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27-12-2017
Will the next UFO disclosure be
Will the next UFO disclosure be "biological threats from outer space?"
That may sound like a misguided question. But let's look at Tom DeLonge's company, currently acting as a conduit for new UFO revelations.
DeLonge (twitter), a famous musician (Blink-182, Angels and Airwaves) has surrounded himself with high-level spooks from the CIA and the military, in his new venture, To The Stars Academy (twitter).
One of his lead collaborators is Luis Elizondo, who was the Pentagon chief of a secret program (2007-2012) to study and explore UFO activity. Elizondo is now the point man for media, explaining the breaking news about a 2004 US military sighting of a UFO, and subsequent failed attempts to analyze materials from UFOs. He's also hinting that alien UFOs are a potential threat to our safety, a threat we can't ignore.
Every major press outlet in the world, starting with the NY Times, is covering this story.
Who are the players on De Longe's team?
Buckle up. The following quotes are from the Academy's site:
Jim Semivan -- "Mr. Semivan retired from the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Operations after 25 years as an operations officer, both overseas and domestically."
Hal Puthoff -- "Dr. Puthoff's professional background spans more than five decades of research at General Electric, Sperry, the National Security Agency (NSA), Stanford University and SRI International. Dr. Puthoff regularly advises NASA, the Department of Defense and intelligence communities..."
Luis Elizondo -- "Luis Elizondo is a career intelligence officer whose experience includes working with the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence. As a former Special Agent In-Charge, Luis conducted and supervised highly sensitive espionage and terrorism investigations around the world. As an intelligence Case Officer, he ran clandestine source operations throughout Latin America and the Middle East."
Chris Mellon-- "He served 20 years in the federal government, including as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush Administrations."
Paul Rapp -- "His past honors include a Certificate of Commendation from the Central Intelligence Agency for 'significant contributions to the mission of the Office of Research and Development'." (Note: This office, ORD, was where the CIA's MK ULTRA mind control program secretly landed, in 1962, after it purportedly ended.)
Norm Kahn -- "Dr. Kahn had over a 30-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency..."
That's quite a roll call of military and intelligence insiders. Did DeLonge recruit them, or did they covertly recruit him, viewing him as a sincere, but rather clueless front man they could use for their own purposes?
But let's go one layer deeper with a few of these names on Tom DeLonge's team at the To the Stars Academy.
Dr. Norm Kahn's career with the CIA "culminat[ed] in his development and direction of the Intelligence Community's Counter-Biological Weapons Program."
Dr. Rapp "is a Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University."
Dr. Garry Nolan, another Academy adviser, "is the Rachford and Carlota A. Harris Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine...He holds a B.S. in genetics from Cornell University, a Ph.D. in genetics from Stanford University.
Luis Elizondo's "academic background includes Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, with research experience in tropical diseases."
And finally, another Academy team member, Dr. Adele Gilpin, "is a scientist with biomedical academic and research experience as well as an active, licensed, attorney."
Why are all these medical people on board, along with intelligence and military players? Microbiology, parasitology, immunology, genetics, biological weapons? What do these fields have to do with UFOs?
It doesn't take a great deal of imagination to come up with a few answers. Military and intelligence and microbiological people, working together on UFO scenarios, could easily concoct "threat assessments" focusing on "unique viruses coming to Earth from space." Via drift, or even through "aliens" visiting from afar.
I say "threat assessments," because that is how these people think and how they spin.
Don't be too surprised if you hear language like this emerge:
"We must prepare for all eventualities. After all, if we aren't alone in the universe, we could be subject to life forms at the micro level we aren't ready for, and to which we have no natural immunity..."
When your professional background is inventing enemies, there are no limits to the scenarios you'll dream up.
Suppose we soon hear this: "Dr. X has suggested the need for extensive research on possible vaccines against a whole range of unknown viral species from outer space..."
The CEO of Merck would sit up straight and grab the phone. He would want to talk to his contact at the Defense Department. He smells a new government contract.
A few big shots at the US Centers for Disease Control would huddle in a meeting. How can they get in on the action? Perhaps they can find an astrobiologist who'll claim "the possibility of human disease originating in space has been considered for many years. We've always been puzzled by the genetic makeup of certain viruses. When you consider that components involved in the formation of Earth itself could have come from distant space, these components certainly could have carried microbes with them..."
Yes, that would be a start. "And if, in fact, we have had 'visitors,' wouldn't they carry their own set of unique viruses?"
"The 1967 Outer Space Treaty was one of the few things the U.S. and the Soviet Union managed to agree on at the height of the Cold War. Among other things, it forbid both nations from bringing space microbes back to Earth, or spreading Earth germs to other planets.
"Mostly, they [scientists] worry about single-celled, microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, some fungi, and viruses -- or whatever the alien version of single-celled life looks like. We know for certain that bacteria and viruses can survive exposure to the harsh conditions of space long enough to hitch a ride to someplace more hospitable [like Earth].
"Once they [Apollo mission personnel] returned to Earth, the crews went into immediate quarantine. First they lived in a mobile isolation unit on the aircraft carrier that recovered the landing capsule, then in an aircraft set up for isolation, and finally in a special quarantine unit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. They stayed there for three weeks, while NASA doctors performed tests and watched for any signs of illness that might indicate an alien infection."
Perfect. The intelligence and military and medical people at DeLonge's Academy could cook up "space-virus" scenarios in a heartbeat. And with a series of press statements, they could pitch a threat assessment to the press. They already own a direct pipeline to the NY Times, which tells you they have an official green light to move forward.
We're looking at something extraordinary here. A rock musician, who's been intensely interested in UFOs for years, starts his own Academy, and he's instantly surrounded by important CIA and Pentagon and medical players. They have access to the most powerful press outlets.
They've already sold a story about military contact with a UFO, and another story about pieces from a UFO that resist all attempts at analysis. It was a remarkably easy sale. Poof. No problem.
Why not hoist up the flag on bio-threats from deep space? Carefully craft the language. Peddle that tale, too.
There are lots of payoffs. Raise the public level of fear. Always a goal when the CIA and the Pentagon are in the game. Stimulate government contracts (big money) for new medical research. Use this research as a cover for yet more (illegal) work on offensive bio-warfare programs. Hell, if they're going to go that far, why not claim the Russians have already isolated viruses from space and are developing super bio-weapons -- and you have the makings of a brand new shiny Cold War.
Too wild to be believed? No, not really. When you own the basic narrative, and you have good propagandists at your disposal, the sky's the limit.
Or in this case, space.
It may be the Final Frontier of exploration, but it's also the frontier of sheer fabrication.
"Are you ready, boys? All right, let's go. Work it. Work the new virus-from-space scenario. This is a big one. All hands on deck. Sell it. Sell that jive. The New York Times is panting for more. Give it to them."
There are rumblings in Congress about resurrecting the Reagan Star Wars plan to build space weapons, which would intercept enemy nuclear missiles. Why not piggy-back a staggeringly expensive program to install "virus detectors" in space, to alert the government to "incoming microbes" from Out There -- or from purported Russian "bio-attacks?"
"They'd never be able to sell that idea."
Really? Given enough time and propaganda, and given control of the basic narrative, government scientists can sell almost anything.
For decades, they've been selling the concept and practice of taking babies and toddlers, who possess almost no immune systems of their own, and injecting them with brews of toxic chemicals and microbes -- known as vaccination -- in order to stimulate and produce immunity in those non-existent immune systems.
Back in the mid-1990s, a whole brew of hysteria was whipped up about the Hot Zone. The thesis went this way: Because of the ease of global travel, all sorts of dangerous viruses, buried for centuries in Africa and the rainforests of South America, were going to come to the West and kill untold numbers of people, who had developed no natural immunity to them. Books and articles and films about this threat appeared.
Well, the next great Hot Zone story would be Space.
And To the Stars Academy has the right people on board to promote and hustle it.
Plus, on the side, DeLonge's Academy can always use all those medical experts to analyze an alien ET body that suddenly pops up in a locker at Area 51.
Photo showing Devils Tower in northeastern Wyoming. As in the movie, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," UFO enthusiasts, in July of this year, were headed to the strange geological formation in the Equality State.
During the early 1990s, soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, I was among the first Americans to visit Russian space organizations and facilities. On one of those numerous trips, I was invited to a private dinner at the home of a senior professor of the Moscow Aviation Institute, a leading university for training aerospace engineers and cosmonauts. An event of that evening produced a surprise which remains entirely baffling to this day.
Displayed on my host’s wall, was a framed picture of the Buran spacecraft, a virtual Russian copy of our U.S. Space Shuttle, photographed at their Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. The image also showed what clearly appeared to be another spacecraft — one that was entirely unfamiliar — hovering higher above the same launch pad. Likely due to altitude, the image of the second vehicle was quite small in comparison with Buron.
Before mentally attributing any significant importance to that matter, I casually quipped that it looked like a "flying saucer" was observing launch preparations. Without replying, professor Vladimir Malozemov produced an enlarged image which exclusively centered upon that object. Its cylindrical, perfectly symmetrical form left no doubt that it was, indeed, very purposefully crafted.
