Warday is a 1984 novel written by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka (and with Strieber himself playing the key role in the story). It makes for grim and disturbing reading. It’s an excellently written book, too; a book that tells the story of a limited nuclear attack on the United States, but which still kills more than sixty million people – from the initial atomic blasts, famine and starvation, radiation, and a wave of out-of-control influenza. The United States is devastated by what is known as Electromagnetic Pulse weaponry.  Strieber and Kunetka skillfully tell a story that could, one day, become all too real. In Warday, the United States is a shell of its former self, with chaos, death and destruction rampant. Warday makes it very clear that had the confrontation between the United States and the old USSR escalated beyond a limited one, the result would have been unthinkable: complete and utter obliteration in the northern hemisphere. There’s a reason why I’m bringing this up, as you’ll soon find out. But, first, some background to the story. Here’s a brief summary of Warday:

“The former Undersecretary of Defense tells Strieber that the United States was deploying Spiderweb, an advanced anti-ballistic missile system which could use an orbiting particle beam to destroy both land and submarine launched missiles. To prevent its deployment, the Soviets destroyed the Space Shuttle Enterprise with a hunter-killer satellite. The Soviets then detonated a set of six large nuclear warheads in space above the United States, causing a massive electromagnetic pulse that crippled electronics across the country. The Soviets then launched a limited first strike using satellites to deploy their warheads. In response, the U.S. president, aboard Boeing E-4 NEACP, authorized a counterattack, destroying Moscow, Leningrad, Sevastopol, and the capitals of the Soviet Republics. Shortly afterwards, the NEACP, crippled by the electromagnetic pulse, crash-landed in North Carolina, killing the President but leaving other survivors including the Undersecretary. The ‘limited attack’ by the Soviets destroyed Washington, D.C., San Antonio, and most of Long Island, and ICBM missile fields and major air bases in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, killing about 7 million people. The subsequent firestorms and fallout destroyed most of Brooklyn, Queens, Baltimore, and most of southwest Texas. The Soviet Navy also launched nuclear attacks that destroyed about 90 percent of the United States Navy. The duration of the war was 36 minutes.”

And here’s some background on EMP technology. As Interesting Engineering note: “EMPs, or electromagnetic pulses, are intense bursts of electromagnetic energy that can be utilized to damage electronics. Man-made nuclear EMPS are impressive weapons of war that are sparingly used due to their highly destructive nature. There are natural EMPs that can be caused in small form due to lightning or in large form due to geomagnetic storms. Man-made EMPs are generally created through nuclear explosions. Essentially, these weapons emit a pulse that damages or destroys the electronic systems in an object due to damaging current and voltage surges.”

EveryCRSReport.com state: “Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) is an instantaneous, intense energy field that can overload or disrupt at a distance numerous electrical systems and high technology microcircuits, which are especially sensitive to power surges. A large scale EMP effect can be produced by a single nuclear explosion detonated high in the atmosphere. This method is referred to as High-Altitude EMP (HEMP). A similar, smaller-scale EMP effect can be created using non-nuclear devices with powerful batteries or reactive chemicals. This method is called High Power Microwave (HPM). Several nations, including reported sponsors of terrorism, may currently have a capability to use EMP as a weapon for cyber warfare or cyber terrorism to disrupt communications and other parts of the U.S. critical infrastructure. Also, some equipment and weapons used by the U.S. military may be vulnerable to the effects of EMP.”

There’s a reason for me bringing up this issue. Over the last four or five years I’ve received accounts from people who have had graphic EMP-type dreams that spiraled into total nightmares. And it has happened again – just a few days ago. Of course, this may all be due to the fraught state the world is in right now. Most of those I spoke with, however, didn’t see their dreams as “just dreams” (as one put it), but as glimpses of a terrible, catastrophic future of the real kind. Let’s hope not. Certainly, there’s a down-to-earth reason for it (that you can find it here).

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03-05-2021 om 17:13 geschreven door peter  

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03-05-2021 om 16:49 geschreven door peter  

03-05-2021 om 16:48 geschreven door peter  

Black Hole-Neutron Star Collisions Could Finally Settle the Different Measurements Over the Expansion Rate of the Universe

If you’ve been following developments in astronomy over the last few years, you may have heard about the so-called “crisis in cosmology,” which has astronomers wondering whether there might be something wrong with our current understanding of the Universe. This crisis revolves around the rate at which the Universe expands: measurements of the expansion rate in the present Universe don’t line up with measurements of the expansion rate during the early Universe. With no indication for why these measurements might disagree, astronomers are at a loss to explain the disparity.

The first step in solving this mystery is to try out new methods of measuring the expansion rate. In a paper published last week, researchers at University College London (UCL) suggested that we might be able to create a new, independent measure of the expansion rate of the Universe by observing black hole-neutron star collisions.

Let’s back up for a minute and discuss where things stand right now. When we look out into the Universe, galaxies that are further away appear to be moving away from us faster than closer ones, because space itself is expanding. This is expressed by a number known as the Hubble constant, which is usually written as the speed (in kilometers per second) of a galaxy one megaparsec (Mpc) away.

One of the best ways to measure the Hubble constant is to observe objects known as Cepheid Variables. Cepheids are stars that brighten and dim regularly, and their brightness just happens to line up with their period (the time it takes to dim and brighten again). The regularity of these objects makes it possible to estimate their distance, and a survey of many Cepheids gives us a Hubble constant of about 73km/s/Mpc. Type 1A supernovae are another common object with a known brightness, and they also give a Hubble constant hovering around 73km/s/Mpc.

On the other hand, you can measure the expansion of the Universe during its earliest phase by observing the afterglow of the big bang, known as the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). Our best measurement of the CMB was taken by the European Space Agency’s Planck spacecraft, which released its final data in 2018. Planck observed a Hubble constant of 67.66km/s/Mpc.

The difference between 67 and 73 isn’t enormous, and at first, the most likely explanation for the difference seemed to be instrument error. However, through subsequent observations, the error bars on these measurements have been narrowed down enough that the difference is statistically significant. A crisis indeed!

Here is where the UCL researchers hope to step in. They propose a new method of measuring the Hubble constant, which does not rely in any way on the other two methods. It begins with a measurement of gravitational waves: the ripples in spacetime caused by the collision of massive objects like black holes. The first gravitational waves were detected only recently, in 2015, and they haven’t yet been associated with any visible collisions.

As lead researcher Stephen Feeney explains, “we have not yet detected light from these collisions. But advances in the sensitivity of equipment detecting gravitational waves, together with new detectors in India and Japan, will lead to a huge leap forward in terms of how many of these types of events we can detect.”

Gravitational waves allow us to pinpoint the location of these collisions, but we need to measure light from the collisions too if we want to measure their speed. A black hole-neutron star collision might be just the type of event that would produce both.

If we see enough of these collisions, we could use them to produce a new measurement for the Hubble constant.

The UCL team used simulations to estimate how many black hole-neutron star collisions might occur in the next decade. They found that Earth’s gravitational wave detectors might pick up 3000 of them before 2030, and of these, about 100 of them will probably also produce visible light.

That would be enough. As such, by 2030 we just might have a brand-new measurement of the Hubble constant. We don’t know yet whether the new measurement will agree with the CMB measurement, or with the Cepheid/Type 1A measurement, or disagree with both. But the result, whatever it turns out to be, will be an important step in unraveling the puzzle. It could either put the crisis in cosmology to rest, or make it more serious, forcing us to look closer at our model of the Universe, and admit that there is more we don’t know about the Universe than we thought.

