Crop Circle found near Standdaarbuiten, Netherlands on 8th July 2014

New interesting video footage of a recent Crop Circle found near Standdaarbuiten, Netherlands on 8th July 2014.

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UFO sightings over South Padre Island, Texas on 14th July 2014

New interesting video footage of a bright UFO light recorded in the night sky above South Padre Island, Texas on 14th July 2014.

Witness said:
Spotted 2 UFO’s out over the Gulf Of Mexico last night. The sightings lasted for over 20 minutes. The lights just vanished. I have a video of this but can’t seem to upload it here.

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Cone UFO reported hovering over India under cloud cover

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A witness at Puducherry, India, reported watching a “white colored, self-revolving cone” UFO that hovered under the cloud cover less than one mile away, according to July 11, 2014, testimony in Case 896 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.

The object was seen for about two minutes on June 15, 2014, while the witness was waiting for a traffic signal.

“My kid wanted me to see an arrow in the sky,” the witness stated.  “When I looked I found a long cockpit-type, conical flying object just self revolving and passing over a big cloud to another small cloud.”

But the object soon disappeared from sight.

“But when it crossed the second small cloud, it just disappeared. It never returned.”

The witness included one illustration of what the object looked like.

Witness illustration of the object. (Credit: MUFON)

Puducherry consists of four small unconnected districts: Pondicherry, Karaikal and Yanam on the Bay of Bengal and Mahé on the Arabian Sea. Pondicherry and Karaikal have the largest areas and population, both as part of Tamil Nadu.

Map of Pondicherry Region in the Union Territory of Puducherry, India. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

MUFON International is investigating.

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Deconstruction of Billy Meier’s Metal Samples

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The case of Eduard “Billy” Meier is one of the most famous among the UFO enthusiasts. For over 30 years, Meier has claimed to have had direct and continuous contact with extra-terrestrial beings. The case gained substantial credibility among supporters after the work done by Marcel Vogel, an IBM scientist at the time, who analyzed metal samples of alleged extra-terrestrial origin supplied by Meier. While most of the investigations in the Billy Meier case have concentrated on photographic material, not so much has been done on reviewing the scientific part of the famed metal samples.

This article concentrates on the scientific data collected by Vogel from the Meier samples. The results are presented best in the video Beamship: The Metal Analysis, which is part of a 1985 documentary with Jun-Ichi Yaoi from Japan’s Nippon Television. This video is so far the only source to my knowledge that properly displays the data obtained directly from the instruments used by Vogel. Other references, such as “UFO contact from the Pleiades: A preliminary investigation report” by Wendelle C. Stevens, do not show plots of the spectra or scanning electron micrographs and are limited to verbal descriptions of the results and conclusions reached by Vogel [1,2].

The main claims on Meier’s metal samples are the following:

1. Samples contain almost all of the elements of the periodic table.

2. Samples contain the hard to obtain element Thulium with its secondary bands missing in the EDS spectrum.

3. Inclusions in the metal sample exhibit birefringence, which is found in non-metallic or dielectric crystals.

4. Sample examined at a magnification of 500 diameters show signs of micro-manipulation or micro machining.

The claims above have direct data associated to them. Notice that many of the claims that Vogel made are secondary and derive from conclusions he reached from the propositions listed above. The intention of this article is to show that Vogel’s main claims can be scientifically verified based on his own data and that his results can be reproduced out of ordinary materials. The logical argument is that very similar results can be obtained from samples that do not possess the properties that Vogel claims. It is also the intention of this article to propose that, in light of the analysis herein presented, it is no longer necessary to analyze more samples that Meier may supply in the future.

The data from which Vogel claims to have found many elements is a spectrum obtained using Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy (EDS). This spectrum is shown in Fig.1.

Figure 1: Screen-shot of the EDS Spectrum collected by Vogel where he claims that all the elements of the periodic table are present. Spectrum collected at 20KeV acceleration voltage.

As a counter-example, Fig. 2 shows an EDS spectrum taken at 20KeV of ultra-pure nickel.

Figure 2: EDS Spectrum at 20KV of ultra-pure nickel. Spectrum captured by I. Alvarado.

Given the similarities of the two spectra above, it can be deduced that the evidence for all the elements present in the sample can be reproduced by a sample consisting of virtually a single element which, in this case, was a pellet of ultra-pure nickel.

The scientific explanation is that the bell-shaped spectrum shown in both spectra is the so-called Bremsstrahlung continuum x-ray radiation, which is produced when electrons decelerate as they pass close to the atomic nuclei of the material. This phenomenon is very well known in EDS analysis and has no bearing on the element composition of the sample [3].

Fig. 3 shows a screen-shot of Vogel’s EDS spectrum where he identifies Thulium and other elements. Here, it is pointed out that the secondary bands of Thulium are not present, which is further used to speculate that the material was put together by unknown methods (e.g. cold fusion).

Figure 3: Screen-shot of the EDS Spectrum collected by Vogel where the claim is made that the element Thulium is present in the sample. Spectrum collected at 20KeV acceleration voltage.

The spectrum shown in Fig. 4 below was produced with a sample made by manually placing a small flake of Silver on top of Aluminum.

Figure 4: EDS Spectrum at 20KV of a sample consisting of Aluminum and a flake of Silver manually placed on top. The band at 0 KeV is background noise. Spectrum captured by I. Alvarado.

The striking similarity between the two spectra in Figs. 3 and 4 is evident and, thus, what Vogel observed was not the hard-to-obtain Thulium, but rather the very-common element Aluminum with some traces of Silver [4]. The Aluminum and Silver of the sample in Fig. 4 are obviously not bonded or alloyed and yet the sample still produces an EDS spectrum identical to Vogel’s. It then follows that EDS alone cannot determine neither chemical bonding nor alloying between the elements detected. Thus, the claim that the elements found in Meier’s sample are bonded or alloyed cannot be supported by EDS analysis alone. The proposition of the missing bands is then nullified as Aluminum does not possess them.

The scientific explanation of this is that Aluminum has one strong EDS band at 1.486 KeV, which is very close to the lowest energy band produced by Thulium at 1.462 KeV. It is common for a computer analyzing EDS spectra to mistake between elements whose energy bands lie close to each other. This explains why the computer also identified Bromine and Argon in Vogel’s spectrum as they too possess energy bands close to Aluminum and Silver. The presence or absence of secondary bands then becomes important to distinguish between elements. Thus, the spectrum obtained by Vogel is best explained as that produced by a piece of Aluminum with traces of Silver that are not alloyed or chemically bonded.

Vogel claims to have detected dielectric birefringence in inclusions around the edges of the sample by means of optical microscopy with cross-polarized illumination. The sequence of his observation is shown in Fig. 5. Here, Vogel goes on to speculate that the sample exhibits a duality between being a metal and a non-metallic crystal.

Figure 5: Two optical micrographs of the same region of the sample taken by Vogel. Left shows normal illumination and Right cross-polarized illumination. The bright portions on the right are claimed to be produced by crystal birefringence.

Now, it is true that a birefringent crystal will appear bright under cross-polarized illumination, when the crystal is aligned properly in the optical setup [5]. However, such observation can also be produced by samples that have rugged topography. Fig. 6 below shows an optical micrograph of a poorly deposited metal film on silicon as it is imaged under normal illumination conditions and under cross-polarized illumination.

Figure 6: Optical micrograph of a metal film poorly deposited onto the surface of a silicon wafer. Left shows normal illumination and Right cross-polarized illumination. The bright streaks on the right are produced by the topography of the surface. Micrographs captured by I. Alvarado with a 50x optical objective.

Just like in Vogel’s micrograph sequence, bright regions are also clearly observed in Fig. 6 under cross polarized light. The difference is now that they are produced merely by the topography of the metal itself and not by non-metallic crystal birefringence. This shows that the cross-polarization method is insufficient to establish whether dielectric birefringence exists in any given sample. Since the sample analyzed by Vogel has a very clear rough surface, the bright regions he observes under cross-polarized light are best explained by the surface topography and not by the presence of non-metallic crystal inclusions in the sample. Since there is no reason to believe that there are insulating portions embedded in Vogel’s metal sample, then severe charge accumulation during SEM imaging is not expected.

Vogel claims to have found evidence of mechanical manipulation at the micro-scale level, presumably done with lasers. This is based on the SEM picture shown in Fig. 7, where the magnification is specified at 500 diameters.

Figure 7: SEM micrograph taken by Vogel showing indentations at the micro scale. The image was taken at 500 diameters magnification.

Fig. 8 shows a SEM micrograph of the surface of an aluminum plate taken at a magnification of 500 diameters as well. This plate was made by conventional metal machining and its surface shows a very clear periodic pattern with a 50 micron pitch that the cutting edge produced during the process. The structure produced was not intentional and has no functionality. Other portions of the same surface did not show this structure.

Figure 8: SEM micrograph of the surface of an Aluminum plate machined by conventional means at 500 diameters magnification, as indicated in the lower caption bar. SEM captured by I. Alvarado.

Given that patterns like this can be obtained unintentionally by ordinary metal cutting tools, it is not necessary to speculate on possible exotic micro-machining processes to produce them. Indeed, a structure imaged at 500 diameters cannot be considered micro-machined even by 1985 technology, let alone by today’s state-of-art nanofabrication techniques, which routinely produce structures that are imaged at magnifications of 100,000 diameters [6].

To summarize, all the results obtained by Marcel Vogel have been properly reproduced from common samples using equivalent equipment and techniques. The spectrum showing all the elements of the periodic table was produced by a sample that virtually contains only one element, the spectrum showing Thulium and Silver was obtained out of a sample of non-alloyed Aluminum and Silver, the cross-polarization optical micrographs that are used to show non-metallic birefringence in the sample were reproduced by a purely metallic sample. A similar micro-machined structure was found in an ordinary machined metal. In all the cases, the instruments and techniques used were equivalent to those used by Vogel.

Many of the speculations adduced by Vogel become invalid in light of the counter-examples presented in this article. For instance, the missing bands of Thulium led Vogel to speculate on cold fusion, which becomes unsustainable after showing that the spectrum obtained is that of Aluminum. Speculation of duality metal-dielectric in the sample also is not required as no valid evidence of birefringence was presented. And so on with the rest of the claims.

Furthermore, some of the claims did not have data to support them and even other claims are pure anecdotes. For example, Vogel claimed that Rhenium was found in the sample with missing EDS bands also; the spectrum was not shown in either references [1] or [2] and it could have been Zinc, as this element has some EDS bands close to that of Rhenium. I am certainly willing to analyze more EDS spectra or SEM micrographs that Vogel or the lab in Switzerland might have produced on these samples, if they are brought to my attention. What should not be done is to take Vogel’s or any other scientist’s word alone to validate any conclusions.

References:
[1] Beamship: The Metal Analysis. 1985 documentary produced by Nippon Television.
[2] “UFO contact from the Pleiades: A preliminary investigation report” by Wendelle C. Stevens.
[3] Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis by Eric Lifshin, Joseph I. Goldstein and David C. Joy.
[4] For a large collection of EDS spectra, visit www.cannonmicroprobe.com.
[5] Fundamentals of Optics, F.A. Jenkins and H.E. White.
[6] Nature and Science Magazines constantly show SEM micrographs of nanostructured materials.

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[Magonie] Drôle d'images de Google Earth ?

Le secret des Crop Circles - MAGONIE

Depuis plusieurs décennies déjà ils sont un mystère non encore résolu. Jusqu’à ce jour. Car le voile se lève enfin sur les crop circles, ou cercles de culture. L’une des plus grandes énigmes des XXeme et XXIeme siècles. En fait l’un des plus gros canular. Révélations recueillies au sud de l’Angleterre, dans le petit village de Marlborough.        

Il est 10 heures du matin. Le dimanche 25 août 2013. Un jour froid et humide, comme il y en a beaucoup au sud de la Grande Bretagne, même à cette période de l’année. Je suis venu admirer un crop circle. Un cercle de culture en français, apparu deux jours auparavant. Je suis plus attiré par la beauté de la figure dont nous avons déjà presque tous en main une photo aérienne, que véritablement convaincu de sa nature « authentique ». Bref, je suis là en curieux, pour essayer moi aussi de comprendre. Je ne vais pas être déçu.

