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Are aliens invading Australia? Facebook erupts with bizarre theories after a huge fireball is spotted in the morning sky… but can you work out what it REALLY is?

• Once a good alien conspiracy gets going, it won't be stopped by simple facts
• UFO believers swooned over a mystifying video shot in Tasmania on Tuesday
• The footage showed what looked like a fireball traversing the morning sky 
• But the explanation, according to the government, is way less exciting  

By Anton Nilsson For Daily Mail Australia

Once a good alien conspiracy theory gets going, it won't be stopped by simple facts.

A mystifying video of what looks like a fireball traversing the Tasmanian sky got UFO believers excited, and they weren't swayed by the federal government's explanation.

The federal air navigation services provider Airservices Australia told ABC the fascinating display was simply an aircraft 'as it passed over Australian airspace.'

'What would you expect the government to say!!!!' objected one Facebook user to the feds' explanation. 

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A mystifying video of what looks like a fireball traversing the Tasmanian sky got UFO believers excited, and they weren't swayed by the federal government's explanation

The video, uploaded by a southeastern Tasmania resident to Facebook on Tuesday, shows a light object travelling across clear morning sky

The federal air navigation services provider Airservices Australia told ABC the fascinating display was simply an aircraft 'as it passed over Australian airspace'

'The governments just covering it up like Roswell. Bloody reptilian government,' wrote another.  

'This isn't a bloody plane, wake up people... Planes don't leave flames so how bout you all open your f*****g eyes and get some perspective,' one particularly enraged sceptic wrote. 

To be fair, the blazing mystery ball hardly looks like an air plane. 

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The video, uploaded by a southeastern Tasmania resident to Facebook on Tuesday, shows a light object travelling across clear morning sky.

As the camera zooms in, the object appears to be ablaze, leaving a trail of orange that splits into two tails.

Experts said the contrails created by the aircraft exhaust were backlit by the sunrise, creating the fiery effect.

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Lee-Anne Peters' footage of the object kickstarted numerous theories about what it could be.

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I-Team: Author details UFO incidents over Nevada

By: George Knapp

LAS VEGAS - The global reputation of Nevada's Area 51 military base has meant that the Silver State is a magnet for UFO enthusiasts. 

Thousands of people travel to Nevada each year to look for weird objects in the desert skies.

But the history of the UFO phenomena in Nevada extends far beyond Area 51. A new book is out which details hundreds of strange encounters with unknown objects and a creature of two.

The incidents listed in the book are not so easily explained. They've been reported dating back more than a century by credible witnesses from all walks of life.

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In the early 1960s, the X-15 rocket plane flew higher and faster than anything on earth, or so we thought.

During two separate test flights over Nevada's Mud Lake, X-15 pilots encountered something that flew higher and faster.

"A different pilot saw six objects this time, described as white or silver and they took up a formation around his plane, way, way up there, so clearly these are not ours, if they are doing things that we can't do. This was a high altitude test, higher than we've ever gone," said Preston Dennett.

One of the pilots stated that he knows there are things out there. Film of the objects was recorded, but never made public. It was ice crystals, the government said years later. 

The X-15 incidents are among the hundreds of strange encounters detailed in Preston Dennett's new book UFOs Over Nevada: True History of Extraterrestrial Encounters in the Silver State.

"There are so many cases," Dennett said. "I'm guessing one in a hundred people report their sighting officially."

The I-Team interview took place in front of the aptly named Giant Rock in the California desert. It's been scarred by fires and graffiti, but was once the site of mass gatherings that made it the center of the UFO universe.

The first big wave of flying saucers was reported in 1947. Dennett says Nevada cases preceded the national UFO hubbub. Weeks before the infamous Roswell incident in New Mexico, two military pilots flying over Lake Mead spotted a weird formation of three odd craft.

"They saw that these weren't planes at all," Dennett said. "They were delta-wing shaped craft with no other markings, moving really fast, and they ended up reporting this officially."

That case remained unidentified, although in later years, the U.S. Air Force did its best to explain away as many UFO reports as it could.

These shape shifting objects were recorded over Las Vegas a few years ago. The book lists dozens of more distinct shapes seen over Nevada military facilities including Nellis Air Force base, Fallon Naval Air Station, Area 51 and the Nevada Test Site (now known as the Nevada National Security Site) during the height of the nuclear testing program.

Officials have always denied ever getting reports of UFOs over those air spaces.

One of the best cases in the book is a report from a military officer whose car died on the outskirts of Tonopah. The officer spotted four flying saucer shaped craft sitting beside Highway 95. He walked toward them to get a closer look.

"All of a sudden, the buzzing sound increases in pitch and all of these objects take off at once and dart away. He's amazed, he rushes back to his car which now starts fine and reports the sighting to officials," Dennett said.

Instead of investigating the incident, Project Blue Book assigned a psychologist to evaluate the witness who was said to have suffered from highway hypnosis.

The most spectacular case in the book is from April 1962.

"It's a fantastic case involving, not only a few hundred witnesses, thousands of witnesses saw this thing as it traveled across the United States," he said.

A fireball came in over Cuba, traveled up the East Coast, and over New York, made a 45 degree turn to the left, zipped across the U.S. at differing speeds, landed in Utah where it knocked out electrical power, then took off again before exploding over Clark County."

"The air force labeled it. First they called it a meteor, then they changed their story and called it a balloon."

The book contains dozens of sightings over the Las Vegas Strip, some of which were photographed, and a smattering of reports from celebrities. Rock drummer Ronnie Vanucci of The Killers saw a red UFO over Highway 95.

Late night radio host Art Bell and his wife saw a gigantic UFO not far from their home in Nye County. Actor and country singer Johnny Sands, in 1973, encountered two of the strangest aliens ever reported while driving near Blue Diamond Road.

Nevada's UFO godfather, former CIA pilot John Lear, was told by his wife Merilee to give up his passion for flying saucers, that is, until she saw her own.

Filmmaker Jeremy Corbell has been working on a series about Lear and tells about Mrs. Lear's UFO sighting.

"Then one day she gets called out by her daughter in the backyard right at Sunrise Mountain in Nevada and she sees for herself with her own eyes these two circular flying saucers. She said they were like cans of tuna, tuna fish cans, silver cans, which is not very aerodynamic," said Corbell, director of Immaculate Deception.

When it comes to UFOs, Dennett says, seeing is believing.

"It really hits people at the core of their being and when they see UFOs are real, it kind of changes your whole world view," he said.

Between 90 to 95 percent of all UFO incidents are probably explainable -- that is misidentifications of known phenomena.

It's the five percent or so that fuel the imagination. It's also true that about 90 percent of UFO sightings made by the public are never reported. Also, the stranger the incident, the less likely a person is to tell others about it.

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CHINA REVEALS THAT A MASSIVE ALIEN OUTPOST AND MINING FACILITY IS OPERATING ON THE MOON

Ever wondered why no one has set foot on the Moon for decades? And why there’s no permanent outpost already established there? Is it because the Moon is not a viable celestial body to harness, or maybe because all of the above mentioned are already happening, but we are not being told about it?

The answer to these questions may be easier than first anticipated, but complex at the same time. Dr. Michael Salla has pointed out that there is a military industrial extraterrestrial complex (MIEC) on the surface of our ‘natural satellite’, and there’s a strong possibility of an alien regime currently operating on the moon in tandem with humans.

To support his claims and those of many others, the Chinese have released an intriguing photo of what appears to be an artificial complex operating on the lunar surface. The image represents yet another confirmation of secret operations carried out up there, and it may also reveal that the Chinese government has been in touch with otherworldly visitors. That, in turn, would also explain why China has been investing massively in radio telescopes.

The following report will bring further clearance into this matter:

“I was sent some pictures by a source who claims China will be releasing Hi Res images taken by the Chang’e-2 moon orbiter, which clearly show buildings and structures on the moon’s surface. He also claims NASA has deliberately bombed important areas of the Moon in an effort to destroy ancient artefacts and facilities.

Pictures yet to be released clearly show nuclear impact craters and building debris caused by explosions in an effort by NASA to destroy the truth. China is moving toward full disclosure of the Extraterrestrial reality, if these images and future ones are verified genuine then NASA should be investigated for fraud and treason. China will be releasing all the data and images from the Chang’e-2 in the coming weeks and months, let’s hope this is the beginning of a new era.“

There’s a chance that the world governments have a secret pact to exploit the moon for its minerals. This pact may be signed by other ET species residing in the Universe, which could explain why this alliance has a secretive nature. However, since greed is a common trait among humans, there shouldn’t be long until someone is excluded out of this alliance, and eventually disclose this secret project to humanity.

Countless rumors speak of an alien base located on the dark side of the moon – the side we never get to see, and it’s no secret that, in 2009, NASA publicly bombed a portion of the moon for unclear reasons. Other leaked images originating from NASA’s headquarters reveal different structures found up there that are likely to be artificial in nature.

Among the most renowned people to speak of this Moon conspiracy is Milton Cooper, a Naval Intelligence Officer who disclosed that the US Navy Intelligence Community knows of the alien base. The term used to describe it is “Luna,” and according to Cooper, its main objective is to mine the underground for certain materials. He also speaks of a massive mother ship found in the vicinity of the moon used by the aliens to store up materials, and also travel to Earth in small “flying saucers” found on the main ship.

“LUNA: The alien base on the far side of the Moon. It was seen and filmed by the Apollo astronauts. A base, a mining operation using very large machines, and the very large alien craft describing in sightings reports as mother ships exist there,” Milton Cooper revealed.

So, is it possible that what the Chinese revealed is in fact a small fraction of the mining operation facility called Luna? After all, it strongly resembles the drilling devices used by our own species, and there is no one to debunk it as being a natural formation. 

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ANCIENT NUCLEAR WAR? THE MELTED STONE STEPS AT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SITE OF DENDERA

The Dendera Temple complex is one of the best preserved temple complexes in Egypt. The complex covers approximately 40,000 square meters. Also the site of the famed Dendera light relief, Dendera is an incredible site.

The building that dominates the Complex is the main temple, which is called the Hathor temple and is dedicated to Hathor who was the goddess of love, joy and beauty.

One of the strangest and most intriguing parts of the site however are the stairs leading up to the temple roof. The stone steps appear to be melted. It’s hard to imagine what could have melted solid stone steps such as these. The temperatures that would be need to melt solid stone such as this would have to have been tremendously high.

It is said that some of Dendera was built over an even older site, and while no conclusive proof has ever been found, there has been speculation of nuclear war in ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egyptian sites still hold many secrets, looking at this melted stone passage just leaves us wondering, what could possibly have melted these stone steps?

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Tom DeLonge Is Officially the Best at UFO Stuff

He's coming for Alex Jones' spot and we aren't ready.

The video below is DeLonge's acceptance speech for the award. It's actually not as insane as you'd think it would be, despite his saying that the Wikileaks business last year proved that he was on "some serious shit." But in case you doubted said seriousness, here are his credentials. 

I'm just like you guys. I spent 20 years up all night, reading about Roswell, Dulce, Serpo, Churchill, the crashes here, Nazis building craft there, Antarctica, what's on Mars, what's on the back of the moon, anomalous structures. I mean, I've done it all. I know it all.

Anomalous Structures would also have been a good name for Blink-182's 2011 album Neighborhoods, wherein the band tried to sound like Rush for skaters. DeLonge repeatedly says that his work on the UFO front has just begun, which... yeah, we already knew that. Don't waste your time on us Earthlings, dude, we're already the voices inside your head.

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The mysterious Piri Reis Map: Is this evidence of a very advanced prehistoric civilization?

The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 from military intelligence by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis.

Approximately one third of the map survives; it shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy. Various Atlantic islands, including the Azores and Canary Islands, are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia and possibly Japan.

The historical importance of the map lies in its demonstration of the extent of exploration of the New World by approximately 1510, and in its claim to have used Columbus’s maps, otherwise lost, as a source.

It used ten Arab sources, four Indian maps sourced from the Portuguese, and one map of Columbus. More recently, it has been the focus of pseudo historic claims for the pre-modern exploration of the Antarctic coast.

The map was discovered accidentally on 9 October 1929, through the philological work of the German theologian Gustav Adolf Deissmann (1866–1937). He had been commissioned by the Turkish Ministry of Education to catalog the Topkapi Palace library’s non-Islamic items.

