://www.nexus.fr/  }

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.”

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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

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