Nous sommes à Beckhampton, non loin d’Avebury dans le Wiltshire. Les badauds se pressent pour observer de près ce message de la nature ou d’entités supérieures ? Nul ne le sait vraiment. Mais les supputations vont bon train depuis les années 60 où les premiers cercles mystérieux sont apparus dans des champs de blé, de colza ou de cultures diverses. Les tiges de blé ici sont couchées et comme tressées les unes sur les autres. Les bordures de la figure, qu’elles soient courbes ou droites, sont parfaitement tracées. Déjà au sol, l’œil n’est pas perturbé par des ratures ou des approximations. Et cette impression est encore renforcée bien sûr quand on prend de la hauteur pour regarder les figures du ciel.

Un peu à l’écart, un homme d’age mur attire mon attention. Il ne semble pas du tout intéressé par le crop circle mais plutôt excédé par l’attitude béate de certaines personnes qui ont l’air de découvrir la huitième merveille du monde, ou sont en passe d’entrer en transe ! Je m’approche prudemment de lui.

-Impressionnant, n’est-ce pas ?

-Cette foutaise ? (Crap en anglais. Jeu de mot avec crop. Ndla)

-Vous n’y croyez pas ? Demandé-je.

L’homme a un rire nerveux.

-Si vous me demandez si je crois en Dieu, je vais vous dire ceci : Les gens en parlent, il est donc dans la tête et l’imagination des gens. Il n’est donc pas inconcevable d’y « croire », même si Dieu n’est qu’une vue de l’esprit, le fruit de l’imagination de l’homme. Ça, dit-il en tendant la main vers la nouvelle figure apparue dans le champs qui nous fait face, c’est palpable, c’est là, on le voit. La question d’y « croire » ne se pose pas. La question qui se pose est celle de son origine. Et moi, je vous le dis, l’origine des crop circles n’est ni divine, ni extraterrestre, ni encore moins le fruit de quelque entité magique ou impalpable vivant sous la terre. Tout ça c’est des balivernes. Ça va trop loin. Va falloir que ça s’arrête un jour.

Il a dit ces derniers mots comme si il se parlait à lui même. J’hésite un peu :

-Vous… vous savez qui fait ça ?..

Tout à coup il se braque.

-Vous n’êtes pas une de ces saletés de journalistes au moins ? Vous êtes qui vous ? Et qu’est-ce que vous faites là ?

-Je suis Français. Je ne suis pas journaliste, je suis opticien, si ça vous intéresse… Je suis un curieux de passage, tout simplement. Mais j’ai l’impression que vous en savez plus que la plupart d’entre nous ici. Je me trompe ?

C’est à son tour d’hésiter. Après un court instant il répond :

-Y en a marre, vraiment. Si vous voulez tout savoir, retrouvez moi au Royal Oak ce soir, à Marlborough. Soyez-y à 16 h et attendez moi.

Je suis pile à l’heure. Je ne vais pas manquer l’occasion d’en savoir enfin un peu plus sur ce phénomène, même si je suis surtout convaincu que j’ai rendez-vous avec un type rondouillard et plutôt sympathique malgré son côté un peu bougon, qui va me donner une énième explication fantaisiste sur un des mystères les plus controversés de ces dernières années. Je suis loin d’imaginer ce que je vais entendre.

Je patiente plus de deux heures. L’homme m’a dit d’attendre. Je me rends compte que je ne connais même pas son nom. Je commence à me demander s’il va venir quand il entre enfin dans le pub, un peu fébrile, en tenant un énorme dossier sous le bras. Il regarde à droite, puis à gauche, derrière lui aussi et il va avoir cette attitude pendant toute la durée de notre entretien.

-Vous êtes bien assis ? Me demande-t-il tout de go en s’installant. On n’a pas de temps à perdre. Je n’en peux plus de toutes ces conneries.

L’entretien va durer plus de trois heures. Je n’en rapporte ici que les grandes lignes. Voici ce qu’il va me raconter :

-Nous sommes en 1973. J’étudie les mathématiques à Oxford. Et aussi ce qui va devenir une véritable révolution planétaire : l’informatique. Je vous passe les détails mais je suis plutôt doué. J’étudie toute sorte de langages informatiques, Basic, Cobol, Fortran, Simula, APL etc… Retenez bien que nous sommes au début des années 70. IBM va bientôt avoir le succès mondial qu’on lui connaît, puis Microsoft mais l’informatique est encore une science réservée à quelques initiés, comme moi. J’ai 21 ans à l’époque. Un jour, dans le cadre d’un voyage aux Etats Unis, je suis contacté par un ex étudiant en ingénierie et sciences appliquées de Harvard. Je vais l’appeler Clive. Je ne peux pas vous donner sa véritable identité. Il est mort en 2009. Mais je ne veux pas que sa famille ait des problèmes. Clive a travaillé pour la NASA, l’armée et le gouvernement des Etats Unis sur des dossiers très sensibles, tels que la conquête spatiale ou l’armement. Il était spécialisé dans les communications.

-Heu… ok. Et vous, comment vous appelez-vous ?

-Appelez moi John. Et évitez de m’interrompre sinon on va y passer la nuit ! Bref, à l’époque Clive a sept ans de plus que moi et il a été à la tête d’un de ces petits groupes d’étudiants potaches qui font des blagues pour passer le temps et pour sortir la tête de leurs études, nous l’appellerons le groupe Alpha. Fin 1965, alors qu’il est un jeune étudiant, il part en voyage en Australie, dans la ville de Tully, où il a de la famille. Il va passer le jour de l’an là-bas. Il va même prolonger un peu son séjour car il va tomber malade. Une curieuse maladie. Il est fatigué et a de la fièvre mais les médecins ne comprennent pas ce qu’il a jusqu’à ce qu’il se remette de lui même. Le 19 janvier 1966, un propriétaire du coin découvre dans ses marécages une sorte de nid d’oiseau géant formé par des roseaux couchés et dit avoir été témoin de phénomènes étranges comme des boules de feu et la circulation d’engins mécaniques. Le bruit commence à courir qu’il s’agit de soucoupes volantes. Clive vient de commencer ce qui va devenir l’un des plus grands canulars du XXeme siècle.

Pendant des années il s’intéresse de très près aux micro ondes. A l’époque les études portent sur les communications qu’elles permettent. De nos jours, les micro ondes servent à nos téléphones mobiles ou à chauffer nos plats. Clive lui, développe ses recherches autour des bandes de fréquences au dessus des 40 GHZ. Pendant de nombreuses années il va développer de véritables armes grâce à cette technologie en collaboration avec l’armée américaine. Certaines expériences ont eues lieu aux Etats Unis, au Texas et au Nouveau Mexique où du bétail a été retrouvé affreusement mutilé sans qu’aucune explications n’ait pu être apportée. Des vaches ou des chevaux ont été découverts avec un trou béant les traversant de part en part, comme brûlés par un énorme rayon laser. Des cadavres ont été retrouvés avec les os du crâne apparents et complètements vidés de leur substance organique par exemple, sans que le reste du corps ait subit quelque autre dommage. Clive a participé à ces expériences. Mais il va aussi poursuivre un programme très précis en secret, pour lui même, avec sa petite équipe du groupe Alpha. Tous des surdoués. C’est ce groupe qui entre en contact avec moi en 1973. A ce moment je n’ai jamais entendu parlé des crop circles. Clive me présente son projet comme une simple plaisanterie. Nous sommes à l’époque où les témoignages sur les OVNIS abondent dans le monde entier. Clive n’y croit pas. Il est convaincu que les OVNIS relèvent du fantasme des hommes et il décide de s’en amuser. Le groupe Alpha fonctionne comme une mini société secrète mais ses règles sont très strictes. Pour en devenir membre, il faut jurer fidélité à son leader, Clive, et ne jamais parler de ses activités. Aujourd’hui Clive est mort. Et les choses prennent des proportions ridicules. Vous avez peut-être entendu parlé de cette supercherie sur les Ummites. Si non, je vous invite à vous renseigner. Mais nous sommes maintenant dans la même situation que l’inventeur des Ummites, nous ne contrôlons plus rien et à travers le monde de plus en plus de gens pensent que nous sommes contactés par de extraterrestres ou je ne sais quelles créatures divines à travers les crop circles. Certains ont des illuminations, des sectes se forment. Conneries…

Il marque un temps.

-Bref. En 1973 Clive me demande d’élaborer un programme informatique qui gérerait les déplacements d’un petit véhicule qu’il me présente. Un engin radiocommandé à quatre grosses roues pas plus gros qu’un aspirateur de l’époque, affublé d’un drôle de bec de canard. Il s’agissait en fait d’un canon à micro ondes à gamme de longueur d’ondes courtes et ultra courtes. C’est avec cet engin que Clive a tracé les premiers crop circles de 1966 à la fin des années 70, en Australie, au Canada et en Angleterre. En 1978 j’entre en piste. J’ai réussi à programmer le petit véhicule pour qu’il réalise des figures d’abord simples, puis de plus en plus compliquées et ce de façon quasi autonome. Tout ce que nous avions à faire c’était d’amener le robot (car il s’agissait bien de cela) sur une zone à l’écart de toute présence humaine, en toute discrétion donc, et à le laisser faire son « travail ». Le passage successif du robot pour créer la figure finale couche les végétaux sous l’effet de la chaleur dans le sens des micro ondes, ce qui donne cet aspect tressé qui intrigue tant. Le rayon d’action des ondes peut varier de quelques centimètres à moins de deux millimètres.

John a ouvert son énorme dossier à la couverture rouge un peu passée et me tend des photos du fameux robot et de lui avec ses compagnons de l’époque.

-Là, c’est Clive, me dit-il.

L’homme est plutôt petit, il porte une chemise à manche courtes et arbore un sourire radieux, comme quelqu’un qui vient de faire une bonne plaisanterie…

Le dossier contient toutes les coordonnées de tous les lieux sur lesquels ont sévit Clive et son groupe Alpha. Et bien sûr toutes les photos correspondantes. Il y a aussi des pages entières de programmes informatiques.

John continue :

-Ainsi au fil des années des figures de plus en plus élaborées sont apparues, au rythme des progrès informatiques tout simplement. En très peu de temps j’étais capable de tracer un cercle de plusieurs dizaines de mètres de diamètre avec une précision d’un demi centimètre ! Soit même pas la distance entre deux épis de blé. Les batteries du véhicule nous ont souvent posé quelques problèmes, nous obligeant à revenir sur zone parfois pour finir un tracé. Mais là aussi tout s’est amélioré très vite. Le robot a gagné en finesse et en discrétion. Nous en avons aussi utilisé plusieurs en même temps pour certaines figures plus élaborées qui auraient nécessité trop de temps à un seul robot. Chaque fois nous choisissions des lieux symboliques ou chargés d’histoire comme le site de Stonehenge par exemple, afin de renforcer la portée mystérieuse du phénomène. Puis les sceptiques se sont demandés pourquoi les crop circles n’apparaissaient que dans le pays anglo-saxons… alors nous avons voyagé et créé d’autres groupes Alpha à travers de nouveaux pays. Nous avons même fait apparaître des cercles sur la glace ou dans la neige, ce qui est plus facile et plus rapide que dans un champs, contrairement à l’idée reçue. Désormais il est aussi possible que les groupes utilisent des drones, mais je n’en ai pas la certitude. Il semble également que les ultrasons soient employés pour diriger les micro ondes à distance, ainsi qu’on le fait déjà pour diriger des sons. Imaginez : un drone, des ultrasons pour diriger les micro ondes, un peu comme un vidéo projecteur, et vous avez une figure qui apparaît en quelques secondes. En tout cas c’est comme ça que je ferais aujourd’hui.

