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13-11-2025
This Russian Woman Claimed to Have Super Psychokinetic Powers, Could Move Objects with Her Mind, Magnetize Items, and Affect Organs.
This Russian Woman Claimed to Have Super Psychokinetic Powers, Could Move Objects with Her Mind, Magnetize Items, and Affect Organs.
Nina Kulagina was particularly interesting to the United States government, which possessed unbelievable telekinesis abilities. Stranger still, her supernatural achievements are detailed in multiple US federal reports.
Nina was born in St. Petersburg in 1926. At 14, she was recruited to fight against the Nazis in World War II. During her service in the Red Army, she was seriously injured, ending her military career. Afterward, she got married and had children. But soon, strange things started happening to her.
One day, when she was furious, Nina noticed objects around her moving on their own. She thought it might be a poltergeist. Over time, she realized that these movements were linked to her strong emotions.
Nina Kulagina
Curious, Nina began practicing to control this strange ability, known as psychokinesis. At first, she struggled to move objects at will. But with persistence, she managed to move small items like matchsticks just by thinking about it.
As her confidence grew, she could move heavier objects and even develop other psychic abilities, such as sensing what was in a stranger’s pocket or identifying colors while blindfolded.
However, the intense mental training started to affect her health, and she ended up in the hospital for exhaustion. While there, the medical staff witnessed her strange powers. Soon after, the state authorities took an interest in her.
Nina attracted the attention of parapsychologists and doctors across Russia. Many were doubtful about her supposed supernatural abilities. Forty scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners, studied the mysterious housewife and conducted various strict experiments. To the experts’ surprise, she repeatedly succeeded in many tests under controlled conditions, showing impressive skill.
After confirming her telekinetic abilities, doctors examined her. They found that her heartbeat, brain waves, and electromagnetic field changed during psychokinesis. Each session was closely monitored by researchers. Here are some of the intriguing paranormal accomplishments they recorded and filmed:
Physically moving objects & altering their rotation.
Cracking an egg, then reassembling the shell fragments.
Imprinting images on undeveloped film. Magnetizing or demagnetizing things.
Altering living cells and organic tissue. Modifying essential physiological functions.
Affecting internal organs such as the heart.
On March 10, 1970, Nina Kulagina, a housewife and former member of the Red Army tank regiment, stopped a frog’s beating heart using only her mind.
According to the Soviet doctors monitoring her, Kulagina’s own heart rate increased dramatically during the seven minutes it took her to mentally stop the frog’s heart. It had taken her 20 minutes to prepare for the exercise.
Dr. Genady Sergeyev claimed that normally frog hearts remain active in solution up to 1.5-2 hours after removal from the frog. In the first of the experiments, the electrocardiogram (EKG) indicated activity ceased about 7 minutes after Kulagina began concentrating on “stopping the heart.” The heart had been in a ceramic container.
In the second experiment, with the heart in a metallic container, heart activity ceased after 22 minutes. In both these experiments, Kulagina was 1.5 meters from the “target” hearts. (U) Sergeyev measured weak electric and magnetic fields at the target heart that correlated with some of Kulagina’s physiological activity.
This may have been responsible for the effect noted on heart activity. (U) In another experiment, Kulagina attempted to increase the heart rate of a skeptical physician.
Electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram, and other parameters were measured in both. Abrupt changes in these parameters were noted in both people within 1 minute after the experiment began. After 5 minutes, Sergeyev judged that the heart activity of the physician had reached dangerous levels, and the experiment was terminated.
Subsequent analysis indicated a definite synchronous effect was noted between certain heart parameters for both the physician and Kulagina. Sergeyev apparently views psychokinetic-type phenomena as being closely related to healing-type phenomena and apparently has done (and is doing) considerable investigations in this direction. (Source)
As the arms race unfolded and the atmosphere of deep suspicion intensified, both the U.S. and the USSR focused enormous resources on innovating ever-stranger and more sophisticated modes of spycraft. One of them was psychic power.
It was an odd turn for the Soviets, considering that they saw mysticism the same way they saw religion: as an “opiate of the masses,” in Marxist terms. As historian Annie Jacobsen writes in her book Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis, the Soviets had outlawed anything in the realm of the paranormal — that is, until they realized they might be able to use mysticism to spy on their enemies, and did an ideological about-face.
But first, they had to couch their activities in more scientific terms. In a 1963 edict, “Soviet nomenclature around ESP was rewritten to sound technical,” writes Jacobsen, “thereby severing all ties to ESP’s occult past.” She goes on to list some of the notable terminological changes this entailed: telepathy became “long-distance biological systems transmissions.” Psychokinesis (moving physical objects with the mind) became “non-ionizing, in particular electromagnetic, emissions from humans.” (Source)
In the 1960s, the Soviets studied energy around humans to control physical systems. They believed understanding this energy could be as powerful as atomic energy.
Meanwhile, the US discovered strange signals coming from a Moscow apartment, aimed at the US Embassy. This led the Pentagon to start a secret program to duplicate the signals. Later, the US studied Soviet psychic powers, like a woman who could move objects with her mind.
A report concluded that the Soviets were developing ways to control human behavior through hidden means, and their interest in psychic powers was huge. In 1978, the CIA started a secret program called StarGate to develop psychic abilities, especially “remote viewing”. This meant using psychic powers to describe places far away, like Soviet military bases, just by knowing their coordinates.
The results were often surprisingly accurate. The CIA called this unusual way of gathering information “anomalous cognition”. Some of the strange activities of StarGate were documented in the book “The Men Who Stare At Goats”, which was later made into a film.
The psychic programs always had their detractors, but they persisted into the 1990s and possibly beyond. In 1984, The Washington Post reported that the CIA continued to take psychic research seriously, adding that “Former CIA director Stansfield Turner told critics their skepticism about the CIA’s psychic projects was healthy, but that research should keep pace with their skepticism.”
For her part, Kulagina was suspected by magicians and other skeptics of rigging her supposedly psychic feats. She was called out by the Russian newspaper Pravda as a fraud. She sued for defamation in 1987 and was granted a partial victory. But her exposure didn’t change the Soviet and even post-Soviet pursuit of a psychic advantage.
Officials involved in the program report that groups of military psychics were employed by Russia as recently as the Chechen wars. (Source)
Nina struggled much to prove her psychic abilities and would have given many such experiments. But, near the end of her life, in her late seventies, she seems to have lost her powers, and her health did not support conducting scientific tests to prove her abilities. According to some reports, her psychic abilities were the root cause of her heart attack.
So, the truth behind Nina’s abilities wied along with her. At her funeral, the Soviets praised Nina Kulagina as a “Hero of Leningrad” who fought for her people and her country. But, till now, some Russians believe in her psychic abilities that are yet to be proven genuine even today.
Whether or not the Soviet Union faked Kulagina, or if she really did have profound psychokinetic abilities, remains a mystery.
Jupiter, along with the other outer planets may have had its orbit influenced by an interloper early in the Solar System's history (Credit : NASA/STSCI)
According to the textbook version of Solar System formation, planets should orbit the Sun in elliptical orbits, all lined up in the same plane. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune don't follow this script. Their orbits are a little more elliptical and tilted relative to each other, not dramatically, but enough to puzzle astronomers for decades. Standard formation models predict the giant planets emerged from the protoplanetary disk on the same plane as the rest of the planets. Instead, something seems to have pushed them off course.
Atacama Large Millimeter Array image of HL Tauri showing its protoplanetary disk
(Credit : ALMA)
A new study by researchers Garett Brown, Hanno Rein, and Renu Malhotra proposes a provocative answer. Billions of years ago, an interstellar intruder passed through our Solar System and gravitationally shoved the giant planets into their current configuration. Not a star, but something called a substellar object, a rogue planet or brown dwarf between two and fifty times Jupiter's mass, wandering the Galaxy without a stellar anchor.
The researchers ran 50,000 computer simulations spanning 20 million years each, varying the intruder's mass, speed, and trajectory. Most produced solar systems nothing like ours. But in roughly one percent of simulations, a single close encounter reproduced the orbital characteristics astronomers observe today. The winning scenario involved an object about eight times Jupiter's mass swooping within 1.7 astronomical units of the Sun, barely beyond Mars's current orbit, at a velocity between one and three kilometres per second.
That's remarkably close for such a massive visitor. The gravitational disturbance during this flyby would have excited the giant planets' eccentricities and tilted their orbital planes, nudging them from idealised circles into the slightly wonky paths they follow now. The researchers estimate roughly a one in 9,000 chance that such an encounter occurred during the Solar System's residence in its birth cluster, when stars were packed more densely and close passes were more common.
Artist impression of a brown dwarf. Such an object may have been responsible for the adjustment of the orbits of the outer planets
(Credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Previous theories attributed the planets' orbital quirks to internal dynamics; resonances between planets, migration through the protoplanetary disk, or gravitational interactions that played out over millions of years. These mechanisms can certainly alter orbits, but they struggle to explain the specific pattern of eccentricities and inclinations observed. The flyby hypothesis offers a cleaner explanation, one dramatic event rather than a complicated sequence of internal adjustments.
Importantly, the simulations also included Earth and the other terrestrial planets. The flybys that successfully reproduced the giant planets' orbits left the inner solar system largely intact. Rocky planets survived the encounter and acquired orbital characteristics similar to what we observe, suggesting Earth's habitability wasn't compromised by this ancient near miss.
The findings carry implications beyond our solar system. Substellar objects appear relatively common in the Galaxy, rogue planets and brown dwarfs untethered to stars, drifting through interstellar space. If such encounters can reshape planetary architectures, then the diversity of exoplanet systems discovered in recent years might partly reflect similar close calls with passing wanderers.
The research doesn't dismiss internal perturbations entirely. Brown, Rein, and Malhotra acknowledge that a combination of internal and external influences likely shaped the Solar System's final form. But their simulations demonstrate that a single substellar flyby provides a likely, efficient mechanism for generating what we see today, perhaps just a coincidence that left permanent fingerprints on our planetary neighbourhood.
Iron-oxidising bacteria in surface water (Credit : NH Estuaries Project)
Iron rusts. On Earth, this common chemical reaction often signals the presence of something far more interesting than just corroding metal for example, living microorganisms that make their living by manipulating iron atoms. Now researchers argue these microbial rust makers could provide some of the most promising biosignatures for detecting life on Mars and the icy moons of the outer Solar System.
The familiar sign of flakey rust, or iron oxide as it's more properly known may well be something we can use to identify biological processes on other worlds
(Credit : Laitr Keiows)
Laura Tenelanda-Osorio and colleagues from the University of Tübingen in Germany have compiled a comprehensive review of how iron metabolising bacteria leave distinctive fingerprints in rocks and minerals, and why these signatures matter for astrobiology. The research, published in Earth-Science Reviews, bridges decades of terrestrial microbiology with the practical challenges of searching for life beyond Earth.
Iron ranks among the most abundant elements in the Solar System, and Earth's microorganisms have evolved remarkably diverse ways to exploit it. Some bacteria oxidise ferrous iron to generate energy, essentially breathing iron the way humans breathe oxygen. Others reduce ferric iron, using it as the final electron acceptor in their metabolism. These processes don't happen in isolation. Iron metabolising microbes link their element of choice to the carbon and nitrogen cycles, coupling iron transformations to carbon dioxide fixation, organic matter degradation, and even photosynthesis.
The byproducts of these microbial reactions create what researchers call biogenic iron oxyhydroxide minerals. These aren't subtle traces. Organisms that thrive in neutral pH environments and oxidise iron produce distinctive structures such as twisted stalks, tubular sheaths, and filamentous networks of iron minerals mixed with organic compounds. The minerals precipitate as the bacteria work, forming rusty deposits that can persist in the geological record for billions of years. This durability makes iron biosignatures particularly attractive for planetary exploration. Unlike fragile organic molecules that degrade under radiation and harsh chemistry, mineralised iron structures can survive. Researchers have identified these biosignatures in environments ranging from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor to terrestrial soils, from acidic mine drainage to neutral freshwater springs. Wherever liquid water contacts iron bearing rocks, iron metabolising bacteria typically establish themselves.
The red colour of Mars comes from the dusty iron oxide all over its surface
(Credit : Kevin Gill)
Mars presents an obvious target. The planet's distinctive red colour comes from oxidised iron in surface dust and rocks. Ancient Mars hosted liquid water, and spacecraft have documented iron rich minerals throughout the geological record. If microbial life ever evolved on Mars, iron metabolism would have provided an accessible energy source. The minerals these hypothetical organisms produced could still exist, locked in ancient sediments awaiting discovery by rovers equipped with the right instruments.
The icy moons Europa and Enceladus offer different but equally compelling possibilities. Both harbor subsurface oceans beneath frozen shells. Europa's ocean likely contacts a rocky seafloor, where water and rock interactions would release dissolved iron. Enceladus actively vents ocean material through ice geysers at its south pole. Mission concepts propose sampling these plumes or landing near the vents, analyzing ejected particles for iron minerals that might betray biological origins.