Learn More:

• “Black hole-neutron star collisions may settle dispute over Universe’s expansion.” UCL.

Stephen M. Feeney, Hiranya V. Peiris, Samaya M. Nissanke, and Daniel J. Mortlock, “Prospects for Measuring the Hubble Constant with Neutron-Star–Black-Hole Mergers.” Physical Review Letters.

• Featured Image: A black hole devouring a neutron star. Credit: Dana Berry/NASA.

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03-05-2021 om 12:44 geschreven door peter  

Hidden Under The Water UFO Underwater Base Found Off The Coast Of Malibu! Must See Videos!

UFO underwater “base” found off the coast of Malibu

Off the coast of Malibu (California) in a place that ufology calls the “Holy Grail”, a large structure of unknown origin was discovered at a depth of more than 100 meters. The structure is so large that you can even see it from a satellite: you can use the Google Earth program.

Ufologists have been looking for this structure for more than 40 years. According to unconfirmed reports, observations, studies and photographs of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) were carried out in this place.

 A massive underwater structure which looked like a secret UFO/USO facility was discovered 6.66 miles off the shores of Point Dume, Malibu, California. Could this structure be the reason for the mass UFO sightings off the coast of Malibu from the 1950’s?

Enhanced Google Earth imagery of the submerged underwater formation which creates a plateau that measures 1.35 miles by 2.45 miles wide, does not appear to be naturally figured by the ocean water. The upper interior surface of the structure measures 500 feet across making it insusceptible for a nuclear attack. The entire ceiling of the mega-structure is reinforced by over 600 feet tall columns which creates an opening that is 2745 feet wide and 630 feet tall.

The location of the suspected UFO/USO base in Google Earth was discovered by Fade to Black hosts Dale Romero and Jimmy Church of Dark Matter Radio on the 12th of May 2014. The find was aired in Church’s radio program the next day. The topic was posted on Facebook, twitter and other UFO websites. It became a widespread topic among UFO/USO fans.

The unknown structure has the potential to house nuclear sized submarines and other massive under water ships. The secret facility has remained elusive for many years and its discovery today might give strong evidence that would credit most UFO/USO activities in the area near Malibu from 1950’s up to present.

Skeptics say that the image is misguided to be a secret underwater base and the fact that the image is available in Google Earth does not make the structure very secret.

Many still believe that the underwater structure is a secret alien headquarters that might still be operated today. Some are of the opinion that if the government is behind the massive structure, it would just be fair enough for us to deserve an explanation.

There are several theories regarding this building. Some believe it is the base for the US Navy’s submarines. However, ufologists are sure that this is a secret “base” of aliens or even an alien ship that crashed many years ago.

This is confirmed by strange signals emanating from the object, which are directed into space. The very same “plate” has a flat surface, about five kilometers wide. From satellite images, you can understand that it stands on something that looks like columns, the height of which exceeds 150 meters. The entrance to this structure was never found.

Malibu is a place that, probably, every person wants to visit. It is very popular with the rich and famous. However, not only people love him, but also aliens. In the 50-60s of the last century, a large number of UFOs were recorded there, which entered the water at high speed. Vacationers gathered every day on the beach in the evenings to see with their own eyes the objects that were constantly rising and falling from the water.

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03-05-2021 om 12:26 geschreven door peter  

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS

MUFON CASE : 115016 Stoke-on-Trent, England ( May 2, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : I've attached photograph and video
Long Description of Sighting Report

• Object seemed to be at a standstill when first spotted and drifted slowly SE and appeared to gain altitude. Odd shape and seemed to reflect sun but also intermittently emit purple and green twinkle.
  

Date Submitted : 2021-05-02
Date of Event : 2021-05-02 / 9:05AM
MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : DSCF1561.MOV

MUFON CASE : 115025 Chester-le-Street, England ( May 2, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Glowing ball

Long Description of Sighting Report

• Spotted this moving across the night sky. Prior to recording it seemed to be going quite fast then slowed down as I started recording. The 2 minute video is the first one, the 30 second video after. There is around a 10 second gap between both videos. Also, the image changing is due to me going over 10x zoom to 15x. When this happens, it switches the camera

Date Submitted : 2021-05-02

Date of Event : 2021-05-01 / 10:04PM

MUFON SUBMITTER FILES : VID20210501220436.mp4 /: VID20210501220545.mp4

MUFON CASE : 115030 San Rafael, California ( May 2, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : A noodle like object hovered and changed shape sometimes becoming a boomerang. It hovered for 15 minutes before disapearing.

Long Description of Sighting Report

• At approximately noon on 5/2/21 from my balcony I saw a black/grey object that looked like a floating pool noodle or snake. It changed shapes, sometimes looking like a boomerang. It hovered to the South slowly moving to the South West. There was a wind in the air that seemed to have little effect on it, and there were no signs of either a propulsion method or strings to attach it to the ground. Light reflected off of it. It was just beyond a set of powerlines. I saw a plane pass beyond it. I took a few photos and recordings. I went inside for a minute, and when I returned it had disapeared.

Date Submitted : 2021-05-02

Date of Event : 2021-05-02 / 12:00PM

MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : IMG5900.MOV

MUFON CASE : 115031 McKinney, Texas ( May 2, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Orb like UFO in clear sky
Long Description of Sighting Report

• Walked outside to bring in trash cans, looked up and saw a glowing orb like object above my house to the east. The sky was clear, the object was in view for about 30 minutes. Seemed to stay in the same area for 15 min, then slowly drifted towards the south east and eventually out of site.

Date Submitted : 2021-05-02
Date of Event : 2021-05-03 / 5:27PM
MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : 4144E0E5CDD44DA4B59E6CBF47FD08A8.MP4

Dark Craft Over McKinney, Texas, May 1, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

MUFON eyewitness states:

• Stepped out into my backyard with my cat and saw this on a cloudy day in Texas.

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03-05-2021 om 11:57 geschreven door peter  

Dark Craft Over McKinney, Texas, May 1, 2021, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: May 1, 2021
Location of sighting: McKinney, Texas, USA
Source: MUFON 

 

Watch this amazing video and you will quickly notice that this is very similar in appearance to the famous TR2B. Its stealth black in appearance and when it wobbles you see it is a thin craft, but its tilt makes it look thicker than it really is. Although it looks like a TR3B, it is not. It is a  triangle shaped alien craft. No USAF craft would dare allow itself to be seen over neighborhood homes like this one. I was in the USAF I worked on B1 bombers and KC-135 tankers, but have never seen any craft that even comes close to this. Its 100% alien. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

Eyewitness states: 

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03-05-2021 om 11:29 geschreven door peter  

Fast fireball UFO over Lockheed Martin – Fort Worth, Texas 1-May-2021

This bright UFO was filmed near a Lockheed Martin (F35 all-weather stealth multirole combat aircraft production) in Forth Worth, Texas on 1st May 2021.

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03-05-2021 om 11:08 geschreven door peter  

If you’ve ever had to trash a drone because its battery ran out over the lake you were flying over, your ears may have perked up when the news hit recently that US Navy ships off the coast of Los Angeles in 2019 were followed by highspeed UFOs or drones that lost no velocity or ability as they dove into the ocean and disappeared without a trace. Called “Transmedium vehicles” in military speak, they were highlighted last month in a release of videos and photos by documentarian Jeremy Corbell to George Knapp at Mystery Wire and picked up quickly by the mainstream media. (For more proof that the mainstream media is in a UFO frenzy no less than The New Yorker has just published a UFO feature story!) In an interview with The Daily Star, Corbell talked about transmedium vehicles and dropped a new bombshell.