En ce moment les armées du monde entier, qui ont elles aussi développé des recherches dans le sens de celles de Clive, ainsi que les services secrets, s’intéressent de très près aux crop circles. Ils savent eux, comment ils sont élaborés. Et ce n’est plus qu’une question de temps pour qu’ils comprennent qui est derrière tout ça. Les micro ondes laissent des traces qui sont bien répertoriées du reste par les observateurs. Elles produisent aussi parfois de petits cercles de lumières comparables à des mini aurores boréales ou encore des petits éclairs, des étincelles. Plusieurs observations ont été faites à ce sujet. Comprenez que la technologie utilisée est classée top secret, et a été détournée dans le but de faire croire à ce canular innocent au départ mais que plus personne ne contrôle. Du moins en apparence. Car tout ceci a pris des proportions délirantes. Vous devez vous demander ce que nous en avons tiré, puisque nous sommes restés anonymes toutes ces années. D’abord ça nous a amusé. Puis l’intérêt grandissant, il y a eu des produits dérivés qui sont apparus. Posters, livres d’études, voyages de découvertes, que sais-je encore ? La portée lucrative du phénomène n’est pas à démontrer aujourd’hui hélas ! Des profits considérables sont générés, encore amplifiés par les rumeurs colportées grâce à Internet. Et les gens qui en profitent maintenant n’ont plus rien à voir avec le groupe Alpha d’origine.

Le plus délirant c’est qu’il m’a suffit d’intégrer dans mes dessins des fractales de Mandelbrot par exemple pour que la communauté scientifique se mette à s’intéresser au phénomène. Parfois mes tracés étaient purement géométriques et suivaient mon inspiration du moment. Certains y ont vu une « suite logique » et en ont déduit des équations ou des théorèmes ! Hallucinant ! Je me suis amusé un jour à construire une synthèse de mes derniers dessins, une sorte de mélange en somme. Et des mathématiciens de renom y ont vu la manifestation indiscutable d’une intelligence supérieure. J’en ai été flatté au début mais tout cela me laisse maintenant un goût amer. En vérité n’importe quel étudiant en mathématiques de niveau moyen est capable de tracer ce genre de dessin.

Même la tête d’alien de Winchester du 18 août 2002 accompagné de son fameux disque, n’a pas réussi à mettre la puce à l’oreille des observateurs qui auraient pourtant dû y voir la supercherie qui paraissait évidente ! Sur le disque « gravé » en ASCII dans les blés -et qui m’avait donné du fil à retordre croyez-moi !- nous avions écrit le message suivant :

« Méfiez-vous des porteurs de fausses nouvelles et des promesses non tenues. Beaucoup de souffrances mais il y a encore du temps. Croyez. Il y a du bon là-haut. Nous nous opposons à la tromperie. Fin de la communication ».

(Ndla : traduit par mes soins. Le texte original étant : « Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises. Much pain but still time. Believe. There is good up there. We oppose deception. Conduit closing ». Voir photo d'illustration.)

Tout ça avec une syntaxe approximative qui laissait croire à une origine « non humaine ». Message sibyllin sans grande signification et qui n’apportait en tout cas aucune explication claire ni aucun élément nouveau ou réellement constructif. Accompagné en plus d’une image parfaitement réalisable avec n’importe quel ordinateur du commerce et ne nécessitant nullement de disposer d’une technologie supérieure ! Les observateurs n’y ont pourtant vu que du feu et cela a renforcé la croyance selon laquelle ces « messages » nous étaient envoyés par des extraterrestres. C’était comme si, plus on voulait dévoiler la supercherie et plus les gens croyaient à son authenticité. Pourtant il faut noter une invraisemblance de taille. Il y a d’abord eu des cercles sans signification, puis des formules mathématiques, puis des messages écologiques, des représentations du système solaire, des têtes d’alien et même des masques Mayas ! Aujourd’hui les cercles sont très beaux mais ne veulent plus rien dire. Où est la cohérence dans tout cela ? On attribue les cercles tantôt à Dieu, puis aux extraterrestres, puis à des créatures souterraines ou encore aux Atlantes ! C’est devenu un fouillis sans nom. Croyez-vous vraiment que si des êtres intelligents voulaient entrer en contact avec nous, ils le feraient de façon aussi désordonnée ? Non, en vérité c’est juste le signe que l’idée originale s’est diluée en même temps que le premier groupe Alpha. Et je ne vous parle pas de certaines imprécisions de figures dues à des irrégularités du terrain et que personne ne relève. Je pense en particulier à cette figure de Milk Hill en 2001 composée de 409 cercles. Si vous regardez bien, sur l’une des branches, il y a des petits cercles à l’extérieur trop près les uns des autres, entre les onzième et douzième cercles en partant du centre. De même, certains treizième cercles sont plus petits que les autres. Ces « erreurs » sont toujours passées sous silence et l’on ne met en avant que le côté exceptionnellement précis des figures.

Maintenant je suis fatigué et je désire que cela cesse. C’est pour ça que je vous en parle. Je ne vous connais pas. Je ne sais pas quelles conséquences vont découler de mes révélations. Mais je suis à la fin de ma vie et il n’y a pas encore eu mort d’homme ! Tout cela est devenu ridicule mais n’a nuit à personne. Certes il y a eu des secrets militaires employés à des fins de plaisanterie et si je dois en partager la responsabilité un jour, je suis prêt à le faire. Les personnes qui sont maintenant derrière les crop circles sont plutôt puissantes. Mais je n’en connais plus aujourd’hui aucune moi même ! Le pire serait que la technologie développée par jeu ne tombe entre des mains mal intentionnées. Le monde souffre déjà de trop de misère et d’injustice pour lui infliger une nouvelle croyance imbécile et dénuée de fondement. Il y a de moins en moins de cercles qui apparaissent. Il y en aura moins cette année qu’il n’y en a eu l’année dernière. Peut-être un signe que le phénomène s’essouffle. Pourtant je crains des dérives à venir dans un monde où les gens perdent leurs repères. Je vous demande de colporter cette nouvelle par tous les moyens que vous trouverez. Je viens de faire ma part. Maintenant, faites la vôtre.

J’étais soudain investi d’une mission de la plus haute importance ! Et cet article est la première action que je mène pour la remplir. Je suis resté plusieurs jours dans le petit village de Marlborough. Et malgré de nombreux passages au pub du Royal Oak, je n’ai jamais revu John. Il a bien sûr refusé de me laisser son précieux dossier rouge. Mais il a accepté de prendre mes coordonnées et promit de me venir en aide si cela s’avérait nécessaire…

par Hervé Buschard    

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State archaeologist says ancient Indian paintings depict aliens and UFOs

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An archaeologist for the state department of Chhattisgarh state in India wants to seek help from NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to help him identify what he believes to be depictions of UFOs and aliens in ancient rock paintings that are 10,000 years old.

Ancient Indian rock paintings from the state of Chhattisgarh. (Credit: Amit Bhardwaj/The Times of India)

Archaeologist JR Bhagat told The Times of India, “The findings suggest that humans in prehistoric times may have seen or imagined beings from other planets which still create curiosity among people and researchers. Extensive research is needed for further findings. Chhattisgarh presently doesn’t have any such expert who could give clarity on the subject.”

The Indian state of Chhattisgarh has an abundance of ancient rock paintings, according to their website. Many sites have painting of humans and animals in everyday scenes. However, they believe that some of these paintings may include kangaroos and giraffes, and in several sites they believe there are paintings of mermaids.

According to Bhagat, the UFO and alien paintings bear a striking resemblance to those depicted in movies. However, he says that is most likely just a coincidence. He notes, “The fan-like antenna and three legs of vehicle’s stand clearly show a similarity to UFO type craft.”

Bhagat continues, “The paintings are done in natural colors that have hardly faded despite the years. The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features. Specially, the nose and mouth are missing. In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits.”

A rock painting that looks similar to a UFO with three legs. (Credit: Amit Bhardwaj/The Times of India)

However, Bhagat does concede, “We can’t refute possibility of imagination by prehistoric men.”

Bhagat says there are some locals who worship the paintings, and there are also interesting local legends about the creatures depicted in the images. He says the locals’ ancestors told stories about beings called the “Rohela people,” which translated means “the small sized ones.” These people are said to come from the sky in round flying objects and take people away, never to be seen again.

The research on the rock paintings is ongoing, and Bhagat says more archaeologists will be consulted to help identify the mysterious creatures and objects in the ancient artwork.

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Quantum Computing Breakthrough: Scientists Demonstrate a Photonic Router

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Osnet Daily

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have taken another step forward toward building quantum computers, demonstrating a photonic router for the first time.

Weizmann Institute scientists have demonstrated for the first time a photonic router – a quantum device based on a single atom that enables routing of single photons by single photons. This achievement, as reported in Science magazine, is another step toward overcoming the difficulties in building quantum computers.

At the core of the device is an atom that can switch between two states. The state is set just by sending a single particle of light – or photon – from the right or the left via an optical fiber. The atom, in response, then reflects or transmits the next incoming photon, accordingly. For example, in one state, a photon coming from the right continues on its path to the left, whereas a photon coming from the left is reflected backwards, causing the atomic state to flip. In this reversed state, the atom lets photons coming from the left continue in the same direction, while any photon coming from the right is reflected backwards, flipping the atomic state back again. This atom-based switch is solely operated by single photons – no additional external fields are required.

“In a sense, the device acts as the photonic equivalent to electronic transistors, which switch electric currents in response to other electric currents,” says Dr. Barak Dayan, head of the Weizmann Institute’s Quantum Optics group, including Itay Shomroni, Serge Rosenblum, Yulia Lovsky, Orel Bechler and Gabriel Guendleman of the Chemical Physics Department in the Faculty of Chemistry. The photons are not only the units comprising the flow of information, but also the ones that control the device.

This achievement was made possible by the combination of two state-of-the-art technologies. One is the laser cooling and trapping of atoms. The other is the fabrication of chip-based, ultra-high quality miniature optical resonators that couple directly to the optical fibers. Dayan’s lab at the Weizmann Institute is one of a handful worldwide that has mastered both these technologies.

The main motivation behind the effort to develop quantum computers is the quantum phenomenon of superposition, in which particles can exist in many states at once, potentially being able to process huge amounts of data in parallel. Yet superposition can only last as long as nothing observes or measures the system otherwise it collapses to a single state. Therefore, photons are the most promising candidates for communication between quantum systems as they do not interact with each other at all, and interact very weakly with other particles.

Dayan: “The road to building quantum computers is still very long, but the device we constructed demonstrates a simple and robust system, which should be applicable to any future architecture of such computers. In the current demonstration a single atom functions as a transistor – or a two-way switch – for photons, but in our future experiments, we hope to expand the kinds of devices that work solely on photons, for example new kinds of quantum memory or logic gates.”

Daily 2 Cents: Nanteos Cup, Possible Holy Grail, Stolen — Stop! Stop! Stop! — Massive Four-Winged Raptor Fossil Found

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Nanteos Cup, Possible Holy Grail, Stolen

The now missing Nanteos Cup was rumoured to have been carried over to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea after the crucifixion of Christ

A major police hunt is underway after burglars raided a Midland home and stole a priceless religious artefact – said to be the mythical Holy Grail.

The Nanteos Cup, an ancient wooden chalice, was rumoured to have been carried over to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea, years after the crucifixion of Christ.

The revered Catholic figure later founded a religious settlement at Glastonbury and legend has it that the “grail” then came into the safekeeping of monks.

Over the centuries the mysterious wooden bowl was said to have magical healing powers and in later years it came into the ownership of the Steadman family, who kept it in a bank vault in Wales.

But the Mail has discovered the cup has now been stolen by burglars after being temporarily loaned to a seriously ill woman connected to the Steadman family.

Raiders struck after she had been admitted to hospital and stole the cup – sparking a major police investigation by West Mercia Police.

It is understood burglars struck at the property in Weston under Penyard, near Ross-on-Wye, between last Monday and yesterday.

A West Mercia Police spokesman said: “The home was broken into between 9.30am on Monday 7 July and 9.30am on Monday 14 July.

“A wooden cup/chalice, known as the Nanteos cup, has been reported as stolen from the hope. It is dark wood cup and was kept in a blue velvet bag.”

The cup was previously included in a Channel Five documentary called Search for the Holy Grail. In the programme, experts claimed it was actually made at least 1,400 years after the crucifixion.

But the cup has a long held reputation for healing, with people drinking from it in the hope of curing their illnesses.

The Holy Grail has been a issue of controversy and debate amongst historians and theologians – with some religious figures claiming the grail is actually the Holy Chalice, used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper.