Although passing decades have robbed my memory of a better description — and Dr. Malozemov is no longer living — I fully expect that other copies of that photograph still exist. I also recall that he told me of many other similarly unexplained Russian sightings having been reported. He had no reason to impress me with a fictional account — nor was there any indication to suggest that he was any less bewildered regarding the subject than I was.
I am prompted to recall this strange occurrence now because of news that that the Pentagon has recently admitted spending more than $22 million between 2007 and 2012 for a little-known project to investigate UFOs called "The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program" (AATIP).
The program was quietly inserted within the Defense Department’s $600 billion budget by then-Senate majority leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., a long-time proponent of the possibility of intelligent life both within and far beyond the Democratic Party, even Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. He was supported in this enterprise by former and now-deceased senators Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, both World War II veterans.
Harry Reid was urged to initiate AATIP by his long-time friend (and mine), Robert Bigelow, a billionaire founder of Bigelow Aerospace (BAA) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
BAA is developing expandable ("inflatable") modules for space tourism, with the goal of establishing a "hotel" in lunar orbit by the mid-to-late 2020s. The company has already launched three test prototypes into Earth orbit, including a habitable Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) which is attached to the International Space Station.
Robert Bigelow is passionately committed to unveiling mysteries surrounding "paranormal" events. Working with the U.S. Government’s AATIP program, he has modified some BAA buildings to accommodate storage of materials reportedly recovered from unidentified aerial phenomena.
In 1995, Mr. Bigelow established a National Institute for Discovery Sciences (NIDS), to study various fringe science and paranormal topics, most notably ufology. The following year he set up NIDS research operations on a ranch he purchased in northwestern Utah where strange events and sitings, including animal mutilations and lights in the ground and sky, had occurred.
Several years ago, Robert told me that a surveillance monitoring video camera mounted on a high pole, had been mysteriously removed within view of a continuously active camera on a second pole which failed to detect the event. He thought this was very strange — and it seemed so to me as well.
Although reportedly now cancelled, the ATTIP program, working in conjunction with Mr. Bigelow, has produced documents that describe sitings of aircraft that appear to move at very high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion, or which hover with no apparent means of lift. It has also collected and studied video encounters between unknown objects and American aircraft.
One video released in August, shows a whitish oval object, about the size of a commercial aircraft, being chased by two Navy F/A-18F fighter jets from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off the San Diego coast in 2004. The voice track affirms that the pilots are excitedly confused regarding its identity.
ATTIP was preceded in similar investigations by other now-cancelled government programs. Project Sign which began in 1947 in response to a wave of "flying saucer" reports, was replaced by Project Grudge, which ended its work in 1951 after investigating more than 250 cases. Project Blue Book, the longest and most well-known, was disbanded in 1969.
So finally, what have we really learned? Are there some super-secret technologies out there that either our government or others are hiding from us? Are far more intelligent aliens with warp drive cosmoscraft cruisers finding us interesting enough to warrant worm hole trips? Frankly, I don’t have a clue.
Larry Bell is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) and the graduate program in space architecture. He is the author of "Scared Witless: Prophets and Profits of Climate Doom" (2015) and "Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax" (2012). Read more of his reports — Click Here Now.
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UFO secrets SOLVED: Experts reveal if 2018 is the year of ALIEN discovery
UFO secrets SOLVED: Experts reveal if 2018 is the year of ALIEN discovery
EXPERTS have had their say on the significance of 2017's UFO sightings and whether they mean an alien breakthrough could be imminent in an exclusive chat with Daily Star Online.
It has been a fascinating year in the search for alien life.
We have seen objects appear close to the International Space Station, UFOs stalking planes in Merseyside and groundbreaking NASA discoveries.
So, with many believing 2018 could be a breakthrough year, Daily Star Online has sat down with two world-leading experts to hear their thoughts.
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UFOs: Will we see alien life in 2018?
Nick Pope is a former Ministry of Defence employee best known for the role he undertook in investigating UFO sightings for the British Government.
In an exclusive chat, Nick revealed what he thought of a clip – shown above – allegedly showing a UFO.
Observers believe the footage shows a US spy plane encountering a 130ft flying object with 20 flashing lights near Cyprus.
And Nick claims it may be genuine, admitting: “This is an absolutely fascinating video.
“This is a case from the MoD's UFO files. Not only did I work on these real life X-Files, but I've been the public face of a ten-year project to declassify and release most of this material.
“The investigation into this incident was undertaken by my predecessors, but I'm aware of the case. It was a genuine unknown.
“Incidents like this, where there were multiple military witnesses and highly classified investigations show that whatever the truth about UFOs, the mystery raises important defence, national security and air safety issues.
"It's a perfect illustration of how the media and the public were misled.”
Despite hope it could change in the year to come, there has been a lot of concern among the UFO community as to whether NASA is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial life from the public.
The video below is just one of many from this year that space boffins claim are attempted cover-ups.
Nick believes these kind of clips have a lot of contributing factors as to whether they are UFOs, but also believes NASA has no reason to hide anything.
He said: “It's notoriously difficult to judge the size, distance and speed of an object in space.
“I think UFO hunters misunderstand agencies such as NASA and ESA. Far from being the sort of organisations that would cover up evidence of an extraterrestrial presence, they'd shout it from the rooftops.
“These people want to find aliens, not hide evidence of them."
Partly agreeing with Nick, Philip Mantle believes that with the technology available these days, we should be doing a better job at capturing UFOs.
Mantle, a highly regarded and active British researcher of UFOs, said: “The question is why, despite the millions of cameras that are available do we still have poor quality film and photos of alleged UFOs?
“The fact is that the percentage of UFO reports that remain unidentified is well under 1%.
"In short, genuine UFO sightings are extremely rare, therefore the chances of actually capturing one of film is almost, but not quite, impossible."
The video below – that appears to show a mysterious green orb floating above a mountain – is an example of UFO footage captured poorly, Philip believes.
He added: “In our modern society today there are CCTV cameras everywhere and countless millions of mobile phones that have as a built in feature the ability to to take still photos and videos.
“But when it comes to UFO video footage the results, and let's be honest, are poorer than ever.”
Nick agrees that while there have been an increase in the number of sightings, many of them are in fact, far from UFOs.
He said: “Firstly, there's a lot of hoaxing in this subject. However, even where we can be sure the images are genuine, they're often indistinct, and ambiguous.
“In most cases these are misidentifications of aircraft, drones, satellites, meteors, fireballs, stars and planets, Chinese lanterns, weather balloons and all sorts of other other objects and phenomena.
“In other cases, they're the result of lens flare, other reflections, dust or dirt on the lens, or a technical problem with the camera.”
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Existence of advanced UFOs 'beyond reasonable doubt', says ex-Pentagon official
Existence of advanced UFOs 'beyond reasonable doubt', says ex-Pentagon official
London [UK], Dec 26 (ANI): There have been many debates surrounding the existence of UFOs and aliens.
But, according to a former Pentagon official, the presence of an alien craft on earth has been proved "beyond reasonable doubt," according to The Telegraph.
He said, "In my opinion, if this was a court of law, we have reached the point of 'beyond reasonable doubt'. I hate to use the term UFO but that's what we're looking at. I think it's pretty clear this is not us, and it's not anyone else, so one has to ask the question where they're from."
A number of details about the project remain classified but Mr Elizondo revealed that considerable work had gone into the project - sufficient enough to map patterns of behaviour.
The team identified movements and trends that were not like anything else "in the world".
They also discovered "hotspots" during their investigation, which were often near nuclear facilities and power plants.
Describing the findings, Mr Elizondo noted, "Extreme manoeuvrability, hyper-sonic velocity without a sonic boom, speeds of 7-8,000mph, no flight surfaces on the objects. A lot of this is backed with radar signal data, gun camera footage from aircraft, multiple witnesses."
The Pentagon said funding for AATIP ended in 2012, but Mr Elizondo said his team's UFO work carried on for another five years. (ANI)
Some major news organizations reported the other day that our government has been actively investigating UFOs in an effort known as the "Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program."
One story, by reporter Eli Rosenberg of the Washington Post, said this previously under-the-radar program, which resurrected much of the mission behind the government's long-defunct Project Blue Book (that explored essentially the same reports of unexplained aerial phenomenon) was in full swing between 2007 and 2012. Some aspects of it continue.
A compelling story contained in the report kept under wraps by the Pentagon until this month details the experience of former U.S. Navy Cmdr. David Fravor, who during his time in service said he witnessed a UFO.
It was Nov. 14, 2004, when Fravor was leading a squadron of F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets in an exercise off the southern California coastline when he saw an object the size of his plane and shaped like a Tic-Tac.
"It was a real object, it exists and I saw it," he told the reporter, emphatically adding that it was "something not from the earth."
The story said he was ordered to head about 60 miles west of his squadron's location to investigate unidentified flying objects that were descending from 80,000 to 20,000 feet before disappearing. On scene, Fravor said they could see the object, flying around a frothy patch of whitewater in the ocean.
