This US President Cried After He Found Disturbing Alien Information In UFO Briefing

In 1973, before the presidential elections, yet to become President, Jimmy Carter filed a report with the International UFO Bureau claiming he had seen a UFO in October 1969. Along with other witnesses, Carter saw a bright UFO that changed colors and moved towards and away from the Earth before disappearing. He was quite vocal about his beliefs on UFOs and promised to public all available information about UFOs if he became president.

“He described waiting outside for a Lion’s Club Meeting in Leary, Georgia, to begin, at about 7:30 p.m., when he spotted what he called ‘the darndest thing I’ve ever seen’ in the sky.” Along with 10 to 12 other witnesses, Carter observed a bright object in the sky, which was about the size of the moon. (Source)

“We all saw it. And then the light, it got closer and closer to us. And then it stopped, I don’t know how far away, but it stopped beyond the pine trees. And all of a sudden it changed color to blue, and then it changed to red, then back to white,” Carter told GQ in 2005. The object reportedly hovered about 30 degrees above the horizon, moved towards and away from the Earth, and eventually disappeared into the distance. Carter’s experience led him to make a vow to never again ridicule individuals who claimed to have seen a UFO.

“One thing’s for sure, I’ll never make fun of people who say they’ve seen unidentified objects in the sky. If I become President, I’ll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public and the scientists,” Carter said.

As for the object that Carter saw, it has since been classified as “a high altitude barium release cloud launched from Eglen AFB,” which sounds legit. However, after winning the presidency, Carter backed away from this promise, citing concerns about national security and defense implications. His experience with a UFO is just one of many reported sightings that have fueled conspiracy about extraterrestrial life and government cover-ups.

President Carter’s Disturbing Briefing on UFOs and Religion

Former NASA researcher Ed Harris claimed that serious researchers on the subject believe the story of former President Jimmy Carter crying after being briefed about classified UFO information to be true. According to the story corroborated by multiple witnesses, U.S. presidents are given only a brief overview of the subject by the CIA, and presidential curiosity is not considered a sufficient need to know.

After being repeatedly stonewalled, Carter was given “the talk,” which reportedly left him deeply sobbing and visibly disturbed for weeks. He was told that major religions, including Christianity, were created by extraterrestrials to prevent humans from destroying themselves while they ran experiments on us, and that they made us. Carter, a deeply religious man who had witnessed a UFO with six other people, realized that releasing such information could cause tremendous economic and social upheaval.

Below you can read Ed Harris’ statement on the subject that he wrote on Quora:

"Yes, the incident of Jimmy Carter crying after being briefed about classified information regarding UFO’s is largely believed to be true by the serious researchers on the subject. As a forewarning, the following information is very unsettling and will explain why Carter never “kept his promise” of revealing classified UFO information to the public.

According to the story that was corroborated by more than one witness, U.S. presidents are only given a cursory overview of the subject. Apparently, the CIA runs the program, only provide information to the President on a need to know basis, and do not consider presidential curiosity as sufficient need to know. This was implemented after Kennedy, and all presidents after him have been given only summary briefings (some presidents for unknown reasons were given more than others).

Okay on to your question. President Carter is a deeply religious man who had also witnessed a UFO with 6 other people. Everyone thought that he would be the one to finally release UFO info to the public but as the story goes, he was repeatedly stonewalled. Eventually, the CIA had “the talk” with him, and afterward it was reported that he sunk his head in his hands and not only began to deeply sob, but was visibly disturbed for some weeks afterward.

What was he told and shown?

He was told that the major religions including Christianity were programs created by extraterrestrials to prevent us from destroying ourselves while they ran their experiments on us – and that they made us. At this moment it became clear to Carter that such information could cause tremendous economic and social upheaval. I should add that I am not only a Christian but a clergyman, so I am in no way attempting to promote atheism here. In fact, how God fits into this might be an interesting separate post. Nevertheless, these are the facts as I know them to be.

Author and world’s leading UFO researcher Richard Dolan also writes about this incident in his book “UFOs and the National Security State: The Cover-Up Exposed.” According to his book, there are claims that President Carter was given a UFO briefing at the White House on June 14, 1977, which he was then bound to secrecy about.

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The briefing was supposedly given by a lone MJ-12 briefing officer and several independent sources. The leaked “Executive Briefing: Project Aquarius” document gives the standard account of multiple retrievals of alien technology. While there is no hard evidence to support the claims of the briefing, a presidential aide, who was “very, very close to Carter,” witnessed President sobbing after a UFO-related briefing in the Oval Office.

Carter Administration & Project Blue Book

Daniel Sheehan, a Harvard-educated Constitutional Trial Lawyer and Appellate Attorney has worked on many high-profile cases in his career. In 1977, he was approached by his friend Marcia Smith, who informed him that President Carter had demanded that the CIA provided classified information about unidentified flying objects to him, but George H. Bush, who was the CIA director at the time, refused to give this information to the president.

Sheehan tried to obtain information on the UFO phenomena and extraterrestrials from the Vatican Library but was unsuccessful. However, with Carter’s help, he managed to get access to the classified portions of the Air Force’s Project Blue Book for a few hours in May 1977, where he claimed to have discovered classified documents and photographs of a crashed UFO being investigated by Air Force personnel.

“There were these photographs of unmistakable — of a UFO sitting on the ground. It had crashed,” Sheehan said. “Apparently, it had hit into this field and had dug up, kind of plowed this kind of trough through this field,” he paused for a second.

“It was wedged into the side of this bank,” he said after taking a deep breath. “There was snow all around the picture. The vehicle was wedged into the side of this mud-like embankment — kind of up at an angle. There was Air Force personnel. As I cranked the little handle and looked at additional photos, these Air Force people were taking pictures.” (Click here to read the full article)

When Mr. Sheehan left the room, the guard asked to see his yellow legal pad and flipped through the pages, missing the alien hieroglyphs Sheehan had copied on the back of the pad. Sheehan offered to share this information with the religious establishment; they told him they were not interested.

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Journalist Reveals Bob Lazar’s Astonishing Claim: Extraterrestrials See Humans as ‘Containers of Souls’

Robert A. Monroe Photo.

Image Credit: The Monroe Institute

Here is what he uncovered: For millennia, humanity has been controlled and enslaved by nefarious vertebrates known as Reptilians, who operate within the 4th dimension, invisible to most but those who can perceive beyond our limited spectrum of visible light. These parasitic entities thrive on our spiritual lifeforce, referred to as “loosh” by Monroe, and rely on negative and low vibrational energy for their survival. Viewing Earth as a vast farm, they harvest human emotions such as fear, hatred, anxiety, anger, and depression. With intelligence equal to or surpassing that of humans, this elusive lizard-like race considers itself superior and the rulers of mankind.

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Robert Monroe pursued transcendental endeavors until he passed away in 1995. His beliefs never changed, and he frequently warned of the sinister spiritual vampires. Gateway’s revolutionary experiments continued throughout the 1980s.

There is a case of a British woman named Samantha McDonald who claimed that she had been repeatedly abducted by reptilians since her first contact in the 1990s, but on every abduction, her memory was wiped by her abductors. In 2014, she was invited to a British talk show named “This Morning,” where she revealed there were two alien species, the Greys and Reptilians, who worked together. (Source)

She said that when she woke up, there were needle marks, scratches, and bruises on her body. “I’ve asked them what they want with me and they said they have come to take me and my family. What they were after was my energy and soul essence. I don’t know why they keep coming back to me. I think it is to do with my energies as I’m into healing and meditation.”

Dr. Ellis Silver, an author of the book “Humans are not from Earth: A Scientific Evaluation of the Evidence,” has a strong belief that life on Earth was sparked by aliens thousands of years ago. He said, “Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more.” (Source)

Ellis strongly believes that Earth is some kind of galactic jail made by aliens to teach humans a behavior lesson. Similarly, in 2019, members of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), a San Francisco-based research organization, convened in Paris and suggested that we could all be living in a Galactic Zoo run by aliens.

Florence Raulin Cerceau, who is the METI director as well as an astrobiologist explained: “This puzzle of why we haven’t detected extraterrestrial life has been discussed often,” adding, “But in this workshop’s unique focus, many of the talks tackled a controversial explanation first suggested in the 1970s, called the ‘zoo hypothesis.’” METI president Douglas Vakoch weighed in by saying, “Perhaps extraterrestrials are watching humans on Earth, much like we watch animals in a zoo.” (Source)

MIT researcher John Ball presented the zoo hypothesis in his 1973 paper. He wrote, “Extraterrestrial intelligent life may be almost ubiquitous,” adding, “The apparent failure of such life to interact with us may be understood in terms of the hypothesis that they have set us aside as part of a wilderness area or zoo.” He later wrote in another research paper: “ETI may be discreetly and inconspicuously watching us but not dabbling.”

Additionally, former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, UFO advocate, and media personality Luis Elizondo explained his reasoning behind claiming that UFO mysteries have made him “somber.” His speculative ideas are straight out of middle 20th-century science fiction, particularly the so-called “zoo hypothesis” that appeared in a number of stories at that time, imagining that Earth was essentially a zoo run by space aliens.

“What if it turns out that there’s another species that is even higher on that ladder than we are? Do we need the social institutions that we have today, do we need government and religious organizations that we have today, if it turns out that there is something else or someone else that is technologically more advanced and, perhaps from an evolutionary perspective, more advanced? Have we been wasting our time all this time? Or are we doing exactly as we are supposed to be doing?

[What] if it turns out that mankind is in fact just another animal in the zoo? If we saw ourselves as the zookeeper before, maybe we’re just another exhibit inside the zoo? What would that mean to us?

So, when I say ‘somber’ or ‘sobering’, I mean there’s going to come a point in this conversation when we’re going to have to do a lot of reconciling with ourselves, whatever that means, from whatever philosophical background you have. This is going to impact every single one of us. And I think that’s important. Do we find ourselves in a situation where history may have to be rewritten? So that’s what I meant.”

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Crashed Ship Found On Mars In Recent NASA photo, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of discovery: Sept 29, 2023

Location of discovery: Planet Mars

Source photo: 

• https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ZR0_0916_0748237782_738EBY_N0450000ZCAM08923_1100LMJ

I was searching through NASA Mars photos when I came across one that had two interesting artifacts. One is a crashed alien ship that has a wing or rudder in the front tip. You can also make out an oval on the top center which looks like it's a cockpit of the pilot. Also there was a second discovery, a face with a hat. The face looks like an older person that is sad or serous, the lips, nose, eyes, forehead and temples are also very visible and gave it away as a person that is similar in appliance to humans...at least in the face. It is wearing a had, like that of a leader, or religious leader. 

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Psychologist Carl Jung’s Fascination with UFOs

Posted by: Alejandro Rojas 

Some view Carl Jung as a UFO debunker, others as a UFO believer, but the truth is he was somewhere in the middle. Either way, it is certain that Jung was an avid UFO researcher and fascinated with the topic. He wrote a book about the psychological symbolism and the role the UFO mythos plays in the unconscious mind.  Moreover, on several occasions Jung complained that his studies would have been much easier if the UFO phenomenon was not real.

Jung the Psychologist

Jung was born in Switzerland in 1875. His father was a pastor in the Swiss Reformed Protestant Church, and his mother was from a wealthy Swiss family. He was the Jungs’ fourth child, but was the only child who survived into his childhood. As such, he grew up as an only child. Later, he wrote that he remembered enjoying his solitude.

His first experience with neurosis was at the age of twelve when a fellow student shoved him, causing him to fall and hit his head on the ground very hard. He remembered associating this experience with schoolwork, and whenever he had to go to school or do schoolwork he would faint. Overhearing his parents’ concern that this condition would cause him to be unable to support himself as an adult, Jung fought to overcome the problem and eventually returned to academics.

Although Jung had a profound interest in spirituality, his experiences triggered an interest in psychology and he decided to pursue a career in medicine. It wasn’t long before he realized that studies in psychology would allow him to combine his interests in medicine and spirituality, and in 1902, he completed his doctoral dissertation, which was titled “On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena.” He graduated with a medical degree from the University of Basel.

After graduating, Jung went to work with psychiatric patients at the University of Zurich asylum. He wrote a paper on word association that he sent to Sigmund Freud. Freud was impressed with Jung’s work, and they quickly became very close. Freud considered Jung his successor. However, after several years, Jung began to develop his own ideas beyond the work of Freud, and due to their disagreements, the relationship turned adversarial.

Carl Jung (bottom right), Sigmund Freud (bottom left), and others at a 1909 celebration of the founding of Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Credit: Library of Congress

Freud’s work with the ego and unconscious served as a foundation for Jung’s work. They both felt that disconnects between the conscious and unconscious minds caused neurosis in people. They also both relied on dream interpretation to explore a person’s unconscious mind as a method for subsequently resolving neurosis. In fact, one story holds that Jung and Freud interpreted each other’s dreams and both completely disagreed with the other’s analysis, thus hastening the dissolution of their friendship.

A major area of disagreement between the two was that Jung did not believe a person’s unconscious was driven solely by sexual desires, as Freud did. Jung believed other strong emotions such as fear and aspiration were just as influential. He also conceived of a deeper level of the unconscious called the collective unconscious, which he believed is a part of our unconscious mind that holds ideas and concepts shared by all humankind. He believed these base ideas are then shaped by our cultural perceptions and personal experience. For example, we all have ideas around the notions of mothers, fathers, wise elders, etc. Jung called these shared notions archetypes. Jung felt that these archetypes not only would manifest in dreams, but could be seen in people’s creative works and behavior, including art, religion, and mythology.

Jung’s contributions to psychology are numerous. Even today his ideas of extraversion and introversion are a mainstay in personality psychology. He also came up with the idea of psychological complexes and synchronicities. All of these ideas and terms are commonly used in everyday conversation today, and all were made popular by Jung.

Jung and Alchemy

It is the idea of the archetype that brought Jung to have a particular interest in UFOs. When Jung interpreted psychological meaning he would search for archetypal figures. As mentioned earlier, such figures could be a mother or father.  But, in a mythological story, the archetype may be the hero, a dragon, or even a planetary entity such as the sun. However, Jung also had an interested in alchemy.

Alchemy is typically connected to legends of ancient mystics attempting to unravel the secret of turning lead into gold. The work of alchemists is credited with the development of modern chemistry. However, another side of alchemy is spiritual in nature, relating to personal transformation. Jung had a passion for alchemy in this sense, and felt that the metal lead was a metaphor for an impure soul, whereas gold was a metaphor for a perfected soul. Jung’s interest in alchemy was thus as a method of purifying the soul.

The Tabula Smaradina (Emerald Tablet), a print by Mathias Merian from the 1600s displaying alchemical symbols and imagery.

Credit: Mathias Merian

Jung wrote a couple of books focused on interpreting alchemical symbolism and processes as different stages of personal growth that mirrored his ideas. He felt these symbols were archetypes that were unconsciously manifesting in the work of alchemists. Although he acknowledged the physical goals of alchemy (an attempt to transmute lead into gold), Jung did not give it much attention in his writing and focused on the non-physical aspects that related to his psychological theories. This is very similar to the way he approached the topic of UFOs.

Jung and UFOs

In 1951, Jung wrote to a friend in the United States: “I am puzzled to death about the phenomena, because I haven’t been able yet to make out with sufficient certainty whether the whole thing is a rumour with concomitant singular and mass hallucination, or a downright fact.” 

Book cover to Jung’s Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.

(Credit: Princeton University Press.)

Although Jung showed an interest in the mystery of the physical reality of the UFO phenomenon, professionally he stated, “As a psychologist, I am not qualified to contribute anything useful to the question of the physical reality of Ufos.” However, Jung could contribute by analyzing the unmistakable psychological side to the UFO phenomenon. In 1958, several of Jung’s papers regarding the psychology of UFOs were published in a book. It was originally published in German, but in 1959 it was translated to English under the title, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.

In the book, Jung argued that although there may be a physical reality to UFOs, there is certainly a portion of the phenomenon that is fantasy. He examined the difficulty many have in accepting fantastical stories of UFOs, even when they come from pilots, and points out, “What is worse, most of the stories come from America, the land of superlatives and of science fiction.”

For the sake of argument, and to examine the psychological aspects of the phenomenon, Jung presumed that UFOs are fantasy. This is an important aspect that many critics overlook when they characterize Jung as dismissive of the phenomenon altogether. UFO researchers also tend not to appreciate the portions of Jung’s book in which he examined the UFO phenomenon in regards to archetypal imagery and alchemic symbolism. Jung himself assures his readers that although his work may appear to be “unbridled fantasy” to those unfamiliar with psychology, it is actually based on “thorough research into the history of symbols.”

In his book, Jung observed that most UFO sightings describe the objects as disc shaped, which is a symbol that is often seen in alchemy and existed in the mythology of other cultures. For example, the Hindu and Buddhist symbol of the mandala is a circular disc-shaped symbol. Jung believed that the mandala is a protective sphere, which is elicited in the unconscious in times of emotional tension. Jung noted that, around the time of many of the UFO sightings, the world was under a collective stress due to “Russian policies and their still unpredictable consequences.” In short, he felt that perhaps UFOs were appearing in visions at the time because of the world’s Cold War jitters, and that the UFOs were a manifestation of a need for protection and salvation.

Jung’s book also provided detail of the analysis of particular sightings and art. One of the significant contributions to ufology made by the book is a focus on two historical broadsheets, a type of ancient newspaper, that recorded mysterious apparitions that many have speculated to be UFO related. Although Jung asserted that these reports were in the UFO literature prior to the publication of his book, Jung clearly made them popular as potential ancient UFO sightings.

The first is referred to as the Basel Broadsheet, and it dates back to 1566. It was written by Samuel Coccius and is a report of “many large black globes” that were seen flying in front of the sun “with great speed.” The Basel Broadsheet notes, “Some of them became red and fiery and afterwards faded and went out.” Jung noted the similarity of this phenomenon to modern UFO accounts.

The Basel Broadsheet from 1566 analyzed by Carl Jung in his Flying Saucer book.

Credit: Wickiana Collection, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

The second report is called the Nuremberg Broadsheet and dates back to 1561. This report chronicles a “very frightful spectacle” that was witnessed by several people. Again, “globes” were seen near the sun, “some three in a row, now and then four in a square, also some standing alone.” There were also “two great tubes.” Jung noted that in UFO literature large tubes are considered “motherships,” and have been reported to have smaller discs that appear to fly out of them.

The Nuremberg Broadsheet from 1561 analyzed by Carl Jung in his Flying Saucer book.

Credit: Wickiana Collection, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

The Physical Reality of UFOs

In his book, Jung also examined the possibility of the physical reality of UFOs. He noted that, “unfortunately,” UFOs cannot be dismissed as purely psychological in nature. He pointed to numerous sightings, some of which have been caught in photographs and on radar. Jung even poked fun at astronomer Donald Menzel, a UFO debunker, saying that he “has not succeeded, despite all his efforts, in offering a scientific explanation of even one authentic UFO report.” 

Jung was well-versed on UFO research. He wrote, “since 1947 I have collected all of the books I could get a hold of on the subject.” He was also a member of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), an early civilian UFO organization that included many credible members. In fact, in his book, Jung often referred to the work of Major Donald Keyhoe, a cofounder and director of NICAP.

Prior to releasing his book, Jung was considered by UFO researchers to be a proponent of the physical reality of UFOs. In 1955, he wrote an article on UFOs for a British journal called the Flying Saucer Review. In the article, Jung stated that he had never seen a UFO himself, but that “I can only say for certain: these things are not a mere rumour: something has been seen.”

He went on to argue that the U.S. Air Force “despite its contradictory statements,” considers the phenomenon to be real and they conduct official investigations. He warned that, by concealing information on the topic, the military is making it more likely that people will panic since the public is denied “an adequate picture of what is happening.”

Jung also stated that “the ‘disks’ (that is, the objects themselves) do not behave in accordance with physical laws, but as though without weight, and they show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi human pilots, for their accelerations are such that no normal human could survive.”

Not much was made of Jung’s 1955 article until it was reprinted in 1958 by the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) in the organization’s bulletin in July 1958. APRO posted the story as part of an announcement that Jung had agreed to become an official consultant for the organization. The New York Herald Tribune quickly picked up on the report and printed a story with the headline, “Dr. Jung Says ‘Flying Disks’ Suggest Quasi-Human Pilots.”

APRO Bulletin from July, 1958 with reprint of Jung’s article on UFOs.

Credit: APRO

Jung was not happy with the implication that he believed UFOs represented a physical phenomenon and later wrote a letter to United Press International news agency clarifying his position. He wrote: “I expressly state that I cannot commit myself on the question to the physical reality or unreality of the UFOs since I do not possess sufficient evidence either for or against.” He then stated, “Something is seen, but it isn’t known what.” Jung later repeated this statement in his 1958 book and in several letters.