Are they just fishing?

In the set of videos and photos Corbell claimed to have obtained from anonymous sources inside the U.S. government – videos and photos later confirmed by the Pentagon to be authentic – were images (see them here) taken by personnel on the USS Omaha of what was described as “a possible UAS, spherical in shape moving towards the surface of the water and then disappearing. OMA assessed the object had sunk. Attempts to search the water for wreckage were ineffective.” ‘UAS’ is an Unmanned Aerial System, which makes its disappearance into the water a transmedium event – especially since no wreckage was found. Where did it go?

“I can confirm that the referenced photos and videos were taken by Navy personnel. The UAPTF has included these incidents in their ongoing examinations,” said Susan Gough, Pentagon Spokesperson

Jeremy Corbell on the SUNRISE morning show in Australia…

“As you would have an embassy in a foreign land, it is possible that there’s a congregation or a station or a location underwater, where UFOs could be transiting from once they’re here, wherever they come from. That is a possibility that UFOs are transiting from a localized place underneath the water.”

Corbell seems to believe that even if the UFOs seen by the USS Omaha and other ships in 2019 came from another planet, they may have been stationed at an underwater base before the ships encountered them. He points to the USS Nimitz incident in 2004 as another example – pilot David Fravor and others reported a circle of water churning below the Tic Tac UFOs.

“There was an object under the water and it appeared to be cross shaped. And it was right under the water where the tic-tac UFOs were descending to, and they were dropping in from above 80,000 feet, all the way down to sea level in less than a second without a sonic boom. When these things were coming down they were docking. And those are not my words. They were docking somehow informationally maybe with whatever was happening in the water or under the water.”

Should we e looking for flying submarines?

Docking? Who else said that? Corbell impies that it came from government officials.

“(Officials have also discussed the possibility they) come from another planet. That’s one of the options that’s definitely on the table. But importantly, there was this implication that there might be a base or location like an embassy that they could go and maybe fuel up their starships and come I mean, who knows I’m speculating jokingly, I have no idea.”

“Speculating jokingly”? That was a poor choice of words for what is otherwise a revelatory interview on government and military suspicions that the drones came from an underwater base – whether it was built by ETs or a foreign power. Corbell seems to have a good source inside the government for these amazing – and Pentagon certified – videos and photos. He states that US officials discussed this possibility with him. Let’s hope he doesn’t get swayed by all of the attention they have brought him and cross the line from disclosure to joking speculation.

In the meantime, it’s a safe bet that someone is already trying to duct-tape a drone to an ROV submarine and make one of these at home.

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02-05-2021 om 23:47 geschreven door peter  

A former Pentagon investigator who claims to have run a hush-hush UFO program has warned that an upcoming blockbuster report about “unidentified aerial phenomena” could reveal a failure by US intelligence agencies on par with 9/11.

Isn’t it strange how our government here in the United States reversed their position, in an instant, that UFOs were not real and that only nutty, conspiracy theory basement dwellers believed they were real? And they did it with no apologies, no explanation, no ‘filling in the blanks’ to get us all up to speed. Of course, what they don’t know is that what they are encountering are not space aliens at all, they are the fallen angels connected with the Genesis 6 giants. Welcome back, we who believe the bible have been expecting your return.

“But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matthew 24:37 (KJB)

Now remember, when the Pentagon reveals them to us on the nightly news, in an interview streamed lived on YouTube, you didn’t miss the rapture and we are not in the Tribulation. When that happens, we will simply be witnesses the fulfillment of the prophecy of Jesus and the Days of Noah. When it happens, the Pretribulation Rapture will literally be moments away from taking place.

UFOS AND OTHER UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS

Pentagon whistleblower warns of UFO intelligence failure on ‘level of 9/11’

FROM THE NY POST: Luis “Lue” Elizondo, former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, has told The Post about the document slated for release in June under a mandate contained in former President Donald Trump’s $2.3 trillion appropriations bill for this year.

The whistleblower said the highly anticipated report will address what UFO believers have been clamoring to discover about Tic Tac-shaped objects the Navy saw in 2004, the strange “cubes within spheres” seen by naval aviators in 2014 and mysterious black triangles reported around the world.

02-05-2021 om 23:17 geschreven door peter  

10 Most Mysterious Recent Archaeological Discoveries

No matter how the modern world looks like right now, the same world looked a whole lot different thousands of years ago. The land beneath your go-to supermarket might have been underwater in the distant past or maybe the location of your home was probably a site where monstrous dinosaurs fought each other to death. Though these circumstances might seem hard to imagine, our planet is forever changing. But the remnants of the distant past still lay buried beneath us and are waiting to be discovered for those who are curious enough. Here are 10 of the most mysterious recent archaeological discoveries which you need to know!

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02-05-2021 om 23:05 geschreven door peter  

The Ancient Book Of Enoch Hidden Story of Jesus? Dr Michael Heiser Lays Out Amazing Finding!

Is A Hidden Story Of Jesus In The Ancient Book Of Enoch? Dr Michael Heiser Lays Out Amazing Finding!

Did you know that the disciples of Jesus and the writers of the New Testament honored the Book of Enoch and even expected Jesus to fulfill what was written in this ancient work? AND THEN HE DID!

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02-05-2021 om 22:51 geschreven door peter  

Transhumanists Aim To Replace God With Machines Through Digital Immortality 

 Transhumanists Aim To Replace God With Machines Through Digital Immortality 

By Joe Allen

 Tech companies are selling the idea of ‘digital resurrection.’ That’s only a problem if we’re dumb enough to buy it.

Transhumanists have hyped the new religion of high technology for decades now. The basic idea, fairly prevalent in Silicon Valley, is that rapid advances in scientific knowledge and tech innovation will culminate in our de facto omniscience and omnipotence. Even though humanity is lost in a godless cosmos, digital devices will allow us to transcend our ape-like forms.

As Google’s Ray Kurzweil famously quipped, “Does God exist? I would say, ‘Not yet.’”

One day soon, they promise, we’ll use artificial intelligence to overcome the limits of our meat-based cognition. According to Yuval Noah Harari’s 2015 best-seller “Homo Deus,” computer programmers will realize the age-old fantasies of shamans and prophets by creating a virtual version of the spiritual realm. These Davos darlings are certain “God is dead,” but Google still wants to patent His best ideas.

Ultimately, they hope to replicate the fabric of ourselves in cyberspace, where we can all live happily ever after — that is, until the electricity goes out. A recent paper by Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin argues this “digital resurrection” is not only possible but necessary to reach our full potential. We just need enough power — both computational and electric — to create a virtual afterlife and then keep it running.

For Turchin, the solution is to construct a Dyson Sphere around the sun — a megastructure 186 million miles in diameter that’s covered in solar panels to capture the dying star’s rays. That way, we can run the gargantuan super-computers required to house our digital selves. Sounds easy enough, I suppose. Maybe we can fill the potholes in the road while we’re at it.

Joining the race to boost fashionable ideas, the once sober Popular Mechanics covered Turchin’s work enthusiastically:

Think about the end of your life and what might happen next. … If your soul exists, you continue on after death and everything is wonderful. And if it doesn’t and your fate is utter demise, well, some part of you could still continue infinitely as a digital copy. ‘It’s a win-win situation in both scenarios,’ Turchin says.