The review emphasises that recognising biogenic iron minerals requires understanding how they form, what textures they create, and how they differ from abiotic iron precipitates. Mission planners must equip spacecraft with instruments capable of detecting not just iron minerals generally, but the specific morphological and chemical signatures that distinguish biology from geology.
The stakes are high. Finding iron biosignatures on another world wouldn't just confirm life exists elsewhere, it would reveal that the same fundamental chemistry supporting Earth's deep biosphere operates throughout the Solar System.
Researchers have uncovered evidence that the ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus is in balance. The ocean loses as much heat as it gains, boosting its prospects for habitability. Image Credit: Oxford University
The case for habitability in Enceladus' warm, ice-capped ocean is growing. Ever since Cassini found evidence of hydrothermal activity in the moon's ocean, and detected life's building blocks in the plumes of material ejected from the ocean, scientists have worked to put this data into context.
One of the most important factors in habitability is time. The conditions that support habitability need to persist, like they have on Earth for billions of years. One of those factors is a world's heat budget. A planet, or moon in this case, needs to moderate its temperature and maintain a balance in its heat flow. Too much cooling or too much heating can both damage the prospects for long-term habitability.
The Cassini mission was in the Saturnian system for about 13 years. During that time, it performed many flybys of Enceladus. The mission found plumes of water ice and vapour erupting from deep cracks in the ice covering the moon's south pole. Scientists used the data from these flybys to measure the amount of heat coming from the south pole.
*This artist's illustration highlights the plumes coming from Enceladus' south pole region. The features unofficially called 'tiger stripes', parallel linear depressions in the moon's icy surface, are also visible.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech*
However, there was no evidence of heat escaping from the moon's north pole, and without that evidence, scientists naturally assumed that the region was geologically inactive.
New research is reconsidering that. It's titled "Endogenic heat at Enceladus’ north pole," and it's published in Science Advances. The lead author is Dr. Georgina Miles from the Southwest Research Institute.
"The long-term survival of Enceladus’ ocean depends on the balance between heat production and heat loss," the researchers write. "To date, the only place where a direct measurement of Enceladus’s heat loss has been made is at the south pole. Here, we show that the north pole also emits heat at a greater rate than can be explained by purely passive models."
Cassini was able to observe Enceladus' north pole in the winter in 2005 and in the summer in 2015 with its Cassini Composite InfraRed Spectrometer (CIRS) instrument. By working with that data, the researchers determined that the north pole's surface was about 7 degrees Kelvin warmer than thought. That's more than passive models of Enceladus' heat flux predict, and is a strong indication that the north pole is also leaking heat.
With heat measurements from both of the moon's poles, Miles and her co-researchers could then constrain Enceladus' overall heat budget.
After measuring heat flow at Enceladus' north pole, the researchers were able to combine those measurements with the same measurements from the south pole. This let them constrain Enceladus’ global conductive heat flow. This is the first observational constraint of Enceladus’ energy loss budget (<54 GW). This measurement is consistent with measurements of the moon's energy input (50 to 55 GW) from tidal heating. That means that Enceladus' heat flow is sustainable in the long term, which is a key factor for the evolution of life.
Image credit: University of Oxford/NASA/JPL-CalTech/Space Science Institute (PIA19656 and PIA11141)
"The energy budget of Enceladus is an important quantity to evaluate because its tidal heat, generated from its interaction with Saturn via the orbital resonance with Dione, is linked to Enceladus’ age, ice shell thickness, and thus, the lifetime of its ocean," the researchers explain. "The similarity of the estimated heating and heat loss rates suggests the ocean in its current epoch is long-lived, making it far more likely to be an environment hospitable to the development of life."
The research also showed that thermal data like this is useful in measuring the thickness of the ice on frozen moons. This is important for any future missions to Enceladus, or to any other frozen ocean moons in the Solar System. "Assuming a conductive ice shell, our estimated heat flux in the north polar region implies an ice shell thickness of 20 to 23 km (global mean of 25 to 28 km), which falls within the range of values estimated by several previous ice shell structure models," the researchers write.
Enceladus is a prime target in the search for life in our Solar System. The bulk of evidence shows that microbial life is possible there, and this research bolsters that conclusion. Still, the only real way to know for sure is to send a spacecraft there.
"Eking out the subtle surface temperature variations caused by Enceladus’ conductive heat flow from its daily and seasonal temperature changes was a challenge, and was only made possible by Cassini’s extended missions," lead author Miles said in a press release. "Our study highlights the need for long-term missions to ocean worlds that may harbour life, and the fact the data might not reveal all its secrets until decades after it has been obtained."
Unfortunately, Saturn is a long way away. While the ESA's JUICE and NASA's Europa Clipper are on their way to investigate Europa, another frozen moon with a warm subsurface ocean, missions to Enceladus remain in the conceptual stage at this point. The future is always uncertain, but hopefully, one day, a mission will make it to this fascinating frozen moon and determine if its actually habitable.
UFO lights 12:30 AM Bensalem, Pennsylvania, USA Nov 6, 2025 UAP paranormal sighting news, alien 👽
UFO lights 12:30 AM Bensalem, Pennsylvania, USA Nov 6, 2025 UAP paranormal sighting news, alien 👽
Date of sighting: Nov 6, 2025
Location of sighting: Bensalem, Pennsylvania, USA
Source: NUFORC
A person recorded a glowing sphere around the back yard. It was cloaked, however its outer surface can be partly seen above in two different location, revealing two UFOs. Fantastic catch, very rare, but the UFO did give itself away by accident.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Left a trail. Video of object viewed from within house object seen near pool area. No Lights are around pool. At 12:30am, Son in law went to view from inside window of family house, NW viewing object not far from outdoor pool area. Family noticed strong winds, including shaking of room on second floor. He filmed the object immediately since knew never seen before. He looked outside of window and captured photo and video that seen plasma fuschia color circular orb pulsating. He knew immediately was not a drone. He said the Moon was out, normally looks the pool area is very dark. no lights surrounding pool, or fence. It appeared to pulsate and then disappear, no fly off.
UFO at Katni, India 🇮🇳 Nov 7, 2025 UAP paranormal sighting news 📰 alien craft 👽
UFO at Katni, India 🇮🇳 Nov 7, 2025 UAP paranormal sighting news 📰 alien craft 👽
Date of sighting: Nov 7, 2025
Location of sighting: Katni, Madhya Pradesh, India
Source: NUFORC
This light was seen over a small city in India last week. The UFO was seen during a dusty smoggy day where no blue was visible, but this glowing object was very clearly seen. The eyewitness believes that it could be an alien abduction taking place somewhere in the city of Katni, and I know it's very possible. Abductions still do take place around the world, because aliens...they love research, they love data, they love new discoveries in information.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Lights on object, Possible abduction Long and high speed and like strip of light Flying object is seen by me on 5:25 pm it was witnessed by me and my brother and uncle very fast that I could not record it properly but I have recording I have seen it for 25 minutes it was very fast that I detected it on front side of my house and after the 10 minutes it got back side of my house so I got on terrace and recorded it.
Orange UAP over Christchurch, New Zealand Nov 8, 2025, UFO paranormal breaking news 📰 alien stuff 😎
Orange UAP over Christchurch, New Zealand Nov 8, 2025, UFO paranormal breaking news 📰 alien stuff 😎
Date of sighting:Nov 8, 2025
Location of sighting: Christchurch, New Zealand
Source: NUFORC
Watch this strange mysterious ball of light move across the sky. Its huge, car size or more and it's a perfect sphere. The city of Christchurch is the hotspot of all New Zealand...if there's a UFO...it's always at Christchurch. This is a sign...something big coming in Christchurch...something bad always happens after UFO sightings there...not a good sign for them, but 100% real.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Lights on object, Aura or haze around object Standing outside, I see a large ball glowing red/orange light Large orange/red glowing orb shape steadily moving SW of Christchurch. No sound, about 8x the size of and airplane light traveling at a fast speed also steady. Suddenly disappeared to not be seen again.
There seem to be certain places in this world that, for whatever reasons, just have strangeness gravitate towards them. Perhaps it is due to lying on some sort of Earth energy line. Maybe it’s because of portals for aliens. Or possibly it is some innate quality of the land itself that draws in these bizarre forces. Whatever the case may be, these places in a way lie outside of normal reality, steeped in mystery and surrounded by strange phenomena. Here we will take a journey through some of these places, where reality and the paranormal collide.
One very strange such place lies in Mexico. What has become known as the “Zone of Silence,” or La Zona Del Silencio, is located in a barren patch of desert in the Bolsón de Mapimí region in Durango, Mexico, around 400 miles south of El Paso, Texas. It is a remote area, with the nearest human settlement of any size being the quiet town of Ceballos, some 25 miles away, which ekes out a living in the harsh, parched landscape. The area was once under a vast ocean in prehistoric times, and marine fossils and shells can be found among the scrub, which has given the area its other nickname, the Mar de Tetys, or The Sea of Thetys. This is a desolate, lonely place seemingly as barren and alien as the surface of some other planet, and over the centuries has become synonymous with a wide range of strange, inexplicable phenomena.
Locals have known something was weird about the area since at least the mid-nineteenth century, when farmers would occasionally complain of searing hot pebbles that mysteriously rained down from the sky from time to time, even on clear days. It was also said that some of the plants and animals living here displayed mutations and deformities. There have also long been reports that the area has the effect of instilling a certain sense of deep unease, and can distort perceptions or cause visual and auditory hallucinations.
The region has been known as an intense UFO hotspot for many years. Over the years, many reports accrued of travelers and ranchers in the area seeing orbs of light or fireballs cavorting about in the sky or streaking across the horizon. On occasion, these lights were said to descend and set the scrub brush ablaze. Nevertheless, despite the weird stories, this bizarre swath of desert remained mostly unknown to the outside world.
The area first came into the public consciousness in the 1930s, when a Mexican pilot by the name of Francisco Sarabia reported that his plane’s instrumentation had gone haywire and his radio had ceased to function while on a routine flight over the region. In the 1970s, an Athena missile carrying containers of the radioactive element cobalt 57 launched from White Sands Missile Base in New Mexico and suddenly and inexplicably malfunctioned over the area and crashed. It was reported that the missile had suddenly veered wildly off course, almost as if it had been drawn by some mysterious force. Considering the rocket’s radioactive payload, a recovery mission was immediately launched. The missile was eventually found in a remote area and removed along with tons of irradiated soil. When the military went to investigate, it was also found that radio signals and all communications equipment failed to work there for some unknown reason. A few years later, it was reported that booster rockets used for the Apollo project broke up and crashed into the area as well.
An organic chemist by the name of Harry de la Pena had already documented the zone’s unique characteristic of creating a "dark zone" of radio communications in 1966 while on a photographic survey. While out exploring with some companions, it was noticed that walkie-talkies ceased to operate in the area, and portable radios showed a dramatically diminished capacity, only barely audible even at full volume. It would be later found that television signals also failed to penetrate the zone, and to this day, it is said that TVs will not work here. For whatever reason, the Zone of Silence seems to have the ability to severely dampen all television, radio, short wave, microwave, or satellite signals, rendering all devices utilizing these all but useless.
This phenomenon has since been studied by scientists from all over the world, yet no definite cause has been found. It is thought that perhaps the effect is created by magnetic anomalies caused by a large amount of the iron ore magnetite in the area, as well as a high level of meteorite activity, which has imbued the soil with various minerals and ores that could create magnetic disturbances that have an effect on radio waves. There have also been discovered in recent years large reserves of uranium in the mountains facing the zone, although it is unclear what effect this would have on transmissions. One of the strangest things about the Zone of Silence is that it tends to move around, with its exact location shifting and unpredictable.
Magnetic anomalies and the inability of all manner of radio waves to work here are far from the only bizarreness of the Zone of Silence. For years, there have been various strange accounts from people passing through the region of all manner of high strangeness. One recurring story is that of a trio of blonde-haired strangers who are occasionally seen wandering the landscape here. Allegedly, the trio is made up of two males and one female who are dressed in clothes that are inappropriate for the desert environment. Those who have met them say they are very physically attractive, extremely polite, and speak perfect Spanish with a slightly musical lilt. The strangers are said to sometimes ask ranchers for water, but never for food or anything else. When asked where they are from, their typical response is to say “from above.”
These beings, whoever they are, are said to be non-threatening and, in fact, are rather benevolent in nature. One scientist working at the desert “Biosphere” research station in the area reported how he had wandered away from the facility and became lost. It was then that he was approached by a trio of tall, blonde humanoids who guided him back to the research station before vanishing. Interestingly, the Biosphere itself has garnered a reputation for mystery. Although its official purpose is to study desert life, it has often been rumored to be doing secret experiments with animals, researching UFO phenomena, and conducting psychic research.