Although Jung was clearly embarrassed by the public perception that he conclusively believed flying saucers were physical in nature, he later reiterated his prior statements and earlier criticisms of the U.S. Air Force’s handling of the matter in very strong words. He wrote:

In spite of the fact that I hold my judgment concerning UFOs—temporarily let’s hope—in abeyance, I thought it worthwhile to throw a light upon the rich fantasy material which has accumulated round the peculiar observations in the skies. Any new experience has two aspects: (I) the pure fact and (2) the way one conceives of it. It is the latter I am concerned with. If it is true that the [American Air Force] or the Government withholds telltale facts, then one can only say that this is the most unpsychological and stupid policy one could invent. Nothing helps rumours and panics more than ignorance.

It is no wonder that many have been confused as to Jung’s official stance on UFOs. He seems to have believed the phenomenon and sightings to be real, but is uncertain whether UFOs are a physical reality or are limited to a psychological phenomenon. He stated that although “by all human standards it hardly seems possible to doubt this any longer,” in the decade or more he had been studying the topic, neither he nor anyone else seems to have learned much from the study of the physical aspect of UFOs. Jung said that this is precisely why he found it much more fruitful to study the psychological aspects of UFOs, an area in which he felt he had gained an abundance of knowledge.

Jung may be right. Concrete physical proof of UFOs continues to elude us to this day. Yet, Jung is another example of a luminary who garners a great amount of respect in his field of study, who also had the vision to seriously consider the UFO phenomenon. His UFO interest is a story that should not be forgotten, and his insights into the phenomenon may help guide us today, just as his insights into the human mind continue to be a part of the bedrock of modern psychological understanding.

• A version of this article originally appeared in Open Minds UFO Magazine. Back issues can be found here.

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Exploring the Billy Meier Case

Posted by: Jason McClellan  

Extraterrestrials from another dimension began visiting a young boy in 1942. These visitors imparted wisdom and guidance to the boy to prepare him to become a great prophet. When he became a man, the extraterrestrials permitted him to snap photographs and record video of their spaceships. And they even whisked him away on time-traveling adventures. At least that is how Billy Meier tells the story of his life.

The case of Eduard Albert “Billy” Meier is one of the most well-known and controversial cases in ufology. Meier claims to have personally interacted with multiple extraterrestrials during his life, taken more than a thousand of the clearest UFO photos, and written word-for-word transcripts of his conversations with these extraterrestrials. He even established a church of sorts, called Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschaften und Ufologiestudien (translation: Free Community of Interests for the Fringe and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies), or FIGU, to spread the teachings of the extraterrestrials. As to where Meier got the nickname “Billy,” according to the FIGU website, the name was given to him by an American woman named Judy Reed: “Eduard Meier, wearing a black hat and a gun belt, reminded her of ‘Billy the Kid,’ the ‘legendary gunman of the Wild West.’”  

Billy Meier and his family circa 1980. Image Credit: Wendelle Stevens from “UFO…Contact from the Pleiades”

A Brief Biography

Billy Meier was born in the small village of Bülach, Switzerland, on February 3, 1937. Meier was the second of seven children born to Julius Meier, a shoemaker, and his wife, Bertha. In the book, Spaceships of the Pleiades, author Kal K. Korff explains that, in Meier’s younger years, he “spent his time working various manual labor jobs, dodging truant officers, and having occasional brushes with the law.” Korff alleges that Meier repeatedly found himself in correctional facilities and repeatedly escaped from these facilities. After escaping from the Aarburg correctional facility in Rheinau, Switzerland, Meier reportedly fled to France, where he joined the French Foreign Legion. Only a few months later, Meier deserted the Legion, but then turned himself over to authorities in Switzerland.

After the “transgressions of his youth,” as Korff puts it, Meier traveled extensively through Europe, Africa, and Asia. He performed a variety of jobs to support himself along his travels, including “chicken farmer, grape picker, nail pounder, snake catcher, truck driver, puppeteer, waiter, German tutor, and ship painter,” according to Korff. Along his multi-continent journey, Meier reportedly joined most of the religions of Europe, Africa, and Asia in search of a “belief system acceptable to him,” according to UFO researcher Lieutenant Colonel Wendelle Stevens.

During his travels, Meier lost one of his arms in a gruesome bus accident. On August 3, 1965, Meier was riding in a bus in Iskenderun, Turkey, when the drunk driver of another bus crashed into Meier’s bus. The impact ejected Meier from the bus and crushed his left arm so severely that it had to be amputated.

Billy Meier

Meier, undeterred, continued his travels and relocated to Greece, where he met Kalliope Zafiriou, whom he married in March 1966. The couple moved to Pakistan, where their first child, Gilgamesha, was born. Then in 1970, Meier returned to Switzerland with his family, where, they later welcomed their second child, Atlantis-Socrates, into the world. Their youngest child, Methusalem, was born in 1973. The family rented a farm house in the town of Hinwil in northeastern Switzerland. And while Meier was a skilled farmer, the loss of his arm limited what he could accomplish. He received a small monthly welfare payment from the Swiss government because of his handicap, but to supplement the family’s income, Meier raised chickens and sold their eggs.

In 1974, Meier placed an ad in the German magazine Esotera seeking, “anyone who might wish to form a group for discussing and studying ‘metaphysical’ or paranormal subjects.” People responded to the ad, and a study group was born. It was at one of these meetings where Meier first made the astonishing claim that he was in direct contact with extraterrestrials.

Meier’s extraordinary claims garnered international attention when Swiss UFO researcher Lou Zinsstag sent some of Meier’s photos to Wendelle Stevens in the United States. Stevens went to Switzerland to investigate the case and, as a result, he published, UFO . . . Contact from the Pleiades, as well as Message from the Pleiades, a four-volume set of books related to the case. As one of the primary researchers of the Meier case, Stevens’s multi-year investigation played a large part in introducing Billy Meier to the world, as well as the world to Billy Meier.

Meier’s UFO and Extraterrestrial Contact

Meier reportedly saw his first UFO at the age of five on June 2, 1942. He continued seeing UFOs, and the sightings increased in frequency. Meier also began hearing a voice in his head, and later that year, Meier experienced his first alleged physical extraterrestrial contact. Wendelle Stevens described this encounter in his book, UFO . . . Contact from the Pleiades:

In November that same year, shortly before his 6^th birthday, [Meier] saw a pear-shaped object suddenly drop from the sky, and settle gently on the meadow grass in a woods near their home town of Bülach. An old man took him into the ship and high above Earth, then brought him back to the same meadow and let him out. The ship then shot up vertically at high speed until out of sight.

Meier says that this “old man” who took him for a ride on a spaceship was named Sfath. According to Stevens, Sfath continued communicating with Meier telepathically for a year and half, then returned in his pear-shaped craft to take Meier on another adventure, and “imparted a great deal of knowledge and told of events to come, much of which he did not understand at the time.” The next extraterrestrial to contact Meier was a female named Asket. Meier alleges his contact with Asket began in 1953, and she picked up where Sfath left off. She was apparently responsible for educating Meier, who, according to Kal K. Korff’s book Spaceships of the Pleiades, dropped out of school before finishing the sixth grade. In UFO . . . Contact from the Pleiades, Stevens explains Asket’s role in Meier’s life:

It was she who led him through a series of adventures designed to toughen him for the adversity to come. It was she who led him through Africa and the experiences in the French Foreign Legion, the Desert Caravans, the slavers, revolutionaries and bootleggers; into the hands of the pirates of the Arabian Sea, and across the Indian Ocean as a sailor with the freighters to the sub-continent of India.

It was Asket who led Meier to explore many careers, travel the world, and experience as much as possible.  

In 1975, Meier began his contacts with Semjase—another female extraterrestrial—with whom he allegedly had more than one hundred face-to-face encounters. Semjase lends her name to the FIGU headquarters in Switzerland—the Semjase Silver Star Center. It was she who allowed Meier to begin photographing her “beamship” and other UFOs.

Quetzal, Ptaah, and Nera are three additional extraterrestrials who, along with Sfath, Asket, and Semjase, are the most commonly mentioned characters in the Billy Meier story. But these are only six out of the dozens of extraterrestrials Meier claims to have met. According to the FIGU website, Meier has had more than nine hundred personal contacts with extraterrestrials.

Pleiadeans, Plejarens, Errans, and DALs

Sfath, like most other extraterrestrials that Meier supposedly encountered, was a Pleiadean—a human being (nearly identical in physical appearance to Earthlings), from the M45 star-cluster known as the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus. But this is not the Pleiades observable by Earth’s astronomers. This Pleiades is apparently, “not within our space-time configuration,” according to author and FIGU member Guido Moosbrugger. In his book about the Meier case titled, And Yet . . . They Fly, Moosbrugger describes that, “Pleiadeans exist in a physical dimension that is shifted a fraction of a second ahead of our space-time configuration and is located approximately 500 light-years from Earth’s prospective—an additional 80 light-years beyond our dimension’s Pleiades star system.”

The Pleiadeans reportedly inhabit many planets, but their home world is a planet called Erra. Meier has referred to people from Erra as Errans; and Pleiadeans, in general, are sometimes referred to as Plejarens, because in their dimension, the Pleiades are known as Plejaren.

But Meier’s alleged extraterrestrial contacts were not isolated to Plejarens. He claims to have encountered extraterrestrials from different galaxies, systems, and universes, including the DAL Universe, which is the alleged home of Asket.  In UFO . . . Contact from the Pleiades, Stevens states that the DAL Universe is a “counterpart universe to this of our reality.”

The Evidence

Photograph of “Wedding cake” UFO by Billy Meier April 3, 1981.

From his numerous contacts, Meier claims to have taken more than a thousand UFO photos. Stevens, who, at one point, claimed to own the largest private UFO photo collection in the world, stated that Meier’s photos were “the most spectacular photographs” he had ever seen. Meier’s photographs remain some of the clearest UFO photos to date. But the authenticity of these photos is heavily debated. Stevens and the early Meier researchers claim to have had select photos examined by multiple laboratories, proving their legitimacy. In UFO . . . Contact from the Pleiades, Stevens states that the tested photos, “have withstood all efforts to positively dispute them.” However, Kal Korff identified many questionable characteristics in the photos, and even challenged Stevens’s purported testing in his booklet, The Meier Incident: The Most Infamous Hoax in Ufology. He points out that the tested photos were low-quality copies and not originals. Korff states that, according to Stevens, the best copies that could be obtained “for the purpose of photographic analysis and computer testing were internegatives which yielded anywhere from second through sixth-generation copy prints.” Korff contacted one of the labs where the Meier photos were supposedly analyzed, which resulted in “categorical denial that an analysis was ever done.” But according to Jim Dilettoso who, along with Stevens, facilitated the testing, there is a reason for the denial:

[We] found many professionals, who under secrecy and non-disclosure agreements tested these UFO pictures. This included Jet Propulsion Laboratory, EG&G, and USNRL. The secrecy was critical. These labs were not generally authorized to perform personal projects, like testing UFO pictures. So when other UFO researchers, hell bent on getting into the case, made inquiries into some of the places we had been, they would, (as agreed,) deny any involvement on their part in testing the Billy Meier UFO photographs. 

Photo analysis aside, Korff and other skeptics have suggested that the UFOs in Meier’s photos are simply models. It was not extraordinary in the pre-Photoshop days of the 1970s for someone to hoax a UFO photo by photographing models, Frisbees, hubcaps, and other physical objects. And while some Meier supporters are quick to contend that it would be impossible for a one-armed man to stage UFO photos, Meier himself admits to taking pictures of UFO models. Burned photos of these models were allegedly found in Meier’s trash can by Martin Sorge, who at one time was Meier’s friend. As with many details of the Meier story, there are divergent accounts of this incident. While some accounts claim that Meier’s children created models of the UFOs, other accounts credit Meier with creating the models. In UFO . . . Contact from the Pleiades, Stevens explains, “When I asked about the models of the spaceships he readily admitted trying to model them even though they did not come out well. He even tried photographing the models and the result was so bad that he threw the pictures away.”

But a different account is presented by Guido Moosbrugger in And Yet . . . They Fly!:

One day in 1975, Semjase loaned Billy a model of her beamship for a short period to take a few pictures of it and then be returned. On the basis of these snapshots, Billy planned to construct his own model spacecraft, but this plan never came to fruition. A serious mishap occurred to the negatives of these model photographs—they slipped off the office tabletop into a wastepaper basket and were not found until after the entire contents had landed in a fireplace. Kalliope, Billy’s wife, discovered the more or less burned negatives in the ashes and handed them over to one of the group members to be restored, if possible.

It is interesting to note that Billy and Kalliope divorced, and she has since stated in interviews with Korff and Swiss UFO researcher and author Luc Buergin that Meier hoaxed his UFO photos and fabricated the tales of extraterrestrial encounters. However, this contradicts her previous statements that Meier’s contacts were real and that she, herself, witnessed events with Billy.

Select Meier photos have received far more skepticism than others. Among those are photos that Meier allegedly took during his travels through space and time with the extraterrestrials. Some of these photos show dinosaurs that Meier allegedly took on the planet Neber. But some researchers, like the Independent Investigations Group, contend that the dinosaurs in these photos are simply illustrations from a book that was published in 1972 titled Life Before Man, which was written by Zdenek V. Spinar. The illustrated dinosaurs in this book do appear to be identical to the dinosaurs in the Meier photos.

Billy Meier alleged dinosaur image (left) compared to image from “Life Before Man.”

Another highly criticized set of photos purports to show Asket and Nera aboard a beamship. The women in these photos have been identified as Michelle DellaFave and Susan Lund, who were members of the Golddiggers—a singing and dancing troupe that appeared on the Dean Martin Variety Show. According to a letter posted to the FIGU website by Meier in May 1998, the extraterrestrial Ptaah informed Meier that the photographs of Asket and Nera were actually of their American doubles. Meier went on to explain that the “Men in Black” had intercepted his film, found look-alikes for Asket and Nera, took pictures of them, and substituted these false images for the originals of the Asket/Nera photos. And, he claims the “Men in Black” performed this same trickery with most of his early photos.

Asket and Nera Billy Meier picture (left) compared to image of the Golddiggers on the Dean Martin Variety Show.

One lesser-known Meier photo shows Meier standing in the middle of what appears to be a ring of fiery light. This picture appears in Moosbrugger’s book, And Yet . . . They Fly!, and is explained to be an “energy belt” of “burning static electricity” emanating from Quetzal’s ship above Meier, which does not appear in the photo. Meier’s arm is extended over his head in the photo, allegedly holding a microphone to record the sound of Quetzal’s ship. Multiple researchers have pointed out that the ring of fire in this photo looks suspiciously identical to steel wool being swung overhead by someone.

Aside from his photographs, Meier furnishes other evidence to corroborate his claims of extraterrestrial contact, including metal samples, and even an extraterrestrial weapon. Meier gave these metal samples to Stevens, and Stevens had these samples tested by various labs. According to Stevens, tests showed that the elements in the samples were “put together in a very unusual way from normal Earth technology,” and that most of the elements studied showed “un-Earthly characteristics.” Dr. Marcel Vogel, a chemist, performed several tests on the metals. But according to Kal Korff, Dr. Vogel says the claims made in Stevens’s book contradict his opinions. According to Moosbrugger, analysis was also conducted by a metallurgist from the University of Arizona who, “examined one of the metal fragments and analyzed it as a simple ‘cooking pot metal’ or cheap cast metal alloy used to produce such things as tin soldiers.”    

Meier claims that an extraterrestrial woman, Alena, left a ray gun with him, but cautioned him not to fire it. Unable to resist the temptation, Meier fired the weapon at a nearby fruit tree, burning a hole completely through the trunk of the tree. Meier showed the tree to Stevens, who took photos of the hole in the tree, and examined it with his finger. But to Stevens, the internal wood of this hole did not appear to have been burned.

Billy Meier with the laser gun he allegedly received from ETs, and the hole he says the laser burned into a tree.

Conclusion

The information provided in this article barely scratches the surface of the decades-long Billy Meier story. Meier claims to have much more evidence, including audio recordings, UFO films, and tomes of transcripts from his encounters that are filled with extraterrestrial wisdom. Meier even asserts that, because of his claims, there have been multiple assassination attempts on his life! From this brief overview, it is easy to see why the Billy Meier story is so controversial, and, without a doubt, the most polarizing case in the history of ufology. 

• A version of this article originally appeared in Issue #4 (October/November 2010) of Open Minds UFO Magazine. Back issues can be found here.

Further reading:

• Beamships Busted
• Deconstruction of Billy Meier’s Metal Samples
• Interview on Open Minds Radio with Michael Horn, Billy Meier’s US Representative.

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Unraveling the Mystery of UFO Sightings: A Deep Dive into a Naval Intelligence Officer’s Encounter

The question of whether we are alone in the universe is one that has intrigued mankind for centuries. With recent UFO sightings becoming more frequent and the Pentagon admitting to mysterious flying orbs, this question seems even more pressing. One such notable account comes from a Naval Intelligence Officer, Matthew Roberts.

Decoding the UFO Sightings Phenomenon

Recent revelations from the Pentagon have turned the world’s attention towards the mysterious and unexplained UFO sightings. As the frequency of such sightings increases, individuals across the globe are becoming more vocal about their personal experiences, leading to a massive surge in search interest around “UFO sightings.”

• The Phoenix Lights: Unravelling the Greatest UFO Mystery in History

@Motherboard, keeping abreast of this growing interest, recently unveiled a four-part docuseries titled “ENCOUNTERS” on Netflix. The docuseries, a collaboration between VICE Studios, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television, Boardwalk Pictures, and Netflix, not only delves into these sightings but also humanizes the experiences, providing viewers with firsthand accounts from those who claim to have encountered these unidentified flying objects.

The series, directed by Yon Motskin, promises a riveting journey across Texas, Wales, Zimbabwe, and Japan, retracing the steps of those who’ve witnessed these unexplained phenomena.

Matthew Roberts: A Witness from Within the Military

The account of Matthew Roberts stands out. A cryptologic technician in the US Navy for 16 years, Roberts was aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt during what’s infamously known as the ‘gimbal event.’

Upon watching the footage of the event, Roberts was struck by the unidentified flying object’s unique movement and form. Unlike any conventional aircraft, this UFO lacked any recognizable aviation surfaces – no wings, tail, or rudders. Roberts, having had access to classified data due to his role, knew that such occurrences weren’t isolated incidents. The Navy had been documenting them for a long time.

In 2017, upon transferring to the Office of Naval Intelligence, his experiences with the unexplained intensified. Claims of encounters with nonhuman entities in his room became a regular occurrence. Waking up to feel himself being taken, spotting shadowy figures – all these accounts lend weight to Roberts’ conviction that we’re not alone.

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Roberts believes in the presence of ample sensor and radar evidence about these UFO sightings. His sentiment echoes the larger public sentiment that if all the data were made available without any explanation, it would erase any skepticism about the phenomenon’s authenticity.

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'Einstein ring' snapped by James Webb Space Telescope is most distant gravitationally lensed object ever seen

By Harry Baker

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of a perfectly formed Einstein ring, which is also the most distant gravitationally lensed object ever detected.

In the field of one of JWST's largest-area surveys, COSMOS-Web, an Einstein ring was discovered around a compact, distant galaxy. It turns out to be the most distant gravitational lens ever discovered by a few billion light-years.

 (Image credit: P. van Dokkum et al., Nature Astronomy accepted, 2023)

Photos snapped by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed the farthest-ever example of an "Einstein ring." The record-breaking halo of warped light, which is a whopping 21 billion light-years away, is unusually perfect and surrounds a mysteriously dense galaxy.

An Einstein ring is an extremely rare type of gravitationally lensed object that was first predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Gravitational lensing occurs when the immense gravity of a massive foreground object, such as a galaxy cluster or a black hole, warps space-time around itself; light emitted by more distant objects, such as galaxies or supernovas, that passes through this warped space-time also appears curved and warped from our perspective on Earth.

This effect also magnifies the light of the object being lensed, similar to how a magnifying glass works, allowing astronomers to study distant objects in greater detail than is normally possible. Most gravitationally lensed objects form arcs or partial rings that surround the foreground object. But a true Einstein ring forms a complete circle around the closer entity, which is possible only when the distant object, foreground object and observer are perfectly aligned.

In a new study uploaded Sept. 14 to the preprint server arXiv and accepted for publication in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers discovered the new eerily circular Einstein ring, named JWST-ER1, within the COSMOS-Web survey, a detailed map of more than 500,000 galaxies captured during a 200-hour continuous JWST observation.

