Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.
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Larger only than tiny Suriname in South America, Uruguay’s profile barely registers on the world stage. It draws headlines every now and then, like when it provides free laptop computers to every kid in primary school, or when it becomes the first Latin American nation to sanction gay civil unions, or when its legislature moves to legalize marijuana. But most of the time, Uruguay’s 98 percent literacy rate and its recession-proof 9 percent economic growth-rate sail under the radar, which may actually be a good thing.
Try to imagine, for instance, a scenario like this playing out in the U.S.: A bright glowing UFO materializes over a dam and lingers over power lines. A major city simultaneously goes dark. Military interceptors get scrambled to check it out. Slack-jawed ground observers and pilots can only watch as the UFO changes colors from yellow to orange to red during accleration before vanishing entirely.
This actually happened, in 1986. Montevideo, home to more than half of Uruguay’s 3.3 million residents, briefly lost power. Utility technicians reported its transformers had overheated during the UFO sighting. The culprit was never identified, but authorities never had a problem talking about it on the record.
Recounting this and other events to Grevaerd is Col. Ariel Sanchez, who chairs the Uruguayan Air Force’s Commission for the Reception and Investigation of UFO Reports, or Cridovni. Sanchez said Cridovni conducts “a police style investigation” into the most compelling cases. “Among other resources, we have psychologists in order to make a profile of witnesses,” he added. “We also have astronomers, engineers, pilots, flight controllers, meteorologists, etc.”
Cridovni is obviously discerning. Since its inception, Sanchez says 2,200 sightings have been brought to its attention, with maybe half worth investigating. Only 40 remain true mysteries. But some of those, like the Lufthansa incident, are doozies.
In 2007, a German airliner crossed into Uruguayan air space as it left Buenos Aires and headed east for Europe. The Lufthansa crew as well as the pilot of a nearby Uruguayan plane spotted a low-flying object that suddenly shot up between both aircraft and came within several hair-raising meters of colliding with the German plane. Thinking they might’ve been shot at by a missile, the Germans reported the near miss to flight controllers in Brazil, Uruguay contacted the Argentine military, and the paperwork on what became an international incident wound up on the desk of president Tabaré Vázquez.
“We don’t know what they did with the information,” said Sanchez, who was unable to identify the source of the incident. “However, the case went public. It was in every media in Uruguay or Argentina. There was a great commotion.”
Grevaerd’s interview with Sanchez is worth a read. And in a followup with De Void, he added, “I believe that Uruguay, as well as Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and - of course - Brazil all have declassified only the smallest part of their files. The tip of a huge iceberg.”
As Sanchez made clear, a number of these nations collaborate on UFO data-sharing, but it looks like their networking is destined to be a regional thing. Sanchez said Cridovni has never been approached by air force counterparts in the U.S., Russia, France, or anywhere outside South America. "I remember many years ago when we had to request NASA to assist with UFO pictures made by a Uruguayan eyewitness," Sanchez recalled. "However, they never sent us an answer."
What's new? The adult conversation on The Great Taboo is happening south of the border, without us.
A Rhode Island witness at Warwick reported encountering a silent, hovering, triangle-shaped UFO along a dark roadway about 6:20 p.m. on February 17, 2014, according to testimony in Case 54136 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was driving home along East Warwick Avenue when he noticed lights over a nearby field and first thought it was an airplane about the crash.
“But then as I got closer I realized it wasn't moving and slowed down trying to figure out what I was looking at.” the witness stated.
The witness brought his vehicle to a complete stop.
“I was staring right at a large ship. I knew this was no plane or blimp or anything I've seen in my life. It was so shiny like fresh polished chrome and was triangular and had a smooth curve on the top that was shiny, but very dark like black.”
The witness described the object's lights.
“There were red lights that stayed on and white lights that were so ultra white on the sides, it seemed like it only illuminated the craft. Nothing around it was illuminated and the reflection from the white like pulsated off the craft as well as green lights that did the same, but at the bottom. When I was further up the road the lights seemed to span out in the air. When I was stopped it was just the craft pulsating.”
The witness realized the object made no sound and was confused.
“There was no noise at all. At first I was confused and when it sunk in what it was, I was in awe and then felt very uneasy. I got nervous. It's a very dark road and I saw headlights in both directions, so keeping my eye on it constantly and looking back, I made a U-turn to go back and tape it.”
The witness then looked away from just a few seconds, and looking back the object had disappeared.
“I felt a little scared. I drove all the way back down the road very slowly. There was nothing in the field or in the sky, not even a light in the distance. There were two people who were walking down the road who were now running. I was completely freaked out at this point and turned around and went back down the road again to go home, and still not a thing in sight. There were two people walking and at least three other cars passed. There are houses on the road and also a high school. I hope more witnesses come forward. It was truly an experience to be so close and get such a good look. I have goose bumps writing this.”
Warwick is a city in Kent County, RI, population 82,672. No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on February 18, 2014. Rhode Island has a UFO Alert Rating of 5 with a low number of recent reports nationally. Rhode Island had a one UFO report in January 2014 - the 47th highest reporting state - while California had 102 reports - the highest reporting state in the nation.
You can read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page.
The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or man-made. If Rhode Island MUFON investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Extra information about the article:
The Warwick, RI, witness was traveling along Warwick Avenue, pictured, when the object was noticed hovering with no sound.
One of the most bizarre accounts of UFO folklore involves an incident that allegedly occurred in Voronezh, Russia. This case was reported in the United States by the St. Louis Dispatch. The story was originally published on October 11, 1989, in America, but its origin was the Russian newspaper TASS. The report recounts the adventures of several young children who claimed to have seen a three-eyed alien with a robot escort. The alien was said to be about nine foot tall. The craft, according to eye witness testimony, landed on the outskirts of the city. Shortly thereafter, the tall alien appeared, and upon seeing the young lad, shot a type of weapon at him, causing him to vanish before the eyes of the other people around him. There are several important elements one must keep in mind regarding this extremely strange case of a close encounter. The original details of the case were brought forward by Genrikh Silanov, head of the Voronezh Geophysical Laboratory, who gave details to the TASS agency. Silanov stated that the media took an enormous amount of creative freedom with his report. “Don’t believe all you hear from Tass,” he stated.” We never gave them part of what they published.” I take this statement to mean that only a part of the news agency’s report was based on the facts obtained from Silanov. The agency had informed the entire world that Russian scientists had confirmed that an alien spaceship carrying giants with tiny heads had landed in Voronezh, a city of over 800,000 people located about 300 miles southeast of Moscow. They stated that as many as three of these giant creatures had emerged from the alien ship. The ship was described as a large, shining ball. These strange creatures were said to have walked in a nearby park, accompanied by a menacing robot. Ironically, TASS was the only media member to print the story in Russia. The newspaper Pravda declined to print, or comment on the strange tale. In defense of the TASS account, Soviet reporter Skaya Kultura said that the agency was following the ”the golden rule of journalism.” “The reader must know everything.” The TASS account stated that the UFO landed in Voronezh on September 27, 1989, at 6:30 P.M. Young boys playing soccer witnessed the event, stating that a pinkish glow preceded the descent of the unusual flying craft. The pink glow became a deep red as it touched down. Most witnesses described the object as a flattened, disc shape. A crowd quickly gathered, and peered through a hatch that opened. They saw a ”three-eyed alien” about 10 feet tall, clad in silvery overalls and bronze-colored boots and wearing a disk on his chest. “ The TASS account also stated: “A boy screamed with fear, but when the alien gazed at him, with eyes shining, he fell silent, unable to move. Onlookers screamed, and the UFO and the creatures disappeared.” According to the report, about five minutes later, they reappeared. The alien had an object similar to a pistol – a tube about 20 inches long, which it pointed at an unidentified 16-year-old boy, making him disappear. The alien went inside the sphere, which then took off. At the same time, the boy reappeared. “Children and eyewitnesses of the abnormal phenomenon have been questioned by police workers and journalists,” wrote E. Efremov, the Voronezh correspondent for Soviet Skaya Kultura.” “There are no discrepancies in the description of the sphere itself or the actions of the aliens. Moreover, all the children who became witnesses to this event are still afraid, even now.” Several drawings were made by some of the children who supposedly witnessed the events of Voronezh. A couple of these are included here. One of the drawings showed the Cyrillic alphabet character “zhe” on the side of the UFO. TASS listed three witnesses’ names, all of whom were youngsters. They also stated that a group of international researchers would be investigating the claims of the witnesses. Voronezh residents interviewed later claimed they had observed this UFO not just during the above incident but also many times on September 21, 23, 29 and October 2, between 6 and 9 PM. Some of these incidents involved a different entity: small, with grayish-green face and blue overcoat resembling a loose raincoat. This phenomenal account is still in need of more eyewitness testimony and research. The Voronezh landing remains an unsolved mystery. source: ufocasebook.com
UFO’s are the ultimate mystery. Many sightings can be explained as natural phenomena or some strange type of aircraft. But there are some incidents that are so perplexing that no explanation holds water. I have been interested in the UFO subject for years and there are some really strange incidents that I will name below.
The Rendlesham Forest encounter from 1980 is very weird. The forest was located between two U.S. air force bases in southern England. Up to 60-70 U.S. air force personnel saw up close very strange craft and lights.
The Washington D.C. UFO flap of 1952 was perhaps one of the most observed UFO phenomena ever. The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO incident, also known as the Washington flap or the Washington National Airport Sightings, was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 12 to July 29, 1952, over Washington, D.C. The most publicized sightings took place on consecutive weekends, July 19–20 and July 26–27. The objects were picked up on radar.
The Stephenville, Texas UFO event of 2008 was very strange indeed. On January 8, 2008, Stephenville gained national media attention when dozens of residents reported observations of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Several residents described the crafts as the size of a football field, while others said they were nearly a mile long, similar to the historic Arizona mass sighting of March 13, 1997. Some observers reported military aircraft pursuing the objects.
boggling. It was a series of widely sighted unidentified flying objects observed in the skies over Arizona, Nevada in the United States, and Sonora, Mexico on Thursday, March 13, 1997.
The Belgian UFO wave of 1990 can’t be explained away easily. The Belgian UFO wave peaked with the events of the night of 30/31 March 1990. On that night unknown objects were tracked on radar, chased by two Belgian Air Force F-16′s, photographed, and were sighted by an estimated 13,500 people on the ground – 2,600 of whom filed written statements describing in detail what they had seen. Following the incident the Belgian air force released a report detailing the events of that night.
Another incident worthy of mention was the Travis Walton incident. There was a movie made about it titled “Fire In The Sky.” Besides Walton himself there were six witnesses. Walton (born February 10, 1953) is an American logger who claims to have been abducted by a UFO on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in Arizona. Walton could not be found, but reappeared after a five-day search. TheWalton case received mainstream publicity and remains one of the best-known instances of alleged alien abduction. UFO historian Jerome Clark writes that “Few abduction reports have generated as much controversy” as the Walton case. It is furthermore one of the very few alien abduction cases with corroborative eyewitnesses, and one of few abduction cases where the time allegedly spent in the custody of aliens plays a rather minor role in the overall account.
I am not including the Roswell Incident here because there was nothing to the incident in terms of Alien Spacecraft. Roswell was the (supersecret) Project Mogul balloon system that crashed in the New Mexico desert. The Mogul project was an extremely secret and sensitive system the U.S. military was developing to spy on Russian nuclear weapons tests. There is no actual evidence of any Aliens or Spaceships at all, it is all hearsay, speculation and conjecture. And for the life of me, the Aliens can travel over billions of light years through space to get to Earth, and then when they get here the spaceship blows a gasket and it crashes, come on believers, that just doesn’t make any bloody sense at all.
The incident below is another enigma, very strange stuff. Video at the bottom.
Daily Mail
Does this surveillance footage really show a UFO visiting a Florida swimming pool?
Condo security officer Debralee Thomas witnessed a strange object by the community pool Monday night
The object was UFO-shaped and pulsed above the pool for 30 minutes
The video has been sent off to a UFO organization in Ohio for analysis
It seems even extra-terrestrials retire to Florida.
Residents of a Naples condo building swear that a UFO came to Earth to check out the swimming pool and stayed for 30 minutes Monday night.
Security guard Debralee Thomas says she was monitoring the surveillance camera feeds when she noticed an unusual pair of lights that appeared to be hovering over the water..
What is it? The video shows a disc-like object hovering over the pool before expanding and dipping into the waters, pulsing for half an hour .
The lights appear to be illuminating a saucer-shaped object in the sky, residents claim .
The strange object stuck around for about 30 minutes and then vanished without explanation .
‘I realized that it was something that wasn’t normal, so I was like “Oh my, what is that,” she told WBBH-TV.
As a security guard who stares at video screens for hours, Thomas said she’s seen some bizarre-looking things on her screens that turn out to be nothing at all.
Bug that fly into the camera lenses, for instance, can offer a frightening spectacle for someone who doesn’t know what they’re looking at.
But this was no bug. When she taped the encounter and showed the footage to her friends, they agreed that it indeed looked like something extraterrestrial.
‘We watched it on tape and to be honest, I was so grateful that it was there so I could say it was real…it really happened,’ Thomas said..
Video evidence: Security officer Debralee Thomas was glad she caught the happening on tape .
What’s the interest? It’s unknown why extra-terrestrials might be interested in this condo swimming pool in Naples .
Thomas sent the video to the Mutual UFO Network, an Ohio-based UFO organization, for analysis. The leaders of the organization said they don’t believe the video is a hoax.
But, they can’t say what the strange lights are.
A wildlife biologist that examined the video for WBBH said the images could not have been an animal.
Residents have been going into the condo’s offices just to watch the video and see the event for themselves.
‘I’ve never seen anything like this,’ said resident Curtis Kate. ‘The electrical charges coming from it, it’s truly unbelievable.’
The mystery of the UFO remains unsolved for now, and Thomas is OK with that just as long as it doesn’t happen under her watch again..
A Florida wildlife biologist examined the tape and concluded that no animal could have made the bizarre shapes seen on the tape
Rhode Island witness reports silent triangle UFO hovering over field
A Rhode Island witness at Warwick reported encountering a silent, hovering, triangle-shaped UFO along a dark roadway about 6:20 p.m. on February 17, 2014, according to testimony in Case 54136 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was driving home along East Warwick Avenue when he noticed lights over a nearby field and first thought it was an airplane about the crash.
"But then as I got closer I realized it wasn't moving and slowed down trying to figure out what I was looking at." the witness stated.
The witness brought his vehicle to a complete stop.
"I was staring right at a large ship. I knew this was no plane or blimp or anything I've seen in my life. It was so shiny like fresh polished chrome and was triangular and had a smooth curve on the top that was shiny, but very dark like black."
The witness described the object's lights.
"There were red lights that stayed on and white lights that were so ultra white on the sides, it seemed like it only illuminated the craft. Nothing around it was illuminated and the reflection from the white like pulsated off the craft as well as green lights that did the same, but at the bottom. When I was further up the road the lights seemed to span out in the air. When I was stopped it was just the craft pulsating."
The witness realized the object made no sound and was confused.
"There was no noise at all. At first I was confused and when it sunk in what it was, I was in awe and then felt very uneasy. I got nervous. It's a very dark road and I saw headlights in both directions, so keeping my eye on it constantly and looking back, I made a U-turn to go back and tape it."
The witness then looked away from just a few seconds, and looking back the object had disappeared.
"I felt a little scared. I drove all the way back down the road very slowly. There was nothing in the field or in the sky, not even a light in the distance. There were two people who were walking down the road who were now running. I was completely freaked out at this point and turned around and went back down the road again to go home, and still not a thing in sight. There were two people walking and at least three other cars passed. There are houses on the road and also a high school. I hope more witnesses come forward. It was truly an experience to be so close and get such a good look. I have goose bumps writing this."
Warwick is a city in Kent County, RI, population 82,672. No images or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on February 18, 2014. Rhode Island has a UFO Alert Rating of 5 with a low number of recent reports nationally. Rhode Island had a one UFO report in January 2014 - the 47th highest reporting state - while California had 102 reports - the highest reporting state in the nation.
You can read more details about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page.
The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or man-made. If Rhode Island MUFON investigates and reports back on this case, I will release an update. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
WIJ WORDEN WAKKER - Langgerekte schedels zijn niet van mensen
16 januari 2014, Ben je er klaar voor om met bewijs te worden geconfronteerd dat de versie van de "wereldgeschiedenis" die je op school hebt geleerd op zijn kop zet? Er zijn in de afgelopen jaren op aarde honderden uiterst bizarre schedels gevonden. Wetenschappelijke tests hebben onomstotelijk bewezen dat deze schedels NIET MENSELIJK zijn. Voor veel mensen is dit onacceptabel. De waarheid is, dat al lang geleden over ‘hybride wezens’ werd gesproken in oude teksten. Er zijn oude Indiaanse tradities die beweren dat deze wezens in Noord-Amerika leefden voordat er Indianen waren. Er is ook een oud Indiaans verhaal over een oorlog tussen een stam van Indianen en een ras van roodharige kannibalistische reuzen. De bijbel noemt deze hybriden de ‘Nephilim’. De bewijzen hiervoor lijken zich steeds meer op te stapelen.
Op het schiereiland Paracas in Peru heeft men grote langgevormde schedels gevonden die zeer oud zijn. Op de Facebook pagina van Brien Forster zie je de foto van zo’n schedel met rood haar.
Niet lang geleden werd er ook een schedel met rood haar ontdekt. Deze bleek van een jong kind te zijn (Facebook page…).
Deze schedels zijn veel groter dan de schedels van mensen. Schedels die door afbinding met opzet worden vervormd bij individuen die nog in de groei zijn zullen wel van vorm, maar nooit van volume veranderen.
Deze langgevormde schedels hebben nog een paar karakteristieke verschillen met de gewone schedels, Brien Foerster bespreekt de verschillen in de volgende vijf minuten durende video: five minute video…
Foerster bespreekt zijn vondsten in een interview met the Examiner; hij heeft de conclusie getrokken dat de schedels van een ander soort wezen moeten zijn of van een mix van mens met buitenaardsen.
Men heeft een monster genomen van het rode haar en ter analyse naar een laboratorium gezonden. De uitkomst is verbijsterend. Onderzoeker LA Marzulli bespreekt wat het lab heeft gevonden op tien minuten van de volgende video: of the following video…
Een in Peru gevonden gemummificeerde langgerekte schedel zou het bewijs kunnen zijn van buitenaardsen. Met zijn lengte van 50 centimeters heeft het antropologen versteld doen staan. De schedel werd gevonden in Andahuaylillas in de zuidelijke provincie Quispicanchi. Conclusie van een internationaal team van antropologen: ‘niet van mensen’.
Een andere schedel die tot controverse heeft geleid is de zogenaamde “Starchild Skull”:
Links de starchild schedel en recht de menselijke schedel
Bovenstaande foto laat de verschillen duidelijk zien. De starchild schedel is een 900 jaar oude schedel met duidelijk niet-menselijke karakteristieken. De schedel werd rond 1930 ontdekt in een kopermijn in Mexico. Het Starchild Project is een onderzoeksgroep die sinds 1999 op wetenschappelijke manier onderzoek doet naar de schedel. Tegen 2003 had het project genoeg bewijs verzameld om te vermoeden dat de schedel geheel anders was dan andere schedels die gedocumenteerd zijn door de wetenschap.
Het Starchild Project heeft het DNA onderzocht. Het rapport was opvallend (from the report); uit het rapport:
Uit vier nieuwe fragmenten uit het mtDNA van de starchild schedel werden door een geneticus 1.583 baseparen gevonden. Er werden 93 variaties vastgesteld van menselijk mtDNA. Dat is al bijna de 120 variaties, die mensen kennen, bij 9,5%! Doen we de rekensom dan kunnen we uitkomen op 9,5 maal 10,5 is 100% is 977 variaties!
Het lijkt erop dat “andere wezens” ooit op de aarde leefden. In de Bijbel noemt men hen de Nephilim. In andere oude teksten worden er andere namen gegeven. De Paiute indianen spreken over een oorlog tegen kannibalistische reuzen met rood haar uit Nevada. Een handafdruk kan worden gezien in een grot.
Dit past natuurlijk niet in de historie zoals die ons op school wordt geleerd. Maar wat doe je als je de bewijzen ziet?
A Secret UFO War Is It Plausible or Out and Out Real
A Secret UFO War Is It Plausible or Out and Out Real?
There have been early indicators as well as contemporary incidents that hint at an ominous development of global and interplanetary proportions that lead us on the trail of a secret war with UFO’s. There are numerous corroborative events that hint at massively deployed operations of military acts, losses of life, and witness testimony that lead us to an ultimately beyond the top secret status of interplanetary war from a hostile alien origin. Yet, so high on the spectrum of secret magnitude that very few are ever allowed an insight into such compartmentally controlled evidence. According to veterans who have given testimony, books written by credible sources, and documented incidents, it seems that some kind of hostility exists between two civilizations in which at least one of those factions appears to be virtually unaware that their planet is engaged in an ongoing conflict with another world. Those who appear to be unaware would be us. We can’t speak for the other side of the equation, only that it appears that hostilities, secret technology, and an intelligence black out seem to be effectively underway and operating as proposed.
