Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
02-01-2015
Hovering 'UFO' spotted at London New Year's Eve fireworks display - is it an alien craft?
Hovering 'UFO' spotted at London New Year's Eve fireworks display - is it an alien craft?
Eagle-eyed UFO spotters noticed the eerie green light hovering above the London Eye during BBC New Year's Eve coverage.
Presumed sightings of the strange and unusual are not uncommon at this time of year, thanks to the popularity of Chinese lanterns.
Spotted: The mysterious green light makes its way over the London Eye
But this unexplained craft flies in an unusual arc from behind the London tourist attraction, and then flies towards the opposite side of the River Thames.
The footage, posted on YouTube, prompted wide speculation whether or not it was an alien device - some argued it could just be a drone.
UFO expert Nigel Watson told Metro: "What strikes me is that whether the UFO is a camera drone or not it catches your attention despite all the fireworks blasting off all around it.
The meteor was seen from Maine to as far south as Maryland with the meteor believed to have struck somewhere in the eastern half of New York State.
The American Meteor Society immediately set up a report for the incident creating a live map which shows where and when the sightings took place.
While many took to Twitter to share what they saw, some had even managed to capture the event using smartphones or Dash Cams that were installed in their cars.
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Mac's UFO News - Volume III (UFO Sightings for 2014)
Mac's UFO News - Volume III (UFO Sightings for 2014)
Gepubliceerd op 2 jan. 2015
Volume III includes thirty two UFO cases, these objects were recorded from observers both on the ground & in the air from three different continants during the year 2014. All the cases included can be found in their entirety in the archives at the Mac's UFO News Blog; a link for which is included further down the page. Volume III also includes the Mac's UFO News review for 2014. This is a compilation video to mark three years of Mac's UFO News.
Mac's UFO News covers recent ufological events, sightings, article's, documentary's, pod casts, web casts, video specials & exopolitical events from around the globe. I produce a monthly news video highlighting some of the more important cases and news story's.
As a Ufologist, I am making such material available in my efforts to advance understanding of the UFO Phenomenon, Its cultural, historic, religious, defence and political implications. I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
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UFO Sightings 2015 : UFO Sighted Over Ferndale, California Just Before Earthquake
UFO Sightings 2015 : UFO Sighted Over Ferndale, California Just Before Earthquake
Down below UFO Sighting video was filmed over Ferndale, California, USA just before a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck the region off shore of Ferndale in the Pacific Ocean at a depth of 2 km on January 1, 2015.
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UFO mania: Mystery of the Tayos Cave - Legendary Metal Library Found in Ecuador
UFO mania: Mystery of the Tayos Cave - Legendary Metal Library Found in Ecuador
In what maybe one of the biggest discoveries ever, a team of explorers is claiming that they have found the legendary golden library and other mysterious treasures in the Tayos Cave system in Ecuador. The team announced that they accidentally found some hidden tunnels that were obviously dug out artificially sometime in the ancient past while inside one of the main chambers. The team was able to follow one of these tunnels for approximately ½ mile and came upon a large room containing the golden library and various other treasures.
Below is a list of what the explorers claim to have found in this chamber:
1. A library with thousands of metal books. The team was unable to specify what metal the books were made of but the look was similar to silver. Each page had symbols and strange writing on them.
2. Individual plates with writing on them and strange symbols that looked to be made of gold.
3. At least several hundred statues of insects, animals and humans spread throughout the large chamber.
4. Lots of metal bars thought to be both gold and/or silver. Also found were various children’s toys and jewelry items made from gold or silver.
5. One large sarcophagus containing one human skeleton decorated with jewels and golden jewelry.
6. The team also found at least three doors that could be more tombs but were sealed completely shut.
As of right now, the team has only announced their findings onto a radio show and no other announcements have been made so the jury is still out as too whether their claims are completely true.
The team did claim to have samples of at least one of the metal books, one golden plate and several small statues that they will be submitting to professional testing so hopefully this will give us answers shortly.
The story was unlikely to make the newswires, much less the major newspapers in the Northern Hemisphere, concerned as they were with celebrity gossip and political infighting. The event, after all, had transpired out where God lost his sneakers, as some would say, or the back of beyond, in the language of more polite society. For it was out in the alkaline deserts of Chile where a unit of the state police – the Carabineros – had suppressed a religious sect with very strange beliefs in the summer of 2010.
Law enforcement had arrested eight people in the community of Vilcún, charging them with belonging to a fanatical cult that revolved around the figure of an eleven year-old child known only as “La Princesita” – The Little Princess – having less to do with a Disney royal figure and more with an oracular child of ancient times. The eight members of the “family” – known as the Santa Ana Cult in the media – protested their innocence and their right to worship freely. “We are God's chosen, followers of Christ, and for that reason we are fearless. We have done no wrong.”
Major Jorge Alvarado of the Carabineros strike force noted that the male occupants of the home had long hair and beards, arguing that the law enforcement agents could not enter the premises because “it was holy ground.”
The authorities thought differently about the matter. Rural police officers had been violently chased away from the property during an attempted search, motivated by the fact that the girl had not been to school in months, much to the concern of officials. The toughened Carabineros had stormed the house with a warrant from prosecutor Omar Mérida only to discover that a sort of altar had been erected in honor of “La Princesita”, festooned with candles, religious imagery and statues. Ther was an even more ominous discovery: an assortment of firearms ranging from handguns to hunting rifles, ammunition, water bottles, batteries, flashlights and other supplies one might well stockpile in the light of an imminent disaster. Even more disturbing was a coal-black goat tied to a stake in the back yard – its purpose, said the police report, was unclear.
“The child told us a huge earthquake was coming, and we had to pray to stave it off. She has the visions, she speaks to the angels.” These were the words of clan leader Cesar Baeza as reported by El Austral de Temuco newspaper. Baeza had worked for years as the caretaker of Fundo Santa Ana (the Santa Ana estate) and he argued that the Little Princess had accurately predicted the February 27 earthquake that year. Angelic forces, he argued, had contacted the child and told her to build the altar. “They told us we had to pray a lot to scare the devil away. We prayed daily, some four times a day. She helped us fight the demons that sometimes came to the house at night.”