A collection of incomplete and near-perfect Einstein rings photographed by NASA's Hubble telescope. In order to get a perfect circle, the background object, foreground object and observer must be perfectly aligned.  (Image credit: NASA)

JWST-ER1 has two parts: JWST-ER1g, the compact galaxy that acts as the lensing object in the foreground; and JWST-ER1r, the light from a more distant galaxy that forms the luminous ring. JWST-ER1g is located around 17 billion light-years from Earth, while JWST-ER1r is another 4 billion light-years farther away. Until now, the farthest detected lensing object was around 14.7 billion light-years away, according to BigThink.com. (While the age of the universe itself is estimated to be about 13.7 billion years, the universe's constant expansion means that light from the oldest objects must travel much farther than this to reach our telescopes).

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Thanks to the complete ring of JWST-ER1, researchers calculated the mass of the lensing galaxy by seeing how much it had warped space-time around itself. This revealed that the galaxy has a mass equivalent to around 650 billion suns, which makes it unusually dense for its size. Some of this extra mass can be explained by dark matter, the mysterious, invisible matter that makes up around 85% of all matter in the universe. But even then, it is unlikely that there are enough stars to account for the rest of the galaxy's heft based on the researchers' calculations.

"Additional mass is needed to explain the lensing results," but it is not exactly clear what this mass is, the researchers wrote in the paper.

The complete Einstein ring, JWST-ER1, is the most distant gravitationally-lensed object ever discovered.  (Image credit: NASA/James Webb Space Telescope/van Dokkum et al.)

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Other, similarly old and equally dense galaxies have been detected before, which suggests there is something common about these ancient star factories that makes them so massive. One explanation is that these galaxies harbor much more dark matter than expected, while another theory suggests that they may have more small-mass stars lurking within them than younger galaxies do. But more work is needed to find out.

This is not the first true Einstein ring spotted by JWST. In September 2022, a Reddit user discovered a perfectly circular ring of light from the galaxy JO418, located around 12 billion light-years from Earth, lensed around a closer galaxy.

JWST has also utilized gravitational lensing to snap the most distant star ever detected and one of the universe's oldest galaxies.

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David Grusch Credits Elizondo Galactic Zoo Theory: Aliens Are Studying Us & UFO Crashes Are Intentional

David Grusch, a former 14-year high-ranking intelligence officer, is one of the three whistleblowers who testified before Congress on July 26, 2023, in the historical UAP hearings. After two months, Grusch appeared in a lengthy interview with Jesse Michels, where he discussed his claims broadly and also disclosed some more information related to his claims.

His testimony highlights that the US government has been concealing evidence of UFOs and indications of non-human intelligence. He declined to provide this information publicly but claimed to have shared it with the intelligence committees and the Inspector General and suggested discussing it in a closed environment.

Grusch has the support of many individuals in authority who believe he is an authentic person. In this June 2023 edition of the Debrief, authors Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal mention Karl E. Nell, a retired Army Colonel and aerospace executive who worked with David Grusch and characterized Grusch as “beyond reproach.” Nell speaks highly of Grusch’s integrity and credibility in his role as the Army’s liaison for the UAP Task Force from 2021 to 2022. (Click here to read the full article)

In the recent interview with Jesse Michels, Grusch discussed a range of topics, including the severe penalties faced by the leakers of classified UFO information, the existence of “nonhuman intelligence” pilots operating UFOs, and the initial reasons for concealing UFO information, which included concerns about societal shock and adversarial nations like Russia.

Grusch also highlighted the connection between the Manhattan Project and laws related to UFO secrecy, as well as the existence of a classified project related to UFOs separate from Project Blue Book. He suggested that the technology of these “nonhuman intelligence” entities may be highly advanced but evolved asymmetrically compared to humans, emphasizing their interest in nuclear technology. Luis Elizondo hinted that US Military had created an environment to attract UFOs so that they could study them. (Click here to read the full article)

Grusch cites a previous statement made by Lue Elizondo, a former Pentagon UFO official, regarding the “Galactic Zoo hypothesis.” This hypothesis suggests that extraterrestrials are observing us, possibly explaining the nature of these beings. It is evident that Grusch takes care to directly reference Elizondo’s prior interview, where he mentioned that these extraterrestrials are intentionally designed to have a humanoid appearance for interaction with humans.

David Fravor is another UFO whistleblower who testified along with Grusch before Congress. He discussed an encounter where he and his team were informed by a controller that unidentified flying objects (UFOs) had been observed for over two weeks descending rapidly from over 80,000 feet to 20,000 feet, hovering for extended periods, and then quickly ascending again. Michels and Grusch engage in a conversation about the mysterious nature of these objects, with Michels suggesting that they seem to exhibit awareness and play a sort of cat-and-mouse game with observers.

Grusch said, “Yeah, I know. I’ve had some folks I talked to that had their own kind of up-close kind of sightings. They said that they got that vibe too, you know? Who knows if that’s psychosomatic or sure or what, but they did get a vibe like that too… I’ve had a very smart guy who was like, ‘Well, did Darwin care to fully conceal himself when he studied the finches?’ And it’s like, they observe. They don’t really care, right? And they don’t really care to interact, but they’re just here to observe.”

The discussion touches on the idea that these UFOs might be studying or observing human activity, similar to anthropologists studying a tribe, and explores analogies like the “gorilla in the cage” and the possibility of these objects having an interest in nuclear power.

Big Think writes, “The Zoo Hypothesis, proposed by the MIT radio astronomer John A. Ball in 1973, says that aliens may be avoiding contact with us on purpose, so as not to interfere with our evolution and the development of our societies. The human civilization could be essentially living in a ‘zoo’ or a space wildlife sanctuary, where others populating the cosmos dare not go. By staying clear of us, they avoid interplanetary contamination.

The hypothesis makes the most sense in a crowded universe, if there are many civilizations which set up rules by which they govern their coexistence. Of course, if there are many extraterrestrial players, it is also doubtful that one of them wouldn’t have somehow contacted us, even if by accident. Maybe that’s what the Earth’s alien hunters are picking up on – random, unsanctioned interactions.”

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In 2016, Josh Hrala told ScienceAlert that while the zoo hypothesis does assume that aliens exist, perhaps the reason why they are not interacting with us is because they do not want to have any influence on our society and just want to keep observing us from far away. This makes sense as Grusch insinuates in the interview that the initial reasoning for hiding the information was the ontological shock it would cause in society due to society’s religiousness at the time, along with concealing the information from adversaries like Russia.

Why do they crash?

In the interview, Grusch suggested that UFO crashes may have been intentionally seeded to test humanity’s development in relation to being exposed to this technology. Astronomer Jacques Vallee thinks UFO crashes are not accidental events, but rather intentional occurrences that serve a specific purpose for the mysterious visitors.

Anomalien.com writes, “Vallee begins by pointing out that the evidence for UFO crashes is very weak and often contradictory. He argues that most of the alleged crash sites have never been properly investigated or verified by independent experts, and that many of the witnesses and whistleblowers who claim to have seen or handled alien bodies or debris are unreliable or have ulterior motives.”

He also mentions that the UFOs and the materials they are made of do not follow the normal rules of science and engineering. He thinks this is because the UFOs are intentionally confusing us, making us see things that do not make sense on purpose.

Vallee said, “There is plenty of data – and it should be analyzed further. But I do not think it’s going to be a propeller from a flying saucer. I think it is going to be things that would be interesting if you could find a pattern to the material. I’m skeptical about stories of crashed saucers; I have an open mind about it, but I’ve heard those stories for so many years and they never really amount to anything tangible. Also, I am skeptical for another reason: We build technologies now that are extremely reliable where there is the need. How often does your hard disk crash? I mean, if you keep your computer for 15 years, eventually the hard disk is going to crash. But you don’t expect that to happen. If you were going to build a technology that takes you across interstellar space, it would have to be extremely reliable.” (Source)

According to Vallee, the UFOs do not want to interact with us directly. Instead, they want to create a mysterious situation that makes us question what is real and what is not. He believes that these UFO events are like a big test for humanity. They want to see how we react – whether we get curious, scared, amazed, doubtful, or obsessed. Vallee thinks that how we react to these UFOs could change how we evolve and what our future looks like.

The discussion also touched on the possibility of UFOs being our descendants from the future, military sensory systems detecting UFOs more frequently due to advanced technology, and Grusch’s perspective shaped by being on the Autism spectrum.

According to Vallee, the UFOs do not want to interact with us directly. Instead, they want to create a mysterious situation that makes us question what is real and what is not. He believes that these UFO events are like a big test for humanity. They want to see how we react – whether we get curious, scared, amazed, doubtful, or obsessed. Vallee thinks that how we react to these UFOs could change how we evolve and what our future looks like.

The discussion also touched on the possibility of UFOs being our descendants from the future, military sensory systems detecting UFOs more frequently due to advanced technology, and Grusch’s perspective shaped by being on the Autism spectrum.

Additionally, Grusch’s background as a veteran and his involvement in drafting the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023, which includes provisions for reporting UFOs, were noted as relevant to his insights.

Moreover, any discovered UFO technology will be revealed to the public through a “Controlled Disclosure Campaign” plan, according to the US Defence Authorisation Act 2024, which is set to go before President Biden towards the end of the year.

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Journalist Claims Aliens Engaging With Earth Will Be Revealed In 12-18 Months: They Look Like ‘Greys’

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Animal experts were brought in to identify it. They were stumped. It looked like part dog, part reptile and part rodent - with the beak of a bird. This animal, whatever it was, became known as the Montauk Monster. 

But then another animal washed up on the beach. Again, it couldn't be identified. And then another animal. And then two more. 

In January 2010 a human body was found on Plum Island by a local security guard. It was described as a six foot tall black male with no obvious signs of trauma but there were a few strange details about this man. One is that his fingers were described as abnormally large, some news agencies reported that his hands seemed mutated but the scariest detail off all, his skull had five holes drilled into it, indicating invasive brain surgery or experimentation. 

But where did all these creatures come from? 

There could be only one answer. Plum Island. 

Plum Island is just a few miles from where these creatures were found. 

Less than two miles off the coast of Long Island and about 85 miles from New York City is a small island owned by the US Government and unidentified on most Maps and it's only accessible by ferry or helicopter, boats that wander too close are quickly chased away by armed military personnel 

The island is home to the Plum Island Animal Disease Center a federal research facility that officially studies livestock related diseases specifically foot mouth disease and African swine fever. 

This center is the only lab in the U.S. authorized to work with live fmd samples and if these samples escape the island it could devastate the country's food supply in a matter of weeks. 

For years rumors and stories circulated that the Animal Disease Center at Plum Island was a top-secret government facility that created bioweapons, engineered animal hybrids and conducting genetic experiments on animals and possibly on people. 

After the bodies of strange creatures began washing up on beaches around the Long Island, it could mean only one thing, the rumors about Plum Island were true. 

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 UFO Sightings and the Alaskan Enigma: The Mysterious Ketchikan Connection

From the iconic Roswell incident to the notorious Area 51, UFO sightings have always stirred a mix of intrigue, skepticism, and fear. While these stories generally dominate southwestern deserts, there’s an often-overlooked hotspot for UFO activity that might surprise many: the picturesque town of Ketchikan, Alaska. But what is it about this serene town that’s turning it into the new capital for UFO sightings?

The Ketchikan Chronicles

Situated far southeast of the enigmatic Alaska Triangle, Ketchikan is embraced by mountainous forests and the deep, mysterious waters of Alaska’s inside passage. However, the town’s allure goes beyond its natural beauty. Over the years, Ketchikan has become synonymous with inexplicable UFO sightings. From radiant orbs hovering over the ocean to lights performing outlandish maneuvers in the night sky, the town has seen it all.

Local artist and wilderness guide, Terry Piles, recounts an unforgettable New Year’s Eve in 2012 when he observed not one, but two glowing objects descending from the sky. To him, they resembled cauldrons of molten metal, accompanied by an eerie silence. He’s not alone in his experiences. Many Ketchikan residents have their own stories to share, making UFO sightings almost a part of the local culture.

Secret Military Operations: Coincidence or Connection?

It’s not just the UFO sightings that have piqued interest. Southeast Alaska, and Ketchikan, in particular, has had a long-standing military presence, most of which is veiled in secrecy. The waters off Ketchikan, though hundreds of miles away from the closest U.S. naval subbase in Washington state, often see nuclear subs traversing the waves. This led to the eventual public acknowledgment of the CFAC, Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility, a secret submarine testing site.

While the official line is that CFAC is primarily for acoustical testing of submarines, many believe there’s more beneath the surface. Could there be a correlation between these secretive submarine activities and the frequent UFO sightings in the region?

Eric Hecker, a UFO researcher and former Navy weapons technician, believes so. From his experience, military establishments often have hidden agendas. The Ketchikan phenomena make many wonder if the military might be engaging in reverse engineering, possibly analyzing alien technology salvaged from the deep.

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The combination of frequent UFO sightings, secret military operations, and the mysterious allure of Ketchikan creates a tantalizing puzzle. Whether it’s the breathtaking beauty of the Alaskan landscapes or the possibility of witnessing extraterrestrial activity, Ketchikan is surely on the map for UFO enthusiasts and skeptics alike.

As UFO sightings become more mainstream and research continues, one can only hope that the answers to the Ketchikan mystery will soon be unveiled. For now, the skies (and waters) of Ketchikan remain a fascinating conundrum, beckoning all those eager to unravel its secrets.

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THE ROCKET THAT COULD TAKE HUMANS TO MARS HAS BEEN 50 YEARS IN THE MAKING

Most of today’s rockets generate immense energy from chemical reactions. There’s another way — and the technology has been with us for a generation.

BY RAHUL RAO

In 2025, if all goes according to plan, NASA will launch the first-ever nuclear fission-powered rocket into space.

The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) won’t go very far. It will only reach an orbit above Earth, the distance of most satellites. But if DRACO is successful, its successors could set out for Mars or the outer solar system. Nuclear fission can reach Mars or the outer solar system far more quickly and efficiently than today’s rockets. In fact, nuclear fission might be the only way humans ever make it to the Red Planet.

“The final goal is to get to Mars,” Fatima Ebrahimi, a physicist at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, tells Inverse. “You really need nuclear for that.”

REVIVING A HALF-CENTURY-OLD DREAM

Most of today’s rockets are chemical rockets, generating immense energy from chemical reactions. If you’ve ever seen a chemical rocket launch, you know how spectacular it can be. “Chemical rockets have the advantage of producing large thrust — they are very powerful,” Ebrahimi says. “But they cannot go very far.”

If we want to get to Mars with today’s chemical rockets, we have to take advantage of narrow windows when our planets’ orbits align, which come just once every 26 months. To reach the outer solar system with those same rockets, we usually have to undertake an even more complicated path, dipping closer to the Sun and harnessing the gravity of a planet like Venus to pick up sufficient speed. It’s also quite time-consuming. To reach Jupiter in the early 2030s, for example, we would need to launch today.

Enter nuclear energy.

“The final goal is to get to Mars ... You really need nuclear for that.”

If the phrase “nuclear rockets” sounds old fashioned, you aren’t wrong. Nuclear rockets were an invention of the 20th century, not the 21st. But in staking a nuclear-powered future, the American space program is reviving a dream that is over half a century old.

Engineers have been tinkering with nuclear rockets since the dawn of the Space Age. In the 1950s, when nuclear energy was new and exciting, the U.S. Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission teamed up to develop Project Rover, a prototype nuclear engine that could power a missile.

Then came NASA, which took over the program, ditched the missiles, and transformed the tests into a dedicated program to get a nuclear engine into space: Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA). In the sands of a nuclear test site in Nevada, NERVA fine-tuned a sequence of test-fired engines. At least on the ground, the tests were successful.

A 1964 nuclear rocket prototype where the crew would be housed in the upper stage with a heavily shielded bulkhead separating them from the engines. 

NASA

T United States wasn’t alone in taking nuclear rockets for a spin. In 1965, the Soviet Union began crafting its own prototype nuclear rocket and kept up the research for decades. Well into the 1980s, Soviet engineers conducted full-scale trials of an engine they called RD-0410 at the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing ground in northeast Kazakhstan. Nevertheless, RD-0410 never fully took flight.

NASA higher-ups wanted to ensure NERVA would not suffer such a fate. Documents from NERVA’s golden age in the mid-1960s label nuclear rockets as a key part of NASA’s future. By then, planners had already drawn up NERVA-powered mission proposals that would make Apollo’s great leaps look like puddle-jumps. Nuclear cargo ferries to moon bases in the 1970s! Regular flights to Mars and back by the 1980s!

As you might imagine, those grand designs never came to pass. After Apollo 11 did its job, pressures from the Nixon administration and budget cuts shifted NASA’s focus to near-Earth projects like Skylab and the Space Shuttle.

A 1970 drawing of the NERVA nuclear rocket engine. 

NASA

Even though NERVA had political support and over $1 billion of investment, the project didn’t have a place in this new NASA era and was mothballed in 1973 before ever entering space. But even as budget cuts doomed Project NERVA to fade away into the desert — and even as nuclear power, in general, gained a fallout-stained reputation thanks to Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the simultaneous rise of an anti-nuclear movement — the idea of nuclear rockets never truly disappeared.

THE RETURN OF THE NUCLEAR ROCKET

For the pyrotechnic-minded, the words “nuclear rocket” might conjure images of something like Project Orion: a craft that would push itself along by triggering nuclear detonations behind it. In reality, nuclear propulsion is a little more mundane (and, certainly, more compliant with international bans on nuclear explosions in outer space).

The nuclear rockets that engineers propose — to be more specific, what they call a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) — replace chemical reactions with a fission reactor.

NTR designs vary, but most are built around two key components: the reactor itself and a superheated fluid, typically liquid hydrogen. A turbopump pipes the hydrogen through the reactor, which superheats the liquid into searing gas. In turn, the gas escapes out an attached nozzle, creating thrust. The hotter the rocket can heat the fuel, the more thrust it can produce.

Artist concept of Demonstration for Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) spacecraft, which will demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine. Nuclear thermal propulsion technology could be used for future NASA crewed missions to Mars.

LOCKHEED MARTIN

To the untrained eye, an NTR engine wouldn’t look obviously different from a chemical rocket. Even from the rocket builder’s eye, many of an NTR engine’s components — the valves, the nozzles, the hydrogen that must be kept at cryogenic temperatures — have places aboard a chemical rocket.

Where nuclear rockets shine instead is in their efficiency, what rocket scientists call specific impulse. In other words, how much an engine can boost its spacecraft with the same amount of fuel. NTR engines have two to three times more specific impulses than their chemical counterparts. Once outside Earth’s gravity, nuclear-powered craft can travel far more quickly than chemical craft.

Again, if we wanted to reach Mars using the best chemical rockets we have available, it would be very difficult, with available launch times of just once every 26 months. NTR engines promise to drastically slash those times. Because they can accelerate spacecraft to higher speeds, they open up far more opportunities for flights to other planets that don’t require complex gravitational dances.

“It gives me the ability to abort my mission and return home — not all the time, but for a much longer part of my mission,” Kurt Polzin, chief engineer for space nuclear propulsion at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, tells Inverse.

NTR proponents like Polzin believe that isn’t the only reason a nuclear-powered mission will be fundamentally safer than one with today’s rockets. A shorter journey means astronauts can carry fewer supplies, and their bodies won’t absorb as much ionizing radiation en route.

“If we can improve crew safety, I think we would consider that what we’ve done has been very successful,” Polzin says.

GETTING OUT OF EARTH’S ORBIT AND ONTO THE MOON

In the 1980s and 1990s, nuclear rockets gathered dust, and most scientists overlooked them. Nuclear rocket designs became the province of secretive U.S. military projects like the Strategic Defense Initiative (the so-called “Star Wars”) Project Timber Wind, which tried to return the technology to its destructive missile roots.

But by the 2010s, a new generation of researchers had taken hold, and NASA’s priorities again began to shift away from Earth orbit. NASA engineers once more dared to dream up plans for nuclear-powered Mars missions.

Within a few short years, it also became clear that the Artemis Program — NASA’s ambitious push to establish a permanent base on the Moon, which could serve as a stopover for human missions to Mars — was actually going to happen. Funding began to follow. In 2019, the U.S. Congress allocated more than $100 million to NTR research.

Dale Thomas, a propulsion engineer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville whose research focuses on NTR engines, thinks there’s one big, Earth-bound factor contributing to the sudden rise in interest in nuclear power. “[Climate change] has caused people to rethink their position on nuclear power in general as a non-greenhouse gas emitting technology,” Thomas tells Inverse. He says shifts in attitudes, which resulted in new nuclear power plants and delays of plans to close old ones, extend to space travel as well.

Thomas, for his part, hopes that studying how to build better NTR engines — building reactors that can stand up to the intense pressures and temperatures of a reactor — can translate into building better reactors down on Earth.