Evidence of the unthinkable hard to deny
There is a historic timeline that tends to corroborate this seemingly far reaching mindset that seems to quite adequately justify a government wide deployment of national; assets on a need to know basis, with a global front against an alien aggressor or perhaps aggressors, who want something we have, or are struggling with the fact that even though they have superior technology they are not able to wrestle control of our planet or its resources away from us. Or, does it get even more foreboding than that? Are we actually locked in combat with a race that only has partial control, that they can abduct humans, mutilate cattle, cause certain types of infrastructure disruption, but can’t ultimately force us to their whim because, after all, we are not so helpless, we are very good at militarism for a primitive species, and they (the alien aggressors) would have to engage us on a much more committed form of warfare than they are prepared to sacrifice for.
Do we have the tools for effective global defense?
Not to mention the fact that we have already developed fairly sophisticated means of nuclear warfare with the delivery system to convey that deadly form of warfare against our enemies, defeating us would be no cake walk. Certainly they would know by our violent and bloody history that we are capable of using all types of weaponry available to us to the point of destroying our planet, or at the least, making it inhospitable or unprofitable to exploit this sphere after such destructive measures have been executed. Perhaps even our logic fails to make sense to them as well. So, perhaps, at least in theory, we have established a possible Mexican standoff with these extraterrestrial invaders as I‘d like to describe them.
History that remains hidden from the books
Now, let us peer into recent technological history and look for indicators of a secret human alien conflict that has been isolated from general knowledge or at least from the mainstream news services and yet is being conducted on some scale of limited aggression or an unpredictable global scale of hostility in an intermittent fashion which would probably make more sense from a realistic economical standpoint. We can easily put ourselves in the place of hostile aliens and ask how could you possible deploy an expeditionary force on an interstellar or extra-solar level without great expense, time, and resources that would most likely dictate a different kind of strategic approach. Tactics that would probably be more sporadic instead of overpoweringly significant. Especially in the case of dealing with a more primitive species capable of destroying their own planet with mass weapons in the event that they perceived themselves as losing the war. In such case, deploying very destructive weapons would also necessitate respect and a contingent plan on the part of even a more technically advanced invader. And I think this is where the premise lies-limited warfare from great distances for the invaders.
1960 a year of bizarre circumstances
Three developments that occurred around 1960 seem to corroborate concerns on the part of the scientific community and the US military that a potential threat from space could be anticipated in the future. Perhaps, considering all the accounts of UFO pursuits crashes, disappearances, and alleged air to air engagements, that the evidence was already in on invaders from space so the appropriate measures were, in fact, being taken. Major Donald Kehoe USMC retired stated that as early as 1946 a USAir Force Lieutenant had prepared an intelligence estimate that theorized that an alien presence in the solar system already existed and that on at least one planet or one of its moons a base had been established. When Keyhoe released this information in one of his articles, the USAir Force denied the report saying that it did not represent the official view of that branch of service itself. One might ask just what evidence or reported activity had inspired this lieutenant to publish such a controversial intelligence estimate so far ahead of its time? Was the lieutenant in question, a comic book fan? I doubt it.
The Drake equation
In 1960 Doctor Frank Drake published a now famous equation which estimated the likelihood of intelligentlife in the universe to be up to a trillion worlds based upon an assumption of 1/10,000 of 1% of the known stars in the night sky. Based upon that premise, Dr. Drake created Project Ozma. Using a radio telescope, Drake and fellow scientists listened to the background noise generated by stars to see if any intelligent signals could be received. One ominous incident occurred in which the Project Ozma team reportedly got an intelligent signal, but it appeared to be a malevolent transmission. After decoding the meaning and weighing other considerations, one researcher suggested, “when ET calls simply hang up.” Why? His rationale was that if a more advanced civilization found that we were merely in our infancy as a technical society and could be traced by the origin of our radio telescope signals that we might end up becoming someone else’s easy conquest. The official explanation of the strange message from outer space was that Project Ozma had unwittingly received a transmission from a military spy satellite.
Who were they worried about?
In that same year of 1960 came the creation of a military orbital defense platform know as Project Saint. This was to be the forerunner of the Reagan era Star Wars orbital defense plan designed as the first missile shield using directed energy weapons or particle beams. Project Saint would identify any unknown object in orbit around the earth, maneuver into position with it, and destroy that object. Later programs more sophisticated were to come according to the late Philip J. Corso in his book, “The Day After Roswell”. What would have prompted NASA and the USAir Force to consider the launch of an orbital space defense program in priority over the first astronaut to orbit the earth? They must have anticipated a grave threat.
A secret lunar landing proposed
Little known to most people and originated in 1960 came the US Army’s plan to establish and maintain a permanent base on the moon for the purpose of discouraging aliens on the moon’s surface or them establishing a facility on the moon. This plan predated the Apollo mission by 9 years. According to Philip J. Corso, UFO reports had become so numerous, the Army wanted to maintain a presence on the moon surface to observe such activity. It was called Project Horizon. Serious plans had been made to put at least three men in a pressurized structure for the purpose of reconnaissance. Officially the project was never approved although it was thought that the base would discourage alien aspirations for setting up such a base themselves, evidence today seems to indicate they had beat us to it.. With all the modern photos showing artifacts and structures on the lunar surface Chances are the Army astronauts would have had all they could handle.
Irrefutable evidence
If these three precursors to what we know now were actually undertaken, and we know they were, then we have circumstantial evidence that corroborates reports that President Eisenhower had an exchange with an extraterrestrial civilization perhaps as early as 1954 at Holloman AFB. We also have former Air Intelligence officer, Robert Dean, who testified that in 1964 he was cleared to participate in an ultra top secret program under joint agreement with NATO that knew definitely of UFO’s existence and has established contact with the intelligence behind them. Robert Dean’s allegations open a whole new aspect to actually what level we as a race were interacting with celestial intelligence and when such operations were underway.
Asking more relevant questions now
Are we alone in the universe? That’s not the question anymore. Who are they, what are their intentions, or what is our place among the galactic order of civilizations, might be a more realistic answer. This information I extracted from a veteran’s information and resource website for ex-military of every branch of service to access anything from VA hospital treatment to psychological help for traumatic stress syndrome. It is curious that a FOIA site would carry extended length information such as what I’ve written.
In Part II we will further explore more on this unorthodox source of intriguing and unwritten history.
A secret war with UFOs Part II (secret military missions)
A secret war with UFO’s Part II (secret military missions)
AdmiralRichard E. Byrd was a colorful if not elusive figure when it came to his merits as not only an Antarctic explorer, but a high rankingUS naval officer who participated in some highly classified maneuvers on the world’s ocean waters. Having been instrumental in raising awareness over the need for the US Navy to send a task force to the South Pole, Admiral Byrd was able to get Admiral Nimitz’s support for funding from the government as well as the allocation of a sizable force in order to assume command of such a mission. In all this, Admiral Byrd also steps into the shrouded veil of darkened territory we know as the UFO mystery when events surrounding him became highly questionable and indicative of human conflict with a hostile alien force in the furthest reaches of the frigid extremes of Antarctica.
History is never what it seems
Under the allegations of a continuing human conflict against the hostile intentions of another world, we must examine and read between the lines when looking at the official version written in the history books that raises more questions then it answers. We shall take a look at questionable circumstances that seem to indicate a much different set of circumstances than the mundane premises left for us to accept as the truth in light of grievous contradictions to the so-called conventional wisdom that, at times, insults our collective intelligence. Yet, even as we know today, government double speak many times is left to more than one interpretation when we apply critical thinking. Let us delve into an enigma that raised eyebrows from the start.
Bound for the unknown
Once Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s Task Force 68 had embarked on their frigid destination to the furthest point south of that hemisphere, questions were being asked. Why was a supposed peace time exploration fleet searching for minerals and mapping a little known continent, utilizing a curious accompaniment of warships, submarines, an aircraft carrier, warplanes, destroyers, and helicopters, not to mention combined personnel of 4,700 Naval and infantry personnel? Three groups were consolidated into the task force including a land base construction outfit to erect a base on the continent. There would also be three admirals, Chester Nimitz, Byrd, and Cruzen.
At the time the Task Force left the Naval shipyards of the US under orders from Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, the Roswell crash already occurred and had been explained away as a misidentified weather balloon thanks to General Ramey’s official explanation staged out of Carswell Army Airfield in Ft. Worth, Texas. Little did the American public know that this very issue would be addressed again once Byrd’s fleet reached the waters of the Antarctic Ocean.
A desperate demand for nuclear weapons
Let us first travel ahead in time to the hasty departure of Byrd’s task force from the Antarctic six months ahead of schedule under secret allegations of lost aircraft, fatalities, and hostile actions taken against flying disks equipped with destructive ray weapons. Once the admiral was debriefed by the War Department and US Naval intelligence, he appeared in front of a Congressional committee and testified that there was drastic cause to justify the use of atomic weapons against aggressors based on the Antarctic continent. Admiral Byrd pleaded with Congress to approve the use of the nuclear option in <a class=”StrictlyAutoTagAnchor” title=”View all articles about Antarctica here” href=/peter2011/”http://www.etupdates.com/tag/antarctica”>Antarctica. As a matter of fact, Richard E. Byrd was practically in a bitter rage as he demanded that this tactical approach would be the only way to combat a superior aerial threat that could be launched from Antarctic bases that had the range to strike America in hours!
It is understandable that an Antarctic expeditionary fleet would have to be equipped with a great number of specialized vessels such as sea plane tenders, C-130 transports fitted with skis for landing on ice, tankers, PBY search and rescue aircraft as well as for mapping large regions of frozen land. There would, no doubt, be the need for detachment of CB’s for the construction of a land base and temporary harbor for the deployment of men and material from the fleet ships. Yet, destroyers, an aircraft carrier “Philippine Sea”, specially fitted fighter aircraft, infantry men, and at least 2 submarines seemed more of an offensive battle group than an peace time exploration convoy. When Byrd’s fleet departed from US shores there was an uncharacteristic effort by the Navy to publicly allude to all intentions of a peaceful mission as if to quell public fears that a new war effort was now underway with all the American people had suffered through during World War II which had only ended 18 months earlier.
A series of aerial reconnaissance missions and mapping flights were deployed daily from flight decks of the Philippine Sea aircraft carrier. Admiral Byrd was on one such aerial sortie one day when he failed to report back. A frantic search was conducted when suddenly Admiral Byrd’s aircraft was sighted returning to base two hours behind ETA. Byrd and his crew gave a fantastic story of having found a huge underground entrance that housed a subterranean military base by the Germans. Byrd’s plane was allowed to enter and land in the fantastic facility. This is one of many amazing accounts given by witnesses.
Strange and deadly events begin to transpire
Strange events began almost as soon as the task force landed off the coast of the Antarctica. Reports processed by the fleet as “accident” or “incident” reports, read more like the “after action” bulletins back channeled to high command after war time combat had taken place. In one such ambiguous report a sea plane caught fire, two passengers were burned to death while still strapped into their seats, and the aircraft crashed leaving two crewman to leap from the aircraft before impact into the frozen snow packed landscape below. This incident almost resulted in the loss of a ship’s commander.
Further described incidents seemed much too catastrophic for an exploration mission in view of the loss of life and down airplanes that could only be attributable to freak accidents and weather related mishaps. Project High Jump seemed as plagued with casualties as any war time mission could have expected which contradicted the very precepts of a peaceful mapping, resource identification, and establishment of weather related procedural initiatives originally outlined by Admiral Nimitz prior to their departure from the American mainland.
Aside from the trying to interpret the double talk of intentionally cleaned up reports, there were the unofficial accounts given by those who had heard by word of mouth from the personnel who had endured the dangers of that mysterious Antarctic mission.On one of the first nights in Antarctic waters a ship’s log describes an inexplicable aerial light in the night sky ascending at a 45 degree climb into the upper altitudes, self illuminating, and giving off a radar signature. This was an official report.
According to witness testimonies, there were battles that described aerial attacks from flying saucer type machines that battered the Naval surface ships with destructive, weaponized rays emitted from these crafts with devastating effects. It appears that Admiral Byrd’s fleet had a clandestine purpose and was prepared to do battle although it appears they suffered losses that became prohibitive as Admiral Cruzen, the Operations Commander of the task force ordered a withdrawal that cut short the return voyage of the fleet by six months. Personally, I think anytime a mission is actually terminated six months ahead of schedule, the Pentagon is going to want some answers. Apparently Admiral Byrd’s battered task force retired from their intended objectives for more than just weather related difficulties.
What was planned as an invasion of the Antarctic continent by Admiral Byrd’s task force, who could very well have been on a mission to find and destroy a secret surviving Nazi base turned out to be a failed expeditionary effort that cost American lives and material. Is it any wonder that Richard E, Byrd returned to the states and appeared in front a Congressional committee appealing for more weapons to go back and destroy whoever it was that had repulsed his fleet and ground operations, even if it came down to using tactical nukes?
Not only did Admiral Richard E. Byrd depart from the US mainland with 13 ships at his disposal, but according to sources he rendezvoused with British and Australian Naval warships to further reinforce his fleet on its way to the mysterious waters of the Antarctic, where death and destruction apparently awaited!
What corroborating events do we have on these fantastic allegations?
1) Plans for elliptical shaped aircraft armed with machine guns and having a jet turbine propulsion system were uncovered by the allied forces (Americans) who entered the secret Nazi base at Peenemunde where rocket scientist, Werner Von Braun, and his colleagues happily surrendered to US troops and were later used to originate NASA’s space program under Operation Paper Clip. The Book “Brighter Than a Thousand Suns” details the drawings of the Nazi flying saucers. It is unclear whether they were ever flown after being conceptualized on paper.
2) At least 40 German U-Boats went unaccounted for after the surrender of Germany once Berlin had fallen. There were odd reports of German U-Boats during the course of the war operating in southern latitudes far from Allied shipping lanes which would not have made tactical sense. After the was had been lost there were reports by Chilean fishermen of being approached by German U-Boats who bartered for supplies with the South American maritime merchants, who reported being paid in gold and even US dollars! 3) At least 2 German U-Boats reportedly surrendered to the Chilean Navy with one crew actually scuttling their vessel after submitting to capture. 4) Recent sightings of alleged UFO’s over Neumayer and Mawson Antarctic bases raise questions. 5) Aerial photographs allegedly show whatappear to be structures on the Antarctic wasteland that appear to be modern and unrecorded construction that some say could be Nazi bases built decades ago during or after World War II. 6) NASA satellite picks up the existence of a large underground lake of warm water beneath the ice of the Antarctic. Some theorists claim that an underground German base was established there to tap into the energy and heat from this warm fresh geo thermal water resource for obvious means of sustaining long term establishment.
Statements Made
There were both outlandish public statements made by not only Admiral Byrd but Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal. As a result, both men may definitely come into harm’s way as a result. One more than one occasion, Admiral Byrd made outrageous statements related to his mission that would have elicited a response from the powers that be who did not want to reveal the true nature of the Antarctic threat to American citizens. Quoted from a newspaper “El Mercurio” Byrd stated that although he did not want to unduly alarm the American people, but in the bitter reality of a new war upon the continental United States that flying objects could strike the nation from the South Pole at incredible speeds! This was not the first or the last time Admiral Byrd made such publicly astounding announcements.
During the 1955 Admiral Byrd was remanded to medical treatment and restricted to bed rest in order to keep any further statements from becoming public. Although he was given a new commission to accept the command of a new Antarctic expedition, he died in 1957. Some have theorized that Richard E. Byrd was murdered for not only what he knew but what he refused to remain silent about.
As for Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, it seems insanity and untimely death reached him even sooner than Admiral Byrd. It is said that James Forrestal had already been under considerable strain during the course of World War II, but that knowledge of the UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico and the reports coming out of the Antarctic by the fatalities suffered over Admiral Byrd’s task force led to Forrestal’s nervous breakdown. In the John Keel’s Book “Operation Trojan Horse” the author exposes the irrational actions of James Forrestal supposedly running through the White House screaming “We’re being invaded by flying saucers!” This led to his confinement to Bethesda hospital under the aegis of psychiatric care. James Forrestal fell to his death from an upper story window shortly after. It appears that the unhinged Secretary of the Navy may very well have been conveniently liquidated to avert the intelligence leak he was obviously capable of. Such are the unfortunate casualties of UFO secrecy. They are alarmingly high and such unwitting players in this misty world of unanswered questions become increasingly expendable.
Even as we maintain ice stations on the Antarctic continent for such purposes as weather data recording, we are receiving unsettling reports of unusual aerial activity as well as unknown lights in the frigid night skies that go unexplained. It is unclear whether or not the sacrifices and deaths that occurred over the strange events in the South Pole have ever been rectified or accounted for. We only know of the unexplained tragedies that mark the boundary that exists between the world we take for granted and that eerie netherworld of unclear history that refuses to unlock the secrets that stare back at us like a reflection off the ice.
Among the discoveries are pyramids with a circle built inside them, cross-braces connecting the circle to the corners of the pyramid. Outside of Sedeinga only one pyramid is known to have been built in this way. CREDIT: Photo copyright Vincent Francigny/SEDAU
35 Ancient Pyramids Discovered in Sudan Necropolis
At least 35 small pyramids, along with graves, have been discovered clustered closely together at a site called Sedeinga in Sudan.
Discovered between 2009 and 012, researchers are surprised at how densely the pyramids are concentrated. In one field season alone, in 2011, the research team discovered 13 pyramids packed into roughly 5,381 square feet (500 square meters), or slightly larger than an NBAbasketball court.
They date back around 2,000 years to a time when a kingdom named Kush flourished in Sudan. Kush shared a border with Egypt and, later on, the Roman Empire. The desire of the kingdom’s people to build pyramids was apparently influenced by Egyptian funerary architecture.
At Sedeinga, researchers say, pyramid building continued for centuries. “The density of the pyramids is huge,” said researcher Vincent Francigny, a research associate with the American Museum of Natural History in New York, in an interview with LiveScience. “Because it lasted for hundreds of years they built more, more, more pyramids and after centuries they started to fill all the spaces that were still available in the necropolis.”
This aerial photo shows a series of pyramids and graves that a team of archaeologists has been exploring at Sedeinga in Sudan. Since 2009 they have discovered at least 35 small pyramids at the site, the largest being 22 feet (7 meters) in width. CREDIT: Photo copyright B-N Chagny, SEDAU/SFDAS
The biggest pyramids they discovered are about 22 feet (7 meters) wide at their base with the smallest example, likely constructed for the burial of a child, being only 30 inches (750 millimeters) long. The tops of the pyramids are not attached, as the passage of time and the presence of a camel caravan route resulted in damage to the monuments. Francigny said that the tops would have been decorated with a capstone depicting either a bird or a lotus flower on top of a solar orb.
The building continued until, eventually, they ran out of room to build pyramids. “They reached a point where it was so filled with people and graves that they had to reuse the oldest one,” Francigny said.
Francigny is excavation director of the French Archaeological Mission to Sedeinga, the team that made the discoveries. He and team leader Claude Rilly published an article detailing the results of their 2011 field season in the most recent edition of the journal Sudan and Nubia.The inner circle
The inner Circle...
Among the discoveries were several pyramids designed with an inner cupola (circular structure) connected to the pyramid corners through cross-braces. Rilly and Francigny noted in their paper that the pyramid design resembles a “French Formal Garden.”
Only one pyramid, outside of Sedeinga, is known to have been constructed this way, and it’s a mystery why the people of Sedeinga were fond of the design. It “did not add either to the solidity or to the external aspect [appearance] of the monument,” Rilly and Francigny write.
A discovery made in 012 may provide a clue, Francigny said in the interview. “What we found this year is very intriguing,” he said. “A grave of a child and it was covered by only a kind of circle, almost complete, of brick.” It’s possible, he said, that when pyramid building came into fashion at Sedeinga it was combined with a local circle-building tradition called tumulus construction, resulting in pyramids with circles within them.
People were buried beside the pyramids in tomb chambers that often held more than one individual. This image shows a child who was buried with necklaces. CREDIT: Photo copyright Vincent Francigny/SEDAU
.An offering for grandma?
The graves beside the pyramids had largely been plundered, possibly in antiquity, by the time archaeologists excavated them. Researchers did find skeletal remains and, in some cases, artifacts.
One of the most interesting new finds was an offering table found by the remains of a pyramid. . It appears to depict the goddess Isis and the jackal-headed god Anubis and includes an inscription, written in Meroitic language, dedicated to a woman named “Aba-la,” which may be a nickname for “grandmother,” Rilly writes.
It reads in translation:
Oh Isis! Oh Osiris!
It is Aba-la.
Make her drink plentiful water;
Make her eat plentiful bread;
Make her be served a good meal.
The offering table with inscription was a final send-off for a woman, possibly a grandmother, given a pyramid burial nearly 2,000 years ago.
Life on other planets could be far more widespread, study finds
Earth-sized planets can support life at least ten times further away from stars than previously thought, according to academics at the University of Aberdeen.
A new paper published in Planetary and Space Science claims cold rocky planets previously considered uninhabitable may actually be able to support life beneath the surface.