If these lunatics convince enough people their scheme is truly working, they’ll expect the rest of us to treat these gibbering clones like real people. Even worse, given the shrill demands for “religious tolerance,” we’ll have to pretend we enjoy their company.

Into The Machine

The concept behind digital resurrection goes back to the “Ship of Theseus” paradox, articulated by the ancient Greeks. Imagine you have a huge wooden ship. You gradually replace the rotten boards with new wood, plank by plank. Eventually, every old part has been replaced by something new. Is it not the same ship as before, only better?

Transhumanists seek to do the same with the human personality. Every neuron will be replaced by networked processors — and then some. For example, to preserve himself for future immortality, Alexey Turchin submits the details of his life to “ubiquitous surveillance.” In addition to keeping a trivia-packed diary, he records every conversation, videotapes his behaviors, and wears an EEG headset while making art or listening to music. He has faith that one day some godlike AI will use this tedious information to “resurrect” him.

You could call this self-obsessed behavior a personal quirk, but Turchin is hardly alone in this endeavor. For many, it’s been part of the new normal since before the New Normal.

The Scan Truck is a good illustration, both literally and allegorically. Based in Los Angeles, the company developed a “mobile photogrammetry studio” decked out with more than 200 digital cameras “to capture the uppermost, photorealistic models.” The experience is like stepping into an inside-out insect eye.

Subjects who enter The Scan Truck’s portable Panopticon — preferably in the buff — have a million pics snapped from every possible angle. The resulting composite image is then used to create a “digital double.” This second self includes every scar, pore, and birthmark. The service has become enormously popular among special effects specialists in the movie industry. It’s also used to create hyper-realistic avatars to inhabit a virtual environment.

Clever enough, but what about one’s inner self?

‘Alexa, Upload My Soul’

In line with Turchin’s methodology, a “digital immortality industry” has emerged to monitor every aspect of your life. Their services, as advertised, will create a lasting imprint of your earthly persona for friends and family to enjoy when you’re gone.

Start-ups with names like Eterni.me, Replika, DeadSocial, and Deep Nostalgia are working hard to re-create deceased loved ones from photographs, home videos, personal diaries, intimate letters, second-hand anecdotes, and of course, online tracking technology. Replika offers an AI talk therapy app that probes living subjects to get at the core of their personality. The constant refrain is that we need to “break down privacy barriers” and “become vulnerable” to digital invasion.

For a modest price, this data is correlated with the subject’s physical attributes. The resulting electro-wraith can then speak to the bereaved from beyond the grave. Just open your laptop, and there’s your late grandma, insisting you have another plate of chicken casserole.

What about grandma’s subjective soul, though — that mysterious entity who watched you grow up from behind her smiling eyes?

When transhumanists tackle this issue — which is less often than you’d think — they typically deny the existence of a stable, spiritual self that’s distinct from brain activity. When the body dies, that “soul” will disappear. That’s why creating an electronic backup is so important.

For one thing, AI augmentation will make Grandma 2.0 smarter and less whimsical. For another, some rude guest is bound to sit in her empty chair if you don’t replace her with a digital super-being.

Throughout that process, the still-embodied subject is scanned, probed, and reconstructed as a digital double. Making multiple copies is even better, but anything beats total oblivion. As years pass, the biological version will wither like a butterfly cocoon. The digital double will soar into the future on a cloud of 1’s and 0’s.

For those guided by materialist philosophies — where transcendence is only available via physical means — there’s no better way to overcome the finality of death. Naturally, transhumanists tend to see people who believe in a spiritual existence beyond this mortal coil as quaint at best. As a quaint heathen myself, I suspect their well-heeled megalomania is far more irrational than any traditional religion.

Transhuman Heaven Sounds Like Hell

These technocratic delusions are only a problem to the extent we’re forced to participate. I’m content to live my life as a caveman and let others become cyborgs, so long as they keep their crossed wires to themselves. That’s not the world they’re creating, though. The insidious elements of their techno-cult — from materialist self-obsession to ubiquitous surveillance — have crept into our daily lives for decades now.

Consider the widespread adoption of monitored electronic communication. In olden times, the idea that our most intimate letters could be intercepted, analyzed, and added to detailed personal dossiers kept by tech executives and government agents — to be used at their pleasure — would be laughable. Today, it’s as routine as driving a few blocks to the grocery store.

In the blink of an eye, we saw the rapid migration of personal interaction to social media. It’s now normal to document a child’s life for public consumption by total strangers. For many, the privacy barriers have already been broken down. We’ve made ourselves vulnerable. The craziest part is that most have enjoyed it.

The next steps in this supposedly inevitable process are just over the horizon. After years of stops and starts, virtual reality will soon be as commonplace as a television set. Many youngsters already idolize “virtual influencers“ who dance across their touchscreens. These bubblegum apparitions are elaborate, entirely fictitious pop stars made from scratch by devious programmers. Some kids have no clue they’re not real people.

For years now, men of fighting age have retreated into video games. Would-be mothers are using dating apps to run out the biological clock. Having been conditioned by porn for generations, wealthy incels are sleeping with eerily convincing silicone dolls. Super-real sexbots are just around the corner. When the snozzberries taste like snozzberries, you’ll know the end is nigh.

Virtualized Detachment From Reality

In all of this, we see an increasing detachment from the real world of visceral struggle, heartbreak, and redemption. Without these challenges, people don’t develop character or deep social bonds. Anime-obsessed man-babies are a symptom of this tendency. The insane desire for “digital immortality” is another.

Technocracy is being normalized at an alarming pace. If a population can be convinced that kids need state-supplied hormone blockers to become self-realized, it’s only a matter of time before they’re ready to upload their souls to corporate data banks. In fact, just hack into their smartphone and you’ll see they’re already doing it.

One of the darker tenets of the techno-cult is that their innovations are necessary for survival. Anyone who chooses to reject body modification, cognitive enhancement, or mind-uploading will be like job applicants who come to an interview with no smartphone or social media account. They’ll get left in the dust.

In a competitive technocracy, organic humans are doomed to extinction. Trendy cyborgs will transition to digital immortality, while the rest of us become fossils. To the extent that Big Tech holds sway over our lives, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Yet the transhumanists have it backward — at least in the long run. The Egyptians were convinced they would reign forever, as were the Romans. Ultimately, however, their arrogance proved futile. The same will be said of Silicon Valley oligarchs and their consumerist disciples. One day, “immortal digital souls” will be displayed in museums like crumbling marble statues.

Until then, we’d be wise to build high fences as nature takes its course. We’re still free to choose our own paths. This is a spiritual conflict on their terms, but I’m keeping faith that anything is possible.

• Joe Allen is a fellow primate who wonders why we ever came down from the trees. For years, he worked as a rigger on various concert tours. Between gigs, he studied religion and science at UTK and Boston University. Find him at www.joebot.xyz or @EvoPsychosis. 

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02-05-2021 om 22:05 geschreven door peter  

LATEST UFO SIGHTINGS AND VIDEOS

Strange Phenomenon Sighted Over Thailand ( April 28, 2021 )

Multiple witnesses sight a Strange Phenomenon over Thailand, on April 28, 2021

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UFO Sighted Over Hunters Creek, Florida ( April 28, 2021 )

STATEMENT: Fireball UFO in the Sky in Hunters Creek Kissimmee Florida 4/28/2021 11:49PM : Me and my wife were chilling outside when we seen this fireball coming towards us , then it stoped and started going Up, then it turns off and acts like a star then flys away. Have you guys ever seen something like this?