The search for the mythical religious artefact was the plot for one of the 1980s’ biggest blockbusters, Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. – Birminghammail

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Stop! Stop! Stop!

Baton Rouge, LA – At home in December of 1993 with my very pregnant, almost due (now ex) wife. She was in bed reading and I was finishing up a radio show about to join her in bed. As I got up there was suddenly light everywhere and I was forced to the floor. I could hear her screaming in the next room but could not get up to get to her. The next moment I was in what seemed like a cavern made of rock with a river or something running through the middle. On the other side was one very large “blob” of energy surrounded by several smaller “energy blobs”. As I was thinking of what to ask, the larger one “spoke” (not audibly) and simply said, “You’re going back. It’s not your time yet.”

Immediately I was back on the living room floor hearing my wife screaming “Stop! Stop! Stop!” over and over. Although I was young and strong, it felt like I had several hundred pounds on my back and it took me a long while to push myself up off the floor. There was light everywhere and the radio was making strange noises. (Note – As I write this I’m getting goose bumps and feeling sick.)

I finally made it into the bedroom and ran to my wife who was still screaming and holding her forehead. The light was dissipating and I could hear the radio begin to sound normal again.

I asked my wife what happened and she just kept repeating, “They wouldn’t stop poking me in the head.” She used her index finger to demonstrate it was in between and slightly upward of her eyebrows.

We both had trouble sleeping that night but oddly never spoke of it again.

Additional comments of importance:

1. The entire time we lived there during her pregnancy small items of silver jewelry would come up missing every so often. She initially thought it was me hawking it off for pot money, but I wasn’t and I knew it. Every time something would come up missing there would also be a small, perfectly formed, conical deposit of something like soot in the bathroom on the floor. There was no vent, or pipe, or any other source for the soot. Shortly after our experience my wife went in for delivery and the next day I went home briefly to gather supplies for the hospital stay. There, on the floor was a spot of soot. I opened the cabinet to get towels and on the shelf, arranged in an intricate pattern, was every piece of silver jewelry that had ever been missing.

2. This encounter was not the first nor the last in my life. Simply the most profound as well the only one witnessed by another. Since my earliest childhood memories, I have been visited and communicated with by beings I used to think were angels. (Having grown up in a strict Catholic family and all…) The most recent time was in Seattle a few years back right in the middle of the day. Was watching t.v. in the main area of a shared apartment around noon. My roommate was not home at the time. My next conscious moment I was paralyzed in a bed in a large circular room with an observation window above me and what appeared to be an Asian woman watching me through the glass. There was someone else being moved in another bed behind me and as they passed they screamed out for help, but I remained oddly indifferent and just stayed focused on the woman watching me. Then I was back in my own bed with two “energy blobs” next to me vibrating as they seemed to dissipate leaving me barely able to move for several minutes. And after that experience, something else new occurred which was…

3. I now have two mysterious marks on my body that are triangular in shape and appear to be light surgical scars. The first appeared immediately following the Seattle event, the second appeared more recently after my current (soon-to-be-ex) wife and two kids moved to Nevada, however I have no recollection of an abduction event preceding it.

4. I rarely sleep more than a couple of hours at a time and my body is literally disintegrating. Although I am a well educated Mensan, and neither mentally ill nor addicted to drugs, I cannot seem to get my life together or form normal relationships with anyone. My life is slowly ending and I need to know why. – MUFON CMS

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Evicted Funeral Home Leaves Bodies Behind

Police who found at least seven corpses in a building in Fort Worth, Texas, yesterday quickly determined there was no serial killer at work—but there were funeral directors who had apparently moved out with work unfinished. Police say the building’s owner evicted the Johnson Family Mortuary two weeks ago and he discovered the bodies when he went to check on the building, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. The unattended bodies ranged in age from infants to adults and police say they were in “varying stages of decomposition, some quite advanced.”

The twin brothers who ran the business could face charges of abuse of a corpse, but they insist it is all a misunderstanding. “We’ve done nothing wrong,” one of the brothers tells the Dallas Morning News. “This is a funeral home. This is where we keep bodies.” The electricity and air conditioning in the building were still on, but it did not have a refrigeration system. A spokesman for the Texas Funeral Service Commission says the mortuary’s license expires this month, and the business already is the focus of five separate investigations. – Newser

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Fossil of Massive Four-Winged Raptor Found in China

The fossil of a newly discovered dinosaur has been found in China. At nine pounds and four feet long, the four-winged carnivore is believed to have been three times heavier and 60 percent longer than the second biggest four-winged dinosaur.

It also had some stellar plumage and some killer teeth. According to Dr. Luis Chiappe:

The new species had long feathers not just on its wings but also on its hind legs, making it one of only a handful of “four-winged” dinosaurs. It also had big, sharp teeth and sharp claws, indicating it was carnivorous. Its exact diet is unknown, but fossils of similar dinosaurs have been found with fish and birds in their guts.”

What on earth would you name such a thing? Apparently, the answer is Changyuraptor yangi.

The first part of its name means “long-feather raptor,” and the second part honors a Chinese financial supporter.

Stony Brook’s Dr. Alan Turner believes we can divine some important things about the evolution of flight from the discovery, including a breed of bird that was more a glider than a flyer:

“The long bony tail of Changyuraptor and the foot long feathers it sported are unlike the short tails in modern birds. So how it functioned aerodynamically would have been quite different from living birds. However, this is exactly the sort of tail we see in the earliest birds and their immediate precursors, which means avian flight evolved in animals with long tails. Changyuraptor provides an excellent opportunity to investigate just what this tail might have been good for.” – TheWire

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MUFON Finds Billy Meier UFO “Cold Case” Suddenly Very Hot – and Very Real

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(NOTE: This is the new press release issued today.)

MUFON joins investigation as new “DNA” testing of 1980 photographs yields surprising results – Billy Meier UFO case proved authentic

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., July 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — In 1980, Billy Meier, the Swiss UFO contactee, took 63, clear 35mm film photographs and a five-minute video of an object dubbed the Wedding Cake UFO, or WCUFO. Skeptics immediately pounced on the photos claiming they showed a model made from a garbage can lid and Christmas tree ornaments. With MUFON, the international UFO investigating organization, lacking the technology to determine the authenticity of his UFO photos, and Meier himself not saying anything in his own defense, the matter was perceived as a hoax and became just another UFO “cold case”.

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source The Fly Productions

Enter “CSI”

Fast forward to today where – just like in an episode of CSI – independent researcher Prof. Rhal Zahi revives the Meier cold case by taking a took a close look at the “DNA” in the WCUFO photos using PhotoShop, professional 3-D computer modeling software and actual scale models. His 74-page report, including his reproducible protocols, conclusively authenticate the photos as large, unknown objects and rules out small models or special effects.

Prof. Zahi then discovered never before seen details in a nighttime WCUFO photo that have been hidden in not so plain sight – for 34 years – revealing that the craft is hovering over a gravel road and that Meier somehow actually took the photo from…above the object.

MUFON Takes Another Look

Armed with Prof. Zahi’s authentication of the WCUFO, Meier’s American representative, Michael Horn, contacted Jan Harzan, the Executive Director of MUFON, who’s known about the Meier case for 25 years and struggled with it being simply “too good”. Harzen and Horn formed a precedent setting alliance and, for the first time in 34 years, MUFON opened the Meier case to its 3,000 members worldwide.

Staggering Implications

According to Horn, “Prof. Zahi’s work vindicates Meier of charges that he hoaxed his evidence. It also makes the SETI program unnecessary because it conclusively shows that the UFOs photographed and filmed by Billy Meier are extraterrestrial in origin. With Meier’s well documented contacts with the Plejaren extraterrestrials still ongoing for over 72 years - and so rich in scientific information - the implications are truly staggering.

“Now along with NASA aerospace engineers recognizing its significance, modern technology makes it easy enough for an eight year-old child with a computer to prove the most important discovery in all of science and human history for themselves. We are not alone, we’ve been contacted and now it’s up to us to see if we can actually recognize – and handle – the truth.”

See the new, award-winning film on the Billy Meier UFO contacts, “And Did They Listen?“

An update on the remarkable, historical developments in the Billy Meier case may be announced at the upcoming MUFON Symposium, July 17 – 20, in Pennsylvania.

Media Contact: Michael Horn, They Fly Productions, 310.876.8585, pr@theyfly.com

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MUFON Finds Billy Meier UFO “Cold Case” Suddenly Very Hot – and Very Real originally appeared on They Fly Blog on July 16, 2014.

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Massive Crop Circle Coolest EVER up on the Top Ten List

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This interesting formation was found in Tetbury Lane, near Charlton, Wiltshire, UK on 8th July 2014.

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NASA scientists agree that aliens are out there

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NASA held a panel discussion on Monday, July 14 in which scientists discussed extraterrestrial life.

The televised discussion took place at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, and featured leading science and engineering experts who discussed the search for life beyond Earth. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden initiated the event by mentioning how he and fellow former astronaut John Grunsfeld are often asked if they have seen, or if they believe in life beyond Earth. Bolden comments, “I can’t speak for John . . . but, while I may not have actually encountered extraterrestrials . . . and I did not, as a matter of fact. Although I looked all the time. I have always been inquisitive. So I was looking really hard.”

NASA’s July 14 panel discussion. (Credit: NASA)

He continues, “I would venture to say, however, that most of my colleagues here today, as well as probably most of you in the audience, are probably convinced that it’s highly improbable that in the limitless vastness of the universe that we humans stand alone.”

The panel included:

• John Grunsfeld, NASA’s associate administrator
• Ellen Stofan, NASA’s chief scientist
• John Mather, senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope
• Dave Gallagher, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory director of astronomy and physics
• Matt Mountain, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute
• Sara Seager, planetary scientist at MIT

These experts discussed the search for Earth-like planets, life on these planets, and the tools scientists are using in that search. Astrobiology Magazine explains, “Space missions, specialized telescopes, and unprecedented technological advances are underway at NASA to find signs of life, and eventually, extraterrestrials themselves.” Of course, the anticipated 2018 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope was discussed. This incredible instrument will use infrared light to better detect exoplanets, and will help scientists explore the atomspheres of alien planets to see which of these worlds have the right chemical fingerprint to suggest they are home to extraterrestrial life.

Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. (Credit: NASA)

Still, detecting new planets is a difficult task. The brightness of stars is an obstacle in the search for exoplanets. As Astrobiology Magazine explains, “Earth, for example, is 10 billion times fainter than the Sun. The reflection of light waves given off into space from the surface of the planet is so minuscule in comparison to our star’s brilliance, that it is barely detectable.” Seager explained that a potential solution to this issue called a Starshade is in development. This device, shaped like huge sunflower, would manipulate light from distant stars away from planets so only the planet would be visible to the space telescope.

A Starshade with a simple telescope could help scientists on the ground hunt for another Earth. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech)

As she has stated several times previously, Seager commented, “We believe we are very close in terms of science and technology to finding another Earth, and signs of life on another world.” NASA astronomer Keven Hand agreed, stating, “I think in the next 20 years we will find out we are not alone in the universe.”

The Los Angeles Times points out that a question posed to the panel via social media asked, “If scientists do find life on another planet, will the U.S. government let people know?” Stofan responded, “Of course we would! . . . That would be so amazingly exciting. We would try to get it out to the public as fast as we can. We want everyone to share in the excitement of discovery.”

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Daily UFO Headlines 7/16/14

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• Strange sighting in the sky – Loughborough Echo
• 10,000-year-old rock paintings depicting aliens and UFOs – Times of India
• Clarity Resources, Inc Enters Film Industry with Giant Rock The Movie – DigitalJournal.com
• Are aliens responsible for Wilmington crop circle? – Sussex Express
• More Puzzling Radio Bursts From Deep Space – Epoch Times

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10,000 Year Old Rock Paintings Depicting Aliens And UFOs Found In India

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10,000 Year Old Rock Paintings Depicting Aliens And UFOs Found In Chhattisgarh, India

 

Chhattisgarh state department of archaeology and culture plans to seek help from ISRO for research on 10,000-year-old rock paintings depicting aliens and UFOs in Charama region in Kanker district in tribal Bastar region.