The team, which included academics from the University of St Andrews, challenge the traditional ‘habitable zone’ – i.e. the area of space around a star, or sun, which can support life – by taking into consideration life living deep below the ground.
“The traditional habitable zone is also known as the Goldilocks zone,” explains PhD student Sean McMahon. “A planet needs to be not too close to its sun but also not too far away for liquid water to persist, rather than boiling or freezing, on the surface.
“But that theory fails to take into account life that can exist beneath a planet’s surface. As you get deeper below a planet’s surface, the temperature increases, and once you get down to a temperature where liquid water can exist – life can exist there too.”
The team created a computer model that estimates the temperature below the surface of a planet of a given size, at a given distance from its star.
“The deepest known life on Earth is 5.3 km below the surface, but there may well be life even 10 km deep in places on Earth that haven’t yet been drilled.
“Using our computer model we discovered that the habitable zone for an Earth-like planet orbiting a sun-like star is about three times bigger if we include the top five kilometres below the planet surface.
“The model shows that liquid water, and as such life, could survive 5km below the Earth’s surface even if the Earth was three times further away from the sun than it is just now.
“If we go deeper, and consider the top 10 km below the Earth’s surface, then the habitable zone for an Earth-like planet is 14 times wider.”
The current habitable zone for our solar system extends out as far as Mars, but this re-drawn habitable zone would see the zone extend out further than Jupiter and Saturn. The findings also suggest that many of the so-called “rogue” planets drifting around in complete darkness could actually be habitable.
“Rocky planets a few times larger than the Earth could support liquid water at about 5 km below the surface even in interstellar space (i.e. very far away from a star), even if they have no atmosphere because the larger the planet, the more heat they generate internally.
“It has been suggested that the planet Gliese 581 d, which is 20 light years away from Earth in the constellation Libra, may be too cold for liquid water at the surface. However, our model suggests that it is very likely to be able to support liquid water less than 2 km below the surface, assuming it is Earth-like.”
The significance of the subsurface is further illustrated by another paper published by the same team which suggests there could be more life below the surface of the continents on Earth thanthere is below the seafloor.
McMahon hopes the studies will encourage other researchers to consider how life on other planets might be detected.
“The results suggest life may occur much more commonly deep within planets and moons than on their surfaces. This means it might be worth looking for signs of life outside conventional habitable zones. I hope people will study the ways in which life below the surface might reveal itself. Because it’s not unimaginable that there might be signs at the surface that life exists deep below.
“The surfaces of rocky planets and moons that we know of are nothing like Earth. They’re typically cold and barren with no atmosphere or a very thin or even corrosive atmosphere. Going below the surface protects you from a whole host of unpleasant conditions on the surface. So the subsurface habitable zone may turn out to be very important. Earth might even be unusual in having life on the surface.”
Will we ever… travel faster than the speed of light?
Einstein said it is impossible, but as Jennifer Ouellette explains some scientists are still trying to break the cosmic speed limit – even if it means bending the laws of physics.
“It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.” Woody Allen, Side Effects
Last summer, a small neutrino experiment in Europe called OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion tRacking Apparatus) stunned the world with a preliminary announcement that it had clocked neutrinos travelling just a few fractions of a second faster than the speed of light. The news even briefly overshadowed the far more recognizable Large Hadron Collider’s ongoing hunt for the Higgs boson.
Despite careful hedging by scientists, the popular imagination jumped right from neutrinos to a viable spacecraft for fast interstellar travel. After all, the prospect of faster-than-light (FTL) travel has been a science fiction staple for decades, from wormholes and Star Trek’s original warp drive, to the FTL “jumps” used to evade the Cylons in SyFy’s Battlestar Galactica reboot. It takes years, decades, centuries even to cross the vast expanses of space with our current propulsion technology – a realistic depiction of the tedium of space travel in entertainment would likely elicit the viewer equivalent of “Are we there yet?”
So the OPERA announcement was bound to generate excitement, even if the neutrinos in question were only moving nanoseconds faster than light – hardly sufficient to outrun the Cylons, but nevertheless faster than c, the cosmic speed limit set by Albert Einstein back in 1905.
Unfortunately, the euphoria was premature: the OPERA results were incorrect, thanks to a calibration error. The culprit: a faulty cable connection in the GPS system used to time the neutrinos along their journey. That killjoy Einstein wins again.
But if the OPERA saga did tell us anything, it’s that the idea of travelling faster than light continues to capture the imagination. As Hollywood screenwriter Zack Stentz (Thor, a.k.a. “Vikings in Space”) said recently at a Los Angeles panel on the science of superheroes, “Every science fiction writer who wants to get out of the solar system [within a human lifetime] gloms onto that. It’s the leap of faith that lets you tell stories on this bigger canvas.”
“You cannae change the laws of physics”
“Leap of faith” is a particularly relevant phrase to use here. The fact is we’ll never be able to travel beyond the speed of light, at least based on our current understanding of established physics.
As any object with mass accelerates – like a proton in the LHC – it gains energy, always needing just a little bit more energy to accelerate even further. The LHC, the largest and highest-energy particle accelerator we have, boosts protons as close to the speed of light as we can get, but they never quite hit the mark. If a proton did achieve that speed, it would need infinite energy to go any faster, and we don’t have an infinite supply of energy.
Equations don’t tend to lie, especially ones that have been tested and re-tested in countless experiments for over a century. For all practical intents and purposes, the speed of light is an insurmountable threshold.
But physicists would never make any progress at all if they threw in the towel quite that easily, and nobody thinks Einstein will have the final word in perpetuity. Many scientists are happy to consider the possibility of violations of relativistic principles, even if none have yet been experimentally confirmed.
One of the earliest proposed possibilities for FTL travel involved a hypothetical particle called a tachyon, capable of tunnelling past the speed of light barrier. This turned out to be more of a mathematical artifact rather than an actual physical particle.
However, another reason for all the OPERA-tic excitement was that back in 1985, physicists proposed that some high-energy neutrinos might really be tachyons, capable of interacting with an as-yet-known field, giving them just enough of an energy boost to break through the barrier. Such tachyon-like neutrinos would supersede photons as the fastest particles in the universe.
OPERA’s calibration error dashed those hopes, but there are still plenty of potential loopholes to be explored, such as the Star Trek-inspired warp drive mechanism first proposed by Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 1994. In general relativity, spacetime is dynamic, not static, warping and bending in response to the presence of mass or energy. Alcubierre suggested that it might be possible to encase a spaceship within a “warp bubble”, whereby space contracted in front of the craft and expanded behind it, enabling it to travel faster than light. But within that bubble, spacetime would remain essentially flat and the craft would technically “obey” the cosmic speed limit.
Alas, once again we face an energy problem: achieving that degree of curvature would require enormous amounts of energy – and negative energy at that – equivalent to the mass of Jupiter. To propel a spacecraft across the Milky Way galaxy may require more energy than can be found in the mass of the entire universe. A more energy-efficient ring-shaped design for such a warp drive was described recently at a symposium on interstellar space flight, offering a meager shred of hope to diehard space acolytes that for future generations, warp drive will be a reality.
However, given what we know about general relativity and quantum field theory, “It almost certainly can’t be done,” says Ken Olum, a cosmologist at Tufts. “Of course, if we are talking about quantum gravity, it’s hard to know, because we don’t really know what that is.”
Former Nasa scientist Kevin Grazier, who was the technical consultant for Battlestar Galactica, says that a version of the Alcubierre warp drive inspired the “jump drive” used in that series. It was based on the assumption that, in this fictional world, the Colonials had merged theories of electromagnetism and gravity, such that if you could create a very intense electromagnetic field, it would be functionally equivalent to an intense gravitational field capable of warping spacetime. Turning that ingenious fiction into a viable reality is another matter altogether.
Brane gain
If we really want to get speculative, Olum suggests FTL travel would be possible if exotic concepts, like those that emerge from superstring theory, prove to be correct.
We inhabit four-dimensional spacetime, but various permutations of superstring theory suggest our universe is just one of many, co-existing within a bubble of five-dimensional spacetime called the “bulk.” Within that bulk, our universe lines up in parallel with all the others, just like the pages in a book. Olum explains that, hypothetically, one could take a shortcut through the bulk, thereby arriving at your destination sooner than if you had travelled along your four-dimensional surface, or brane (short for membrane) as it is known.
Even then, there is a catch. “In brane theories, only gravitons can travel through the bulk,” says Olum. So one would need to invent a machine that could scan an object and transmit the information in the form of gravitons to a second machine on the other end which would then reconstruct that object – shades of teleportation, only with gravitons.
Considering we have yet to observe gravitons in our most powerful accelerators, and the current record for teleporting small clouds of atoms is the relatively non-Cylon-troubling distance of 143 kilometres (88 miles), this scenario must also remain firmly in the realm of science fiction, at least for now. Science advances, but it does so slowly, at a pace nowhere near the speed of light.
l'explication des flares est parfaitement ridicule et positivement incompatible avec les témoignages et les films (pas de fumées visibles à proximité des lumières, aucun intéret à tirer des flares au dessus d'une zone densément urbanisée, alignement très difficile à accomplir des prétendus flares). Vous omettez de préciser que ce ne sont pas que des lumières lointaines en forme de V qui sont observées dans la première phase de l'observation mais des super structures qui bouchent la vue du ciel étoilé et qui sont de taille considérable à tel point que les témoins parlent de ville ou de stade de foot.
2.° Réaction de J.:
Bon, j'ai été un peu provoc sur ce coup. Oui, l'étude de Maccabee sur les flares paraît convaincante (quoique prodigieusement assommante !). Elle est cependant réfutée, en particulier par certains militaires, comme indiqué dans le document TV "OVNIs, quand l'armée enquête". (On ne peut tenir compte de l'analyse contradictoire de Bill Hamilton et Tom King, personnages controversés et fortement soupçonnés de fraude aux US.) Par ailleurs, les caractéristiques techniques de l'éclairante LUU-2 décrites par Maccabee, en particulier son émission lumineuse, apparaissent pompées presque mot pour mot sur des sites web, comme par ex. celui de GlobalSecurity.org alors qu'il les présente comme de son cru. Ainsi on peut lire sur la page http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/luu2.htm : The flare candle burns magnesium which burns at high temperature emitting an intense bright white light. The consumption of the aluminum cylinder that contains the flare "candle" may add some orange to the light. Mais le texte précise : The LUU-2 flare enhances a pilot's ability to see targets while using Night Vision Goggles. With the introduction of A-10 Warthog Night Vision capability, such flares are not used as frequently as in the past as they provide too much light for the very sensitive goggles.
On peut donc se demander pourquoi des A-10 Thunderbolts auraient utilisé des éclairantes alors que leurs pilotes en auraient été gênés pour la vision de nuit... ... Sauf peut-être (un point en faveur des flares) si l'exercice aérien n'en étaitpas un et avait quelque chose à voir avec la première observation (les lumières en V), hypothèse que malheureusement Maccabee n'envisage pas. La coincidence spatio-temporelle est tout-de-même frappante. Le A-10 (Fairchild Republic) Thunderbolt est justement un appareil spécialement conçu pour l'attaque de cibles fortement protégées comme les tanks et autres véhicules blindés (certaines armées ennemies s'en souviennent !) Son blindage titane et son armement, (en particulier canon rotatif GAU-8 de 30 mm à obus uranium appauvri, missile intelligent AGM-65 Maverick) en font l'arme idéale dans une éventuelle confrontation avec un objet inconnu jugé puissant et potentiellement menaçant (rien ne dit que le "triangle" l'était mais c'est la procédure en pareil cas). Dans cette hypothèse on peut considérer que ces A-10 aient été équipés d'éclairantes LUU-2 pour la circonstance : visuel amélioré d'un objet non identifié à structure très sombre (seulement délimitée par des lumières) et/ou leurrage de leur propre détection optique par ledit objet.
Non-Human DNA Found in Elongated Paracas Skulls. THE LIP TV “A DNA analysis of elongated Paracas skulls has shown that they may not be human and that they could come from an entirely new species that fits outside of the known evolutionary tree.”
Videographer Skander Gharbi looks at the Secchi images from 02/01/2014 To 02/13/2014 and catches a weird anomaly, what he believes is a UFO, flying out of the sun at incredible speed. Watch the top right going diagonally up and to the left as you are watching the video. He will slow it down and show it with different filters for better imaging of whatever this object is.
UFO sighting recorded over Manhattan, New York, USA on 14th February 2014
UFO sightings2014 – New interesting video footage of a bright UFO recorded over Manhattan, New York, USA on 14th February 2014.
Witness said: The object move over the roof line horizontally and vertically. At one point it descended out of our sight behind the rooftop of the building. I then moved to the top of the front stoop to gain height and re-spotted the object. I saw it move for a few seconds and then it descended further out of sight. At this point we all decided to run up to our building’s rooftop to get even higher off the ground in hope to capture it on video again. When we reached the top of our building we saw the object again. It was hovering in one spot and then it started to ascend. Then it moved to our right. Then it appeared to move in our direction slightly. That is when I saw a glare of pure white light with a tint of blue. I have seen something similar to to this glare on the HID lights of some cars. We observed the object move in a straight line to our right and then back to the left. It ascended and hovered and then descended behind the same building it was flying over. There were many things that helped distinguish this object over its surroundings. The clouds, lights on top of buildings, airplanes flying by, background city noise, even airplane engine noise. This thing made no sounds that we were able to pick up.
Cigar – shaped UFO recorded over Bryce Canyon, Utah in February 2014
Amazing video footage of a cigar – shaped UFO recorded in the daytime sky above Bryce Canyon, Utah in February 2014.
Witness said: Ufo Cigar Shaped Ufo Over Utah Canyons, February 2014. Not far from Area 51 and close to Nevada there are many interesting places like Brice Canyon National Park. Brice Canyon National Park was exactly where this video was recorded. This tape was exclusively turned into us so we can present to our viewers for the very first time. In this video we can clearly see what appears to be a Cigar Shaped Ufo flying over some mountains on the horizon, these mountains are located on the outskirts of Nevada. We enhanced the footage by slowing it down so the viewers can easily see the Cigar Shaped Ufo that was recorded.
Location: Thetis Lake, British Columbia, Canada – 8/19/1972
The two boys, namely, Robin Flewellyn and Gordon Pike, were standing next to the recreation center on Thetis Lake when they saw a scaly creature emerge from the lake and move unto the shoreline. It was, as they had described, roughly triangle shaped, with dark, large, bulging fish-like eyes and mouth, and a razor-sharp spike on the top of its head. Its weight is estimated to be 120 lbs, and measures around 5 feet tall, and 5 feet wide. The two teens were terrified at the sight of the huge scaly amphibious monster and they ran for their lives.
With its sporting webbed extremities, the creature chased the two teenagers until a few distance from the lake. The voracious predator was able to catch up with one of the young men, lacerating his hand with its razor-pointed head.
The two lads, still filled with terror after narrowly escaping the grisly creature, rushed to the nearest Royal Canadian Mountain Police station and told the officers about the incident on Thetis Lake. They showed them the cut that was claimed to have been caused by the razor-sharp fin of the lake monster. The authorities felt sincerity on the story of the two boys, hence they immediately launched a manhunt, or should I better say, “monsterhunt”, on the said lake. However, nothing turned up during that time of investigation.
The case was almost taken for granted until four days after, August 23 of the same year, at around 3:30 in the afternoon, Russell Van Nice and Mike Gold claimed to have seen the same creature from the opposite side of the Thetis Lake. But unlike the report of the two teens that were pursued by the creature, this time, it only emerged from the lake, looked around, and submerged itself back into the water.
Gold and Nice described the monster-faced creature as having a human-like body, of at least 5 feet tall. It has silver-colored scaly skin, a sharp point protruding on its head, and very big ears and horrifying eyes.
Location: Johnson City, Tennessee – June 18, 1997 – 1:00 am
The witness and his cousin were out hunting and were sitting on the side of the wall of a rather large hollow which consisted of very thick underbrush and lots of evergreen. A larger valley then lead first to a clearing and then on to a supposed old Indian graveyard. All of the sudden they heard the brush in the hollow below rattling and they could tell that whatever was making the sounds was rather large.
The main witness was armed with a Ruger 10-22 rifle with approximately 150 rounds of ammo ready to go. Under his night vision scope he could see what appeared to be a man, but upon further inspection he realized that the “man” was a creature about 7-8 ft tall approximately 450 lbs. It was covered with thick black fur and was slimmer that the popular Bigfoot image, almost skinny with a neck. Also protruding on either side of its head were long tapered “horns” also black in color. On the top of the head also protruded a horn pointing straight up. All horns were approximately 5-6 inch in length and were the same dark color as the creature.
The terrified witness emptied a 25 round clip into the creature and then retreated into a nearby cabin about 65 ft away. The next morning they could not find anything except for lots of spent shell casings and bullet holes on a walnut tree. He thought he had struck the creature several times. Nearby animals traps had been sprung and all the bait extracted. On a nearby ridge the witnesses located a series of tunnels made up of brush and various sizes of tree limbs, vines and leaves. They thought it could have been “the lair of the beast.” Afraid they returned home.
As the witness slept in her apartment she suddenly awoke feeling a strange oppressive atmosphere around her. She opened her eyes and saw a humanoid figure bending down over her. The figure was short, about 130cm, and looked intently at the witness. The figure had a grayish green pale facial complexion. It had large dark pupil less eyes. Heavy skin folds covered the head and body of the creature. It had what appeared to be a thin beard and appeared to be elderly. A second humanoid now appeared next to the first one. This one was somewhat shorter and appeared younger, both resembled aged “gnomes”. Both figures then floated back from the bed and vanished. At this point what appeared to be a tennis ball size sphere of light appeared in their place. The sphere disappeared into the next room and then flew out an opened window.
The main witness, a 10-year old girl enjoying her vacation at her aunt’s home, and other members of the family heard what sounded like loud knocks on the patio door. The 10-year old girl went outside but found no one around. She went back in, but moments later there was more knocking at the door. The girl went outside again and this time she saw two lights hovering over her aunt’s house. Both lights were bright red in color. She felt fear and attempted to go back inside but a strange attraction to the lights kept her from moving. She stared fixedly at the lights when suddenly a smaller red light appeared followed by a larger red light that appeared to chase the smaller one. The larger red light then suddenly flew towards the girl blinding her with its brightness. The girl was unable to move felt herself being transported to another location.
Some time later her mother, worried about the witness whereabouts, went out looking for her finding her daughter sprawled out on the patio floor in an apparent trance-like state, mentioning things that were supposedly going to occur in the future. Apparently the girl remained in this trance-like the rest of the night. Her mother was extremely concerned since she had several years previously lost a brother (the girl’d s uncle) in similar mysterious circumstances apparently involving UFOs. There are no specific details on how he died.
Two men reported seeing a “hairy man-like creature” on Snow King Mountain near Jackson, Wyo., early one morning.
Robert Goodrich and Glenn Towner, reported to police that they were chased off Snow King Mountain by a possible Bigfoot that was 12 feet tall with long, dark hair and arms, which hung almost to the ground. The two men said that they were going to visit a friend who had built a lean-to on the mountain when they encountered the creature.
The men told police the creature breathed heavily and made a moaning growl-type noise. They described the creature as having a simian-like face as big as a stop sign and that the creature was hunchbacked. They ran when they spotted the creature, and that it followed them. The last time they saw the creature, it was standing under a street light near the Ramada Snow King Inn in Jackson.
Neither had been drinking and no further evidence was found.
Parfois la réalité rattrape la fiction. C'est d'autant plus impressionnant lorsqu'il s'agit de films de science-fiction. Le designer de Nike vient en effet d'annoncer la future commercialisation de chaussures lacées automatiquement, inspirées directement de "Retour vers le futur II", un film devenu culte, notamment chez les geeks du monde entier.
La trilogie "Retour vers le futur" de Robert Zemeckis propose de suivre les aventures de Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) et de Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) qui voyagent dans le temps grâce à une voiture - une DeLorean - volante. Le premier film, sorti en 1985, parle d'un voyage dans le passé trente ans plus tôt, en 1955. Le second volet emmène les protagonistes en octobre 2015 à Hill Valley (ville fictive en Californie).
Sorti en décembre 1989, le deuxième volet du film égraine, avec vingt-six d'avance, une série de trouvailles géniales, qui ont marqué une génération de spectateurs. Certaines se sont effectivement réalisées, d'autres loin de là. Le "Nouvel Observateur " fait le point.
En 2015, Marty McFly chausse ses Nike Air Mags qui s'ajustent automatiquement à son pied et surtout se lacent toutes seules. Le designer de Nike, Tinker Hatfield, a annoncé que la marque américaine a mis au point des chaussures utilisant cette technique d'auto-laçage et qu'elles seront bien commercialisées en 2015.
2.Des tablettes tactiles partout
Et si Steve Jobs avait inventé l'iPad en regardant "Retour vers le futur II" ? Dans le film, un homme tend à Marty McFly une tablette tactile pour signer électroniquement une pétition pour sauver l'horloge de l'hôtel de ville.
On suppose ainsi que, dans le 2015 vu par Robert Zemeckis, les tablettes tactiles sont omniprésentes. Soit une explosion prédite 21 ans avant le premier iPad. Génial, on vous dit.