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MUFON CASE : 115007 McKinney, Texas ( May 1, 2021 )

Mutual UFO Network : MUFON SUBMISSIONS : Oval object floating sky
Long Description of Sighting Report
Stepped out into my backyard with my cat and saw this on a cloudy day in Texas
Date Submitted : 2021-05-01
Date of Event : 2021-05-01 - 6:15PM
MUFON SUBMITTER FILE : trim.98F90F1C0EFF4DB98F13160CD865A43B.MOV

UFOs Sighted Over Las Vegas, Nevada ( May 1, 2021 )

Multiple UFOs were sighted over Las Vegas, Nevada on May 1, 2021 :

STATEMENT : Las Vegas sky ufo OVNI strange Any idea what’s is this ??

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Video Clip Rosary-Like UFO

A man took a video of an object or objects that resembled a Rosary.

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TicTac UFO Over Deming, New Mexico 4-3-2021, UFO Sighting News.

MUFON Eyewitness states:

I was driving back from Roswell for the holiday yesterday, April 3, 2021. At about 4:30 I had just passed Deming when I noticed something hovering over the mountains to the south of the 10. I pulled over and stared for a while. It never moved, and from that angle it looked dark. I drove further up the 10 and passed 3 RV's which were pulled over, all staring out their windows to the same direction I had been looking. I passed the mountain and from this angle the object appeared to be white and reflect the sun. It was too high to be a helicopter and, being from L.A. I see helicopters all the time, I know what they look like and how they maneuver. It couldn't have been a blimp or an airplane. It was a crystal clear sky, with no clouds and the sun was bright. The thing just hung there. I checked my map to see if there was an exit close enough that I could get to while keeping it in sight, and saw there was, with a road that got closer.

I ended up at this spot: [exact location details have been moved to Investigators report section/ CMS/fgc] but the dirt road led back to what looked like private property, and to be honest I was a little too freaked out to want to drive towards this thing. When I'd tried to take pictures on my phone the camera failed multiple times before I got a picture. I couldn't see the object on my screen while I was trying to get a picture, so it's sheer luck that I managed to get it at all. I went back to the gas station at the exit to see if anyone was looking towards the object, but there were only truckers in their trucks and some people inside the station. I was too timid to approach people to ask them to look. The object never left, and I assumed, given where I was, the possibilities could be numerous and I wasn't going to get an explanation, so I continued home.

Strange Formation of Lights ( 4-3 -2021)

A strange formation of orange lights were videotaped in Dana Point, CA on Apr 3, 2021.

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02-05-2021 om 21:38 geschreven door peter  

Upcoming UFO Report and its Implications for Human Origins Theory

Last year, the United States signed into law 5,500 pages of legislation, most of which dealt with economic stimulus. But it dealt with something else too – UFOs!  The revelations have explosive implications that will cause us to reexamine our scientific paradigms of human origins. Where do we come from? This is probably the most fundamental question within the human condition, and to even attempt answering it, we must explore the origin of all life on Earth.

The legislation contained the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. In the committee comment section is a heading entitled “Advanced Aerial Threats.” The provision mandates that the Director of National Intelligence collaborate with the Secretary of Defense to forge a detailed report, the so-called UFO report, which discloses everything the government knows about unidentified flying objects (UFOs), a moniker they have now discarded in favor of others such as “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) or “anomalous aerial vehicles” (AAV).

In 2020, the U.S. Navy confirmed that three videos circulating the internet were indeed authentic and were captured by Navy jet pilots. Pentagon spokeswoman, Sue Gough, admitted that the images of the rapid-moving, glowing vehicles, one sphere-shaped, another acorn-shaped, a “metallic blimp,” and many others, were being studied by the newly formed Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF).

Abiogenesis and the Origin of Life of Earth

Abiogenesis is the prevailing, although highly speculative and controversial, narrative about how life originated on Earth. Essentially, this theory holds that over millions of years of primordial, evolutionary processes, non-living matter transitioned into living cells. Then, simple, cellular life forms gradually began to develop, via natural selection, and after epochs of competition-driven genetic mutation/adaptation, a myriad of biodiverse species were born.

• Evolution Tells Us We Might Be the Only Intelligent Life in the Universe
• Our Cosmic Ancestry in the Stars: The Deepest Questions

This theory has been propped up since the 1950s as scientific fact, and proponents of it point to a series of experiments from the 50s in which some amino acids were successfully synthesized from inorganic compounds. The problem is, some amino acids are not remotely equivalent to the proteins required to constitute even the most basic cellular life, and then, even these proteins fall far short of the wondrous complexity that is a living cell. In fact, the more molecular biotechnology advances, so to does our understanding of how incredibly complex cells are.

Directed panspermia is the theory that an intelligent species intentionally inoculated our planet to stimulate the development of life.

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Panspermia and Directed Panspermia: Alternative Origin of Life Theories

Alternatively, the theory of panspermia holds that life arose elsewhere in the universe, through unspecified processes, and was then spread to planet Earth by a medium like an asteroid, comet, meteorite, or space dust. Modern, definitive studies have concluded that complex, organic molecules exist within this solar system and in interstellar space. It is then, quite probable that these fundamental building blocks of life arrived here by way of these mechanisms.

Directed panspermia, on the other hand, can be defined as the deliberate transportation of complex, organic life through space with the goal of introducing species onto lifeless, but habitable astronomical objects. In other words, an intelligent species, utilizing high technology, intentionally inoculating planets or moons in order to stimulate the development of life.

This is not science fiction . Highly acclaimed, world renowned scientists like Francis Crick, Leslie Orgel, Sydney Brenner, and many others, endorse this theory and published extensive studies on the subject. It’s worth mentioning that Brenner shared a Nobel Prize for his work on deciphering the genetic code, and that Francis Crick (along with James Watson) discovered the DNA helix, won the Nobel Prize, and gave birth to genetic science as we know it.

Darwinian and Definition of Life Disclaimers

It’s important to point out that life itself is not easily defined. There are hundreds of definitions, and in some cases, entire chapters have been exclusively devoted to defining this fundamental word/concept. According to modern biologists Jane Reece and Neil Campbell, “the phenomenon we call life defies a simple, one-sentence definition.” The definition preferred by NASA is that life is a “self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution.” In other words, life is, “matter that can reproduce itself and evolve as survival dictates.”

This brings us to Charles Darwin . The favoring of directed or undirected panspermia should not be misinterpreted of a revolt against the concept of Darwinian evolution. Unfortunately, Darwinian evolution has accumulated a great deal of connotations and assumptions which intertwine the origins of life, alongside the process by which life adapts to its environment.

It is commonly believed that Darwin’s Origin of Species , is well-established, scientific fact. The process of evolution, meaning the natural selection driven, genetic mutations/adaptations, is well established science. However, this process as the origin of all life, is not, at all, scientific fact. Additionally, there’s strong evidence in modern studies of molecular biology that the competitive nature of this process has been overestimated, and that the process may be much more symbiotic.

While Darwin’s Origin of Species is held as well-established, scientific fact, the process of evolution as the origin of all life is not.

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The Dawn of Man: Evolutionary Theory of Man

Genetic studies literature indicates that primates diverged from mammals about 85 million years ago. Then the various, great ape subfamilies diverged around 15 to 20 million years ago. From there, it is speculated that a locomotion transition to bipedalism occurred about six to seven million years ago. This theoretical transition enabled the earliest human ancestors to migrate throughout the globe. However, some anthropologists studying the development of bipedalism, have stated that this evolution in gait alone could not have sufficiently empowered these primates to fan out around the world.