 

Located about 130km from Raipur, the caves come under village Chandeli and Gotitola.

 

 

 There are several beliefs among locals in these villages. While few worship the paintings, others narrate stories they have heard from ancestors about “rohela people” — the small sized ones — who used to land from sky in a round shaped flying object and take away one or two persons of village who never returned.

According to archaeologist JR Bhagat, these paintings have depicted aliens like those shown in Hollywood and Bollywood flicks. Located about 130km from Raipur, the caves come under village Chandeli and Gotitola. 

 

 

 

“The paintings are done in natural colours that have hardly faded despite the years. The strangely carved figures are seen holding weapon-like objects and do not have clear features. Specially, the nose and mouth are missing. In few pictures, they are even shown wearing space suits.

 

 

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Massive Sinkhole Appears In Madison, Florida  (Video)

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(N.Morgan) Donald Williams left his home at 1:45 PM in the afternoon to visit family last Friday, he says by 2:20 PM the sinkhole appeared that quickly. He received the call that a sinkhole had opened across the street from his house. He figured it would be pretty minor, but came home to see his entire road was blocked off and the sinkhole was quite large. “I never thought that I’d be worried about a sinkhole. Lo and behold, I come home and I was like, ‘Whoa.’” The sinkhole is located on Celosia Way off of Country Kitchen Road in Madison, Florida. Madison is a small town about an hour east of Tallahassee. Geologists are now studying the hole as it continues to grow bigger. Celosia Way around Williams’ home is shut down, but he’s able to get in and out. Even though the large hole is directly across the street, he says he has no plans on leaving his home, unless the cracks get closer.

Now the road department in Madison is calling on geologists to help. Last year, the Florida Geological Survey received a $1 million grant to study sinkholes. They finished the first phase of their study, which started in north Florida. “We visited and confirmed a little over 200 sinkholes in the pilot study area,” said Alan Baker with the Florida Geological Survey

In .the pilot study, they learned that drought and heavy rainfall can cause cover collapse sinkholes to form. They develop fast and can be catastrophic. “We will go statewide and we’ll make sure that they cover every county, find sinkholes and find things that look like sinkholes that aren’t sinkholes,” Baker said. The geological survey take the information from their study and hand it over to emergency officials in each county. But, you can also have your area checked for sinkhole activity just in case.

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Russia's Mysteries: Ancient Civilizations, Cryptids, and Advanced Technology!

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Akraim:  There are perhaps 5000 stone circles around the world. One has to wonder about prehistoric man traveling the world to build stone monuments and yet they are obviously shared knowledge. How was this possible? My proposal is the ancient ones - the giants- the "Originators" as I like to call them.

When we ask, "how could ancient man do this?" we need to answer that with a definitive, "because homo sapiens did not have this technology, it was not ours."

"Akraim" find (above) is in the Southern Urals of Russia. It was built 4000 to 5000 years, around the same time as Stonehenge. 

Source:  It may seem obvious to some, but the fact that these sites were apparently constructed, deliberately, to act as astronomical observatories and even calendars of a sort, before the same expertise was achieved in the great foundational empires of antiquity, like the Egyptians and the Greeks, is seemingly strong evidence for attributing greater development and sophistication to these pre-historic cultures.

Manpupunar:  7 enormous pillars of supposed natural formation in the Ural Mountains. 

The 7 pillars of Manpupunor in the same region - Ural Mountains, are considered one of the 7 wonders of Russia.

The Manpupunor pillars are believed to be a natural formation of nature like these other ones in Russia - above.They are said to be formed by ice and wind.

 

 Dashka Stone:  Source - A stone slab measuring 1.5 meters by one meter and over 20 cm in thickness was brought to scientists at Bashkir state university, headed by the rector, Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexander Nikolayevich Chuvyrov.

• The first layer of 18 centimeters is cement or ceramic on the basis of dolomite.
• The second layer of about an inch - enriched with silicon, to give a picture strength. Microhardness of slightly less than that of corundum.
• Third porcelain layer several millimeters. Perhaps, in order to create diffused light, to illuminate the card.

 Gear dating 300,000,000 years? In Southern Siberia in the Khakasis region, a truly shocking find was made. In a coal mine, a gear shift was found inside some coal, suggesting the gear is as old as the coal that formed. It was found to be made of 98% aluminum and 2% magnesium, implicating that the object was artificially made. 

Tunguska:  In the Siberia region in 1908, an explosion that was felt 40 miles out from ground zero.  In the end, it was estimated 800 square miles of forest were obliterate by what is believed to be a space rock detonating in the sky above the forest, therefore no impact crater was found

Almas (singular)/Almases/Almasty (plural):  The Russian version of the Sasquatch is reported most often in the southern portion of Mongolia.  They are not reported as tall as our Sasquatch, measuring in around five and six and a half feet tall. They are reported by witnesses a being covered in reddish brown hair and living in a feral state in the forests.  Their reported pronounced brow ridges have been compared with Neanderthals. 

Angry ancient figurine:  A fisherman hauled in this 12-inch tall figurine dating 4000 years old. It was fossilized and believed to have been a figure of a pagan god found in a region known for ancient finds. 

 Genrikh Ludvig:  In the 1930s, this Russian inventor and designer of military technology, was perhaps the most enlightened man of his entire generation, perhaps even ours. He spoke 20 languages fluently, including ancient ones. He told his students of the Vatican's knowledge of extraterrestrials, told of an ancient fiery pillar that killed off the ancient civilization, that the pyramids were energy machines, and was fascinated with the Sumerians and the Etruscan civilization. He died in 1973, and hopefully many of his notes will be reviewed and released. 

Siberian Ice Maiden "Altay Princess":   From 5th century BC, this mummified lady was found in a subterranean burial chamber.  This tomb was on the border of China.  She was buried with food and with her horses, facing east. Her skin still showed tattoos of deer shapes. She was buried in a beautiful gown and leggings and a 3-foot tall headdress, a fur, a mirror, and deer figurines.  Interestingly, DNA testing proved her to not be of Asian descent as the Altai's in the area. For now, they are just calling her Samoyed, of Russian indigenous descent, but still no one has said if her DNA matches that potential lineage.


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Arkaim 
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300,000,000 gear in coal 
Tunguska
Almas
Angry Figurine
Giant stone megalith
Genrikh Ludvig
Siberian Ice Maiden

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'Extraterrestrials Exist' Says Ex-KGB Agent Yeremenko

Soviet X Files And Alien Assignments Revealed

UFO-Cow Abduction NEW video evidence

When we first hear about alien abductions, it is easy to dismiss the entire idea as crazy or unprovable nonsense. However, after doing a little research into the matter, you will find that there is actually a lot of evidence that supports their occurrence. Since the late 1950s, there have literally been millions of claims from people worldwide of being taken by extraterrestrial beings, often onboard a craft and into some kind of operating room where various invasive medical procedures are carried out. Some key similarities found in the majority of abduction claims include: hours of missing time, gaps in memory, mysterious injuries/scars/implants, disorientation, reproductive issues, and other post-traumatic stress symptoms. On the other hand, there have been many reported cases of friendly contact encounters, but these cases do not usually include a forceful experience where they are taken against their will.

The goal of this article is to present you with powerful video evidence and testimony from authoritative researchers and those with firsthand experiences so you can be better informed about this important subject. This article was not created to promote fear — but rather to give an examination of the abduction experience as reported by many people. While there have been friendly and joyful contact experiences with extraterrestrials, some of these encounters have not been so pleasant. I feel it is important that we are informed about all possibilities since this is such an important issue that we still have a lot to learn about.

Abductions are said to take place involving men, women, and children regardless of age, culture, or religious backgrounds. Whether in a car, bedroom or backyard, alien abductions have been reported as both isolated and repeated incidents, where people actually go missing for hours at a time and return without conscious memory of what happened. This is a very disturbing phenomenon that receives little attention because of the ridicule and stigma surrounding it. However, the implications for these types of activities taking place are very serious and should not be so casually discarded. If this is really happening, it’s is something we need to look at objectively to understand what is really going on and why.

To begin, let us watch this short video that shows a cow being lifted in the sky into a mysterious “cloud” that quickly disappears. The footage was supposedly shot in 1983 by a farmer in Argentina and provides a rare glimpse as to what an abduction may actually look like. It is claimed that the cow was found the next day back in the pasture, dead and drained of all its blood. Notice that the “cloud” looks strangely like a disc-shaped UFO that seems to be masking itself. Some have claimed that the video is not authentic, but either way, it is very interesting footage that I think is worth your time.

UFO Occupant Waves to Wiltshire Woman in Early UK Close Encounter Case

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UFO Occupant Waves to Wiltshire Woman in Early UK Close Encounter Case

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• “On a summer’s afternoon, in either 1948 or 1949, my mother, Brenda, was walking with our dog and myself in the area we called simply ‘The Field’ at the back of our housing estate… in what was then the outskirts of Chippenham in Wiltshire [England]. Whilst there, she saw an unusual, occupied aircraft…

So began a handwritten letter addressed to the author; tidy and succinct, it documented a mother and daughter’s close encounter with a peculiar flying object, piloted by apparently non-human beings. Many years later, the daughter, Karen – a mere toddler at the time of the incident – solicited from her mother, Brenda, a detailed description of what they had both witnessed that day, making a written record of her response.

Brenda had no trouble in recalling the details:

• “We were walking through ‘The Field’ when this aircraft came out of nowhere and stopped nearby. There were two beings inside, sat facing one another. The aircraft was like a boat with a see-though cover. The two beings inside were neat and compact; they were dressed in grey and had helmets with a sort of crest on top. They were looking towards us, then one of them raised a hand as if he were waving. Then the aircraft just went.”

Through further conversation with her mother, Karen was able to establish that: “there was no accompanying sound or scent with the aircraft; that it was in view for no more than three minutes; it was about nine feet long, and stopped approximately fifteen yards away at bungalow-roof height; there were no trains on the track nearby at the time; and that the area was otherwise deserted.” Their dog, incidentally, “was interested in the aircraft, but was not alarmed.”

Regarding her nondescript recounting of the object’s departure, beyond stating that “it just went,” Brenda had difficulty expressing the character of its movement: “She said that it didn’t exactly vanish instantly, it just ‘went’ very rapidly,” Karen related.

After examining the details of this previously undocumented report, I was keen to establish the accuracy of its content, and to gauge the sincerity of its writer. Speaking with her by telephone, I found Karen to be charming and genuine – an intelligent and well-spoken woman whose bewilderment at the event described was evident nearly sixty years on. What, then, to make of her story?

It was obvious that Karen had no prior interest in UFOs, and no ufological knowledge of which to speak, and at no time had she or her mother sought to publicise their experience. Indeed, the witnesses’ names as written here – ‘Brenda’ and ‘Karen’ – are pseudonyms, a reflection of Karen’s continuing desire for anonymity (their real names and backgrounds are known to me). The event, as recalled by Brenda, was described in considerable detail; the shape and dimensions of the object, as well as its aerial position in relation to the witnesses all were clearly recalled, so too the basic physical appearance of its occupants (including their attire). Incidental information such as nearby rail traffic (or lack thereof), and the reactions of their dog, was similarly noted.

During our telephone conversation, Karen told me that her mother had always been a ‘no nonsense’ sort of lady, and had been reluctant to speculate about the precise nature of the ‘aircraft,’ or about the possible origin of its occupants. Sadly, Brenda passed away a few years ago, but despite her apparent nonchalance at what she and her daughter had witnessed, she had always acknowledged the high-strangeness of the event: “She said that she realised that what she was seeing was ‘something very different,’” Karen wrote in her letter, “but that she wasn’t alarmed or afraid. She felt the beings were friendly.”

Unbeknownst to her, what Karen had reported was a typical close encounter of the third kind(CE3 – which refers to any sighting of a UFO at close quarters (within 500 feet of the witness/s), during which accompanying occupants are also observed. Though many thousands of such encounters have been reported over the decades, Karen’s has considerable ufological significance in that it stands as one of the earliest CE3s on record in the modern (post-1947) UFO era, not only in the United Kingdom, but anywhere in the world.