"A white Tic-Tac, about the same size as a Hornet, 40 feet long with no wings," Fravor described to Rosenberg. "Just hanging close to the water." The object created no impressions on the water. Pilots pursued the object.
"As I get closer, as my nose is starting to pull back up, it accelerates and it's gone," Fravor said. "Faster than I'd ever seen anything in my life. We turn around, say let's go see what's in the water and there's nothing. Just blue water."
Fravor said as his plane headed back to the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, a separate crew headed out to search. They were able to track it for about 90 seconds and shoot video. He said his superiors didn't seem that interested. So, in what's become normal fashion from those who don't share similar experiences firsthand, they took a ribbing from their colleagues. He didn't talk about it much afterwards, Fravor said.
Fravor retired in 2006 and later shared the story with family and some who asked about it. Then in 2009 a government official contacted him while doing "an unofficial investigation." Luis Elizondo, an intelligence officer who later contacted him, "ran the secretive program at the Department of Defense that was just disclosed," Rosenberg wrote.
Interestingly, Elizondo also has since left the government and works for the private To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, which hopes to further promote UFO research. Elizondo is a large part of why the story is in the news; he was responsible for the release of three UFO videos from the Pentagon, including the video made on the same day and place as Fravor's experience.
Fravor said he realizes sharing his story has subjected him to some good-natured teasing but believes what he witnessed should be more closely studied.
"I don't think I was a nutjob as an officer in the Navy. I wasn't drunk, I don't do drugs. I got a good night's rest, it was a clear day," he told the reporter. "I think someone should have looked into it. Having talked to some of the other folks, it's a big frustration that it's coming out now and wasn't discussed back in 2004."
Fact is, Fravor's story especially resonates with me after my experience living at Fort Chaffee in 1957. I was 10 years old and had headed just before darkness fell with my 7-year-old brother, Grant, to ogle a firetruck that arrived with red lights flashing to extinguish a blaze three blocks down the street from our home.
We watched for 10 or 15 minutes until I looked up to see it had become fully dark. Knowing we'd be in trouble, I grabbed his hand and we began hurrying back to the house when we arrived beneath a streetlight intersection and something made me look up.
There, sitting silently a few hundred feet above us, was a large, glowing sphere that was pulsing light from bright to slightly dimmer. I asked my brother to look up and he immediately became frightened, asking what the massive thing was.
As surely as Fravor saw what he did in 2004, I knew what I was witnessing.
We watched for less than a minute as this brilliant mystery hovered. It seemed so odd for something this large not to be making a sound. Then it began to move slightly and in literally a flash, this glowing oval zipped over the horizon.
So when I read so many highly credible stories like Fravor's and realize there are untold numbers out there with similar untold accounts, I realize there is so much more about this impossibly complex universe comprised of energy frequencies we don't comprehend.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Dr. John Alexander is a retired Colonel in the U.S. Army, where he worked in intelligence and had participated in projects where they explored paranormal phenomena. He also formed a group of colleagues in intelligence to look for government UFO secrets. Since leaving the Army, John has worked at Los Alamos and is a defense consultant specializing in non-lethal weapons.
Nick Pope worked on the UK government’s UFO project in the Ministry of Defense in the 90s. He has since continued to offer his take on the UFO topic and consults with the UK government on UFOs in regards to media relations.
In this interview, we get insight from John and Nick into the recent news broken by The New York Times, with releases by Poltico and The Washington Post within hours, that the Department of Defense has had a secret UFO project since 2007. News outlets around the world are covering the story, and these guys are in high demand, so we are very lucky to have been able to speak with them. Outside of those directly involved, these are two of the most qualified to speak on this matter.
Ancient astronomical observatory discovered in Peru
Ancient astronomical observatory discovered in Peru
500 years before the Egyptians, an ancient civilization in Peru built incredible Pyramids ·
Excavation efforts at the archaeological site of Espiritu Pampa, in the Cusco region in Peru, resulted in the discovery of huge stone walls, an astronomical observatory, and spaces with animal teeth, silver objects, ceramic vessels, tupus, and other evidence of the Wari and Inca cultures.
Specialists of the Decentralized Directorate of Culture of Cusco (DDCC) who maintain meticulous work in Espíritu Pampa, located in the jungle of Vilcabamba district, La Convención province, confirmed the recent findings.
Illustrated here are some of the recently excavated artifacts belonging to the ancient Wari Culture, Peru.
Images credit: ANDINA/Difusión
Javier Fonseca, an archaeologist who heads the multidisciplinary team, explained that the walls of a huge temple form a letter D, a characteristic feature which makes it clear that this architecture is typical of the Wari culture that originated in Ayacucho and extended all the way to Cusco.
In the center of the building, archaeologists discovered another small structure that also has the shape of the letter D, which because of its symbolic and expressive location, is considered to have served as an astronomical observatory or a place where the ancient Wari performed magical and religious rituals.
Inside the interior of the large structure archaeologists also discovered two spaces built with small stone slabs.
Images credit: ANDINA/Difusión
Fragments of animal remains were discovered inside, together with two ceramic bottles of notable Wari style, a silver pectoral and a crown or silver headdress.
One of the bottles of the ancient Wari depicts the face of a human being characterized by enormous eyes, nose, and mouth.
However, the most striking detail say researchers, is the crown that is painted on the head, which indicates that Espiritu Pampa was occupied by characters of the ruling elite during the peak of the Wari culture.
On the side of the large enclosure in the shape of the letter D, an Inca signature structure was discovered by experts, with quadrangular and rectangular design, inside which were pins (called tupus), silver needles and ceremonial ceramics.
All these artifacts belonging to pre-Hispanic cultures will be submitted to the conservation process at DDCC’s Physical Chemistry Unit for subsequent investigation.
Researchers find the oldest ‘Marine Monster’ that once lived on Antarctica
Researchers find the oldest ‘Marine Monster’ that once lived on Antarctica
It is a 150 million-year-old carnivorous marine reptile that exceeded six meters in length. It was discovered in the Antarctic Peninsula, at a new paleontological site located 113 kilometers southwest of the Marambio Base.
As you’ve probably found out by now, Antarctica was a really different place in the distant past.
Despite the fact that Antarctica we know today is covered in snow and ice, millions of years ago, this place was teeming with life.
Now, researchers have discovered the fossil remains of a carnivorous marine reptile that lived 150 million years ago on Antarctica.
It is a plesiosaur more than six meters long.
Dr. Gouiric Cavalli, Dr. José O’Gorman and technicians Juan José Moly and Leonel Acosta Burllaile camped in this new paleontological site for 40 days.
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The discovery is of great importance as it is the first record of a plesiosaur of the Jurassic period in Antarctica. The remains were excavated by paleontologists from the University of La Matanza (Argentina) in the Antarctic Peninsula, at a new paleontological site located 113 kilometers southwest of the Marambio Base.
Paleontologist José Patricio O’Gorman, a researcher at the Museo de la Plata (MLP) and CONICET, told the CtyS agency “this plesiosaur record is 80 million years older than what was initially known for Antarctica.”
Researchers say that they are positive it is a plesiosaur but not specifically which genre or variety it belongs.
Image Credit: CtyS
“It was the first paleontological campaign that we carried out in this outcrop, which is like a frozen, 150 million-year-old sea in an excellent state of conservation”, highlighted the main author of the study that was accepted to be published in the scientific journal Comptes Rendus Palevol.
Dr. Soledad Gouiric Cavalli, MLP and CONICET specialist in the study of Jurassic creatures, told the CtyS Agency that “when walking through the deposit we found a great diversity of fish, ammonites, some bivalves, but we did not expect to find a plesiosaurus of such antiquity; it was amazing”.
The excavation site is located 113 kilometers southwest of the Marambio Base.
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“The find is quite extraordinary because the site does not have the type of rocks in which you can find materials preserved in three dimensions, as is the case of the vertebrae of this marine reptile,” explained the researcher.
The area where the discovery was made can only be reached after a two-hour flight by helicopter from the Marambio Base, so the researchers highlighted the excellent logistics provided by the Argentine Antarctic Institute (IAA).
Dr. Marcelo Reguero pointed out that “these rich and unique deposits in marine Jurassic vertebrates belong to the time when Antarctica was part of the Gondwana continent and was next to Australia, New Zealand, India, Madagascar, Africa and South America.”
The temperature of the seas was much higher 150 million years ago and the world map was very different.
According to Dr. José O’Gorman, this plesiosaurus, besides being the first of its kind in the Jurassic in Antarctica, serves as evidence in favor of the possibility of the dispersal of these reptiles by means of a passage that existed between Africa and Antarctica, which at that time had just separated.
The elements that make up our bodies and everything around us are born inside stars. This new X-ray image shows them being released into space.
Meet Cass A. It’s what’s left after a star exploded as a supernova, some 11,000 light-years away. This colorful image from Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the location of different elements, newly released by the explosion. We can see the location of these elements, because each produces X-rays within narrow energy ranges.