At Deissmann’s request to search the palace for old maps and charts, the director Halil Edhem (1861–1938) managed to find some disregarded bundles of material, which he handed over to Deissmann. Realizing that the map might be a unique find, Deissmann showed it to the orientalist Paul Kahle, who identified it as a map drawn by Piri Reis.

The discovery caused an international sensation, as it represented the only then known copy of a world map of Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), and was the only 16th-century map that showed South America in its proper longitudinal position in relation to Africa. Geographers had spent several centuries unsuccessfully searching for a “lost map of Columbus” that was supposedly drawn while he was in the West Indies.

After reading about the map’s discovery in The Illustrated London News, United States Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson contacted the United States Ambassador to Turkey Charles H. Sherrill and requested that an investigation be launched to find the Columbus source map, which he believed may have been in Turkey.

In turn, the Turkish government complied with Stimson’s request, but they were unsuccessful in locating any of the source maps.

The Piri Reis map is currently located in the Library of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, but is not usually on display to the public.

The map was depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 10 million lira banknote of 1999-2005 and of the new 10 lira banknote of 2005-2009.

The map is a portolan chart, as shown by the four compass roses (two large and two small) from which lines of bearing radiate. Some analyses assert that the map is an a zimuthal equidistant projection centered on Cairo, but a 1998 analysis by Steven Dutch of the University of Wisconsin Green Bay shows a better fit with a point near the intersection of the present-day prime meridian and the equator.

There are extensive notes in Turkish around the edges of the map, as well as some interior detail which is mostly inaccurate and fanciful.

The Iberian peninsula and the coast of Africa are rendered accurately; as for the Americas, the northern portion of the South American coast is also fairly accurate and positioned correctly with respect to Africa. Much of the Caribbean is also mapped fairly accurately and appears to reflect Columbus’s maps of the area.

The area representing North America bears almost no resemblance to its real coastline (which is unsurprising, since by this time, it was still almost totally unexplored) except for one projection which might be Newfoundland; an island labelled “Antilia” may actually be Nova Scotia, since it has a note attached which refers to the legendary voyages of Saint Brendan.

There is some suggestion that this area may represent the Asian coast. Island groups in the east Atlantic are accurately placed, but are depicted out of scale.

Although there are frequent claims for the extreme accuracy of this chart, McIntosh, in comparing the Piri Reis map to several other portolan-style maps of the era, found that

The Piri Reis map is not the most accurate map of the sixteenth century, as has been claimed, there being many, many world maps produced in the remaining eighty-seven years of that century that far surpass it in accuracy. The Ribeiro maps of the 1520s and 1530s, the Ortelius map of 1570, and the Wright-Molyneux map of 1599 (‘the best map of the sixteenth century’) are only a few better-known examples.

There are two major discrepancies from known coastlines: the North American coast mentioned above, and the southern portion of the South American coast. On the Piri Reis map, the latter is shown bending off sharply to the east starting around present-day Rio de Janeiro.

A more popular interpretation of this territory has been to identify this section with the Queen Maud Land coast of Antarctica. This claim is generally traced to Arlington H. Mallery, a civil engineer and amateur archaeologist who was a supporter of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact hypotheses. Though his assertions were not well received by scholars, they were revived in Charles Hapgood’s 1966 book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings.

This book proposed a theory of global exploration by a pre-classical undiscovered civilization based on his analysis of this and other ancient and late-medieval maps. More notoriously, these claims were repeated in Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods (which attributed the knowledge of the coast to extraterrestrials) and Gavin Menzies’s 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (which attributed it to supposed Chinese voyages), both of which were roundly denounced by both scholars and debunkers of fringe works, but which attracted huge popular followings.

A more sober analysis of these claims was published by Gregory McIntosh, a historian of cartography, who examined the map in depth in his book The Piri Reis Map of 1513 (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2000). He was able to find sources for much of the map in Columbus’s writings.

Certain peculiarities (such as the appearance of the Virgin Islands in two locations) he attributed to the use of multiple maps as sources; others (such as the errors in North American geography) he traced to the continued confusion of the area with East Asia. As far as the accuracy of depiction of the supposed Antarctic coast is concerned, there are two conspicuous errors.

First, it is shown hundreds of miles north of its proper location; second, the Drake Passage is completely missing, with the Antarctic Peninsula presumably conflated with the Argentine coast. The identification of this area of the map with the frigid Antarctic coast is also difficult to reconcile with the notes on the map which describe the region as having a warm climate.

It should be kept in mind that maps of the period generally depicted a large continent named Terra Australis Incognita of highly variable shape and extent. This land was posited by Ptolemy as a counterbalance to the extensive continental areas in the northern hemisphere; due to a lack of exploration and various misunderstandings, its existence was not fully abandoned until circumnavigation of the area during the second voyage of James Cook in the 1770s showed that if it existed, it was much smaller than imagined previously.

The first confirmed landing on Antarctica was not until 1820, and the coastline of Queen Maud Land did not see significant exploration before Norwegian expeditions began in 1891. In 1513, Cape Horn had not yet been discovered, and indeed Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of circumnavigation was not to set sail for another six years.

It is unclear whether the mapmaker saw South America itself as part of the unknown southern lands (as shown in the Atlas Miller), or whether (as Dutch thought) he drew what was then known of the coast with substantial distortion, but in any case, serious scholarship holds that there is no reason to believe that the map is the product of genuine knowledge of the Antarctic coast.

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Beyond Roswell - The Five UFO Crashes in New Mexico, July 1947.

For more detailed analysis of the story covered in this post, please read The Alien Enigma by JP Robinson.

One reason for so much conflicting evidence arising from the famous Roswell incident of 1947, is due to the remarkable fact that there seems to have been more than one crash which occurred during the same time frame of July 1947 and in the same state of New Mexico. 

Could there be a link between the separate incidents of which the well known Roswell crash was but one of them? According to researcher Chuck Wade, several craft were intentionally sabotaged during a three year period from 1945-1948 starting with a crash which occurred in August 1945, at San Antonio near the ‘Trinity’ nuclear test site where the world’s first atomic bomb test had taken place just weeks earlier in the July.

Putting that incident aside, along with an another which took place in March, 1948 in Hart Canyon, 9 miles north of Aztec where a craft that was 100" in diameter was found completely intact with 16 dead occupants, we shall now concentrate on the five different UFO crashes which all went down in New Mexico between the 1st and the 4th of July, 1947.

One UFO crash was on the plains of San Augustin, the night of July 1 or 2, 1947. This craft was 32" in diameter. Gerald Anderson and some family members claimed to have found the crashed object in which they saw four alien bodies: one was still alive, another was wounded and two were already dead. The discovery was verified by Barney Barnett who also witnessed the same downed craft, and also archaeologist Dr. Herbert Dick, a Harvard grad student. 

A second crash site is believed to be southwest of Roswell and happened possibly July 4, 1947. Frank Kaufmann claims to have witnessed an oval-shaped crashed UFO, 25 feet long. This incident is still under investigation by MUFON and UFO researchers, Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer.

A third crash was north of Roswell which was reported to the military by civilians. This incident also occurred July 4, 1947. Walter Haut described the crashed object as “12-15" long, not quite as wide and 6 feet high, and more of an egg shape.” Col. Philip J. Corso stated in his book The Day after Roswell that he had command of the artefacts from this UFO crash whilst working in the Pentagon.

Site four was found by Mac Brazel at the Corona debris field, located 75 miles northwest of Roswell and 40 miles southeast of Corona on the Foster ranch. The size of the craft is unknown but it scattered “truckloads” of debris over the site. This is the crash site referred to as 'The Roswell Incident', the one most researchers speak of, and the one which caught the imagination of the world.

The fifth UFO crash was reported by Jim Ragsdale and it also took place on the night of July 4, 1947. The site was 53 miles west of Roswell in the foothills of the Capitan Mountains. This craft was 20" in diameter. Four dead extraterrestrials were found inside. Ragsdale departed the scene as the military arrived in numbers.

Wade’s research continues to shed more light on the events surrounding the infamous Roswell crash, and the interconnection between seven possible crashes in a three year period, all of them in the same American state, does raise many questions. Many UFO researchers have focused their attention on the occurrence of one isolated incident located near Corona and about 75 miles northwest of Roswell, but it is clear from the information available that the remarkable events of 1947 lend themselves to a much wider perspective. Wade has a theory, which if proven correct would explain why so many separate incidents apparently occurred in one area, some of them on the same evening.

The Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) in New Mexico’s capital Santa Fe was constructed during the 1940’s as a facility to research and build atomic bombs. Chuck Wade’s theory revolves around the three high-powered radar units which were built simultaneously to watch the skies over Los Alamos to protect them from invasion and warn them of prying eyes. One radar site was at El Vado, near the Colorado border. The second radar was built in the south near the continental divide, close to the border of Arizona, and the third was a mobile unit stationed at Moriarty in central New Mexico. Wade suggests that it could have been the mobile radar unit that shot down all seven of the UFOs that crashed and were retrieved in New Mexico between 1945 and 1948.

Following the Arnold sightings in the June of ’47 and the ensuing publicity which the incident received via the national media, Wade believes that orders came from the highest authority to relocate the mobile radar unit from Moriarty to the San Augustin basin. From the bowl-like plains of San Augustin, the high-powered radar was employed to shoot down the next UFO that flew overhead.

The tracking radar would have enabled the military to locate the crashed object within twelve hours of impact, and organise a retrieval team to clear the site as efficiently as possible. From there, the mobile unit could have been transported to somewhere northwest of Roswell, according to Wade.

Author Art Campbell located a brother and sister who claim that they saw three huge flashes of light, about three seconds apart, occurring on the night of July 4, 1947. Driving with their mother that night between Carlsbad and Vaughn, NM, the siblings described the flashes as so brilliant that they lit up both the desert and the distant mountains. Chuck Wade put two and two together and theorised that the flashes were caused by the high-powered radar’s energy beam colliding with three electromagnetic vehicles from outer space causing three separate crashes. One crashed near Corona, reported by Mac Brazel. The second landed north of Roswell, as described by Walter Haut and Philip Corso. The third incident was witnessed by Jim Ragsdale and took place in the Capitan Mountains.

Ragsdale claims he was sat in the back of his pickup truck with a friend, looking up at the stars, when they saw a tremendous flash “as bright as a flame from a welder’s arc” occurring several miles to the north. The object was soon heading towards them “trailing flames” and making an incredibly loud noise before passing through the trees, and finally colliding with the mountain just a short distance from his truck. Wade believes that the loud noise and the flames were caused by the disabled craft’s electromagnetic systems shorting out. Not long after the collision, Ragsdale and his friend departed swiftly as military vehicles were fast approaching. Once again, the military’s ability to locate the site so efficiently, already prepared with recovery equipment, has to be due to the tracking radar locking onto and following the craft.

In a signed affidavit, James Ragsdale claimed that he personally witnessed a UFO crash into the north slope of the Capitan Mountains, southeast of Roswell near the Pine Lodge. Ragsdale also described the scattered debris on the mountainside as looking like “tin foil and would go back to its original shape when crumpled in your hand.”

He claimed that he and his friend had climbed down to get a good look at the crashed object saying that “When we looked into the craft, we saw four bodies of a type we had never seen before, and all were dead.” He then detailed his experience with the recovered occupants of the crashed disc which he described as “all about four feet or less tall, with strange looking arms, legs and fingers.” He continued, “They were dressed in a silver type uniform and wearing a tight helmet of some type. This is a positive because I tried to remove one of the helmets, but was unable to do so. Their eyes were large, oval in shape, and did not resemble anything of a human nature.”

It is apparent from the overwhelming array of evidence that something very extraordinary took place in New Mexico during the first week of July in 1947, only a matter of days after the Kenneth Arnold incident in Washington. A varied selection of people recall handling some rare and peculiar material believed to be crash debris, and a host of other witnesses claim to have seen non-human entities either on site or having being recovered from the scene of the crash.

It is of no surprise then, that if one or more of these events did actually take place, and the bodies found in the wreckage were indeed of an extraterrestrial origin, that the initial response of the authorities was one of panic which ultimately led to the implementation of some form of cover-up.