Giant Hole Opens Up In Russian Village Whose Name Means ‘End Of The World’ (Video)

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Enormous crater appears suddenly in part of Russia whose name translates as ‘the end of the world’

“And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.” Revelation 9:1,2

To put it mildly, scientists around the world are baffled and flocking to a remote region in Russia to investigate why an enormous hole hundreds of feet deep has suddenly appeared in the Yamal Peninsula region of northern Russia by Siberia. To further cause excitement, the name ‘Yamal’ translates out top mean “the end of the world”.

The crater has appeared in Yamal – a part of Siberia whose name translates as ‘the end of the world’

An urgent expedition will leaves tomorrow to probe a giant crater that has appeared in gas-rich northern Siberia. Extraordinary aerial images show a mysterious hole which experts say may be up to 262 feet wide, in the Yamal Peninsula of northern Russia.

• ‘A scientific team has been sent to investigate the hole and is due to arrive at the scene on Wednesday,’ The Siberian Times has reported. The cause of the hole’s sudden appearance in Yamal – which translates as ‘the end of the world’ – in the far north of Siberia is not yet known.

There has been web speculation about the crater indicating ‘the arrival of a UFO craft’. Experts say that the darkening around the inner rim of the crater indicates ‘severe burning’ which scorched its edges.

Source: http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=23423

ACRE-SIZED UFO BAFFLES THREE JOPLIN WITNESSES

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Multi-colored UFOs photographed in Austria

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Dozens of people witnessed a fleet of multi-colored UFOs in Austria this week, and one couple snapped a picture before the fast moving objects disappeared.

According to the Austrian Times, the UFOs were spotted over the Aichfeld basin near the town of Knittelfeld in the southern Austrian state of Styria. Witnesses reported there to be 50 to 100 objects flying in formation at a very high rate of speed.

The town of Knittelfeld in the southern Austrian state of Styria. (Credit: David Bauer/Wikimedia Commons)

Among the witnesses were Juergan Trieb and his girlfriend Waltraud Kaliba, who were able to take a picture before the objects sped off.

Image of the UFOs seen in Knittelfeld, Austria. (Credit: Juergan Trieb and Waltraud Kaliba/Austrian Times)

Kaliba told the Austrian Times, “At first we thought it might be some kind of natural phenomenon, but when we realize they were flying in formation and travelling around 400 mph it was clear that it could not be dismissed as something natural. The strange thing was that despite the bright lights there was no noise at all from the objects.”

Local media contacted Austrian air traffic controllers who said they were aware of the reports, but declined to comment on what they thought the witnesses might have seen. However, they did say they currently have no reason to believe the sightings were a hoax.

The Austrian Times notes the Aichfeld basin is a hot spot for UFO activity and “mysterious atmospheric phenomena,” but neither scientists nor UFO researchers know why.

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Encounter With An Alien That Looked Just Like Stephen Spielberg’s ET Phone Home

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In 1982 a 67 year old woman saw a picture of “ET”, Steven Spielberg’s cute alien creation. It made her think of an experience she had as a 15 year old girl, near the estuary at Mandurah, Western Australia. She supplied a report to the Perth UFO Research Group which stated:

•  “(In 1930 I was) sitting reading with my parents in a humpy, on a block in Mandurah, in Greary Rd, by the light of a hurricane lamp, with the door partly open. The time (was…) about 8 pm as we went to bed early. “A little pink creature walked in. (It was) about 24 inches in height (with) large ears, big bulbous eyes, covered with a film, small hands, large feet, slit of a mouth, no hair, and shiny as if wet or oily. “We were terrified and my father went white and being a religious man said it was the work of the devil. “Picking up a prawning net, he picked it up in it and it made a noise like ‘EE…EE’ and my father put it outside. We never saw it again and went to bed feeling very scared. This was in 1930 and I never thought any more about it until I saw a picture of ‘ET,’ although only its eyes were the same. … It did not have a round body, more straight down like a child’s body. I cannot remember seeing any sex organs… It’s shape was like an elf.

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Margie Kay – Missouri UFO and Paranormal Investigations – July 15, 2014

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Open Minds UFO Radio: Margie Kay is a paranormal and UFO investigator, author, and national speaker. Margie is the assistant state director of Missouri MUFON, where they have been experiencing an increase in UFO sightings for the past few years. She will speak to us about some of her recent cases and where the sightings seem to be concentrated. She will also talk to us about a remarkable sighting report from 1969 they recently received, and her ideas about the links between UFO sightings and other paranormal phenomena.

You can find out more about Margie at www.MargieKay.com.

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Dozens report UFO crossing Texas skies

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The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) formed a STAR Team Investigation after more than 25 UFO reports from Texas over the weekend appeared to be describing the same object, according to STAR Team Manager Fletcher Gray.

“We organized to cover all of the cases as a single investigation,” Gray said. “MUFON is looking at all possibilities including a meteor. All we know for certain is that the object was visible for roughly 10 seconds on the night of July 12, 2014, and at about 9:10 p.m. plus/minus five minutes. The object moved from east to west at a high rate of speed, was initially seen as a single, very bright light that split into two lights, and no noise was heard. Over 25 reports have come in from almost all areas of Texas as well as Louisiana.”

Director of Research Robert Powell was investigating the meteor theory.

“This appears to have been a large meteor than entered the atmosphere somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana and then burned out just south of the Dallas-Forth Worth area as it broke into two pieces,” Powell said. “A MUFON witness in Burleson and one in Mansfield described it as going directly overhead so they should have been closest to the meteor.”

Powell referenced a meteor tracking web site.

“Here is a link to 50-plus reports to a meteor site that shows locations and directions of the witnesses. This matches very well with the 20+ reports that we’ve received.”

A map of Texas showing where the sighting reports were coming from based on MUFON reports. (Credit: Cassidy Nicholas)

MUFON Associate Producer Cassidy Nicholas produced a list of the 29 MUFON cases filed by July 14, 2014. The MUFON investigation continues.

8:30-9 p.m., Case 57951, Round Rock, Williamson Co.
Two bright lights, sudden disappearance.

8:45 p.m., Case 58011, Cypress, Harris Co.
Bluish white ball, super speed, traveling west, split in two.

8:50 p.m., Case 57963, Premont, Jim Wells Co.
Police officer, High rate of speed, thought may be a bottle rocket. Cylinder shape with two green lights.

9 p.m., Case 57950, Austin, Travis Co.
East to west, quick, two lights separated, “Passed horizon in a matter of seconds!”

9 p.m., Case 57986, Cherokee, San Saba Co.
Saturn-like, high speed.

9 p.m., Case 57965, Mansfield, Tarrant Co.
Separated into two.

9 p.m., Case 57957, Burleson, Johnson Co.
Two bright lights, one disappeared, other continued.

9 p.m., Case 57985, Austin, Travis Co.
Quickly moving light, less than 500 feet. Separated into two lights. Disappeared

9:06 p.m., Case 57958, Katy, Fort Bend Co.
Two glowing orbs, fast, no sound. One green, one white. SSE-NNE

9:07 p.m., Case 57959, Austin, Travis Co.
East to west, very bright light, 4-6 seconds to cross sky eyeshot. Split into two, Disappeared.

9:08 p.m., Case 57942, Manor, Travis Co.
Very bright light. Super Fast, split into two.

9:10 p.m., Case 57984, Mansfield, Anderson Co.
Oval, split into two.

9:10 p.m., Case 57962, Denton, Denton Co.
Two lights faded away Green in color. SE-SW

9:10 p.m., Case 57939, Austin, Travis Co.
Light, split into two, tracked NE to N upward.

9:10 p.m., Case 57955, Katy, Fort Bend Co.
Sphere, broke into two, disappeared.

9:10 p.m., Case 57952, College Station, Brazos Co.
Disc, split into two.

9:10 p.m., Case 57946, Nocogdoches, Nocogdoches Co.
Less than 100 feet. Bright light east to west. Two ends, two lights, cylinder.

9:10 p.m., Case 57964, Paris, Lamar Co.
Two viewed, disappeared.

9:10 p.m., Case 57943, Nocogdoches, Nocogdoches Co.
East to west, two solid lights, fast.

9:10 p.m., Case 57941, Georgetown, Williamson Co.
Two solid white lights, very fast.

9:15 p.m., Case 57949, Austin, Travis Co.
Split into two.

9:15 p.m., Case 57940, Manvel, Brazoria Co.
Blue orb split into two.

9:15 p.m., Case 57948, Wimberry, Hays Co.
Bright light divided into two, disappeared.

9:15 p.m., Case 57945, Mesquite, Dallas Co.
Green colored orb, split in two.

9:15 p.m., Case 57977, Spring, Harris Co.
Fast moving sphere, separates.

9:20 p.m., Case 57980, Lago Vista, Travis, Co.
Bright light coming from east, (Lago Vista West of Austin). Moving fast, two lights, no sound. Turned up at an angle. Silver cylinder, bright lights at both sides.

9:25 p.m., Case 57947, Thorndale, Milam Co.
Green lights, disappeared.

9:30 p.m., Case 57944, Round Mountain, Blanco Co.
Split in two, disappeared.

10 p.m., Case 57982, Houston, Montgomery Co.
Fast moving green blue orb, split in two, disappeared.

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…UNDERSTANDING UFOs-ORBS…SYLPHS…

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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

Daily 2 Cents: North Pole Drifting Towards Siberia — Reptilian? — Scientists Baffled by Gigantic 262ft Hole

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The North Pole Drifting Towards Siberia

Earth’s magnetic field is weakening, and may be getting set to flip–in just a few thousand years north will become south and south will become north, LiveScience reports. But before it can do that, the magnetic field may wander around a bit. Right now, say scientists with the European Space Agency, the Earth’s magnetic north pole seems to be wandering over to Siberia.

The strength of the Earth’s magnetic field is always changing, with patches of stronger or weaker shielding found across the planet. Right now, the weakest spots hover above the Western Hemisphere, whereas places around the Indian Ocean have been growing stronger. The wobbles in magnetic field strength, says LiveScience, could mean that the planet’s magnetic field is entering a period of flux that will last up to a few thousand years and may ultimately end in a flipping of Earth’s magnetic poles.

Researchers with the European Space Agency noticed the abnormalities in the Earth’s magnetic field strength while analyzing data collected by magnetometers attached to a new three-satellite system called Swarm. Here’s LiveScience:

Previously, researchers estimated the field was weakening about 5 percent per century, but the new data revealed the field is actually weakening at 5 percent per decade, or 10 times faster than thought. As such, rather than the full flip occurring in about 2,000 years, as was predicted, the new data suggest it could happen sooner.

The data, LiveScience continues, suggest that in the shorter term the magnetic North Pole might eventually relocate closer to Siberia. The magnetic north pole is currently drifting south at around 25 miles per year, says Al Jazeera, “and scientists predict it could travel from its current position in North America to Asia within a few decades.”

Researchers aren’t sure why things seem to be expedited, although the process–known as a geomagnetic reversal–is a natural one that has occurred many times before. The shift in the magnetic field is caused by the flux of molten metal contained beneath the Earth’s surface, LiveScience explains.

Regardless of how fast the flip is happening – or if it’s happening at all – humans likely have nothing to fear. No evidence exists that previous changes have resulted in any harm to species or to the planet through increased radiation damage (the magnetic field prevents cosmic radiation from bombarding the Earth). – Smithsonian Mag

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Reptilian?

I’ve been reading into paranormal stories and decided I’d make a throw away for my previous experiences. I have quite a few and want to share them in hopes of figuring them out. Not quite sure if this is the right sub though.

This instance was when I was walking through a crowded mall in broad daylight when I happened to look at a man walking past me who seemed to be covered in murky green, fading to pale yellow reptile scales. His nose and ears were not human, but had only a slight protrusion with slits for nostrils and small slits for ears. His eyes looked human, but dull and tired like someone with cataracts. He was dressed as a normal, middle aged man would (golf shirt, old windbreaker, and khakis) but his face and hands stood out to me. When I turned around to have another look he was gone.

Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? I did a quick Google search only to find simply flaky skinned people, nothing like actual reptile scales. – Reddit

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Scientists baffled by gigantic 262ft hole in Siberia

- Enormous crater appears suddenly in part of Russia whose name translates as ‘the end of the world’

- Teams of scientists are rushing east to fathom the cause of this unusual – and rare – geographical occurrence

- One especially outlandish theory talks about a UFO landing as a possible cause of this colossal chasm in the earth

An urgent expedition will leave tomorrow to probe a giant crater that has appeared in gas-rich northern Siberia.