Chandra X-ray Observatory released a new wonderful image (above) this month of Cassiopeia A, a well-studied supernova remnant. Cass A is what is left of a star that exploded and that must have appeared in Earth’s sky some 300 years ago. The expanding cloud of material left by the supernova now measures approximately 10 light-years across from our earthly perspective. What’s cool about this X-ray image are different colors, which show the presence of different elements, including silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green) and iron (purple). These are the elements in our bodies and all around us on Earth and in space. They are indeed created inside stars and released to space by supernovae. The blast wave from the Cass A explosion is seen as the blue outer ring.
A statement from Chandra said:
Astronomers have long studied exploded stars and their remains — known as ‘supernova remnants’ — to better understand exactly how stars produce and then disseminate many of the elements observed on Earth, and in the cosmos at large.
Here’s a breakdown of the colors in the new X-ray image of Cassiopeia A. Silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green) and iron (purple).
Bottom line: A new X-ray image from Chandra shows different colors, showing the release of different elements, including silicon (red), sulfur (yellow), calcium (green) and iron (purple). These elements may eventually find their way into new planets, and perhaps new living creatures.
Evidence of life processes found in fossils in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks. Scientists say this work suggests life in our universe is widespread.
J. William Schopf and colleagues from UCLA and the University of Wisconsin analyzed the microfossils with a cutting-edge technique called secondary ion mass spectroscopy.
This month, scientists from UCLA and the University of Wisconsin–Madison announced the results of their analysis of rock samples found decades ago in Western Australia. They say the rocks contain fossils of 3.465-billion-year-old microorganisms, the oldest ones known. The study’s lead author – paleontologist J. William Schopf of UCLA – collected the fossils in 1982 and interpreted them then as early life. Critics had argued they were just odd minerals that only looked like biological specimens. The new study shows that two of the species appear to have performed a primitive form of photosynthesis, another apparently produced methane gas, and two others appear to have consumed methane and used it to build their cell walls.
Thus, according to these scientists, the new findings show the microfossils are indeed biological. Plus, they said, the fossils provide:
… strong evidence to support an increasingly widespread understanding that life in the universe is common.
Their work was published December 18, 2017 in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
These scientists say their work strengthens the case for life existing elsewhere in the universe because, they say, it shows a diverse group of organisms had already evolved extremely early in the Earth’s history. That early earthly life — combined with our knowledge of the vast number of stars in the universe and the growing understanding that planets orbit so many of them — suggests life is common in the universe. Schopf commented in a statement:
… it would be extremely unlikely that life formed quickly on Earth, but did not arise anywhere else.
The microfossils came from the Apex Chert, a rock formation in Western Australia. This area is among the oldest and best-preserved rock deposits in the world.
The scientists say their study is the most detailed ever conducted on microorganisms preserved in such ancient fossils. They said their study is:
… the first to establish what kind of biological microbial organisms they are, and how advanced or primitive they are.
The study describes 11 microbial specimens from five separate taxa. According to these scientists, some represent now-extinct bacteria and microbes from a domain of life called Archaea, while others are similar to microbial species still found today.
The scientists analyzed the microorganisms at the Wisconsin Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer Lab (WiscSIMS) in Madison. It is one of just a few places in the world where this type of work can be done. Secondary ion mass spectroscopy revealed the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 isotopes in the fossils.
The scientists then were able to use this information to determine how the microorganisms lived. The study’s co-author, geoscientist John Valley of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said:
The differences in carbon isotope ratios correlate with their shapes. Their C-13-to-C-12 ratios are characteristic of biology and metabolic function.
When these fossils were formed, these scientists said, there was very little oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere. In fact, oxygen would have been poisonous to these microorganisms, and would have killed them, they said. Oxygen first appeared on Earth approximately half a billion years later, before its concentration in our atmosphere increased rapidly starting about 2 billion years ago. Thus, at the time these ancient microorganisms were alive, advanced photosynthesis didn’t exist yet.
The scientists also said the very existence of the rocks they analyzed is remarkable. That’s because the average lifetime of a rock exposed on Earth’s surface is about 200 million years. William Schopf commented that, when he began his career, there was no fossil evidence of life dating back farther than 500 million years ago. He added:
The rocks we studied are about as far back as rocks go.
An example of one of the microfossils discovered in a sample of rock recovered from the Apex Chert. A new study used sophisticated chemical analysis to confirm the microscopic structures found in the rock are biological.
By 3.465 billion years ago, life was already diverse on Earth; that’s clear — primitive photosynthesizers, methane producers, methane users. These are the first data that show the very diverse organisms at that time in Earth’s history, and our previous research has shown that there were sulfur users 3.4 billion years ago as well.
This tells us life had to have begun substantially earlier and it confirms that it was not difficult for primitive life to form and to evolve into more advanced microorganisms.
Schopf said scientists still don’t know how much earlier life might have begun. But, he said:
… if the conditions are right, it looks like life in the universe should be widespread.
Geoscientist John Valley, left, and research scientist Kouki Kitajima collaborate in the Wisconsin Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer Lab (WiscSIMS).
Bottom line: Scientists analyzed fossil microorganism specimens from 3.465 billion years ago, providing strong evidence to support an increasingly widespread understanding that life in the universe is common.
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Why people lie about being abducted by aliens
Why people lie about being abducted by aliens
Harley Tamplin for Metro.co.uk
Hoaxes are common and even easier to create than ever with modern technology
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Some people have gone through their entire lives adamant that they shared an encounter with a genuine, real-life alien.
Others have produced what they claim is definitive proof of extra-terrestrial life – blurry video clips of mysterious figures, or unexplained images purportedly showing UFOs in the sky. But for every account that ufologists deem worthy of further investigation, countless hoaxes are invented to shame, embarrass or poke fun at a community desperate to make an historic breakthrough.
These can range from little white lies that are instantly dismissed by experts to scandals that rock the community having been regarded as truthful for decades.
What isn’t a mystery to researchers is why people go to the trouble of attempting to fool them.
The Rendlesham Forest incident is the UK’s most famous sighting According to Philip Mantle, a world renowned UFO researcher and author with 40 years in the field, there are three reasons why people lie about alien sightings.
They are simply to create ‘mischief’, to make money by selling their story to media outlets, or to make UFO experts look gullible and foolish.
Mr Mantle told Metro.co.uk: ‘It can be damaging when a hoax does slip through the net and appears on TV or in newspapers. It does cast a shadow on that subject.
‘There is also a small number of researchers who will never admit it is a hoax..
‘They have such a strong belief that there is no amount of evidence that will prove to them it is a fake.’
Plenty of people lie about seeing UFOs
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Mr Mantle has a ‘guilty until proven innocent’ policy, regarding any ‘evidence’ he receives with the utmost suspicion.
Such an attitude is even more important in an age where anyone can edit or adapt footage and photographs, making cons even harder to uncover.
5 most searched selfies of 2017 have some crazy stories behind them Mr Mantle added: ‘There needs to be more diligence now then there ever was. But equally, the tools to investigate claims are more readily available.
‘I think those that have been a hoax, I have managed to show that is exactly what they were. But we are all human and they can slip through the net.
‘A lot of them are not deliberate hoaxes but genuine mistakes, or it might be an individual who is sceptical who will conduct a hoax to show how gullible UFO experts are.’
Larry Warren has been accused of lying about witnessing the UFO at Rendlesham Forest
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When a possible fake story does slip through the net – and when the suspected hoax is a significant account of one of Britain’s most famous UFO sightings – the repercussions can be seismic.
Larry Warren, who claims he witnessed a UFO landing in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk in 1980 and later co-authored a book about the incident, has been accused of making the whole thing up.
Mr Warren has stood by his account – but his co-author Peter Robbins has said he feels ‘deceived’ and the publisher of their book has suspended distribution.
Nick Pope, a former UFO expert for the Ministry of Defence, has criticised Mr Warren over the incident.
Describing Mr Warren as an ‘attention-seeker’, Mr Pope said people who make up false stories are ‘crackpots, frauds and charlatans’.
He told Metro.co.uk: ‘While there can be many motivations for hoaxing, the most common one is attention-seeking. It’s a case of the nobody who wants to be a somebody.
‘In relation to UFOs it’s particularly effective because hoaxers are pushing at an open door, given that the UFO community has a strong will to believe.
‘Hoaxers take advantage of this by telling people exactly what they want to hear, shaping their lies to fit people’s existing belief system.
‘Mud sticks, and a single hoax can be remembered long after years of good quality research and investigation have been forgotten. The danger is that people throw out the baby with the bathwater, dismissing the UFO phenomenon as a whole.
‘The exposure of the Larry Warren fraud has damaged the standing of the case itself, even though most of the story is verified by declassified Ministry of Defence documents. But, for a while at least, all people will remember is ‘that guy who made up a crazy UFO story’.’