3.La fin des disques
A l'époque de la cassette audio et de la VHS, "Retour vers le futur II" prédit déjà la mort du nouveau format vidéo : le Laser disc. Ces (très) grands disques vidéo ont été commercialisés jusqu'en 1998, avant de disparaître. On les aperçoit dans les poubelles, derrière Marty McFly.
Les Laser disc ont été rapidement remplacés par le plus petit DVD (lancé en 1995), et aujourd'hui par le Blu-Ray. Même constat pour le CD audio qui a remplacé la cassette, avant de se voir terrasser par le MP3.
4. La maison connectée
Dans la maison de Marty et Jennifer McFly de 2015, la domotique est omniprésente. On voit des ordinateurs un peu partout pour cuisiner et autres.
Aujourd'hui, la maison connectée commence à s'imposer : frigo, chauffage, air conditionné, lit... tout devient contrôlable avec le smartphone. Même Google s'y intéresse, en rachetant Nest. Bien vu.
5. La vidéo-conférence
Les premières expériences de vidéo-conférences ont lieu en 1987 dans le cadre restreint d'expériences universitaires coûteuses. On est alors bien loin d'outils comme le logiciel Skype, gratuit, répandu et accessible à tous avec un simple ordinateur ou smartphone (le logiciel n'est lancé qu'en 2003).
Pourtant, "Retour vers le futur II" prédit dès 1989 qu'en 2015 la plupart des conversations auront lieu par vidéo-chat. Marty McFly se fait d'ailleurs licencier par ce biais sur un écran de télévision. Aujourd'hui, il est en effet possible d'accéder à Skype sur sa télé connectée ou sa Xbox. Les appels vidéo tendent même à s'imposer sur mobile.
6. La sécurité biométrique
"Retour vers le futur II" parie sur une généralisation des contrôles biométriques, en particulier par empreinte digitale.
Dans le film, le doigt sert ainsi à ouvrir la porte de sa maison, mais aussi à régler des achats. Bingo ! Aujourd'hui, les scanners d'empreinte se multiplient. Apple propose ainsi de déverrouiller son iPhone 5S avec son doigt, mais aussi de régler des achats sur l'AppStore.
7. Le contrôle vocal
Dans le 2015 de "Retour vers le futur II", tout se contrôle à la voix, à commencer par le téléviseur. On voit l'un des personnages principaux "zapper" en prononçant tout haut le nom des chaînes. Idem pour le four, ou quand Marty cueille des fruits dans une corbeille suspendue au-dessus de la table à dîner, en disant "hey fruit !"
A nouveau, le film s'avère en adéquation avec la réalité où le contrôle vocal tend à se généraliser. Avec la Xbox One et son capteur Kinect, il est désormais possible de contrôler sa télé à la voix. Même constat pour les smartphones Android et iPhone qui intègrent des détecteurs de commandes vocales de plus en plus élaborés.
8. Les films en 3D (et les suites à répétition)
Quand il se promène dans le Hill Valley de 2015, Marty McFly tombe nez à nez avec une publicité holographique géante pour "Les Dents de la mer 19". Certes, les cinémas ne proposent pas encore une 3D holographique aussi poussée que dans le film de Zemeckis - et encore moins en extérieur, en plein jour.
Mais la 3D s'est imposée dans les salles obscures, en particulier pour les blockbusters et les films d'animation. Même constat pour les suites à répétition, monnaie courante dans le cinéma hollywoodien, même si "Les Dents de la mer" ne compte (pour l'instant) que quatre suites.
9. Les lunettes vidéo
Dans "Retour vers le futur II", le fils de Marty McFly utilise des lunettes vidéo qui lui permettent de regarder un film en solitaire. Effectivement, plusieurs casques existent.
En 2011, le "Nouvel Obs" avait ainsi testé le casque vidéo de Sony qui permet de regarder des films en 3D de manière individualiste, ou de jouer à sa Playstation. En matière de jeux vidéo, le prototype Oculus Rift fait également beaucoup parler de lui.
10. Des jeux vidéo sans manette
Alors que l'acteur Elijah Wood fait ses débuts au cinéma en regardant Marty McFly jouer sur une borne d'arcade, "Retour vers le futur II" fait le (juste) pari de jeux vidéo où l'on ne joue plus avec des manettes, mais face à des détecteurs de mouvements.
Le film prédit ainsi les succès de la Wii de Nintendo et du capteur Kinect de la Xbox de Microsoft.
11. Le Slamball
Un journal du 2015 de "Retour vers le futur II" évoque le début des éliminatoires du Slamball, un sport imaginaire en 1989... mais qui a été créé en 2000. Outre la Une du journal, le sport est évoqué dans le film sur le dos de la couverture du fameux almanach des sports.
Le réel Slamball est une variante du basket-balll où des trampolines sont placés sous les paniers pour des dunks impressionnants. Les équipes comptent 4 joueurs et le terrain est entouré de murs plastifiés. Il dispose de son propre championnat. Bref, le film a imaginé le nom d'un sport, qui a vu le jour 11 ans après !
B) Ce qui s'est (presque) réalisé
Le rêve de tout enfant qui a vu "Retour vers le futur II" est rose et flotte dans les airs : l'hoverboard. Ce skate-board du futur se déplace en lévitation, offrant une course poursuite d'anthologie à Marty McFly.
"La technologie dont nous avons besoin pour construire un vrai hoverboard existe déjà", s'enflamme Robert Haleluk. "Elle coûte seulement très cher et est difficilement accessible aujourd'hui", tempère-t-il. Le fondateur de Hakel Industries a ainsi lancé un appel aux dons des internautes pour récolter 1 million de dollars afin de créer le skate futuriste, qui fonctionnerait avec des hélices et non des aimants comme dans le film. L'ensemble serait commandé depuis une appli mobile.
Robert Haleluk a imaginé une structure en fibre carbone, pour un hoverboard alimenté par une batterie en cours d'élaboration par IBM qui tiendrait jusqu'à 800km. Reste que d'après le projet, la planche imaginée ne semble pas capable de supporter le poids d'un passager.
Un autre concept a été imaginé en 2011 à l'université Paris VII Diderot. A l'occasion de la Fête de la science, la faculté a créé un prototype d'hoverboard qui reste en lévitation à 3cm au-dessus d'un rail aimanté.
Mieux, il est capable de supporter une personne jusqu'à 100kg. Reste qu'il ne s'agit pour l'instant que d'un prototype, qui n'est pas encore prêt d'être commercialisé.
Un artiste français a lui créé un hoverboard capable de flotter dans les airs grâce à un système électromagnétique et une stabilisation laser. Il n'est toutefois pas capable de supporter le poids d'un humain et ne glisse pas vers l'avant.
Enfin, le fabricant de jouet Mattel a commercialisé en 2012 une réplique de l'hoverboard vendue 120 dollars. Seulement, celui-ci ne flotte pas dans les airs. Si bien que Gizmodo l'a baptisé "pire jouet de 2012".
Les lunettes-téléphones
"Retour vers le futur II" a bien prédit qu'en 2015 tout le monde dispose d'un téléphone sur soi. Seulement, le film imagine les mobiles implantés dans des lunettes de soleil. Des premiers prototypes de lunettes connectées existent effectivement déjà (les plus célèbres étant les Google Glass), mais tous passent par un smartphone pour les fonctions téléphoniques. Les lunettes n'intègrent en effet pas encore les puces téléphoniques.
Les drones-journalistes
Lorsque Griff (petit-fils de Bill) quitte le tribunal entouré de policiers, l'événement est couvert par des drones-journalistes. Ces petits robots volants filment à l'aide de plusieurs caméras.
La question des drones se fait effectivement de plus en plus récurrente, et en toute logique les médias s'en emparent. Pour l'heure, l'idée n'est pas de remplacer la meute de journaliste à la sortie des tribunaux mais plutôt de couvrir des zones de guerre. L'utilisation des drones n'en est encore qu'à ses débuts en matière de médias, et les restrictions sont nombreuses - la préfecture de police interdit pour le moment de survoler une manifestation dans Paris à l'aide d'un drone - Le "Nouvel Observateur" peut en témoigner.
C) 13 choses qui ne se sont pas réalisées
1. Les voitures volantes
Outre la DeLorean, dans le 2015 de "Retour vers le futur II", toutes les voitures volent. Le ciel s'est transformé en immenses autoroutes. Des feux et panneaux régissent une circulation chaotique. Un fantasme récurrent dans les films d'anticipation qui n'est pas encore prêt d'être réalisé. Plusieurs tentatives ont été réalisées.
On peut citer, en Slovaquie, un ingénieur qui a créé un prototype d'automobile qui déploie des ailes pour se transformer en avion et s'envoler.
Ou encore, la société américaine Terrafugia a également créé un prototype d'une voiture disposant d'ailes flexibles pour se métamorphoser en petit avion. Reste que, pour l'instant, les voitures volantes sont loin d'être la norme. L'industrie automobile réfléchit plutôt à des véhicules automatisés, voire qui se conduisent tout seul.
2. Mr Fusion
Cette marque imaginaire aperçue au début de "Retour vers le futur II" semble être l'une des inventions les plus pratiques du film. Il s'agit d'un collecteur de déchets qui transforme tout ce qu'on jette en énergie propre, grâce à un processus de fusion nucléaire.
Un tel procédé n'a malheureusement pas encore été inventé. Même s'il existe le procédé de biogaz, c'est-à-dire le gaz produit par fermentation de matières organiques animales ou végétales qui peut être utilisé comme source d'énergie, l'équivalent d'un pratique et facile Mister Fusion n'est pas commercialisé pour les particuliers.
3. Les robots pompistes
Lorsqu'il doit faire le plein de sa DeLorean volante, Doc laisse un robot pompiste s'en charger. De quoi laisser supposer que de nombreux métiers de 2015 seraient réalisés par des automates. Que nenni. Aujourd'hui, il faut toujours faire soi-même le plein de son véhicule. Et l'avenir ne semble plus donné à l'essence mais à l'électrique. Cela dit, on peut payer son plein dans des stations sans pompistes, avec uniquement sa carte bleue. Un demi point.
4. Les centres de rajeunissement
Dans "Retour vers le futur II", Doc explique à Marty qu'un centre de rajeunissement lui a permis de gagner 30 ans d'espérance de vie. Il s'y est fait remplacer les intestins, la rate et le sang, implanté des cheveux, etc.
Robert Zemeckis trouve surtout un moyen d'expliquer que l'acteur n'a physiquement pas vieilli entre 1989 et 2015. Toutefois, malgré l'augmentation du recours à la chirurgie esthétique, de tels centres n'existent pas.
5. La veste auto-séchante
Dans la veine des Nike auto-laçantes, Marty McFly dispose d'une veste qui s'ajuste automatiquement à sa carrure et qui offre une option de séchage après la pluie. Aucune veste de ce type n'est en rayon, même si les ingénieurs se penchent de plus en plus sur une garde de robe qui se connecte. Une grosse déception. Ingénieurs, où êtes-vous ?
6. La double cravate
Le Marty McFly de 2015 aborde fièrement une double cravate. Summum de la classe ? En tout cas, ce style n'a toujours pas pris.
7. Le fax pour tous
"Retour vers le futur II" a parié sur le mauvais cheval. En effet, le film part du postulat qu'en 2015 le fax se sera répandu partout, remplaçant la lettre postale.
Les boîtes aux lettres intègrent des fonctions fax, la maison des McFly dispose de fax dans toutes les pièces (et même dans les placards), etc. Raté. Robert Zemeckis n'a pas prédit l'émergence d'internet et de l'e-mail.
8. Les poubelles mobiles
Lorsque Doc veut se débarrasser du fameux Almanach des sports, il le jette dans une poubelle mobile qui vient vers lui automatiquement. De telles poubelles mobiles, qui seraient capables de se mouvoir et de se vider sans action humain, n'existent pas.
9. La nourriture déshydratée
Dans le 2015 de "Retour vers le futur II", exit le micro-ondes. Les pizzas surgelées sont déposées dans un hydrateur de nourriture qui en quelques secondes transforme une toute petite pizza sèche et dure en appétissante et grande pizza.
La nourriture déshydratée existe (les pâtes, les soupes en poudre...) mais n'est pas vraiment répandue.
Il est également possible d'opter pour l'un des 5.000 plats déshydratés de l'entreprise américaine Costco, mais le goût ne semble pas être au rendez-vous. Et il n'existe pas de pizza déshydratée, trop complexe à recréer.
En revanche, l'armée américaine vient d'inventer la pizza (presque) immortelle. Comme quoi, en 2014, l'humanité a bien progressé.
10. Le chenil galactique
Pour éviter d'être encombré de son chien Einstein, Doc explique dans le film qu'il l'a laissé en hibernation dans un chenil galactique. Cela permet de s'absenter sans que son animal ne s'en aperçoive.
La cryogénisation est largement évoquée à travers la science-fiction, seulement dans l'état-actuel du savoir-faire médical ce procédé n'est pas réversible. Pour autant, quelques centaines de personnes décédées ont déjà été cryogénisées, les adeptes de cette pratique affirmant que cela permet de conserver la mémoire et la personnalité de l'individu dans la structure chimique du cerveau gelé.
11. La chaîne paysage
Dans la maison des McFly de 2015, la télévision diffuse sur un mur un paysage. "Antenne paysage" se veut une chaîne qui ne diffuse que des paysages animés. Pour l'instant, aucune chaîne n'exploite ce créneau. Même si depuis la diffusion du film, les diffuseurs n'ont pas manqué d'imagination, comme la création d'une chaîne montrant des poulets rôtissant à la broche 24h/24.
12. Diana en reine d'Angleterre
Un journal du film indique (à droite) que Washington s'apprête à recevoir la visite de la reine... Diana. "Retour vers le futur II" a parié par anticipation sur l'accession au trône de Diana. Problème, la princesse est décédée dans un accident de voiture en 1997.
13. Et bien sûr, last but not least.... la machine à remonter dans le temps
Le postulat de départ de la trilogie "Retour vers le futur", à savoir la DeLorean capable de voyager dans le temps, n'a pas été inventée. Aujourd'hui, cette hypothèse pose encore de nombreux problèmes de physique.
Mais pour en avoir le cœur de net, il est possible de s'inscrire sur Facebook pour faire partie de ceux qui accueilleront Doc, Marty et Jennifer le 21 octobre 2015 à 16h29 à Hill Valley.
How would humanity change if we knew aliens existed?
We have yet to discover any signs of an extraterrestrial civilization — a prospect that could quite literally change overnight. Should that happen, our sense of ourselves and our place in the cosmos would forever be shaken. It could even change the course of human history. Or would it?
Last week, SETI’s Seth Shostak made the claim that we’ll detect an alien civilization by 2040. Personally, I don’t believe this will happen (for reasons I can elucidate in a future post — but the Fermi Paradox is definitely a factor, as is the problem of receiving coherent radio signals across stellar distances). But it got me wondering: What, if anything, would change in the trajectory of a civilization’s development if it had definitive proof that intelligent extraterrestrials (ETIs) were real?
Finding a World Much Like Our Own
As I thought about this, I assumed a scenario with three basic elements.
First, that humanity would make this historic discovery within the next several years or so. Second, that we wouldn’t actually make contact with the other civilization (just the receipt, say, of a radio transmission — something like a Lucy Signalthat would cue us to their existence). And third, that the ETI in question would be at roughly the same level of technological development as our own (so they’re not too much more advanced than we are; that said, if the signal came from an extreme distance, like hundreds or thousands of light-years away, these aliens would probably have advanced appreciably by now. Or they could be gone altogether, the victims of a self-inflicted disaster).
I tossed this question over to my friend and colleague Milan Cirkovic. He’s a Senior Research Associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and a leading expert on SETI.
“Well, that’s a very practical question, isn’t it?” he responded. “Because people have been expecting something like this since 1960 when SETI was first launched — they haven’t really been expecting to find billion-year old supercivilizations or just some stupid bacteria.”
Indeed, the underlying philosophy of SETI over the course of its 50-year history has been that we’ll likely detect a civilization roughly equal to our own — for better or worse. And no doubt, in retrospect it started to look “for worse” when the hopes of an early success were dashed. Frank Drake and his colleagues thought they would find signs of ETIs fairly quickly, but that turned out not to be the case (though Drake’s echo can still be heard in the unwarranted contact optimism of Seth Shostak).
“Enormous Implications”
“Some people argued that a simple signal wouldn’t mean much for humanity,” added Cirkovic, “but I think Carl Sagan, as usual, had a good response to this.”
Specifically, Sagan said that the very understanding that we are not unique in the universe would have enormous implications for all those fields in which anthropocentrism reigns supreme.
“Which means, I guess, half of all the sciences and about 99% of the other, non-scientific discourse,” said Cirkovic.
Sagan also believed that the detection of a signal would reignite enthusiasm for space in general, both in terms of research and eventually the colonization of space.
“The latter point was quite prescient, actually, because at the time he said this there wasn’t much enthusiasm about it and it was much less visible and obvious than it is today,” he added.
No doubt — this would likely generate tremendous excitement and enthusiasm for space exploration. In addition to expanding ourselves into space, there would be added impetus to reach out and meet them.
At the same time, however, some here on Earth might counterargue that we should stay home and hide from potentially dangerous civilizations (ah, but what if everybody did this?). Ironically, some might even argue that we should significantly ramp-up our space and military technologies to meet potential alien threats.
De Nieuw-Zeelandse minister-president John Key is naar eigen zeggen geen buitenaards wezen dat van gedaante kan veranderen.
Key zag zich gedwongen te reageren tegenover journalisten, nadat een man uit Auckland een Wob-verzoek had ingediend waarin hij om bewijs vroeg.
“Voor zover ik weet ben ik er niet één,” verklaarde Key. “Ik ben naar een dokter en een dierenarts geweest en allebei hebben ze bevestigd dat ik geen reptiel ben,” zei Key met een glimlach.
Menselijke vorm
“Ik ben nog nooit in een ruimteschip of in de ruimte geweest,” voegde de premier van Nieuw-Zeeland toe. Afgelopen maand diende Shane Warbrooke bij het kantoor van de premier een Wob-verzoek in, waarin hij vroeg om bewijs waaruit blijkt dat John Key geen buitenaards wezen is dat van gedaante kan veranderen.
De Britse schrijver David Icke stelt dat de wereld in het geheim wordt bestuurd door een ras van reptielen in menselijke vorm. Als voorbeelden noemt hij onder meer Queen Elizabeth, George W. Bush, Tony Blair en prinses Beatrix.
Antwoord
Wayne Eagleson, de rechterhand van Key, heeft Warbrooke inmiddels geantwoord dat het Wob-verzoek is afgewezen omdat ‘het document waarin de gevraagde informatie staat niet bestaat of niet kan worden gevonden’.
Dit was precies het antwoord waar Warbrooke op had gerekend. “Maar ze hebben wel de volle 20 werkdagen die ervoor staan gewacht voordat ze me antwoord gaven,” zei hij.
A strange object was seen in the skies over San Miguel de Tucumán, creating doubts as to whether it was a UFO.
The images were recorded with a cellphone camera from the corner of Mate de Luna and Pellegrini avenues from the capital city of the “Jardín de la República” (garden of the republic – the name bestowed by president Domingo Sarmiento on the area when he encountered the subtropical cloud forest [yungas] of the Tucumán-Bolivia region – Ed).
The videoclip is 42 seconds long and a displays a slow-moving white object or light.
After a number of seconds, the light vanishes behind the treeline as a radio broadcast can be heard in the background.
The nearly seventy year mystery of UFOs has still not been solved or revealed in any satisfactory sense. That UFO/ET experiencers both inside and outside the national security state, the former being whistleblowers, have not produced a solution to this most aggravating and persistent of daily phenomena weighs hard on reason. How is such a thing possible? Is it because they, the aliens, are so far advanced over us that they don't have to worry about the sentient apes penetrating their systems? Is it because intelligence agencies throughout the world are supremely competent at keeping secrets? Or is it possibly because the aliens that really matter are so far ahead of human notions of auto-transportation that they don't even use UFOs? Although we can't seem to fathom how ET might establish a presence in our solar system without UFOs, recent thinking has considered the possibility in terms of inter-dimensional travel, various quantum and string-theory-based possibili ties. It should not surprise us if beings a billion years more advanced than us transport themselves in some way other than auto-propelled carriages.
The Peekskill meteor impact of October 9, 1992 (Gannett Suburban Newspaper photo).
The license plate numbers “933″ over-scored by the chrome accent seem to “augur” comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's appearance in March 1993 five months later. Note the “skill” and precision, not to mention the knowledge of impact mechanics, demonstrated. The recovered 27.3 pound Peekskill meteorite was 4″ x 5″ x 11″; the dimensions of the car signal-light are approximately 5″ x 22″. Both the car and meteorite were exhibited together in the American Museum of Natural History in NYC in 1993. The fireball from which the meteorite came was seen at 8 p.m. (prime-time) in at least eight U.S. states and filmed from six of them.