The largest challenge, Thomas says, is “convincing NASA mission planners that they can count on nuclear thermal propulsion in their mission designs.”

That is one goal of DRACO, the mission that plans to launch the first nuclear-powered rocket, picking up where NERVA left off half a century ago.

DRACO will launch atop a standard chemical rocket, partly because chemical rockets are currently more powerful and partly to minimize the risk of a nuclear accident. That rocket will take DRACO up to a relatively high orbit above Earth — somewhere between 435 and 1,240 miles (700 and 2,000 kilometers) — where engineers will take DRACO’s nuclear drive through preliminary tests in a space environment.

“We’ve never done this before ... we’re going to learn how to do it … we’re going to take that and pay it forward to the next system.”

DRACO inherits NERVA’s legacy and research results, but there are a few differences between the two. For one, where NERVA used weapons-grade uranium, which is over 90 percent uranium-235, DRACO uses what is called high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU), which is more like 10 to 20 percent uranium-235. This brings DRACO closer to the uranium that’s used in the civilian nuclear power sector. While HALEU does generate less power, acquiring a license to play with it in the U.S. is far easier and far cheaper than getting permission for the higher-grade stuff.

Additionally, part of the reason DRACO’s builders are so eager to test it in space is that, with NERVA’s facilities long abandoned, the original testing grounds are no longer usable. In that sense, it’s already getting off the ground far more quickly than NERVA ever could.

“I just hope that the mission is successful as planned,” Thomas says. “That is, a successful flight demonstration of a nuclear-thermal-propulsion-powered spacecraft.”

DRACO is a prototype. Much of the test’s value will be in letting NASA’s engineers gain practical knowledge: practicing getting DRACO into space in the first place, understanding the quirks of an NTR engine in operation, and creating flight checklists for a type of engine they have never flown.

“We’ve never done this before,” Polzin says. “We’re going to learn how to do it … we’re going to take that and pay it forward to the next system.”

There is still a great deal of work to be done. For instance, Polzin says that engineers need to push NTR engines to even higher temperatures than DRACO. But Polzin firmly believes that “next system” — or the one after it, or so on — will be what finally pushes astronauts to Mars.

NTR may be just the beginning of a growing category of what some scientists and engineers call “advanced propulsion” — or propulsion that doesn’t rely on standard chemical reactions.

Probes to destinations near Earth rely on electric ion propulsion, which uses electric current to accelerate xenon or krypton ions out of a thruster to push it forward. In fact, future craft may generate that current with nuclear fission. More hypothetically, engineers have proposed craft that very literally sail through the solar system with solar sails, which would catch the sun’s light as an oceanic ship’s sails catch the winds. Meanwhile, Princeton’s Ebrahimi is one of a handful of scientists working on engines powered by a different sort of nuclear physics: fusion.

There is no reason we have to only power spacecraft with one type of engine. The future of space travel might be all of these options existing in tandem, each one specialized for a specific purpose.

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Astronomers discover thousands of active red galaxy hearts with powerful radio signals

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Drone Records UFOs Behind Las Vegas, Nevada 9-21-2023, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 9-21-2023

Location of sighting: Las Vegas Mountains, Nevada USA

Source: MUFON

Guys, this is the legendary Tall White ships seen behind Nellis AFB in Las Vegas hills. The US military gave the Tall Whites some land at the old firing range, between Nellis AFB and Area S4. All the land between belongs to the US military and is off limits. If you have never heard of the Tall Whites, search Charles Hall interview or see this video at, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPGvfDanq2M&t=2s

Eyewitness states: 

3 Very bright orbs flying over the Nevada mountains. Flew in a linear path. Perfectly aligned then disappeared.

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UFO Over Boston, MA Causes Power line surge! 9-22-2023, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 9-22-2023

Location of sighting: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Source: Email report

Caught by a door cam, this UFO was so powerful it caused a power surge in the telephone pole power cables. Watch and see a glowing line race back and forth over the lines. UFOs do that, UFOs can shut down cars, watches, lights and even cause surges in energy on power lines as you see in this video. This power surge is 100% proof that an alien craft was nearby. 

 Scott C. Waring - Taiwan

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The Secret Truth of UFOs

UAPs or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena have long been a topic of intrigue, speculation, and skepticism. Whether it’s the elusive Area 51 tales, the intriguing reports from military pilots, or the alleged sightings from ordinary citizens, the mystery behind these phenomena persists. This article dives deep into the world of UAPs, examining credible sources, documented experiences, and the burning questions they leave in their wake.

The Puzzling World of UAPs:

While Hollywood might have you believe that every unidentified object in the sky is an alien spacecraft, the truth is far more nuanced. UAPs encompass a range of anomalies – from optical illusions and atmospheric conditions to high-tech drones or potentially otherworldly entities.

Recent data collection efforts have revealed something fascinating. Contrary to popular belief, the US Department of Defense (DoD) hasn’t filtered out fast or slow-moving objects in their radar data, providing a more comprehensive view of what’s really out there.

Radar Filters & Unveiling Truths:

One notable revelation concerns the DoD’s radar systems. While focused primarily on detecting conventional aircraft and missiles, there’s an acknowledgment of ‘filters’ set on these radars. The implication? Decades of data might have omitted these UAPs. Speculations run wild. Could they be technological assets from rivals like Russia dating back to the Cold War? Or perhaps advancements of US technology, strategically hidden?

The potential of this technology, if real, is astonishing. UAPs have been reported to perform maneuvers that defy our current understanding of physics and aeronautics. Instant acceleration, sharp turns at unbelievable speeds, and hovering still in the air have all been documented.

Whistleblowers & the Controversies:

Bob Lazar stands out as a significant, albeit controversial, figure in UAP discourse. He claimed to have worked in Area 51, revealing secrets about reverse engineering alien tech. Though skeptics question the authenticity of his claims, the sheer amount of detailed information he provided remains thought-provoking.

It’s not just Lazar. Commander David Grosch came forward, risking his reputation, driven by a “sense of duty” to share his experiences. This bravery shines a light on the seriousness with which some insiders view these phenomena.

VIDEO:

The realm of UAPs remains clouded in mystery. Are they secret advanced technology? Evidences of extraterrestrial life? Or perhaps a mixture of many explanations? While we might not have definitive answers, one thing is clear – our sky holds more mysteries than we once believed.

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But it's not zero.

Witnesses have for decades comes forward to share their alleged encounters with strange flying objects and even otherworldly beings themselves, only to often be ridiculed and dismissed. The specter of flying saucers and little green men has long been a topic relegated to the realm of pop culture at best, and hokum at worst.

Yet for better or worse, UFOs have increasingly entered the mainstream in recent months as military whistleblowers and others come forward with accounts that lend credibility to a long stigmatized concept.

Now, witnesses once made to feel like crackpots are sharing what they believe are sightings of UFOs in "Encounters," a docuseries premiering Wednesday on Netflix. Across four episodes, the series will rely on firsthand accounts to explore the evidence (or lack thereof) that we may not be alone in the universe.

"Encounters" will premier Wednesday on Netflix. The four-part docuseries explores four different mass UFO sightings in different parts of the world.  

NETFLIX

"Most people would say the question is, like, 'Are we alone,'" one person says in the trailer, released earlier in September. "I think the question is, 'Who are we?'"

Watch the trailer:

NASA UFO briefing takeaways: 

How NASA hopes to shift UAP talks 'from sensationalism to science'

What is 'Encounters' about?

The upcoming docuseries is the latest in recent years to explore UFOs in the wake of a 2017 article in the New York Times that first exposed a shadowy Pentagon program to study what the government officially refers to as UAP, short for unidentified anomalous phenomena.

Directed by Yon Motskin, each episode of the series produced by Stephen Spielberg's Amblin Television, Boardwalk Pictures and Vice Studios explores a separate report of a mass sighting in a different part of the world.

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Billed in Netflix press materials as a "detective story," "Encounters" relies on both firsthand accounts and also the testimony of various scientists and military officials to delve into reports of suspected extraterrestrial phenomena. The four episodes feature accounts of strange lights in the sky in 2008 over small-town Texas; Cold War-era submersible crafts lurking near a coastal Welsh village; a non-human intelligence reportedly interfering in 2011 with the operations of a nuclear power plant in Japan; and an alien encounter in 1994 experienced by schoolchildren in Zimbabwe.

"UFOs, UAP's, non-human intelligence, whatever we might call it — I didn’t before but now I think it exists," Motskin told Netflix. "It could be non-human intelligence from far away, or from the past or future, or even us from the future. But I believe ‘the phenomenon’, as it’s called, has been around for a long time."

No longer conspiracy theories: 

• How UFOs became mainstream in America

Why is the docuseries relevant now?

A witness reviews footage in Netflix's "Encounters" from the Department of Defense depicting an unidentified object in the sky observed by a Navy pilot. The U.S. government now refers to UFOs as UAP, short for unidentified anomalous phenomena.  Show less 

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Public interest in UFOs has been building since July when three former military officers testified in front of Congress about mysterious objects sighted by Navy pilots, as well as a clandestine program to retrieve and study downed spacecraft.

The claim of the crash retrieval program came from former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch, who testified before a House Oversight subcommittee that his country has been aware of “non-human” activity since the 1930s. Though he was constrained in presenting hard evidence about alleged classified programs, Grusch claimed to have been informed that the Pentagon has been able to obtain and study not only interstellar crafts, but the bodies of extraterrestrial pilots themselves.

More UFO documentaries: 

• Here are 3 other UFO docuseries streaming now

The Pentagon has repeatedly denied that such a program exists.

Since then, the Pentagon's office to investigate UFOs unveiled a website where the public can access declassified information about reported sightings and soon make reports of their own.

And earlier this month, NASA released the findings of a long-anticipated report on UAP while appointing a new chief of UFO research. The announcement came on the heels of Mexico's first ever UFO hearing that featured wild testimony from a UFO researcher presenting what he alleged were the mummified bodies of ancient aliens, a claim that has been disputed by scientists.

NASA scientists and other astrophysicists acknowledge the phenomena of objects sighted in skies flying in ways believed to be beyond the capabilities of known human technology, but also caution that otherworldly explanations for UFOs aren't likely even in the absence of a natural one.

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• ' NASA says planet 8.6 times bigger than Earth could support life
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5 Concealed Navy UFO Encounters

UFO sightings have been a topic of intrigue, speculation, and debate for decades. With numerous eyewitness accounts and growing public interest, the mystery deepens as new sightings emerge. Especially when these encounters involve not just the skies but the vastness of our oceans. Let’s dive into some of the most riveting naval encounters that will make you rethink everything you know about UFO sightings.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the National UFO Reporting Center’s database recorded several incidents involving the US Navy. These weren’t your usual skyward-looking sightings; these were encounters from the depths, involving massive naval vessels and mysterious unidentified submerged objects, or USOs.

One captivating account from 1965 speaks of a witness aboard the USS Albany in the Azores Islands. This individual detailed an event where three unidentified objects, maintaining a triangular formation, trailed the fleet for hours. Attempts to approach these objects with jets resulted in them swiftly disappearing from radar screens.

Fast forward to 1977 in the Bermuda Triangle, a locale already rife with mysteries. Crew aboard the USS Glover reported seeing bright orange objects descend from the sky, only to perform acrobatic maneuvers above their ship. But what was truly astounding was that during this event, the ship lost all power. Once the objects vanished, power mysteriously returned.

These aren’t isolated events. Time and again, naval crews across the world have reported unexplained phenomena that defy logic and our understanding of physics. Such incidents not only raise questions about what we’re seeing but also about the extent to which authorities are willing to suppress information.

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• 5 Concealed Navy UFO Encounters | The Richard Dolan Show

It’s vital to approach UFO sightings with an open yet analytical mind. While some might be explainable phenomena, others challenge our understanding of the world around us. Are they proof of otherworldly civilizations, or are they top-secret experiments? One thing is certain: with every new sighting, our desire to decode the mysteries of the universe only grows stronger.

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MIB or Aliens Walk Up To Door, Knock, California, RingCam, Sept 20, 2023, UFO Sighting News.

Location of sighting: City Unknown, 

Date of sighting: Sept 20, 2023 at 10:45 AM.

Source: MUFON

 

Now this just in. A ultra rare encounter recorded by an unbiased ringcam. Two alien visitors, dressed like MIB and a dark sphere hovering behind them over the yard. That screams out alien visitation, since most MIB are aliens themselves, it appears the aliens ether look like humans or took human form to keep the home occupant relaxed. They were probably there to chat with the person gather data and scan the occupants of the home. Aliens often do this to humans who have been tagged with trackers...where the aliens come back every few years to record the scientific data, scan and sometimes examine and operate on a person before returning them to their home. Wow, my mind is melting over this video. So rare, so amazing, how will the public react?

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

Eyewitness states:

My mother has a ring door bell. And she witnesses two guys she has never seen before knocking on the door. She texts her children and asks of we knew them. We do not. Then I noticed something unusual in the back ground. AN floating or flying object.

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UAP 30 Min Video By US Boarder Patrol, Nov 23, 2019, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Nov 23, 2019

US Gov source: 

• https://www.cbp.gov/document/foia-record/unidentified-aerial-phenomenon

This UFO video was just released a few days ago, the website itself just went up a few days ago. Most people never heard of it, and I'm sure thats the way they want it, but I have to share it, have to show you the truth. It's real, its there, its being tracked for 30 full minutes! It's undeniable proof that alien craft are crossing US boarders under the eyes of the US gov infrared cameras. 

Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

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Mysterious Square-Shaped UFO Stuns Boat Driver at Lake Monroe, Indiana 23-Sep-2023

On the calm waters of Lake Monroe, Indiana, an unsuspecting boater had an experience that would leave even the most hardened skeptics scratching their heads. The date? September 23, 2023. As the sun began its descent, the clear skies were punctuated by an anomaly that defies traditional explanation – a square-shaped UFO.

The witness, navigating his boat on the Cutright side of Lake Monroe, initially mistook the object for an airplane banner. But in an unexpected twist, there was no plane in sight. Instead, a silent, hovering square shape dominated the horizon, moving with inexplicable speed and agility.

Without a sound, the object darted southward, only to disappear and re-emerge further in the same direction. As if defying the very laws of physics, it zipped back north, repeating its mysterious path. But the grand finale was yet to come. As the observer made his way through the causeway, this enigmatic UFO executed a rapid ascend northward, taking a 25-degree incline, and vanished into the abyss of the sky.

With UFO sightings becoming increasingly mainstream, this incident at Lake Monroe stands out not only because of its unique shape but also its baffling movements. Was it an advanced drone? A secretive military project? Or perhaps something not of this world? Only time will tell. But for now, Lake Monroe joins the growing list of global UFO hotspots.

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New UAP Video By US Gov Boarder Patrol! Sept 26, 2023, UFO Sighting News.

US Border Patrol Protection: 

• https://www.cbp.gov/document/foia-record/unidentified-aerial-phenomenon

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The Alaska Triangle, a remote and sparsely populated area, located between Juneau, Anchorage, and Barrow, is known for its disproportionately high number of unsolved missing person cases, surpassing any other place on Earth. Over the past half-century, more than 20,000 individuals have mysteriously vanished without a trace leaving a haunting question mark hanging over the Alaskan wilderness. 

Adding to the intrigue are the reports of mysterious UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters and other paranormal activity making the Alaska Triangle a hotspot of unexplained phenomena. 

Some theorists believe that the Alaska Triangle conceals a electromagnetic anomaly, such as a vortex, which may have an affect on the physical realm. This magnetic mystery has given rise to speculation linking these phenomena to the vanishing acts of so many people. 

The discovery of three secret extraterrestrial underground bases by a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst years ago could possibly be an answer to the many reports of unidentified objects flying through the skies without making any noise. 

One such a base is purportedly located beneath Alaska's Mount Hayes, the highest peak in the state's eastern range. Its remote and inaccessible location raises questions about whether such an extraterrestrial underground base might be connected to the many UFO sightings and other strange occurrences including the inexplicable vanishing of so many people that have persisted in the area for decades. 

Among the most haunting mysteries is the loss of 44 military personnel aboard a Douglas C-54 Skymaster en route from Alaska to Montana. Despite one of the most extensive joint search and rescue missions ever conducted by Canadian and American authorities, not a trace of the aircraft has ever been recovered. 

Yet, another mystery is the disappearance of Congressman Hale Boggs in 1972. His aircraft inexplicably vanished from radar while traversing the Triangle's airspace. Despite extensive search and rescue efforts, neither wreckage nor survivors were ever found. 

Photographer caught disk-shaped UFO outside Anchorage, Alaska.

With all the unexplained events and strange sightings happened over the years, it raises a tantalizing question: Could there be a connection to extraterrestrials entities harboring a secret underground base beneath Alaska's Mount Hayes and could these entities hold the answers to the disappearances of over 20,000 individuals, who have vanished without a trace, along with the two aircraft and their passengers and crew?

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Did ALIENS abduct a US Air Force pilot over the North Sea? Serviceman took off from RAF base in 1970 and disappeared 12 minutes later - but when his plane was found the cockpit canopy was closed and there was no body

By JOHN NICHOL

In the final extract from his gripping book about the chequered history of the ejection seat, John Nichol — who was taken prisoner by Saddam Hussein's troops after his Tornado jet was shot down over Iraq during the first Gulf War — tells the intriguing story of an American pilot who disappeared without trace over the North Sea.

At RAF Binbrook in Lincolnshire, U.S. pilot Captain Bill Schaffner was a popular addition to the ranks of 5 Squadron. He arrived there in 1970 to learn to fly one-man Lightning fighter planes as part of an exchange programme between the U.S. Air Force and the RAF. With him were wife Linda and small children David, Glennon and baby Michael.

Life on a Cold War airbase in those days revolved around the ever-present threat from the Soviet Union. All personnel were required to be fully prepared for such an eventuality, and in September that year, a major exercise began to test a squadron's reaction to a Soviet attack on the UK.

British aircraft posing as Soviet bombers were out over the North Sea, threatening to stray into territorial waters. 5 Squadron's challenge was to find them, shadow them and warn them off, or, if necessary, practise shooting them down.

All day, Lightnings roared airborne to challenge 'the invaders', then headed back into Binbrook, tyres squealing as they landed, to refuel and then take off again, straight back into the fray.

Tragedy: US pilot Bill Schaffner with his wife Linda in 1966

Missing body: Captain Schaffner's Lightning being pulled from the North Sea 

It was evening before Schaffner was scrambled, ordered to his fighter, XS894. The weather had begun to deteriorate as he climbed into the cockpit, strapped into his ejection seat and sat stationary on a taxiway until he was allocated the call sign 'Charlie 45'. Then he blasted off the runway, climbing to 10,000ft over the North Sea.

Three minutes and five seconds later he checked in with the radar station at RAF Patrington in Yorkshire, from where the exercise was being run, to be told that his mission was to shadow and shepherd a four-engine Avro Shackleton that was posing as a Soviet bomber and heading towards the Yorkshire coast. This was despite shadowing and shepherding being a manoeuvre he had practised but not actually been cleared to perform.

It was also now getting dark, and he had only notched up 18 hours of night flying on the Lightning. There was a further complication: the speed of a Shackleton was 185mph, whereas the slowest a Lightning could be flown in this type of operation was 230mph. This was going to be tricky, testing to the full his flying skills on an aircraft that was new to him.

The night was pitch-black, the weather had worsened, and, as he concentrated on shadowing the slow-moving aircraft, Schaffner probably could no longer see the horizon. For a Lightning pilot with such limited experience, the workload in the cockpit was reaching breaking point.

To make a challenging situation even worse, his task was then dramatically upgraded. His mission now was not just to follow the Shackleton but to intercept it and, if necessary, escort it to RAF Binbrook.

He dropped to 5,000 feet and followed an instruction to increase his speed to 0.95 Mach (728mph) towards the 'target', which was now just 28 nautical miles away. A Lightning had phenomenal acceleration. In seconds it could be travelling at well over 12 miles a minute. He would be on top of the target before he knew it. He needed to slow down.

Patrington reminded Schaffner to keep a sharp lookout. 'Roger, I'm watching 'em,' he replied.

At 9.42, just 12 minutes after he had blasted off from RAF Binbrook, he got another set of instructions. 'If target aircraft approaches within three miles of the UK coastline, it is to be directed to land at Waddington [another RAF base in Lincolnshire].'

There was no response.

Aircraft English Electric Lightning T5 of RAF 111 Squadron taking off with Chief Marshall Sir Wallace Kyle on board

For decades, Captain Schaffner's disappearance 12 minutes after take-off from RAF Binbrook in 1970 was part of UFO lore

What was also worrying was that the controller could no longer see Schaffner on his radar screen and was growing increasingly frantic. A succession of urgent radio calls rang out. 'Charlie 45, Charlie 45, this is Patrington, do you read? Over.'