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THE SECRET OF MALTA'S MISSING ALIEN BODIES

In 1902 workers on a construction site in Malta were stunned when they uncovered what was later identified as an incredibly ancient sanctuary buried beneath the earth. The story that then unfolded is one of the most bizarre and fascinating scientific and archaeological stories of recent times.

ELONGATED SKULLS DISCOVERED IN MALTA COULD BE FROM ALIEN CREATURES

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Archaeologists assessed the site and found that it was a remarkable architectural construction. A number of rooms were uncovered, each of which appeared to have a very specific function. One of the most unusual of these was referred to by the investigators as the ‘Oracle Room’ where a speaker’s voice reverberates around the walls. In this room, archaeologists discovered an intricately carved statue of a sleeping women. Indeed, there were a number of statues – all depicting the female form – discovered in various places in the labyrinthine complex. The historians and archaeologists were only able to speculate about the purpose of these statues because almost nothing is known about the society that created them. It is believed that the sanctuary was constructed approximately 5000 years ago, making it the oldest known structure in the entire world. Given the implications of this building, it is perhaps surprising that it is not more widely known about giving rise to speculation that knowledge about the sanctuary has been suppressed. The reason why someone might want to cover up the discovery of the sanctuary may be linked to the 7000 bodies extracted from the site. These bodies had incredibly strange elongated skulls which evidently did not belong to human beings. While skull elongation is a common practice in many cultures throughout the world, skulls that have been lengthened artificially tend to portray tell-tale signs of physical manipulation. These skulls presented none of these signs. However, some of them did present with drill holes which suggest that these ancient people were trying to relieve pressure in their skull. The combination of these two factors led leading scientists to suggest that these skulls were not likely to be human.

Mysteriously, these bodies were all stolen from where they were being kept, and now the only records documenting their unusual features are from the scientists who initially studied them, Dr. Anton Mifsud and his colleague Dr. Charles Savona Ventura.

Skulls bearing these unusual signifiers have also been discovered in Egypt and in regions of South America. While some people have suggested that they may indicate that there was once another race of humanoid creatures who walked the earth that was loosely related to human beings, others have suggested that the secrecy surrounding these discoveries indicates that there is something more mysterious about them. Could these skulls be from an ancient alien race? And if so, why are some taking such pains to conceal their existence from the rest of the world?

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Structures Found On Earths Moon In US Navy Archives, Feb 28, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: February 28, 2017

Location of sighting: Earths Moon

Source: https://www.nrl.navy.mil/clementine/clm/

 I found these structures today. The structure above was the most fascinating to me. Its a long straight structure along what looks like a crater but is actually not. Its actually all one structure. No crater there, just structure. Hard to understand I know, but I got this from Karl Wolfs description...of giant fugus like structures. Also you see a few others below of interest. 

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How Far Will Aliens Go With Their Mind Control Abilities? Feb 28, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Heres something thats been on my mind this week. I remember two sightings where a calming effect happened to me. Something that felt more like a drug effect from Prozac or Zoloft than anything else. I have also read hundreds of UFO and alien contact reports that describe the same feeling of comfort, relaxation, love around aliens..all fears and worries temporarily taken away. 

This may be nice for aliens and even some human, but sure as hell not what I 'm looking for. I don't know if I could trust an alien that is using technology or telepathy to control my feelings, because that means the alien does not trust you enough to be yourself in its presence. Mind control...thats what I'm talking about. Its a weapon no matter how its used. Aliens have the technology to totally control you if they wanted and even make you forget about seeing a UFO...but it wears off depending on the size of the UFO. The larger, the more powerful the time frame of the control lasting. 

A good start for aliens would be to turn off all mind control technology when flying their ships around our planet. It would be a show of good faith by them. That they believe in us to not panic.

I think I speak for most humanity when I say if aliens want to contact us on earth, using mind control to manipulate our emotional state is not the correct or ethical way to do it. To the aliens out there who wish to make contact with humans and walk among our streets in the open...do not even think about using your mind control on humans. It will start a war between humans and aliens in the end. The one thing people hate more than all other things is to lose control to another person against their will. 

To the aliens out there, let us be ourselves.

Here is a full documentary about what I am talking about below.
Scott C. Waring

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Potentially habitable exoplanets: Why haven't we found aliens yet?

What are the conditions needed in order for complex life to emerge and evolve on other planets?

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  By Hannah Osborne

What is needed for life on another planet? IBTimes UK

There is a conundrum among scientists about why we have not found alien life elsewhere in the universe. Known as the Fermi Paradox, it says that – theoretically – life should be abundant beyond our own solar system. But if that is the case, why haven't we found it yet?

At present, astronomers have identified some 3,500 exoplanets across more than 2,600 planetary systems. It is estimated the Milky Way alone is home to 100 billion exoplanets, with far more Earth-sized planets than massive ones like Jupiter. As a result, there could be billions of 'potentially habitable' exoplanets out there – meaning they have the potential to have liquid water on the surface.

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So what are scientists looking for in exoplanets when considering their potential to host life? Robert Massey, Deputy Executive Director at the Royal Astronomical Society, tells IBTimes UK what is needed for life on another world:

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If you want a planet that's habitable – and potentially inhabited – you need a lot of very specific conditions. At least we think so.

You need a planet around a star that is relatively stable, that has a long lifetime because that allows life to evolve. You also want a star that doesn't vary too much, because if your star changes its brightness and heat output radically over say a few years or even centuries, that's not going to be good for life. It's going to make it very hard for complex life to adapt and survive.

Artist impression of what it would be like to stand on the surface of the TRAPPIST-1 - a potentially habitable exoplanet.  NASA/JPL-Caltech

You also need a world – we think – which is around a star with lots of metals in it. Metals in astronomy doesn't mean things like iron – it means everything heavier than helium. If you have those so-called metals, the heavier elements, you're more likely to be able to form rocky planets. The kinds of planets you could walk around on seem to be the sort of place where life could flourish based on our experience here on Earth.

You also need that planet to be in orbit around a star that is either single, or if it's a binary star – which is very common in the universe – that those stars are very close together, in which case a planet can have a stable orbit around them, or they're very far apart, in which the same thing applies. If these stars are separated by the same distance as the Earth and the Sun, it would be very hard for a planet to have a stable orbit. That would be quite bad for life as the planet might get thrown out of its star system or be subject to very extreme changes in climate.

Other factors include the famous 'Goldilocks zone' idea – that it has to be in the middle of the habitable zone. If the planet is outside of that it means it's either too cold for liquid water to form or it's too hot so it stays as water vapour and steam.

That again is not very good for advanced life evolving. Other factors beyond that include things like the planet not having extreme seasons. If you imagine a world like Uranus which is tipped right over so it has a tilt of more than 90 degrees, then its pole experiences 42 years of darkness and 42 years of daylight. That probably isn't going to be the kind of system that's good for life. There are ways around it – you could have a thick atmosphere that helps distribute the heat. But it probably isn't going to make life any easier.

Med on Mars: Ocean covered 20% of Red Planet surface long enough for life to thrive

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It also helps if the planet is the right size. If a planet is too big and has too much mass it would have a strong gravitational field. That would mean it might end up like Jupiter in our own solar system with a very thick atmosphere, not much of a solid core, very hot in its interior. Very hard to imagine complex life surviving. Conversely if it's too small then it probably can't hold onto that atmosphere. If it's smaller than Mars, then that atmosphere would get stripped away very quickly.

Another related factor – one we benefit from on Earth – is a magnetic field. The advantage of that is it protects us from harsh radiation from the Sun and from interstellar space. High levels of radiation are very bad for life. We really don't want a planetary environment that is subject to that.

As well as having moderate seasons because the planet has a moderate tilt like Earth (so we don't get too many extreme seasons), it would also be very important the planet is not in an eccentric orbit. Now the orbit of the Earth around the Sun is roughly a circle. If you stretched it out too much you would have the issue that sometimes the planet would be very very cold, and potentially very hot. These extremes are not good for life. You want clement worlds. That means we need a circular orbits – at least for the kind of life we are familiar with to flourish.

North America as seen from spaceNasa

The other thing to think about is that although a very massive planet is probably not a good place for life, if you look at a planet like Jupiter it has a big retinue of moons so it's almost like a mini solar system. It is just possible that some of those moons, even in our own solar system like Europa, might host life in deep oceans under an icy crust. So we shouldn't be too worried if we don't find precisely Earth-like planets around other stars because there are other ways that life could get a foothold.

Of course the real problem we have is that the only example we have of life in the Universe – the only one we're aware of – is right here on Earth. Until we actually find life elsewhere in the universe, all of this is quite moot. It's very much a theoretical discussion. It's a discipline looking for extraterrestrial life so far with no data.

Having said that, if we did find it, it would probably rank as one of, if not the most exciting scientific discoveries of all time.

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The UFO jellyfish and the venus fly trap anemone: Stunning collection of strange sea creatures spotted in Samoa

• NOAA expedition captured footage of 'cosmic jellyfish' that looks like a UFO 
• Finds also include a Venus flytrap anemone and an ‘alien-looking’ hydroid
• Researchers also spotted a fish ‘out for a stroll,’ appearing to walk on the seafloor

By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com

Breathtaking new footage from the first dives of the NOAA’s 2017 American Samoa Expedition has revealed a glimpse into the alien world of the deep sea.

A ‘cosmic jellyfish’ caught on camera looks remarkably like a UFO, spreading its opposing tentacles out like a disc as it floats through the water in eerie stillness.

The researchers have also observed a number of other enthralling creatures, including a ‘sinister’ pink anemone that looks like Venus flytrap, an ‘alien-looking’ hydroid, and a fish ‘out for a stroll’ on the seafloor.

Breathtaking new footage from the first dives of the NOAA’s 2017 American Samoa Expedition has revealed a glimpse into the alien world of the deep sea. A ‘cosmic jellyfish’

(pictured) caught on camera looks remarkably like a UFO

THE EXPEDITION 

NOAA researchers kicked off the 2017 American Samoa Expedition earlier this month.

It will span from February to April, exploring the little-known deepwater areas in American Samoa and Samoa.

Researchers will focus on Rose Atoll Marine National Monument, National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa, and National Park of American Samoa.

Among the many priorities for the mission, it’s hoped that this will help scientists to identify and map vulnerable habitats – especially those with high density of deep-sea coral and sponge communities. 

It comes as part of the three-year Campaign to Address the Pacific monument Science, Technology, and Ocean Needs , which aims to explore Pacific marine monuments sanctuaries, ‘last relatively pristine marine ecosystems on the planet.'

The first cruise leg of the 2017 American Samoa Expedition kicked off on February 16th, beginning a mission that will last until April, allowing scientists to explore the mysterious deepwater areas in American Samoa and Samoa.

It’s been less than two weeks since the expedition started, but the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) has already imaged a slew of creatures that are out of this world.

One of the most spectacular lifeforms they’ve seen so far is the cosmic jellyfish, spotted during the first dive on Utu seamount.

In the video, the glowing jellyfish is completely rigid as it appears to hover in the water, before taking on an entirely different form as it undulates to move away.

Then, like a UFO in the sky, it suddenly zips out of sight.

‘It has two sets of tentacles, some facing up and some facing down,’ the researchers explain in the footage.

NOAA finds bizarre looking deep-sea jellyfish with odd tentacles

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One of the most spectacular lifeforms they’ve seen so far is the cosmic jellyfish, spotted during the first dive on Utu seamount. In the video, the glowing jellyfish is completely rigid as it appears to hover in the water, before taking on an entirely different form as it undulates

‘You can see the yellow, likely reproductive organs. 

'In the center is the digestive system, with the mouth in red. It’s really amazing to see.’

The footage also reveals a stunning pink creature known as the Venus flytrap anemone.

Perched atop a dead coral – like a stem – it sits waiting with its mouth open, displaying an array of spike-like tentacles.

But, when the ROV approaches, the mouth closes up.

‘These are really beautiful creatures,’ the researchers say in the footage. ‘The tentacles of this anemone have stinging cells that have microscopic harpoons that inject venom'

This incredible sea anemone looks just like a Venus fly trap

These are really beautiful creatures,’ the researchers say in the footage.

‘The tentacles of this anemone have stinging cells that have microscopic harpoons that inject venom.

‘It can also use them just to grab and hold onto prey.’