The impact occurred Oct.9, 1992, three (b0) days before NASA-Ames commenced the “Targeted Search”, a 100 million dollar SETI project, on October 12, 1992, and three (b0 )) days before the American Quincentennial (Columbus discovered America Oct. 12, 1492). NASA's hypothesis was and remains a simple one: ET exists. ET's semiotic reply: “Right, Ames! (we do exist). Of course, the ET investigators at Ames Research Center were only looking for intelligently produced radio-wave signals (not meteoritic signals), and so missed ET's reply. Many other extraordinary details and coincidences seem to confirm that the meteor event was, in fact, intelligently fashioned as a multi-eloquent, albeit semiotic, communication/overture of greeting.
But can a non-UFO ET theory be seen as anything but sacrilege? It shouldn't, really. Reports that alien spacecraft reside in secret hangars are anything but confirmed. The people who have reported seeing them at Area 51 might easily be duped into thinking they saw crashed saucers when all they really saw were models. What's more, the art and science of film special effects (Fx) is ceretainly nothing less than amazing these days.
“National Security” is a convenient catch-all excuse to black-box the whole subject, and use it for propaganda purposes. Governments have proven their capacity to be nothing less than nefarious when it comes to disseminating disinformation, and one should certainly expect the subject of UFOs to be exploited to help promote one agenda or another.
One question is, why would advanced aliens need to collude with generals and the like? Is there anything they could possibly want that they couldn't take or find elsewhere? If these unknown generals or property owners (Area 51 seems not to belong to the US government) have dead aliens staked out or embalmed, would this endear them to aliens sufficiently to cause aliens to collude with them? The idea that elite cabals are able to compel aliens to do anything seems incredible on its face.
Another question is why wouldn't the aliens have thought about the inevitable contingency that someday one of their ships would crash on our planet, allowing some of their most valuable secrets to be acquired by primitive and opportunistic aliens (humans)? Why wouldn't they have taken measures to preclude any such capture or exploitation of their technology and genotype? A simple auto-destruct mechanism would do the trick. The idea that advanced aliens would overlook this makes no sense.
That UFOs are real is not the issue because numerous cases have been satisfactorily confirmed as being of a non-alien type. This includes secret experimental military aircraft, weather balloons, holograms, inversion layers, conventional aircraft (e.g. when under certain atmospheric conditions the wings of a jet appear to disappear), hallucinations (e.g. from an acid trip), hoaxes, and, most recently, drones, to name a few. These are not alien in origin, yet many in the UFO field insist that all this comprises but a substantial percentage of the cases, not all cases. If it is true that some small percentage of unexplainable cases are alien space/air craft, then we are back to the aliens-are-just-too-advanced-for-us theory. Such a theory makes sense inasmuch as they have at least proven themselves eminently spaceworthy, where we humans have not.
So what does a non-UFO alien theory look like? For one thing, the aliens will probably not resemble humans, reptiles or any other Earth inhabitant. For another thing, they will probably be well beyond transporting themselves in space carriages or other faulty contraptions. Having survived and even flourished over a long period of time, they will probably have transcended the will-to-power-for-its-own-sake thing that seems to obsess and plague humankind. If their intentions were malevolent they would have almost certainly taken our planet for themselves by now, men with spears or even stars on their shoulders notwithstanding. So we are left with benevolent entities that just happen to be even more advanced over us than Chris Columbus and the Conquistadors were over the indigenous natives found in the new world. But give such an advantage to humans and they'll exploit it to the hilt every time.
Because extra-terrestrials are, in hindsight, essentially benevolent toward us, followers of Nietzche, Darwin (“survival of the fittest”) and Machiavelli would no doubt find such kindly restraint more than a little perplexing. Perhaps this is just a human thing, a thing that puts the ape-like creature a crawl, a few steps, and a roll from the primordial swamp. We should at least be careful not to automatically transfer human traits onto extra-terrestrials, especially if we consider what could be the “extra” in extra-terrestrial.
How would aliens express themselves to humans? Would they express themselves to us at all, any more than we would attempt to express ourselves to ants in an anthill? The answer, it turns out, is not terribly hard to find, because the facts strongly suggest that they have expressed, even revealed, themselves to us.
Take 21 comets crashing into Jupiter, for example. This happened in July 1994 and could count as the kind of thing aliens might pull off to augur and celebrate the ape-man's 21st century. Yet who in the world thought it odd that the number of comet fragments just happened to be twenty-one? Almost no one. Comets have been thought for millenia by human societies to be messages from the gods, harbingers of great change and disasters to come. The notion is very much a human thing, after all.
That advanced aliens might use their overarching technology to interface with our world in this manner is consistent with what we know about aliens. They do seem to maintain a hands-off approach where humans are concerned. That is, direct contact with our species has so far been a no-no, but this does not preclude indirect contact being made (alas!).
The great comet crash of 1994 was certainly hard to miss, and the event won't be going away anytime soon. There's hardly anything in the world scientists enjoy more than to watch really really big explosions. The 21 impacts of Jupiter were the most energetic events of any kind ever seen in this solar system. Period. They were documented, filmed, photgraphed, and studied nine ways to Sunday by the world's astronomical community. Scientists were bouncing off the walls for six days while fragments A through W (I and O were not used) pummeled the gas giant from July 16 to 22. According to one estimate, fragment “G” alone released about 600 times the energy of all the nuclear bombs on Earth!
Maybe the alien message to astronomers was that they should begin to study asteroids and their impacts. This bio-galactic reality was pretty much laughed off by science before 1994 as something that happened millions of years ago but no longer. It would be a damn shame if such a promsing but planet-bound species should go extinct from something so simple and stupid as the impact of some comet or asteroid, without that species having had much of a clue about this particular danger. Shoemaker-Levy 9 sure woke scientists up to the reality in a hurry, so much so that they only then began to study asteroids. So there was extraterrestrial communication and a human response to it, after all. In spite of NASA's denial that the 21 comets could have been a message to them from aliens, “the message” got through loud and clear, anyway.
Project NEAR, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous, launched from Cape Canaveral just three years after Shoemaker-Levy 9 was discovered. After a four year journey that included fly-bys of Earth (Jan. 1998) and asteroids Mathilde (June 1997) and Eros (December 1998), NEAR began orbiting the 21-mile-long asteroid Eros on Feb. 14, 2000. Maybe this was exactly what the designers of SL-9 had in mind when they fashioned the so-called “string of pearls.”
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and its aftermath may not be the only interworld interface that has taken place. 2013 saw two record-breaking asteroid events occur on the same day, February 15. The tip off here was that the two asteroids were completely unrelated, astronomically. The European Space Agency, among others, confirmed as much. The two asteroids, one 45-60 in diameter, the other 150 feet in diameter, just happened, the same day, that's all. What a “coincidence!”
The smaller asteroid exploded in the air over Russia causing perhaps one billion rubles worth of window damage and about 1,100 facial cuts of Russians standing anywhere near the shattering windows. Of the 1,158 people who applied for medical assistance, 52 were hospitalized, including 13 children. If the asteroid/bolide had held together for a few more seconds and thus exploded lower in the atmosphere it would have killed a million Russians. Although it was damn close, nobody died. Talk about precision!
The larger asteroid, called 2012 DA14, passed underneath Earth orbiting satellites to become the largest space rock that astronomers have ever known about in advance. As the name implies, asteroid 2012 DA14 was spotted in 2012, and was fully expected to pass by the Earth when it did; the smaller Chelyabinsk asteroid was a complete surprise, however, as it woke up the entire Ural Mountain region with a super-loud and bright flash-bang.
The fact that the two “unrelated” record-breaking asteroids should exert pressure on our world barely 16 hours apart could be coincidence, of course; so could the appearance and impact of “21″ (not 1, not 4, or 12 or 18) comets. On the other hand, they could be the only way ethical extraterrestrials allow themselves to communicate with our world. The technique certainly doesn't give away anything of strategic value, such as where they come from, where their “posts” are located, or how they are able to maintain their embargo and presence here without our detecting them.
But there are other excellent benefits to such an approach: they get to “control the verticle and the horizontal”, so to speak. SETI scientists, and therefore governments, would necessarily disavow any notion of asteroids being signals from ET. The notion is in no way “scientific”, after all. Besides, the pan-cultural belief in comets and firey rocks in the sky as “messages from the gods” comes to us from that soft academic area called history, and therefore can't possibly matter. What's more, the world was not substantively changed by the events. Aside from opening up the issue of large impacts, and except for some footnotes in future history and astronomy books, there was no interference in human history or worldviews, no DEFCON alerts, no panic in the streets, no possibility of government censure and propaganda, the latter because the events were made available to all mankind. In short, the status quo was maintained. And yet a human/ET interface did taken place. What a wonderful device, what a great little system!
Perhaps if we broadened our investigative approach and afforded ET the benefit of a doubt by listening to what they are saying by such incredibly unlikely and world-shaking events, we can make progress on the extra-terrestrial question. It's not about the cars, after all, its about what's in the mind of the entities allegedly inside them. On the other hand, we can continue to beat our heads against the brick wall of UFOs and get nowhere for another sixty-five years.
Earth has another close encounter with large asteroid by The Extinction Protocol February 18, 2014 – SPACE – An asteroid estimated to be the size of three football fields whizzed close to Earth on Monday, roughly a year after one exploded over Russia and injured 1,200 people. Slooh Space Camera tracked the approach of the asteroid as it raced past the planet at about 27,000 mph (43,000 kmph), starting at 9 p.m. EST (2 a.m. GMT, Feb. 18), the robotic telescope service said in a statement on Slooh.com. The Dubai Astronomy Group provided Slooh photos of the part of the sky where the rock was expected to be seen, but its motion could not be picked out immediately in a live webcast against the backdrop of night-time stars. The 295-yard (270-m) asteroid was streaking past Earth at a distance of about 2.1 million miles (3.4 million km) little more than a year after another asteroid exploded on Feb. 15, 2013, over Chelyabinsk, Russia. That asteroid injured 1,200 people following a massive shock wave that shattered windows and damaged buildings. Chelyabinsk region officials had wanted to mark the anniversary by giving a piece of the meteorite to each 2014 Winter Olympic athlete who won a medal on Saturday at the Sochi Games. However, the International Olympic Committee at the last minute said it could be done only after the games and separately. Slooh’s flagship observatory on Mount Teide in Spain’s Canary Islands was iced over and unable to be used for the 2000 EM26 viewing, Paul Cox, Slooh’s technical and research director, said on the one-hour webcast. “We continue to discover these potentially hazardous asteroids – sometimes only days before they make their close approaches to Earth,” Cox said in a statement before the show. He added, “We need to find them before they find us!”
Economic Times The Extinction Protocol | February 18, 2014 at 12:26 pm | Categories: Earth Changes |
The Kostroma Android Location. Kostroma, Russia Date: May 23 1991 Time: after midnight Around midnight, the witness, Ipat Fedorovich (involved in numerous other encounters) suddenly awoke after hearing a sharp sibilant sound. Looking at the opened window he saw an “object” entered the room and land on the night table. The “object” resembled a small robot-like humanoid or a sophisticated toy. The height of the robotic figure was only about 15 cm and width about 10cm. It seemed to be multi-layered and emitted a light with all the colors of the rainbow, although blue and greenish predominated. A small glow was also observed briefly at the window. Meanwhile, the night visitor after staying on the table for about 30-40 seconds fell or jumped to the floor, executing this maneuver totally noiselessly. The multicolored glow now dimmed and Fedorovich arose from the bed and immediately looked around the table, but there was no trace of the “little fellow”. After this Fedorovich went immediately to sleep, in the morning he made a sketch of the strange robotic entity. (Above).
Location. Mexico City, Mexico Date: May 1975 Time: evening Two weeks after a dramatic UFO sighting from his plane—a sighting confirmed on the radar screens at Mexico City airport—-young pilot, four black-suited Scandinavian looking men in a black limousine pursued Santos Montiel down the freeway. After forcing him to the side of the road, they warned him not to discuss his sighting, the pilot was on his way to do a television interview, a month later one of the strangers reappeared and threatened him again while he was on his way to a hotel to talk to the prominent UFO investigator Allen Hynek. He described the MIBs as tall and strangely white, and said he never saw them blink.
HC addendum Source:David Pratt, Visitors from the twilight zone Type: E Comments this is an account of the original encounter: On May 3 1975, Carlos Antonio de los Santos Montiel was flying to Mexico City in his Piper PA-24 when his plane started to shake for no apparent reason. When he looked to his right he was astonished to see a dark gray disc-shaped object, about 10 or 12 feet in diameter, just beyond the wing tip. On his left he spotted a similar object pacing his aircraft. But neither of these was nearly so unsettling as the sight of the third, which was moving at him head on. De Los Santos yanked a lever which should have lowered the landing gear—he had hoped to touch the UFO with his wheels—but the mechanism failed to respond. But he still succeeded in touching the object, in fact, much to the pilot’s chagrin; the UFO scraped the underpart of the fuselage and caused the plane to jolt. By now, and beside himself with fear, De los Santos discovered that the controls would not operate. Theoretically at least the craft was out of control but it continued flying relatively smoothly at 120 mph. That didn’t make him feel any better—he was weeping as he described the encounter over the radio to the control tower at the Mexico City airport. The UFOs no longer visible, the pilot asked for and received permission to land and was relieve to find the plane’s instrumentation working normally again. Carlos de los Santos was given a medical examination and pronounced fit, free of physical or psychological damage from the experience.
Location. Minduri, Minas Gerais, Brazil Date: August 1958 Time: 09:00 a.m. Three men walking up a hill on the other side of a valley saw two gigantic human-like figures. Both figures were wearing tight-fitting shiny red clothing that covered them from head to toe, they seemed to be well proportioned and were moving at a normal pace and ignored the presence of the stunned witnesses. When the two giants walked next to some tall trees, the men estimated that one of the figures was about 5 or 6meters in height while the other 3 meters in height. Two hours before a local businessman and his family observed a very bright round object flying in the direction where the giant figures were seen later by the 3 witnesses.
HC addition # 1066 Source: Timothy Green Beckley, Saga UFO Annual 1975 quoting SBEDV Type: D High Strangeness Index: 7 Reliability of Source: 7 Comments: The height of the alleged humanoids is almost a record for South American reports. There have been similar reports from the former USSR and Greece.
Scott Waring, author of UFO Sightings Daily, says “Here I present to you some photos that have exactly what most of you imagine alien structures will look like. There are many buildings tall, short, long, most made to conform to how we see a civilized society. These structures look like they were built recently. They are whole, without breaks or fissures and clean with no dirt or dust blanketing them over time, which tells me…they are occupied. ”
Date of discovery: February 10, 2014
Location of discovery: Mercury
NASA Mission: Mariner 10
Photo ID: PIA00066
Exact Location on Mercury: Shakespeare Quadrant, Northern Half, H-3
‘First you must know this is not a black and white photo, but an infrared photo. The Mariner 10 had an “8-postition filter wheel.” Each filter allows the camera to take a different kind of photo. The infrared filter is so powerful that if you pour ink onto a typed page, you can see right through the ink and read the words as if the ink never existed. That is what happened to the shadow areas on Mercury in this photo. The shadows hid a honeycomb-like structure that always varies in shape, but its smaller components resembles that of…a honeycomb. Other structures are located near hills and mountains to blend in at a distance. This is why normal photos of Mercury will not have these structures in them.
Infrared filter can see through ink and tinting to allow you to read the words.
Waring says, “Long ago, four to five years ago I found a face…so new in appearance on the planet Mercury. It was massive in scale and appeared as if I was looking at the face of a statue here on Earth, but this was tens of floors high. I saved the photo and then a few days later a virus wiped out my whole computer. So it was gone. I still have the image of the face in my head, a black person, big forehead, chubby cheeks and confident. I had to find it again, so as I was looking I found these this particular photo with structures in it. Sure, this one is not the photo I was looking for, but the number of structures in it is staggering. People often misconstrue what an alien structure looks like when they see it…having only their past experience with humanity to build upon, and often those kind of human preferred structures are hard to find. Most alien structures look like black mountains (moon) or giant white mushrooms (moon), so finding a structure we can relate to is difficult.”
“And to the aliens on Mercury, I send greetings. Since your structures have some commonality to our own, then there must be other things we have in common. We the people are asking to meet you. Balls in your court, says Waring
Let me put it to you straight. For 35 years, I have been exploring and investigating UFOs and UFOlogy (both the serious endeavor and the silly speculative fare that fills popular culture) and...well, UFOs are real: They fly, they evince technologies we don't understand and they have been around for years.
Above all, despite voluminous and overwhelming evidence to support those assertions, to raise this subject as worthy of historical and scientific investigation is to invite ridicule, the shaking of pitying heads, derision and hostility and embarrassed silence.
Still, I persist in believing, as Francis Bacon said in 1620, that if something deserves to exist, it deserves to be known, not rejected out of hand with prejudice. The scientific method, principles of historical analysis and an open mind ask that much.
No subject has been more marginalized and maligned than this topic. By "unidentified flying objects" I mean not the many things commonly mistaken for them — balloons, Venus, sprites, ball lightning, secret craft, etc. — I mean anomalous vehicles that for decades have been well-documented by credible observers ("Credible people have seen incredible things," said Gen. John Samford, U.S. Air Force chief of intelligence in 1953), to which our government responded with the formulation and execution of policies in light of genuine national security concerns.
I was recently privileged to be included as contributing editor and writer on a team that produced the book, "UFOs and Government: An Historical Inquiry" over five years. The research/writing team was led by Michael Swords, a professor of natural science (now retired) at Western Michigan University and Robert Powell, a nanotechnologist formerly with AMD. The book is regarded as an "exception" to the dreary field by Choice, the journal that recommends works for inclusion in university collections. Choice suggested that all university libraries should have it (to date, 45 have it in their collections, including four in the University of Wisconsin system, as well as many Wisconsin public libraries).
The almost-600 page book is well-grounded with nearly 1,000 citations from government documents and other primary sources so it is "bullet proof." There is virtually nothing speculative in it. We document the response of governments from the 1940s forward to events they took quite seriously — and which readers, judging on the evidence and data, will take seriously as well.
A short op-ed cannot do justice to the complex narrative, but I can state a few facts.
■ Any other domain of inquiry with hundreds of well-documented events would be considered worthy of scientific and historical investigation.
■ Well-executed policies carried out with secrecy do not constitute "a conspiracy," and we are not "conspiracy theorists," a term used to attack investigators of unpopular subjects. Members of the military and intelligence community, from the early 1950s on, decided to learn as much as they could about UFOs — which they decided did not constitute a direct threat to national security — while at the same time playing down and dismissing reports from the public. The reports themselves were considered to be the primary threat by the CIA.
■ The data illuminates a phenomenon that is global, persistent and sufficiently similar in small details to invite taxonomic classification as to vehicle types, the physics of force fields that power the objects and ionize the air around them, producing characteristic colors in relationship to speed and power, and diverse kinds of robotic or sentient beings associated with the objects.
■ It is an astonishing sociological and psychological phenomenon that throughout the 20th century, despite reports by credible observers, corroborated on multiple radar sets on the ground and in jets, resulted not in public investigation but in an inability to get our minds around the mere possibility. Instead the subject is literally "unthinkable."
■ One reason it is "unthinkable" is the effective use of ridicule, the mocking of people who made reports or took the subject seriously, and a long silence from official authoritative voices in the face of credible testimony. When I delivered a speech and served on a panel recently at the National Security Agency, I was reminded by a veteran analyst that "the three legs of cover and deception are illusion, misdirection and ridicule. But the greatest of these is ridicule"— which discredits the person, not the testimony, and the testimony I have heard has come from military and civilian pilots, astronauts, even the intelligence head of a foreign military force. "This is what I saw, and I know what I saw" is what I am told, corroborating the statement in 1947 by Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining that "The phenomena is something real and not visionary or fictitious."
■ My personal exploration began in 1978 when, as a recently ordained Episcopal clergyman in a parish on the edge of an Air Force base, a parishioner, a decorated fighter pilot with all the "right stuff" who retired as a colonel, told me, "We chase them, and we can't catch them."
■ "UFOs and Government" includes quotations from generals, senior intelligence personnel and professionals such as Hermann Oberth, the father of German rocketry, that affirm the exotic characteristics of the technology that no earthly power could then achieve. As Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell told me, "Richard, if we could do what they can do, they wouldn't have sent me to the moon in a tin lizzie."
■ We increasingly accept through our own scientific explorations that many Earth-like planets likely to harbor life fill our galaxy and the galaxies beyond. When we hear that from authoritative voices, we accept it as a probability, but when we examine the evidence of decades of visitation by real explorers, we find it difficult to think in a concrete way that we are not alone, not the top of the food chain and that others may have been voyaging for thousands of years — as if we are the gold standard of scientific knowledge and our current understanding of physics is the end of all physics.
So I'm out of the closet on a subject. As an older man with a solid track record of delivering insights into likely futures that have pretty much worked out over the years, a man who has spoken for security conferences all over the world (including NSA, the FBI, the Secret Service, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Pentagon, etc.), discussing the impact of new technologies, I can say without embarrassment that documented data supports the contention that many historical reports show exactly what they seem to show — anomalous vehicular traffic demonstrating aerodynamic capabilities and propulsion systems beyond the range of our own technology.