Only the hiss and crackle of static filled the radio. Schaffner and his Lightning fighter had disappeared.

Listening in to all this, RAF pilot Chris Coville went to look for his friend, flying low over the water, but was unable to see anything. 'The penny began to drop,' Coville (later Air Marshal Sir Christopher Coville) recalls. 'Something terrible had happened to Bill. It was obvious that he had crashed into the sea. But there was still hope.'

A lifeboat and an RAF Marine Branch rescue vessel were alerted and on their way to the area, eyes peeled in the darkness for a dinghy floating on the sea. 'If he had ejected and triggered his survival beacon it would transmit a signal to allow rescuers to home in on him.'

But there were no bleeps from Schaffner's survival radio. With every passing minute, Coville's feeling of dread increased.

'I landed back at base to see the padre in the crew room, never a welcome sight.' Minutes later the padre and the station commander were knocking on Linda Schaffner's door with the news that every airman's wife lives in dread of.

Linda recalled an RAF doctor arriving with a box of Valium to calm her down. But nothing could take the edge off her mounting grief. 'I was in total shock. I was told Bill was probably dead. But what did probably mean? How could they know? I stayed up most of the night, hoping, praying, that they would find him. Every time I heard a noise outside, I rushed to the window to see if it was him.'

Discussing with me the events of that day over 50 years ago, Coville retrieves his RAF logbook and reads the entry aloud: '8th September 1970 — Captain Bill Schaffner lost.' There was no sign of his aircraft. There was no sign of him. It was not known if he had ejected.

A week later there was still no sign of Bill or his Lightning. He had to be presumed dead. His wife and children went back to the US. On the flight home, one thought nagged away at Linda. Bill's body had still not been recovered. Had he managed to eject? Was there perhaps a scintilla of hope?

A month later, a Royal Navy minesweeper in the North Sea picked up a bulky object on its sonar, five miles north-east of Flamborough Head, lying in mud on the seabed, about 100 feet from the surface. A diver went down and reported back. It was Schaffner's Lightning, its back broken but otherwise remarkably undamaged.

Then from the seabed the diver relayed something very strange: 'Cockpit closed. Looking in now. It's empty. No sign of the pilot.'

His plane was found on the seabed, its ejection seat in place, the cockpit canopy closed – but minus a body...

Only one thing was for sure. Schaffner had hit the water at 180mph. The exact point of impact had frozen on the altimeter and the air speed indicator

The plane was winched to the surface. Photographs taken at the time show the Lightning's distinctive swept-back wings, with the aircraft's registration, XS894, on the underside. Inspection confirmed the top canopy was closed but the cockpit was empty. The ejection seat was still in the aircraft with the harness undone. The mystery deepened — what had happened that night? And where was Bill?

An official Board of Inquiry, set up the day after the accident, went to work, with a host of difficult questions. Had the ejection seat failed, or had the pilot not pulled the handle? And if not, why not? Where was the body? If he had managed to unstrap and climb out, why was the cockpit canopy closed?

Only one thing was for sure. Schaffner had hit the water at 180mph. The exact point of impact had frozen on the altimeter and the air speed indicator.

Over in the US, Linda Schaffner received an official letter. 'This is to advise you that the aircraft which your husband Captain William Schaffner was flying was recovered from the North Sea. However, his body was not inside the aircraft. The whereabouts is undetermined at this time. I will advise you immediately of any new developments. I extend my deepest sympathy.'

Linda was bewildered. 'It was inexplicable. Where was Bill? I had no husband to bury and no information about what happened to him. How was he not in the aircraft? Had he ejected? I couldn't understand it.' No one could.

The years went by, Linda remarried and she and her boys had happy lives. But in 1999, the youngest, Mike, now a 29-year-old, was as puzzled as ever. 'As a teenager, I remembered day-dreaming that my father had somehow survived and was suffering from amnesia somewhere.

'Or perhaps he had been picked up by a Soviet submarine and was languishing in a gulag. As an adult, I put those thoughts away. I'd never known him beyond his military mementos that my mom kept in an old red box.'

Killing time one day, he went online, idly looking for any references to his father. The family had been promised the Board of Inquiry's accident report but had never received it. Mike had no idea it had been completed back in June 1972, and then restricted for security reasons.

'About ten pages into my search I saw the words 8 September 1970 and RAF Binbrook. It was the date my dad died, and his base. I was astonished.' He clicked on the link and up popped a 1992 article in the Grimsby Telegraph — 'The Riddle of Foxtrot 94'.

It claimed that 'a young USAF pilot, Captain Bill Schaffner, had been scrambled in his Lightning, along with six RAF fighters from other bases, three tankers and a Shackleton early warning aircraft to intercept a 'mystery contact'.' The reference was to an unidentified flying object — a UFO.

Mike couldn't quite believe what he was reading. This was the first real information he had found about the accident. There was a whole clutch of stories about his dad, each one more astonishing than the last, all based on the sleuthing of UFO hunters.

Incredibly, one ran what it claimed was an official transcript of Bill's final radio calls with his flight controllers. 'I have visual contact, repeat visual contact. I'm alongside it now, maybe 600 feet. It's a conical shape. Jeez, that's bright. It hurts my eyes to look at it for more than a few seconds.'

The article claimed Schaffner now saw an object 'the size of a large football, like it's made of glass, bobbing up and down' at the back end of the mystery craft. It's not actually connected. Maybe a magnetic attraction. Could be the power source. It's within a haze of yellow light. There's no sign of ballistics.'

Suddenly there was alarm in his voice. 'It's turning, coming straight for me, am taking evasive action.' His radio then went dead.

Reading all this, Mike didn't know what to believe. Over the coming days, he and his brothers made calls to people who had known their father, and to any contacts they had within the US Air Force who could offer any advice.

And they discovered even more ludicrous stories, and TV interviews with so-called experts who delighted in promoting UFO theories. Mike sent the supposed transcript to one of his father's old USAF friends. The reply was prompt and precise. 'This is utter hokum. It's just a bunch of made-up junk.'

After his initial shock, Mike agreed. 'Clearly it was utter rubbish, but the fact that there was so much information out there about my dad spurred me on to investigate more.' He and his brother were also angered by the stories for doing their distinguished and decorated father a gross disservice. 'My dad was a pilot. I was horrified his name was linked to this UFO nonsense.'

But there still remained that one big mystery. 'None of us could understand why the ejection seat was still in his jet, but my father was not. It became my mission to establish what had happened to him that night.'

After years of secrecy, the Aircraft Accident Report was handed to his sons by an RAF Wing Commander. 'Tragic though it was,' he told them, 'it was an accident. There is no other logical explanation'

More years went by when, out of the blue, Mike had a call from someone at the BBC to say they were investigating his father's death and invited the brothers to come to London to put pressure on the Ministry of Defence to release the accident report.

At first the MoD claimed not to have it — it must have been shredded, they said — but they eventually dug it out. It had the real transcript of their father's final conversation with ground controllers, exposing as a total fake the 'UFO' transcript, with its manufactured conversations and ludicrous descriptions of floating lights.

After years of secrecy, the Aircraft Accident Report was handed to his sons by an RAF Wing Commander. 'Tragic though it was,' he told them, 'it was an accident. There is no other logical explanation.'

A string of operational and procedural errors had led to their father's flight to oblivion. There was no single root cause. The report said: 'His lack of training led to a situation where he failed to monitor the height of his aircraft while slowing down and acquiring his target. And he had inadvertently flown his aircraft into the sea.'

A battle-hardened combat pilot had made a simple error flying a new aircraft on a complex night sortie and it had cost him his life. He would not be the first, or the last.

But why had he not ejected? Why was his seat in the cockpit while he was not?

The explanation was tragically simple. The inquiry revealed that he had pulled the ejection handle but a tiny, misaligned screw in the mechanism that blew off the overhead canopy meant its explosive charge failed to detonate.

The seat was designed not to eject if the canopy was still in place to avoid fatal head injuries. There was no problem with the design of the seat, but the circumstances were such that night that it was never going to blast Bill to safety. A simple engineering error resulted in the death of a husband and father.

'Crashing into the sea at 180mph would probably have resulted in severe injuries,' Chris Coville says. 'He had tried to eject at some point and failed. But he had then clearly unstrapped from his ejection seat, managed to open the cockpit canopy and struggle out as the jet initially floated on the water.'

So why was the jet later discovered with the canopy fully closed? Didn't that point to some outside interference? No. After Schaffner had escaped from his cockpit the aircraft began to sink and the increasing water pressure forced the canopy shut again as it descended.

According to Coville, there was only one answer to the mystery of his friend's disappearance. 'Incapacitated and without his survival dinghy, Bill almost certainly drowned in the cold North Sea. It was sheer bad luck that several elements combined

on that fateful night to take him to his death.'

For Glennon Schaffner, 'discovering that my father's ejection seat hadn't worked because of a servicing error was a shock. The tiniest detail — a damaged screw thread — meant that the canopy jettison unit failed to fire. If it had been serviced correctly, my father might still be alive today.'

No culprit was ever identified but, as the crash report says, the MOD had acted quickly when it discovered what had happened. 'The servicing procedures for the inspection, re-arming and servicing of cockpit canopy firing units have been amended. All ejection firing units have been inspected for signs of damage.'

Just as well. Glennon later discovered that other Lightnings were found to have exactly the same issue with their ejection seats, which was hurriedly rectified. 'There is no doubt our father's death, and the discovery of the fault, meant other lives were saved. At least that's something we can hold onto.'

Mike and Glennon had one final pilgrimage to make, travelling north to Flamborough Head. 'There was a large boat a mile or so out to sea,' Glennon said. 'It climbed and dipped in the swell, disappearing from sight, then rising to appear again.

'I thought of my dad, injured, unstrapping from his ejection seat and climbing from his Lightning out there on a stormy night. He really didn't stand a chance.'

'Fifty-two years after he died,' says Mike, 'I still have a Dad-shaped hole in my life, but now I know why. He died doing what he loved, and I am grateful for that. When I die I want my ashes to be thrown into the North Sea. So I can be back with my him, in his final resting place.'

© John Nichol, 2023 

• Adapted from Eject! Eject! by John Nichol, to be published by Simon & Schuster on May 25 at £20. To order a copy for £18 (offer valid to 27/05/23; UK p&p free on orders over £25), visit mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937. 

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The Enigmatic Kelly Cahill Abduction: A Tale from Down Under

In the vast expanse of UFO encounters and reports, very few stand out quite like the story of Kelly Cahill’s mysterious experience in the southern Dandenong Mountains of Australia. This isn’t just an ordinary tale. Multiple witnesses and eerie physical evidence weave together to create a narrative that has both skeptics and believers scratching their heads.

A Midnight Drive Turned Eerie

On the night of August 8th, 1993, Kelly Cahill and her husband Andrew were driving home from a friend’s barbecue. The midnight atmosphere was pierced only by the occasional pockets of light rain, an ambiance one would call normal. But as they drove along the Belgrave-Hallam Road, their journey was interrupted by an unexpected sight — a strange object in the sky.

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At first, Kelly thought it resembled a blimp. But as it drew nearer, its true form became clear: a disc-shaped object, hovering with an ethereal orange glow. Windows seemed to line the object’s exterior, and behind them, dark figures stood tall and still. Before either of them could react, the object vanished, leaving behind a trail of awe and confusion.

A White Curtain and Missing Time

Shortly after the initial sighting, the couple encountered an intense, blinding white light. As they drove through it, they were left disoriented, and it felt as though they had moved considerably further down the road than they remembered. To compound the strangeness, upon arriving home, Kelly found a geometric marking below her navel – a red, equilateral triangle that seemed burned into her skin.

Perhaps even more perplexing was the realization that they had lost 90 minutes of time during their drive — time neither could account for.

Connecting the Dots

Kelly’s experience didn’t end that night. In the days that followed, she suffered from abnormal health issues: a sudden and intense menstruation, relentless migraines, and an inexplicable womb infection. Medical examinations offered no concrete answers.

Haunted by what had transpired, Kelly sought the help of UFO researchers. It was then that she learned she wasn’t the only witness that night. Two other cars had stopped to observe the strange object. Bill, Glenda, Jane, and Dave all shared eerily similar stories, and, even more intriguingly, the same triangular mark appeared on the bodies of several of the witnesses.

Sketches drawn independently by the witnesses to depict the event all mirrored each other. They showed the large, circular craft lined with windows and dark, tall figures standing inside. Each account had subtle variations, but the crux remained consistent.

Lingering Mysteries

After the event, Kelly claimed she was visited multiple times by one of the dark figures from that night, sparking electrical disturbances around her. Kelly wasn’t alone in her post-encounter experiences. Glenda shared an unsettling account of waking up in a strange room, strapped to a table, being observed by a cloaked entity.

Many questions remain: Was it an alien encounter? A shared hallucination? Or perhaps a collective spiritual or near-death experience?

While the Dandenong Mountains incident remains unexplained, the multiple witnesses and corroborating evidence make it hard to dismiss. Kelly, Andrew, Bill, Glenda, Jane, and Dave have all had their lives irrevocably changed by that one night. And whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, their tale serves as a chilling reminder of the mysteries that lurk in our world — waiting to be understood.

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Mexican Dead Alien Bodies are Not a Hoax: They Have Humanoid Features, Researchers Say

On September 12, 2023, the Mexican government hosted a historic UAP hearing, organized by the Commission of Science and Technology of the Chamber of Deputies. The event included testimonies from various UAP experts and whistleblowers including former US Navy pilot Ryan Graves. However, the hearings drew criticism from many, as the primary focus was on the two alleged alien corpses presented by Jaime Maussan, a Mexican journalist and UFOlogist with decades of experience researching and reporting on UAPs.

The two tiny alien corpses were displayed in windowed boxes for all to see. The small mummified specimen was retrieved from Cusco, Peru in a layer of diatomaceous earth. They are believed to be one thousand years old. “These aren’t beings that were found after a UFO wreckage,” Maussan said, “They were found in diatom mines, and were later fossilized.” He later added: “Whether they are aliens or not, we don’t know, but they were intelligent, and they lived with us. They should rewrite history.… We are not alone in this vast universe, we should embrace this reality.”

Maussan claimed that DNA testing has been done on the mummies, and more than 30% of it is unknown. Besides, one corpse allegedly was discovered to have what appeared to be eggs or ovaries inside, while another had implants of rare metals, such as Osmium.

Skepticism

However, these claims were rightly called a hoax by many people — a public stunt by Maussan, who has been connected to previous claims of debunked alien discoveries, including five mummies discovered in Peru in 2017, later determined to be remains of human children.

ulieta Fierro, a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy in Mexico, expressed skepticism about some details related to alleged alien corpses and claims made by researchers. Fierro also questions the use of X-rays in determining if the calcified bodies are “non-human.” “Maussan has done many things. He says he has talked to the Virgin of Guadalupe,” she said. “He told me extraterrestrials do not talk to me like they talk to him because I don’t believe in them.”

Vox published an article in an attempt to debunk the Mexican alien mummy case. The article straightforwardly states that these alien remains were likely a hoax, constructed using a combination of pre-Columbian human remains and animal bones, all held together with plaster. It further discusses the broader issue of how such hoaxes contribute to a long history of erasing the achievements of pre-Columbian cultures and perpetuating racist myths. It mentions the practice of cranial reshaping in indigenous South American cultures and how it has been misinterpreted as evidence of alien influence.

Not a hoax

Maussan’s claims regarding these alleged mummified alien bodies are truly otherworldly, causing people to lose faith in this case. However, these specimens possess something genuinely intriguing that is drawing the attention of scientists for further study.

Scientists had previously said the bodies displayed in Mexico UAP hearings were generally assembled from human and animal bones. Now, a new study was conducted on two bodies and found each of them belonged to a single skeleton. According to Jose de Jesus Zalce Benitez, a director of the Scientific Institute for Health of the Mexican Navy, the studies showed that the alleged bodies belonged to a single skeleton and were not assembled.

Dr. Rubén García Linaje, an orthopedic surgeon mentioned that they were observing bones, and it appeared to be a skeleton. He pointed out that there were some unusual features, such as the circular shape of the ribs. He did not see a sternum, and the ribcage seemed to have limited expansion capabilities due to the shape of the ribs.

Dr. Armando González Ballesteros, who specializes in radiology and is an expert in interpreting CT scans also believed it was a skeleton, and it did not appear to be assembled or fabricated. He mentioned that the cranio-cervical junction looked congruent, suggesting it could belong to a biological entity. He commented on certain ribs that appeared to be embedded in the spinal canal, which seemed unusual and could have been due to trauma or other factors. He noted the glenoid, which was the socket where the upper limb articulated, seemed realistic, and the thoracic cage appeared small. However, they could not identify any remnants that would indicate the presence of lungs or other organs.

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Dr. González further explained that the term “glenoid” referred to the cup where the upper limb articulated, providing the range of motion for the upper limb. He pointed out that the humeral and glenoid parts resembled those in humans and even noted some signs of wear, similar to arthrosis found in older patients.

Regarding whether this body had been assembled or manipulated, Dr. González noted that based on their preliminary observations, it did not seem to have been fabricated. He mentioned that if it had been manipulated post-mortem, there would likely be signs of cutting or modifications, which they had not seen so far.

The Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that Jaime Maussan met with Mexican senators, including Eduardo Ramírez and Alejandro Armenta, who expressed optimism about supporting him in a reform that would officially recognize the existence of extraterrestrial life.

According to the newspaper, Maussan emphasized that the bodies were not fake and stressed the need for further investigation to determine their true nature. Maussan also mentioned that he and Senator Alejandro Armenta were exploring the possibility of amending the law to acknowledge non-human anomalous phenomena, specifically objects lacking characteristics of terrestrial technology. If successful, this would make Mexico the first country in the world to officially acknowledge such phenomena.

Maussan insisted that the bodies he presented were not fake and refuted the Peruvian government’s contrary claims. He believed that officially recognizing these bodies as non-human would position Mexico at the forefront of global discussions regarding the existence of extraterrestrial life. He also praised the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies for their openness and support in advancing these issues.

Moreover, this might be good news to Maussan as a NASA contractor is reportedly looking to study “alien bodies” he presented in the Mexoco UAP hearings. Dailymail writes that “NASA’s top UFO investigator Dr David Spergel was pressed about the purported alien corpses – and did not shut them down entirely.”

Dr Spergel told reporters: “We don’t know the nature of those samples. My recommendation is, if you have something strange, make samples available to the world scientific community, and we’ll see what’s there.”

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NASA claims it has FINALLY debunked one of the most famous UFO videos that was captured by Navy fighter jets off the coast of Florida - but not all scientists are convinced

• NASA estimated that GOFAST UFO coasted at 40 mph 'consistent' with wind
• But critics point out that Navy UFO witnesses recorded a 120-knot wind speed
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By MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

It was one of the pivotal UFO videos captured by the US military that helped thrust the once-fringe topic into the mainstream — the so-called 'GOFAST' infrared video filmed by US Navy fighter pilots off the coast of the Atlantic in January 2015.

But NASA claims it has debunked any exotic or extraterrestrial theories for GOFAST, boasting new analysis that 'reveals a less extraordinary interpretation.'

In a landmark advisory report released Thursday, the US space agency said — among other findings — that the GOFAST UFO was 'most likely' nothing more than a conventional object 'drifting with the wind.' 

But meteorological records, climate scientists, US Navy witnesses, and even computer simulations developed and tested by diehard UFO skeptics have cast doubt on the likelihood that NASA's GOFAST explanation will hold fast much longer.

At the heart of the issue: NASA's experts, by their own admission, failed to check their math on the UFO's possible 'wind drift' against the global climate science community's public wind-speed data from the likely time of the GOFAST sighting.

Public interest in UFOs heightened in 2017 with the leak of three Navy pilot infrared videos that captured 'unidentified anomalous phenomena' (UAP). Above, a still from one of these videos, GOFAST, which NASA's expert UAP advisory panel attempted to explain as terrestrial this week

NASA UAP panelist Josh Semeter, director of Boston University's Center for Space Physics, used technical details from the military infrared video's user interface to calculate the altitude and speed of the 'GOFAST' UFO. But Semeter's analysis 'neglected' wind data from the event 

To be sure, despite their own skepticism, NASA's UFO advisory panel did otherwise leave plenty of room for UFO true believers, noting in their final report that 'alien technology operating in Earth's atmosphere' was 'at least plausible.'

The US space agency even appointed a new director of research, Mark McInerney, solely devoted to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the new more technically accurate term for UFOs.

But, while the panel expressed hope that their efforts would help reduce the stigma around the reporting and scientific analysis of UAP, NASA's experts put forth a theory in their final report apparently intended to bring GOFAST back down to Earth.