One bizarre account connected to the Biosphere and this strange trio comes from journalist Luis Ramirez Reyes, who visited the zone in November of 1978 as part of a news team covering the mysteries of the area. At the time, their destination was the mysterious Biosphere research station, but Reyes and his photographer got lost in the desert on their way. Since they had not brought food or water with them, the gravity of their situation was abundantly clear. As they drove along, Reyes saw a trio of figures walking ahead and told the photographer, who was driving, to stop so they could ask for directions, but the photographer didn’t see anyone and so continued on without stopping.
A short while later, much further down the road, the truck again bizarrely passed by the same trio, and once again, the startled Reyes told the driver to stop, but his companion still did not see anyone. Nevertheless, at the imploring of Reyes, he stopped the truck. Reyes claimed to have asked the trio if they had seen a truck like theirs pass earlier, but they said they had not. It was at this point that Reyes noticed that the people were not dressed or equipped at all for the harsh desert environment, despite the fact that they were on foot out in the middle of nowhere, far from any settlement. When asked where the Biosphere was, the odd strangers were only too happy to help and pointed the journalists in the right direction. When they arrived at the Biosphere, they told the staff there of their encounter, but were met with the insistence that the research faculty were the only people out there for hundreds of miles. Who were those strangers? No one knows.
There are other reports of strange beings here as well. Perhaps one of the most well-known accounts comes from a couple by the name of Ernesto and Josefina Diaz, who ventured into the area to collect fossils on October 13, 1975. As they sifted through rocks, they noticed that a storm was brewing on the horizon. Aware of the danger of flash floods and sudden storms in the area, the couple hastily packed up and drove off, but were soon caught up in a deluge of rain. Their new pickup truck became swiftly mired in mud, the tires quickly sinking into the muck. As the couple struggled to free their vehicle, they noticed two unusually tall men wearing yellow raincoats and caps approaching them. The two strangers instructed the couple to get in their car while they pushed. When they complied, the truck was soon freed from the mud, but when Ernesto got out to thank the men, they were nowhere to be seen even though the terrain was totally flat and devoid of places to hide. There were also allegedly no footprints of any kind in the mud to show that anyone had been there at all.
Yet another odd tale was related by a Ruben Lopez, who was on his way to visit a relative in Ceballos when his engine began to experience difficulties and stalled. He then noticed 5 small figures several feet tall by the side of the road, whom he at first mistook to be children. Upon closer inspection, he could see that the figures were wearing silver outfits and wearing helmets that opened in front, revealing clearly adult faces rather than the children he had been expecting. The figures began approaching the truck of the increasingly unnerved Lopez, who gunned the engine until it sputtered back to life enough for him to leave the weird beings in the dust. As soon as they were out of sight, the truck allegedly began working normally.
The region in which the Zone of Silence lies also remains a hotbed of UFO sightings, with many high-profile accounts made here. One impressive sighting in particular happened in September 1976, at around 8:59 p.m. Residents of the town of Ceballos reported a truly immense flying object hovering at the outskirts of town, which was estimated to be a staggering 300 meters in length. The craft was described as being rectangular and ringed with pulsing lights that changed colors from green to white to blue. From deep within it, some inscrutable machinery produced a deep thrumming and humming noise from its bowels. Allegedly, all of the dogs in the area went berserk, howling and barking incessantly until the immense object finally floated over the landscape to disappear from view in the direction of the Zone of Silence.
The heavy UFO activity reported in the zone has caused speculation running the gamut from plausible to fringe. Scientists tend to attribute the many UFO sightings here to the large number of meteorites that pass through the area. The Zone of Silence region boasts one of the highest concentrations of meteor strikes in the world, with small meteorites falling here practically daily. In fact, one of the largest known meteors to have ever struck the Earth crashed into the ground here at a place called Pueblito de Allende in February 1969. What is now known as the Allende Meteorite came down at an estimated speed of 10 miles per second, creating a massive shockwave and a cracking boom heard over vast distances that was one of the loudest sounds ever recorded. Witnesses said the flash produced by the meteor impact was like looking into a flashbulb. Another odd meteorite containing unusual crystalline structures estimated as being around 13 billion years old, far older than our solar system, crashed here in the 1950s, and there are constant falls of small, metallic orbs in the area that locals call guíjolas.
Incidentally, the presence of such spectacular meteorite activity may lie behind an archeological mystery to be found in the zone. Mystery ruins that show no known link to known peoples of the area have been found that are estimated to be thousands of years old and are thought to have served as some sort of astronomical observatory, perhaps somehow linked with the intense meteorite activity. As of yet, no one knows the true purpose of this ancient observatory. It is also possible that the area's magnetic aberrations can cause potent hallucinations, a phenomenon that has long been reported from here by locals and travelers alike.
Other theories point to aliens, with some theorizing that the zone represents a stopping zone for aliens or even a portal through which extraterrestrials or inter-dimensional beings travel. Magnetic anomalies such as those found in the Zone of Silence have long been associated with UFO activity and the ancient astronaut theory, with such travelers being said to be drawn to these potent magnetic zones for unknown purposes. Those who subscribe to this theory point out that Mexico’s Zone of Silence is near the Tropic of Cancer and lies along the same latitude south of the 30th parallel shared by other mystical sites such as the Egyptian Pyramids and the Bermuda Triangle. Could the Zone of Silence be demonstrating phenomena similar phenomena that is seen with the Bermuda Triangle or other mystery zones?
Although the presence of alien spacecraft and beings from another world cannot be supported by any evidence, it certainly seems that something strange is going on in the Zone of Silence. The area with its magnetic aberrations seems to have the ability to draw things into it, perhaps the reason why so many meteorites and rockets have come down here, and is quite feasibly somehow connected to the various other phenomena reported from here. To this day, no one is quite sure just what is going on here, and TVs and communications equipment still fail to work properly when caught up in the roving, ever-shifting zone.
What so imbues this patch of Mexican desert with its bizarre oddities? Does this have anything to do at all with ancient aliens, inter-dimensional portals, and travelers from other worlds? Or is this all merely an unexplained curiosity of the natural world, perhaps mixed in with a healthy dose of folklore and overactive imaginations? It seems this remote, searing land of brutal heat, scrub brush, and parched earth seems to be a place that holds mysteries that continue to elude us, and perhaps always will.
Moving along, sprawled out across a vast expanse of remote wilderness in Russia, just about 600 miles east of Moscow, are the Perm region and the Sverdlovsk regions, and here buried within this sea of trees is a 45 square kilometer area of densely forested land near where the Sylva and Molyobka rivers and merge and not far from the village of Molyobka, that has long been a place full of strangeness and wonder, and which has come to be called the Triangle Molebsky, the Perm Anomalous Zone, or simply the M-zone, and has become a hotspot for all manner of high strangeness.
The native Mansi people once considered this a very sacred place, and long regarded it as a realm of spirits and gods, and locals and visitors alike have over the centuries reported a wide variety of strange phenomena from here such as mysterious lights in the sky, luminous translucent beings that stalk through the woods, dark figures, strange colored lightning, weather anomalies, and the sounds of disembodied voices or singing. Compasses won’t work here, and electrical equipment is prone to stop working as well; cell phones go dead, and witnesses have even talked of how watches will sometimes begin to spin backwards in the zone.
There are also numerous physical effects experienced by those who come here, both positive and negative. It is not uncommon at all for people in the zone to be beset with fierce headaches, nosebleeds, nausea, dizziness, and muscle pain. They are also prone to visual and aural hallucinations and powerful, inexplicable mood swings. There are also conversely more favorable effects. For instance, it is thought that the area has healing abilities, and there are countless tales of people claiming to have been cured of all manner of ailments here, and even healthy people report feeling enhanced and improved somehow, gaining youthful vigor and emerging with increased intelligence. They also supposedly feel spiritually cleansed, with Russian UFOlogist Valery Yakimov saying of this:
“Healthy people feel the general improvement in all spheres: physical, mental, spiritual, moral, etc. It is necessary to mention the " moral effects " of M-zone: the drawbacks of one's character seem to disappear here, the good intentions and high feelings come to life. One's soul becomes cleaner, higher and calmer. You can almost feel yourself becoming a better man. Also the "creative effect" of M-zone is quite noticeable: the abilities of people are sharpening there and sometimes new talents and capacities, unknown before, begin to realize themselves.”
There are supposedly some spectacular cases of this in effect, such as the alleged case of the journalist and cosmonaut Pavel Mukhortov, who had apparently once been a military dropout who had been forced to turn to journalism because of physical disabilities. He then decided to make a trip to the M-Zone to investigate its many odd tales for a possible story, making his way to the remote area with a group of others on an expedition. While in the region, Mukhortov would claim that although he and his crew had fallen mysteriously ill at first, they were then overcome with an intense sense of well-being, and found their heads filled with visions, emotions, and knowledge forced into them that they could not explain. In Mukhortov’s case, he claimed that the knowledge he gleaned from that mystical place allowed him to recover shortly after from his disabilities and pass the tests to enter the Soviet Space Program as a cosmonaut, and he would go on to largely credit his success with the mysterious effects and powers the Perm Anomalous Zone had bestowed upon him.
By far one of the most well-known of the many phenomena of the Perm Anomalous Zone is the unusually high concentration of UFO sightings here, and indeed, it is considered by many to be one of the biggest UFO hotspots in the country. One of the most famous UFO-related incidents in the region supposedly happened in 1983, when Russian UFOlogist Emil Bachurin claimed to have seen a purple ball of light rise out of the thick forest to leave behind a patch of melted snow and ice measuring 206 feet across. Bachurin would also claim that he and his expedition had been chased by orbs of light through the trees that had burnt them with some sort of rays, with one of the team even completely knocked unconscious by one of the lights.
Even more intriguing still is a case from 2005, when an expedition of UFOlogists from Yekaterinburg was in the zone and purportedly spotted a giant glowing ball above the trees. One of the expedition members would mysteriously go missing the following morning, and rather chillingly, a picture purportedly snapped of the UFO allegedly shows a beam of light extending from the object to the missing man. What is going on here? The strange phenomena from the M-Zone are such that it has even managed to capture quite a lot of interest from outside of Russia. The American TV show Sightings did an investigation of the area, and apparently, things got off to an odd start when the Russian government warned them that to stay any longer than 24 hours in the zone was very dangerous. So far, so strange, but when they began their investigation, it would all get even weirder still when their camp was apparently surrounded by encircling orbs of light. The locals of the area were also interviewed by the crew, and they confirmed that UFO sightings were a regular, almost mundane fact of life for them.
With such a remote, strange part of the world hidden out away in this wild and rugged exotic land, it is interesting to think about what could be behind all of these stories. How can we explain all of these disparate phenomena coming from this one patch of wilderness? Of course, other than the obvious theories that UFOs are drawn here for some reason, there are also other attempts to try and rationalize it. Considering that electromagnetic readings within the zone are amazingly high in some places, it is thought that this could be having some kind of physical effects, including hallucinations of perceived UFOs. Connected to this is the idea that it could be the result of infrasound, which is subaudible sounds that have been shown to have a wide range of physical and psychological effects on human beings. So are we dealing with UFOs and powers beyond our comprehension or mundane phenomena that can be explained? It doesn't seem settled yet, and it would seem the only way to find out for yourself is to get out there and check it out.
Finally, we come to the United States, to the state of Florida. There was a time when Florida was nothing more than untamed wilderness ruled by the proud Native peoples of the area, yet by the 1860s and 70s, the region was steadily built up and settled by Europeans en masse. The Natives of the area would go on to be displaced, sent to reservations, or killed in fighting such as the Seminole Wars, and the pristine area witnessed a surge of settlers looking to make a life out of this new, uncharted land, along with numerous railroads and roads that penetrated and crisscrossed the wilds. People poured into the region at the time, and cities and towns began to pop up all over the place, transforming the landscape in the process.
One of the first of these settlers was a businessman named Henry Sanford, who in 1877 bought up land just north of present-day Orlando along the St. Johns River, for the purpose of creating a Catholic farming community called St. Joseph’s. It was more of a get-rich-quick scheme than anything religious as far as Hawkins was concerned, and he sat back waiting for suckers to come rolling in. Things would not go according to plan, and instead of the vast profits Sanford had imagined making on the land, he only ended up selling a few plots, and not long after, the settlement experienced a devastating fire and an epidemic of Yellow Fever that swept out from the mosquito-choked swamps. The disease was catastrophic for St. Joseph’s, with quite a few who died simply being buried out in the woods or on their property, and by 1887, the settlement was all but a ghost town.