Extraordinary aerial images show a mysterious hole which experts say may be up to 262 feet wide, in the Yamal Peninsula of northern Russia.

‘A scientific team has been sent to investigate the hole and is due to arrive at the scene on Wednesday,’ The Siberian Times has reported. Read more at Daily Mail

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Freak summer snow & hail hit Siberia, Urals

Swimmers and sunbathers ran for cover as huge chunks of ice the size of golf balls rained down on them.

The eastern Siberian city of Novosibirsk played host to a freak hailstorm on Saturday, turning an otherwise ideallic day at the beach in to a scene from an apocalyptic disaster movie within the space of just a few minutes.

Beachgoers were left flabbergasted when a torrent of huge hailstones suddenly started to rain down from the heavens despite the hot summer temperatures. Many people ran for cover while shielding themselves from the onslaught while others attempted to cram together underneath a beach umbrella in the hope that it would protect them from the ice.

The hailstones weren’t the only freak weather to hit Siberia’s summertime this weekend either – in parts of Russia’s Ural region there were reports of sudden blizzards and snowdrifts while temperatures plummeted from 20 degrees to near freezing within the space of a few hours. – RT

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CIGAR SHAPED UFO CRAFT PHOTOGRAPHED OVER PENNSYLVANIA

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CIGAR SHAPED UFO CRAFT PHOTOGRAPHED OVER PENNSYLVANIA 

 JULY 11, 2014    ……..     BETHEL PARK PENNSYLVANIA

My boss and friend, a very credible business man, called me tonight around 10pm.  He had just left the shop and was leaving the industrial park approaching a red light when he notices what he said looked like a ball of fire.  Before I continue with his description, I would first like to say that he is a very reserved, logical and practical man. He is very familiar with aircrafts and aviation through his hobbies. He has little to no time for interest in things outside of normal reality like this. And thus, when he called me, was hesitant to describe this until I think I broke the ice with the word “UFO” and then I heard that comfort in his voice as if it was assuring him I would not think him crazy for what he was about to tell me.  So he’s approaching the red light when he notices this fireball in the sky.

At first he thought it was a star by initial glance but immediately realized it was moving at an incredible rate when it then slowed down very quickly to a point of “almost” hovering (I believe he really wanted to say it stopped and hovered but wanted to hold some level of reservation even in his awe). This is when he noticed that it had what he called a “sparkler effect” almost as if the same look as sparklers you see people waving on the 4th of July and such, coming from what he  assumed was the back end based on its direction.  He had with him a good digital camera and snapped this photo. The bright light on the left is a street light – the small cigar shaped orange object in the center is the UFO. He says he pulled over and got the camera rather quickly, however, he is not very familiar with the hardware and originally intended on taking video footage, but in haste and fear of losing a shot entirely, took this photo as is without zooming or anything. 

So he pulled the car over and took this photo. He says he believes in the time that he grabbed the camera it began moving in a new direction again and thinks it looks cylindrical like that because it was in motion. Right after taking the photo, he looked down at the camera to make sure a picture had actually taken and when he looked back up a second later it was gone. He doesn’t know if it disappeared or flew away, but it happened so fast that that aspect alone amazed him as much as the sighting in the first place.  Judging by the picture, its saturation level is very bizarre – and it almost looks more like an illuminated object with a hard surface of little reflectivity rather than a light object or a highly reflective surface. He described it as spherical and a light source like fire. Very odd in comparison to the photo. Could this be a morphing ufo? I would assume that the streaking of an object in motion would have a faded tail, but I can’t tell which direction it’s going or if it even is moving. 

It’s a perplexing photo to me really, and I’m sure it’s 100% legit. Just taking a photo and getting it to me in an email is the extent of his technological capabilities concerning tampering with a photo, not to mention his trustworthiness.  Normally I’d say I have no fear or shame in attaching my name to this kind of stuff, but I don’t want my bosses reputation to be at any risk. If you have any questions send me an email and if there is a high interest I could see if he would be willing to share more under anonymity.

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WHY IS CALIFORNIA THE UFO GLOBAL HOTSPOT?

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Source: http://ufodigest.com/article/ufo-hotspot-0715

University of California Scientists: ‘Camouflaged’ Aliens Live Among Us (Video)

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University of California Scientists: ‘Camouflaged’ Aliens Live Among Us

Scientists of the University of California came up with an unusual hypothesis suggesting that space aliens have long settled on Earth and lived among us as observers.

Of course, there is no evidence of this, but according to ancient sources, including the Bible, our planet has been visited by representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations since its inception. 

In 2000 scientists of the University of California, led by Professor Jonathan Malkisom, held a press conference, during which the sensational news that representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations have long been among humans was reported. They adopted human appearance and closely monitor our every move.  

“It’s like an extreme version of the camouflage found in some insects and animals. Moreover, according to historical records, there have been aliens on Earth from the beginning of creation,” says Adrian Kent of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. 

A confirmation of the words of the Canadian scientist can be found in the Book of Genesis, at the point where the confrontation of Jacob with the Almighty is described:
 

“And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.” 

The ancient philosophers were always looking for the answer to the question whether beings arriving from the sky are members of the same tribe as the angels. But as a rule, the answer was no, since the arriving beings were mortal, while the angels live forever.

The question of extraterrestrial civilizations was openly and seriously discussed for the first time only in the twentieth century, especially after the CIA declassified a small part of the archive on the so-called Roswell case, when the U.S. militaries found a crashed flying saucer and delivered its parts to the base.

There is information that in addition to the unknown space object debris, the bodies of three aliens were found and taken to the base. The cause of the incident was the impact of ground radars on the navigation equipment of aliens.

According to another version, the UFO was hit by lightning. 
 

There are reports that U.S. President John F. Kennedy, a few days before his death, asked the head of the CIA to provide all the materials about the incident, but he did not manage to access the most secret archives.
 

From the 1980′s, many people started claiming that they not only had seen the appearance of a UFO in the sky, but had been inside these objects, and even had come into contact with the aliens.

One of the most famous contactees is Bulgarian prophet Vanga:
 

“Sometimes one of the aliens takes my hand. They communicate only with a few inhabitants of our planet. They are constantly watching us,” said Vanga about her contacts with representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. 

What do aliens want on Earth? 

There is only a hypothesis, which was suggested by British scientist Timothy Good in his book, Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat: 

“The Earth is no longer an ‘intermediate base.’ They have settled here for a good long time now.” 

In January 2011, British scientists announced the need to prepare for emergency meeting with an extraterrestrial civilization, and even suggested the foundation of a special committee at the UN. 
 

 

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Temple Professor;  “Space aliens do indeed walk among us”

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U.S. Airforce Pilot Shot Down By UFO, U.S. Government Cover Up At Its Worst

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This is one of the best stories ever about a UFO shooting down a plane over the United States and very little has ever been reported or said about this story. I can tell you that this story did occur and the man in the photo below did loose his life. I do believe the U.S. Government has covered up this story from the very first few minutes after it happened.

Captain Thomas F. Mantell

Captain Thomas F. Mantell is the pilot in the photo above and I truly believe he was shot down by a UFO. Mantell chased the UFO and he got killed by the UFO. Probably with a particle beam weapon. And the U.S. Government has covered this story up all along to keep you the American people from ever knowing the truth about this pilot loosing his life to a UFO 

I’m sure more U.S. pilots have probably been shot down by a UFO befre but we don’t know who they are. I believe there is an on going cover up concerning UFO’s over the United States. I’ve seen UFO’s and I believe the U.S. Government is covering this up to the best of their ability. Yes the U.S. Government knows Space Aliens and UFO’s are real and its covering it up. Check out the full story please.  

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America's Mysteries - Pilot Shot Down By Pilot Over Ft Knox

No this is not a science fiction story. This story really happened in the air over Kentucky in January of 1949. And this time the U.S. Government wouldn't be able to claim it was a weather balloon like they had with the Roswell Incident back in 1947. Before the day was over a 25 year old Air Force pilot was dead. Killed while he was pursuing a UFO. A UFO that was seen that day by hundreds of people including military, police, and the Commander of A Air Force Base. And now you can read the rest of the story.

Most likely you have never heard of this incident or Captain Thomas F. Mantell but it really happened. On the afternoon of January 5th 1948 he died in a plane crash chasing a UFO in the sky over Ft Knox Kentucky. Several local farmers in the area at that time told of seeing the UFO shoot the P51 Mustang Plane down with some type of beam weapon. They said the plane closed to with in a hundred yards of the UFO when a beam of light came out of UFO and they saw the plane chasing it light up and crash to the ground. There was a huge explosion when the plane hit the ground.

Captain Mantell was the first casualty of the Kentucky Air National Guard. The Mantell incident became one of the one of the most publicized of the early UFO incidents. The incident brought about the crash of the P51 Mustang and the death of the 25 year old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot.

It was later revealed that after the body of Captain Mantell's body was recovered that it had thousands of tiny pin holes all over it. This was later disputed but a close friend of his family said the Captain had tiny pin prick holes all over his body. The incident served to convince the U.S. Air Force Intelligent Specialists that UFO incidents were really happening in the United States. Remember they had made the claim back in 1947 that the Roswell UFO was really a weather balloon. However when the Mantell incident occurred they had no way to cover it up. Farmers in their fields saw the UFO shoot down the plane and they told everyone including local newspapers. With in a few days the incident was reported in newspapers all over the United States and around the world. Air Force Special Intelligence Officers thought that Mantell had been shot down in a farm field in Kentucky by a UFO. They told the Commander of the Godman Air Force base the morning after the crash that they believed that Captain Mantell had been chasing a craft that was piloted by intelligent life and that it was likely that the UFO shot Captain Mantell's airplane down.

Later on the U.S. Air Force tried to make the claim that Captain Mantell was pursuing the planet Venus. Astronomers later said that the planet Venus will not have been visible to the naked eye that day. Farmers in the area said they had seen the UFO on several different days including the day Captain Mantell chased it and that it was an object that was metallic in color and that it was 250 to 300 feet across. Several of the farmers said they had seen the UFO low over the trees and that at times it would appear to stop. Calls had also came in from the US Gold Depository at Ft Knox Kentucky describing an object similar to what the farmers described and Captain Mantell was sent to see what it was. Rumors have circulated for years that the Air Force and officers in charge at Ft Knox feared that the UFO was interested in the gold at Fort Knox.

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The Wreckage Of Captain Mantell's P51 Mustang

Investigator's who investigated the crash of Mantells crash later said that something was wrong. They said that the plane dropped straight down like it had been dropped and that it only did damage to the place it hit. In almost every crash of this type Investigators said there was always damage to the area from the plane coming down and sliding to a stop. They said that Mantells plane hit the ground and stopped. Just stopped. Which never happens when a plane of this type crashes.

That day at 1.15 the Kentucky State Police said they received several calls from people in the area of Mansville Kentucky reporting a large metallic circular object flying low over the town. One local police officer saw it and described it as round, very large, and metallic looking. Later when the police officer was asked if he was sure it was a space craft he had seen the man said that the craft had been just above the tree tops and moving slowly. Then all at once it sped away and vanished only to reappear from another direction in a few minutes.

A few minutes later men in the tower at Godman Air Force base saw the object and they described it the same way. One man watched it for a long time with a pair of binoculars and he said it was clearly a space craft and not of this earth..

A little over an hour after the first sighting Captain Mantell and his fighter group who were flying nearby were asked to investigate the object.

When Captain Mantell got near enough he radioed he had the object in sight and that he was moving in closer to take a look. He said it was a large round metallic object and that it was above him. It was about now that farmers on the ground saw a beam of light come out of the UFO and hit the plane. A few minutes later Mantell's plane hit the ground on the farm of William J Phillips of Franklin Kentucky. Mantell's watch was later discovered to have stopped at 3.16 P.M..