At the Leoso seamount, on the boundary between the American Samoa Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the Cook Islands EEZ, the researchers spotted another bizarre specimen.

A lone hydroid sitting at a depth of roughly 3,770 meters appeared to dance on the seafloor, with countless tentacles covering its strangely shaped body.

Researchers find 'very alien-looking' hydroid under American Samoa

Hydroids are closely related to most jellyfishes, the researchers explain.

Its bottom portion blooms out with a full skirt of tentacles, and another group of tentacles surrounds its mouth. 

‘You can see the structures are very intricate and unusual,’ the researchers comment in the footage.

‘These are very alien looking lifeforms that we find in the deep sea.’

The team also spotted a fish that’s equipped with tiny leg-like structures that allow it to walk across the seafloor.

Hydroids are closely related to most jellyfishes, the researchers explain. Its bottom portion blooms out with a full skirt of tentacles, and another group of tentacles surrounds its mouth

The researchers observed a number of other enthralling creatures, including a ‘sinister’ pink anemone that looks like Venus flytrap, an ‘alien-looking’ hydroid, and a fish ‘out for a stroll’ on the seafloor (pictured). The fish has thickened rays that act like 'little thin legs'

The ROV captured footage of the strange armored searobin scuttling the bottom during a dive within the Ta'u Unit of National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa.

Thickened rays at the front part of its pectoral fin – the fan-shaped feature at its side – act like ‘little thin legs’ so the fish can hunt for small invertebrate prey.

The exploratory dives have so far yielded remarkable findings, revealing the stunning creatures that live thousands of meters beneath the sea.

The expedition will continue on over the next two months, collecting information on this little-known region. 

This crab-like creature is actually a fish with leg-like fins

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Jellyfish that looks like a flying saucer spotted in the Pacific

Audrey Browning

As if jellyfish didn't already resemble aliens.

Screengrab via the NOAA's Okeanos Explorer (Public Domain)

Some scientists have already theorized that space aliens could look like jellyfish, but maybe it's actually the other way around. 

A team of marine biologists from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration captured footage of a jellyfish called the rhopalonematid trachymedusa, which looks like a flying saucer.

Cosmic Jellyfish NOAA

The Office of Ocean Exploration and Research’s project, called Okeanos Explorer, aims to gather environmental knowledge and discover the undiscovered from exploring the ocean. According to the team’s website, the office is the only federal department exploring the unknown parts of the deep sea.

A dive to “Utu,” a previously unexplored seamount of the American Samoa Exclusive Economic Zone, on Feb. 21 explored a volcanic crater. Starting at more than 3,000 meters below the surface, researchers were able to capture shots of many fantastic deep-sea creatures, including the UFO jellyfish.

As scientists state in the project's video, the translucent outer skin allows us to view their yellow reproductive organs and red digestive system. The team also points out the jellyfish has two sets of tentacles—a set facing upward and a set facing downward—but the purpose of this isn’t currently known.

According to Gizmodo, the team is using a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to capture their explorations of the depths. This specific find, in the South Pacific, comes from protected waters and is home to a very diverse population of marine life.

H/T Gizmodo

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Aliens on the SUN? NASA to launch spacecraft looking for extraterrestrials on surface

NASA are launching their first ever mission to fly to the Sun to look for alien life.

By Jamie Micklethwaite

JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY

“We can't get to the very surface of the sun, but the mission will get close enough to answer important questions”

Eric Christian

Great strides have been made in the search for extraterrestrial life, with a new solar system similar to Earth sparking hope for extraterrestrial contact.

But aliens may also be on our doorstep, and live in a much hotter climate.

Space boffins are planning to launch the Solar Probe Plus, which will travel most of the 93 million miles to the sun.

NASA research scientist Eric Christian said: "This is going to be our first mission to fly to the sun.

"We can't get to the very surface of the sun, but the mission will get close enough to answer important questions."

As well as the search for aliens, NASA are hoping to get to grips with the speed of solar wind and high energy particle beams emitted from our star in the 2018 mission.

Experts want to analyse how solar wind gets its speed, and why the sun fires particle beams, which are a danger to astronauts and spacecraft.

Mr Christian added: "The sun blows a stream of charged particles in all directions at a million miles an hour.

"But we don't understand how that gets accelerated."

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Due to the surface of the blazing inferno, no spaceship can safely land on the surface, but the Solar Plus will get within 4 million miles of the Sun.

To deal with the searing heat even at that distance, the spaceship will have to be fitted with a 4.5 inch thick carbon shield and a number of other safety measures.

The spacecraft will be unmanned, but NASA hope to develop a spacecraft capable of transporting a human to the same distance.

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I Went to the International UFO Congress to Learn the Truth About the Phoenix Lights

DANIEL OBERHAUS

 

20 years ago, dozens of people in Phoenix, Arizona experienced something… out of this world.

The mountaintop and what occurs there has played a central role in the mythologies of civilizations gone by, and these stories speak volumes about how the people telling them interpreted the world around them. The Ancient Greeks had Olympus, which was believed to host a pantheon populated by immortals. Jews and Christians have Mount Sinai, which they believe Moses ascended to receive the Ten Commandments. And Phoenix, Arizona has the Sierra Estrella—a mountain range that many Phoenicians believe is presided over by UFOs.

The story begins on March 13, 1997, when thousands of Arizonans from all across the state reported seeing strange lights in sky. It remains one of the largest UFO sightings ever, but the details of the Phoenix Lights story ultimately depends on who is telling it—some contend that it was actually a composite of two separate events occurring simultaneously over Arizona, and there is little consensus as to whether these lights were extraterrestrial in origin.

As a longtime resident of Phoenix and UFO agnostic, I've heard the story of the Phoenix Lights retold countless times, each retelling rife with contradictions and inconsistencies. So, tired of the hearsay, I decided to visit the International UFO Congress to see if I could discover the truth about one of history's most infamous UFO sightings.  

Image: Daniel Oberhaus/Motherboard

Each year, hundreds of people gather in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains outside of Phoenix, Arizona for the International UFO Congress. Presided over by Alejandro Rojas, an Arizona real-estate agent and the guy behind the online UFO hub OpenMinds , the congress has been going strong since it first started in 1991. The highlight of this year's congress was a panel of Phoenix Lights eyewitnesses who wanted to share new developments in the Phoenix Lights story on its 20th anniversary.

Among these witnesses was Lynne Kitei, a Phoenix area physician and perhaps the closest that anyone could come to being an expert on what occurred that March evening 20 years ago. She has written a book and produced a full-length documentary on the subject and also maintains the Phoenix Lights Network, a hub for people to meet up and discuss the phenomenon.

"I put my medical career on hold for four years afterwards to investigate the Phoenix lights and have dedicated my life for 20 years just to get information out there," Kitei told me at the congress. "Let me tell you, a day does not pass by that I don't get an email from somebody that saw a similar phenomenon."

The phenomenon in question began at approximately 7pm on the night of March 13, 1997 when people in northwestern Arizona reported seeing a massive craft pass overhead. According to the National UFO Reporting Center, one of the few organizations that bothered to keep an official record of Phoenix lights sightings, the first call it received on its UFO Hotline that night came from a retired police officer in Paulden, Arizona, a small town about 2 hours north of Phoenix. The man reported seeing a cluster of red-orange lights arranged in a V-formation.

According to the write up of the event, after the initial report, calls began "pouring into the Hotline" from locations south of Paulden, indicating that the craft was heading in a southeasterly direction. While some of the specifics from these reports were slightly different, as USA Today would report a few months after the fact, the reports were united by several key observations, namely: the craft was enormous (witnesses described it as a mile wide), it made no sound, and moved slowly over Arizona, often times stopping to hover in a single location.

Lynne Kitei signing books at the UFO Congress. Image: Daniel Oberhaus/Motherboard

According to USA Today, the craft traversed Arizona in 106 minutes based on witness reports. Interestingly, however, a second incident that same night occurred around 10pm Arizona time, about an hour after the last reports of the large V-shaped craft had come in from the southern portion of the state. This event, which is the subject of the few Phoenix lights photos that exist, consisted of an arc of blinking orbs that moved slowly over Phoenix before promptly disappearing as soon as they reached the Estrella mountain range southwest of the city.  

One of the most remarkable things about the Phoenix lights is how many people witnessed them. The reason for this, Kitei told me, was that many Arizonans were outside stargazing that night to observe Hale-Bopp, an unusually bright comet that was approaching its closest pass to the Sun on April 1. Interestingly, Hale-Bopp was also believed to have an extraterrestrial craft in tow by members of the Heaven's Gate UFO cult in California, which led 39 members to commit suicide just 11 days after the Phoenix lights sighting in Arizona, although the two incidents are unrelated.

In any case, despite the number of people who reported witnessing the lights pass overhead, there was no official acknowledgement of the event and no media coverage until USA Today picked up the story that June.

2017 International UFO Congress. Image: Daniel Oberhaus/Motherboard

The USA Today report brought international attention to the Phoenix lights phenomenon, and people began demanding answers. The most obvious explanation for the lights was that they were the result of military exercises being conducted in the area, which isn't so farfetched considering that Phoenix has two air force bases near the city. Indeed, subsequent reports in local newspapers such as The Arizona Republic and Phoenix New Times began stacking up the evidence that the Phoenix lights were just a military training exercise.

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According to the New Times, three months after the lights, a local television reporter filmed a flare drop by military planes at an Air Force gunnery range south of Phoenix, and the resulting footage "looked remarkably like the 10pm lights of March 13." Moreover, days after that report the Tucson Weekly reported that the Maryland Air National Guard had been in Arizona for winter training and had dropped flares from a few A-10 fighter planes at the gunnery behind the Estrella mountain range. While this may have accounted for the second event of the night, a spokesperson for the National Guard had said that the planes never went north of Phoenix, so the initial sightings remained unaccounted for.

"We know that that same night there was a whole bank of illumination flares put up by the Air Force over the Barry Goldwater test range," Jim Mann, director of the Arizona Mutual UFO Network, told me. "A lot of people say the Phoenix lights aren't real, that they're just military flares, but a lot of research has led us to realize that the Phoenix lights were just a small portion of this huge UFO event."

Jim Mann, director of the Arizona Mutual UFO Network. Image: Daniel Oberhaus/Motherboard

Indeed, many shared Mann's skepticism that the Phoenix lights were reducible to military flares. Aside from the reports that came from the far north of the Arizona, independent analyses of footage of the Phoenix lights were performed by videographers working at a special effects company in Phoenix, as well as Paul Scowen, a professor of astronomy at Arizona State University who also independently analyzed video footage of the lights and found that they disappeared as soon as they hit the Estrella mountain range.

Still, the incident was dismissed as fantasy. Shortly after the front page USA Today story that brought international attention to the event, the incumbent governor of Arizona, Fife Symington, held a press conference during which he claimed to have "found who was responsible" for the lights. During the conference, Symington trotted out someone dressed in an alien costume with their hands cuffed.

"They made a mockery of the whole thing and it was really disconcerting," said Kitei. "They were trying to make a joke out of it, but people were taking this seriously. They wanted to know what these things were and who was doing it."

Although Symington made light of the sightings at the time, on the 10th anniversary of the event, he claimed that he had in fact witnessed the phenomenon in 1997.

"I'm a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies," Symington said. "It was bigger than anything that I've ever seen. Other people saw it, responsible people. I don't know why people would ridicule it."

Ultimately, the story of the Phoenix lights blurs the line between delusion and reality, so it seems these UFO-observers must find equilibrium in a profound and righteous paranoia. In some ways, it is a matter of indifference whether it turned out the military behind the lights or it was the work of extraterrestrial beings—either way it is confirmation of a vast web of either military or extraterrestrial power that is hidden from sight, as well as the lies and omissions it requires to stay hidden. But despite all the ufologists who want to believe that the Phoenix lights were other worldly, many remain skeptical about the origin of the craft.

"I think it's a little premature to say it was an alien ship," said Mann. "This is a mystery. Something happened, we don't know what it was, we just know that it happened."

When the astronomer Josef Allen Hynek was enlisted by the US Air Force to conduct a number of studies on UFOs in the 1940s and 50s, he found that from the hundreds of reported sightings, only a couple of dozen seemed to lack a scientific explanation. This is what makes the Phoenix lights such a unique UFO case—to this day, it remains an unresolved phenomenon, one that was witnessed by hundreds, if not thousands, of people, many of whom had never taken UFOs seriously before that spring night in 1997.