Sanford would go on to found the bustling nearby town of Sanford, Florida, and the area would later make a comeback at the turn of the century, while the site of St. Joseph's would become absorbed by a township called Lake Monroe, but this dark history remained there to haunt it, perhaps literally. In 1905, a settler named Albert Hawkins bought up some land on which a family of Dutch immigrants had once lived before becoming victims of the Yellow Fever epidemic that had helped to wipe out the original St. Joseph’s colony. He figured out the grim secret buried on his rural land quite by accident, stumbling upon the weed infested unnamed graves as he explored the area one day, but he was respectful and decided not to have the bodies moved, rather maintaining the plot and their decrepit unmarked wooden crosses like a miniature cemetery, complete with a fence around it, and telling people to stay away from it. However, it would soon appear as though these mysterious graves held some sort of dark power that infused them.
Neighbors sometimes complained to Hawkins that they could see mysterious lights roaming about at night in the vicinity of the graves, and that all manner of ghostly phenomena, such as moving objects and strange noises, had been plaguing their homes. On top of this were some ominous claims that the graves were actually cursed, seeking grim revenge on those who would try and defile them. In one instance, a neighbor allegedly got tired of the graves being there and tore down the fence surrounding them, yet later that same day, this man’s house would supposedly be struck by lightning and razed to the ground. In another incident from the 1950s, a grandson of Hawkins himself was fooling around at the gravesite and kicked over one of the wooden crosses marking one of the graves. The very next day, he would be killed in an auto accident involving a hit and run, with the perpetrator never caught. Even Hawkins himself purportedly had his own house catch fire after he tried replacing the time-worn, rotted old wooden grave markers with new ones, prompting him to take it as a warning to leave them as they were.
All of these strange phenomena and deaths earned the area of that little cemetery the name “The Field of Death,” and locals became too terrified to go anywhere near it. Despite this, Florida’s popularity at the time, and the surging population and droves of tourists coming through, meant that more and more highways were being built in order to meet the demands of the rampant development going on. One of these was the proposed Interstate-4 (I-4), which was meant to connect Tampa and Daytona Beach, and which would cut right through the property on which those haunted graves rested. Hawkins had died in 1939, but he was survived by his widow, and there was not much that she could do at the time because she had sold the land, and it had become eminent domain. However, she did inform the state of the secluded little cemetery and suggested that they move the graves before construction began.
The officials supposedly promised that they would have the bodies moved and interred at a proper cemetery, but this apparently never happened, and when construction commenced in 1960, the highway just ended up going up right over the graves and their forgotten remains. This would seem to have been a bad idea, because almost immediately, there was tragedy that befell the project in the form of the catastrophic Hurricane Donna, which tore across Florida at that exact time and even eerily changed directions to follow the path of the proposed I-4. Also odd was that meteorologists had predicted that Donna was going to just pass by relatively harmlessly off the coast, yet it suddenly made a sharp turn right towards the state for no apparent reason, and even more eerily still, passed right over the construction site. Whether this was all merely a coincidence or not, it was one of the worst hurricanes the state has ever seen, and it stalled construction on the highway for months.
When the highway was eventually finished, it began to accrue a sinister reputation almost immediately, when a truck went wildly out of control and crashed right in the vicinity of the graves, claiming several lives on the very day I-4 opened to traffic in 1963. This would be merely the beginning of an ongoing phenomenon that has plagued the stretch of highway where the graves are said to be, which is right at the banks of the St. John’s River at the interstate bridge overpass, and has earned the ominous name “The Dead Zone.”
By far the most notorious of the many strange and quite frightening phenomena linked to this patch of road is the inordinately high concentration of traffic accidents that occur here. Depending on the source, there have been anywhere from 1,500 to over 2,000 traffic accidents in this one spot along a mere quarter mile stretch since the opening of the highway, with the Florida State Highway Department saying that there were 44 accidents over the course of 1995 and 1996 alone in this one place, and from 1999 to 2006 there were 440 accidents, many of them fatal. The rate of accidents at the Dead Zone of I-4 is so intense that many locals still absolutely refuse to drive over that area, instead going through great lengths to take roundabout routes around it. Officially, this is explained away as the unfortunate result of so much traffic through the area, but even considering this, the rate is quite high, and there are even reports of people claiming that it often seems as if something has actually taken control of their vehicle. is there something more supernatural going on here, and if there is, does it have anything to do with those graves? It is hard to say.
In addition to the uncommonly high rate of traffic accidents along the road are the frequent tornadoes that tear through, often seeming to follow the path of the I-4 as if attracted by it, as well as yet another strange hurricane, hurricane Charley, which eerily passed right over the cursed site in 2004 as if aiming for it. Researcher and author of the book Strange Florida, Charlie Carlson, has said of this particular hurricane:
“Charley followed almost the same route as Donna. They referred to Charley as the ‘I-4 Hurricane.’ Strangely enough, there was construction going on around the graves. The land where the graves are was being disturbed again. It was almost like a repeat of Donna.”
Besides harrowing car crashes and deadly tornadoes and hurricanes, the I-4 Dead Zone has gathered about itself all manner of other assorted paranormal phenomena and high strangeness. One very frequently reported oddity is that radios, cell phones, and CBs go dead and refuse to work over the site, or that there will be picked up ghostly disembodied voices or anomalous static on the devices. Commonly reported are the sounds of children’s laughter, or of voices that desperately ask “Who’s there?” or “Why?”, yet never responding if one is to try and talk with the entities. Some people have even reported hearing not voices, but rather an ominous growling or snarling echoing out from their radios as they drive through. Considering that the immediate area has no radio or cell phone antennas, nor any microwave emitters, it is hard to tell what could be causing these disturbances. Is there a rational explanation, or something far odder at work here? Who knows?
There are numerous other strange phenomena reported from the I-4 Dead Zone as well, including ghost lights, shadow people, roving cold spots, sudden thick fogs from nowhere, phantom hitchhikers, and ghostly vehicles. Add all of this to the death and tragedy that also seem to cling to it like flies to a corpse, and I-4 has gone on to be considered one of the strangest, most haunted places in the state. Is this just urban legend mixed with spooky history and superstition? Is it all overactive imaginations? Or could it be that this length of highway holds to it the specters of the dead, damned to remain tethered here and compelled to lash out at those who have desecrated their graves?
What is it about these places that makes them such magnets for all of these disparate, strange phenomena? What is it about these places that makes them so different and bizarre? Is there some quality permeating these places that makes them so special? Do they represent some thin spot between what we know and other, parallel realities? We may never know the answers, and these places remain out there, with many more like them, eluding our understanding and occupying some minimal zone between what we know and what we don’t.
Few would dispute the fact that UFOs have undergone a renascence in public interest in recent years. According to recent data, it also appears that more Americans now seem willing to entertain the possibility that these aerial mysteries could represent a phenomenon unrecognized by science.
Arecent Gallup surveyfound that while half of Americans remain skeptical about UFO sightings, that number has dropped ten points since 2019, when similar surveys found that 60% of Americans had reservations about the idea that UFOs could have anything other than earthly explanations.
One thing the new Gallup data seems to convey is the impact recent U.S. government involvement in the longstanding UFO question has had on public opinion. The presence of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP as the military prefers to call them, were seemingly confirmed with the release of a nine-page preliminary assessment in June by the Navy’s UAP Task Force (UAPTF), which reported 144 cases involving objects of unknown origin observed by military pilots and others that currently remain unexplained.
Most of these incidents were collected following the institution of a formalized reporting mechanism by the Navy in 2019, the same year previous Gallup surveys found more than half of Americans remained skeptical about possible extraterrestrial origins of such objects. In late 2020, the U.S. Air Force followed suit, with the combined Navy and Air Force data constituting the majority of the reports discussed within the Task Force’s assessment delivered to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) at the end of June.
According to the report, additional information is also being provided by several other agencies, including the FAA, who in recent days confirmed in a statement provided to The Debrief its own role in documenting UAP incidents that can be corroborated with radar or other data on behalf of the UAPTF. Notably, the inclusion of data from the FAA would seemingly indicate that some incident reports from civilian pilots are also among the 144 incidents the UAPTF has currently examined.
In the days since the report’s delivery to the ODNI, several news outlets have tried to reign in on the subject’s current widespread appeal. Just days after the delivery of the UAPTF’s preliminary assessment, theNew York PostEditorial Board called out most of the recent UFO “news” in advance of the report as clickbait, aimed at cashing in on widespread interest in the subject, rather than contributing anything meaningful to the ongoing discussion.
“Yes, UFOs and ‘little green men’ are fun and have inspired tons of entertaining fiction,” the Post editorial read. “But the US intelligence community was entirely right to dump all over the conspiracy theories and ‘They’re really out there’ nonsense in its report on sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).” Although the Post Editorial Board noted that extraterrestrial sources were not specifically ruled out in the June report, “it also provides zero evidence supporting alien theories.”
More recently, The Guardian noted that people’s current UFO fascination is primarily “rooted in hope,” while elsewhere The Washington Post Magazine argued what it labels the current “UFO mania” simply has to end.
As the recent Gallup data helps show, it’s no wonder UFOs have been on the minds of so many Americans lately. Thanks in large part to the anticipation ahead of the UAPTF report’s delivery to the ODNI, during the first half of 2021 UFOs have seen more consistent, serious media attention than they have in decades. As a byproduct of this, the New York Post correctly notes that many outlets appear to have jumped on the UFO bandwagon in order to claim their share of traffic from all the attention the subject has received. It is a trend that has been slowly building since late 2017, following a New York Times article revealing the existence of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which analyzed aerial phenomena that might pose a challenge to national security.
However, there is something else the recent Gallup data reveals about people’s attitudes toward UFOs. Since 2019, Americans appear not only to have softened their skepticism toward the subject, but also appear more willing to accept the idea that the phenomenon might represent evidence of extraterrestrial technology. In the recent survey, 41% of adults in America now also associate their belief in UFOs with extraterrestrial spacecraft, representing an eight-point rise from 2019 when similar surveys found just 33% of Americans held such views.
And some scientists think this could represent a problem going forward.
Scientists Remain Divided on The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis
“In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists must be thoroughly open-minded. And this means a certain amount of encouragement for non-mainstream ideas and techniques,” wrote Peter Vickers, Associate Professor in Philosophy of Science at Durham University in an article for The Conversation.
However, even in a scientific community where open-mindedness toward non-mainstream ideas may occasionally be encouraged, many draw the line when it comes to UFOs.
“I have no doubt that there’s extraterrestrial intelligence,” SETI Institute senior astronomer Seth Shostak told CBS in May. “But it’s a different thing to say, ‘And not only are they out there, but they’ve come to visit!’”
For Shostak, a man who has devoted most of his professional career to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the current evidence presented by UFO proponents simply “is not good.”
Although Shostak and many other scientists keep UFOs at arm’s length when it comes to the search for alien life, the extraterrestrial hypothesis (as it has come to be known mainly among UFO proponents) still represents a valid possibility in terms of what the origins of these objects might be.
The problem is that it also carries a lot of historical baggage.
In the years immediately following World War II, it would have been difficult for any reports of advanced, unrecognized aircraft in American skies not to have aroused concern. The appearance of what had first been dubbed “flying saucers” should be remembered in this context: although jokes and jabs about “men from Mars” and space aliens began to appear almost immediately in American newspapers, this had not been the interpretation that warranted attention from the U.S. Air Force. Instead, it was the concern that the Soviets might possess some new technology capable of surveillance, or even future attacks against the United States.
It didn’t take long to conclude that the objects being observed in U.S. airspace probably didn’t belong to the Soviets. By January 1950, word about a top-secret Air Force “Estimate of the Situation” had become public knowledge thanks to Major Donald E. Keyhoe, a former Marine Corps serviceman and contributor to popular magazines of the period. It was Keyhoe’s 1950 article, “Flying Saucers Are Real,” which not only argued that the objects existed, but that they originated from outer space. Citing examples that included the death of pilot Thomas Mantell, whose plane crashed while pursuing what he and others described as a large metallic disc, and the electrifying story of a large, glowing rocket-like craft seen over Alabama in July 1948 by pilots Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted, Keyhoe drove home the idea that there was simply no better source for these aerial mysteries than outer space.
Major Donald E. Keyhoe, filmed at a Pentagon Press Briefing in Washington DC on July 31, 1952 (National Archives/Public Domain).
By some estimates, his True article from 1950 is still regarded as being one of the most widely read and discussed articles of all time, and in effect, Keyhoe successfully sold this “extraterrestrial hypothesis” to an interested American readership. With Keyhoe’s help, the saucers had finally landed on dimly lit runways within the public imagination, and their alien occupants had now been exposed.
Extraterrestrials, and Other Alternatives
The problem with all this is that there was never anything conclusive as far as evidence in support of this idea. That was true in 1950, and it remains the case more than 70 years after the publication of Keyhoe’s article.
Despite this, many modern proponents seem to conclude that there are no other realistic possibilities, and therefore just like Keyhoe argued, UFOs must be extraterrestrial.
“The United States has the highest military technology in the world. Period. Everyone in the Pentagon down to the floor polishers knows this,” read a quote from Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG) which appeared in one of its newsletters dated June 6, 2021. According to its website, the PRG is an advocacy group that has for years sought to expose government knowledge of “an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.”