When asked about the weapons, Baeza argued that they were for protection against Mapuche indians bent on seizing the estate for themselves. Prosecutor Mérida was unmoved by these allegations. As far as he was concerned, “the group shows the characteristics of being a cult in the sense of having an intense, religious-type doctrine.”
Perhaps some supernatural forces aided and abetted the Santa Ana Cult. Two years later, a court absolved them of any wrongdoing, merely charging them with possession of unlicensed firearms and munitions. Whether the bearded men returned to worshipping their oracular child and fighting demons in dark is anyone's guess.
High Strangeness or Madness?
In mid-June 1997, the UFOR mailing list posted an item that remains shrouded in mystery. The list’s owner, Francisco Lopez, did his level best to glean further information on the subject even many months later, when I pressed him for assistance in writing the kernel of what would many years later become this article. But it was no use. In the age of the Internet, that hall of mirrors in which people can appear and disappear with impunity by changing e-mail accounts and assuming different names (and even identities), the source was well out of reach. The posted item may indeed prove someday to have been a compelling hoax, but there are certain details about it that have a ring of truth about them.
The narration begins in medias res, in the best tradition of classic epics:”.. I want to get the whole of the information first, and then release it, rather than just parts,” begins its author. “Also, I need to edit out certain portions. Certain information does not need to be released to the public. In some cases the less they know, the better; it allowed us to work with fewer interruptions.” He or she then adds, with chilling effect: “You should never be in the company of one with who you would not wish to die.”
This ominous opening would have soared to new heights were it not for the fact that the names and places mentioned in the message were redacted with a series of asterisks. The author, a man or woman with a military or law enforcement background, had participated in the raid of a compound which involved live arms fire in which “all brass was accounted for.” The compound, a privately owned skiing or hunting lodge, was then gutted and made to look abandoned by the government forces involved.
“As little evidence as possible was left,” states the cryptic author after indicating that a nameless group had been disbanded. “Only Terran humans were found, no XTs or Greys.”
This assertion might well relegate the unknown writer to the lunatic fringe, since belief and/or concern of the alleged alien Greys has waned in recent years. The message goes on to talk of how the “cult” in question had cooperated with a number of individuals over an unspecified number of years in the acquisition of “breeder semen from sperm banks” and from unsuspecting human males drawn into certain situations, only to be drugged and subjected to the removal of such a fluid with a syringe. It was then “flash-frozen by use of a portable D-flask of liquid nitrogen, to be stored at a central location,” according to the author.
A spec script for the X-Files or a description of a real event? The author continues:
“They used a group of “renegade” (omitted) as aids (sic) and “technical support,” with a high priestess working closely with the upper echelons of the (omitted). It appears that, despite the usual (omitted) beliefs, this priestess and her companions were heretics, if such a term can be applied to (omitted) at all.”
The cult mentioned in this mind-bending message appeared to be quite deft with the use of weapons, and a veritable arsenal of high-power rifles, shotguns and combat weapons, including “an HK-91 sniper rifle…a Steyr AUG Selective Fire Conversion, and a US Army M60, with about 7000 rounds of .30 cal ammunition…over fifty hand grenades, including explosive, flash, incendiary and smoke…180 kilos of Czech plastique explosive and over a hundred military squibbs (detonators),” are mentioned in the text. It is a supreme irony that this arsenal of death should prove comfortingly familiar within such a high-strangeness context.
The allegations continue: the cult members were in contact with a human group claiming to act on behalf of the “Greys” and capable of projecting images of the entities from opaque, vitreous cubes. Although the author professes being unable to examine this information for him/herself, the putative alien messages appear to have been linked with clandestine UFO landings. “Techniques have been used to confirm that at least one incident took place during May of 1995, but nothing further could be determined.”
Many UFOR subscribers read this message and many, upon reading this article, may question the wisdom of reprinting more unconfirmed UFO-related speculation. One guesses that the entire operation may have been a huge “psy-ops” exercise involving live fire, good guys and “bad guys,” with the entire alien scenario thrown in for good measure or even as a “sickener” factor for the trainees.
“He Died Like a Space Commander”
The alien action/adventure story posted to UFOR smacked more of science fiction than of Sigma Draconis until Argentinean researcher Andrea Perez Simondini—widely known in her country for her contributions to the study of UFO incidents along with her mother Sylvia, as well as for being an active political figure—forwarded a real-life account of a situation which, at first blush, hauntingly echoed the one scenario posted to UFOR.
“The mystery of the Radar 1 group has finally been solved,” noted Andrea in her letter. A contactee cult known as ASHTAR had apparently spawned a disturbed group of paramilitary types, led by one Guillermo Romeu, who assumed the name “Radar 1.”
The offshoot organization appeared to have been much more successful than its parent in gaining a following and making itself known. Romeu and his acolytes had access to the best technology and were not afraid to employ it: from their headquarters at 269 Wernicke in the village of Boulougne, Buenos Aires province, “Radar 1″ (publicly known as Iglesia Manantial, the Wellspring Church) broadcast its own brand of ufolatry over the FM airwaves. Their station boasted a recording studio with three consoles and mixing board for special effects, eight computers (whose hard drives had been erased prior to the raid by Argentinean authorities on January 12, 1998 and Romeu’s death by self-inflicted gunshot) and the same ominous arsenal as the improbable cult mentioned on the UFOR list: one surface-to-air missile, bullets of various calibers, gas masks, incendiary bombs, tear gas, Israeli-made Desert Eagle.50 caliber antiaircraft handguns (sic) of the kind used during the Gulf War, an approach radar, chemical sample analysis equipment, radiation, electromagnetic, electrostatic and heat detectors, etc. All of this gear was stored in a Bronco 4 x 4, which they would use for alleged field research.
Simondini’s letter explained that all of this lethal and non-lethal hardware had been paid for partly by the 400 to 4000 peso contributions of the cult’s membership and its affiliates. “We strongly believe,” she wrote, “that the sect is a facade and there exists a cover-up concerning the weaponry.”