These professionals have found that bipedalism, tool construction, and the manipulation of fire would have be necessary to achieve spread of human ancestors. It is further believed by the leading authorities that these advancements then triggered rapid encephalization (perpetual brain growth), beginning around two million years ago. Finally, we have archaic and modern humans emerging from a complicated tree of interbreeding hominin species around 400,000 – 200,000 years ago.

The So-Called Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis

Ancient Greek thinkers like Plato, Pythagoras, and many others, wrote in great detail about how the deities of mythology were real, had initiated the natural processes, as well as inoculated the planet with life. Of course, these ideas came after thousands of years of paradigmatic belief in pantheons of deities as the creators of humanity and the world. These religious paradigms were largely relegated to mere tradition with the rise of Darwinism and the industrial revolution.

• What Did the Ancients See? Unidentified Flying Objects that Made an Impact on Early History
• Thinking Critically about UFOs: Are They Really Piloted by Extraterrestrials?

There exists a centuries old, ideological death match between religious and scientific worldviews which took hold during the Renaissance when Roman Church authorities responded to scientific explorations by condemning them and their ideas under the threat of death and excommunication. In the mid twentieth century, authors of alternative history began publishing books about out of place artifacts and thereby popularized a fusion of science and mythology that has become known as the ancient astronaut hypothesis.

This concept asserts that the deities of ancient mythology were actually intelligent, non-human species, who utilized advanced technology to establish life on Earth and bequeathed the arts and sciences of civilization to humanity in the distant past. This mainstream popularization was fueled, in part, by an ever-growing collection of sightings by people across the world of anomalous aerial phenomena, and by the progress made in aerospace related fields.

The Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis posits that the deities of ancient mythology were intelligent, non-human species who came to humanity in the distant past.

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The “Heresy” of Believing in Otherworldly Deities

A deity can be defined as a supernatural being that has the capability of influencing the forces of nature, observes humanity, and periodically intervenes in the affairs of human beings. It’s interesting that by this definition, an elder species that observes, and occasionally interacts with, human civilization, is well within the parameters of scientific probability. Even with countless sightings, physical evidence of high-tech in ancient times, and the postulations of great thinkers like Crick, Newton, Einstein, Tesla, Pythagoras, Plato, the notion that such “deities” or elder life forms are, at least, intermittently present, and observing mankind’s civilization, is often met by vitriolic ridicule and skepticism.

Most of the opponents of this concept, whether they’re aware of it or not, are incited by flawed reasoning intravenously fed into their consciousness by Darwinian evolutionist zealots who themselves are guilty of confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance, if not outright scientific misconduct. These authorities were much chagrined by the work of Dr. Francis Crick and his colleagues, as his intellectual prowess was, and is, beyond reproach due to his and Watson’s discovery of the DNA helix. They (the oligarchic authorities) regard these theories as heresy (tragically ironic), and this is why even to this day, the mainstream public is mostly unaware of them.

AAVs and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program

In a televised interview with CBS correspondents, the Republican US Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who at the time was the vice chair of the intelligence committee, explained that “the bottom line is these things are flying over your military bases and you don’t know what they are because they aren’t yours and they are exhibiting – potentially - technologies that you don’t have at your disposal, that to me is a national security risk and one that we should be looking into.” In public statements such as this, state officials are approaching the subject as if these could potentially be foreign adversaries who have made secret technological leaps.

They’re also acting as if the U.S. military hasn’t been studying these phenomena for years. They have. Created in 2007 and dissolved in 2012, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was uncovered in 2017. It was run by intelligence official Louis Elizondo who publicly called for disclosure of the project’s findings. The program was then succeeded by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) in 2020, under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Defense. While existence of the project has been made public, its findings, and those of previous programs, are still classified. Hopefully some of the information, which has been financed by taxpayers, will come to light with the report due to come out 1 June 2021.

In 2017, Hawaiian astronomers discovered the first ever interstellar object as it passed through our solar system and they named it Oumuamua, which means messenger from the distant past.

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Harvard’s Top Astronomer and Oumuamua

In late 2017, Hawaiian astronomers discovered the first ever interstellar object as it passed through our solar system. They named it Oumuamua. At first, it was designated a comet, but then, it turned out not to fit the criteria for a comet, so they changed it to an asteroid. But then, they realized it had come from outside our solar system and therefore needed its own, new designation as an interstellar object.

The name itself is Hawaiian and roughly translates to “messenger from the distant past.” Avi Loeb is the chairman of Harvard’s astronomy department who has boldly pointed out that the object is moving too fast to be an inert rock and is not emitting jets of steam like a comet. His position is that it cannot be a lump of rock as has been suggested and, in his expert opinion, the only scenario that fits with the data is an object that originated from another intelligent civilization. Loeb has also pointed out that it’s arrogant believe that we are alone in the universe, or even an especially unique species.

Expert Opinions on Extraterrestrial Intelligence from the Moonwalkers

Apollo astronaut Al Worden made an appearance on Good Morning Britain some years ago. Before the show wrapped up, the host asked him if he believed in extraterrestrials. Worden responded that he did, and that he knew they existed because he saw them everyday. The hosts laughed, misinterpreting his statement as a joke. But he wasn’t joking and told them so. He went on to explain that in his expert opinion, in the distant, prehistoric past, an intelligent species seeded life on Earth. He then suggested reading Sumerian mythology before the host flew into a panic, ending the program.

• Astronomers Studying The Oumuamua ‘Alien Spaceship’ Identify Its Interstellar Origins
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Another moonwalking astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, has stated publicly that an anomalous, 200-meter-tall object on Mars is, in his expert opinion, evidence of a non-human civilization. But perhaps the most intriguing of the moonwalkers is Edgar Mitchell and his email that was uncovered by the Wikileaks revelations. In an email sent from Mitchell to the Clinton camp while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and running for president, Mitchell wrote: “Remember, our nonviolent ETI from the contiguous universe are helping us bring zero-point energy to Earth. They will not tolerate any forms of military violence on Earth or in space.” ETI is short for extraterrestrial intelligence and zero-point energy is a clean, inexhaustible energy source.

What Does UFO Report Mean for Human Origin Paradigms?

What conclusions can be drawn from this 180-degree reversal by the US government, and what impact does it have on human origin paradigms? First and foremost, the US government’s long held position that these UFOs are simply misconstrued aerial/optical illusions has all the while been a complete farce. No surprised there for the discerning researcher. Also, it seems that quite a few of the previously mentioned, vitriolic skeptics are due up for a long, humiliating, force-fed, cornucopia feast of cold crow meat.

But what these disclosures really mean is that theories like those of Francis Crick, James Watson, Sydney Brenner, Leslie Orgel, and others are being tremendously reinforced. It’s one thing to speculate that somewhere out there, in the distant reaches of the universe (or multiverse), there are other intelligent life forms. But, if such life forms are present right here, then the likelihood of their influence regarding the origination of life on this planet goes up ten-thousand-fold.

In this realm of theoretical science there’s a concept known as the Fermi paradox. This controversial paradox posits that based on the age of the universe (approximately 15 billion years old), its vast size (so large its boundaries are unknown), and given what we know about our own development, the universe should be teaming with intelligent life or at least littered with remnants of it. If this is the case, why haven’t we found it? Unless, perhaps, we have. We’ll have to wait for the UAPTF UFO report to come out on 1 June 2021 to find out more!