According to Bassett, “there is only one option left to explain not 120 incidents over the past two decades, but thousands of incidents since 1947, and that explanation is extraterrestrial. PERIOD.” Bassett’s statement was in response to a New York Times article published in advance of the delivery of the UAP Task Force’s preliminary assessment to the ODNI in June.
Not all proponents of the study of unusual aerial phenomena are quite so married to the idea that they must have an extraterrestrial source. Dr. David Clarke is a professor of journalism and folklore who acted as a consultant and spokesman for Britain’s National Archives during the period when the Ministry of Defence (MoD) released its records on UFOs. Clarke says that while he would hesitate to link UFO sightings to extraterrestrials, he has found cases in the MoD’s files that left him stumped.
“There are lots and lots of accounts and experiences that I just find utterly baffling, but they aren’t really the ones that are well known,” Clarke says. “If I explained some of these stories, you would never have heard of them before, because no one knows about them. They’re not as media-friendly.”
David Clarke, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Media Arts and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, UK (Credit: David Clarke).
Clarke published a feature earlier this year in Fortean Times which argued convincingly that many UAP encounters receiving widespread media attention may not be as rock-solid as they are often conveyed. “The idea that military detection of UFOs on radar provides empirical evidence of visitations to Earth by an unknown technology is an attractive one – if it were true,” Clarke wrote in the article.
However, speaking with Dr. Clarke about his research, he stops short of saying that all UFO reports can be easily explained.
“I’m not for one minute trying to suggest that science has got an explanation for everything,” Clarke says, adding that when it comes to UFOs, “I certainly don’t think that at all.”
Clarke says that in addition to reports he has uncovered from his own research at the Ministry of Defence archives, he was particularly intrigued by the conclusions of Project Condign, a secret study of UFOs that the British Government’s Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) conducted between 1997 and 2000. It resulted in a four-volume, 460-page report on the project’s findings, in which its author concluded, “that UAP exist is indisputable… [they] clearly can exhibit aerodynamic characteristics well beyond those of any known aircraft or missile – either manned or unmanned.”
“When I actually read that, and I actually got hold of that report twenty years ago, it was quite a stunning conclusion,” Clarke says. “So here was the guy, the UFO expert at the Ministry of Defence, he was actually saying ‘well, I’ve studied this for thirty years. My conclusion is these things exist.’”
While Project Condign’s conclusions seemed to affirm the MoD’s views about the existence of UFOs, they did not link such aerial phenomena to theories about an extraterrestrial presence on Earth.
“They’re not aliens,” Clarke says of the report’s findings. “They’re not extraterrestrials, but they’re some kind of atmospheric plasma. That was his explanation.”
To Clarke, the fact that Project Condign would leave open the possibility that an as yet unrecognized phenomenon could account for UFOs “was almost like an invitation to scientists to say ‘hey, come and have a look at this data. This guy’s taking it seriously.’” Clarke adds that the report’s author “had access to a lot of secret data that a lot of average atmospheric scientists perhaps wouldn’t be aware of.”
“But no one seems to be interested in that,” he laments. “It’s not showbiz, is it?”
“Atmospheric plasmas aren’t as interesting or as sexy as aliens in spaceships,” Clarke says. “So the media aren’t gonna go with that one.”
The Extraterrestrial Hypothesis: A Scientific Perspective
The legacy of the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one that has endured long enough for it to have become ingrained in our culture, and thereby it permeates much of our current thinking about UFOs. The presence of this “ET bias” in the current dialogue creates difficulties for scientists who wish to look objectively at the UFO subject, while also taking the possibility of extraterrestrial visitation seriously without becoming married to it.
Robert Powell, an Executive Board Member and co-founder of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies (SCU), a group which applies science toward resolving the UFO/UAP question, is clear in pointing out that while the extraterrestrial hypothesis could one day be validated, presently it is still only one possibility.
“A hypothesis is simply that. It’s what theory best fits the facts with what we know today,” Powell says. “It doesn’t mean that we’ve said [a UFO] is an extraterrestrial spaceship.”
Before his work with the SCU, Powell served as Director of Research at the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) from 2007-2017 and established the organization’s Science Review Board in 2012. Although he emphasizes that theories about extraterrestrial technologies are only hypothetical, he also says they are a logical approach toward possibly understanding the phenomenon.
“What we’re saying is that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is the best of the hypotheses that we’ve come up with to explain [UAP],” Powell explains, adding that “someone could always come up with better hypotheses, or we get new data that makes us change [our minds].”
While some scientists like Powell see the extraterrestrial hypothesis as being potentially useful as an explanatory model for understanding UAP, others see the problem of categorizing UAP based on our current knowledge of the phenomenon as being nearly impossible at the present time.
“I truly do not know as to how and what to categorize [UAP],” says Ravi Kopparapu, a Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Among his research interests, Kopparapu has been involved in NASA-funded searches for possible technosignatures of alien civilizations in recent years.
“Confirmed UAP completely defy any reasonable imagination that we could have,” Kopparapu told The Debrief in an email. “I would not categorize them, at this point, as technosignatures because there is no evidence that I know of that could indicate that they are from a technological civilization.”
Kopparapu, while interested in the study of UAP, takes issue with those who conclude that since they cannot be easily explained, they must therefore represent extraterrestrial technologies.
“‘What else could they be?’ is not a scientific explanation,” Kopparapu says. “We need hard evidence. And to collect hard evidence, we need a systematic collection of data on UAP, or access to data that may have already been collected.”
Scientists Seek Access to UAP Data
Kopparapu is one of the many scientists who, in recent days, have noted that current efforts to collect information about UAP by the U.S. government will be of little use to scientists if the data remains classified.
“The sky is not classified,” wrote Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb in an article for Scientific American in June, adding that “only government-owned sensors are. By searching for unusual phenomena in the same geographical locations from where the UAP reports came, scientists could clear up the mystery in a transparent analysis of open data.”
“When the UAP report [was delivered] to Congress, it was quite intriguing to me,” Loeb recently told The Debrief, “because it defined some objects as real because they were detected by multiple instruments, so they couldn’t have been a malfunction of a particular camera or a hallucination of a pilot. And at the same time, it suggested that the government doesn’t know the nature of these objects.”
“That’s an unusual admission by the intelligence agencies,” Loeb says, “because they’re getting paid to figure out what flies in our sky. And they admit to Congress that they can’t figure it out.”
“So at that point, it became clear to me that this subject needs to move away from the talking points of politicians and military personnel, and to the realm of science.”
In the days following the arrival of the UAP Task Force’s preliminary report, Loeb announced the launch of The Galileo Project, an effort that he and other astronomers will be undertaking that will attempt to obtain high-resolution imagery and other data related to UAP.
“I cannot stress enough how important it is to have the data available to scientists to know what they are,” Kopparapu told The Debrief. “Without access to proper data, un-substantiated hypotheses and conspiracy theories take the vacuum created by the lack of a science-based hypothesis. I equate this with superstitions we have had over the centuries until science replaced them.”
Although exploring the possibility that some UAP could have extraterrestrial origins is not inherently a conspiracy theory, over the decades there have been countless claims that involve alleged coverups of an extraterrestrial reality by the U.S. government. This, in addition to stories of alien abduction, purported wreckage retrievals of alien craft or technology, and a host of other claims involving extraterrestrial visitation to Earth.
Despite the widespread support they often see from many proponents of unidentified aerial phenomena, the majority of these claims remain unsubstantiated. Even if they were actually true, no conclusive evidence in support of the existence of extraterrestrials or their technologies has ever surfaced that would be capable of satisfying the requirements of science, let alone producing a testable hypothesis.
Despite his concerns about unsubstantiated theories—extraterrestrial or otherwise—which have often lead the UFO/UAP narrative in the past, Kopparapu does not doubt the presence of a genuine phenomenon behind the more credible reports.
“UAP are real and they exist,” Kopparapu says. “Many of them we see in our skies. Some may have perfectly sensible explanations, but not all of them can be explained away. That kind of thinking is not scientific.”
Although he feels sure about their existence, nothing Kopparapu has studied about these phenomena makes them any less perplexing.
“As a scientist, it is just baffling to me that they exhibit characteristics that we do not understand, and we are not paying attention to it. They are absolutely worthy of a scientific study, probably one of the most interesting studies. We have done that in the U.S. a few decades ago. Other countries also studied them, so it is not U.S.-specific.”
Whether the ultimate solution to the UFO question has roots in technologies from other worlds or phenomena that arise from here on Earth, the results of future studies may one day finally bring a resolution to the debate. Today, scientists are still a good way from reaching any conclusions about the mysterious aerial phenomena that have received so much attention in recent months, and recaptured the imaginations of those who wonder about the greatest question of all: are we alone?
For Kopparapu, however, the path forward is clear.
“We need data on them, and any collected data [needs to be] made available,” Kopparapu says.
“There is no other way to say it.”
Micah Hanks is a longtime researcher and proponent of the scientific study of unidentified aerial phenomena. You can find his podcast, The Micah Hanks Program, and other podcasts he produces at his website, and follow him on Twitter: @MicahHanks.
Scientists have cracked the code behind a mysterious language discovered among a non-human species living in Earth's oceans that mirrors human speech.
Using AI to study whale communication, Project CETI researchers discovered that sperm whales 'talk' to each other with strange, Morse code-like clicking patterns.
The mammals used patterned click sequences known as codas, which include two distinct vowel-like sounds — an 'ah'-like a-coda and an 'ee'-like i-coda.
The vowel-like noises were not random, as whales were seen actively controlling the pitch, length, and type of sounds they were making as they 'pronounced' different words.
The CETI team said whales make these sounds during social interactions in family groups, using codas to stay connected, coordinate activities, and identify each other, like an underwater social language.
The team also found that whale speech was similar to human speech because whales used their lips and air sacs as a sound source and filter, just like humans use their vocal cords and vocal tract to achieve the same results.
It marked the first time researchers have found a non-human species using vowel-like sounds and grammar-like rules in the same way humans do to communicate with each other.
Gašper Beguš, Project CETI's linguistics lead, told Popular Science: 'What used to be conceived of as this alien-looking Morse-code-like system just became much more human-like. We have a case of underwater vowels–in a very different world from ours, the communication system appears very similar to our speech.'
A closeup of the eye of a sperm whale. Scientists have just decoded the strange clicking noises these mammals make as they interact with each other
Scientists attached small suction-cup microphones called DTAGs to 15 sperm whales swimming in the Caribbean to record their clicks up close without distortion.
They recorded nearly 4,000 clear codas from a group of females and their offspring between 2014 and 2018, focusing only on the whale wearing the tag.
At first, the clicks sounded too slow to compare with human speech, so the team sped up the recordings until the patterns became clear and familiar.
They learned that the clicks come in these two main types of A and I vowels, just like humans use A, E, I, O, and U.
The sperm whales often used their secret language during social moments, such as greeting family members, staying in touch while diving for food, or coordinating group movements through the ocean.
The study, published on the preprint server bioRxiv and awaiting peer review, also revealed that timing was everything when it comes to whale communication.
The number of clicks, the pauses between them, and the overall speed created different rhythm types that acted almost like musical beats.
The CETI team found 'ah' codas are naturally longer than 'ee' codas in the same rhythm, and 'ee' codas split into short and long versions, like using length to mean something different.
AI has helped researchers discovered that sperm whales have a complex language of vowels and grammatical rules just like humans
By measuring every pause and pitch change, the scientists proved whales control timing and sound quality on purpose, not by accident, showing real communication rules.
This isn't the first sign of complex intelligence scientists have discovered among various species of whales.
In June, researchers from the SETI Institute (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) revealed that large 'smoke ring-like' bubbles coming from underwater were created by humpback whales, which they believed were their way of greeting nearby humans.
It was the first time scientists had seen whales sending out these unique rings while interacting with people in the wild.
Meanwhile, the songs sung by whales have been studied for decades, and in 2024, scientists finally learned that the mammals have a unique voice box that vibrates fat and muscle to produce these mysterious tones.
Normally, singing underwater would present an almost impossible problem because whales should be using up all their air.
However, a study in the journal Nature concluded that whales evolved to have a voice box that was different from most other mammals and doesn't rely on vocal cords.
Legendes van de Djinn: Bovennatuurlijke Wezens uit een Andere Dimensie
Legendes van de Djinn: Bovennatuurlijke Wezens uit een Andere Dimensie
Inleiding
Het fenomeen van de Djinn, bovennatuurlijke entiteiten afkomstig uit de Midden-Oosterse folklore, heeft de laatste jaren een hernieuwde belangstelling gekregen binnen het domein van paranormale studies en anomalieën. Hoewel oorspronkelijk geworteld in islamitische tradities en volksverhalen, wordt de Djinn tegenwoordig steeds vaker beschouwd als een interdimensionale entiteit die mogelijk een brug vormt tussen mythes en moderne rapportages van onverklaarbare fenomenen. Deze paper tracht een wetenschappelijke en gestructureerde onderbouwing te bieden voor de hypothese dat deze entiteiten niet louter mythisch zijn, maar mogelijk verbonden kunnen worden met onze perceptie van de werkelijkheid, en dat zij wellicht bestaan in een dimensie die zich buiten het bereik van conventionele wetenschappelijke waarneming bevindt.