Just who was this Guillermo Romeu? An electrician and occasional private pilot, he had joined a contactee study group directed by former UFO researcher Pedro Romaniuk before being expelled a year and a half later. It was during this time that the new cult was spawned, preaching messages received from the ubiquitous space brother known as Commander Ashtar Sheran concerning the “extraterrestrial evacuation plan.” In a clever move, the cult leader insisted on the group being widely known as Iglesia Manantial in order to draw recruits from a large membership pool composed by Pentecostal worshippers from other churches.
Guillermo Romeu claimed that his extensive offensive capabilities, gathered since 1991, were devoted to a single purpose: defense against the alien Greys, whom he characterized as “extremely hostile and [who] are using us as a source of food.” Two years later, his disciples were further cautioned that “an extraterrestrial race sent by the Antichrist prior to the Battle of Armageddon” would have to be held off by force of arms, thus prompting new arms purchases and further training. Radar-1’s members were not averse to parading around in full battle array, showing off their weapons and alarming the general public. They boastfully termed themselves “Grey Hunters.”
As in all cults, the price of dissent was high. Romeu was as authoritarian a leader as any, and those among his “Grey Hunters” who showed signs of wanting to part company with the group were threatened and harassed. Those who left lived in constant fear of being assassinated.
Romeu’s wife’s called it quits in 1997, taking Cristin, the couple’s seven-year old son, with her. The cult leader successfully gained the court’s permission to attend Cristin’s eighth birthday. To everyone’s horror, Romeu pulled a pistol from his jacket, stood straight, and placed a bulled through his right temple. “My father died like a space commander,” said Romeu’s grief-stricken son.
Cecilia Diaz, the late Romeu’s mistress, told the press that the cult would continue its activities from the location of San Isidro and would “have more weapons.” Argentina’s Secretary of Worship, Angel Centeno, ruled that the cult’s right to exist could not be challenged, as it was lawfully registered with his ministry. The Argentinean Foundation for the Study of Cults (FAPES) subsequently reported that Romeu’s right hand man, Brian Bach, had assumed the reins of the cult, and urged the country’s legislature to appoint a commission to study cults along the lines adopted by many European countries.
Space Brother Blues
If we can bring ourselves to play the role of Devil’s Advocate yet again, can we lend any credence to the UFOR story as representing a mop-up operation against a saucer cult in the U.S., much in the same way that Argentina’s government moved against Iglesia Manantial? That country’s authorities made it clear that the cult was not being prosecuted for its beliefs but for its stockpile of weapons—the same argument wielded against the Branch Davidians at Waco.
There was clearly nothing in common between the cults except for the fact that the belief in UFOs and aliens were reason for their existence—the latter cult armed itself to the teeth against them, while the former served up man in a platter to these forces. It can be noted that both episodes serve as bookends to the Heaven’s Gate and the Solar Temple suicides. The late ’90s were certainly not kind to saucer cults.
But Guillermo Romeu’s violence is reminiscent, to a certain degree, of the activities of Brazilian contactee/terrorist Dino Kraspedon, the nom de guerre of Aladino Felix, who underwent an alleged contact experience in 1952 which was true to the contactee fashion of the time—nocturnal encounters in the wilderness with saucers and their humanoid occupants, disquisitions on “Man’s place in the universe” and life on other worlds. Kraspedon’s non-human “handlers” apparently endowed him with psychic powers, giving him insight into future human events.
Kraspedon dropped from sight until 1968, when he was arrested under suspicion of terrorism (not at all unlikely, since Brazil at the time was seething with political unrest, best exemplified by the activities of Carlos Marighella, the “father of urban terrorism”). In his UFO Encyclopedia, saucer historian Jerome Clark notes that Kraspedon was sentenced in 1971 and to be remanded into the mental health system, after which he vanishes from the record.
Was Aladino Felix truly contacted by aliens and steered wrong into a life of crime? He apparently recanted his alien contact experiences publicly, which should put an end to the story. Nonetheless, the connection between alleged “alien contact” which translates into violence cannot be overlooked.
Pirophos, UMMO’s Little Brother
Thirty-two years after it first erupted on the scene, Spain’s UMMO hoax still commands attention whenever it is mentioned. While not strictly a cult, given its lack of a leader and clear-cut objectives believers in the planet UMMO and the benevolent “Ummites” certainly carried on in cultish fashion. “Its very name ought to have given it away,” says the hoax’s creator, Jose Luis Jordan Pena, referring to the fact that UMMO shared the same sounds when pronounced as the Spanish word for “smoke.”
Galician journalist Bieito Pazos managed to secure a lengthy interview with this fascinating character, gleaning details about the blond haired space people from the star Wolf 424 and more importantly, a true cult which was formed in the wake of the UMMO experiment: a gathering of very intelligent men and women known as PIROPHOS.
The interest expressed in Kirlian photography by certain members of Spain’s “Sociedad de Parapsicologia” prompted Jordan Pena to realize that people, regardless of their educational or economic background, are fascinated by any phenomenon from which light is issued in a strange way. This led him to create the fictitious deity “Pirophos” and gather some twenty-odd persons in a grimy room in Madrid. One of Jordan Pena’s co-conspirators, known only as “C,” read out a letter (a tool that had worked well for UMMO) to the congregation, from “our beloved charismatic leader Phoros,” living somewhere in the United States. As the lights went out, the parties in attendance were startled to see a bluish light issuing from C’s mouth—proof positive that the Great God Pirophos had chosen the speaker as the “regional Phoselek” for all of Spain.
The hoaxer told his interviewer that the bluish light was “a basic yet uncommon triboluminescent phenomenon which requires the use of habitual and easily digestible substances.”
But that wasn’t the only surprise the master hoaxer held in store for his well-heeled disciples: on a table covered by a purple cloth stood a large glass container which contained a scintillating light which bathed the faces of all present in an eerie glow. Many of the economists, doctors, and engineers present dropped to their knees in the presence of the Great God Pirophos—who was in fact an amalgam of bioluminescent bacteria in a nutrient agar culture. Later on, explained Jordan Pena, “Pirophos” would be created based on a compound of phosphorus diluted in kerosene or toluene.