UFO experts agree that something mysterious happened in the forest in 1980
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Cosimo, the publisher of ‘Left at East Gate: A First-Hand Account of the Bentwater-Woodbridge UFO Incident, its Cover-Up, and Investigation’, has suspended distribution of the book.
In a statement, Cosimo said: ‘It has been brought to our attention that some of the experiences described in this book may be inaccurate or embellished.
‘As an independent publisher, we look for quality books in a wide range of genres from public affairs and personal development to history, philosophy and niche subjects such as ufology, and then make a determination whether these books fit well within our catalogue.
‘At this moment, we cannot be certain that Left at East Gate still meets this standard. Consequently, we have decided to suspend the distribution of this book, until the situation surrounding it has been clarified to our satisfaction.’
Mr Warren has insisted his version of events really happened.
The December 15th New York Times story that revealed a secret Pentagon UFO program that reportedly operated from 2007 through 2012 still has media outlets and UFO researchers reacting.
This UFO program was revealed by military intelligence official Luis Elizondo back on October 11, 2017 during the launch event for To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science (TTS/AAS)—a new science, aerospace, and entertainment company founded by musician and serial entrepreneur Tom DeLonge. At this event, Elizondo, who served as senior intelligence officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, announced that he had headed up “a sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies.” And he alleges the program is still operating. His statement that an official UFO program currently exists was surprising enough. But he added that, through his time working on the project, he “learned that the phenomena is indeed real.” The main significance of the New York Times article is the confirmation from the Pentagon that, at least from 2007-2012, the program did, in fact, exist.
Elizondo left his Department of Defense (DoD) position to join other former high-level government/military officials and scientists at TTS/AAS. This organization just launched its Community of Interest—an online platform designed to “enable interdisciplinary collaboration on reporting and analysis of anomalies among the public at large, academia, industry partners, government and every level of law enforcement.” It was on this platform that two declassified UFO videos (which were included in the New York Times story) were published.
Many UFO researchers are understandably excited by the Pentagon’s acknowledgement of a recent official UFO study. But it’s important to avoid the desire to fill in the blanks or make more out of this information than actually exists. Here are five things to keep in mind when navigating the sensational headlines about this story and the hype it has created:
1. Official UFO Studies are Cool. But They’re Not New.
Governments around the world actively study UFOs. The US government has conducted multiple studies on the subject, notably Projects Sign, Grudge, and Blue Book.
Project Sign (1947) – First official U.S. Air Force UFO investigation.Project Grudge (1949) – Established with a mandate to explain away all UFO sightings and to foster the idea to the media and the general public that UFOs were just silly nonsense.
Concluded that extraterrestrials were the best and likely explanation for some of the UFO incidents studied.
Project Blue Book (1952) – A 17-year study that investigated more than 12,000 UFO reports. And of those, 701 couldn’t be identified.
Although we know the US government officially investigated UFOs in the past, the recent confirmation of a contemporary government UFO study is noteworthy. It affirms what many have suspected for so many years: The government is still interested and concerned about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, despite actively denying this for decades.
2. Sorry, but this is not the “Disclosure” you’re looking for.
Many are cheering, viewing the Pentagon’s confirmation of its UFO program as the grand Disclosure many hope to receive from the government. But nothing has really been disclosed, from an official level, other than the existence of a program to study and identify aerial threats. The government has not announced that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth, or that the anomalous objects studied by the program were found to be extraterrestrial in origin. Luis Elizondo has voiced his personal opinion that evidence supports the ET possibility. UFO history is filled with former high-level government and military officials who have made extraordinary claims, or have voiced their pro-ET opinions. But no such official statement has come from the government.
Many are also exercising their conspiracy speculation skills, pondering the government’s real motive behind choosing now to reveal its UFO information. Well, again, the government hasn’t disclosed anything yet, aside from confirming the existence of a former UFO study at the Pentagon. The UFO-related information brought forward recently, and other forthcoming information, is courtesy of TTS/AAS. Although its team includes former high level military/government officials and/or contractors, the information and its analysis/interpretations are from this private company, not the government.
3. The UFO program contracted with BAASS.
Perhaps the most interesting (yet not surprising) element revealed about the Pentagon’s UFO program is that it contracted with private space pioneer Robert Bigelow—an individual whose extraterrestrial beliefs are well documented—and the Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) department of Bigelow Aerospace. Bigelow has spent millions of his own fortune investigating UFOs, claims of extraterrestrial contact, and other paranormal phenomena.
It was during the time period of the Pentagon’s UFO program that BAASS was listed as one of the organizations to whom the FAA directed pilots wishing to report UFO sightings. Chapter 9, Section 8 of the FAA Air Traffic Organization Policy instructed, “Persons wanting to report UFO/unexplained phenomena activity should contact a UFO/ unexplained phenomena reporting data collection center, such as Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS) (voice: 1-877-979-7444 or e-mail: Reporting@baass.org), the National UFO Reporting Center, etc.”
It was also during the same time period that BAASS contracted with the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) to fund its STAR Team in exchange for access to investigation data.
4. Don’t jump to conclusions regarding the recovered UFO material.
Bigelow reportedly, at his own expense, modified buildings at Bigelow Aerospace headquarters for the purpose of storing physical material allegedly recovered from UFOs. This sounds awesome. But it’s important to refrain from making assumptions based on the limited provided information. Again, this bit of information comes from an individual, and has not been confirmed by the Pentagon. We don’t know the provenance of these material samples. And we don’t know if these artifacts were personally collected at crash sites by Bigelow’s team or government officials, or if these were just acquired by Bigelow from people claiming to have recovered something from a UFO crash. We also don’t know the results of any testing performed on this material.
5. Exercise patience.
It’s difficult to resist getting caught up in the recent UFO frenzy. It’s exciting seeing the flood of media attention the subject has received in recent weeks. But it’s all to easy to see what you want to see in these kinds of stories. So far, only tiny bits and pieces of a much larger story have been reported. Anything beyond those pieces is speculation at this point. So we just have to wait and see if any further information is released to the public before we can even consider getting a little excited (or a lot freaked out) about possible proof of extraterrestrial visitors.
If you’re interested in following the developments in this latest wave of UFO research, I suggest following To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science on Twitter (@TTSAcademy) or keeping an eye on ToTheStarsAcademy.com.
Whistle-blower Edward Snowden has some strong opinions on communications — even when those communications are coming from aliens.
The former intelligence-agency contractor turned fugitive was an unexpected guest on famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's StarTalk podcast on September 18. And, inevitably, the two got to talking about extraterrestrials.
Snowden became an infamous household name in 2013 when he leaked classified documents divulging the government's top-secret mass-surveillance program, which involved collecting personal information on Americans via phone records without their knowledge.
When the news broke, the US charged him with theft and espionage, and he's now living in Russia where he has asylum.
But Tyson scored an interview with him in New York City. How? Snowden rigged a robot that he can control from Russia, and rolled right into Tyson's office at the Hayden Planetarium in New York with his face displayed on the screen.
The conversation turned to encryption and cybersecurity, but here's where an astrophysicist differs from a journalist: Tyson's line of questioning quickly turned to how encryption relates to communication with ... aliens.
Tyson asked Snowden if a highly intelligent alien civilization might be communicating with encrypted messages. And Snowden had an unsettling answer.
First, Snowden said, let's assume that most advanced societies eventually realize that they need to encrypt their communication in order to protect it. This could also be the reason why we've never heard from other civilizations — their messages may have just been melding into the background static of the universe.
So if you have an alien civilization trying to listen for other civilizations, or our civilization trying to listen for aliens, there's only one small period in the development of their society when all of their communication will be sent via the most primitive and most unprotected means.
So when we think about everything that we're hearing through our satellites or everything that they're hearing from our civilization (if there are indeed aliens out there), all of their communications are encrypted by default.
So what we are hearing, that's actually an alien television show or, you know, a phone call ... is indistinguishable to us from cosmic microwave background radiation.
So it could be possible there are alien messages constantly hitting our satellites, and we just don't recognize them because they're so heavily encrypted. (The cosmic microwave background radiation that Snowden mentions is thermal radiation throughout the universe left over from the Big Bang. It basically looks and sounds like static to us puny humans.)
Of course, that's assuming an alien civilization has the same security issues that we have here on Earth, and they need to worry about protecting their communication system from their alien governments, Tyson jokes.
Snowden agreed that aliens might be a little more politically sophisticated than us.
A recent news item involving UFOs has caught the public’s attention. A Navy pilot’s gun camera shows an unknown aerial object above the ocean near San Diego. It was performing aerial maneuvers not known to be possible by any U.S. technology. The pilot’s description of the object included the sensational phrase, "I can tell you, I think it was not from this world."
The government’s interest in this sort of sighting is that there may be a national defense issue involved. If the reported objects are from a potentially hostile nation, let’s say China or Russia, then of course they are possibly involved in reconnaissance or other activity that endangers our national security. If the phenomenon emanates from a smaller country, say Luxembourg, the scientific benefits are potentially enormous. If they emanate from Iran or North Korea, we are in grave military peril.