So...why do well-intentioned people who know more than I do persist in the pretense that nothing unusual has been going on? That's a more speculative exploration, one for another time.
Richard Thieme of Fox Point is a writer and professional speaker (www.thiemeworks.com). In addition to "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry," he has written "Islands in the Clickstream (2004)" and "Mind Games (2010)" and contributed chapters to several books.
UFO Activated Nuclear Missiles in the USSR in 1982, Say Former/Retired Soviet Army Personnel
RecentRussian Newspaper Article Discusses UFO Incidents at Soviet and American Nuclear Weapons Sites.
Persons familiar with my work know that I investigate nuclear weapons-related UFO activity. Over the past 37 years, I have interviewed more than 120 former or retired U.S. military personnel who were involved in UFO incidents at nuclear missile sites, weapons storage depots, strategic bomber bases, or atmospheric test sites in Nevada and the Pacific. Many of my findings are available at my website, www.ufohastings.com. A more comprehensive summary may be found in my 600-page book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, a number of ex-Soviet Army personnel came forward and began discussing their involvement in similar incidents in that country during the Cold War era. One of those events occurred on October 4, 982, near the Ukrainian town of Byelokoroviche, when a disc-shaped UFO apparently hovered over a nuclear missile base for an extended period. At one point during the encounter, a number of nuclear missiles suddenly activated—without authorization from Moscow or any action being taken by the missile launch officers—and were preparing to launch! Had they done so, World War III would have very probably been underway. Fortunately, after 15 seconds, the anomalous activation ceased and the missiles returned to stand-by status. A subsequent investigation by the Soviet government discovered no equipment malfunctions that would have explained the event.
This incident was first publicized in October 1994, on the American ABC News program Prime Time Live (which unethically used KGB documents and source leads provided to its producers by KLAS-TV reporter George Knapp, without crediting his contributions).
More recently, on June 16, 2010, a large-circulation Russian newspaper, Life, published an article about the case, which was originally found at http://zhizn.ru. [Direct Link no longer valid] A badly-mangled English translation of the article, courtesy of Google, is also available.
One of the paper’s reporters, Inessa Kornienko, interviewed hitherto unidentified witnesses who provided additional details about the incident. While preparing the article, Kornienko contacted me and asked if I were aware of the case. I told her that not only did I know about it, I had once interviewed a former U.S. Air Force nuclear missile launch officer, David H. Schuur, who had described a very similar event at Minot AFB, North Dakota, in the mid-1960s.
Kornienko incorporated some of my remarks in the Life article, and noted the obvious similarity between the two cases. Because Google’s Russian-to-English translation is so torturous, and thoroughly incomprehensible at times, I asked the reporter for a few clarifications, which she provided, so that a more user-friendly translation might be achieved. The result follows here.
The Life Article:
Russia and the USA were on the brink of nuclear war because of UFO attacks on military bases where nuclear missiles were on alert.
Sensational documents and other evidence confirm that the Soviet military base near Byelokoroviche, Ukraine, and the U.S. Air Force base near Minot, North Dakota, were attacked by aliens from space. Hovering over the missiles, [in each incident,] a UFO in a matter of seconds hacked the codes required to launch them, nearly unleashing a Third World War. Journalists working for Life found revealing documents about [the Ukrainian incident] and located eyewitnesses to the alien attack.
For a 20-year-old radio operator, Vladimir Matveyev, assigned to the 50th Missile Division RVSN, Carpathian Military District, October 4, 982 was a day that he will remember for the rest of his life. In the evening, he and a thousand soldiers and officers saw a UFO for almost an hour, as it hovered over the R-12 missile silos. “It was unbelievable. Approximately one-and-a-half kilometers from us hovered an elliptical-shaped object,” the former rocketeer excitedly told Life. “The dimensions of the UFO shocked us—as large as a five-story house! Barely-visible lights flew up to the object. The guys [and I] were on our way to dinner when we all saw it! The UFO continued to hover, slowly moving to the left, as if drifting. One officer tried to get closer to it in a car but the UFO flew away. At this time all of the missile launchers malfunctioned. The UFO [also] blocked radio signal reception in the bunker. We heard only complete silence, which we could not understand, because this had never happened before. We were [later] told that the radio equipment was burnt!”
The Report
In his official statement on the incident, Major Mikhail Kataman, who was responsible for the missiles’ guidance systems, reported that the computer equipment and security systems had been disabled by a powerful [electromagnetic] pulse. He wrote that all of the control panels had lit up, indicating the missiles were preparing to launch toward their strategic targets.
Former TsSBUiS [missile division] Chief Yuri Zolotukhin told a Life journalist, “I too was a witness to these events and also saw the UFO, but could not reveal what had happened to the sensitive equipment because I signed a non-disclosure document [designed to] protect state secrets.” These events happened in the underground bunker where the missile control panels display the missiles’ readiness status. [During the incident] the panels lit up, indicating that the missiles had gone to full combat readiness and were preparing to launch. [Ordinarily] this is possible only after obtaining an order from Moscow. In this case, it happened by itself. The officers on duty at their battle stations were shocked. [Figuratively speaking,] their hair had turned gray. They said that the information appearing on the control panels indicated that all security measures designed to prevent an unauthorized launch of the missiles had been hacked! Within just a few seconds, the launch officers had lost control over their nuclear weapons. Immediately after this occurred, the officers called Moscow. The reply they got was that no order to launch had been issued. After 15 seconds, all of the controls reset to the normal position.
[Former] rocketeer Vladimir Matveyev says, “A few days later, a commission came to the base and interviewed the witnesses. The guys gave them their drawings of the UFO. One of the officers swore on his [Communist] Party membership that he wasn’t drunk. A few days later we were lined up [for our morning inspection by our officers] and read an order from the Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Rocket Forces, designated number R010, which said, ‘If you see a UFO, do not panic and do not shoot.’ Then I realized why the officers who had their finger ‘on the button’ looked so old and had gray hair.”
USA
A U.S. Air Force base in Minot, North Dakota, once experienced a similar incident, this Life journalist was told by American UFO investigator, 60-year-old Robert Hastings. He is the author of research on UFO activity at strategic nuclear facilities. Hastings personally spoke with a [former] Intercontinental Ballistic Missile commander, [then] Lieutenant David Schuur. “Schuur told me that in 1966 he was involved in an event in which an Unidentified Flying Object repeatedly activated [the launch sequence in his] missiles,” says the ufologist. “Schuur told me that his missile guards had informed him that a big, bright object was [moving from missile to missile]. When the UFO [hovered over] a [given] missile, his control panel indicated that it was preparing to launch. This meant that somehow it had received a launch authorization. Every time that happened, Schuur had to manually enter a launch ‘Inhibit’ command. The UFO seemed to be scanning the missiles [because various other functions were temporarily activated as well]. The next day, Schuur’s commanders said that there was nothing to discuss.”
END OF ONLINE ARTICLE
My Take
I think [the UFO] technology allows [their pilots] to launch our missiles. However, they choose not to do so. Cases such as Byelokoroviche and Minot [suggest] that aliens are trying to understand how these systems work, and what they need to do in the event of war breaking out, to stop the feuding children, i.e., us. I believe that the UFO [pilots], by running the rockets’ pre-launch countdown, learned how to stop it.
How Would Earth Send Messages To A Starship – Or A Distant Civilization?
I have a new exercise routine where I watch Star Trek: The Next Generation most mornings of the week while doing my thing. Besides serving as awesome distraction, the episodes do get me thinking about how humans would talk to extraterrestrials. It likely wouldn’t be as easy as the show portrays to zoom across space to conduct diplomatic negotiations at the planet “Parliament”, for example, so interstellar communication would be a problem.
Luckily for non-engineers such as me, there are folks out there (on Earth, at least) that are examining the problem of talking between stars. David Messerschmitt, of the University of California at Berkeley, is one of those people. A new paper by him on Arxiv examines the issue. Note this is a preprint site and not a peer-reviewed journal, but all the same it provides an intriguing addition to how to communicate outside of Earth.
Messerschmitt explains that humans already communicate with probes that are a fair distance from Earth (say, Voyager 1 in interstellar space) at radio frequencies, and there is some usage now of laser/optical communications (namely between the Earth and the moon).
Across greater distances, however, you lose information, the interstellar medium gets in the way, and stars shift due to relative motion. Besides all that, at first you wouldn’t know how the other civilization designs its systems and you could therefore send a message that wouldn’t be picked up.
He further explains that starships and civilizations would have different communications requirements. Starship communication would be two-way and based on a similar design, so success comes by having high “uplink and downlink transmit times”. The more information, the better it would be for scientific observations and keeping down errors.
Civilization-to-civilization chats, however, would present headaches. As with all diplomatic negotiations, crafting suitable messages would take time. Then we’d have to send the message out repeatedly to make sure it is heard (which actually means that reliability is not as big of a problem.) Then the ISM would have to be contended with (something that pulsar astronomers and astrophysicists are already working on, he said).
In either case — talking to starships or other civilizations — one can assume there’d be a lot of energy involved, he added. ”Starships are likely to be much closer than the nearest civilizations, but the cost of either a large transmit antenna or transmit energy is likely to be considerably greater for the starship than for a terrestrial-based transmitter,” he said, suggesting that a solution would be to minimize the energy delivered to the receiver. Other civilizations may have found more efficient ways to overcome this problem, he added.
You can read more details of the research on Arxiv, where Messerschmitt talks about Gaussian noise, channel coding and other parameters to keep in mind during communication.
The “machines” – looking something like sails millions of miles across – would be used to save civilisations from disaster, and would be built from the rubble of destroyed planets, or from asteroids.
“These structures are advanced technology,” says Dr Forgan. “To build these, you need a large amount of raw material, which would probably involve destroying a small planet or scooping up lots of asteroids.
Kepler “looks” at a field of 150,000 stars, looking for the telltale dips in brightness caused by planets passing in front of the stars.
“Megastructures” will be visible in the data from future telescopes, Forgan says.
“While the odds of seeing megastructures are probably very low, we will soon have a huge archive of exoplanet data to search for these objects — at no extra cost to SETI scientists. We may detect the presence, or remains, of an alien civilization that felt the need to move their star!” Forgan said.
First British astronaut Dr Helen Sharman says there must be aliens on other planets
Dr Helen Sharman became the first Brit in space in 1991 when she joined Project Juno and now says there must be alien life out there
The first Brit in space has revealed that she believe in aliens.
Dr Helen Sharman, who became the first Brit in space in 1991, said she believed there ‘must be’ extra terrestrial life on other planets.
The 50-year-old, who now heads the science, engineering and computing faculty at Kingston University in south west London, also said she ‘refused to watch’ the movie Gravity, starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock.
Speaking this week, Dr Sharman – who went into space after answeringa job ad stating ‘Astronaut wanted. No experience necessary’ – said the movie ‘did not look realistic enough’ from a trailer she had seen of it.
She flew to the Mir space station and spent eight days in space after being chosen from 13,000 people who applied to a private Britishspace programme called Project Juno.
She said of the movie: “I have not seen it. I was sent the trailer – I’m sure it’s a very interesting film but it didn’t look realistic to me and it did not appeal to me. Apollo 13 however is a fantastic film – very realistic.”
When asked if alien life existed, she replied: “There must be.”
Saihuite is about 4 hours drive south of Cusco Peru and is rarely visited by tourists. Its claim to fame is a large heavily carved stone, but beyond this, and in the nearby valley are clear examples of megalithic lost ancient technology that the resident Inca could not have made. They may be what remains of a mysterious culture that lived there 12,000 plus years ago…. brienfoerster
Multicolored fiberoptic looking sphere.The object first caught my attention, because the sky was so clear, you could see everything.The object seen first looked like an extroardnarily bright star, just larger. After paying closer attention to it, we realized these beautiful colors all over the object. I then retrieved my binoculars for a closer look and what we saw was just amazing, and so vivid. There was no haze, no aura, and it just remained in the same spot for about a half hour until it slowly(at least slow to the naked eye) began moving south. Also to clarify the location, it was east of where we were and we were looking to about a 45 degree angle. The sphere then paused again and seemed to remain in its new location, for the remainder of the sighting. I had viewed it through the telescope also which made it that much more clear, only to reveal a spherical shape just completely covered in this constant changing, almost electrical light. It was blue,purple,red,yellow, green, and it just kept cycling through these colors over and over again. To be more precise on the shape, it looked exactly like the big Epcot center ball (with the same outer texture or paneling) in Disney World, just bigger and luminescent. I also found it pretty peculiar that at no time during this sighting was there even a trace of any other aircraft in the sky, and the air traffic is usually constant. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
Family dog had to go out back at 10.50 pm plus or minus a couple of minutes. Had my 5 million candle power light with me when taking her out at night due to coyotes and bobcats. Shined my light around the back yard as I always do and once I was looking in the Northeast direction I noticed almost right away (3) craft with (4)large bright orange/ reddish lights each, traveling from the Northeast, traveling directly over my back yard heading Southwest towards Phoenix. Thought, in the first couple of seconds, that the lights were a type of aircraft, but realized quickly that these were not our aircraft. The (3) craft were in loose formation, not exactly a perfect triangle, but close together. Each craft, on the underbelly, had (4) bright Orange/red glowing lights forming a square about the size of a (2) car garage.Estimated these craft to be at about 1500 feet to 2500 feet above ground level. As they traveled directly over my back yard I noted that there was no noise from a propulsion system, completely silent. Crafts were moving faster than a balloon or blimp but much slower than a plane and were in a controlled flight pattern. Went back inside home and pulled wife out of bed. When she saw them she asked what they were. I commented that they were Unidentified flying objects. She told me to get my camera and get some pictures. Ran in and got my camera. Took quite a few pictures and pictures do show orange/red glow. One of the (3) crafts sprinted ahead of the other two crafts and turned off its lights when it got close to Phoenix. Pictures that I took show (2) Orange/red glowing orbs. After approximately 6 minutes the last two crafts were so far to the south west that we couldn’t see the lights anymore. My wife is my witness and the pictures that I have show (2) glowing orange/red orbs.Both, my wife and I were amazed by the sight of these objects and had a hard time believing what we had seen. But did get it on my camera. Not good enough to show any detail but does show (2) glowing orbs. NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
UFO leaving Earth caught from ISS webcam on 14th February 2014
New amazing video footage posted by Streetcap1 on his youtube channel of a white glowing UFO recorded while leaving the Earth and flying toward the ISS. This amazing video was recorded on 14th February 2014.
Glowing UFO over Mexico recorded on 11th February 2014
New amazing video footage of a glowing UFO or ORB recorded in the night sky above Mexico on 11th February 2014 at 22:00 PM.
Witness said: Approx. At 22:00 pm on February 11, 2014, this video was recorded. I do not claim to be a ship, but it is a unidentified flying object. First time I record something. Discuss please.
UFO activity over California on 15th February 2014
New interesting video footage of a strange UFO activity recorded in the night sky above California on 15th February 2014.
Witness said: Me and my friend were in the way home when he pointed out something in the sky so I pulled out my phone and started to film what I could see.
The Tall Grays, according to many abductees, appear to be the initiators of the hybridization agenda. The consensus from decades of CE4 testimony points to the conclusion that our Tall Grays are Transhumans from a future or parallel reality Earth that has (or will) destroy their environment and thus appear as they do to us physically having manipulated their DNA for tens of thousands of years. Yes, this sounds like science fiction and no one can be faulted for not being able to fully accept this future mutated human scenario. All we can do is consider the reports and correlate the known facts the best we can and rule out known hoaxes. We do however have dozens of impeccable eye witnesses who have offered up consistent testimony over a period of years if not decades. Be skeptical, but do not allow skepticism more air time than it deserves.
Abductee encountering a Tall Gray and several Small Grays
CE4 testimony indicates the Grays have reached an impasse with their ability to continue in their present biological form and having the technology and the need they thus began the Hybrid Program in order to continue their civilization. The big question then is why now? Why us?
The Grays interacting with humans at this juncture offers us a fascinating hypothesis. It is reported that the Grays reside in our human future 50,000 years from now. This number is difficult to fathom and yet offers a simple explanation as to why reports of Tall Gray activity and technology give the impression of being too paranormal or magical to take seriously as any technology from so far into a future couldn't reasonably be expected to be anything less than fantasy level. It would be mind altering to imagine a reality with humans on Earth in say 5,000 years time but 50,000 years sounds astronomical and we simply cannot comprehend the physiological changes or technological changes that will have occurred in that time, or can we?
Amazingly, it looks as though we can get a glimpse of something that would otherwise be impossible, something akin to seeing a living dinosaur but in the opposite direction on the timeline. We can see what happens in a future 50,000 years from now because the Grays are us, they are humans and they possess the technology to quantum tunnel to our reality. We can see what they look like and we can observe their technology - the craft they move around in. This is utterly amazing!
What's even more incredible is the possibility that we are witnessing in the Grays the end of the evolution line. A cosmic crossing of the finish line where a species can evolve or mutate no further. Indeed, this hyper technology state of the Grays is so powerful it is bleeding over into our reality and we may in fact be engulfed within the ripples of this merging timeline. We are feeling the effects of their 50,000 year technology while simultaneously witnessing our own beginning of this advanced technology, the birth of computers, genetic manipulation and the infancy of space exploration. Ultimate technology has circled back to meet the beginning of its original course.
Small Grays
One of the most widely observed beings encountered during medical abductions are the Small Grays. In the early years many abductees and UFO researchers believed the Small Grays were an alien race entering bedrooms late at night to escort patients into craft for medical procedures. As more events have been reported and more information has flowed in the conscious collective that is our internet, likewise our collective image of who the small gray drones actually are and what their task is has become quite clear.
Object Report scene recreation of an abductee aboard a craft with two Small Grays assisting a medical procedure
Small Gray or a hybrid being seen by Stan Romanek?
It is now generally accepted that these small gray beings are in fact biological workers. They appear to be fabricated workers which are the result of extremely advanced genetic manipulation. The Gray's have succeeded in creating autonomous creatures, what we might call androids, who carry out mundane or dangerous tasks for the Tall Grays. Consider how impressive these beings are in the specs: they have the intelligence and physical composition to move through time from another dimension, withstand some form of beaming teleportation technology, they can switch human beings mentally off at will and project telepathic thoughts and they likely possess even more extraordinary abilities we are not aware of. The Small Grays, in all of their glorious functionality, represent living evidence of the blending of advanced genetic technology and nanotechnology by beings who have an absolute understanding of quantum principles and physics of the Multiverse.
The diminutive size and controlled mental capacity of Small Gray workers likely represents a logic 101 amongst advanced civilizations that have the ability to fabricate conscious living workers and this rule is "Never create an artificial intelligence physically larger or as intelligent as your own". Oddly enough the Small Grays are probably more intelligent than a human, but again not as brilliant and vastly mentally superior as the Tall Grays who by all reports possess a simply stunning level of hyper consciousness coupled with dazzling intelligence that is telepathically hardwired to a Multiverse ship that can pull you through a wall at 3 am and place you in front of your deceased grandmother in another dimension.
Small Gray described by Ed Walters
Ed Walters published the famous book "The Gulf Breeze Sightings" in which he further describes his encounters with the Small Grays who are in fact biological units used to carry out ground operations. The Small Grays should not be confused with the Tall Grays who are evolved beings. The Small Grays are manufactured beings solely created to perform specific tasks.
Although the Small Grays have been witnessed and reported in dozens of accounts in the context of utterly terrified abductees, there does not appear to be any reason to believe the Small Grays are malicious or malevolent. In fact, the contrary seems to be the case - that the Small Grays are in a sense programmed and instructed to be overly cautious and fastidious in protecting the patients during transport to and from the craft. Conversations or impressions that telepathically bleed over into the minds of human patients during the transportation process or inside the medical facility have been relayed to us to reveal laser focused mission specific communication, cues devoid of any emotional interaction or obvious agenda. Jim Sparks offers particular insight into the transporting process and his interaction with the Small Grays.
Another typeof Small Gray being reported by CE4 eyewitness AJ is a small brown skinned being that was seen on multiple occasions during her encounters in the 80's and 90's. AJ describes them in her encounter as being "three and a half feet tall and move by floating or levitating themselves. To me, their energy or presence feels the most alien of them all." Jim Sparks describes in several of his Youtube interview videos the presence of the Grays as that of a real, visceral field that is picked up and directly related to the beings role aboard the ship or within the operations hierarchy.
Tall White Beings
Tall White Being described by CE4 abductee AJ - click for a larger image
Not to be confused with the Tall Blondes we also have CE4 reports of Tall White beings. Whereas the Blondes are reported to have thick blonde-white hair and a substantial muscular frame the tall white beings are over seven feet tall and have a thin frame. Their hair is described as thin and like the fuzz on a peach. Their eyes are large and deep blue with a slight 'wrap around' appearance.
We have several encounters on record with the Tall Whites with a general consistency in their appearance from eyewitness to eyewitness. AJ describes an encounter with a being that fits the Tall Whites description, "I was facing these three Beings. The Being in the middle was quite tall and thin and he resembled a wizard in a way. His long white and blue robe was moving and flowing as if it had an energy of its own, or perhaps it was even an extension of his self. There was an enormous amount of energy appearing to come from within him. I knew without a doubt that I was in the presence of extraterrestrials." Are the Tall Whites simply a large group of hybrids who are the genetic result of Tall Gray DNA mixed with another race? The large eyes hint in this direction, however other reports seem to suggest they are a separate race altogether - though this fact unto itself does not rule out a hybrid connection as it now appears highly likely that all beings in the cosmos are hybrids to some degree.