The Pirophoreans (to give them a name) were entreated to follow a basic “moral code” crafted by the hoaxer himself: a commitment to study physics and biology, kindness toward spouses and children, and above all, to maintain their religion in strict confidence. The cultists were also told that their faith’s supreme leader was a man named George Lipton from Albany, N.Y. (Jordon Pena had successfully placed one Theodore K. Polk from Export, P.A. among the dramatis personae of the UMMO saga) who lived in complete seclusion due to having achieved the rank of “Phoros”—as high as could be achieved in the Pirophorean cult. Mr. Lipton owed his secrecy to the fact that his body now shone with a brilliant blue light…
“This was the ultimate reward,” Jordon Pena stated, “to become the God Pirophos himself—immortal before dying and immune from all diseases … my eschatology was simple enough: the world would end in the year 4634 due to the explosion of a supernova some 220 light years from Earth. At that time, all the adepts who reached the rank of Phoros would be forever joined to that universal light known as Pirophos.”
But in the early 90’s the master hoaxer decided to bring his cult to an end, much in the same way he had exposed UMMO. The cult’s members accepted the fact that they had been duped with a mixture of astonishment and amusement. “Only two,” Jordan Pena told Pazos, “insist upon remaining faithful to that mysterious light.”
Jordan Pena’s tone throughout the interview with Pazos is that of a mischievous schoolboy recalling youthful escapades. A highly educated man, the creator of the UMMO and Pirophos does not suffer fools lightly, and both of his fictitious communities seem to serve the purpose of holding human gullibility up to the harsh light of public scrutiny.
Conclusion
As we make the leap into the 21st century, many aspects of ufology can be safely deemed as no longer relevant. While there is a certain degree of hubris involved in the making of such a pronouncement, few will disagree that things like the “angel hair” which represented a major feature of field’s early days still retains any currency. The same applies to the “critters” or “zeroids” the troubled the sleep of many a researcher in the Sixties: either the phenomenon ceased to occur, or it still occurs but researchers have gone off to pursue more fruitful endeavors, like abduction research or Roswell.
While it is undeniably tempting to consign contacteeism to the graveyard of lost pursuits, the “kind space brothers” and their adepts enjoyed a resurgence in the latter years of the decade. The reasons for this range from disillusionment with formal ufology (which is seen as having failed to “explain” the UFO riddle) to a desire to merge spirituality and the ufological avocation into a single current. Some might find humor in the realization that the very same arguments put forth by scientists regarding the public’s dalliance with UFOs are similar to the ones used within ufology to explain the desertions within the field toward the “garden path” of contacteeism.
But 90’s (and early ’00’s)-style contactee groups seem to differ markedly from their mid-Century counterparts, showing a more volatile and violent face to world.
[Note - An earlier version of this article appears in PARANOIA: The Conspiracy Reader (2003)]
Travis Walton claims that in 1975, while working as a logger in Arizona, he and several co-workers came across a UFO in the forest which shot a beam of light at Travis. Frightened, his friends fled the scene. When they returned Walton was gone. Walton recalled waking up on the side of the road; he thought only a few hours had past, but he had actually been missing for 5 days. He later recalled being on the craft and the strange creatures that were there with him.
Travis Walton is the subject of the Paramount Studios movie, Fire in the Sky, based on his book of the same name. His close encounter has become recognized as the best documented case of alien abduction ever recorded. Mr. Walton speaks to audiences and media around the world to share what it has been like living through the ordeal of the experience and its aftermath. He presents the evidence for the incident and takes wide ranging questions from the audience, which usually results in bringing out new perspectives and bits of information previously overlooked. www.travis-walton.com
Linda Moulton Howe will be presenting exciting new developments about the mysterious unidentified lights, beams and craft seen by at least 30 military men the last week of December 1980 and afterward in Rendlesham Forest, the area between RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, England. Accompanying her will be two of the major witnesses to the event, John Burroughs and James Penniston.
Linda Moulton Howe is an Emmy Award-winning TV producer, investigative reporter and author who goes directly to the men and women at the forefront of science and environmental challenges and to firsthand eyewitnesses of high strangeness. www.earthfiles.com
James Penniston was an Air Force Staff Sergeant at a joint U.S. Air Force and Royal Air Force base at Bentwaters. On December 26, 1980, he was sent to investigate strange lights on the forest. In the forest he came up to a triangular craft that was able to examine up close. This was part of one of the most well documented UFO sightings in history, referred to as the Rendlesham Forest Incident.
Leslie Kean is a widely published investigative journalist and author of the book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record, a New York Times best seller. With a foreword by former Clinton chief-of-staff John Podesta, the book includes exclusive contributions from generals, a former governor of Arizona, and other high level officials from nine countries. These sources have agreed to write their own detailed, personal stories about UFO encounters and investigations, for the first time.
Leslie Kean is an independent investigative journalist who has been published nationally and internationally. She is coauthor of Burma’s Revolution of the Spirit. Kean began publishing on the UFO subject in 2000, when her feature story about the French COMETA Report appeared in the Boston Globe. In 2002, she co-founded the Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFI), an independent alliance advocating for greater government openness on information about UFOs and for responsible coverage by the media based on a rational and credible approach. As director of the CFI, she began working on the Kecksburg UFO case in 2002, with the cooperation of Stan Gordon. Kean was the plaintiff in a successful, four-year Freedom of Information Act federal lawsuit against NASA, in which the agency was required to release hundreds of documents under court supervision. She and her coalition have launched an ongoing initiative to affect U.S. government policy so that scientists and aviation authorities can gain greater understanding of the still-unexplained UFO phenomenon. Kean was a producer for the 2009 independent documentary I Know What I Saw directed by James Fox. She lives in New York.
Case 1. Circular cloaked object and greenish object over Denver, Co
Witness report: “My wife and I were driving South on I-25 from Denver to Lone Tree, CO. US on November 17, 2014. I noticed two circular, large objects at very high altitude. They appeared to be moving slowly East.”
“I asked my wife to take photos of the objects, but not through the windshield. She used her iPhone 5S to take several (6-10) photos holding the phone outside of the passenger window facing the phone South.”