In any case, when it comes to the Phoenix lights, conspiracy is to be found at every turn. Indeed, after my visit to the UFO Congress, the only thing I knew for sure was that the stories that create and define the UFO phenomenon were united by one detail: they are told by people who are inclined to look up.

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UFOs: The Myth That Won’t Die?

by DAVID MACARAY

“Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.”

Ancient Egyptian Papyrus reveals extraterrestrials visited Egypt in the past

It is believed that the Tulli Papyrus is the best evidence of ancient flying saucers in the distant past, and for some reason, historians have questioned its authenticity and meaning. Like many other ancient texts, this ancient document tells an incredible story, one that could change the way we look at our past, our future and present.

It is believed that this ancient document, which in fact isn’t a papyrus actually, offers the earliest citation of flying saucers on the planet. The Tulli “papyrus” is a translation of a modern transcription of an ancient Egyptian document.

According to this ancient text, the Pharaoh that ruled over Egypt was Thutmose III, and this mass UFO sightings happened around 1480 BC. It was recorded in history as a day of great importance, a day that something unexplainable occurred.

Before going any further into the subject, here is the translation of the text according to R. Cedric Leonard:

“In the year 22, of the third month of winter, sixth hour of the day […] among the scribes of the House of Life it was found that a strange Fiery Disk was coming in the sky. It had no head. The breath of its mouth emitted a foul odor. Its body was one rod in length and one rod in width. It had no voice. It came toward His Majesty’s house. Their heart became confused through it, and they fell upon their bellies. They [went] to the king, to report it. His Majesty [ordered that] the scrolls [located] in the House of Life be consulted. His Majesty meditated on all these events which were now going on.

After several days had passed, they became more numerous in the sky than ever. They shined in the sky more than the brightness of the sun, and extended to the limits of the four supports of heaven […] Powerful was the position of the Fiery Disks.

The army of the King looked on, with His Majesty in their midst. It was after the evening meal when the Disks ascended even higher in the sky to the south. Fish and other volatiles rained down from the sky: a marvel never before known since the foundation of the country. And His Majesty caused incense to be brought to appease the heart of Amun-Re, the god of the Two Lands. And it was [ordered] that the event [be recorded for] His Majesty in the Annals of the House of Life [to be remembered] for ever.”

This incredible and historical event was described as being silent, but with incredible views of mysterious flying disks highly reflective, shining like the sun. According to this ancient text, the departure of the otherworldly visitors was marked by a mysterious event, as fish rained down from the heaven.

Even though this ancient text does not mention whether the ancient Egyptians did in fact establish contact with the otherworldly visitors, it is nonetheless a very important day in history, both for humanity and the ancient Egyptian Civilization.

It is important to mention that it is very unlikely that the ancient Egyptians misinterpreted these “fiery disks” with some sort of astronomical or weather phenomena. The Ancient Egyptians were experienced and gifted astronomers, and by the year 1500 B.C., they were already experts in the field, meaning that they would have described an astronomical phenomena in a much different way. Also, in this ancient documents, the “fiery disks” are described as they changed directions in the sky, so we know that these objects didn’t fall, but remained in the Egyptian Sky.

To understand this ancient story and its history, the ancient text would need to be studied, regrettably, today, the original papyrus is gone. Researcher Samuel Rosenberg requested from the Vatican Museum an opportunity to examine this precious document to what he got the following reply: ” The Papyrus Tulli not property of Vatican Museum. Now it is dispersed and no more traceable.”

Is it possible that the Tulli Papyrus is in fact located in the archives of the Vatican Museum? Hidden on purpose from the people? If so, why?

Is it possible that this is one of the best recorded ancient UFO encounters in history? And if so, is it possible that these otherworldly visitors influenced the ancient Egyptian civilization as Ancient Astronaut theorists believe?

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Watch: Eerie footage of 'UFO' flying over Dublin suburb

The video was recorded by a Dublin Live reader

BY JOHN PATRICK-KIERANS

This video shows eerie footage of what some people are claiming to be a UFO flying over Leopardstown in Dublin this evening.

The video was recorded by a Dublin Live reader, who did not want to be named, but said he saw a green light flying over Leopardstown.

He said: "I was driving home and at Leopardstown I saw this bright light flying over me.

"I thought nothing of it but when I got home my Italian students who are staying with me told me they had seen a light flying beside Bray Head and they recorded it."

Despite claims it's an alien spacecraft, our reader added: "It's probably just a drone, but it does look very strange."

The Irish Aviation Authority were unavailable for a comment on Sunday.

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Whatever happened to ... UFO sightings

 Paul Wood

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Whatever happened to UFO sightings in Champaign?

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That flying saucer parked just south of Champaign? Sorry, that's the State Farm Center. But the Foo Fighters, who took their name from what Air Force pilots in World War II called UFOs, did play there in 2000 and 2005.

The big boom for UFO spottings started in 1947, said Mark Rodeghier, the director of the Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies in Chicago. There were many reports during the 1950s and 1960s, with some going back in Illinois to 1897.

Rodeghier, who said he's skeptical of many reports, has advanced degrees from the University of Illinois-Chicago. He started studying UFO events in college in the 1970s.

The sightings have changed in many ways, he said.

"Years ago, we had reports of objects looking like disks. That's much less common now. Reports have tended to come in on triangle-shaped objects since the 1980s," Rodeghier said.

"I can't tell you why there is this change to a triangle spottings. You don't hear of many flying squares, since they're not aerodynamic."

Also, abduction cases have declined somewhat, he said.

"People report lots of weird things that have happened to them: sleep paralysis, hidden trauma, dissociation," Rodeghier said.

"Just because things are unexplained does not mean they are caused by aliens."

Some of these feelings were so vague because "for many years people had experiences, but nothing to organize their thoughts around."

Then came books and movies about alien abductions.

"When abduction reports became prominent, people said, 'I literally didn't know what happened until I read this book.' It gave them an idea," Rodeghier said.

The News-Gazette hasn't reported on alien abductions, but the files are rich with stories of flying objects — sometimes with credible witnesses, as when Champaign police officers Richard Van Etta and John Hall both reported seeing lights hovering, in 1967.

They took a sceptical approach, guessing it was the moon — only to spot the moon in another part of the sky. Their reports were independently added to those from throughout Champaign that night.

Staerkel Planetarium Director David Leake said the night skies are full of lights.

"I talked several times with a lady who said a light was following her, but it was always right after sunset," he said.

"We assumed it was Venus, which is the third-brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon. When Venus passed between the sun and the Earth and ventured into the morning sky, the reports stopped."

He also viewed a "throbbing light" that someone captured on video.

"To me, it was pretty obvious that the point of light they were shooting was bright, but given it was dark around it, the camera's auto-focus was going back and forth trying to get a proper focus, hence the 'throbbing' light," Leake said.

If you search the words Champaign and UFOs, what comes up the most is a 1997 video, which can be seen at sites including youtube.com/watch?v=FmHZSSOwxO8.

The low-tech video, which has audio of viewers shouting in amazement, purports to be a series of inexplicable lights moving north from the Town Center apartments near Market Place toward Rantoul.

An archive called ufosonearth.com posted a description of the video as "A fleet of mystery UFO lights." The site often debunks reports, but did not offer commentary on the 1997 incident.

Sam Maranto, the state director for the Illinois chapter of the Mutual UFO Network, has looked at the video but doesn't have a conclusion.

"It is interesting, but I can't find anything more about it," he said.

Some video commenters argued that they were probably planes headed to Chanute Air Force Base, while others noted that even before the base closed in 1993, the runways had long been shut down.

Maranto and Rodeghier stress the level of research in their work; both organizations build databases from the sightings.

"We're not a bunch of crazies," Maranto said. "This is a scientific study."

He said he didn't go out looking to be in the unusual field.

"This interest found me. I had my first sighting in 1959, in the Fox Lake area, and it scared the bejeebers out of me," he said of the childhood sighting.

Robert Idleman saw something in 1969 — and lived to tell about it

1969 saw a Close Encounter of The Weird Kind.

A witness, Robert Idleman of Champaign, remembers the 1969 event as summer shocker, weeks before the first moon landing on July 20.

Many people saw the UFO, including a deputy sheriff on graduation night 1969, Idleman said:

Near Mahomet, "there were four of us. It was very dark. We noticed a blip in the sky, pulsating. We had the nervous Nelly of our group who freaked out saying it was a UFO. We laughed, but in watching it, it actually came closer," Idleman said.

"In one instance, it was blipping far away. Next it was blipping closer. We got out of there fast."

No beer was involved in this incident, he hastened to add.

Near some Mahomet gravel pits, the UFO returned, Idleman says.

"Again it was almost instantaneous. The thing was again right over us. We went about 90 (mph) to Champaign, hearts pounding. As we approached a farm (near First Street), we saw the thing again moving to the south. As soon as it left, the electricity came on at the farmstead."

Idleman said the UFO spotting was near the end of an era of multiple sightings:

"This was a good area for the UFO during the '50s. But by 1969, it had calmed. Anybody that would admit it was nuts. Especially long-haired ne'er do wells" like himself at the time.

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UFO sightings have reached an all-time high

By: Emily Drooby, Buzz60

Statistician and PhD candidate Sam Monfort compiled all of the data from the National UFO Reporting Centre and found that more people than ever have spotted UFO's in the recent years.

The number, which has been rising since the 1980's, hit an all-time high in 2010 with about 45,000 yearly sightings.

Sightings between 1990 and 2000 rose dramatically by nearly 30 thousand yearly sightings.

The data also shows that USA has the most sighting by far at almost 300 times greater than the global median.

But these sighting are no longer all about the UFO's. Instead, according to Monfort, lights are now the most popular way these sightings take form with a saucer 'flying' into second place.

Now that NASA has found seven Earth-size planets that could actually have alien life, these sightings could possibly increase.

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PERMANENT STRUCTURE DISCOVERED ON VENUS – UFO HUNTERS CLAIM IT’S ALIEN-MADE

Underneath Venus’ acid clouds, UFO hunters claim, rests a permanent structure that seems to suggest the planet was not only visited in the distant past – it was deemed secure enough to house massive outposts!

 

Today, Venus is a hellhole. Although its size and composition has earned it the nickname of Earth’s Sister, the reality is you wouldn’t last 3 seconds on its surface. Calling Venus’ climate unpleasant would be a gross understatement.

 

With surface temperatures high enough to melt lead and an atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than what we have here, Venus would be near the bottom on your list of exotic vacation spots. Come for the thrills, stay for the sulphuric acid rains! Just to drive the point home, the longest a man-made probe’s ever survived on its surface was a little over two hours. The Soviet Venera 13 landed, took a few photos and measurements and then succumbed to the infernal conditions.

 

 

But, astronomers determined, Venus wasn’t always this way. Like Mars, it is almost certain at one point in the distant past, Venus had a much lighter atmosphere and oceans of liquid water on its surface. It got the way it is today because of global volcanic eruptions and a runaway greenhouse effect. As CO2 and other greenhouse gasses accumulated in the atmosphere, temperatures rose, water turned to steam and the planet’s habitability index dropped below the threshold.

 

Recently, alien hunters have spotted an enormous, apparently stationary structure underneath Venus’ thick layer of acid clouds. Responsible for the discovery is Tyler Glockner, self-entitled conveyor of the “exposure of the alien phenomenon.”

 

The video he uploaded to YouTube shows what looks like an enormous curving band that stretches along a portion of the planet’s circumference.

 

SCIENTISTS HAVE YET TO EVER SEE SOMETHING AS MASSIVE AS WHAT IS BEING DEPICTED HERE ON VENUS.”

 

Glockner added: “Maybe this is something else all together. Some sort of massive structure hidden in the clouds. Or possibly a grouping of something. All coming together to form this giant band. […]”

 

“You always hear about Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto but you really don’t hear about Venus. Maybe there’s something about this planet they don’t want us to know.”

 

The scientific community was quick to dismiss Glockner’s hypothesis because caution saved the scientist’s career. If prominent figures suddenly started backing every outrageous claim involving aliens, their credibility would drop lower than Venus’ real estate value.