However, that scenario seems unlikely. Any nation that possesses such advanced technology would already be in a position to extort vast concessions from the United States and other nations. This kind of technology cannot exist in an industrial vacuum. A fleet of aircraft capable of what the UFOs have been reportedly performing would be part of a system that could overwhelm our defenses in short order. It has not happened.
Another possibility seems equally far-fetched -- that of interlopers from a planet other than ours, the so-called space invaders theory.
It is not that the possibility of exo-civilizations is considered unlikely. Quite to the contrary -- most scientists seem to accept it as all but a given, despite a lack of confirmatory evidence. Probability alone is considered evidence enough. What is unlikely is that such alien societies seek to harm us.
This is evident because of the following: just as any hostile earthly power in possession of ultra-advanced technology would already have overpowered us, the ability of alien conquerors would presumably be multiples of terrestrial forces. While Hollywood may fantasize about our ability to fight off alien spaceships, the probable reality is that hostile aliens would barely notice any resistance by us. Indeed, they could easily launch a standoff attack, whether by missiles, drones, or even redirected asteroids, at no risk to themselves. And we have not even considered technologies so advanced that, to us, they would appear to be magic.
There is one further impediment to making any sense of UFO reports, which is that there seems to be a set of logical contradictions to any theory of what UFOs might actually represent. The main logical fallacy is that observed UFO behaviors, if accurately reported, seem to be irrational. On the one hand, UFOs act as if they wish to avoid being seen -- while on the other hand, they do get seen, despite having technology that should put our most advanced stealth techniques to shame. These two mutually exclusive aspects are difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile.
It has been suggested that the U.S. government fabricates UFO reports simply to confuse Russia and China, and to help conceal our own advanced technology. For example, when the USAF was testing the stealth fighter aircraft, these otherworldly-appearing aircraft were often misreported as UFOs, and the government did not discourage such reports.
One possible way to explain the erratic behavior of extraterrestrial UFOs is that they are alien space junk -- yes, junk -- that is, artifacts from exo-civilizations that have for one reason or another, gone rogue. For example, if an alien civilization created drones, and then the civilization went extinct, or otherwise lost control of its technology, then such machines might behave based on algorithms that have become flawed or damaged.
However, the most likely explanation of UFO sightings, if there is an otherworldly explanation, is that they represent something so utterly alien to our ways of thinking that our best efforts to contemplate them are entirely anthropocentric, completely off the mark.
Nor can we ignore the fact that the government money spent on UFO research, that is your money and mine, was allocated at the behest of former Democrat Senate leader Harry Reid, who directed much of that money to his crony friends, who supposedly used it for the purpose intended.
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Don’t fall into this trap: ‘I don’t know what it is; therefore it’s aliens.’
Don’t fall into this trap: ‘I don’t know what it is; therefore it’s aliens.’
‘Close Encounters,’ Steven Spielberg’s classic UFO mystery, helped feed into the UFO narrative.
You may have heard stories recently about a former military pilot who’s pretty sure he saw something in the sky that he can’t explain. Therefore, it must be aliens.
Well, I have my own former military pilot who’s pretty sure he saw something in the sky he couldn’t explain. He even thought it was aliens.
Turns out, it was Venus.
Which helps explain why I’m so confident that when it comes to UFOs, the answer is never aliens. The answer is always that the observer misunderstood what was seen, or remembers it wrong.
Steve Lundquist of Bow – he’s my former Air Force pilot – puts it more colorfully. When it comes to analyzing unexpected observations, he says: “Our brains are crap.”
I contacted Lundquist, who is now a program manager for a defense contractor and who serves on the board at the Discovery Center, in the wake of reports that the Pentagon has spent tens of millions of dollars studying reports of inexplicable flying things. Those reports produced accompanying stories of military pilots who saw lights in the sky going faster than possible or otherwise breaking the laws of physics, with strong implication that alien technology is the only answer.
Both Lundquist and I think it’s perfectly fine for the military to spend our tax dollars studying these reports, even though we’re quite sure that they won’t uncover beings from other solar systems.
“It’s about threat assessment,” Lundquist said. “It’s reasonable to look into unusual aerial sightings, to make sure that it doesn’t present a threat.”
The problem comes, he said, “When it turns into: ‘We don’t know what it is, therefore it’s little green men.’ ”
In New Hampshire, we have plenty of precedent for the military to study UFO reports, as well as plenty of people who conclude that they’re due to little green men.
A website called NHUFOresearch.com, for example, includes reports that the Pease Air Force Base had an official “UFO Investigating Officer” in 1967, a truly awesome job title that was presumably created in the wake of the Incident at Exeter, a 1965 UFO sighting along New Hampshire’s Seacoast that still gets adherents very excited.
Then there’s New Hampshire’s most famous UFO connection: Betty and Barney Hill’s insistence that in 1961 they were taken into a spaceship near Lancaster and probed. I don’t know that the military ever studied the Hills’ tale, but it certainly resonated in the civilian world, launching the whole alien-abduction craze and forming the basis for at least one feature film.
Of course it’s not totally impossible that alien civilizations are playing peek-a-boo among the clouds, just as it’s not totally impossible that the Tooth Fairy exists or that I will wake up tomorrow speaking fluent Spanish after years of being confused by Sábado Gigante.
But it is so staggeringly, incredibly unlikely that space invaders might as well be impossible. It seems to me that people who are not concerned about national defense should act as if UFOs are impossible and get on with more useful things in life.
Not so fast, you cry: What about the many reports that have come in over the decades from pilots, both civilian and military, about lights in the sky that are traveling at impossible speeds or with impossible acceleration at impossible angles covering impossible distances? Isn’t that evidence of alien technology?
No – it’s evidence that people are worse observers than we think we are. This gets us, finally, to Lundquist’s alien-sighting story.
I first heard his tale in 2012 at SkeptiCamp, a free-wheeling conference for skeptics, and he confirmed it last week.
It seems Lundquist was flying over the Middle East on a military flight when he saw a strange light moving way up ahead of him, flying at impossible speeds and elevations, “doing things that no aircraft can do.” This is your classic pilot-sees-UFO scenario.
Lundquist was stupefied and alarmed and came this close to radioing in a report before he realized that he was looking at the planet Venus. All that apparent motion was an optical illusion.
He’s thankful that he came to his senses in time instead of embarrassing himself over the military airwaves.
“I know a few instances where pilots did radio in, or filled out paperwork, and then later figured out what was happening. But no one remembers that they did eventually figure it out, and only remember the call or the paperwork,” he noted.
Lundquist’s error is particularly surprising because he is a longtime skeptic of UFOs and he knew, even then, that Venus is frequently mistaken for an alien craft. How could he be so misled to think that this bright, unmoving object was traveling in fantastic ways?
Blame natural selection.
“We evolved to see things on the plains of Africa from eyes about 5 feet off the ground,” Lundquist said. Shifting this evolved skill to tens of thousands of feet in the air, moving at hundreds of miles an hour, is asking for trouble, he said: “Our brains are going to try to make sense of the data, using a frame of reference we are familiar with.”
Which means that as often as not, we’re going to fool ourselves.
So the assumption you and I and everybody else should bring to reports of an extraordinary sighting – UFO, Bigfoot, Nessie, ghosts, Elvis, whatever – is that the person’s central nervous system tricked itself. They will insist “I know what I saw,” but that really means “I know what I think I saw,” and what they think is wrong.
Without lots of evidence, and evidence stronger more than a blurry video or photo or sound recording that’s open to interpretation, they can be safely ignored.
(David Brooks can be reached at 369-3313 or dbrooks@cmonitor.com or on Twitter @GraniteGeek.)
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Pentagon's UFO Research Program Revelation Puts Spotlight On The UFO Phenomenon
Pentagon's UFO Research Program Revelation Puts Spotlight On The UFO Phenomenon
This past weekend’s bombshell revelations regarding the Pentagon’s secret UFO research program has sparked a media frenzy surrounding the phenomenon which has produced some additional insights into the story.
Unlike many stories generated by the phenomenon, this particular tale seems to have taken hold in the zeitgeist thanks to the seriousness with which the US government has been revealed to take UFOs.
To that end, the response to the Pentagon’s confirmation has been largely curious rather than dismissive, although it has also spawned some thought pieces on the propriety of spending tax payer money on UFO research.
Amid the tidal wave of stories detailing Saturday’s Times piece, some intriguing new details about the Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program have come to light.
Perhaps most tantalizing is that the group produced a 490-page report on their research that was ostensibly issued to the Department of Defense.
It is unknown what insights were contained within the report as well as whether or not it will be made available to the public.
Equally remarkable were some new insights into the “metal alloys and other materials” that were purportedly recovered and studied by the AATIP.
One of the Times’ reporters who penned the story elaborated on that aspect of the research in an interview with MSNBC.
Ralph Blumenthal explained that this “material from these objects that is being studied so that scientists can try and figure out what accounts for their amazing properties.”
Asked what type of material it is, he replied, “they don’t know. They’re studying it, but it’s some kind of compound that they don’t recognize.”