“Unfortunately, she deleted most of them after we got home because they were not good shots of the sky (she thought I wanted pictures of the “pretty” clouds).”
“The one remaining shot did not reveal the orange objects that I saw, but a greenish object in the upper right portion of the photo.” Mufon case 62218.
Editor’s note: the large circular object could be a lenticular cloud or a so-called UFO-cloud, but it remains a question whether it is a cloaked UFO or not.
Original photo.
Case 2. Accidental observation photographing sunset Tucson AZ, US
Witness report: “Taking photographs of beautiful Tucson sunset on December 28, 2014. Saw it in the picture when I snapped it. A missile or something else”? Mufon case 62221.
GREAT PHOTO OF A UFO CRAFT OVER LONG ISLAND N.Y. AUGUST 28, 2011 …… NISSEQUOGUE NEW YORK
Category three hurricane hit Puerto Rico and the Great Antilles in late August 2011. Named as Hurricane Irene, it was considered as the worst storm with 120 mph winds. It caused significant storm surge and flooding, especially in Nissequogue, NY. Pronounce as NISS-ə-kwog, the Suffolk County bayside community is located on Long Island’s north shore.
A local boat owner, identified as Charlie, was so concerned about the safety of his vessel. He decided to check a webcam regularly that monitored the Defeo Marina, located five miles at Port Jefferson, where Charlie’s boat moored. On August 28, Sunday, at around 2:30 pm, Charlie checked the flood condition through the camera. Charlie then claimed that he saw a large silver object that appeared to be disc type in the sky above the flooded bay. He watched the strange activity for a few minutes as the aerial object hovered while rotating around. His initial thought was a weather balloon, but he noticed that it had lines and did not look like a balloon at all. Charlie took three images from the live webcam that were around 10 seconds apart. The screenshots show a disc-shaped flying object rotating in the camera. Unfortunately, Charlie found out upon speaking to the marina management that the live cam was not recorded. Charlie said that there were severe weather warnings during his UFO sighting, and most of the communities were evacuated. He also noted that there were no planes permitted to fly in or out of the regional New York airports during that time. Charlie later decided to file a report along with his photos to Mutual UFO Network. His testimony is recorded in MUFON’s witness reporting database, case 31318. THANKS TOWWW.MUFON.COMCASE FILES. KEN PFEIFER WORLD UFO PHOTOS AND NEWS WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOSANDNEWS.ORG WWW.WORLDUFOPHOTOS.ORG
Happy New Year! We at UFO Digest wish you and yours the best for 2015. We begin this newsletter an article about New Year’s resolutions and more by Pat Regan. Then, Chris Holly discusses 2015 and the meaning the life. Next, Nick Pope in his monthly column writes about debunking UFO myths. Doc Vega presents evidence on advanced U.S. technology and the credibility of witnesses. Next, Robert Torres expounds on The Philosophy of Time! Then, Brad Steiger writes about his strangest UFO abduction case. Scott Corrales investigates unusual UFO cults and more. Cheryl Costa reminds us of a 1966 UFO sighting at Lake Tiorati, New York. New contributor Rainbow Radaelli explains the differences between Dopelgangers, twins and clones. Ghost hunter Paul Dale Roberts explores the haunted gold rush town of Columbia. Finally, Dennis G. Balthaser explores what’s happening at Area 51. EnjoyDirk
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NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, BOGUS FRIENDS AND PSYCHIC VAMPIRES...DO YOU HAVE ONE ON YOUR BACK?by Pat Regan.
So, do you have a psychic vampire on your back that is outwardly so agreeable that you feel too uncomfortable to simply cast it off? They are not aliens and they are not any kind of alleged demons they are simply the lower forms of humanity who wish to use you unfairly to meet their own needs! More... Also read: ANOTHER UFO CLOSE TO RAF WOODVALE AIRBASE PHOTOGRAPHED BY LOCAL SCHOOLBOY
NEW YEAR, 2015 AND THE MEANING OF LIFE!by Chris Holly.
Often at this time of year I think of the meaning of being here in this human form living this human life. I am grateful for a season to reflect and realign with the reasons for life or as many describe it, “the meaning of life". I believe in the soul and think each of us as spirits walking this earth in human form to learn and experience life in order for our souls energy to learn what it is to have free will and to live life making choices each day that involve using that free will to do good or bad with whatever decisions are placed in our path. More..
UFOLOGY - DEBUNKING SOME MYTHSby Nick Pope.
Very often, in ufology, claims are bandied around so frequently that they become accepted as truths. This applies across the board. Some of these ufological tropes are spouted by true believers, others by die-hard debunkers, and some by the agnostics. Accepting clichés as being true without challenging them is bad in terms of critical thinking, so in this column, in no particular order, I’ll examine and deconstruct some of the most popular false claims that one hears about UFOs and ufologists. More..
EVIDENCE SHOWS U.S. TECHNOLOGY FAR BEYOND OFFICIAL LEVELSby Doc Vega.
The damning aspect of new technology that could transform our society with high speed travel, low cost energy, communication break-throughs, and many other elegant forms of development is that it is hidden, and not introduced as practical application. For some time now it has been rumored that NASA’s use of gigantic booster rockets to launch limited payloads expending thousands of pounds of solid fuel is nothing but an obsolescent dog and pony act that makes no reference to the mammoth advancements already being in existence! These sporadic launches are merely to distract us from the true developments obscured under the wraps of classified programs. More... Also read: DECADES LONG QUESTION OF WITNESS CREDIBILITY OVER UFOS Also read: DECADES LONG QUESTION OF WITNESS CREDIBILITY OVER UFOS - PART II
THE PHILOSOPHY OF TIMEby Robert Torres .
Have you ever wondered what is meant by a moment in time? To capture a moment in time we have to combine slices upon slices of infinitesimal imaginary finites. To get to a moment we will remember there has to have once been a now! What after all is “NOW” or “real time,” and how long does it last? I’m talking about right now. Well by the time you get to the end of this sentence, it is already in the past. I mean it’s easy to imagine past, or future, but “now” (this moment) lasts how long? Does it last a second? To me it’s like that needle on a record or the laser on a DVD. The record is your life and the needle is where your consciousness of now is at any given time. The rest of the record has either played or it hasn’t but the needle is constantly moving. So this time in existence is always fleeting and only lasts from nanosecond to nanosecond anything other than that is either future or past. Yet, believe it or not there is an answer to how long now is. More...