 

Their explanation for the unusual band on the planet is gravity waves. Not to be confused with gravitational waves (ripples in space-time), gravity waves form when there is a difference in the atmospheric pressure of two neighboring regions. Think of clouds going over a mountain and you’ve got a pretty good picture.

 

“Gravity waves are an atmospheric phenomenon we often see in mountainous parts of Earth’s surface. Crudely speaking, they form when air ripples over bumpy surfaces,” French astrophysicist and atmospheric climate expert Jean-Loup Bertaux told Fox News. “The waves propagate upwards and grow larger and larger until they break below the cloud top and forms a wave,” he added.

 

If there’s one thing Venus is known for, it has to be strange cloud formations. So while gravity waves could potentially account for the weird structure, there is no proof it was actually caused by a mountain.

 

The planet’s strange history parallels our present and its present might foretell ours. Mankind sent only a handful of probes to Venus’ surface and to be completely honest, our knowledge of our next door neighbor is superficial. Taking this into consideration, it would be unwise to claim there are no alien relics on Venus. Until we succeed in mapping its surface (and we might never get to), there is plenty of room for sensible speculation. 

 

 

At the end of the day, Glockner remains convinced what he saw on Venus is proof of ancient (or even present) alien habitation. He says gravity waves only last for a few days before dissipating. On the other hand, the strange band has been there for a while and shows no signs of disappearing anytime soon.

 

 

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Mansch On Montana: UFO sighting still resonates

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It’s been nearly 50 years since Robert Salas was a young missileer stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base and, on a mid-March night in a silo near Roy, became an unwitting witness to history.

Awake and alert underground in the early morning while his commander rested in a two-person compartment where men manage missiles, Robert was alerted by security guards up top.

“They told me about strange lights in the sky,” Robert says. “I thought they were pulling my leg.”

About 10 minutes later the phone rang again.

“This time he was clearly frightened, extremely frightened,” Robert says. “He was looking right at the thing, a glowing red object, oval-shaped and some 40 feet in diameter, and it was hovering above the front gate.”

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It was March 1967. When the Montana missiles malfunctioned.

Salas has written two books about this: “Faded Giant” and “Unidentified, The UFO Phenomenon.”

He considers them nonfiction to be sure.

THERE WERE TWO strange incidents just days apart nearly 50 years ago when missiles in the midst of Montana were rendered temporarily inoperable. Robert, who came to Great Falls in 1966 after graduating from the Air Force Academy, was there on one of the harrowing nights.

It’s called the Oscar Flight, in reference to the name of the site.

“I was shocked,” he says.

And what happened the next day, he says, was even more stunning.

He was asked – basically ordered, he says - by commanders to sign a non-disclosure document in which he pledged to never talk about the incident.

“That haunted me,” Robert says. “It haunted me for a long, long time.”

Because, he says, the truth is this:

“It was an unidentified flying object that nobody could explain. To this day,” he says. “The Air Force investigated this secretly, I believe through 1972. I think this thing was not of this earth. I’m convinced it was not built here, because it was able to send signals to each of our missiles separately. The guidance and control equipment was upset in each one.”

ROBERT UNDERSTANDS people are skeptical about UFOs. But undeniably there is a history of such sightings in Montana, particularly in this part of the state.

In 1950 there was an incident reported at the Great Falls ballpark that’s been the subject of many studies. Hence the ballclub is now called the “Voyagers,” the mascot of which is a warm and funny creature that makes people of all ages smile.

Not that Robert considers his work any laughing matter.

“This,” he says, “is a real phenomenon. It’s not science fiction. The public and public media has kept it pretty much in the laugh track of reporting. It hasn’t been taken seriously. But I’ve got a lot of evidence that shows it truly did happen. And also involving the Air Force investigation and basically the whitewashing of the whole thing.”

He says the decision to remain silent bothered him for decades, for the rest of his military service and subsequent working career in the public sector. Then one day in 1994 he came across a book by Timothy Good called “Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up,” and about 300 pages in discovered a paragraph stating that UFOs were involved in a missile shutdown in 1967.

That’s the night he was on duty. The Air Force had declassified the information.

Since then, Robert has been on a mission.

“Ever since I’ve been committed to revealing the reality of this phenomenon,” Robert says. “This is something the public needs to know and believe in. The public needs to know that it’s true and that there has been an ongoing cover-up. That’s why I’m committed.”

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LIVING NOW IN California, Robert is still an active investigator. He says UFO sightings have occurred many times in the last 50 years, including a 2010 incident at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyo., when 50 Minuteman nuclear missiles mysteriously malfunctioned.

“The Air Force,” Robert says, “is in denial.”

But why?

“Well, I can tell you a couple reasons,” he says. “No. 1 these objects can do some pretty fantastic things and it would have military applications if they were able to recover an object and deconstruct it. They consider the technology they’ve gleaned from them (very significant), and I’m confident they’ve recovered many of these items.

“Another issue is that it’s an international cover-up. UFO incidents been going on for many, many years, and there must be an international group, in intelligence, obtaining this information and sharing it. The other aspect of why they keep it a secret is because it’s political capital between nations.”

Robert resigned his Air Force commission in 1971 because, he says, “Vietnam got too much for me to stomach.”

That’s not to suggest he isn’t patriotic.

“I consider myself a patriot,” he says. “Even though I’m convinced there are cover-ups going on that the public needs to know about. I think a good patriot is someone who influences people’s right to know.”

MANY BELIEVE, of course, in heaven and hell. In angels and spirits. And in an afterlife. So perhaps it is naïve for people to be convinced there could not be life among the stars and beyond?

And maybe, just maybe somebody was trying to tell us something by shutting down those missiles in 1967. A statement against war, perhaps.

“Exactly,” Robert says. “I think this was a message, just a message. Because they did not damage the equipment. It wasn’t like they destroyed the weapons. It was just a weapon. I believe we have got to get rid of nuclear weapons because they’re so dangerous.”

Of course in the present political climate this is very much an issue.

“We’re starting another nuclear arms race,” says Robert, referring to his perception of the new administration in Washington.

WE LIVE IN SUCH PRISTINE country, the middle of Montana, where one envisions the landscape unaltered for centuries.

That is, until the fenced missile silo facilities are noticed.

President John F. Kennedy is said to have famously referred to the Malmstrom missiles as the country’s “Ace in the Hole.”

Roberts laughs.

“Well, at the time we considered the communist countries a threat to us,” he says. “But times change.”

ROBERT HASN’T BEEN back to Great Falls for five or six years. To think that 50 years has passed since the incident that changed his life, he says, is sobering. Talk about unsolved mysteries.

“I’ve been making video clips and will publish them on YouTube,” he says. “I guess that’s the way I’ll celebrate this 50-year anniversary.”

His website, http://spiralgalaxy.org/wordpress/myevidence/, details much of the evidence he’s accumulated.

What would Robert say to folks who continue to scoff at his conclusions?

“I’d say they should do their homework before making such statements,” Robert says. “Not only myself, but multiple Air Force officers have come forward talking about similar incidents. So it’s not just me talking about this.

“There is good evidence and plenty of documents and testimony that support the phenomenon.”

Northern lights appear regularly in our part of the world. And some 50 years ago men from Malmstrom were witnesses to lights not necessarily out of the north that, Robert Salas believes, were not of this world.

The takeaway, Robert Salas believes, is this:

Perhaps we all should be mindful we’re not alone.

“Exactly,” Robert says. “That’s exactly right.”

Mansch On Montana, dedicated to personalities and places that make living in the Treasure State so interesting, appears Mondays in the Tribune. Scott Mansch can be reached at 791-1481 or smansch@greatfallstribune.com

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Aanwijzingen voor bestaan van dubbelganger 'Star Wars'-planeet Tatooine - HLN.be

 Bron: Belga

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Wetenschappers hebben voor het eerst aanwijzingen voor de aanwezigheid een gesteenteplaneet in een binair stersysteem gevonden, zo staat vandaag te lezen in het vakblad Nature Astronomy.

Binaire zonnestelsels, zoals in Star 'Wars', zijn geen zeldzaamheid. Dat ze een planeet herbergen ook al niet. Maar het ging tot nu toe om koude en gasachtige planeten zoals "onze" Jupiter.

Binair systeem SDSS 1557 op ongeveer 1000 lichtjaar van ons lijkt evenwel anders te zijn. Voor het eerst zijn er immers in een tweezonnenstelsel brokstukken van asteroïden gevonden, legt Steven Parsons van de Universiteit van Valparaiso uit. Indien brokstukken zich groeperen in een grote gordel is dit een teken dat er daar planeten ontstaan, zelfs al zijn die onmogelijk te zien.

Planeten vormen zich immers door het aaneenklitten van gesteente-achtige objecten als asteroïden en meteorieten.

Jay Farihi van het University College in Londen is er zodoende naar eigen zeggen zeker van dat er zich in SDSS 1557 een gesteenteplaneet heeft gevormd. Al is dit, gezien de effecten van de gravitatie van de twee sterren, een gecompliceerd proces dat voorheen als onmogelijk werd geacht.

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ZO ZAL FIRST CONTACT ER UIT GAAN ZIEN ( VIDEO )

Naast de vele verhalen over een mogelijke nep buitenaardse invasie zijn er natuurlijk ook nog de echte buitenaardsen. 

En wanneer er voor het eerst formeel contact gemaakt gaat worden, hoe zal dit er dan uit zien?

De overgrote meerderheid van de aardse bevolking heeft nog nooit contact gehad met buitenaardsen en heeft dan ook geen flauw idee wat ze zich daar bij moeten voorstellen. 

Iemand die dat wel heeft, is Darryl Anka. In de jaren '70 heeft hij een zogenaamde close encounter gehad met buitenaardsen. 

Hoe dat in zijn werk ging en wat er uit resulteerde, het fungeren als kanaal voor de buitenaardse Bashar, is te zien en horen in de volgende korte video: 

 

De boodschappen van Bashar worden inmiddels door duizenden mensen wereldwijd gevolgd, omdat zij van mening zijn dat deze zoals die worden doorgegeven door Darryl Anka, echt zijn en zij daar veel van kunnen leren. 

Inmiddels is er een fascinerende documentaire gemaakt getiteld: First Contact. Een documentaire die de positieve gevolgen laat zien van buitenaards contact en vragen stelt zoals “Waarom zijn we hier?” en “Wat is het doel van ons bestaan?” en “Hoe past buitenaards contact in ons leven?” 

 

De film verkent niet alleen de potentiële positieve impact van ET contact voor onze samenleving, maar de-mystificeert kanaliseren, het middel dat Darryl gebruikt om te communiceren met het interdimensionale wezen. First Contact zal niet alleen kijkers verbazen met schokkende ooggetuigen en wetenschappelijk bewijs, maar de film zal ook verschillende vragen verkennen die we al millennia aan onszelf stellen: Waarom zijn we hier? Wat is het doel van het bestaan? Waar gaan we heen? 

Bashar antwoordt deze vragen door middel van kanaliseren en legt uit hoe het universum werkt en hoe elk persoon de realiteit creëert die zij ervaren, begeleid door state-of- the-art graphics. Sinds de afgelopen decennia, duizenden individuen over de hele wereld hebben geluisterd naar Bashar's berichten en hebben de kans gehad om dit toe te passen op de principes van hun leven om de realiteit te creëren die ze willen. 

Mensen die graag deze film willen zien, kunnen op 22 maart aanstaande terecht in Gorinchem. 

Op woensdag 22 maart vertoont Vue Gorinchem eenmalig de fascinerende docu-film First Contact. De voorstelling start om 19.00 uur. Daarna is er tijd & ruimte voor napraten in de bar van de bioscoop. Tickets zijn €9,50 en zijn te koop aan de kassa, via de telefoon (0183-631058) en online via de website.