How the story unfolds from here remains to be seen, but there is hope in the UFO disclosure community that the tremendous public interest in the Pentagon’s admission can create momentum towards more revelations from the government.
More cynical observers and seasoned UFO researchers are taking something of a ‘wait and see’ approach as the constantly-churning news cycle may push the phenomenon back into the periphery before any progress towards answers can be achieved as has happened many times in the past.
And some concerned conspiracy theorists are already crying foul and warning people that the ‘threat’ aspect of the AATIP’s mission may be used to fabricate a ‘hostile ET’ narrative should this truly be the start of some kind of UFO disclosure.
While that may turn out to be the case, the attitude of many who have longed for UFO answers seems to be that they’ll cross that proverbial bridge when they come to it so long as they receive confirmation about ETs.
Ultimately it may take some time before we know if the Pentagon’s admission was a watershed moment in the march towards UFO disclosure or simply another maddening misstep leading us even further into the dark. By contributor Jeffery Pritchett host of the Church of Mabus radio show.
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Bestaan van geavanceerde UFO’s onomstotelijk bewezen. Hoofd van Pentagon-afdeling voor X-Files openbaart geheimen
Bestaan van geavanceerde UFO’s onomstotelijk bewezen. Hoofd van Pentagon-afdeling voor X-Files openbaart geheimen
Het voormalige hoofd van het geheime UFO-programma van het Pentagon heeft gezegd dat ‘onomstotelijk bewezen’ is dat onbekende vliegende objecten de aarde bezoeken.
Tegen The Telegraph zei oud-inlichtingenofficier Luis Elizondo dat ongeïdentificeerde objecten door de jaren heen ‘vaak’ zijn gezien.
In het interview zei hij dat hij over veel dingen nog niet kan praten omdat die nog geheim zijn. Dat geldt bijvoorbeeld voor UFO-waarnemingen die zijn team in andere landen heeft onderzocht.
Afvragen
Elizondo, die tot twee maanden geleden aan het hoofd stond van het Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, zei: “Het moge duidelijk zijn dat wij dit niet zijn en dus moeten we ons afvragen waar ze vandaan komen.”
Hij zei verder dat UFO’s vaak worden gezien in de buurt van kern- en elektriciteitscentrales.
Elizondo heeft zijn functie naar eigen zeggen neergelegd omdat hij vindt dat de overheid het UFO-programma, dat in 2012 officieel werd beëindigd, moet blijven financieren en steunen.
Warp drives
Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie gaf eerder deze maand het bestaan van het geheime programma toe.
Het programma richtte zich op zaken die rechtstreeks uit een sciencefictionfilm lijken te komen. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan wormgaten en warp drives.
Onmogelijke dingen
Daarnaast werden militairen geïnterviewd die UFO’s hadden gezien. Elizondo zei dat veel piloten vliegtuigen hebben gezien die onmogelijke dingen leken te doen.
NASA Shortlists Titan Quadcopter, Comet Sample-Return Concepts for 2020s Mission
NASA Shortlists Titan Quadcopter, Comet Sample-Return Concepts for 2020s Mission
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
The Dragon Titan mission concept, which would send a dual quadcopter to the Saturn moon, is one of two finalists for NASA's next New Frontiers mission to explore the solar system in the mid-2020s.
Credit: NASA
NASA has selected two ambitious finalists for its New Frontiers robotic mission program: a flying lander to soar over the surface of Saturn's big, potentially habitable moon Titan and a mission to bring back samples from a comet's icy nucleus.
Both missions, chosen from 12 proposals submitted in April, will receive funding to continue developing their concepts. In 2019, one of them will be selected to fly; it will lift off before the end of 2025. Whichever mission is chosen will follow in the footsteps of three impressive New Frontiers selections, all of which are currently operational: the New Horizons mission to Pluto; the Juno probe now orbiting Jupiter; and the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission currently on its way to the asteroid Bennu.
Both of the finalist missions aim to return to locations in the solar system that have already been mapped thoroughly, but will reveal much more than previous missions ever could, the missions' principal investigators said during a news conference today (Dec. 20). [After Cassini: 14 Epic Planetary Science Missions to Get Excited About]
Dragonfly on Titan
The Dragonfly mission would send a flying, eight-rotored lander to explore Titan's hazy, hydrocarbon atmosphere and examine its surface, which is covered in methane and ethane seas and rivers. The exotic moon is very different from Earth, but its complex chemistry makes it a fascinating target to search for the development of life. The moon was previously mapped in detail by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which flew by several times, and that mission's Huygens lander, which descended to Titan's surface in 2005.
With Dragonfly's detailed measurements of the moon's composition, "we can evaluate how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed in an environment we know has the ingredients for life — for water-based life, or potentially even hydrocarbon-based life," Elizabeth Turtle, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland and principal investigator for Dragonfly, said during the news conference.
"Dragonfly would spend most of its time on the ground, but by being a rotorcraft, we're able to fly to multiple sites tens to hundreds of kilometers apart to be able to make these measurements in different geologic settings," she added.
The lander would draw power from a compact nuclear generator called an MMRTG, like the one that powers NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. Its spacecraft would be built by APL in partnership with Penn State University, whose lab has already built models that have gone on test flights, Turtle said.
After a launch in 2025, the mission would arrive at Titan in 2034 and explore for a few years. The mission wouldn't be limited by power or a dangerous environment, Turtle said.
A comet's icy prize
While Dragonfly would beam data home to Earth, the second mission, called Comet Astrobiology Exploration SAmple Return (CAESAR), would send icy material here: The mission would travel to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, previously scoped out by Europe's Rosetta mission, and bring back at least 100 grams of sample from the comet's nucleus for analysis.
The Comet Astrobiology Exploration SAmple Return, or CEASAR, mission would collect a sample from the comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko and return it to Earth in a re-entry capsule. The mission concept is one of two finalists for NASA's next New Frontiers mission to launch in the mid-2020s.
Credit: NASA
"Comets are among the most scientifically important objects in the solar system, but they're also among the most poorly understood," Steve Squyres, a researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and principal investigator for CAESAR, said at the conference. "They're the most primitive building blocks of planets; they contain materials that date from the very earliest moments of solar system formation and even before. Comets were a source of water for the Earth's oceans, and critically they were a source of organic molecules that contributed to the origin of life."
CAESAR's samples, the first ever taken of a comet nucleus, would include the volatile ices from its surface that are comets' signature feature. The spacecraft would separate its sample into different compartments for volatile and nonvolatile components, and its return to Earth would involve ditching its heat shield as it landed, after entering the atmosphere, to avoid overheating the sample.
The sample capsule would be designed by JAXA, Japan's space agency, and would be based on its Hayabusa asteroid mission. The spacecraft would come from Orbital ATK and use solar-electric propulsion to make its way to the comet.
Rosetta's exploration of the comet makes the mission much less risky than visiting any other comet, said Squyres, who's also the principal investigator of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, which landed the golf-cart-size robots Spirit and Opportunity on the Red Planet in 2004: "We're able to say to our engineers, OK, here's the size-frequency distribution of the particles on the surface, here's how strong the surface is; we can design for specific conditions that we know to exist."
"That dramatically improves the chances for success for a very difficult activity, which is grabbing a piece of a comet," he added.
The mission would return to Earth on Nov. 20, 2038, unprecedented samples in tow.
The CEASAR comet sample-return mission concept proposes returning a piece of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko to Earth 14 years after the mission's launch.
Credit: NASA
More to explore
In addition to the two finalists, NASA officials also chose to continue funding development for two missions, but not advance them to the next step of the process: Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH), led by Chris McKay of NASA's Ames Research Center in California, and Venus In situ Composition Investigations (VICI), led by Lori Glaze at NASA's Goddard Research Center in Maryland.
Both missions had challenging technical aspects that needed more work, NASA officials said. For ELSAH, more work is needed to avoid contamination so the mission can better detect potential life on Saturn's icy moon. And for VICI, the challenge is to develop more technology to survive the extreme conditions on the surface of Venus, according to Jim Green, director of the planetary science division at NASA headquarters in Washington.
"The New Frontiers program is really the premiere program for our principal investigators, and indeed it's one of the most difficult programs to be selected for — we fly only about two of these types of missions per decade," Green said during the conference. "These are tremendously exciting missions."
After Dragonfly and CAESAR complete their Phase A concept studies, NASA officials will rigorously evaluate the missions to decide which will continue on with development and, eventually, liftoff.
"The tremendous success in this mission line comes from the fact that it's so hard to get to it, including that last step, at which, based on a very detailed analysis and a Phase A, the decision is made to take the mission that is most likely to be providing that excellent science and [be] successful overall," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's science mission directorate in Washington, said at the conference.
Email Sarah Lewin at slewin@space.com or follow her@SarahExplains.
The existence of unidentified flying objects using technology more advanced than human capabilities has been proved “beyond reasonable doubt”, the former head of a secret US government programme has said.