MY STRANGEST UFO ABDUCTION CASEby Brad Steiger.
Those readers familiar with my work know that I am quite skeptical about the vast majority of abductee reports. Listening to abductees tell about their having been taken up through ceilings, out through walls, levitated out windows and taken to an alien spaceship or medical laboratory seem more to me like bizarre visionary or hallucinatory experiences. I have no doubt that something unusual, something very special, happened to these experiencers--but what? More...
UNUSUAL UFO CULTS ARE BEING INVESTIGATEDby Scott Corrales.
The story was unlikely to make the newswires, much less the major newspapers in the Northern Hemisphere, concerned as they were with celebrity gossip and political infighting. The event, after all, had transpired out where God lost his sneakers, as some would say, or the back of beyond, in the language of more polite society. For it was out in the alkaline deserts of Chile where a unit of the state police - the Carabineros - had suppressed a religious sect with very strange beliefs in the summer of 2010. More... Also read: UNKNOWN OBJECT OVER THE IGUAZU FALLS IN ARGENTINA
UFO 1966 – THE LAKE TIORATI, NEW YORK, UFOby Cheryl Costa.
Twas the week before Christmas in 1966, when twenty-three-year old Vincent and two pals decided to do a little winter fishing. The winter weather was rather temperate for December so they decided to do their fishing at a spot along the Hudson River, about 40 miles north of New York City. More..Also read: THE 2011 NISSEQUOGUE UFO INCIDENT.
THE MILEAU AND CORRELATION BETWEEN DOPELGANGERS, TWINS AND CLONESby Rainbow Radaelli.
Sometimes reality and the truth of our perceptions, collide and what we are left with is fragments, a semblance of both, immersed into one another. A dip in a pool can send off shockwaves, alerting anything close by, that we are near, yet our very movement, changes the still waters of their existence. So it is with this thought of the constant converge and diverge of life, that I often wonder the, “what if” between doppelgangers, twins and clones. Have you ever wondered how they are all different from each other, perhaps not by much but enough to establish the definitive and unique peculiarities between them? Still, these peculiarities are the comparable qualities that connect them to each other. The question is, how are they defined by society? More....
THE HAUNTED GOLD RUSH TOWN OF COLUMBIA, CALIFORNIAby Paul Dale Roberts.
Columbia is an incredible historic town. The original indigenous people were the Miwok. Rev. John Steele wrote a memoir of his life in the gold rush town and talked about the Miwok in his story called In Camp and Cabin. More...
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WHAT'S HAPPENING AT AREA 51?by Dennis G. Balthaser.
The secret base 85 miles northwest of Las Vegas Nevada, commonly known as Area 51, has been surrounded with mystery and rumors since it was first opened in 1955 by the CIA, to test the U-2 spy plane. We now know that every new aircraft developed since then has been test flown there before the public became aware of its existence. As an example, the F117-A Stealth Fighter arrived at Area 51 in 1977 for test flights, and was not made public until 1990, 13 years later. More...
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Twas the week before Christmas in 1966, when twenty-three-year old Vincent and two pals decided to do a little winter fishing. The winter weather was rather temperate for December so they decided to do their fishing at a spot along the Hudson River, about 40 miles north of New York City.
To the east of them, on the shore of the Hudson, was the Indian Point Nuclear Power Station. On the western shore of Hudson was Harriman State Park.
The three young men were involved with the art of their fishing when suddenly something strange was spotted in the sky over or near Lake Tiorati deep in the Harriman forests.
Vincent tells us, “Suddenly a rare object of bronze color appeared, making no noise and its size was approximately 6 meters” (diameter).
Twenty-three-year old Vincent snapped four photos. Later the US Air Force – Project Blue Book representatives later did a scant investigation and quickly labeled the sighting photos a hoax. Later the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) studied the photos and interviewed the three men who witnessed the UFO event. NICAP investigators found no evidence of any hoax. This photo is in the archives of the Best Photos of UFOs website. (NICAP case 661218)
Lastly, it should be noted that the Indian Point Nuclear Power facility is just a mere three miles to the east of Lake Tiorati. The nuclear facility was ground zero for many high visibility Triangle and Chevron UFO sightings in the 1970s and 1980s.
Very often, in ufology, claims are bandied around so frequently that they become accepted as truths. This applies across the board. Some of these ufological tropes are spouted by true believers, others by die-hard debunkers, and some by the agnostics. Accepting clichés as being true without challenging them is bad in terms of critical thinking, so in this column, in no particular order, I’ll examine and deconstruct some of the most popular false claims that one hears about UFOs and ufologists.
“Why would UFOs need lights?” – This one is often trotted out with a knowing sneer by people whose point is that if UFOs are alien spacecraft, there would be no need for them to display lights. However, even if we accept that UFOs are extraterrestrial spaceships, we have no idea what the alien agenda might be, so we can make no meaningful assumptions about whether or not UFOs would emit light. It might be for reasons we could understand (anti-collision lights, a byproduct of a power source, etc.), or it might be for some reason we could never fathom. Assumptions about what UFOs and extraterrestrials would or wouldn’t do are inevitably rooted in anthropocentrism, and should almost always be avoided. As the UK’s Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, once said, when speculating about extraterrestrials, “Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there are aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains … the problem is that we’re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.”
“UFOs wouldn’t come all the way to Earth and then crash at Roswell”. The assumption here seems to be that with sufficient technological advance comes a sort of magical point at which accidents never occur; parts never fail, operators never make a mistake; etc. We only have one model to look at (our own), and everything in our own human experience suggests that however more advanced our technology becomes, we’ll never be able to design, for example, an aircraft that would never crash.