Historische achtergrond en mythologische context
De term "Djinn" vindt haar oorsprong diepgeworteld in de rijke tradities van de Arabische folklore en heeft een significante plaats binnen de islamitische religieuze teksten, zoals de Koran. Het woord zelf stamt af van het Arabische werkwoord "janna," dat "bedekken" of "verschuilen" betekent, wat aangeeft dat deze wezens vaak in de verborgen hoeken van de wereld leven. Volgens de islamitische opvattingen worden Djinn gecreëerd uit een vlam van roet, een element dat symbool staat voor mysterie, onvoorspelbaarheid en het onzichtbare. De Koran beschrijft dat Allah de Djinn geschapen heeft uit de vurige rook van een vlam, zonder dat zij kunnen worden gezien door mensen, tenzij zij zich openbaren. Dit schepsel uit de vurige druipende vlam geeft de Djinn een intrinsiek verbonden relatie met vuur, een element dat in de Arabische cultuur vaak wordt geassocieerd met kracht, transformatie en het onbegrepen.
Binnen de islamitische traditie worden Djinn voorgesteld als schepsels met vrije wil, vergelijkbaar met mensen. Dit betekent dat zij in staat zijn tot goed en kwaad, en dat zij verantwoordelijk zijn voor hun keuzes. Sommige Djinn kiezen het pad van kwaad en worden dan beschouwd als kwaadaardige geesten die mensen kunnen belagen, toveren of kwaadwillende invloed uitoefenen. Anderen kiezen ervoor om het goede na te streven, helpen mensen of houden zich afzijdig van menselijke aangelegenheden. Hierdoor vormen zij een complex en veelzijdig wezen dat niet eenvoudig in een goed of slecht hokje te plaatsen is. Deze vrije wil en autonomie maken dat Djinn in staat zijn om interacties aan te gaan met de menselijke wereld, wat zowel in verhalen als in rituelen terug te vinden is.
In termen van representatie worden Djinn vaak afgebeeld als krachtige, autonome wezens die in verborgen, ongrijpbare plekken leven, zoals woestijnen, bergen, verlaten ruïnes of ondergrondse gangen. Verhalen vertellen dat zij vaak ofwel onzichtbaar blijven voor mensen of zich op andere manieren manifesteren als schimmige silhouetten, ongezien doch voelbaar, en dat zij in voortdurende interactie staan met de menselijke wereld. Deze interacties kunnen heel uiteenlopend zijn: ze kunnen gaan van beschermende bemoeienissen, zoals het helpen van een persoon in nood, tot kwaadaardige invloeden, zoals het veroorzaken van ziekten of ongeluk. Sommige verhalen spreken ook over djinn die zich als dieren of mensen kunnen voordoen om misleiding en chaos te zaaien, wat aangeeft dat deze wezens niet altijd te onderscheiden zijn van gewone mensen.
Door de geschiedenis heen zijn vergelijkbare entiteiten ook in andere culturen en religies terug te vinden. In de oude Griekse mythologie bijvoorbeeld waren er geesten en levitatie- of nachtwandelaars die in de duisternis verschenen en vaak werden gezien als boodschappers tussen de wereld van de levenden en die van de goden of de doden. In de Noord-Afrikaanse en Mediterrane tradities worden verhalen over geesten, schaduwfiguren en gevaarlijke entiteiten, zoals de "Djinni" of "Jinn" in Arabische folklore, doorgegeven van generatie op generatie. Deze verschijnselen worden vaak beschreven als manifestaties die optreden tijdens periodes van stress, trauma of overgangsfasen in het menselijk leven — bijvoorbeeld bij het verlies van een dierbare, in tijden van crises of tijdens slaap en droom. Deze verhalen vormen zooitje van collectief onbewuste die in verschillende tijden en culturen terugkeert onder verschillende vormen, en illustreren dat dergelijke entiteiten mogelijk een onderliggende realiteit vertegenwoordigen, die moeilijk te verklaren is met de wetenschappelijke methoden van vandaag de dag.
Bovendien kunnen deze mythen en verhalen gezien worden als symbolische uitingen voor de menselijke ervaring van onmacht, angst en het onbekende. Ze bieden een kader waarin mensen hun gevoelens van onzekerheid en verstoring kunnen projecteren en begrijpen. Of het nu gaat om de vlam van de Djinn uit de Arabische mythologie, de schaduwen in mediterrane verhalen of de veranderingen in onze dromen, deze entiteiten lijken een brug te slaan tussen realiteit en droom, tussen het bewuste en het onbewuste. Ze representeren soms de natuurkrachten die onze wereld beïnvloeden, beschermgeesten die ons bijstaan of boze geesten die onze rust verstoren. Vooral in rituelen en magische praktijken blijven deze figuren een centrale rol spelen, waarbij mensen proberen te communiceren, te beschermen of te verdrijven.
Kortom, de Djinn en vergelijkbare geesten vormen een fascinerend onderdeel van de menselijke geschiedenis en mythologie. Ze illustreren onze voortdurende zoektocht naar betekenis in een wereld vol mysteries en onzichtbare krachten. De verhalen over deze wezens blijven actueel omdat ze resoneren met fundamentele menselijke ervaringen en angsten, en omdat ze een rijke bron vormen voor culturele expressie en spirituele reflectie. Ze herinneren ons eraan dat de grens tussen werkelijkheid en fantasie, wetenschap en mythos vaak vloeiend is, en dat de menselijke verbeelding altijd op zoek is naar uitleg voor het onbegrijpelijke dat zich buiten ons zicht bevindt.
Moderne interpretaties en wetenschappelijke hypothesen
In recente jaren is de belangstelling voor de Djinn sterk toegenomen binnen het kader van paranormale en anomalieonderzoeken. Vooral in wetenschappelijke en esoterische kringen wordt geprobeerd om deze wezen niet uitsluitend te bekijken als spirituele entiteiten uit de volksangsten, maar ook als mogelijke interdimensionale verschijnselen die zich op een grensvlak bevinden tussen verschillende realiteiten. Paranormale onderzoekers zoals Rosemary Ellen Guiley, een bekende specialist op het gebied van het onverklaarde, hebben verschillende theorieën ontwikkeld over de aard van de Djinn. Guiley stelde onder meer dat deze wezens niet simpelweg traditionele geesten of bovennatuurlijke verschijnselen zijn, maar dat ze waarschijnlijk een soort tussenliggende entiteiten vormen die mogelijk door multiversum-achtige werelden kunnen bewegen.
In haar boek The Vengeful Djinn uit 2014 beschrijft Guiley hoe oude teksten en historische documenten verwijzingen bevatten naar wezens die veel lijken op de moderne beschrijvingen van de Djinn. Ze vergelijkt deze oude verhalen met waarnemingen in de moderne tijd, waarbij mensen fenomenen melden zoals visuele waarnemingen van schaduwfiguren of ‘shadow people’, plotselinge temperatuurdalingen en fysieke sensaties zonder duidelijke verklaring, en het horen van disembodied voices of onverklaarbare geluiden. Daarnaast worden soms fysieke veranderingen waargenomen, zoals het verschuiven van objecten of het voelen van onverklaarbare aanrakingen, zelfs wanneer er geen mensen in de buurt zijn.
Binnen de context van deze waarnemingen wordt vaak de theorie over parallelle dimensies of multiversa betrokken. Volgens deze theorieën zouden de Djinn zich bevinden in een grensgebied tussen onze fysieke werkelijkheid en andere onwetende of onzichtbare rijken. In deze opvatting worden de Djinn geïnterpreteerd als entiteiten die niet volledig in onze wereld bestaan, maar zich op een soort tussenstation bevinden, waardoor ze vaak voorkomen in fenomenen die grensoverschrijdend en moeilijk te verklaren zijn volgens de conventionele wetenschap. Sommige wetenschappers speculeren dat deze verschijnselen mogelijk gerelateerd zijn aan hoge-energievelden, kwantumverschijnselen of dimensie-overstijgende trillingen die onze gebruikelijke waarneming overstijgen.
Hoewel er tot nu toe geen sluitend wetenschappelijk bewijs bestaat dat de Djinn daadwerkelijk interdimensionale entiteiten zijn, bieden deze moderne theorieën en hypothesen interessante invalshoeken voor verder onderzoek. Ze benadrukken de complexiteit van de waarneming en de mogelijkheid dat veel paranormale fenomenen niet rechtstreeks te verklaren zijn door traditionele wetenschappelijke modellen. In die context blijven de Djinn een intrigerend onderwerp dat de grens tussen wetenschap, spiritualiteit en mystiek blijft uitdagen.
Interdimensionale theorieën en fysica
Volgens enkele theoretische natuurkundigen en metafysici zou het bestaan van meerdere dimensies mogelijk kunnen zijn binnen een uitgebreidere theorie van het heelal, zoals bijvoorbeeld superstring-theorieën of M-theorieën. Deze theorieën suggereren dat onze bekende driedimensionale ruimte slechts één facette is van een complexere structuur, waarin meerdere “lagen” of dimensies kunnen bestaan, waarin entiteiten, energieën of informatie kunnen bewegen en communiceren.
Het is in deze context dat de hypothese van interdimensionale entiteiten kan worden geplaatst. Djinn zouden dan manifesteren in onze dimensie onder bepaalde energetische condities, vergelijkbaar met hoe sommige wetenschappers de waarneming van UAP’s (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) verklaren als verschijnselen die mogelijk verband houden met het bestaan van andere dimensies of niet-klassieke fysieke verschijningsvormen.
Empirische waarnemingen en anekdotisch bewijs
Empirische waarnemingen en anekdotisch bewijs vormen een fascinerende, doch vaak betwiste bron van informatie binnen het onderzoek naar bovennatuurlijke verschijnselen zoals de Djinn. Hoewel de wetenschap over het algemeen terughoudend is ten aanzien van zulke rapportages, omdat ze moeilijk te verifiëren en reproduceerbaar te maken zijn volgens de strikte wetenschappelijke methoden, blijven deze getuigenissen waardevol omdat ze een schat aan gegevens bieden over de ervaringen van mensen uit verschillende culturen en regio’s. Vaak vormen deze anekdotes de enige bron van informatie in een gebied waar geen uitgebreide wetenschappelijke studies beschikbaar zijn, en kunnen ze hints geven over de aard en het gedrag van fenomenen die zich buiten de grenzen van de conventionele natuurkunde bevinden.
Laten we bijvoorbeeld kijken naar recente verslaggeving in het buitenland. In de Verenigde Staten en sommige delen van Europa worden regelmatig meldingen gedaan over zogenaamde "Shadow People" of schaduwachtige verschijningen. Mensen beschrijven dat ze soms ’s nachts in hun ooghoeken een donker, onduidelijk silhouet zien verschijnen, vaak in de slaapkamer of op andere afgelegen plekken in huis. Soms gebeurt dit terwijl ze wakker zijn, en andere keren tijdens de slaap of bij het ontwaken. Deze figuren verdwijnen meestal snel wanneer ze worden gezien, alsof ze slechts tijdelijk in onze dimensie manifesteren. Sommige getuigen geloven dat het om geesten gaat, terwijl anderen denken dat deze verschijningen mogelijk interdimensionale entiteiten of energetische manifestaties zijn die slechts fragmentarisch toegankelijk zijn voor onze waarneming. Een praktisch voorbeeld is een vrouw uit Nederland die stelt dat ze haar huis vaak 's avonds plotseling schaduwfiguren ziet, die achter haar vandaan lijken te komen en weer verdwijnen zodra ze zich beweegt of licht aanzet. Een ander voorbeeld is een man uit het Amerikaanse Midwesten die meldt dat hij gewaarschuwd werd door vreemde schaduwen die zich in de hoek van zijn kamer bevonden, net voordat er een stroomstoring plaatsvond.
Daarnaast bestaan er al eeuwenoude volksverhalen over djinn of geesten die verschijnen en verdwijnen in het schemergebied tussen werkelijkheid en fantasie. In Midden-Oosterse culturen worden verhalen opgetekend over 'invisibele wezens' die zich in de duisternis bewegen. Soms worden deze entiteiten beschreven als kwaadaardig, bijvoorbeeld om mensen bang te maken of te laten verdwijnen, terwijl ze in andere verhalen juist behulpzaam of onschadelijk worden geportretteerd. Zo worden er in tales vaak verhalen gedeeld over mensen die in de nacht plotseling vreemde geluiden horen, of die te maken krijgen met onverklaarbare verschijnselen zoals verstikking of vreemde schaduwen die zich in hun huis bewegen. Deze volksverhalen sluiten vaak aan bij de persoonlijke ervaringen van ooggetuigen, en geven inzicht in hoe culturen omgaan met de onverklaarbare wereld.