Luis Elizondo, who quit as head of the Advanced Threat Identification Programme (AATIP) two months ago, warned nations now “had to be conscious” of the potential threat posed by UFOs.
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The unit, which the Department of Defence (DoD) insisted was terminated in 2012, produced documents that described sightings of aircraft travelling at extremely high speeds with no visible signs of propulsion.
“In my opinion, if this was a court of law, we have reached the point of ‘beyond reasonable doubt’. I hate to use the term UFO, but that’s what we’re looking at,” Mr Elizondo told The Telegraph.
“I think it’s pretty clear this is not us, and it’s not anyone else, so one has to ask the question where they’re from.”
Mr Elizondo told the newspaper there were geographical “hot spots” – sometimes around nuclear facilities and power plants – which emerged during AATIP’s investigations, as well as common factors between UFO sightings.
He said: “It was enough where we began to see trends and similarities in incidents. There were very distinct observables. Extreme manoeuvrability, hypersonic velocity without a sonic boom, speeds of 7,000mph to 8,000mph, no flight surfaces on the objects. A lot of this is backed with radar signal data, gun camera footage from aircraft, multiple witnesses.
“There was never any display of hostility but the way they manoeuvred, in ways no one else in the world had, you have to be conscious something could happen.”
It comes after secret footage released by the Department of Defence (DoD) showed US fighter jet pilots as they tracked an unidentified aerial object gliding above the Pacific Ocean in 2004. The object had been detected appearing suddenly at 80,000 feet by the USS Princeton, a naval cruiser, which had been tracking mysterious aircraft for two weeks.
Commander David Fravor told The New York Times the object was about 40ft long, had no plumes, wings or rotors, and outpaced their F-18s. It was big enough to churn the sea 50ft below it, he said.
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“I have no idea what I saw ... It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he added, admitting he was “pretty weirded out”.
Mr Elizondo described Mr Fravor as a “national hero” for speaking out due to the “social stigma” attached to UFO sightings by military personnel.
He said he had no preconceived ideas when he first took charge of the unit, but came to realise there were “probably not any type of aircraft in any national inventory” similar to the sightings.
“I think it’s pretty clear it’s not us, and it’s not anyone else,” he added.
Mr Elizondo quit AATIP in October over what he believed was excessive secrecy surrounding the programme.
In a resignation letter to James Mattis, the US Defence Secretary, he wrote: “Why aren’t we spending more time and effort on this issue? There remains a vital need to ascertain capability and intent of these phenomena for the benefit of the armed forces and the nation.”
Experts warn there is usually a worldly explanation for apparent UFO sightings and caution that an absence of an explanation is not proof of aliens.
The Pentagon said AATIP closed five years ago when defence officials shifted funding to other priorities. But according to its backers, it remains in existence in some form.
“The AATIP ended in the 2012 timeframe,” Pentagon spokesperson Laura Ochoa said. “It was determined that there were other, higher priority issues that merited funding and it was in the best interest of the DoD to make a change,” she added.
Asked if the department continued to investigate sightings, she said: “The DoD takes seriously all threats and potential threats to our people, our assets, and our mission and takes action whenever credible information is developed.”
Buitenaards bezoek aan de aarde is geen sprookje, aldus Luis Elizondo. Let wel: het gaat hier niet om een gek, maar wel om het voormalige hoofd van het geheime Amerikaanse programma naar buitenaards leven. Volgens Elizondo is het bestaan van uiterst geavanceerde ongeïdentificeerde vliegtuigen bewezen “voorbij alle redelijke twijfel”.
Bestaan van geheim programma bevestigd door Pentagon
Tot twee maanden geleden hield Luis Elizondo kantoor op de vijfde verdieping van het Pentagon, waar hij leiding gaf aan het cryptisch genaamde Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program (vrij vertaald: het Programma voor de Identificatie van de Dreiging van Geavanceerde Vliegtuigen). Dat programma - X-Files in het echt, zo u wil - bestaat al sinds 2007, maar het bestaan ervan werd pas vorig week onthuld en bevestigd door het Pentagon. Het AATIP-programma kreeg van het Amerikaanse Congres maar liefst 22 miljoen dollar aan “black ops money” (geld voor geheime operaties).
Het Pentagon bevestigde vorige week het bestaan van AATIPFOTO: AFP
In een interview met de Britse krant The Telegraph benadrukte Elizondo dat veel van wat hij onthulde eigenlijk nog geklasseerde informatie was. Maar hij is stellig: “Als we in een rechtszaal zouden staan, zouden we volgens mij al lang het punt hebben bereikt waarop het bestaan van UFO’s als bewezen zou worden geacht. Het is vrij duidelijk dat wat wij allemaal hebben vastgelegd niet om Amerikaanse projecten gaat, en het gaat evenmin om buitenlandse projecten. Dan moet iemand toch de vraag stellen waar die vliegende objecten wél vandaan komen...” Elizondo weigerde echter een cijfer te plakken op het aantal geloofwaardige incidenten dat zijn dienst onderzocht en hoeveel getuigen ondervraagd waren, maar wilde enkel kwijt dat het er “heel veel” waren.
“Opmerkelijke trends”
Wat Elizondo wel wilde bevestigen, was dat er tijdens hun onderzoeken geografische hotspots opdoken, in de buurt van nucleaire faciliteiten en krachtcentrales. Ook het bestaan van gelijkenissen tussen de beweging van verschillende UFO’s werd door het Pentagon vastgelegd: “We begonnen na verloop van tijd trends te zien na verschillende incidenten. Trends zoals extreme manoeuvreerbaarheid, hypersonische snelheid zonder geluidsgolf, en snelheden van 11.000 tot 12.000 kilometer per uur. Dingen die we kunnen bewijzen met radar-data, camerabeelden uit onze vliegtuigen, en verschillende getuigen. Er was nooit sprake van vijandigheid, maar gezien hun ongewone manier van bewegen waren we ons ervan bewust dat er altijd iets kon mislopen.”
Meteen nadat het bestaan van het Pentagon-programma vorige week was onthuld, was er veel aandacht voor net vrijgegeven beelden van een UFO boven San Diego uit 2004. David Fravor, een Amerikaanse gevechtspiloot, beschreef het object toen als “een witte Tic Tac van ongeveer 12 meter lang en zonder vleugels, iets dat niet van deze planeet komt”. Elizondo loofde de piloot dan ook voor zijn durf: ”De man is een nationale held, want het sociale stigma hierover is ongelooflijk. Er zijn veel mensen als hem die op ons zijn afgestapt, maar hij durft zijn ervaring ook publiekelijk te bespreken.”
In 2004 zag gevechtspiloot David Fravor boven San Diego iets dat hij niet kon verklarenFOTO: US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE
“Onzin uit spektakelwetenschap halen”
Elizondo benadrukte ook dat hij bij zijn aantreden als chef van het UFO-programma geen vaststaande overtuigingen had, maar dat hij later overtuigd werd door wat hij te zien kreeg: “Als inlichtingenofficieren zijn wij van nature sceptisch. Voor sommigen onder ons was er een “Aha-moment”, anderen werden dan weer enkel heel langzaam overtuigd dat dit vliegtuigen waren die niet voorkwamen in het arsenaal van eender welk land.”
Gaat het dan om buitenaards leven? “Ik wil geen uitspraken doen over waar die tuigen vandaan komen of wie er achter het stuur zit. Het lijkt me wel duidelijk dat wij het niet zijn. Maar wat wij deden was enkel de onzin uit spektakelwetenschap halen.” Elizondo wilde ook niet ontkennen of bevestigen of er al technologie uit dergelijke tuigen was gerecupereerd. Het is intussen wel zeker dat bepaalde gebouwen in de staat Nevada aangepast werden om als opslagplaats te dienen voor alles wat met UFO’s te maken had. Ook werd onderzocht of getuigen fysieke effecten ondervonden van wat ze hadden gezien.
Luis ElizondoFOTO: RR
Brief aan minister van Defensie
Hoewel het Pentagon bij het bevestigen van het bestaan van AATIP benadrukte dat het er de stekker al in 2012 had uitgetrokken, bestond het programma volgens Elizondo vijf jaar langer. “Als je een missie krijgt blijf je op post tot iemand anders je verantwoordelijkheid overneemt, maar dat gebeurde bij ons nooit. Dus werd van ons verwacht dat je blijft doen wat je moet doen.” Elizondo stapte in oktober echter zelf op, gefrustreerd door de aanhoudende geheimzinnigheid rond zijn dienst.
In een ontslagbrief gericht aan minister van Defensie Jim Mattis schreef hij: “Waarom spenderen we hieraan niet meer tijd en moeite? De nood om te onderzoeken tot wat deze fenomenen capabel zijn, en wat hun bedoelingen zijn, blijft hoog. Voor het goed van onze strijdkrachten en het land.”
Elizondo vraagt nu dan ook: “Steun dit programma. We willen dat de NASA leven vindt op andere planeten, maar onze hoogopgeleide piloten zien op onze planeet dingen die ze niet begrijpen.”
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