“Aliens wouldn’t come all the way to Earth and then [give an anal probe to some redneck/make a strange pattern in a wheat field/insert any other number of ufological clichés here]”. Again, if we’re being visited by intelligent extraterrestrials, we have no idea what their agenda is. Thus, we have no idea what they would or wouldn’t do. Add to this, we may be misinterpreting the experience. As John Mack, a former Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, once observed, many abductees report what appear to be medical procedures, but even if all the abductee accounts are truthful and accurately recalled, all we could really say with any degree of confidence is that the things being described sound similar to some medical procedures. The reality, as Mack pointed out, may be that what’s going on is something entirely different.
“Astronomers don’t see UFOs”. Yes they do. Google is your friend. On a related issue, being an amateur astronomer does not make someone an expert on UFOs, any more than knowing a bit about UFOs qualifies someone to start lecturing astronomers about titanium oxide production in K-type stars. Bear that in mind the next time you hear an amateur astronomer trying to convince you that they’re an expert on UFOs. This is a logical fallacy known as “an appeal to inappropriate authority”. Just because someone knows something about x, it doesn’t follow that they’re an expert on y, even if x and y might – at first glance – seem to have something in common. So just because someone can point out the location of the planet Venus in the night sky, it doesn’t follow that they can determine whether or not a particular UFO witness misidentified Venus.
“It would be arrogant to assume that we’re the only life in the Universe”. If I had a dollar for every time I’d heard this pro-alien life, pro-UFO argument, I’d have a lot of dollars. It’s a nice sound-bite, and this quote (and a number of variations on the theme) is actually a corruption of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun’s observation that “It would be the height of presumption to think we are the only living things in this enormous immensity”. However, neat sound-bite though it is, there’s probably a stronger argument, which goes beyond mere numbers. The point could probably be better made thus: “Given that the laws of physics and chemistry seem to be constant in the observable Universe, the same processes that gave rise to life on Earth should occur on countless other planets, meaning that unless one thinks life on Earth is some sort of cosmic miracle, the Universe should be teeming with life”.
“People on the UFO circuit are only in it for the money”. A few may be, but most aren’t, and if they are, they’re in for a rude awakening. If you see someone in the vendors’ room at a UFO conference, selling their own books and DVDs out of a cardboard box, the chances are they’re not getting rich from it. Most UFO books are self-published, or put out through publish-on-demand firms, or small, specialist New Age/paranormal presses. And so far as the handful of books with more mainstream publishing houses are concerned, the days of six figure advances for UFO books are long gone. But if ufologists do make some money from their books and DVDs, what’s wrong with that? They’ve done the research and produced the material. Does making a profit somehow invalidate one’s work? “I’m sorry Professor Hawking, but I can’t take any of your scientific achievements seriously, because you’ve written books about your work”. See how crazy this sounds?
“There’s no money in ufology”. This one sounds like the opposite of the previous point, and it’s equally false. Of course there’s money in ufology. It’s just that, for the most part, it’s not being made by ufologists! There are, however, plenty of TV networks, film companies, advertising agencies, PR firms and book publishers who make money from the subject. Try working out how much Steven Spielberg made out of UFOs.
In summary, always challenge the clichés that crop up so frequently in ufology, and bear in mind that just because you hear something all the time, it isn’t necessarily true.
Nick Pope is a former employee of the UK Ministry of Defence. From 1991 to 1994 he ran the British Government's UFO project and has recently been the public face of the ongoing initiative to declassify and release the entire archive of these UFO files. Nick Pope held a number of other fascinating posts in the course of his 21-year government career, which culminated in his serving as an acting Deputy Director in the Directorate of Defence Security. He now works as a broadcaster and journalist, covering subjects including space, fringe science, defence and intelligence. Nick Pope’s latest book, Encounter in Rendlesham Forest , co-written with John Burroughs and Jim Penniston, was published by Thomas Dunne Books on 15th April and is available via Amazon and all good bookstores.
Volgens geheime gelekte documenten is er op dit moment in de Oekraïne sprake van aanzienlijke lekkage van radioactief materiaal uit een kerncentrale.
Voor de tweede keer binnen een paar weken wordt een reactor stilgelegd en zijn er vreemde lichten te zien boven het vliegveld van Donetsk.
De grootste kerncentrale van Europa staat in de Oekraïne. In het zuidoosten, ongeveer 50 kilometer van de stad Zaporizja en direct aan de rivier de Dnjepr.
Enkele dagen geleden verschenen er berichten op Zerohedge dat deze centrale een soort noodstop heeft gemaakt omdat er radioactieve lekkage zou zijn opgetreden. Eerder werd dit in alle toonaarden ontkend door de Oekraïne, maar het schijnt toch waar te zijn. Oekraiënse wetenschappers hebben de bevolking misleid want er is wel degelijk een lek waardoor de hoeveelheid straling voor de burgers ongeveer 16 keer hoger is dan de toegestane veiligheidsnorm.
De Russische publicatie Life News is in het bezit gekomen van geheime gelekte documenten waaruit blijkt dat ondanks dat er lekkage is, er bewust misleidende informatie op de website van de kerncentrale wordt geplaatst over dat er niets aan de hand zou zijn. Terwijl in de onderschepte documenten die opgesteld zijn door de Nooddiensten van de Staat en gericht zijn aan regionale nood- en hulpdiensten, wordt gesproken over straling hoger dan 16 keer de toegestane limiet.
Afgelopen zondag werd één van reactoren, unit nummer 6, automatisch afgesloten vanwege een probleem. Dit was al de tweede keer de afgelopen weken dat een operationele reactor werd stilgelegd. Later werd gemeld dat de problemen waren opgelost en dat reactor nummer 6 weer normaal dienst deed.
Eind november werd unit nummer 3 voor ongeveer een week stilgelegd in verband met kortsluitingsproblemen. Ook dit werd in eerste instantie volledig stil gehouden en pas 5 dagen na het stilleggen publiekelijk bekend.
De Zaporizja Kerncentrale is ontzettend belangrijk voor de Oekraïne want hij voorziet in de energiebehoefte van eenvijfde deel van het land.