There are two other interesting accounts of the Tall Whites, but these encounters do not come from patients of the hybrid program and thus the credibility is not quite on the same level as those abductees who have reported their experiences over years or decades.
Colin Andrews has an excellent write up on his website in which a police officer in the UK encounters three beings who might fit the tall white description. Because these three beings do not have the unique, muscular build often described with the Nordic types, it leans the possibility into the direction that these three beings are Tall Whites. The illustration accompanying the article certainly looks to be similar to that of the Tall Whites.
Charles Hall talks frequently about tall whites and a possible US government connection in his book Millennial Hospitality. Hall's description of the Tall Whites also covers details regarding the construction of their interstellar craft as well as his personal interactions with these beings in the Nevada desert. The account of Charles Hall is intriguing but the degree of involvement between the Tall Whites and the US Government is generally outside of the normal description of the hybridization program. However, it is certainly notimpossible and there have been hints from other CE4 eyewitnesses of clandestine government involvement.
The UFO phenomenon has evolved over the decades from the 1940′s to the present. Each generation has witnessed aerial phenomenon and has consequently had increasing access to clues and evidence. Civilizations from parallel realities and parallel dimensions similar to our own reality have been manipulating human DNA from the beginning of our recorded history and it is highly likely that all of this activity over the decades is the visually elusive air traffic of beings involved in one singularly focused mission involving humans. This genetic program is a part of our human history, it is here with you and I now and will continue flowing down line into humanities future. It is time to accept the fact that we are hybridized humanoid beings with alien DNA.
However, the children of the very latest human genetic upgrade are quite different and far more advanced than you and I and thus are currently living off world out of harm’s way. We have a number of reliable eyewitness reports of these hybrid children and in this website we will paint a few broad strokes in order to take a peek at the feverish activity occurring out of public sight along with the mind bending possibilities of the impending first contact.
Hybridization of a conscious humanoid appears to be quite complex. Evolution is not ruled out, but there is a point at which highly advanced humanoids begin to upgrade other humanoids. The benefits of this process would, at its simplest, be the perpetuation of life, intelligence and consciousness. This is a logical expectation within an infinite multiverse and likely a process that spans countless worlds and vast expanses of time as we know it. Earth is but a part of the process and not the process itself. We will come to realize that we are part of a larger galactic family and the relatives are coming to introduce themselves.
The information, illustrations and scene recreations contained in this website exist, and can only be shared with the world thanks to the hard work of researchers, writers and CE4 eyewitnesses. To our readers we would like to state that this information has been diligently collected and represents literally hundreds of hours of conversation with experts in the field as well as abductees who were willing and kind enough to participate in the development of these renderings to assure as high a degree of accuracy as possible. As utterly bizarre and surreal as some of these renderings may appear to be, they are based upon input directly from abductees and CE4 eyewitnesses.
The Hybrids Project website begins with fundamental concepts and logical speculation and we expect more revelations and evidence to flow toward us as time passes, therefore this site will evolve and we will update sections as we learn more, so please stay tuned.
The UFO phenomenon has evolved over the decades or at least our perception of it has. With each new sighting and each new eye witness report we are able to add a few more pieces to the puzzle, thus the big picture of what is happening is becoming clearer.
1950's - 1970's
In the early UFO years from 1950's, 60's and 70's fixation on craft and sightings, the incoming data for the general public being visual and iconic and the magic and mystery of the unknown in the Earth's skies is reinforced by Film and television shows which portrayed UFOs in various human-perspective scenarios. Our human perspective of what these strange craft and objects represent evolving each decade as more eye witness accounts came forth and our technology progressed - such as the internet which allowed the possibility for every witness to tell their story and for near real time updates on all facets of the contact phenomenon.
1980's
A massive shift in UFO awareness came about In the 1980's with reports of abductions began to make it into books such as Communion, Taken, and Guardians, and the UFO mystery turned to fear. The late 1980's saw the internet came into common use allowing people to publish their own reports of abduction and tell their story. The abductions were taking place at night, commonly around 3am with surgical strike precision and high technology. This new collective fear, granted understandable considering the vivid and harrowing details, allowed our deepest fears about the vastness and potential of the Universe to solidify within our minds.
1990's
The 1990's saw an increase in the details of the technology and logistics of these abductions - different types of beings were seen, bug-like, grey skin, small blue people, even dead relatives. Then we began to hear about the "Hybrids", those fragile children seen aboard alien craft who appeared to be both human and alien and most significantly, TELEPATHIC. The made for TV film Intruderswas remarkable in addressing the hybrid being aspect of the abduction phenomenon and maintained a reasonable degree of accuracy in its portrayal of the methodology and appearance of both the small grays and the hybrid beings as typically described aboard craft.
2000 to Present
After 2000 the resolution increased and today we have a high definition picture of what is happening behind the UFO scenes, thanks to CE4 eyewitnesses like Whitley Strieber, Ed Walters and Jim Sparks who have a unique conscious recall of their abduction events. The general tone today is quite different than all of the previous decades with less fear and more understanding that indeed perhaps all of the crafts and night activity have been for the sole purpose of creating a hybrid species using human and alien DNA. The question now is, what does the future hold?
Hierarchy
Here we are in the present - the year is 2014 - and we have reports of Tall Grays, Small Grays, Nordics, Mantid beings, along with implants being removed by doctors (Dr. Leir) with strange lab results. We have people reporting missing time and awakening with strange visions of the future, unearthly mathematical concepts (Stan Romanek), people awakening in their beds at 3 am with mysterious self healing scars and sometimes even wearing the wrong clothes.
Depiction of Small Grays performing a routine patient abduction
Over the decades we have been provided with multiple reports of abductees being shown strange, humanoid babies and asked to hold these babies and to show them affection. Hundreds - if not thousands - of women have told stories of missing fetuses and phantom pregnancies. Male abductees have told us of face to face encounters with apparently alien-human children and sometimes even encountering a dead relative. What exactly is going on here? Why are abductees seeing all of the different types of beings; Grays, Nordics and Mantids with these hybrid children? At first glance these reports and the pieces of evidence seem chaotic, fragmented and random but upon closer observation there is a pattern and a repeating logic. Indeed, there appears to be a hierarchy of personnel involved in the hybrid project with each holding a unique function or purpose. Let's take a look at the hierarchy based upon the evidence and testimony to date in order to better understand who is behind this hybridization program.
The massive Hybrid Project and the sphere of influence represented in an onion layer hierarchy diagram
If we take a look at the Hybrid Program Sphere of Influence schematic (above) we can see the "Who's Who" onion layers and gain a better understanding of the overall hierarchy as seen from our human perspective. The inner core of the onion represents the least amount of power or influence. The outer layers represent the greatest power and control and likewise each outward layer represents an increase in the ability to traverse time and space in the cosmos.
Super Conscious Beings - Advanced beings from other realms with limitless influence/control.
Tall Grays - Transhumans with ultra technology directing the hybrid program.
Mantids - Insect like beings possessing ultra technology working with the Tall Grays.
Good Dead - Deceased humans with access to ultra technology and time space movement.
Blondes - Human like beings with ultra technology participating within the hybrid program
Hybrid Humans - Composite beings who are the end result of the hybrid program
MILAB - Military humans with high knowledge and the ability to move about the solar system
Abductees - Interact with higher beings and occasionally leave Earth and/or visit other dimensions
Dark Dead - Earth bound deceased humans who have limited abilities over the population.
Population - All ordinary Earth humans who typically have little or no knowledge of higher beings.
Breakdown of the Hierarchy
You and I are at the center of the diagram - the core of the sphere of influence. We, the Human Population, have very little influence over those beings in higher levels and generally have zero physical mobility into space. The general knowledge level of ET activity and other realms is in it's lowest state here.
The next level we refer to as the Dark Dead which is comprised of humans who are deceased and no longer have a physical body and yet they have not progressed into higher dimensions. Though they are Earth bound, the dark dead see more of reality and what is hidden from the living according to Strieber's visitor in his book The Key.
Abductees have experiences both conscious and unconscious involving traveling aboard craft away from the confines of Earth and in some cases have access to high level information directly from beings in the higher levels of the sphere of influence. Thus, abductees have greater mobility than the general population and a higher level of awareness of reality. Abductees can and do affect the general population below them.
Whereas abductees may or may not be conscious during their CE4 interactions, we have independent reports of military personnel who are very much conscious and involved with not only the abductees but the higher level beings themselves and thus have great mobility on the Earth and off. These people are behind the so called military abductions and are generally referred to as MILAB. They have been witnessed extensively by many individuals and well described by Whitley Strieber and AJ among others. They have control of abductees aboard craft and on the planet's surface. Though these MILAB beings are likely human, they are far removed from the normal lifestyle and daily routine of surface bound humans. What they know and are capable of we can only speculate.
One level above our charming military group are Human Hybrids who are reported to live off world but within our solar system. They have access to advanced technology and are telepathic. Though currently living off world, we have reports of human hybrids visiting incognito in safe areas of populated cities in order to acclimate themselves for future interaction with the population. Human hybrids have a great deal of influence over all levels beneath them and are themselves the reason for this entire program.
The elusive Reptilians have access to ultra technology and are telepathic. It is possible they are humanoid beings of Clade Dinosauria origins and are the result of an earlier hybrid program far in the past on Earth. Their interaction with us now is evidence of the ability to move outside of time and space through extremely advanced technologies. It is reported the Reptilians are playing a role in the hybridization program although their contribution of DNA does not seem to hold the priority of that of the Tall Gray DNA within the hybrid beings. However, we the Population simply don't know the full extent of the hybrid program which could be far more vast and complex than we can imagine at this time.
The Blondes or Nordic beings have been seen aboard UFOs on many occasions and have a very close physical appearance to human beings. They also possess advanced technology and are highly telepathic. Their role in the hybrid program is uncertain however CE4 eyewitness "AJ" reports encountering a Blonde being with large eyes and thinner blonde hair, suggesting he might have been a Gray-Blonde Hybrid.
Residing one level higher than the Blondes are the Good Dead. This group consists of deceased humans who have moved onto another realm of existence. We place human souls on this level assuming they have all knowledge of physics and events of all the levels lower than them and - being free of a physical body - likely have greater quantum mobility throughout the cosmos than the incarnate. Deceased relatives are frequently seen aboard craft by CE4 witnesses.
Also seen by CE4 eyewitnesses quite often are the Mantid type beings. These beings are humanoid and usually bipedal having a torso, two arms, two legs and two eyes but are certainly based upon insect evolution, evident from their appearance. Here they are placed on the same hierarchical level as that of the Tall Grays as they are often reported to be as emotionless as the Grays and very active in clinical procedures with patients. Interestingly, like the Tall Grays and their subordinate Small Gray drones, David Huggins witnessed smaller Praying Mantis type drones working in tandem with the Small Gray drones. CE4 abductee AJ reports seeing several beings who appeared to be the possible genetic combination of Tall Gray and Mantid genetics.
The Tall Grays appear to be the initiators of the human hybrid program and are apparently the highest level of this extremely complex program that extends outside our solar system to other worlds and possibly even other dimensions. The Tall Grays are physically active in the program both contributing their advanced genome and managing the logistics of this multidimensional endeavor.
Super Conscious Beings we place at the highest level of the hierarchy though very little is known of them. They appear to patients at times of stress or discomfort and possess great compassion and intellect. Super conscious beings might represent an extremely advanced collective that participates in an overview capacity making an audit of progress and from time to time by interacting with individuals subjected to these medical procedures.
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Looking at the Hybrid Program sphere of influence from a larger perspective we can get a sense of the limited mobility into the universe we have as humans - the center of the onion. Moving outward from Earth we can see that MILAB people can move about into the solar system with the human Hybrids likely able to move about the entirety of our Milky Way Galaxy. Higher level beings such as the Blondes and Grays are likely able to move from galaxy to galaxy.
At the outer most onion layer Super Conscious Beings might have the ability to move across various dimensional planes allowing for an interconnected multiverse wherein various galaxies and universes comprised of hybridized physical beings can rendezvous on the common ground that is the interior of an alien star craft or UFO.
Please, please, please, let 2014 be the year of reason, of critical thinking and common sense.
I don’t know who that was directed at in particular, whether it be an imaginary man in the sky, or my cat, but the sentiment seems to be one a good many people are expressing in their own way, in these early days of the new year.
2013 was a hallmark year for hoaxes, though that sort of depends on how you define hoax. A good many of the stories that circulated social networks last year fell under the general definition of hoax, but while erroneous and apparently maliciously false stories may seem more common now, in the information age, pulling the wool over people’s eyes is most definitely not a new thing.
From academia to popular culture, there is no shortage of people trying to get one over on the general public, and while a lengthy examination of the hundreds of hoaxes that have been pulled off over the years, some more successful than others, would be both interesting and entertaining, I want to take the time to look at the one aspect of the hoaxing trend that seems to defy definition: why?
When you consider some classical hoaxes, from the Piltdown Man, or Orson Wells’ War of Worlds radio show, there seem to be obvious motivators that the perpetrators clung to in their planning and execution. Whether malicious in nature or purely innocent, these scenarios have typically been born of a desire to make the punch line stick. Of the two examples given above, whomever the hoaxer of the Piltdown bone fragments actually was, it seems clear that the intention was to ridicule and embarrass the paleontological scholars involved in examining the found materials. Orson Wells however, had innocent intentions; he simply wanted to entertain and, perhaps, took his good humour a little far (though some suggest that the real hoax is that the ensuing panic never actually happened, or is that yet another hoax?). In the end though, in both cases the purpose seems to have been to get a good laugh on the part of the hoaxer.
Perhaps it’s our distance from these hoaxes that makes them seem humorous or charming, but even more recent events have their charm, to a point.
2009’s Balloon Boy hoax is a good example of a hoax that not only went too far, but also defies any attempt to reason through their motivations. Why do what they did? The obvious answer is to achieve that 15 minutes of fame to which we’re each entitled. But is that hollow recognition really the primary motivator for hoaxing?
There is always, and probably always will be a financial aspect to this kind of trickery. Many modern day hoaxes are attached to marketing schemes and viral campaigns for popular media and movies, capitalizing on the public’s ever present appetite for scandal and gossip, but this isn’t always the case, is it?
Recently there have been a number of high profile hoaxes in the Fortean world, from cryptozoology to OOPARTS or, if I may coin a term, xenoarchaeology. I’ve covered a number of these stories in the past, from Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot DNA debacle, to the Ted Litton / Megalograptus hoax, and there are more to come. One of the things that can be said about Ketchum, is that she really seems to believe her own BS, which may be a feature of her own deluded rationalizations, and when compared to say, Rick Dyer’s new Bigfoot body extravaganza, how much credit should we give these people for believing in, or feigning belief in their own stories?
Really though, this all boils down to lying. Why do we lie? Although the perpetrators of some or all of the hoaxes listed above might argue that they aren’t lying, I think we can all agree that hoaxes are really just the elaborate products of simple lies.
To answer that question – why do we lie? – one must first look at how prevalent lying really is in our society. According to a study published in the Journal of Basic and Applied Psychology by psychologist Robert Feldman of the University of Massachusetts, lying is a reflexive defense of our self-esteem.
“It’s tied in with self-esteem,” says Feldman. “We find that as soon as people feel that their self-esteem is threatened, they immediately begin to lie at higher levels.”
Feldman says that in his study 60 percent of participants lied at least once during a 10 minute conversation. The majority of participants, denied having said anything untruthful, and were genuinely surprised when video footage was replayed. Feldman says that lying is, at this level, a subconscious reflex used to maintain self-esteem, not only from the perspective of others but from themselves as well.
So, we do it to make ourselves feel better about ourselves, and this would suggest that it is the result of feelings of inadequacy, both in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. This makes sense, at least as it relates to small, so-called white lies. Small untruths that have little impact on our lives or on the lives of those around us, but does the depth of the lie relate to the depth of inadequacy? It may to a point, but it seems that bigger lies are the result of a misjudgement of the likelihood that the liar will be caught.
University of New England’s associate professor of philosophy, David Smith PhD, says that lying is a perfectly natural part of human society, and that there are generally six reasons why people lie:
To Save Face
To Shift Blame
To Avoid Confrontation
To Get One’s Own way
To Be Nice
To Make One Feel Better About Themselves
So, where on this list would the hoaxer fit? With a good many hoaxes, there’s a certain level of anonymity at play. Many who perpetrate hoaxes are never exposed, and as such it’s unlikely that saving face or avoiding blame have any real impact on their motives. Depending on your view of the situation, it could be said that hoaxers are going out of their way to find confrontation, albeit in a detached manner, and they certainly seem to be getting their own way, though nice rarely has anything to do with it.
Ultimately, from this list, it would have to be that they’re attempting to boost their own self-esteem, but I would suggest that this list is inadequate to answer our question. It certainly seems like, with most hoaxes, that the people involved are trying to bolster their own self-esteem by lording such falsities over the heads of the public, at least those in the public who entertain such things, so as to feel superior to those who weren’t capable of “seeing the truth” as it were. It seems more than a lie, it seems a manipulation of people’s beliefs and fears in some cases. It seems a feature of the anti-establishment movement and a method for pushing misinformation into the discussion for the purpose of derailing productive discourse. It seems political and self-serving and deleterious, and if we look at individual hoaxes, we can see elements of all of the above, but it doesn’t seem like any of them can be considered the one true culprit.
Our society, that is the internet society we’ve built over the last two decades, has in it certain mechanisms for rewarding such conspiratorial behaviour. Why do they hoax? Because they can, and they can get away with it, even if people like me search them out and expose them, and there is a very specific reason for that:
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ― Mark Twain
People in general are ready to believe, they are ready to accept that there is more to this world than meets the eye, and they actively seek out information that supports their desire to be mystified. In years past it was the side-show, the magician, the mesmerist who satisfied that craving, today it’s paranormal gurus, cryptozoologists and spiritualists who answer the call. The problem is that the boring establishment, the entity that most in the effected community feel the need to rebel against, has no position on such topics, beyond the accusation of pseudoscience. So those who provide answers, whether those answers are based in fact or not, are rewarded with adoration and fame, however undeserved it may be.
And so we’ve come full circle. Is it empty fame, money, or a boost to one’s self-esteem? I would say it’s all three, and a combination of all of the other factors discussed therein. The only weapon we have against it is an insatiable desire for truth – clean, bare truth – and the means to find it among the detritus. Those who wish to believe will continue to do so, and those who wish to exploit that belief will also go on with their hoaxes.
I recently brought you the story of the Klerksdorp Spheres, which turned out to be a little misleading, that is if you believed the more credulous among us. Those spheres belong to a category of pseudo-archaeology called Out-of-Place-Artefacts. If you read the aforementioned post, you know that they aren’t so much out-of-place as misidentified. I’m not sure the same can be said for the following.
The story is a little complicated, so bear with me. It’s said that over a period of three years (1991-1993) Russian gold prospectors sought precious metals in the eastern Ural Mountains, along the rivers Narada, Kozim, and Balbanyu. Apparently, these unnamed prospectors found something quite remarkable while digging for gold.
Fitting in nicely with the Klerksdorp Spheres, what they found is another example of an out-of-place-artefact (or artefacts as, again, is the case), namely the Russian Screws, or the Narada River Spiral Objects, or Ice-age Nanotechnology. There is little agreement over the name of these objects, but there is agreement over what they apparently mean, and we’ll get to that in a moment.
What was found is, apparently, several examples of small – very small in some cases – metal objects, often resembling spiral screws or springs, made of copper, tungsten and molybdenum. What they were made of wasn’t readily apparent, but close inspection revealed some interesting things. These screws or spirals measured from 3cm (1.2 in) to 0.003mm (1/10,000 of an inch), rightly microscopic. One wonders how they were even spotted in the first place. They appear to be manufactured, and in most cases are so finely tooled that most believe their existence required technology on par with our modern manufacturing abilities. Those involved often cite current nanotechnology being developed for microscopic electronics and medical therapies as an analog.
Investigation of these weird objects was undertaken by the Central Scientific Research Institute for Geology and Prospecting for Precious and Non-ferrous Metals, also known by the acronym ZNIGRI, in Moscow, Russia. A report from ZNIGRI tells, apparently, that the objects were found 1-1.7 metres deep, within a layer of gravel and detritus, which was composed of material from various sources, geologically.
The objects were dated, by association of their depth in the riverbed, to between 10,000 and 100,000 years ago. Placing their origin somewhere within the Pleistocene era (which immediately preceded the current era, known as Holocene). Most accounts suggest that the objects are 20,000 years old.
The ZNIGRI report in question, titled No. 18/485, draws the conclusion, from apparently exhaustive testing, that “the age of the deposit (the riverbed) and the results of the tests give a very low probability to the assumption that the origin of these unusual, thread-shaped tungsten crystals is of a technogenic (sic) cosmic nature, due to the rocket take-off route from the Plesetsk space-station over the polar part of the Ural region.”[1] Now, if you’re wondering exactly what that means, you’re not alone.