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UFO Over Dublin, Ireland On Feb 26, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: February 26, 2017
Location of sighting: Dublin, Ireland
News Source: 

http://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/watch-eerie-footage-ufo-flying-12660438

Glowing orbs have been seen all around the world this week. It may be orb shaped due to the focus of the camera causing a distortion. The camera is a lower quality and its focus is poor. Had the quality been better, its shape may have been more disk shaped. 
Scott C. Waring

Dublin News states:
This video shows eerie footage of what some people are claiming to be a UFO flying over Leopardstown in Dublin this evening. The video was recorded by a Dublin Live reader, who did not want to be named, but said he saw a green light flying over Leopardstown. He said: "I was driving home and at Leopardstown I saw this bright light flying over me. "I thought nothing of it but when I got home my Italian students who are staying with me told me they had seen a light flying beside Bray Head and they recorded it." Despite claims it's an alien spacecraft, our reader added: "It's probably just a drone, but it does look very strange." The Irish Aviation Authority were unavailable for a comment on Sunday.

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Most remarkable UFO sightings in February 2017

1st February 2017; orbs – Ontario, Canada

11th February 2017; bright objects in the sky – Normandy, France

14th February 2017; UFO maneuvering – Charleroi in Belgium

19th February 2017; unidentified flying object – Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada

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Bizarre Video Seemingly Shows A Near Collision Between A UFO and Air Force Jet

A video that apparently shows a UFO nearly colliding with a jet created a buzz among UFO enthusiasts online. It was reportedly shot last Friday in Puerto Varas during a series of stunts by Chilean high aerobatics squad above a crowd.

Hundreds of people gathered on the ground to witness the Halcones Fach’s military planes aerial stunts. While one of the military aircraft zoomed upwards, a mysterious disc appeared out of nowhere.

Astonishingly, the video shows the UFO almost collide with the Air Force jet as it flashes across the sky.

After the bizarre event, some witnesses took to social media and online forums to share their UFO sightings near the plane during the military aerial demonstration.

The footage has been posted to YouTube and racked up thousands of views with many commenters speculating over the object’s identity.

While many believe it is a spaceship, others think it might have been a passing bird, a meteorite or another plane.

One person claims he saw the same UFO in the sky just recently.

Some commenters noticed that there were actually two UFOs appeared during the event.

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UFO Sighting Reports Hit Record High

Speculations on the existence of extraterrestrial life went high recently after NASA officially announced the discovery of a solar system with Earth-like planets. The TRAPPIST-1 is estimated to be 39 light years away, but finding aliens may not need going that far as they could be in our backyard.

UFO sighting reports are at an all-time high, according to Sam Monfort. The US Ph.D. student used the data from the National UFO Reporting Center to collate reported sightings of UFOs, which have sprung up significantly since the 1980s.

In his data visualization blog, he plotted yearly sightings from 1910 to 2010, where sightings top 45,000 around the world.

The details of UFO sighting reports have also changed over time.

One of the earliest accounts of UFO sightings took place in 1905 from Portland, where a sphere UFO descended from the clouds buzzing.

Claims from witnesses seeing other shapes started to pop up later, with saucers dominating in numbers until the 1990s as strange lights became the most famous.

The doctoral student of human factors and applied cognition in Virginia talks about a July 4th effect where sightings rise significantly after 2008 on the U.S. Independence Day, which could be attributed to fireworks lighting up the sky.

The George Mason University student also created a map of the globe with UFO sightings per ten million people. Areas in deep shade of red have over 25 sightings per 10 million people, and these include North America, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of Europe.

The vast majority of reported UFO sightings take place in the United States, which recorded around 2500 per 10 million people. The nation’s western states Washington and Montana, as well as northeastern states Maine and Vermont, are places in the country with most reported UFO sightings.

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UNKNOWN OBJECT PASSES SPACEX’S FALCON 9 ROCKET DURING LANDING

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King of the “Contactees”: The bizarre UFO saga of George Adamski.

 

Adamski claimed he went off alone and encountered a second ship, out of which clambered a golden-haired alien named Orthon. Supposedly from the planet Venus, Orthon came with a message of peace, warning Adamski of the dangers of nuclear war. After he got back in his ship and flew away Adamski and his friends said they took plaster casts of Orthon’s footprints–ostensibly to prove he was really there.

 

 

 

Adamski further claimed that he returned to the landing site a few weeks later, on December 13, 1952. As the Venusians’ ship descended to meet him, he took a photograph of it–the first clear picture ever of a flying saucer, which would eventually become easily the most famous photo of a UFO. The following year Adamski began publishing books about his experiences with the “space brothers.” In Flying Saucers Have Landed, published in 1953, and Inside the Space Ships, published in 1955, Adamski waxed eloquent about the fabulous civilization of the Venusians, who wanted to bring peace to Earth. Jesus Christ, according to Orthon, was one of these emissaries. When they wanted to, the Venusians could pass as humans, and Adamski said he met some of them in various Southern California bars.

 

As pop culture material, flying saucers were big in the early 1950s. Sightings of “unidentified flying objects” went viral in the years after World War II, and with grandiose claims being made by government and private industry about technological progress, they did not seem so far-fetched. There was also a great deal of anxiety about nuclear warfare and nuclear weapons. The bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, the badly-botched Bikini Atoll tests the next year, and the USSR’s acquisition of the bomb in 1949 deeply affected the psyche of Americans. The mix of these two elements–fascination and fear–made Adamski’s message of peace, demanded by extraterrestrial visitors, essentially go viral. Adamski’s books were best-sellers and suddenly people all over America, and some in Britain, were coming forward claiming that they too had been “contacted” by Venusians and other races of aliens.

 

 

There were a number of problems with Adamski’s claims. For one thing, Venus, where he said was the “space brothers’” home planet, in reality was totally inhospitable to any life, much less life that resembled Earthlings closely enough to go to bars in Southern California. The temperature on Venus is hot enough to melt lead and its carbon-dioxide atmosphere was full of sulfuric acid rain. This was not unknown to scientists in 1954 even though it would be several more years before space probes reached the planet. Furthermore, his “proof” was pretty shaky. A photographic expert examined the December 1952 photo and said it wasn’t a flying saucer at all. It was a streetlight. Its exposed “landing gear” was actually light bulbs. Even Adamski’s own witnesses–the people who had been with him for various sightings–told contradictory stories. In short, Adamski made up the whole thing.

 

That Adamski was a fraud was evident just by looking a bit into his background. A drifter who supported himself in the early years mostly by manual labor–though he was in the Army during World War I–Adamski got into the occult in California in the 1920s, forming something called the Royal Order of Tibet. Aside from whatever dubious spiritual benefits the Order conferred, it also afforded him an opportunity to make wine. This was during Prohibition, and one of the few exemptions was for religious orders that used wine for sacramental purposes. The Royal Order of Tibet was very small, but it wound up making a lot of wine–enough, conveniently, to provide Adamski a profitable business. This business ended when Prohibition was repealed in 1933. At that point, according to one witness, Adamski said that he had to get into “the flying saucer crap.” Also, it turned out his accounts of journeys through the solar system with the Venusians were eerily similar to a science fiction novel that was ghost-written for him in 1949, three years before he claimed he ever met Orthon.

 

The flying saucer crap, as it turned out, paid very well. In addition to selling hundreds of thousands of copies of his books, Adamski charged money to give lectures on his adventures with the Venusians and their philosophy, Eventually he had a paid staff and took vacations in Mexico. In 1959 Adamski was punk’d by two UFO skeptics who wrote a fake letter to him on FBI letterhead suggesting that the U.S. government knew all about the Venusians and supported his claims. It was a prank of course, but for the rest of his life Adamski claimed the letter “proved” the government was behind him. He also claimed he received a special medal from the Pope–which turned out to be a cheap souvenir available for sale in the Vatican–and at one point that he was dating an attractive female alien. He died in 1965.

 

Adamski was obviously a fake, but tell that to the legions of fans who did–and some who still do–support him and believe his claims are literally true. Adamski almost single-handedly began the “contactee” movement, people who claim personal involvement with aliens who have come to Earth in UFOs, usually communicating spiritual, personal-transformation or political messages. The eagerness to believe with which many people approach these claims is evident in the number of people who still believe the literal truth of oft-proven hoaxes like the Gulf Breeze sightings of the 1980s, or the “Voice of Vrillon” prank from 1977. Silly though his claims were, George Adamski remains a prophet of the bizarre UFO subculture, even now almost 50 years after his death.

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RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ZAPPED BY ALIENS AFTER SHOOTING DOWN UFO

5 SIGNS WE EXIST IN A LIVING UNIVERSE

Since the dawn of ages, throughout cultures and civilizations, there have always been those who were considered enlightened. Prophets, Messiahs, and Sages throughout history have been able to tap into the eternal energy of the universe, bringing forth ancient wisdom of the cosmos and creation and bestowing upon all who would listen the understanding of our very existence. Some were ridiculed and others were murdered for what seemed to be, at the time, irrational views.

Take for example Jesus Christ. He was known to be one of the most radical of enlightened masters in history. To onlookers, a man walking around telling everyone that he was the son of God would have seemed so irrational and ‘blasphemous’ that just speaking the words “I and my father we are one” had already made him a prime subject for public scrutiny.

In the life and times of Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), we understand that his teachings were very radical, in the sense that they did not fall into the mainstream of Buddhist regime. This lead to his closest disciples writing down accounts of his teachings and hiding away many of his direct works prior to Buddha being poisoned to death.

Thankfully, we are at the point in history where, through advancement of technology and scientific observation, we can finally bridge the gap between spiritual philosophy and scientific reality.

1. Galaxies Are Alike To A Human Brain

In a study released in 2012 in the journal Nature’s Scientific Reports, physicist Dmitri Krioukov of San Diego’s University in California found that, according to a computer simulation, the universe may grow like a brain. “Natural growth dynamics are the same for different real networks, like the Internet or the brain or social networks,” he explains. The study suggested that(1) fundamental laws may govern the growth of systems large and small, from the electrical firing between brain cells and growth of social networks to the expansion of galaxies.

2. Binary Codes

While working on the equations pertaining to the superstring theory – a scientific theory that aims to explain all the forces in nature through the vibration of theoretical strings — theoretical physicist James Gate Jr. at the University of Maryland discovered something very interesting: computer code. Yes, according to Gates there were patches of 0s (off) and 1s (on) embedded in the equations — a sort of pulsing binary code that runs our computers. What is interesting is that this leads us to understand that what we experience may just be the product of signals from a virtual reality generating computer network broadcasted by an entity from the edge of space.

Pao Chang, a spiritualist, thinks that our reality is, in fact, a mere illusion. In his book, entitled Staradigm, he presents an interesting take on how reality works:

The core structures of reality work similar to how a computer works. A computer communicates and operates through the use of binary codes, which are codes that consist of ones (on) and zeros (off). Binary codes are very simple but with the right combinations they can help computers create magnificent things.

3. Golden Ratio

The golden ratio has been found in pine cones, seashells, and even in Leonardo Davinci’s paintings, but in an exciting discovery by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, fractal patterns and golden ratio pulses were found to exist in stars. They made the discovery using the Kepler Space Telescope. The researchers were studying a specific kind of star known as RR Lyrae variables that are unlike normal stars in that they expand and contract. With each expansion and contraction the star’s brightness increases and decreases dramatically, a process known as pulsing.

What the researchers found next was the most astonishing. The stars in the study have been found to be pulsating in accordance with the golden mean. This finding is the first time the golden ratio has even been identified in space. Although the sample of stars in this study was quite small, the researchers noticed an intriguing pattern among the four stars with pulsation frequencies close to the golden ratio. Each of these stars exhibited fractal behaviour in a never-ending pattern that repeats on continuously smaller scales.

“That suggests there might be a pattern,” Linder says. “What we need is more data.” An example of a fractal is a jagged coastline, which reveals more and more wiggles in its outline as you zoom in from any vantage point. “It’s the same with the frequencies in these stars,” Linder says. “As we lower the threshold we see more and more frequencies.”

4. Time & Space Are An Illusion

5 Sweet and Simple Words: Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

Space and time are not independent variables in our universe but rather agglomerate into the space-time continuum. In essence, space is dependent upon time and time is dependent upon space, a concept which shatters our idea of a definite reality and the universality of time altogether. So, both space and time, in fact, turn out to be mere illusions dependent upon the spatial location and movement of nothing but the observer. Past, present, and future are not fixed but rather are just an accumulation of spatial variables.

5. Quantum Mechanics & The Double Slit Experiment

In the experiment, a beam of electrons fired through a slit and at a screen replicated a wave-like pattern instead of a material splatter.