Dan is er altijd weer de factor toeval en timing. Net nu dit alles speelt rondom de kerncentrales maakt de Oekraïne bekend dat ze van leverancier gaan veranderen voor wat betreft hun nucleaire brandstof. Dit was tot nu toe altijd het Russische bedrijf TVEL, maar die is enkele dagen geleden verwisseld voor het Amerikaanse Westinghouse. Enkele dagen geleden werd de overeenkomst getekend door beide partijen in Brussel en zal zeker tot 2020 duren.
Rusland is hier uiteraard niet blij en reageert via het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken met het volgende tweetbericht:
Allemaal toeval? Of speelt hier nog veel meer dat wij niet weten. Zodanig dat zelfs de buitenaardsen er zich maar mee gaan bemoeien.
De volgende opname werd gemaakt door RT en laat boven het vliegveld van Donetsk in het oosten van de Oekraïne een aantal merkwaardige lichten zien die duidelijk niet van een vliegtuig afkomstig zijn.
Wat doen deze UFO’s daar? Heeft het te maken met de problemen met de kerncentrales in Zaporizja? Een afstand van slechts enkele honderden kilometers van Donetsk.
5 historische aanwijzingen dat reuzen op aarde hebben geleefd
5 historische aanwijzingen dat reuzen op aarde hebben geleefd
Er zijn veel verhalen over een reuzenras dat in de oudheid naast de moderne mens leefde, maar om onbekende redenen is verdwenen. Het enige bewijs voor het bestaan van deze reuzen bestaat uit getuigenverklaringen of overleveringen, dus het is onduidelijk waarom ze precies zijn verdwenen en of ze echt hebben bestaan.
Megalithische bouwwerken in Ecuador
In 2012 ontdekte een onderzoeksteam in het Amazoneregenwoud in Ecuador een aantal ruïnes (foto). Het gaat mogelijk om de resten van een piramidecomplex. In de verloren stad zouden reuzen hebben geleefd, schrijft de krant Epoch Times.
Het boek ‘The Myths of Mexico and Peru’ van Lewis Spence
Spence schreef: Volgens een Maya-legende werd de laatste reus op aarde – Cabrakan – vergiftigd door een tweeling waardoor hij ‘geen aardbevingen meer kon veroorzaken’.
De Amerikaanse president Abraham Lincoln
“De uitgestorven reuzen, wiens botten de heuvels van Amerika vullen, sloegen de Niagara gade.” Sommigen zijn van mening dat Lincoln met de term ‘reuzen’ verwees naar mammoeten of mastodonten.
Ontdekkingsreiziger John Smith
In 1608 schreef Smith: “De Sasquesahanougs (een indianenvolk) vormen een reuzenras. Ze maten het kuitbeen van de langste man en zagen dat het 70 centimeter lang was.”
Ontdekkingsreiziger Hernando de Soto
De Spaanse 16e-eeuwse ontdekkingsreiziger Hernando de Soto schreef over mannen die een halve meter langer waren dan zijn langste soldaten.
Kepler’s New Mission Discovers First Alien Planet Called The Super Earth
Kepler’s New Mission Discovers First Alien Planet Called The Super Earth
Kepler lost its two reaction wheels, but this did not stop the NASA’s spacecraft to search for alien planets. Indeed, the space telescope discovers alien world again in its new mission. Since operating back again from a malfunction in May 2013, the spacecraft found its first new extraterrestrial planet named HIP 116454b, also called as the super Earth mainly because it is larger than approximately 2.5 times than planet Earth. Lies in the constellation Pisces, in 180 light-years from Earth, the newly discovered alien planet is near enough to be studied by other instruments, according to scientists.
The reborn of Kepler has been even better because the first discovered planet is ripe for follow-up studies, said scientist Andrew Vanderburg of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
Launched in March 2009, Kepler was on a 3.5-year mission to determine the number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists have discovered close to a thousand confirmed planets through Kepler. More than 50% of these known alien worlds are believed to be the real deal, along with approximately 3,200 other candidates.
In May 2013, Kepler’s second of its four reaction wheels malfunctioned. These wheels are necessary for precise pointing. However, the letdown did not stop the team to find a way to increase the stability of Kepler. Members of the team used the subtle pressure of sunlight to provide a solution to the stability issue then proposed a new mission named K2. The new Kepler’s mission would continue the hunt of exoplanet and study other cosmic phenomena as well as space objects.
Twelve times more massive as compared to Earth, the HIP 116454b is approximately 20,000 miles wide and its density suggests that it’s either a small version of Neptune with large, thick atmosphere or primarily covered by water.
The distance between the newly discovered world to its host star is 8.4 million miles or 13.5 million kilometers. Its host star is an orange dwarf, slightly smaller as well as cooler than the sun in the solar system. HIP 116454b completes an orbit every 9.1 days.
The planet’s close distance to Earth means it will be a top target for telescopes in space and on the ground.
A local of Colorado claimed to have spotted a lighted object hovering above nearby mountains in Colorado Springs. The aerial thing in the sky appeared to be a horseshoe in shape that quickly disappeared, according to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Case 62085 from witness reporting database.
The reporting witness was driving together with his wife on December 16, 2014, when a UFO was observed over the north ridge of Pikes Peak.
While moving west on Vindicator, the couple saw a light that had a shape of a horseshoe. The wife managed to take two photos of the strange object in the sky using a cell phone.
The reporting witness said that the pictures, which were both taken at 4:48 p.m. on December 16 using an iPhone 5s, aren’t as detailed as what they observed, but a light can be seen with a sense of direction.
The reporting witness explained that the brightness of the object at dusk made them noticed the object. They both had no clue what it might have been when they first noticed it, but the reporting witness’ wife first thought it was some type of a rocket.
As described by the witness, the light or object was just over the north ridge of Pikes Peak having a yellow-orange-reddish light that was dazzling. It has a horseshoe shape with shoe-like ends that pointed down and turned at an angle. Upon turning, they saw an opening at the bottom as well as the arch at the top. The UFO seemed to be moving in southern direction in a slow manner and then hovering afterwards.
The couple had witnessed the entire UFO activity for two minutes before the object disappeared without a trace. After their sighting, the couple tried to search the internet for an explanation, but they could not find one until they stumbled with MUFON.
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