Een bijzonder voorbeeld van individuele waarnemingen is dat van Philip J. Imbrogno, een voormalig officier van de Amerikaanse marine en bekende onderzoeker op het gebied van paranormale fenomenen. Imbrogno vertelde dat hij in de jaren 2000 een reeks bizarre waarnemingen deed die aanvankelijk werden toegeschreven aan ufo’s. Zo zag hij lichtgevende bollen die stil in de lucht bleven hangen, en objecten die fysieke materie leek te beïnvloeden door bijvoorbeeld de lucht te laten trillen of in beweging te brengen zonder duidelijke oorzaak. Daarnaast meldde hij ontmoetingen met entiteiten die van vorm konden veranderen; het ene moment leek het op een mens en het andere op een ongeïdentificeerd object met geen duidelijke vorm. Volgens Imbrogno zouden dergelijke waarnemingen kunnen wijzen op een vorm van contact met interdimensionale wezens, die niet op onze reguliere manier waar te nemen zijn. Hij benadrukt dat deze ervaringen moeilijk te verklaren zijn binnen het reguliere paradigma van wetenschap en dat ze mogelijk een ander soort realiteit betreffen dan wij gewend zijn.
Kortom, terwijl anekdotische bewijs nooit de absolute bevestiging kan bieden die de wetenschappelijke methode vereist, geven deze waarnemingen en verhalen toch een waardevolle blik op de wereld van de bovennatuurlijke fenomenen zoals de Djinn. Ze laten zien dat mensen uit verschillende culturen en tijden soortgelijke ervaringen hebben, en dat deze waarnemingen vaak praktische voorbeelden omvatten die ons aanzetten tot verder onderzoek en nieuwsgierigheid naar de grenzen van onze werkelijkheid.
Voorbeelden uit de hedendaagse verslaggeving
Shadow People en ‘Invisibele Beelden’: In Amerikaanse en Europese contexten worden vaak schaduwachtige silhouetten gemeld die verschijnen in de perifere visie en vervolgens verdwijnen. Vaak worden zij beschreven als geestachtige figuren, maar sommige onderzoekers wijzen erop dat deze verschijnselen mogelijk visuele manifestaties zijn van interdimensionale communicatie of energetische entiteiten die slechts fragmentarisch in onze dimensie zichtbaar worden.
Voorgaande rapporten over de Djinn: In Midden-Oosterse volksverhalen wordt vaak gesproken over ‘invisibele wezens’ die verschijnen en verdwijnen in de duisternis en die soms kwaadaardig of vriendelijk kunnen zijn. Deze verhalen worden regelmatig aangehaald als bewijs dat dergelijke entiteiten al eeuwenlang in verschillende culturen worden waargenomen.
De ervaringen van Philip J. Imbrogno: Een prominente getuige is voormalig U.S. Navy officer Philip Imbrogno, die in de jaren 2000 een reeks waarnemingen rapporteerde die aanvankelijk werden toegeschreven aan ufo’s, maar later door hemzelf werden geïnterpreteerd als mogelijk contact met interdimensionale wezens. Imbrogno beschrijft bijvoorbeeld lichtgevende bollen, objecten die fysieke materie konden beïnvloeden en entiteiten die op mysterieuze wijze van vorm konden veranderen.
Onderzoek en controverse
Het samenbrengen van deze waarnemingen leidt tot de discussie of deze fenomenen mogelijk een gemeenschappelijke basis vertonen, en of ze wel of niet buitenaards van oorsprong kunnen zijn, of dat zij een manifestatie betreffen van een andere, nog onbekende dimensie. Verschillende wetenschappers en onderzoekers adviezen dat verdere gestructureerde studies nodig zijn, terwijl anderen sceptisch blijven, wijzend op het gebrek aan empirisch bewijs en de subjectiviteit van veel getuigenissen.
In dit kader spelen vragen als:
Hoe kunnen visuele, tactiele en audiële waarnemingen worden geverifieerd?
Welke rol speelt culturele interpretatie bij de vormgeving van deze fenomenen?
Is er een wetenschappelijke basis om interdimensionale entiteiten zoals de Djinn te beschouwen als mogelijke verklaringen?
Interdisciplinair perspectief en toekomstgerichte benaderingen
De fenomenologie rondom de Djinn en gerelateerde verschijnselen vraagt om een interdisciplinair onderzoeksmodel waarin de perspectieven van folklore, neurowetenschap, psychologische studies, natuurkunde en parapsychologie worden geïntegreerd. Het combineren van historische tekstanalyses met modern-kwantitatief onderzoek kan mogelijk inzicht geven in de aard van deze fenomenen.
Neurowetenschappelijk oogpunt
Volgens neurowetenschappers kunnen waarnemingen van entiteiten zoals shadow people voortkomen uit slaapparalyse, hallucinaties of psychespecifieke processen die worden uitgelokt door stress, slaaptekort of psychische aandoeningen. Deze psychofysiologische mechanismen kunnen in sommige gevallen worden misinterpreteert als buitenaardse of bovennatuurlijke verschijnselen.
Natuurkundig perspectief
Hoewel de huidige stand van de natuurkunde geen directe bewijzen biedt voor interdimensionale realiteiten, biedt de theorie van extra dimensies een theoretisch kader dat de vermeende waarnemingen van entiteiten in andere dimensies theoretisch mogelijk maakt. Experimenteel onderzoek naar kwantumverstrengeling en niet-lokale communicatie opent mogelijk nieuwe wegen voor het begrijpen van dergelijke fenomenen, hoewel deze nog gesubstantieerd en empirisch bevestigd moeten worden.
Conclusie
De heropleving van het fenomeen van de Djinn binnen het context van moderne paranormale en wetenschappelijke theorieën wijst erop dat de mogelijke existentie van interdimensionale entiteiten een relevante hypothese kan zijn die verder onderzoek vereist. Hoewel zintuiglijke waarnemingen en anekdotisch bewijs geen definitieve bewijzen leveren, suggereren hun consistentie over culturen en tijdperken dat er iets bijzonders aan de hand is dat onze huidige wetenschappelijke paradigma’s uitdaagt.
Door een kritische, multidisciplinaire aanpak kunnen we wellicht dichter komen tot een begrip van deze mysterieuze fenomenen, en mogelijk een nieuwe dimensie van realiteit ontdekken die zich buiten de integriteit van onze zintuiglijke waarneming bevindt. De hypothese dat de Djinn niet slechts mythische wezens zijn, maar mogelijk echte entiteiten in een andere dimensie, blijft een fascinerende en urgente vraag voor toekomstig wetenschappelijk onderzoek.
Neurosurgeon Describes Coming Face-To-Face With An Alien
Neurosurgeon Describes Coming Face-To-Face With An Alien
A neurosurgeon who has performed thousands of brain surgeries told a British‑based culture website that a near‑death experience in 2022 brought him into direct contact with a non‑human intelligence. According to the surgeon, who asked to remain unnamed pending publication of a formal medical report, he was briefly revived after a cardiac arrest during a routine operation and found himself “face‑to‑face with an entity that communicated not with words, but through thoughts that seemed to bypass language altogether.” He described the being as “tall, luminous, and composed of a light‑like substance,” adding that the encounter lasted only a few seconds before his heart rhythm normalized and he was returned to the operating table.
During the episode the surgeon said the entity transmitted a series of impressions about the nature of human consciousness, the interconnectedness of all life, and the “vast, layered structure of the universe.” He recalled a specific phrase that he interpreted as a warning: “Your species is on the brink of a choice that will define its future.” The neurosurgeon, who has published research on neural plasticity in peer‑reviewed journals, said the experience left him with a lingering sense of clarity and a renewed interest in the philosophical dimensions of brain function. “It was as if a circuit in my own mind was suddenly illuminated from the outside,” he told the website, adding that the telepathic communication felt “more precise than any language I have ever used with a patient.”
The account arrives amid a resurgence of public interest in unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and near‑death experiences (NDEs), topics that have recently received limited attention from governmental panels and scientific societies. In June 2024, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report acknowledging that many UAP sightings remain unexplained, while the American Academy of Neurology has convened a task force to examine the neurobiology of NDEs. Researchers in the field caution that subjective experiences during severe physiological stress can produce vivid hallucinations, altered time perception, and feelings of transcendence, often interpreted through cultural lenses. Dr. Maya Patel, a neuropsychologist at the University of California, San Diego, noted, “Extreme hypoxia or the release of neurochemicals like DMT can generate experiences that feel profoundly real, but they do not constitute evidence of external entities.”
Skeptics have also pointed out the lack of corroborating data. The surgeon’s claim is based solely on personal recollection; no audio, video, or physiological recordings of the alleged encounter have been released. Moreover, the original article appeared on BroBible, a site known for entertainment‑focused content rather than scientific journalism. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” said Dr. Leonard Hsu, a professor of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. “While the surgeon’s credentials are impressive, a single anecdotal report cannot be taken as proof of extraterrestrial contact without independent verification.”
The neurosurgeon says he is preparing a detailed case study for submission to a medical journal, where he hopes to explore the possible mechanisms behind the telepathic impression and its implications for our understanding of consciousness. He emphasizes that his primary aim is not to prove the existence of aliens, but to investigate how the brain processes experiences that fall outside conventional neurophysiology. “If there is a way to bridge the gap between subjective experience and objective science, we owe it to our patients—and to humanity—to pursue it rigorously,” he concluded. Whether the medical community will embrace the report or dismiss it as an extraordinary NDE remains to be seen, but the story underscores the ongoing tension between empirical inquiry and the human desire to find meaning beyond the known.
For the most part, robotics developers have kept their projects on the lighter side, even if they occasionally creep us out. But that might be changing thanks to the Chinese automotive company XPeng, which just released a clip showcasing its “Iron” humanoid robot.
The clip, which circulated on social media, show a robotic exoskeleton strapped to a harness walking in a straight line. While XPeng’s Iron units are usually clad in a sleek white skin, this one is totally nude — and it looks like something straight out of the post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout, or like the titular antagonists from the “Terminator” franchise.
The bot also cleans up nicely. During an event this week, the company showed it off dressed in a cloth bodysuit that gave it a distinctly feminine profile.
The bot displayed some pretty slick motion, swaying its hips as it walks.
“We’re at a point now where robots can move more sensually than Taylor Swift,” one Redditor commented.
“I am kind of blown away that they can get motors to work in such an elegant way. I assumed it was soft body mechanics,” wrote another. “Wow.”
Iron made its first debut on Wednesday, when XPeng CEO He Xiaopeng introduced the unit as the “most human-like” bot on the market to date. Per Humanoids Daily, the robot features “dexterous hands” with 22 degrees of flexibility, a “human-like spine,” gender options, and a digital face.
According to He, the bot also contains the “first all-solid-state battery in the industry,” as opposed to the liquid electrolyte typically found in lithium-ion batteries. Solid-state batteries are considered the “holy grail” for electric vehicle development, a design choice He says will make the robots safer for home use.
The X5.1-class eruption from sunspot AR4274 is the most powerful flare of the year, accompanied by a coronal mass ejection. Our planet is in its path.
X5.1-class solar flare. Source: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
X5.1-class solar flare
On the morning of November 11, the Sun exploded in spectacular fashion, releasing a powerful X5.1-class solar flare, the strongest since 2025 and the most intense sinceOctober 2024.
The explosion peaked at 5 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (10:00 GMT) from sunspot AR4274, which has been very active in recent days. The flare caused severe (R3-level) radio interference in Africa and Europe, disrupting high-frequency radio communications on the sunlit side of the Earth.
Danger of geomagnetic storms
This flare is the latest in a series of intense flares from AR4274, which also caused an X1.7 flare on November 9 and an X1.2 flare on November 10. These flares were accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that could combine and affect Earth tonight, possibly causing strong (G3) geomagnetic storms and widespread auroras, according to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center. Today’s coronal mass ejection may also join them, as it is moving toward Earth at a speed of 4.4 million miles per hour. NOAA predicts that the CME could affect Earth around noon on November 12. With this third CME, we may experience strong (G4) geomagnetic storms.
Solar flares are classified by strength into five classes: A, B, C, M, and X, with each step corresponding to a tenfold increase in energy output. X-class solar flares are powerful, and the number after X describes the intensity of the flare. With an intensity of X5.1, this latest flare is at the top of the scale.
Peak solar activity
The eruption resulted in a stream of X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation toward Earth, ionizing the upper layers of the atmosphere and causing a significant deterioration in radio signal quality. Severe (R3) radio interference was recorded over Africa and Europe.
This active region has become one of the most prolific sources of solar flares in the 25th solar cycle, marking the peak of activity in what has already been an extraordinary week for solar activity.