One Mr. Hartwig Hausdorf, German author and Travel Industry mogul, suggests in his book Wenn Goetter Gott Spielen (1997) – translated as If Gods Play God [Our Evolution Came from Space and the Creation Was Programmed], or alternately When Godlike Gods Play – that the above explanation means precisely this: “these objects cannot have originated from earlier test rockets or similar fired from Plesetsk.” And therefore they must be evidence of an extraterrestrial presence in the area of the eastern Urals approximately 20,000 years ago. Hausdorf uses the above mentioned report as ammunition to fire at potential skeptic detractors, using the conclusion that the objects are unlikely to have come from old rockets being fired overhead (from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome) as evidence for an altogether different argument.
“The key word of the report comes finally to the point: The data obtained allow the possibility of an extra-terrestrial technogenic origin.
In view of these conclusions, critics will find it very difficult to accuse me of pseudo-documentation or embarrassing behaviour.”
I do not agree, as you may already have picked up. The above noted report notwithstanding, eliminating a single possibility, an inconclusive position at best anyway, does not support the validity of any other possibility in-and-of-itself. Though, as with the Klerksdorp Spheres, there is a bigger problem at play here.
All of the above information comes from several articles across a number of websites, the most relevant being an abstract of Hausdorf’s book from Rense.com by Arthur Neuman. Another important one is an article from BeforeItsNews.com titled Anomalous Archaeological Artefacts, which covers several other weird objects as well. If you happen to look into this story though, you’ll notice something striking, almost right away. All of the websites that offer information on this topic give an almost verbatim retelling of the story from either of the above websites. And all of them, Rense.com and BeforeItsNews.com included, cite the following URL as their source: http://home.fireplug.net/~rshand/streams/science/ (excluding the bits taken directly from Hausdorf.)
Home.fireplug.net no longer exists, unfortunately, so whatever they intended us to see is now unavailable. However, in lieu of this, one can start looking a little closer at the details of the story, and I have some bad news for you…
Not only can I find no record (online) of the study, identified above as ZNIGRI Report No 18/485, but as far as I can tell, ZNIGRI itself, or the Central Scientific Research Institute for Geology and Prospecting for Precious and Non-ferrous Metals, doesn’t exist[2], and neither, apparently, do the aforementioned rivers[3] (unless they are either local or regional names not known internationally, or are too small to be listed in online resources). This is by no means conclusive in itself either, but these failings of the original information give more than ample cause to question whether any of the above is factual.
We know that the spiral objects exist, as there are photographs showing them quite clearly. Though this, of course, says nothing about where or when they were found, or how they were made and by whom. As a result of the online source material being unavailable, we are forced to put our faith in Hausdorf, who by his own admission, isn’t exactly trusted as an impartial source of information on these topics by the skeptical or scientific community.
Though the word rests gently on the tip of my tongue, I hesitate to say that the case of the Ice-Age Nanotechnology is an outright hoax, but it seems clear that the situation is at best unsettled and at worst a complete mystery.
At this point I’ll offer a little unsolicited commentary on this apparent trend. Is there no journalistic integrity in the greater paranormal community? Are we so desperate for page views and internet fame that we’ll latch onto any sensational story in the name of contrarianism or alternative history? Trusting that the blogger/writer before us did their due diligence and not only sought the truth of the matter, but also that what they found was the truth. A decent researcher can find almost anything on the internet, whole books have been transcribed and uploaded for ease of use. If you can’t find the original source, look for supporting information to back up the claim. If there is none, tell your readers the truth of it.
Confirmation bias is a growing problem in the online world. If you look for a particular view, to back up your own, you’re likely to find it. But that doesn’t mean that your view is correct. Exposing the truth of these tales does not, contrary to many complaints, harm or diminish one’s sense of mystery. In fact, I believe it enhances it, by clearing the table of the chaff, of the mundane and bogus, allowing us to focus on the real mysteries of this world. It may seem, of late, that my focus has shifted from paranormal interests, to skeptical interest, but I assure you, I love the weird as much as I ever did, and while I’m disappointed to find so many people accepting stories like the above uncritically and without that proverbial grain of salt, I will continue to bring you all the strangeness I can find, but I will present the truth, as best as I can find it.
Having said all of that, I cordially and sincerely invite you to offer any information you might have on any of the issues pointed out above. Does ZNIGRI really exist, but maybe under a different name? Did I miss a listing of the rivers involved? Is the original report available somewhere, maybe in hard copy? (I know Hausdorf offers to send a copy to anyone for the cost of shipping, but I was thinking of independent sources like libraries etc.) Let me, and anyone who happens to read this know about it!
IMPORTANT! Keep reading Part Two of this story…there’s more!
It’s been nagging at me since I posted the counterpart to this post less than eight hours ago, that I may have dismissed the issue of the Russian Screws with a might too much haste and enthusiasm.
After intensive search online, through Russian language websites, search engines and wiki pages, I am, maddeningly, no closer to an answer. While it seems that others, though only a few, have come to the same conclusion that I did in what I’ll now call part one of this two part saga, all attempts to verify the information contained in Hartwig Hausdorf’s book Wenn Goetter Gott Spielen have hit dead ends.
It turns out though, that Hausdorf misreported or mistranslated the original Russian in his source material. The research organization he identified as ZNIGRI or the Central Scientific Research Institute for Geology and Prospecting for Precious and Non-ferrous Metals, is actually TsNIGRI, or The Federal State Unitary Enterprise – Central Research Geological Exploration Institute of Nonferrous and Precious Metals[1], which operates under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation.
This organization is responsible for “…the forecast, the search for, evaluation, exploration, advanced technology exploration, processing and analysis of ores diamonds, gold, silver, platinum, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt, monitoring of mineral resources, geological and economic evaluation deposits of mineral raw materials situation.”[2]
So, at least that part of Hausdorf’s story seems to be legitimate, if not confusing and difficult to verify.
TsNIGRI oversees or controls two journals, National Geology, which was founded in 1933 and is a scientific or industry periodical that publishes articles and commentary on the theoretical aspects of geology, and Ores & Metals, which was founded in 1992 for the “rapid dissemination of information and the creation of an information base for fundamental research in the field of ore deposits and their geological structure and mineral resources.”
Unfortunately, while these journals are archived online through the Russian language E-Library, a searchable database of literally millions of Russian scientific publications and individual articles, I can find no mention of the Narandan Spiral Artefacts (or Narandan Metal Fasteners, as a Russian language wikipedia.org entry calls them, or even through any other variation of the several names that have come up in this research) through either of the mentioned publications, or any other.
Hausdorf mentions two researchers by name in his book, as originally cited in part one from Arthur Neuman’s Rense.com article, a Dr. Valerii Ouvarov and Scientific Assistant Mme. Dr. E. W. Matveyeva.
Matveyeva apparently is, or was, a researcher with TsNIGRI, but all searches for him or her return results directly related to Hausdorf’s book and claims. The same problem occurs with Ouvarov, with the exception of some obscure references to a UFO Report DVD, apparently developed by him or her. There is also a book written by a Russian UFOlogist named Mr. Valery Uvarov titled The Pyramids. If this is the person in question, it adds no credibility to Hausdorf’s claim. The problem is exacerbated of course, by the apparent misspellings or transliterations of both names, alternately given as Jelena Matveev and Valery Ouvarov or Uvarov.[3] Making the search quite difficult.
As mentioned in part one, the rivers cited, in the Ural Mountains where the supposed artefacts were found, were also not found in any listings of waterways in the area. However, after adjusting for Hausdorf’s apparent difficulty with translating either from Russian to German, or from German to English, a spelling variation of one of the rivers returned a result for Kožim.[4] Which is a tributary of Kosjun of the Komi Republic in Russia. The other rivers, Narada (or Naradan) and Balbanyu are still unaccounted for, though again, this may be due to incorrect spellings.
So, all in all, it seems clear that Hausdorf’s claim that “critics will find it very difficult to accuse [him] of pseudo-documentation or embarrassing behavior” is patently wrong. If he were trying to make this issue impossible to research, he could scarcely have done a better job. It could be said though, that it’s not entirely his fault.
In the end, we’re left with the same problems as were mentioned in part one; none of his story can be verified. It’s interesting to note that the Wikipedia entry for the Naradan Metal Fasteners, as mentioned above, lists Hausdorf’s book as well as two further websites – mystae.com and ufoligie.net, both of which are no longer operating – as the only sources for the entire entry. Of further interest though, is that the only website listed on that entry that is still in operation (listed as an external link, not a source) displays a verbatim abstract of Hausdorf’s book, precisely as it appears on Rense.com. From the dates of the web pages, it seems clear that Arthur Neuman did some copy/pasting from that earlier accounting. And those of you who are paying attention, will find the same broken URL identified in part one listed near the very top of the page.
Well now, we’ve come full circle. Yet we still don’t have any answers. Are the Narada or Naradan Spirals real? Are they 20,000 years old? Were they examined scientifically by a Russian Federal agency, or by some crackpot UFOlogist? Did Hausdorf make the whole thing up? It seems obvious that something was found, there are pictures after all. But a recurring anecdote keeps resurfacing with every dead end, and that is that there is or was some manufacturing or industrial factory located near to or upstream from the excavation area in question. The suggestion, though completely unqualified as far as I can tell, is that these so-called artefacts are nothing more than metal wastes from some manufacturing process, carelessly dumped into the wilderness of the Ural mountains.
I can no more tell you that these things are discarded tips from mechanical pens, than I can say they’re proof of ancient alien contact. What you can take away from all this though, is that there is no part of this story that is certain, not my view or Hausdorf’s, or any of the people who seem to have plagiarised his work. It seems we have a genuine mystery on our hands, but I still think it’s unlikely that aliens are involved.
[1] TsNIGRI: (Федеральное государственное унитарное предприятие ЦЕНТРАЛЬНЫЙ НАУЧНО-ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬСКИЙ ГЕОЛОГОРАЗВЕДОЧНЫЙ ИНСТИТУТ ЦВЕТНЫХ И БЛАГОРОДНЫХ МЕТАЛЛОВ) http://www.tsnigri.ru/index.htm
Ica, Peru is an exciting place, if you happen to be interested in ancient cultures and archaeology. Many old world curiosities have come out of this region of the world, like the Ica Stones for instance, and in fact, one of the most impressive collections of ancient textiles came from Ica. That may seem quite the opposite of exciting to you, but to those of us who study such things, the findings of Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello in the Paracas peninsula of the Pisco province of Ica, have been ground-breaking in terms of understanding at least one lost culture of Peru.
In 1925, Julio Tello, the father of indigenous Peruvian archaeology, felt he was close to exposing the lost Paracas culture, and after a few years in field, he finally cracked the case for the Paracas when in 1927 he uncovered a necropolis in the desert that contained 429 ancient mummy bundles. This find proved the case for the Paracas culture, and it opened up vast avenues for research, including a study of the various patterned textiles used in the burial bundles.
The Paracas people, for whom the entire Paracas peninsula is named, inhabited the coastal region from 800 BC to 100 AD, which makes them one of the oldest known Andean cultures. They had an aptitude for irrigation and water management, and their culture was rich in art and spiritual practices.
This is all well and good, it’s interesting but hardly headline worthy, at least not 87 years after the discovery, but there’s more to this situation than meets the eye.
The Paracas culture were one of the ancient Andean peoples who practised skeletal modification. They would bind the heads of their infants with rope, cloth and wooden boards in order to elongate their skulls. This was done for spiritual or religious reasons, and scholars believe it was an effort to make themselves look more like their deities.
The resulting skull shape does indeed seem otherworldly, and they’ve captured the attention of a great many Fortean researchers and Ancient Alien theorists. World famous Ancient Aliens proponent and author David Childress has long theorised that these elongated skulls are the product of contact between extraterrestrial beings at or before the height of the Paracas culture. He has alternately asserted that the Paracas skulls are either the result of attempts by humans to emulate these alien visitors, who may have been perceived as gods, or that they are the actual aliens.
An artist’s impression based on a Paracas skull. Photo credit: Marcia Moore / Ciamar Studio
Owner/curator of the local Paracas History Museum, Juan Navarro, has a collection of some 35 preserved examples of Paracas elongated skulls, as well as many other historical artefacts related to the Paracas culture. The skulls are said to have a cranial capacity of 24-40% larger than a regular human skull, which some claim is evidence that their brains were bigger and they were thus more intelligent than modern humans or humans of the same era. This is not necessarily true, but we’ll get to that.
In 2011, alternative history author Brien Foerster, and self-proclaimed expert on ancient elongated skulls, apparently convinced Navarro to allow several samples to be taken from the museum for analysis. Hair samples, including roots, a tooth, skull bone and skin samples were taken from five different skulls and were given to the late Lloyd Pye, of the Starchild Project fame, who then allegedly passed them on to an unnamed geneticist in Texas for DNA analysis (we can only hope it wasn’t DNA Diagnostics). [See update below]
Well, it seems Foerster would like us all to believe he has preliminary results of that analysis in hand, and through an appearance on JustEnergyRadio, he has released some rather spurious details that on first glance seem quite intriguing, but upon closer inspection, aren’t really all that impressive.
Several bloggers who specialize in the paranormal, have published posts telling of these preliminary conclusions, claiming that the DNA offered unexpected results. Headlines such as ‘Initial DNA analysis of Paracas elongated skulls released – with incredible result’ are giving people the wrong impression of the situation.
Foerster is claiming that mitochondrial DNA was found in at least one sample and that analysis of that DNA showed mutations that don’t conform to mutations known in humans or other animals.
“It had mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far. But a few fragments I was able to sequence from this sample indicate that if these mutations will hold we are dealing with a new human-like creature, very distant from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans.”
What does that mean?
Not much really. At best it’s inconclusive. The DNA would be identified as human, but with anomalies; anomalies that could be caused by any number of contaminants or procedural flaws. It could be that this DNA really does provide unusual results, but the only thing that can be said of it at this point is that it requires further study. The sensational release of unconfirmed and unverifiable information such as this on a radio show, is not worthy of the attention this story is receiving.
Brien Foerster with an elongated skull
The problems don’t stop there, though.
Who is doing this analysis and where/when can we expect peer-reviewed publication of these results? Foerster isn’t telling, which sends up a huge red flag. In the quote above, Foerster refers to himself as doing the “sequencing”. Is this a slip of the tongue? He’s definitely not a geneticist. Secondary to this is the way in which he has “released” these findings, which is reminiscent of Melba Ketchum’s Bigfoot debacle of 2012. This is not the way science is done, though some might argue that he is not a scientist, and not much argument would be found in response.
Some people are buying into what seems to amount to Foerster’s latest effort to sell books, without really thinking about the situation critically. The Paracas elongated skulls are strange, but the features people like Foerster and Childress hold out as evidence that they have an other-worldly origin doesn’t really hold up to close scrutiny.
There are fossilized skulls of a race of proto-humans called the Boskop Man. They were found near a small town in South Africa of the same name, and these skulls sparked a heated debate among anthropologists and archaeologists when they were presented in 1913. They were given as evidence for a species of human that had a significantly larger brain and therefore greater intelligence than contemporary species. The Boskop skulls offered a cranial capacity of 40-50% larger than any other known humanoid species, but it’s been demonstrated that this doesn’t necessarily equate to greater intelligence. More isn’t always more.
The Paracas skulls, aside from looking strange, are anatomically identical to regular skulls, and since we know how and why their culture undertook skeletal modification, it seems credulous to inject conspiracy where none exists to begin with.
Where ever you see this story posted in the next couple weeks, be sure to ask how the poster verified the information Foerster is offering.
UPDATE:
As mentioned above, at the time of writing Brien Foerster hadn’t publicly identified the Texas geneticist that was processing these DNA samples, but Sharon Hill over at Doubtful News, along with some other sleuths, have determined that it is indeed Melba Ketchum of DNA Diagnostics who is performing the analysis. This information places this story squarely into the ‘seriously sketchy’ category, if it wasn’t there already.
UPDATE TO THE UPDATE:
This story is turning into a circus over at Doubtful News, as Foerster has threatened legal action against Sharon Hill (who used this post as the basis for hers), and has now directly denied the involvement of Melba Ketchum…sort of. He says he is working with her on this project, but that she didn’t work on the samples in question.
On top of everything, it’s been suggested that he may have violated international import/export laws, or at the very least Peruvian export laws, which require credentialed permits to remove any kind of archaeological material from the country. It appears Foerster had no such permit, though this is as yet unconfirmed.
Er wordt gezegd dat de Russische stad Sotsji, waar op dit moment de Olympische Winterspelen worden gehouden, een galactisch knooppunt is voor bezoekers van andere planeten.
Als je in Sotsji naar de lucht kijkt, kun je met gemak buitenaardse ruimteschepen zien, aldus ufoloog Vladislav Karabanov.
Vladislav is er zeker van dat het gebied rond zijn woning en de top van het Bytkha-gebergte nabij Sotsji door buitenaardsen worden gebruikt als een poort tussen werelden. Hij heeft al honderden UFO's vastgelegd. Lokale stammen zagen het gebied honderden jaren als heilig.
De Oebychen meenden dat het Bytkha-gebergte een heilige plaats is. Ze hebben er een heiligdom gebouwd. Mensen voelen er een andere energie, een energie die je elders niet kunt voelen, aldus Vladislav.
Hij hoopt dat Sotsji op een dag niet alleen een olympische stad, maar ook een centrum voor UFO-toerisme wordt.
Une bombe scientifique vient de tomber au Pérou....
Michel Lhomme le 14/02/2014
Avec les Mochicas, nous touchons l'une des cultures péruviennes les plus importantes. Paracas est une péninsule désertique située dans la Province de Pisco dans la région de l'Inca, sur la côte sud du Pérou. On s'y rend pour ses îlots, pour son havre écologique, ses pingouins et les célèbres lignes de Nazca. Mais c'est aussi ici que le grand archéologue péruvien, Julio Tello, avait fait une découverte étonnante en 1928 : un cimetière contenant des tombes remplies des restes de personnes avec des crânes allongés, une des découvertes les plus mystérieuses de la planète. Au total, Tello avait trouvé plus de 300 crânes allongés, censés remonter à environ 3 000 ans. Une analyse ADN vient d'être réalisée sur l'un des crânes retrouvés par Julio Tello. Brien Foerster, expert chargé de cette analyse a publié ses informations préliminaires concernant ces crânes énigmatiques.
Les crânes de Paracas seraient ainsi différents des crânes allongés recensés ailleurs en Amérique latine. Le volume crânien serait jusqu'à 25 % plus grand et plus lourd que les crânes humains classiques, ce qui signifie qu'ils ne pourraient pas avoir été intentionnellement déformés par le biais de liaison/aplatissement de la tête comme on le pratique dans certaines tribus amazoniennes. Ils contiendraient également une seule plaque pariétale, plutôt que deux. Le fait que les caractéristiques de ces crânes ne soient pas le résultat de la déformation crânienne signifie que la cause de l'allongement reste obscure.
M. Juan Navarro, propriétaire et directeur du musée local d'histoire de Paracas, qui abrite une collection de 35 des crânes de Paracas, avait autorisé l'année dernière le prélèvement d'échantillons de cinq de ces crânes. Les échantillons étaient constitués de cheveux, y compris des racines, une dent, des os de crâne et de la peau, et ce processus a été soigneusement enregistré de manière scientifique par des photos et des vidéos. Des échantillons de trois crânes ont ensuite été envoyés à l'analyse, mais le généticien n'avait pas eu connaissance de ce qu'il devait rechercher, pour ne pas favoriser les idées préconçues.
Les résultats de l'analyse de l'ADN de l'un des crânes sont maintenant de retour, et Brien Foerster, auteur de plus de dix ouvrages et expert sur les crânes allongés d'Amérique du Sud, vient de livrer à la communauté scientifique un véritable scoop. La conclusion des analyses effectuées est sans appel : l'ADN mitochondrial de ces crânes présente des mutations inconnues sur n'importe quel homme, primate ou animaux recensés à ce jour. Quelques fragments, séquencés de cet échantillon indiquent que si ces mutations se confirment, nous avons à faire à une nouvelle créature humanoïde, très éloignée de l'Homo sapiens, des Néandertaliens et des hominidés de Denisova.
Les implications d'une telle découverte sont évidemment énormes, le généticien ajoutant « Je ne suis pas sûr qu'il rentre même dans l'arbre évolutionnaire connu ». Il a ajouté que si les individus de Paracas étaient si biologiquement différents, ils n'auraient pas pu se croiser avec les humains. Le résultat de cette analyse ne constitue qu'une première phase d'autres expérimentations qui doivent avoir lieu bientôt et se poursuivre.
A strange phenomena is happening in some Russian forests. People are finding strange, deep holes.
They appear in the dense forest, in the places you can’t get on the car or truck to bring any device to drill the ground. There is no soil nearby that should be taken from such deep hole.
When people are brave enough to venture into the holes, they find that they end abruptly in the darkness. There are no any reasonable ideas on how these holes appear and what they are being used for. No one knows who or what is digging these holes or why.
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Three cheers for Uruguay