In doing so, the space agency ignored voices from the squadron of Navy pilots that filmed GOFAST and the no-less-famous GIMBAL infrared UFO video, recorded that same evening in January 2015.

At the NASA group's open meeting last May, one of its UAP advisory panel members Josh Semeter — an engineering professor and director of Boston University's Center for Space Physics — presented his preliminary analysis of the GOFAST video.

Semeter made his case that the GOFAST was likely an object coasting in a strong breeze primarily by working with data present on the infrared video's display: the same intel a Navy weapons systems officer would use in the backseat of a fighter jet.

'Fortunately the information needed to determine the altitude and velocity of this object is contained on the display,' Semeter explained.

NASA's study group of 16 experts ranging from physicists to astronauts was formed in June 2020 to study unclassified UFO sightings from civilian, government and commercial sectors

Based on his trigonometric calculations of the fighter jet's flight path as the jet filmed the 'GOFAST' UAP, itself a moving target, Semeter estimated that the mystery object was cruising at just about 40 miles per hour (mph).

'That's a velocity that is consistent with wind speeds at 13,000 feet,' Semeter told his fellow NASA-appointed advisors this May. And, in fact, the calculated altitude for the GOFAST UAP, according to Semeter and others, was indeed about 13,000 feet.

Semeter's calculations emerged largely unchallenged in the NASA panel's final UFO report published this past Thursday — except for one significant caveat. 

'Our calculation has neglected wind effects on the aircraft,' NASA's UFO report stated, 'and thus there is uncertainty in this result.' 

But this dry note of caution might drastically understate the importance of these wind effects, to judge from both Semeter's critics and his allies.

Crucially, the Navy pilot witnesses heard in the GIMBAL video, which was filmed in the same area within approximately 15 minutes of the GOFAST video, state that the wind at their altitude of about 25,000 feet was then blowing '120 knots to the west.'

One computer simulation, created by noted UFO skeptic Mick West and hosted on his skeptics forum Metabunk, found that the GOFAST object would have been going significantly faster than 40 mph when taking this wind speed into account.  

The skeptic's most conservative run of the simulation would have the GOFAST UFO traveling at 100 knots or 115 mph.

'This suggests that the object could not be a balloon,' as one Metabunk poster noted, 'because it needs intrinsic speed in addition [to] wind speed at 13,000 ft.'

As the US National Weather Service notes, 'wind speed generally increases with increasing height,' and the Metabunk simulation estimates that 120 knots of wind at 25,000 feet could correspond in this case to 50-to-80 knots of wind at 13,000 feet.

But even with this 50-to-80 knots of wind helping the GOFAST sail along, the UFO would still be going too fast: twice as fast as the air pushing at its back.

While Mick West praised Semeter's work for NASA last May, calling it a rare example of 'peer review' in UFO research, the prominent UFO skeptic also felt compelled to note that the wind issue left the GOFAST case still far from identified.

'There are some open questions (and unknowns) re wind,' West posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, 'but I think this basic analysis is correct.' 

While the prominent UFO skeptic Mick West praised NASA UFO advisor Josh Semeter's work last May, calling it a rare example of 'peer review' in UFO research, West also felt compelled to note that the wind speed issue left the Navy's GOFAST UFO case far from resolved 

Other observers, however, were less forgiving of the gaps in this NASA analysis. 

One, a former Obama-era appointee to the US Department of Defense named Marik von Rennenkampff, called Semeter's omission of the reported wind conditions a 'significant error.' 

'The 'GOFAST' video shows a small, sphere-like object with no wings, engines or thermal signature demonstrating 'very interesting apparent maneuvers.'' von Rennenkampff wrote in an opinion piece for The Hill.

The one-time DoD staffer likened the UAP to other small, sphere-like objects reported over the Middle East by the Pentagon's new UFO investigation office, as well as reports from the other Navy pilots with the squadron that spotted GOFAST. 

But accurate wind speed data for the time of the GOFAST sighting need not be investigated solely via computer models and the recorded statements of the pilots present themselves that day.

Wind speed data from the time and place of the GOFAST sighting is already available — via detailed, archival weather data collated from multiple systems by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which is made open to the public via their ERA5 reanalyzed climate dataset.

Meteorologists and climate science researchers use ERA5 to obtain reliable, global, hour-by-hour weather information for academic research, commercial aviation and government policy making purposes.

It was exactly this kind of data that NASA's UAP advisory panel leader, astrophysicist David Spergel, referenced when introducing the panel's final report this Thursday.

'We looked at NASA's assets,' Spergel said. 'While they provide a comprehensive picture of the ocean, the Earth's surface and atmosphere for studying our evolving planet, they typically do not have the resolution needed for UAP events.' 

'However,' he added, 'by providing data on environmental conditions, they can complement other data on UAP.'

In this case, such data would have complimented the infrared video data taken by the Navy and the Navy pilots' witness testimony. 

Although NASA scientists have experience utilizing ERA5 to study everything from atmospheric rivers of water vapor to the reflection of sunlight off of ice at the South Pole, the space agency's UFO team did not utilize it in their work on GOFAST.

It is not clear from NASA's UFO report whether or not they even tasked the agency's military liaison Mark McInerney, now NASA's first director of UAP research, with requesting more detailed information on the time or place of the GOFAST event.

Such efforts might have assisted the panel in obtaining ERA5 data proximate to the date, region and elevations of the GOFAST UFO episode — like those obtained by the DailyMail.com from a PhD climate researcher who wishes to remain anonymous. 

Data from the ERA5 reanalyzed climate dataset, for both January 21st (left) and January 24th (right), show that only the later date had wind speeds approaching 120 knots near the region or cruising elevation of 25,000 feet reported by the Navy pilots 

The ERA5 maps are marked with a red dot off the lower Eastern seaboard near Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida — in an effort to approximate where the Navy fighter pilots reported witnessing the GIMBAL and GOFAST UAP in January 2015 

Two likely dates have emerged as the most probable candidates for the Navy's GIMBAL and GOFAST UFO events, which occurred in late January 2015.

In a 2019 statement to Freedom of Information Act researcher John Greenewald, an official spokesperson for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, Joseph Gradisher, stated that both sightings occurred on January 21, 2015.

But metadata embedded within the original GIMBAL video, as well as an unclassified Department of Defense email, reviewed for a conference paper presented to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics place both sightings on the evening of January 24th, 2015.

The DailyMail.com can confirm the likelihood of these two dates from previous interviews with retired Navy fighter pilot Lt. Ryan Graves, whose squadron reported the GIMBAL and GOFAST events.  

Data from the ERA5 reanalyzed climate dataset, for both the 21st and 24th of January, show that only the later date had wind speeds approaching 120 knots near the region or cruising elevation of 25,000 feet reported by the Navy pilots.

The ERA5 maps are marked with a red dot off the lower Eastern seaboard near Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida — in an effort to approximate where the Navy fighter pilots reported witnessing the GIMBAL and GOFAST UAP in January 2015.

These ERA5 maps, alongside the DoD email and the infrared video metadata, help to corroborate the Navy witness heard in the GIMBAL video who describes the wind speed at 25,000 feet as '120 knots to the west.' 

The period for high winds at high altitude persisted from, at least, 4:00 PM ET (21:00 UTC) to 8:00 PM ET (01:00 UTC). 

The prolonged time range means that this ERA5 data also helps confirm pilot testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee which attested that the sightings occurred 'toward the end of one of the night flights.'

The ERA5 data helps confirm pilot testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee that the sightings occurred 'toward the end of one of the night flights.' These records were obtained by Freedom of Information Act researcher John Greenewald, owner of theblackvault.com

When the agency first announced its UAP advisory panel in June 2022, NASA's Assistant Deputy Associate Administrator for Research Daniel Evans told CNBC that the budget would be 'certainly no more than $100,000.'

Evans said that NASA's budget for the UAP study would be 'very consistent' with standard grant review panels. 

It's unclear how much of the 16-person team's modest six-figure budget went toward Semeter's analysis of the GOFAST UAP video. 

Perhaps significantly, Semeter's trigonometric analysis largely echoed work that had already been previously posted to the skeptics' forum Metabunk in 2018.

Perhaps significantly, Semeter's trigonometric analysis (right) largely echoed work that had already been previously posted to the skeptics' forum Metabunk in 2018 (left) 

Josh Semeter of NASA's UAP advisory panel told the DailyMail.com via email (above), 'Yes, a 100-knot object ground speed is within the range of plausible solutions.' Semeter noted that NASA's report was meant to 'highlight challenges and limitations in current UAP investigations'

Christophe Spitzer Isbert — a French UFO researcher whose work on a UAP event near Hessdalen in Norway was cited by the French government's UFO research body Geipan — told the DailyMail.com that he believes NASA should have not rushed its GOFAST opinions into publication  

'A small set of assumptions replaced hypothesis testing,' Isbert said. 

'Assuming the object was lighter than air because it was slow and did not radiate heat does not constitute evidence to support the balloon hypothesis,' he added.

Isbert expressed his opinion that the US space agency should have attempted to collect a wider set of undisputed evidence on the GOFAST case, perhaps in the form of an official Navy report, before leveraging its stature with these public comments.

As an example, he recommended one possible method to help confirm NASA's wind-blown hypothesis, a method that also used only data available in the video itself.

'Tumbling on any axis would be visible as aspect ratio changes (length vs height),' Isbert noted. 'This would also be predicted by the balloon hypothesis since the object is not [perfectly] spherical.'

When reached for comment Monday morning, Josh Semeter of NASA's UAP advisory panel told the DailyMail.com via email, 'Yes, a 100-knot object ground speed is within the range of plausible solutions.' 

'But based on uncertainties in wind vectors and trajectory model,' Semeter noted, 'a speed below 40 knots cannot be ruled out.'

The NASA panelist emphasized that the advisory group's intention by including this top-down or overhead 2-dimensional analysis of the GOFAST video, 'with wind effects left as an uncertainty, range data assumed reliable, etc.' was intended to 'highlight challenges and limitations in current UAP investigations.' 

In the GOFAST, as in many other tantalizing and vexing UAP cases, Semeter said, 'critical data and confidence intervals are lacking.' 

'This is, in fact, a central theme of the report.'

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Government's secret UFO dump: Border security quietly releases tranche of 10 videos of mysterious 'craft' whizzing around US skies - as ex-intelligence officer says they are a THREAT

• US Customs and Border Protection quietly fulfilled a UFO FOIA request 
• CBP's release includes 10 videos 'pertaining to Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon'
• The mysterious release also includes 389-pages of partially redacted records 
• READ MORE: Meet NASA's first UFO boss, ex-Pentagon liaison Mark McInerney 

By MATTHEW PHELAN SENIOR SCIENCE REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

A tranche of UFO videos — including never-before-seen footage — has been quietly released by federal law enforcement.

US Customs and Border Protection, the agency responsible for keeping terrorists and their weapons out of the country, uploaded 10 videos that appear to show craft moving in strange ways in our skies.

The videos were released on August 9 without warning, a press release or much in the way of context, only to be discovered by UFO enthusiasts and online sleuths earlier this week.

The videos document a fighter jet pursued by an apparently baffling flying orb, as well as something that appears to be a propeller-powered hang-glider, and yet another apparent floating orb, hovering this time near a parked 16-wheeler truck.

But the enigmatic nature of the drop — which offered little detail regarding the times and locations of these sightings, plus more than a few sweeping redactions — has left more questions than answers.

The quiet video drop follows rising tensions within the corridors of power in Washington on the once taboo subject of UFOs. 

Open congressional hearings, federal legislation and even brand new government offices have now been dedicated openly to the investigation of these aerial mysteries, with at least one former senior US intelligence official calling the strange sightings 'a national security issue.'

US Customs and Border Patrol uploaded 10 videos that appear to show craft moving in strange ways in our skies. One video documents a fighter jet pursued by an apparent flying orb (above), in which key technical details from the agency's infrared camera display are redacted 

But perhaps most significantly, the US CBP release confirms, at least tacitly, the veracity of a heavily scrutinized, 2013 thermal UFO video leaked to UFO researchers in 2015. For the first time since the leak, the April 25, 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico UFO video has been confirmed

The videos were released on a dedicated site for agency records made public via requests under the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). 

But perhaps most significantly, the release confirms, at least tacitly, the veracity of a heavily-scrutinized, 2013 thermal UFO video leaked to UFO researchers in 2015.

For the first time since that leak, the April 25, 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico UFO video first investigated by the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies has now been confirmed by the US government as genuinely unidentified. 

Asked by NBC News, Chris Mellon, a former official with the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, described the release as 'very significant.'

'This will help the public understand what our military personnel are encountering all over the world,' Mellon said. 

Chris Mellon, formerly with the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, praised US Customs for their UFO records drop, saying the newly released videos 'will help the public understand what our military personnel are encountering all over the world'

In another video, released via FOIA by US Customs and Border Protection, yet another apparent orb can be seen hovering near a parked 16-wheeler truck

While the paperwork includes much chaff — news clippings, and already public government reports — the FOIA drop also included internal emails detailing internal deliberations on the law enforcement agency's UFO cases.

Several agency emails from August 2021, document an exchange between a UFO enthusiast and his superior regarding efforts to comply with spirit of the then-recent congressional legislation on UFOs and the resulting UAP Task Force report.

'As a pet project, or for fun, do all the research you want,' the redacted official wrote to the CBP's equivalent to X-Files FBI agent Fox Mulder. 'I know this topic is of great interest to you and there's a ton of information to sift through.'

'There just isn't an avenue for any formal research or reporting any type of findings or conclusions,' the redacted official stressed.

The also-redacted CPB employee responded, 'T4... I apologize, and took The Director of National Intelligence's UAP report seriously.'  

But the release also includes over two dozen tantalizing pages that have been redacted in their entirety. 

Per statute, each page lists the legal exemption under which US CBP is permitted to withhold certain records relevant to an open records request. 

The majority of these redactions, in this case, were justified under the b(5) and b(7)e exemptions clauses of federal FOIA law. 

Investigative reporters and open government advocates have dubbed the b(5) exemption the 'The Withhold It Because You Want To Exemption' as its guidelines were even described by the US Justice Department as 'opaque.'

The b(7)e exemption pertains effectively to law enforcement's own 'sources and methods,' as it withholds details that would 'disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions' and other material that officials believe 'could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law.'

To this end, several of the released videos have notably redacted the majority of the heads-up-display information from US CBP's infrared or thermal video recordings: which would likely include data on the altitude, bearing and range of these UAP.

Another video shows a strange glowing orb - but the videos were released with little by way of supporting documentation as to dates, times, personnel or recording equipment used, making each of US Custom's UFO videos hard to contextualize 

All summer long, a sweltering UFO fever has gripped Washington DC, stoked in no small measure by a series of extraordinary claims and revelations from lawmakers, former US intelligence and Navy personnel.

This past June, charges of an illegal, hidden UFO crash retrieval program operating within the shadows exploded across television airwaves and online as made by Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch.

Soon thereafter, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio revealed he too had been briefed by several other US government officials with top-level security clearances, who professed that they personally had 'first-hand' knowledge of UFO programs.

By late July, Grusch was reasserting many of his claims under oath before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, along with Ryan Graves, an esteemed former pilot, and veteran Navy fighter pilot Commander David Fravor, who witnessed the now famous 2004 'Tic Tac' UFO.

In his further comments on the new CPB videos, former DOD intelligence official Chris Mellon hoped that the newly official US Customs videos would spur the Pentagon toward greater transparency itself.

Mellon noted that these mysterious UFO videos highlight 'the challenges we are facing monitoring and controlling our airspace.' 

He cited both last February's infamous Chinese spy balloon affair (and still-as-yet-unidentified UAP), and 'of course the explosion of drone use around the world,' as examples of the new threats to US sovereignty posed by the weak official reporting and widespread stigma surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena.

'I hope that the Defense Department and [US] Intelligence Community are paying attention,' Mellon told NBC. 

'They have many videos that are of a similar, unclassified nature,' he noted, 'or were, until they — out of nowhere — created this new classification guide.' 

Echoing comments by Grusch on the legality of the Pentagon's actions, Mellon went on to express the opinion that the DoD's new and more expansive classification standards for its own UAP or UFO videos might not be 'lawful.' 

'I don't think that's consistent with the executive order governing classification,' the former intelligence official said. 'But they are withholding a lot of similar kinds of videos from the public on that basis.' 

Have YOU seen one? The Pentagon reveals what the most commonly reported UFO looks like

Ever since the first sighting more than 75 years ago, popular culture has usually depicted a UFO as a flying saucer emitting a powerful halo of light.

But that could finally change following the official release of information from the Pentagon about the mysterious aerial phenomena. 

The new Department of Defense document reveals characteristics of the typical UFO, including the colour and the shape, velocity, and flight level 

Based on clues from reported sightings, the typical UFO has a round shape, usually described as spherical or an orb, with a white or silver colour, often translucent. 

It also has a size of between 3 and 13 feet (1 to 4 metres) and usually travels through the air at a height just below commercial passenger planes. 

The Pentagon has also released a hotspot map that reveals the location of reported UFO sightings, including Japan and the Middle East. 

Read more here. 

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NASA’s UAP Study Team Releases Its Final Report

On September 14, 2023, the NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena independent study team published its final report containing a series of recommendations for how the agency could help to move our understanding of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) forward.

UAP, popularly known as UFOs, are one of our planet’s greatest mysteries.

Observations of objects in our skies that cannot be identified as balloons, aircraft, or natural known phenomena have been spotted worldwide, yet there are limited high-quality observations.

The nature of science is to explore the unknown, and data are the language scientists use to discover our Universe’s secrets.

Despite numerous accounts and visuals, the absence of consistent, detailed, and curated observations means, scientists do not presently have the body of data needed to make definitive, scientific conclusions about UAP.

In 2022, NASA commissioned the independent study to better understand how the agency can contribute to ongoing government efforts to further the study observations of UAP.

The independent study team, set up outside of NASA, used unclassified data from civilian government entities, commercial data, and data from other sources to inform their findings and recommendations in the report.

There are currently a limited number of high-quality observations of UAP, which currently make it impossible to draw firm scientific conclusions about their nature.

The team’s report contains the findings and recommendations which aim to inform NASA on what possible data is available to be collected and how the agency can help shed light on the origin and nature of future UAP.

While NASA still is evaluating the report and assessing the independent study team’s findings and recommendations, the agency is committed to contributing to the federal government’s unified UAP effort by appointing Mark McInerney director of UAP research.

“At NASA, it’s in our DNA to explore — and to ask why things are the way they are. I want to thank the Independent Study Team for providing insight on how NASA can better study and analyze UAP in the future,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

“NASA’s new Director of UAP Research will develop and oversee the implementation of NASA’s scientific vision for UAP research, including using NASA’s expertise to work with other agencies to analyze UAP and applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to search the skies for anomalies.”

“NASA will do this work transparently for the benefit of humanity.”

The overall recommendation for NASA from the new report is that the agency can play a prominent role in the government’s effort to understand UAP by furthering the study and data collection of UAP.

The external study recommends that NASA use its open-source resources, extensive technological expertise, data analysis techniques, federal and commercial partnerships, and Earth-observing assets to curate a better and robust dataset for understanding future UAP.

NASA also will advance citizen reporting by engaging with the public and commercial pilots to build a broader, more reliable UAP dataset to use to identify future UAP incidents as well as destigmatize the study of UAP.

“Using unclassified data was essential for our team’s fact-finding, open-communication collaboration, and for upholding scientific rigor to produce this report for NASA,” said David Spergel, president of the Simons Foundation and chair of the UAP independent study team.

“The team wrote the report in conjunction with NASA’s pillars of transparency, openness and scientific integrity to help the agency shed light on the nature of future UAP incidents.”

“We found that NASA can help the whole-of-government UAP effort through systematic data calibration, multiple measurements and ensuring thorough sensor metadata to create a data set that is both reliable and extensive for future UAP study.”

“Data are the critical lifeblood needed to advance scientific exploration, and we thank the independent study team members for lending NASA their expertise towards identifying what available data is possible to understand the nature and origin of future UAP,” said Nicola Fox, associate administrator of Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters.

“The director of UAP Research is a pivotal addition to NASA’s team and will provide leadership, guidance and operational coordination for the agency and the federal government to use as a pipeline to help identify the seemingly unidentifiable.”

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Europa’s Carbon Dioxide Originates from Source within Its Subsurface Ocean, Planetary Scientists Say

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa has an ocean beneath a crust of water ice. Solid carbon dioxide has previously been observed on the surface, but the source was unknown. Two teams analyzed infrared spectroscopic data of Europa from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the source of carbon dioxide.

Beneath a crust of solid water ice, Europa is thought to have a subsurface ocean of salty liquid water.