According to forecasts, the coronal mass ejection that occurred this morning during the X5.1 solar flare will reach Earth on November 12. According to NOAA, the coronal mass ejection could cause a strong (G4) geomagnetic storm on November 12.
Chinese scientists have announced the discovery of a previously unknown crater named Jinlin. It was formed after the end of the last ice age.
Panoramic image of the Jinlin crater taken by drone, showing the approximate location of the crater rim and an inset image of the crater floor, which shows a mixture of weathered granite soil and granite fragments. The yellow line is 20 centimeters long. Source: Ming Chen
The Jinlin crater is located in Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province. The impact structure is located on a hillside, preserved under a thick granite weathering crust. Its diameter is 900 meters.
According to scientists’ estimates, the crater is very young. It was formed in the early to mid-Holocene epoch, our current geological era, which began after the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago. This makes Jinlin the largest impact crater in modern human history. In terms of size, it significantly exceeds the Macha crater, which was formed in the Holocene and has a diameter of only 300 meters.
One of the most remarkable features of the Jinlin crater is its good preservation, considering the climatic conditions. The region where it is located is characterized by monsoons, heavy rains, and high humidity. In the granite layers that helped protect and preserve its structure, researchers found many pieces of quartz with unique features that prove its impact origin.
According to scientists, the crater was formed by the impact of a small asteroid. However, the research team has not yet determined whether it was made of iron or stone.
At present, there are about 200 confirmed impact craters on Earth. In reality, there were many more, but due to erosion and plate tectonics, many of them have completely disappeared without leaving any traces. This makes the discovery of the Jinlin crater particularly significant. It shows that the scale of impacts of small extraterrestrial objects on Earth during the Holocene was much greater than previously thought.
A team of Chinese scientists has announced the discovery of a new type of cave on Mars, created by water flows. They could have been home to life.
Illustration showing the mechanism of karstic cave formation on Mars. Source: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2025). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae0f1c
If there is or ever was life on Mars, it most likely existed in caves, protected from severe dust storms, extreme temperature fluctuations, and high levels of radiation on the planet’s surface. However, until recently, most of the Martian caves found were lava tubes(cavities in solidified lava flows), which could hardly claim to be an oasis of life.
However, it appears that there are other types of caves on Mars. In an article published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of Chinese scientists presented the first evidence of karstic caves on the Red Planet.
On Earth, karstic caves usually form when water dissolves rocks such as limestone or gypsum, creating and enlarging underground cracks and fissures that become large enough to become caves. Scientists believe that similar processes occurred on ancient Mars, where water dissolved carbonate- and sulfate-rich rocks.
Location of karstic caves on Mars. Source: The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2025). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ae0f1c
The caves we are talking about are located in a region called Hebrus Valles. It is a system of ancient valleys and drainage channels in the Northern Hemisphere of Mars. After studying images from spacecraft, scientists discovered eight pits. These are deep and mostly circular depressions, rather than impact craters, which usually have raised edges and debris scattered around them.
Data collected by the Mars Global Surveyor’s thermal emission spectrometer indicate that the rocks around the pits are rich in carbonates and sulfates. These are types of rocks that water can easily dissolve. The team also used high-resolution images to create three-dimensional structural models, which showed that the shapes of the pits correspond to collapse caused by water, rather than volcanic or tectonic activity.
According to the authors of the discovery, eight potential karstic caves should be priority targets for future Mars missions. Even if there is no life there, they could serve as natural shelters for astronauts and a place to set up their base.
The Age of UFO transparentness is upon us. Finally, some would say. It is no longer a conspiracy to discuss UFO sightings, and UFO reports from the past and present are being analyzed with great scientific care. NASA has tasked a group of astrophysicists to try and explain UFOs and find out whether their nature is indeed not of this Earth. This paradigm shift has motivated many aviators to come forward and share their stories, and what they have to say is of great importance, as it can greatly contribute to our understanding of unidentified flying objects.
Naval Aviators have reported encountering strange “Black Cube” UFOs that were surrounded by strange clear spheres. Some of these cube-shaped UFOs even shadowed some, and many airplanes nearly collided with them. So this begs the question, what have aviators encountered? Based on their reports and comments, these objects were not weather balloons, were not drones, and seemed like nothing humankind has ever produced.
Some of these objects display characteristics that are unlike any modern-day aircraft. The technology at their disposal, as per comments made by fighter pilots, is beyond anything we know of. But the danger about these objects resides not only in the fact that we do not know what they are or whom they belong to; the greater danger resides in the fact that on numerous occasions, fighter pilots have almost collided with these mysterious objects. As penned down by Marik Von Rennenkampff for The Hill, Fighter pilots narrowly escaped disaster in 2014 when the jets were flying in controlled airspace and almost collided with an unidentified flying object. But this is just one of many examples. In fact, fighter pilots have reported seeing these objects “everywhere.”
In the piece, Rennenkampff had asked former fighter pilot Ryan Graves about UFO encounters. The experienced pilot answered that he and his colleagues saw these objects near airports and over the continental United States. On many occasions, these objects appeared hundreds of miles out to sea. ” There’s air traffic operation, and they’re operating in ways that are befuddling our aviators,” the experienced fighter pilot revealed in the interview. One of the perhaps more interesting UFO encounters that took place near an airport is the so-called Aguadilla UFO that took place in 2013 in Puerto Rico. At the time, a United States Customs and Border plane spotted a mysterious fast-moving object near the airport. This UFO headed out towards the ocean, splashed into the sea as if it did not even make contact with the water, reappeared, and then spit into two. You can read more about it here.
Perhaps what is most interesting is an encounter recalled by Graves that took place off the East Coast in 2014, when a fighter pilot described a dark cube-shaped UFO that was surrounded by some sort of clear sphere. What is most interesting is that this UFO had no wings, flaps, tails, and no visible propulsion system. But these encounters with the enigmatic cube-shaped UFOs are by no means isolated events. In fact, Graves recalls that a few years after the 2014 incident, a test pilot had spoken with Graves about encountering such an object.
According to the test pilot, the cube-shaped UFO surrounded by a clear sphere was just “flying alongside the pilot” at an approximate distance of some 30 feet. Eventually, the object just accelerated and disappeared. The exact origin of these objects remains a profound mystery. However, with the age of UFO transparency finally, upon us, we may finally get a better understanding of what these objects are. NASA is putting great effort into trying to find out what these objects are, the Pentagon has a UFO office that is investing a great amount of money and time in discovering their source, and the US Congress, in the meanwhile, seems convinced these things are not of this planet.
Aurora Borealis in Utah, Nov 11, 2025 Guys I just recorded this a few minutes ago.
Aurora Borealis in Utah, Nov 11, 2025 Guys I just recorded this a few minutes ago.
Date of sighting:Nov 11, 2025
Location of sighting: Bountiful, Utah, USA
Even now as I write this, the pinkish northern lights are shining across the northern side of my home. The lights are changing shape and location for the last half hour, but always shocking me. This is the first time I have ever seen the Aurora Borealis before, and for it to reach the desert of Utah USA is just wow! It doesnt show up as well on video, sorry for that, but photos do it justice.
Guys check out this tiny ancient doorway I found in a rover photo today. It's about 9 inches tall and 6 inches wide and the top is arched like a doorway from ancient times. It matches up with all the tiny figures we have found over the last two decades...it all makes sense now.
Around 4,500 years after it was constructed, scientists think they've located the remains of a hidden entrance at a historic pyramid in Egypt.
Built around 2510 BC and standing nearly 200 feet tall, Pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main pyramids of the famous Giza complex.
It was built to serve as the tomb of the King Menkaure, the Fourth Dynasty king whose sarcophagus mysteriously went missing.
Researchers in Egypt and Germany have used high-tech scanning methods to peer behind the pyramid's historic granite bricks.
They report that there are two hidden air-filled anomalies which suggest a hidden entrance undetected in the modern era until now.
Christian Grosse, professor of non-destructive testing at Technical University of Munich (TUM), called it 'an important finding in Giza'.
'The testing methodology we developed allows very precise conclusions to be drawn about the nature of the pyramid's interior,' he said.
'The hypothesis of another entrance is very plausible, and our results take us a big step closer to confirming it.'
Around 4,500 years after it was constructed, scientists think they've located the remains of a hidden entrance at a historic pyramid in Egypt
Pyramid of Menkaure, - the smallest of the three main pyramids of the Giza pyramid complex, standing at nearly 200 feet tall - had a second entrance, experts think. In this photo, the northern side (featuring the primary entrance) is in shadow. The southern side is illuminated by sunlight. Also seen are three much smaller pyramids known as the Queens' Pyramids
The Menkaure pyramid's primary entrance is on its northern side, but experts think the second one is on the eastern side, which faces the River Nile.
In particular, they point to a 13ft by 19ft (four metres high and six metres wide) rectangular area of the eastern side that's close to the ground.
Weirdly, the granite blocks in this area of the eastern façade are 'unusually smooth' as if they'd been rigorously polished millennia ago.
Tellingly, such smooth stones are found at the primary entrance on the northern side – suggesting a second one long existed here too but has been forgotten.
Independent researcher Stijn van den Hoven theorized this possible additional entrance for the first time in 2019, but this has remained a hypothesis – until now.
The experts at Cairo University and Technical University of Munich (TUM) used 'non-invasive' methods – radar, ultrasound and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) – to peer inside without pulling apart the ancient bricks.
Excitingly, they detected two air-filled voids behind the smooth façade, both of different sizes and at different heights.
One of the air-filled 'anomalies' is located at a depth of 4.5 feet (1.4 metres), measuring 3.2 feet by 4.8 feet (1 metre high by 1.5 metre wide), while the other anomaly is at a depth of 3.7 feet (1.13 metres), measuring 2.9 feet by 2.2 feet (0.9 metres by 0.7 metres).
The research using radar, ultrasound and ERT prove the existence of two air-filled voids underneath the eastern façade, providing initial evidence to support the hypothesis
What is the Pyramid of Menkaure?
Pyramid of Menkaure is the smallest of the three main pyramids of the Giza pyramid complex - Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure.
Built in around 2510 BC, it currently stands at 200 feet (61 metres) tall with a base of 356 feet (108.5 metres).
Pyramid of Menkaure is thought to have been built to serve as the tomb of the Fourth Dynasty King Menkaure.
Why the two void-filled spaces are arranged exactly like this is puzzling, but together they 'could support the hypothesis of a second entrance'.
The team point out that each technique used in this study has its own limitations, but by using a combination of all three their conclusions are reliable.
Today, tourists can go inside Pyramid of Menkaure and traverse its burial chambers, corridors and other little niches, but a second entrance on the eastern side hints that there could be still undiscovered chambers or passages containing treasures unseen by modern eyes.
However, the interpretation of the detected anomalies should be 'discussed among Egyptologists' before any firm conclusions are made.
Researchers caution it was 'difficult to determine how far the anomalies extend inside the pyramid' due to limitations in the penetration depth of their methods.
Nevertheless, the study published in NDT & E International, marks the first time structural anomalies have been identified behind the distinctive façade on the east side.
It's believed Pyramid of Menkaure was built to serve as the tomb of Menkaure, the Fourth Dynasty king, who died as a young man in 2503 BC for reasons unknown.
Pictured, the location and dimensions of the detected anomalies overlaid on a photograph of the Eastern face of Menkaure
'The hypothesis of an entrance is very plausible': Researchers have identified two air-filled voids in the Menkaure Pyramid by using non-invasive methods
Unfortunately, the sarcophagus within the pyramid was lost at sea nearly 200 years ago during attempts to transport it to the British Museum in London.
The merchant ship carrying it, Beatrice, was mysteriously lost after leaving port at Malta on October 13, 1838.
The Giza complex, west of Cairo, includes the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, along with the Great Sphinx.
All are shrouded in mystery due to their unclear construction methods, precise astronomical alignment, and still-debated purpose.
The Valley of the Kings in upper Egypt is one of the country's main tourist attractions, situated next to the Giza pyramid complex.
The majority of the pharaohs of the 18th to 20th dynasties, who ruled from 1550 to 1069 BC, rested in the tombs which were cut into the local rock.
The royal tombs are decorated with scenes from Egyptian mythology and give clues as to the beliefs and funerary rituals of the period.
Almost all of the tombs were opened and looted centuries ago, but the sites still give an idea of the opulence and power of the Pharaohs.
The majority of the pharaohs of the 18th to 20th dynasties, who ruled from 1550 to 1069 BC, rested in the tombs which were cut into the local rock. Pictured are godess statues in the valley
The most famous pharaoh at the site is Tutankhamen, whose tomb was discovered in 1922.
Preserved to this day, in the tomb are original decorations of sacred imagery from, among others, the Book of Gates or the Book of Caverns.
These are among the most important funeral texts found on the walls of ancient Egyptian tombs.
The Valley of the Kings in upper Egypt is one of the country's main tourist attractions, situated next to the Giza pyramid complex
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