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02-05-2021 om 18:56 geschreven door peter  

Michio Kaku Says the Universe Is Simpler Than We Think

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02-05-2021 om 18:41 geschreven door peter  

Lue Elizondo is a former intelligence officer with the Department of Defense. He claims he was the director of AATIP, the Pentagon's "UFO program", from 2010-2017. 

Elizondo reveals shocking truths about the UFOs the Navy and other military branches have encountered on almost "a daily basis", why some "very senior" officials at the Pentagon tried to suppress UFO evidence, and the jaw-dropping things these UFOs can do.

  

 

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02-05-2021 om 18:02 geschreven door peter  

VIDEO: Cigar-shaped UFO over Thunder bay, Canada 29-Apr-2021

This huge cigar-shaped UFO was filmed in the night sky above Thunder bay in Ontario, Canada on 29th April 2021.

Witness report: 

04/29/2021 430am.the mountain behind my grandparents is a hot spot. They haven’t mentioned anything about it ever till I showed them this video. My thing is, when I walked out of the cabin it wasn’t moving at all. By the time I got to the corner of the house it took off real quick. I am walking with it and trying my best to film and watch where I walking at the same time, sorry for being a noob as I’m not constantly on my phone taking videos for those tic tock things or the snap chats everybody’s going crazy about.

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02-05-2021 om 17:49 geschreven door peter  

The Government Has Acknowledged the Reality of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

According to a former Pentagon official, the government could disclose evidence and reports on unidentified aerial phenomena this June.

Luis Elizondo, the former director of Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, said that the government is planning to disclose “reality” documentation about UFOs. The upcoming report, which has caught much media attention, is expected to expose the military knowledge about unexplained aircraft observed around its installations. And could help clear up several mysterious UFO sightings that have been reported, or it could be an underwhelming cache of things that turned out to be optical illusions and balloons.

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It’s worth noting that Elizondo has promised updates on UFOs several times in recent years. Just last July, he argued that the UAP task force of the Pentagon “no longer has to hide in the shadows” and “will have a new transparency.”

However, there’s enough reason to believe this report will be revealed in some form. Even if it’s not a groundbreaking disclosure of alien life, former President Donald Trump manded that the US intelligence agencies had to disclose what they know about UFOs and UAPs by the summer.

Elizondo believes that the government has acknowledged the reality of UAP – they all want answers and willing to ask the hard questions.

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02-05-2021 om 17:44 geschreven door peter  

UFOs are real, feds’ cover-up fueled by fear: ex-Pentagon whistleblower

UFOs exist — but the government doesn’t want you to know it, according to the ex-Pentagon official who says he ran the program investigating “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UAP.

Recalling the revelatory instant when he recognized that UFOs were bona fide, controversial whistleblower Luis “Lue” Elizondo exclusively told The Post, “It was a holy-s–t moment: ‘Oh, my gosh, it’s real. Well, crap, now we have to do something about it.’ ”

However, Elizondo has not been able to get the feds to act on what he describes as a serious national security risk due to a litany of roadblocks — including a cover-up of the existence of UFOs because of religious objections, concerns over tarnishing its own reputation and fears of inciting public panic.

With a bombshell government report on UFOs set to be released before the end of June, Elizondo — who says he came into the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program in 2008, and headed it from 2010 until 2017 — has revealed the shocking things he alleges to have learned, and the chilling reason why some in the Pentagon don’t want this information made public.

As part of his job, Elizondo said, he had access to the Pentagon’s UFO data and interviewed military eyewitnesses who encountered UAP on an almost “daily basis.” Meanwhile, Navy pilots have testified about engaging 50-foot Tic Tac-shaped vessels only to see them disappear in the blink of an eye.

Other pilots said their fighter jets had a “near collision” with a strange “sphere encasing a cube.” Elizondo scrutinized all this evidence, including radar and electro-optical data, that showed unknown aircraft zipping 60 miles in five seconds and descending at speeds of 14 miles per second.

“Do the math,” Elizondo, also a former intelligence officer for the US Department of Defense, told The Post. “You’ll see that it’s very fast.” (BTW: We did the math — and 60 miles in five seconds is 43,200 mph.)

Despite those mind-blowing discoveries, Elizondo was always swimming upstream. He tried to share frightening evidence with closed-minded non-believers who shunned his research, which he has compared to an “intelligence failure on the level of 9/11.”

Elizondo allegedly pushed his superiors — who included Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis — to take his findings seriously.

He also claims “very senior” officials blocked him from informing Mattis, and he resigned from the Pentagon in frustration. (Reps for Mattis declined to comment when The Post reached out for comment.)

But Elizondo never stopped investigating UFOs and publicizing what he found. Now he is no longer alone. Washington, DC, power players are due to share details about the “reality” of such UFOs via their much-hyped tell-all report. It’s vindication for Elizondo and others in his camp.

As the report’s publication looms, Elizondo is coming out swinging. During a series of exclusive interviews, he clued in The Post on the reality of UFOs, the amazing things that they can do, the religious beliefs that led federal officials to dismiss their veracity, what the government knows but doesn’t want to tell, and the ways in which UFO technologies can benefit humanity.

But institutional silence may soon be broken amid what Elizondo sees as a tipping point for the unexplained. “The level of interest is reaching a critical mass,” he said. “I think [government officials realize that] it would be like putting the cat back in the bag or like putting toothpaste back in the tube. Now that the government has acknowledged the reality of Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon [or UAP, which is synonymous with UFO] … it’s going to be real hard to backtrack.”

Looking back on his years in the Pentagon, Elizondo remembers that his biggest concern involving UFOs was not based on a fear of extraterrestrials. It centered on America’s Earth-bound enemies: “We [were] behind the power curve” — as a result of military bosses turning blind eyes to unexplained phenomena. “We knew that foreign adversaries in other countries are interested in this topic. So there comes a real problem from a national security perspective.”

Here are some of Elizondo’s most compelling revelations and insights:

Face it: UFOs are ‘real’ and not ‘silly’

Elizondo said he’s seen enough to be confident that UFOs are very real and that our government — thanks in part to a mandate former President Donald Trump put into his $2.3 trillion appropriations bill for 2021 — is not a moment too soon in taking these incursions in the sky seriously.

Having spoken to US military sources who’ve witnessed UFOs, watched videos of them and seen photographs, Elizondo is a true believer in the presence of unexplained phenomena. He thinks the rest of us should be as well. “This isn’t a silly conversation,” said Elizondo. “This is a conversation about someone, from somewhere, displaying beyond next-generation technology” — which allows craft to fly without wings or obvious airworthy construction — “in our controlled airspace. And there’s not a whole lot we can do about it.”

In encouraging exploration of UFOs, Elizondo raised topics that many of his Defense Department superiors found off-putting. As a result, there appears to be a long-running campaign to discredit him and to keep his findings out of the limelight. Pentagon spokesman Christopher Sherwood released a statement saying, “Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP [Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program] program.” Sherwood’s statement was soon followed by a slightly modified one from spokesperson Susan Gough: “Mr. Elizondo had no assigned responsibilities for AATIP.”

It’s a diss that former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who once took credit for arranging $22 million in annual funding for the AATIP, has consistently challenged. Reid spent the last few years publicly defending Elizondo’s leadership role with AATIP and, just this week, released a new statement re-emphasizing this. “Mr. Elizondo has spent his career working tirelessly in the shadows on sensitive national-security matters, including investigating UAPs as the head of AATIP,” Reid wrote on his letterhead. “He performed these duties admirably.”