Because of this, Europa is a prime target in the search for life elsewhere in the Solar System.

Assessing this deep ocean’s potential habitability depends on its chemistry, including the abundance of biologically essential elements like carbon.

Previous research has identified the presence of carbon dioxide ice on Europa’s surface, but it has not been possible to establish whether carbon dioxide originated from the subsurface ocean, was delivered to the moon’s surface by meteorite impacts, or was produced on the surface through interactions with Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

Determining the source of carbon dioxide could constrain the chemistry of Europa’s internal ocean.

This color composite view combines violet, green, and infrared images of Jupiter's intriguing moon, Europa, for a view of the moon in natural color (left) and in enhanced color designed to bring out subtle color differences in the surface (right).

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

“On Earth, life likes chemical diversity — the more diversity, the better,” said Dr. Geronimo Villanueva, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

“We’re carbon-based life. Understanding the chemistry of Europa’s ocean will help us determine whether it’s hostile to life as we know it, or if it might be a good place for life.”

“We now think that we have observational evidence that the carbon we see on Europa’s surface came from the ocean. That’s not a trivial thing. Carbon is a biologically essential element,” said Dr. Samantha Trumbo, a researcher at Cornell University.

In their two studies, the authors analyzed near-infrared spectroscopy of carbon dioxide on Europa’s surface, obtained with Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec).

In the first study, Dr. Trumbo and her colleague, Caltech researcher Michael Brown, used the Webb data to map the distribution of carbon dioxide on Europa and found the highest abundance of carbon dioxide is located in Tara Regio, a 1,800-km² region dominated by chaos terrain, geologically disrupted resurfaced materials.

According to the team, the amount of carbon dioxide identified within this recently resurfaced region — some of the youngest terrain on Europa’s surface — indicates that it was derived from an internal source of carbon.

This implies that carbon dioxide formed within Europa’s subsurface ocean and was brought to the surface on a geologically recent timescale.

However, the formation of carbon dioxide on the surface from ocean-derived organics or carbonates cannot be entirely ruled out. In either interpretation, the subsurface ocean contains carbon.

“Previous observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show evidence for ocean-derived salt in Tara Regio,” Dr. Trumbo said.

“Now we’re seeing that carbon dioxide is heavily concentrated there as well. We think this implies that the carbon probably has its ultimate origin in the internal ocean.”

In the second study, Dr. Villanueva and colleagues found that carbon dioxide on Europa’s surface is mixed with other compounds.

They also found that carbon dioxide is concentrated in Tara Regio and interpreted that as demonstrating that the carbon on the moon’s surface was sourced from within.

The scientists measured the ice’s ¹²C/¹³C  isotopic ratio, but could not distinguish between an abiotic or biogenic source.

Moreover, they searched for plumes of volatile material breaching moon’s icy crust.

Although previous studies have reported evidence of these features, the authors did not detect any plume activity during the Webb observations.

They argue that plume activity on Europa could be infrequent, or sometimes does not contain the volatile gasses they included in their search.

“Scientists are debating how much Europa’s ocean connects to its surface. I think that question has been a big driver of Europa exploration,” Dr. Villanueva said.

“This suggests that we may be able to learn some basic things about the ocean’s composition even before we drill through the ice to get the full picture.”

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• Samantha K. Trumbo & Michael E. Brown. 2023. The distribution of CO₂ on Europa indicates an internal source of carbon. Science 381; doi: 10.1126/science.adg4155
• G.L. Villanueva et al. 2023. Endogenous CO₂ ice mixture on the surface of Europa and no detection of plume activity. Science 381; doi: 10.1126/science.adg4270

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Alaskan Residents Reveal Captivating UFO Sightings

Alaska, with its vast, remote landscapes and eerie, dark winter nights, has always evoked a sense of mystery. Over the years, it has become a hotspot for UFO sightings, drawing extraterrestrial enthusiasts from across the globe. The latest testimonies and evidence emerging from the icy wilderness of the Alaska Triangle only intensify its reputation as a UFO haven.

The Unsolved Mystery of the Alaska Triangle

Recent videos and eyewitness accounts have highlighted frequent unexplained lights and mysterious objects dancing across Alaskan skies. Many assert these are not just regular aircraft or natural phenomena. They point to erratic, high-speed movements that challenge our understanding of physics — maneuvers that would liquefy a human from the sheer G-forces.

A particularly gripping account comes from Rance Lenz, a resident of Delta Junction. As a child, Rance witnessed an otherworldly light show. He recalled vibrant green, yellow, and red lights with a bright yellow glow in the center, moving in a manner defying all known aeronautics. This mesmerizing encounter transformed him from an average small-town boy to a staunch believer in extraterrestrial existence.

A Potential Military Connection?

Interestingly, Lenz’s childhood fascination with these unexplained sightings led him to work at the nearby top-secret military base, Fort Greeley. He soon realized that he wasn’t the only one witnessing these bizarre occurrences. Whenever there was intense military testing, UFO sightings seemed to spike. Some even argue that the military is well-aware of these otherworldly visitors and that there might be a direct correlation between the two.

Johnny Enoch, an extraterrestrial investigator from Vancouver, Canada, couldn’t help but ponder: Could the military be in cahoots with these unidentified objects? Are these UFO sightings a sign of something more profound, waiting to be unveiled?

Why Alaska?

Debbie Ziegelmeier, an investigator with MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), believes the very remoteness of Alaska makes it appealing for UFOs. With a vast wilderness to explore and minimal human interference, it’s no wonder UFOs find Alaska the perfect hiding spot. In areas the size of Texas, only 100,000 people reside, making it a perfect canvas for the extraordinary.

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• Various Eyewitnesses Share Their Recordings of UFOs in Alaska | The Alaska Triangle

While the intrigue surrounding UFO sightings in Alaska continues to grow, definitive answers remain elusive. Is it the testing at Fort Greeley or the sprawling isolation of the Alaskan wilderness that attracts these unidentified flying objects? Only time, relentless investigation, and perhaps the brave testimony of insiders can unravel this otherworldly mystery.

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Alien Structures On NASA Released Moon Photo, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: Sept 20, 2023

Location of discovery: Earths moon, south pole
Source:

•  https://www.yahoo.com/news/orbiting-lunar-cameras-join-forces-190258346.html

NASA released this photo a few days ago and I found the structures that day. Not sure how they could overlook them, usually the structures get edited out, but I assume they left them for the public to find out about aliens. The evidence is mounting, soon it will be undeniable and the public will all know the truth. 

Scott Waring

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UAP Over Santa Monica, California Aug 27, 2023, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 27, 2023

Location of sighting: Santa Monica, California, USA

 

At first I thought this was balloons, however the object does not break apart and the object keeps its shape. It's a dark craft, and keeps behind the trees before moving off silently. More proof, UFOs are everywhere, but even here, most the people were not looking up in the video, only a few. 

Scott C. Waring 

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3 UFOs Pass security cam, Cave Creek, Arizona Aug 9, 2023, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 9, 2023
Location of sighting: Cave Creek, Arizona, USA

 

Guys this looks real and it seems very close to the persons home. The UFO flew down and passed his door cam three separate times, which either is the same UFO circle the house or its three separate craft following each other. It just an amazing and lucky capture. 

Scott C. Waring 

 

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Pentagon Has Clear Image Of Triangle UFO Rising Out Of Ocean, Elizondo Confirmed

The Pentagon reportedly holds a highly classified photograph of a “Black Triangle” UFO emerging from the ocean, taken by a US Navy pilot flying an F/A-18F Super Hornet. The photo’s existence has not been officially confirmed by the Pentagon, but many people believe that it does exist, as they have been told by government insiders. It is thought to be one of the most compelling UFO sightings ever captured on camera and is considered to be highly classified because it was captured using military equipment onboard the fighter plane.

In 2020, during an interview on Coast to Coast AM radio with investigative journalist George Knapp, former AATIP head Luis Elizondo stated that the current UAP Task Force obtained images of multiple unknown aerial objects, including a clear image of a mysterious triangle emerging from the ocean, recorded by military pilots.

The object was described as a large triangle with “blunted” edges and spherical white “lights” on each corner, and the encounter is said to have occurred off the East Coast of the US. The pilots who encountered the object are believed to have been operating from either the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower or the USS John C. Stennis, both of which are Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarriers, which further deepens the apparent links between UFOs and man’s nuclear capabilities.

Several officials confirmed the photo’s existence, but they did not provide any further details. The report primarily focused on “Unidentified Submersible Phenomena” or unidentified “transmedium” vehicles that can operate both underwater and in the air. The UAP Task Force appears to be concerned that these objects may originate from within the world’s oceans.

Tom Rogan, a national security writer for the Washington Examiner, verified the existence of the photo with his sources. He believes that the photo is “the tip of the iceberg” and that more UAP imagery and data would be leaked in the coming years. Rogan also called on the Pentagon to officially release more material. (Source)

In 2020, The Debrief reported that the Pentagon was investigating the “transmedium” element of the phenomena, which is the apparent ability of some UAPs to transit seamlessly between the air and the ocean.

The idea of “USOs,” or “unidentified submersible objects,” is not exclusive to the current UAP Task Force. In fact, there have been reports of unexplained, very high-speed sonar targets recorded by some of the most sophisticated listening equipment on the planet. A senior member of the intelligence community, whose responsibilities for decades involved underwater surveillance and reconnaissance programs, acknowledged that there are valid claims of extremely fast-moving underwater objects being detected by U.S. military systems.

The UAP Task Force is particularly interested in “transmedium vehicles,” which may seem unusual, but there have been many accounts, some going back centuries, in which people observed unidentifiable craft operating in and out of the water. In public appearances, Marc D’Antonio, an astronomer and chief video/image analyst for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), shared an unusual experience involving the detection of an underwater “Fast Mover,” which occurred while he was sailing as a civilian aboard one of the U.S. Navy’s prized attack submarines.

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Tyler Rogoway, a defense journalist, spoke with several veteran submariners who almost unanimously acknowledged that unexplained, very high-speed sonar targets are indeed recorded by some of the most sophisticated listening equipment on the planet. Although there is skepticism about D’Antonio being granted a civilian ride-along, the Navy vets being interviewed confirmed the validity of such claims. The intelligence official declined to provide further details, citing the high levels of security classification associated with underwater reconnaissance.

Andy McGrillen from UAP Media UK, a team set up to campaign for a more open and serious discussion on UFOs in Britain, told The Sun Online that the triangular object was initially tracked underwater, then emerged, climbing to an altitude of 35-40,000 feet when an aircraft’s onboard systems took a high-fidelity image. He thought that something like this would surely be highly classified given the nature of the equipment taking the picture. However, if it did make its way into the public domain, it could be a key piece of evidence, demonstrating that we are truly in the presence of some other intelligence.

Mystery Wire reported that UFO enthusiast Joe Murgia wrote on his Twitter that Knapp asked Elizondo about an alleged triangle UFO coming out of the water, to which Elizondo responded by saying he was confident the photo exists, and it might even be a still frame from a video. Elizondo and Knapp talked about the need for patience when talking about disclosure and the series of high-level briefings that Elizondo took part in. Elizondo praised Florida Senator Marco Rubio for his willingness to talk about UFOs publicly.

Knapp also asked if the UFO mystery can be solved by just looking at military encounters with UFOs or if we need to expand our horizons and look at other topics like poltergeists and Bigfoot that seem to be connected to close encounter cases. Elizondo said the government programs have limitations, such as an inability to speak with commercial pilots about sightings.

When asked if he would consider ever returning to the government to work on the new Unidentified Aerial Phenomena task force (UAPTF), Elizondo said he would have to clear it with his family first. If he did go back, he would try to run it differently than when he ran the AATIP at the Pentagon. Elizondo said he would push for more openness with the public and work to break down the barriers that stigma about UFOs can cause.

“The problem with it is that the government recognizes it. There are some very authentic UAP images. When people say, “Oh, they’re all grainy and blurry,” no, they’re not. There are some that are really clear and are very authentic because we can look at the date and time stamp and the metadata on the video. We can then correlate that to any other type of assets that may be in the area, and we know where it turns out that we’re picking something up that came across, let’s say, the Pacific Ocean. All of a sudden, someone in San Diego says, “I had this really funny light doing these weird things in the backyard,” and all of a sudden, you realize, “Oh, man, they got it on camera.”

Yeah, there are some very, very compelling ones. There’s one, in particular, I probably can’t talk about it, but there’s one of a triangle, and it’s at night, and it’s not just three points of light. I mean, you can see the skin of the aircraft. You can see a lot, and to the point where some of our folks were like, “Well, should we take it off?” No, don’t take it off the internet. Leave it up. That’s not your video to take down. That’s a private citizen’s. Yes, they got a great video of a UAP. Congratulations. You should probably give them an award. Don’t take the video down”

—Elizondo said during an interview with Calling All Beings.

Leaked emails from John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, may provide new insight into transmedium UFOs. The emails include a conversation between Podesta and a person named Bob Fish, who claims that the federal government has been collecting data on UFOs since the 1970s, using the Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites. (Click here to read the full article)

Fish shared an incident that happened to him in California, where a USAF official who worked on the program told Fish that there were times when they were diverted from these missions to track UFOs off the east coast of Florida. Fish stated that the UAP entered the atmosphere and descended into the Atlantic Ocean, specifically in an area east of Miami, Florida and north of Bermuda.

The US government has knowledge of some UAPs entering Earth’s orbit from deep space and can actively track them via RF signals emanating from these crafts. The officials realized that if this god-like technology were to be obtained and mastered by their adversaries before the United States, it would make democracy vulnerable.

Additionally, for many years, Bob McGwier worked in clandestine intelligence. He disclosed two incidents about underwater UFOs or USOs, that he saw while performing covert operations. This claim was made several months after a video had been made public by the United States military, in which it appeared to show an unidentified flying object moving from the sky into the water in the year 2019. (Click here to read the full article)

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Mysterious UFO Sighting in Maryland Captures Attention!

Maryland, USA – September 21, 2023 – With a rising number of UFO sightings being reported worldwide, Maryland has now found itself amidst this cosmic phenomenon. A recent sighting has locals and enthusiasts buzzing about the possibilities of extraterrestrial presence.

A Close Encounter in Broad Daylight

A local Maryland resident, having just finished their workday at 7pm, encountered an unexpected sight right across from their home. Describing the experience, the witness shared, “I saw a silverish clear type disk with lights around the side slowly rotating.” Intrigued by this floating spectacle, the quick-thinking observer immediately took a video of the unexplained object, hoping to capture evidence of this curious occurrence.

But just as things were getting interesting, the UFO took a mysterious turn. “I went to get my mom, and by the time I reached the porch, just 15ft away, it had vanished,” added the witness, emphasizing the eeriness of the situation.

An Unsolved Mystery Awaits

For those keyed into UFO sightings, this Maryland incident provides a fresh piece of the puzzle. It offers yet another testament to the diverse and unpredictable nature of such encounters. The video evidence that accompanies this report will surely be dissected and analyzed by enthusiasts and skeptics alike.

Have you ever witnessed such mysterious events in the sky? Maryland might just be the latest hotspot for UFO sightings. This recent episode begs the question – what’s really out there?

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Illustratie van ruimtesonde OSIRIS-REx en de aarde© VRTNWS

De bodemstalen die 3 jaar geleden door een ruimtesonde zijn opgepikt op een asteroïde, 330 miljoen kilometer van hier, zijn veilig geland in de woestijn van de Amerikaanse staat Utah. De verzamelde steentjes zijn mogelijk 4,5 miljard jaar oud en kunnen ons meer leren over het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel.

Als een vuurbal, met een snelheid van meer dan 40.000 kilometer per uur, kwam de capsule met bodemstalen om 16.45 uur onze dampkring binnen. Het hitteschild moest de verzamelde steentjes en het gruis beschermen tegen temperaturen tot 3.000 graden Celsius en de capsule afremmen. 

Enkele minuten later gingen de parachutes open om het pakketje uiteindelijk veilig te laten neerploffen in de woestijn van Utah. De capsule landde zelfs enkele minuten vroeger dan voorzien. Daarmee bereikt de OSIRIS-Rex-missie zijn einde, na een tocht van 7 jaar en in totaal 7 miljard kilometer door de ruimte.

De ruimtesonde werd in 2016 gelanceerd naar de asteroïde Bennu, een ruimterots van zo'n 500 meter groot die rond de zon draait. Het doel van de missie: bodemstalen van het oppervlak halen en die terugbrengen naar de aarde.

In oktober 2020 slaagde het meest delicate deel van de missie. De ruimtesonde was met succes kunnen landen op Bennu, die toen op zo'n 330 miljoen kilometer van de aarde stond. 

Hoewel het ruimtetuig maar enkele seconden op het oppervlak is geweest, heeft het meer steentjes en stof kunnen opzuigen dan gepland. Het oppervlak bleek minder hard dan wat astronomen hadden verwacht. Een deel van de lading ging daardoor zelfs verloren, omdat de box te vol zat en niet goed meer afsloot.

NASA verwacht dat er uiteindelijk toch zo'n 250 gram aan bodemstalen is geland. En dat is de grootste hoeveelheid ooit. Enkel Japan had 2 soortgelijke missies, maar toen werd telkens "maar" een theelepeltje aan bodemmateriaal terug naar de aarde gebracht. 

Wat is er zo interessant aan Bennu?

Er zijn verschillende redenen waarom NASA Bennu koos en niet één van de 500.000 andere gekende asteroïden in ons zonnestelsel. Bennu bevindt zich relatief dicht bij de aarde en draait in een vergelijkbare baan om de zon als de aarde. De asteroïde is niet te klein en draait niet te snel rond haar as. Dat maakt het landen iets gemakkelijker.

Maar bovenal: Bennu is oeroud. De asteroïde is waarschijnlijk 4,5 miljard jaar geleden ontstaan, in de beginjaren van ons zonnestelsel. "We zullen naar materiaal kunnen kijken dat al voor onze planeet bestond. Misschien zitten er zelfs korreltjes tussen die ouder zijn dan het zonnestelsel zelf", zegt Dante Lauretta, hoofdonderzoeker van de missie bij NASA. 

Bennu is ook rijk aan koolstof, één van de belangrijke bouwstenen van het leven op aarde. Er wordt aangenomen dat alle bouwstenen van het leven ooit op aarde zijn terechtgekomen dankzij botsingen met asteroïden zoals Bennu.

"We proberen bij elkaar te puzzelen hoe alles ooit is begonnen", zegt Lauretta. "Hoe is de aarde gevormd en waarom is het een leefbare wereld geworden. Waar hebben de oceanen hun water gevonden? Waar komt de zuurstof in onze atmosfeer vandaan? En bovenal: vanwaar komen de moleculen waarmee al het leven op aarde is opgebouwd?" 

Buitenaardse bodemstalen van ruimterots van 4,5 miljard jaar oud landen vandaag op aarde

© NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

En nu?

Het zijn vragen waar wetenschappers zich al lang over buigen. Via OSIRIS-REx hopen ze een beetje dichter bij de antwoorden te komen. Maar zover zijn we dus nog niet. 

Na de landing werd de capsule met bodemstalen opgepikt door een helikopter om ze naar het militaire test- en trainingskamp van het Amerikaanse ministerie van Defensie te brengen in Utah. Dat hele proces werd de afgelopen maanden uitvoerig geoefend. 

Morgenochtend worden de stalen naar het Johnson Space Center van NASA in Houston, Texas, gebracht. Daar zullen de stalen geanalyseerd worden. NASA belooft op 11 oktober met meer informatie naar buiten te komen.

Zo zou de landing er moeten uitzien. (foto van een nagemaakte capsule waarmee de landing vorige maand gerepeteerd is)© (NASA/Keegan Barber)\r\rFor copyright and restrictions refer to -�http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html

De ruimtesonde die het pakketje heeft opgehaald en afgeleverd vliegt trouwens door naar Apophis, een asteroïde van 185 meter groot die in april 2029 langs de aarde zal scheren. 

Apophis komt tot op 30.000 kilometer, wat op astronomische schaal net geen botsing met de aarde is. Ter vergelijking: de maan bevindt zich gemiddeld op 385.000 kilometer van ons. De ruimtesonde zal vanaf 2029 nog 1,5 jaar rond Apophis blijven cirkelen om de asteroïde te bestuderen. 

Artistieke impressie van OSIRIS-REx die op asteroïde Bennu landt

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Who will get OSIRIS-REx's asteroid samples after they land this weekend?

This mosaic of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years. 

(Image credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona)

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Rendlesham’s UFO Event: Decoding the Extraterrestrial Message from the Future

In the dense woods of Rendlesham Forest, nestled between two RAF bases in Suffolk, England, one of the most intriguing UFO incidents in history transpired over a series of nights in December 1980. Dubbed the “British Roswell,” the event raised eyebrows, spurred controversies, and left countless questions in its wake. But what truly happened during those fateful nights, and how much of the narrative surrounding it can we genuinely believe?