However, more interestingly, when this same beam of electrons was observed, it behaved as something consisting of solids, meaning that the electron already had several probable quantum events before the observation took place. It could have bounced off the screen, passed from either slit, passed from both slits, or just went over the screen. These probabilities were represented by the wave. However, when an observation took place the wave collapsed into one material reality — meaning that any physical event is a product of nothing but observation!

According to Erwin Schrödinger, every possible outcome of an event exists as a combinative wave form before this wave collapses into a material manifestation upon observation. The type of manifestation depends upon its probability and the point in the space-time continuum at which the observation is made.

In conclusion, we need to change the paradigm, from saying, “God created the universe,” to “God is the universe.”

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Do pilots believe in UFOs? Many of them do and here is my close encounter story

Captain Andy talks with the Daily News about the widely scrutinized 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800.

People love to ask pilots questions. But my favorite, and certainly the most interesting, is "Have you ever seen a UFO while flying?"

The answer is yes. And here's how it happened.

It was April 10, 1989 and early in my career. I was still a first officer at a regional airline. It was about 8 p.m. and we had just taken off from Kansas City International Airport bound for Waterloo, Iowa. It was a beautiful evening, with a full moon, clear skies and crisp early spring temperatures. The weather forecast for Waterloo was as nice, with clear skies and unlimited visibility.

After a short taxi and take-off, Air Traffic Control (ATC) cleared us to our cruise altitude of 15,000 feet. We established a Northeasterly heading, pointed strait at Waterloo, about 200 miles ahead. There were thin wispy clouds all around us, illuminated by the light of the full moon that shone through the captain's-side window at our left. Despite the presence of these clearly visible wispy clouds everywhere, we weren't flying through any of them. There was also a white disc dimly but clearly visible through those clouds just off to our right.

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Andrew Danziger said he saw a UFO during a flight from Kansas City to Iowa in 1989.

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We flew on and I commented to Bruce, the captain, about this dimly visible disc. He said that he'd been watching the same thing since we had leveled off. It looked similar to the moon faintly visible though thin fog, except the two were visible at the same time on opposite sides of our cockpit. We looked down below for search lights, you know, the kind that's sometimes used for aerial light displays or advertising at a car dealer, but there was no beam of light coming from the ground, no search light from an airport either. The captain and I had cumulatively spent many years flying and were accustomed to seeing — day and night — all manner of airplane, blimp, hot air balloon, satellite and bird. But neither of us had any idea what this disc could be.

We spent 20 to 30 minutes at our cruise altitude, all the while staring at this white disc dimly visible through some clouds that we somehow never seemed to fly through. Within about 40 miles of Waterloo, ATC confirmed the weather, still clear skies and unrestricted visibility at our destination as we began to descend. We got busy with our flying duties and for a short while, maybe for a minute, both of us had looked away from the disc, but when I looked up at it again I saw something that has been burned into my memory.

Pilots can call the "National UFO Reporting Center" to reporting sightings of extraterrestrials.

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I yelled to Bruce, "Holy s--t." He immediately looked over from what he was doing. Above the clouds, where the white disc had been, was a now giant red ball. It was big and bright and just sat there above the clouds. It wasn't intense enough to illuminate us with a red glow but it was still plenty bright. We sat there in stunned silence. We obviously didn't want to hit it but quickly saw that it was flying parallel to our course. We weren't on a collision course and we also weren't gaining on it. Time became a blur as we continued our descent, this giant, red ball holding its course.

We slowly lost altitude and at around 13,000 feet, the brightly glowing ball began a gradual descent, too. As it did, it slowly started disappearing behind those wispy clouds. In about 30 seconds, like a setting sun but not nearly as bright, it vanished behind the clouds. The instant it fully disappeared, hundreds of lights began flashing from within the clouds.

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As I looked on in disbelief, the flashing lights were brighter than ever and I could see that the section of the cloud that the glowing red ball had descended behind was starting to stretch apart like a piece of "Silly Putty," two halves being pulled slowly apart with the middle getting thinner and thinner. This continued until the halves grew so thin that it tore apart and, pop! Everything was gone. The dimly lit disc, the flashing lights, the thin wispy clouds that we had with us for the last 40 minutes; all of it, gone. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. Only the full moon remained off to our left.

Bruce and I just looked at each other. "Oh my God, what the f--k was that", was all I could muster. My colleague just stared out the windscreen, mesmerized. We discussed whether we should report what we had just witnessed. After a few minutes, I picked up the radio mic and asked the Kansas City Center controller if they had anything on radar. "Nope, nothing but you," came the response. "No, not right now but a couple minutes ago, at our one to two o'clock," I replied. "No," he repeated, "It's a slow night. I've got the entire sector between Kansas City and Waterloo and you're all that's been in it for the last hour." Bruce and I again just looked at each other, completely dumbfounded. "So for the last say 40 minutes or so you've had no traffic at all, not at our one or two o'clock?" I asked. "No sir, not at your one or two o'clock, not anywhere, you're all there is," he assured us.

Do pilots believe in UFOs? It's a question people often like to ask. 

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A minute or so later, from over the radio came, "Air Midwest , do you want to report a UFO?" We looked at each other for a couple seconds and Bruce nodded his head. "Yes sir, we do," I finally replied. "OK, take down this number and call when you get on the ground."

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After deplaning we called the number. "National UFO Reporting Center" said the voice from the other end. At the time I didn't even know such a place existed, but they took collect calls from pilots and air traffic controllers. Bruce told the person on the other end of the line that we wanted to report a UFO. We were interviewed separately, first the captain and then me. When my interview was finished the man on the other end of the line said that we would never hear from him again and would never receive any additional information, this was going to be our first and only contact regarding the sighting. I asked, "Can I ask just one question, do you think we're crazy, has anyone else ever reported something like this?"

Many pilots believe in little green men, Captain Andy said. 

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"Oh no, you're not crazy at all," he replied. "This very same thing has been reported by pilots countless times." And while neither of us had any idea what we had saw one thing we were certain of, it wasn't from here.

Our airline had no official UFO policy (nor did any that I ever worked for), but at the time we were both young with long and promising careers in front of us. We knew through the grapevine that pilots weren't supposed to talk about UFOs so we swore the station agent on duty to secrecy and agreed not to talk about our incident to any of our co-workers.

That was more than 25 years ago. Today I'm older, wiser and at the end of my career. In my last few years of flying the subject of UFOs occasionally came up in the cockpit. If it was brought up at all, it was usually by a younger, newer first officer who'd say something with much trepidation. More than a few pilots have shared their UFO stories with me, too. I'm not going too far out on a ledge to say that virtually all pilots believe in UFOs. Little green men, "close encounters", alien kidnappings,... not so much, but with billions of stars and trillions of planets out there, "ya gotta believe", and almost all of us do.

Andrew Danziger is a 28-year airline veteran, with experience in turboprops and Boeing aircraft. He was an international 757/767 captain for the last 14 years. He has served as an airline ground school instructor and check pilot in both simulators and aircraft and was one of the pilots to fly Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.

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The Newly Discovered TRAPPIST-1 Star System Was Hiding In Elite: Dangerous All Along

Planets, planets everywhere

One possibly habitable planet is already known to exist near Earth. Many more will soon be found

Tim Cross

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Science-fiction writers have been dreaming up alien planets for decades. That other suns should have planets of their own was a reasonable enough speculation. But science had to wait until 1992 for proof that such planets did exist, when two were detected around a pulsar called PSR B1257+12. A steady trickle of discoveries followed. These days that trickle has become a flood. Thanks to a combination of ground-based telescopes and planet-hunting satellites, particularly one called Kepler which was launched in 2009, more than 3,500 such worlds are known.

Unlike their depiction in fiction, reasonably few are much like Earth. Many are gas giants, like Jupiter, whose gravitational pull on their host stars makes them easy to detect. Others orbit dim stars, or super-bright ones. Most are too hot or too cold for life. And almost all are far, far away. Kepler, which has discovered the lion’s share of these planets, is staring at a patch of space covering about 1/400th of the celestial sphere.

From 2017, though, that will change. In December a successor to Kepler, called TESS (for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), will be launched into orbit. It is designed to survey the entire sky, looking for the sorts of exoplanets that are of most interest to humans—ones that are small (like Earth), rocky (like Earth) and relatively close by.

Over its planned two-year life TESS will scan hundreds of thousands of nearby stars, looking for the telltale dips in their brightness as planets cross them (as seen from Earth). Indeed, Kepler has gathered enough statistical information about how common planets are in the galaxy for astronomers to make a reasonable guess of how many Earth-like planets TESS should find. Assuming Earth’s galactic neighbourhood is average, the new satellite should spot about 3,000 planets in total. About 500 of those should have radii up to twice that of Earth’s; of those, perhaps a few dozen will orbit in the “habitable zone”, where liquid water could exist on their surfaces.

Kepler’s planets are too far away for scientists to learn much about them beyond their rough size and the length of their orbits. Being much closer, the planets TESS turns up will be easier to scrutinise. A new generation of giant telescopes, including the European Extremely Large Telescope, currently being built in Chile, and the James Webb Space Telescope, a successor to the Hubble that is due to be launched in 2018, should have the power to provide intriguing details.

By zeroing in on starlight that has passed through the planets’ atmospheres, scientists hope to learn about the chemical composition of the alien air, including the presence of any chemicals (such as free oxygen or large amounts of methane) that could be telltales of life. If the planets are close enough astronomers may be able to take pictures of them directly. Via painstaking computer modelling, it could even be possible to infer basic geographical features, such as what proportion of a planet’s surface is liquid or solid. Early trials of the technique, using pictures of Earth taken by distant space probes, have been promising.

The ultimate question is whether humans might one day send probes to a nearby exoplanet. In August 2016 scientists announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, which, at 4.25 light-years away, is the closest star to the Sun. Yuri Milner, a Russian billionaire and physicist (see next story), is already working with Stephen Hawking, a British theoretical physicist, on plans for a tiny, laser-propelled probe that could cover that distance in about 20 years. It is far from certain that they will succeed. But, in the meantime, TESS should give them a comprehensive list of targets. Science fiction is about to get a tiny step closer.

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UFO conspiracy theorist's death: Cops to probe 'partner' of Brit who vomited black liquid

DETECTIVES will quiz the “partner” of a conspiracy theorist who died in mystery circumstances after vomiting two litres of black fluid.

By Jess Bell 

Max Spiers, 39, claimed to have shocking knowledge of UFO sightings and government cover-ups before his death.

He was found dead on a sofa while staying at Monika Duval’s home during a trip to Poland.

Now cops want to speak to the science fiction writer who was present at the time of his death and called the ambulance.

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Ghost rocket UFOs are 1st reported, February 26, 1946

Ghost rockets, rocket- or missile-shaped unidentified flying objects (UFOs), were first sighted on February 26, 1946, mostly in Sweden and nearby countries.

More than 2000 sightings were recorded between May and December of the same year, with an increased amount of sightings in mid-August 1946.

The origin of these ghost rockets was never fully revealed. Some investigations attributed the sightings to meteor showers, making special note that the August peak coincided with such events. But most ghost rocket sightings did not occur during meteor shower activity and, moreover, displayed characteristics inconsistent with meteors, such as reported maneuverability.

A 1946 Swedish newspaper photo of such sightings

Other theories attributed the origin of the ghost rockets to former German rocket facility at Peenemünde. Such theories claimed the rockets were long-range tests by the Russians of captured German V-1 or V-2 missiles, or perhaps early form cruise missiles because of the ways they were sometimes seen to maneuver. 

These missile theories prompted the Swedish military to investigate. Some investigators for the Swedish military apparently believed the objects could not be conventionally explained, and instead hypothesized an extraterrestrial origin.

The missiles were often reported as having crashed into lakes, yet no missile fragments were found in lakes. For example, on July 19, 1946, a ghost rocket was reported as having crashed into Lake Kölmjärv in Sweden. Witnesses saw a gray, rocket-shaped object with wings crashing in the lake with a noise that suggested the object had exploded. However, a three-week military search conducted in intense secrecy, again turned up no evidence of a craft, only impact at the bottom of the lake.

A new development has emerged in the investigation into Canterbury UFO hunter Max Spiers' death

Max Spiers vomited two litres of black liquid before his death

The science fiction writer girlfriend of a British conspiracy theorist is to be quizzed about his death.

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