Elizondo also stuck up for himself, bluntly telling The Post, “There are some people in the Pentagon that still don’t like me very much. I think they’re pissed at me for the way I left. They’re now trying to thread the needle, saying, ‘He had no assigned  responsibilities with AATIP.’ I had no assigned responsibilities because I was working Gitmo for [the Department of Defense]. These assigned duties [exploring the reality of UFOs] were coming from the legislative branch.”

Insisting that he had plenty of assigned responsibilities in this area, Elizondo added, “There are enough people now in the Pentagon and on the Hill who know exactly who I was and what I did. And, you know, it’s going to hurt [my detractors’] credibility.”

UFOs can do jaw-dropping things

We tend to be impressed by high-tech roller coasters at glossy theme parks. Observers of UFOs have seen mechanical and technological performances that bring new parameters to the notion of a thrill ride.

Elizondo describes vessels flying at 11,000 miles per hour, “making crazy right-angle turns” and being able to reverse “instantly.” Providing a comparison, he explained of the Air Force’s SR-71 Blackbird — which maxes out around 2,100 mph — “if you wanted to make a right-hand turn, it would take you about half the state of Ohio to do it.”

He also detailed Spielberg-worthy operational capabilities that fall into the realm of “transmedium travel.” Elizondo explained that the eye-popping vessels can fly 50 feet above the Earth’s surface or 80,000 feet in the sky and even submerge underwater without a compromise in performance at any level: “When you see that, you recognize you are dealing with a technology more advanced than ours.”

Even the way in which these inexplicable flying machines manage to lift off blows away rational engineering. “[These] things have no wings, no cockpits, no control surfaces, no rivets in the skin, no obvious signs of propulsion — and somehow they are able to defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity,” Elizondo marveled. “How is that possible?”

Then there is the sheer ability to handle the stress of it all: “Humans can withstand 9 Gs for just a short period of time before negative physical consequences. The F-16 fighter jet will begin to experience structural failure around 17 Gs. The objects we’re seeing are doing 600 Gs. Obviously well beyond the healthy limitations of anything” — including whoever or whatever is inside the vessel.

Nick Pope, former head of the UFO office in the UK’s Ministry of Defence, told The Post that it all adds up to “an advanced technology that we don’t currently possess. It may be why the Pentagon’s AATIP program was studying advanced theoretical physics concepts such as anti-gravity and warp drive. It’s as if someone said, ‘This is real — and can we figure it out ourselves?’”

As Elizondo reveals later in this story, we can and we did.

The ‘Satanic’ reason unexplained phenomena were suppressed

The presence of highly intelligent life — possibly more advanced than humans — would be huge news. Elizondo – who expresses relief at the impending release of the upcoming UFO document, even though he is not privy to its contents – knows all about federal reticence on this matter.

Elizondo quit his Pentagon job in frustration over authorities being unwilling to even entertain the possibility of UFOs. Referencing why his superiors refused to brief his boss at the time, General Mattis, Elizondo said, “They were probably worried about tarnishing [Mattis] if it came out that he was briefed on UFOs.”

For senior Pentagon officials, Elizondo discovered, acknowledging the very existence of UFOs was “too much of a pill to swallow.” He recalled one superior who clumsily changed the subject by asking Elizondo how the Miami Dolphins football team was doing. “Some individuals have a problem with this topic because it interferes with their philosophical or maybe theological belief system.”

In fact, Elizondo claimed one senior official “told him to ‘Stop'” investigating UFOs — and asked Elizondo if he had “read your Bible lately?”

Elizondo asked where his boss was going with the non sequitur before acknowledging familiarity with the Good Book. As per Elizondo, he was then told, “‘Well, then you would know that these things are demonic and we should not be pursuing them.’ He wasn’t kidding. That’s exactly how he felt.”

Dr. Eric Davis, Ph.D., a former rocket scientist for the Air Force Research Laboratory and currently a scientist at government contractor the Aerospace Corporation, confirmed: “They objected to UFOs as being Satanic!”

The line of thinking is not restricted to America. Nick Pope saw similar incidents of religion trumping science in the UK. “Some objections come from people in government who think the phenomenon is real — but demonic,” Pope said. “Their belief seems to be that studying UFOs would thus give energy to attention-seeking demons, which should be avoided. This view comes, in part, from the biblical description of Satan as ‘the prince of the power of the air.’”

But then, even secular government officials who accept the reality of UFOs get cornered by exactly what kind of action should be taken and who should take it. “They can’t deal with it on a legislative basis or on a military operational basis; they can’t deal with it on the basis of a presidential policy,” said Davis. “So they let a finite group of engineers and scientists and investigators work [on it] together.” And their findings “just collect cobwebs in the classified storage warehouses.”

Some of this may have also stemmed from a fear of panicking the public. As Elizondo told Politico, many of the UFO sightings were near vulnerable nuclear facilities, ships in the water and power plants. He added, “We had never seen anything like it.”

What the government might not want you to know

If anyone wonders whether the US government is fully aware that UFOs exist, Elizondo removes all doubt. Questioned about American authorities having physical remnants of crashed vessels, he provided an answer that no current official would likely voice: “I was asked if I believe the US government is in possession of [UFOs] and I said, ‘Yes. I believe so.’ And that’s all I’m prepared to say.” (Elizondo, who is tied to a lifelong NDA with the government, rides a fine line between what he can reveal and what he can’t.)

UFOs coming from other planets and being operated by aliens who may have hostile intentions for our nation and planet would be bad enough. But the even bigger concern, Elizondo maintained, would be a more Earthly possibility. “Let’s assume this is some sort of adversarial or foreign technology that for several decades now has managed to leapfrog us and evade all 18 members of the intelligence community,” Elizondo said, painting a nightmare scenario of the United States being vulnerable to a human enemy with the highest of high-tech capabilities. “That would be an intelligence failure that eclipses just about anything else this country has ever faced.”

Though Elizondo, Pope and Davis are all pleased to see the report coming out, none of them expect the government to reveal all. Elizondo figures it will be “an interim report … [with] all the unknowns” laid out. And if there is not a lot of talk about anything as concrete as, say, flying saucers in our midst, Davis sets that matter straight. UFOs, he said, “never went away. They’re still coming up and causing aviation havoc. They’re getting in the middle of aviation operations, and that’s dangerous.”

As for the force behind those craft and how deep the report’s authors will go, Pope added, “If they know or suspect that UFOs are extraterrestrial, I hope they’ll say so.”

The ‘sea monsters’ in the sky

When confronted with the question of whether UFOs are simply Earth-bound vehicles or from another galaxy, Elizondo offered a third unsettling option. He started by emphasizing, “This is important,” then explained how humans can only perceive “a narrow band” of reality. A lot of stuff (infrared, radio waves, cosmic radiation) is invisible to the human eye. There are “things that are right in front of your eyes, but you can’t see them.”

Elizondo then briought up “sea monsters.”

“Imagine the first person who decided to get on a boat and sail over the horizon,” he mused, recalling days before Christopher Columbus. “Back then there was talk of sea monsters and krakens that will destroy your boat. But [those intrepid souls] did it anyway.”

As it turned out, of course, fearful sailors were not entirely wrong: “There really are sea monsters — but now, 500 years later, we call them great squids of the Pacific, great white sharks and whales. They’re part of nature and we learned to understand them.”

Elizondo said humanity could once again be faced with the same scenario. “Maybe,” he proposed, “this is just another expedition over the horizon. Maybe we’re going to realize that what we thought were monsters are really just our neighbors.”

{ https://nypost.com/ }

01-05-2021 om 23:26 geschreven door peter