A Mysterious Encounter

On a chilly December night, USAF personnel stationed at RAF Woodbridge witnessed curious lights descending into the nearby forest. Assuming it was a downed aircraft, a security patrol was dispatched to investigate. What they found wasn’t a plane, but a radiant object with hieroglyphic-like symbols, metallic in appearance, seemingly hovering or placed gently on tripod-like legs. Over the next couple of nights, the enigma deepened as other personnel, including the deputy base commander, Lt. Col. Charles Halt, observed inexplicable luminous phenomena in the sky, including beams of light seemingly descending into the ground.

More Than Meets the Eye?

However, the incident’s perplexity was amplified when one of the officers, Jim Penniston, claimed that upon touching the hieroglyphics, he was imbued with a binary code, which he then jotted down in his notebook. But here’s where the story takes another twist. Although Penniston asserted he became aware of the binary code in 2010, evidence shows him flipping through that very notebook on television as early as 2003. Was Penniston holding back, or was this just a lapse in memory? More intriguingly, when translated, the binary code Penniston provided yielded a coherent message, albeit in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) format, which was only gaining popularity in the 1980s.

Inter-Allied Tensions and Misunderstandings

In a surprising subplot, SAS (Special Air Service) paratroopers were reportedly detained by USAF personnel after a failed exercise. Given the proximity to what was potentially a nuclear base, the paranoia was understandable. The British paratroopers underwent an 18-hour interrogation, raising questions about intra-allied mistrust and the extreme measures taken during the Cold War era.

Disinformation or Genuine Encounter?

As with many UFO encounters, the waters get muddied with potential misinformation. Theories have surfaced that the Rendlesham incident might have been a counterintelligence operation. Some, like former Air Force OSI agent Richard Doty, admit their roles in such UFO disinformation campaigns, making it harder to distinguish fact from fiction.

The Role of Pop Culture

In a curious parallel, Penniston’s binary code revelation bears an uncanny resemblance to an X-Files episode titled “Conduit,” which aired in 1993. Was Penniston’s story influenced by this episode, or is it merely a coincidence?

Seeking the Middle Ground

While UFO enthusiasts point to the testimonies of high-ranking military officials as undeniable proof, skeptics focus on the discrepancies and potential disinformation to debunk the incident. However, as with many things, the truth may lie somewhere in between.

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• The Why Files – The Rendlesham UFO Encounter and the Alien Message from the Future

The Rendlesham Forest UFO incident remains one of the most captivating and contentious UFO encounters. Whether it was an extraterrestrial visit, a military mishap, or a masterclass in misinformation, it’s a reminder of the universe’s vastness and the mysteries it holds. As we dive deeper into such stories, it’s crucial to approach them with an open mind, discernment, and an insatiable curiosity, always ready to unearth the next big revelation.

Whether you’re a believer or a skeptic, the allure of the unknown is undeniable. And as we look up at the skies, we’re reminded of the timeless words of Shakespeare: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

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Het frauduleuze verhaal achter de Mexicaanse buitenaardse wezens: “Het hoofd is de schedel van een lama”

UPDATE - In het Mexicaanse parlement verkondigden dinsdag enkele mensen dat buitenaardse wezens mogelijk echt bestaan. Meer nog, ze brachten bewijs mee in de vorm van twee lichamen uit een zonne- of sterrenstelsel hier ver vandaan. Wetenschappelijk onderzoek bewijst volgens hen dat die meer dan duizend jaar oud zijn, en niet verwant met de mens. Is dat wel zo? Wetenschapsjournalist Martijn Peters ging op zoek naar het échte verhaal achter de Mexicaanse buitenaardse mummies.

Martijn Peters 

Bron: AP, Wired, Forbes, El Comercio

Het was dinsdag tijdens een hoorzitting in het Mexicaanse parlement in Mexico City dat journalist en ufo-enthousiasteling José Jaime Maussan met groot ceremonieel vertoon twee mysterieuze lichamen presenteerde. Mummies afkomstig uit Peru. Hij en nog een aantal andere personen beweerden trots dat het hier ging om “niet-menselijke wezens die geen deel uitmaken van onze aardse evolutie.”

De verschrompelde lichamen met hun grote hoofden, gebrek aan tanden, intrekbare nekken en 3 vingers zorgde voor heel wat verbazing in het parlement en op social media. In het parlement riepen sommigen zelfs “we are not alone”, we zijn niet alleen.

KIJK.

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Volgens Maussan is met deze lichamen het ultieme bewijs geleverd: “Als het DNA ons laat zien dat het niet-menselijke wezens zijn en dat niets in de wereld op hen lijkt, dan moeten we dat ook zo aannemen.” Maar hij waarschuwde dat hij ze voorlopig nog niet ‘buitenaards’ wil noemen.

Maussan vertelde tijdens de hoorzitting dat de lichamen onderzocht zouden zijn door wetenschappers van de Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México en verschillende andere toonaangevende instituten van over de hele wereld. Ze vonden zelfs ‘eieren’ en implantaten in de lichamen.

De lichamen werden diep onder de grond gevonden in mijnen in de zanderige Peruaanse kustwoestijn van Nazca. Dit gebied staat bekend om zijn tot de verbeelding sprekende gigantische figuren die in de aarde zijn geschraapt en alleen vanuit vogelperspectief te zien zijn.

Naast de 2 voorgestelde lichamen zouden er nog 18 andere kleine mummies gevonden zijn van 60 centimeter groot en een grotere mummie van 1 meter en 70 centimeter. De lichamen zouden tussen de 700 en 1800 jaar oud zijn.

Nazca staat bekend om zijn tot de verbeelding sprekende gigantische figuren die in de aarde zijn geschraapt. Het is hier dat men de buitenaardse mummies zou gevonden hebben.  © ThinkStock

Echte buitenaardse mummies of amateuristische knutselwerkjes?

Dit is niet de eerste keer dat Maussan uitpakt met zogenaamde buitenaardse wezens. In 2015 toonde hij op een evenement genaamd ‘Be Witness' het gemummificeerde lichaam van een buitenaards wezen afkomstig uit Peru. Later werd deze bevinding echter ontkracht. Het bleek te gaan om het lichaam van een kind met een schedelafwijking. Dat berichtte factcheckingwebsite snopes.com. Geen goed begin.

Ook wetenschapper José de Jesús Zalce Benítez was toen al van de partij als een van de leidinggevende onderzoekers. Hij presenteerde tijdens de hoorzitting deze week de scans van de lichamen vol overtuiging aan het parlement.

In 2017 beweerde Maussan opnieuw dat hij buitenaardse wezens zou gevonden hebben in Peru. Ook in dit verhaal duikt Benítez op. Er wordt zelfs een reeks over gemaakt: ‘Unearthing Nazca’. Je kan die nog altijd bekijken op betalend mediaplatform Gaia, dat bekend staat voor video’s gevuld met pseudowetenschap, complottheorieën en paranormale beweringen. De lichamen die het Mexicaanse parlement deze week te zien kregen, komen ook in die afleveringen aan bod. Nieuw zijn ze dus niet.

De handen met 3 vingers blijken een allegaartje te zijn van hand- en zelfs voetbotjes.  © Scientists Against Myths

Een team van wetenschappers nam in 2021 al deze zogenaamde buitenaardse wezens van Nazca onder de loep. De drie video’s met hun duiding kan je bekijken op het YouTube-kanaal Scientists Against Myths (aflevering 1, aflevering 2, en aflevering 3). Hun conclusie destijds was duidelijk. De gevonden lichamen van de kleine buitenaardse wezens waren een mix van dierlijke en menselijke beenderen gemaakt door mensen.

Zo zat er een dijbeen in een bovenarm en waren de handen met drie vingers een allegaartje van hand- en zelfs voetbotjes. Het aantal beenderen in de handen verschilde ook per mummie, wat bizar is als het om dezelfde soort gaat, en ze zaten vaak in de verkeerde richting. De schedels zouden dan weer gemaakt zijn van de achterkant van de schedel van een lama of alpaca. In het geval van de grote mummie zou het kunnen gaan om een echte mummie die aangepast is om overeen te komen met de andere ‘knutselwerken’.

Tot diezelfde conclusie kwamen ook belangrijke organisaties zoals de World Committee on Mummy Studies, die de ontdekking als fraude heeft bestempeld, en wetenschappers van over de hele wereld. De grote mummie is een gemodificeerd pre-Spaans menselijk lichaam, terwijl de kleinere, die deze week in het Mexicaanse parlement zijn gepresenteerd, lichamen zijn die zijn samengesteld uit dierlijke en menselijke botten.

Ook een team van experten van het Peruaanse Instituut voor juridische geneeskunde en forensische wetenschappen nam een van de kleine mummies onder handen. Het bleek om een samenraapsel van dierlijke en menselijke beenderen te gaan. De huid was dan weer een mix van papier, synthetische lijm, rubber en plantaardige vezels.

Ook nu uiten wetenschappers opnieuw kritiek

Een van de wetenschappers die nu naar voren stapt in deze heisa is Julieta Fierro, onderzoeker aan het Instituut voor Astronomie van de Nationale Autonome Universiteit van Mexico (UNAM). Volgens haar houden heel wat wetenschappelijke details geen steek. Zo merkte ze bijvoorbeeld op dat wetenschappers meer geavanceerde technologie nodig zouden hebben dan de röntgenfoto’s om te bepalen of de zogenaamd verkalkte lichamen “niet-menselijk” waren.

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• 'Kunnen niet uitsluiten dat we zijn bezocht door buitenaards leven'

Daarnaast wist ze ook te vertellen dat de claim van de onderzoekers dat haar universiteit achter hun resultaten en interpretaties zou staan, volledig vals was. UNAM publiceerde gisteren zelf het volgende statement: “Het Laboratory of Mass Spectrometry with Accelerators (LEMA) heeft een koolstofdatering uitgevoerd in mei 2017 op een aantal stalen die, volgens de cliënt, afkomstig waren van huid en hersenen. Van de bron van de stalen hebben wij geen kennis. De resultaten van de analyse werden in juni van dat jaar overgemaakt aan de cliënt. Wij bepalen enkel de ouderdom van de stalen. Daarbuiten zijn wij op geen enkel vlak betrokken en beweringen die dit wel stellen, zijn vals.”

Fierro voegde eraan toe dat het vreemd leek dat ze deze ‘nationale schat’ uit Peru hebben meegekregen en vervolgens niet eens de Peruaanse ambassadeur hebben uitgenodigd op de zitting. “Maussan vertelde me bovendien dat buitenaardse wezens niet tegen mij praten zoals ze tegen hem praten, omdat ik niet in hen geloof.”

Ook andere wetenschappers hebben hun wantrouwen geuit. Zo merken ze meermaals op dat het bizar is dat een ontdekking van deze grootteorde niet gepubliceerd is in een toonaangevend wetenschappelijk tijdschrift.

“Wat gisteren in het Mexicaanse Congres gebeurde was een spektakel, met informatie die niet noodzakelijkerwijs verifieerbaar is. Het is het product van fanatisme dat meer draait rond mediaspektakel en politiek gewin dan rond het verklaren van het fenomeen van mogelijk leven buiten onze planeet”, zegt Raúl Trejo Delarbre, onderzoeker bij het Instituut voor Sociaal Onderzoek van UNAM.

“Niemand ontkent dat er leven op andere planeten zou kunnen zijn. Maar ik maak me vooral zorgen over deze verspilling van aandacht in de publieke discussie en ook over de mogelijke verspilling van middelen.”

Zelfs andere ufo-enthousiastelingen distantiëren zich

Maussan liet ook Ryan Graves getuigen, een voormalige gevechtspiloot en ex-directeur bij de Amerikaanse marine. Ryan nam eerder al deel aan hoorzittingen van het Amerikaanse Congres over wat hij persoonlijk had ervaren met uap’s (unidentified aerial phenomenon) en sprak ook over het stigma rond het melden van dergelijke waarnemingen.

Nadat hij voor het Mexicaanse parlement had getuigd, zei hij op X (voorheen Twitter) dat deze hoorzitting “een enorme stap achteruit was” en dat hij “diep teleurgesteld was door deze ongefundeerde stunt van Maussan”.

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NASA verwacht zondag pakket met stukje van asteroïde Bennu: Waarom deze ruimterots? En wat is het doel? 5 vragen beantwoord

Zondag is een hoogdag voor het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap. NASA verwacht namelijk een pakketje met 250 gram aan materiaal van de asteroïde Bennu. Dat verzamelde hun ruimtesonde OSIRIS-REx in 2020. Nu, 3 jaar later, zal OSIRIS-REx dit staal in een capsule naar de aarde schieten bij het voorbijvliegen. Een primeur voor de Amerikanen en meteen ook het grootste staal van een ruimterots ooit dat naar de aarde gehaald is.

Martijn Peters

Bron: NASA

In 2016 lanceerde NASA de ruimtemissie OSIRIS-REx. Hun doelwit? De asteroïde Bennu, een ruimterots met een diameter van 500 meter die ontdekt werd in 1999. Dat het ruimtevaartagentschap voor dit exemplaar ging is niet zonder reden.

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1 Waarom willen we een stukje van de asteroïde Bennu verzamelen?

Zo zijn asteroïden zoals Bennu tijdcapsules waarmee men kan terugkijken in het verleden. Het zijn overblijfselen uit de tijd toen de planeten zich vormden in ons zonnestelsel. Door het materiaal binnenin de asteroïde te verzamelen en vervolgens te bestuderen kan je iets te weten komen over het ontstaan van zulke asteroïden maar ook dat van onze planeet. Het voordeel is dat je de oorsprong kent van het stukje Bennu dat je meevoert en dat het ‘ongerept’ is. Bij meteorieten die hier op aarde neervallen is dat niet zo. Die zijn bijvoorbeeld aangetast door hun reis door onze atmosfeer en vaak lange verblijf op aarde. Daarom is het staal van de OSIRIS-REx missie wetenschappelijk gezien veel interessanter.

Als Bennu toch zou neerstorten op aarde, is zijn 500 meter voldoende om de Benelux van de kaart te vegen.  © AP

Daarnaast is Bennu ook gekozen omdat het een zogenaamde koolstofrijke ruimterots is. Wetenschappers vermoeden dat er complexe koolstofverbindingen in kunnen schuilen, dat zijn bouwmaterialen die nodig zijn voor het ontwikkelen van leven op een planeet. Hoe zulke organische stoffen hier bij ons zijn beland is namelijk nog steeds een onbeantwoorde vraag. Zijn ze hier ontstaan? Of zijn ze misschien wel meegelift op een asteroïde die hier insloeg toen onze planeet nog jong was?

Tot slot was er nog een ander doel waarom NASA richting Bennu trok. Er bestaat namelijk een zeer kleine kans dat de asteroïde in een verre toekomst op onze planeet terechtkomt. Die kans is het grootst tussen 2135 en 2300, al blijft hij zelfs dan nog steeds heel klein. In september 2182 bedraagt hij bijvoorbeeld 0,04 %. Als Bennu toch zou neerstorten op aarde, is zijn 500 meter voldoende om de Benelux van de kaart te vegen. Door Bennu te bestuderen kunnen we in de toekomst onszelf beter beschermen tegen nieuwe bedreigingen vanuit de ruimte.

2 Is dit de eerste keer dat wetenschappers materiaal van een asteroïde gaan verzamelen en terugbrengen naar de aarde?

Het is een primeur voor de Amerikanen, maar zeker niet voor de wereld. In 2010 deden de Japanners het hen al voor met de eerste Hayabusa missie. Die bracht minder dan een milligram van de asteroïde 25143 Itokawa terug naar de aarde. In 2020 volgde de tweede missie met 5,4 gram materiaal afkomstig van asteroïde Ryugu. De 250 gram meegenomen door OSIRIS-REx is dus niet het eerste materiaal ooit, maar wel het meeste.

In 2020 bracht de tweede Japanse missie 5,4 gram materiaal afkomstig van asteroïde Ryugu naar de aarde.  © EPA

3 Hoe zag de OSIRIS-REx missie er precies uit?

De ruimtesonde OSIRIS-REx vertrok in september 2016 richting Bennu. Het toestel heeft met zijn zonnepanelen een lengte van 6,2 m en een breedte en hoogte van 2,4 bij 3,2 meter. Het duurde 2 jaar voor de ruimtesonde in de buurt kwam van de asteroïde en nog eens 2 jaar om een geschikte landingsplaats te vinden.

Op 20 oktober 2020 was het zover. Tijdens een zogenaamd ‘touch and go”-manoeuvre verzamelde OSIRIS-REx met een 3 meter lange kosmische stofzuiger wat materiaal van de asteroïde. Een technologisch huzarenstuk aangezien de ruimtesonde op dat moment zo’n 320 miljoen kilometer van de aarde verwijderd was. Eventjes een aanpassing doorvoeren was dus geen optie voor de missieleiding. Ondanks dat er een aantal zaken niet helemaal gingen zoals verwacht wist de ruimtesonde toch terug huiswaarts te keren met 250 gram aan materiaal. Ruim over de doelstelling van 60 gram.

Nu, na 7 jaar en 7 miljard kilometer, komt de ruimtesonde terug aan op zijn vertrekpunt.

Tijdens een zogenaamd ‘touch and go”-manoeuvre verzamelde OSIRIS-REx met een 3 meter lange kosmische stofzuiger wat materiaal van de asteroïde.  © AP-

4 Hoe zal zondag het pakket met de stukjes van asteroïde Bennu op aarde afgeleverd worden?

Op 100.000 kilometer van de aarde, ongeveer een derde van de afstand tot de maand, lanceert de ruimtesonde een capsule met daarin het staal richting de onze planeet. Vier uur later vliegt die aan 44.500 kilometer per uur de atmosfeer binnen waarbij de temperatuur oploopt tot 2700 °C. Gelukkig is er een hitteschild aanwezig ter bescherming. Voor nog verder af te remmen maakt de capsule gebruik van parachutes alvorens te landen met 18 kilometer per uur in een beveiligd stukje woestijn in de Amerikaanse staat Utah.

Een bergingsteam 4 helikopters probeert de capsule dan zo snel mogelijk te vinden om besmetting met aards materiaal te voorkomen. Een deel van Bennu gaat dan naar labo’s over de hele wereld. De rest verdwijnt in een kluis voor toekomstige generaties.

Een bergingsteam 4 helikopters probeert de capsule dan zo snel mogelijk te vinden om --esmetting met aards materiaal te voorkomen.  © AP

5 Wat gebeurt er nog daarna?

Na het afleveren van zijn pakketje vliegt de ruimtesonde verder en krijgt een nieuwe naam OSIRIS-APEX. Zijn nieuwe doel is dan de 370 meter grote asteroïde Apophis. Die nadert de aarde in 2029 tot op zo’n 32.000 kilometer. Al hoeven we niet te vrezen voor een inslag. Berekeningen door wetenschappers geven aan dat de kans daarop zo goed als onbestaand is.

Maar die dichte passage is wel het ideale moment voor OSIRIS-APEX om zich in een baan rond Apophis te brengen. Wat dan volgt zijn 18 maanden aan onderzoek waarbij de ruimtesonde de samenstelling van de Apophis in kaart zal brengen.

LEES OOK:

• James Webb ruimtetelescoop vindt koolstof op ijsmaan van Jupiter: “Hiermee zou leven zich kunnen ontwikkelen op Europa”

• De zoektocht naar buitenaards leven is weer helemaal in. Maar hoe beginnen wetenschappers aan zoiets? “Misschien is onze blik veel te beperkt” (+)

• “Op aarde kunnen enkel levende organismen dit gas maken”: heeft James Webb ruimtetelescoop eerste teken van leven gevonden op exoplaneet?

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60 Thousand of Egrets Gather In Shimen Reservoir, Taiwan, Sept 17, 2023, News.

Date of sighting: Sept 17, 2023

Source: My Family video

 

Yeah this is not a UFO sighting video, it's better. Its a very rare occurring migration of the most beautiful and loved bird in Taiwan.

 

This is very rare to catch tens of thousands of white Taiwan Egrets at once not traveling but gathering together on the migration path. This video was sent to my by my Aunt who said it was a beautiful moment like no other. I have lived in Taiwan 25 years, and never before witnessed this size of a group of Egrets. Just an amazing sight to see. Recorded at Shimen Reservoir, Taiwan. Very rare, I just had to share this wonderful sight. Scott C. Waring - Taiwan 

 

 2023年9月17日樟湖村黃頭鷺遷徙爆六萬隻 超過6萬隻黃頭鷺飛越樟湖 賞

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