The UFO vanished from there but it was seen as it traveled south over Tennessee and northern Alabama. The story spread like wild fire that a pilot had been shot down pursuing a UFO. The New York Times ran with the story, " Pilot Dies Pursuing UFO ". Newspapers all over the world the incident and this time the U.S. Government wasn't able to cover it up. To many people had talked. You would have needed Will Smith from Men in Black to keep this one quite. Yet its amazing that the average American has never heard of it.

A man in the area at the time of the crash told people that man's plane exploded in mid air. And then he fell just like a rock straight down into the ground. Godman Base Commander Guy F Hix said that he had observed the UFO for over an hour and it did things that only an aircraft from another world would be able to do. He said it stopped at times, sped away and at times it was 200 feet off the ground and later was at 10,000 feet. But the strangest thing that the base commander said was that one of the last things Captain Mantell said over the air was, " My God I See People In That Thing ". Moments later Captain Mantell was dead.

It would appear that Captain Mantell was the first person of earth killed by a UFO. When Mantell's body was found he was of course dead and he was still strapped in his plane. This was one incident that the US Government could not cover up. To much information had got out to fast.

Captain Mantell was later buried at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery and he was apparently the first earthling at least the one we know of who lost his life pursuing a UFO. There is now a historical marker near the crash site that you can see in the photo at the top of this Hub Page.

It amazes me that with incidents of this type that people still argue that we are the only planet with intelligent life on it. I think it is pretty clear that UFO's are visiting the earth. And I believe that Captain Mantell was shot down by a UFO.

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Daily UFO Headlines 7/15/14

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UFO With Magnetic Halo Passes Super Moon   (Video)

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First Crop Circle Of The Year Appears Overnight In Dorset Wheat Field Sparking New Interest In Who Or What Made It

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The first crop circle of the year has appeared in a field near Blandford Forum in Dorset leaving locals stumped over who or what created it.

Covering an enormous stretch of wheat field, the 400ft pattern, which is made up of geometric lines and circles, emerged overnight.

While many believe crop circles are created by local pranksters, some think the mysterious shapes are evidence of aliens, including amateur pilot and crop circle enthusiast Matthew Williams, 43, who said: ‘Whoever, or whatever, created the shape must have been there all night – you have to really admire their handiwork.’

Mysterious: The first crop circle of the year has appeared in a field near Blandford Forum in Dorset sparking interest in who or what has created it

Some have taken the drastic step of mowing the formations out of their fields as soon as they appear.

According to John Lundberg, who has also admitted to creating the designs, July is the best month for crop circles.

He told the BBC: ‘The season runs from April, when the first crop is oil seed rape. In June it’s barley and by mid-July it’s wheat. That’s the best crop to work in, that’s when the most spectacular circles appear. Because each stem is upright, you can get pin sharp clarity.’

Like farmers, not everyone appreciates the efforts that Mr Lundberg goes to. 

He reported abuse from people who believe crop circles are in fact the work of aliens.

Mr Lundberg, who is part of a group called Circlemakers, said: ‘My art collective – myself, Rod Dickinson and Will Russell – get thousands of abusive e-mails and phone calls. We’ve had attacks on our property, and one of my team had bricks thrown at him. But at least this is not America – people don’t carry guns here.

‘I don’t regard myself as a hoaxer – I’m not interested in rug-pulling anybody. Yet the assumption is that if I make a crop circle, it must be because I want to undermine the beliefs of people who think they are not man-made.’

Source and also a lot more Crop Circle pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2691479/First-crop-circle-year-appears-overnight-Dorset-wheat-field-sparking-new-it.html#ixzz37WoSdVI0 

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The Mystery Of The Missing 50,000 Persian Army Of 524 BC

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Herodotus wrote that the disappearance of the 50,000-strong Persian army (illustrated here) could be attributed to a sandstorm. Professor Kaper, however, claims Egyptian rebel leader Petubastis III ambushed them – but this embarrassment was swept under the rug by King Cambyses II.

In 524 BC, a Persian army of 50,000 men sent by King Cambyses II marched into the Egyptian desert from Thebes – now known as Luxor. But, after entering the desert, they were never heard from again.

For centuries. it has been presumed they were swallowed by a sandstorm, but now a researcher claims that wasn’t the case – and instead they must have been defeated in battle.

In the 5th century BC, Greek historian Herodotus wrote that the disappearance of the army could be attributed to an unfortunate end involving sand dunes.

University of Leiden Egyptologist Professor Olaf Kaper, however, disagrees.’Since the 19th century, people have been looking for this army: amateurs, as well as professional archaeologists,’ he said.
 

Professor Kaper says that disappearance of a Persian army in 524 BC has been solved, thanks to deciphering ancient temple blocks (pictured)

‘Some expect to find, somewhere under the ground, an entire army, fully equipped.

‘However, experience has long shown that you can’t die from a sandstorm, let alone have an entire army disappear.’

Professor Kaper is now putting forward an entirely different explanation.

He argues that the army did not disappear, but was instead, defeated.

‘My research shows that the army was not simply passing through the desert; its final destination was the Dachla Oasis,’ he said.

‘This was the location of the troops of the Egyptian rebel leader Petubastis III.

‘He ultimately ambushed the army of Cambyses, and in this way managed from his base in the oasis to reconquer a large part of Egypt, after which he had himself crowned Pharaoh in the capital, Memphis.

Kaper said he made the discovery accidentally.

In collaboration with New York University and the University of Lecce, he was involved for the last ten years in excavations in Amheida, in the Dachla Oasis.

And earlier this year, he deciphered the full list of titles of Petubastis III on ancient temple blocks.

That’s when the puzzle pieces fell into place’, said the Egyptologist.

‘The temple blocks indicate that this must have been a stronghold at the start of the Persian period.

‘Once we combined this with the limited information we had about Petubastis III, the excavation site and the story of Herodotus, we were able to reconstruct what happened.’
 

According to Herodotus, Cambyses II – the son of Cyrus the Great – sent the soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa in 524 BC. Their mission was to destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun after the priests there refused to legitimise his claim to Egypt. But after they left, they were never seen or heard from again.

The fact that the fate of the army of Cambyses remained unclear for such a long time is probably due to the Persian King Darius I, who ended the Egyptian revolt with much bloodshed two years after Cambyses’ defeat.

He attributed the shameful defeat of his predecessor to natural elements, and 75 years after the events, all Herodotus could do was take note of the sandstorm story.

But now this new research sheds light on one of the greatest archaeological mysteries of all time.

 

The Missing Persian Army of 50,000 Men
 

 

Meeting between Cambyses II, King of Achaemenid of the Persian empire, from 529 to 522 BC and Psammetichus III, Pharaoh from 526 to 525. Painting by Jean Adrien Guignet (1816-1854)

According to the Greek historian Herodotus (484-425 BC), Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent the soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa in 524 BC.

Their mission was to destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun after the priests there refused to legitimise his claim to Egypt.

After walking for seven days in the desert, the army was said to have arrived at an ‘oasis’, which historians believe was El-Kharga, 120 miles (190 kilometres) west of the Nile in the Libyan Desert.

After they left, a great sandstorm sprung up and they were never seen again.

Herodotus wrote ‘a wind arose from the south, strong and deadly, bringing with it vast columns of whirling sand, which entirely covered up the troops and caused them wholly to disappear’.

However, the new research by Professor Kaper says it wasn’t a sandstorm at all that defeated them – but rather another army in an embarrassing defeat, which was later covered up. 

Strange Creatures Seen in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

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Two-Headed Creatures!

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It happens sometimes in nature that the splitting of a twin embryo goes wrong. In the case of animals, the effect can be quite stunning and rather endearing. 

The 1972 movie “The Thing With Two Heads” is probably one of the weirdest premises and insane casting I've ever seen as Ray Milland is a wealthy dying man who has his head transplanted onto another man's body, played by Rosey Grier. 

Sesame Street created a 2-headed monster for the children's delight.

It is always a wonder when nature can give us double the adorableness, like in the case of Abby and Brittany. These two are a wonder and a joy.

Source: http://www.ghosthuntingtheories.com/2014/07/two-headed-creatures.html

10 Reasons the Greek Gods Were Possibly UFO Occupants

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10 Reasons the Greek Gods Were Possibly UFO Occupants

By Diane Tessman

I am not championing this idea; rather, I am presenting it as a possibility. I realize it has been presented before in various ways, including in the “ancient astronaut” context. Let’s take a moment as UFO investigators to focus on the Greek gods and ask if they might have been advanced UFO beings.

Reason One:

The Greek gods threw lightning bolts.

Might “lightning bolts” have been laser or even scalar technology? Strangely enough as I was working on this essay, there is a feature story about Apollo 12 and how it was hit just after take-off by not one but two lightning bolts. This was one of the later Apollo missions which encountered such strange lights, colors and objects on the moon. There is the theory that humans were being warned not to continue exploring the moon.

Reason Two:

The Greek gods kept themselves separate from common people. They resided on or in Mount Olympus – a perfect base of operations.

Reason Three:

The Greek gods occasionally had encounters or manifestations with or for– the common people.

These events, for all intents and purposes, are UFO encounters. Why did the gods bother with “abductions?” Indeed, we have to ask the same question of UFO occupants.

Reason Four:

When taken by the gods, the common person felt an “Oz factor” about their experience.

As we know, UFO researcher Jenny Randles has coined the term “Oz factor” to explain the zone of silence and other-worldliness which descends on those experiencing a UFO encounter. Some abductees feel paralyzed. Others feel no fear at all when it makes sense that there would be some fear or hesitation, even in the most adaptable of experiencers. And, of course, the phenomena of missing time can be found in tales which the ancient Greek people told as well as in the accounts of UFO abductees.

Reason Five:

The Greek gods rode chariots across the skies. The Greek people must have witnessed these vehicles and incorporated them into what they could identify in their own cultural context.

Reason Six:

The Greek gods were a mixed group, not all were human-like.

There was an array of “demi-gods” and “monsters,” which might have been genetic experiments. The concept of a chimera began in the days of the Greek gods and describes any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe anything composed of disparate parts. Genetic experiments? 

Today we stand on the threshold of incredible genetic advancements, for good or ill. There are 20 natural amino acids, the building blocks of life, but thanks to the creation of two artificial DNA letters, added to the 4 natural DNA letters, we now have 172 amino acids with which to play. Did the Greek gods have similar advancements? The ancient gods had what might have been a variety of extraterrestrial races:

• Amazons – mighty, skillful female warriors
• Charities – the goddesses of Joy, Charm and Beauty
• Muses – The goddesses of Art and Science
• The Pleiades – the gods of the mountains
• Nymphs – the gods of Nature, Winds

Is this how the identifying characteristics of other advanced species were described to the common humans? For instance, The Pleiades were stationed inside the mountain. The Muses excelled at science.

Reason Seven:

Reports of gods intermingling with humans run throughout Greek mythology. These couplings with both human males and females were controlled by the gods – where, when, how.

Today, we hear about UFO occupants taking eggs, sperm or tissue samples from humans. The scenario is always under the control of the UFO occupants; humans do not have a say-so in when, where, or why.

Reason Eight:

Hybrid children resulted from the mingling of god and human DNA. Those beings who resulted from this mingling were indeed “less” than the gods (less strong, less immortal), but they were more advanced than the common person. Heracles and Achilles are examples.

A “hero” (hybrid) might have ongoing contact with the gods. Were these the same gods as involved in creating this hybrid’s DNA? Today, many people who had an encounter, feel that they have ongoing experiences with the UFO occupants whom they met. It was said that the gods lived inside human and humanoid bodies with an ethereal fluid called ichor running through the veins. They had passions and human weaknesses; they did many wrong acts but usually had to take full responsibility of their actions. Perhaps keeping a connection with the human they first worked with, is part of that responsibility.

Reason Nine: If the Greek gods were wounded or ill, they seemed to have better medical services available than did the common humans. Of course the Greek people just assumed the gods could not be wounded as badly as humans. UFO occupants probably have medical knowledge far ahead of ours; both ETs and gods are said to have healing abilities, of course this might just be access to advanced medicine.

Reason Ten:

The Greek gods seemed not to age like common humans and might have been immortal – or close to it.

We do not know the life spans of the UFO occupants. It probably varies by species, but even today, we live longer than did our grandparents, who did not have the medical expertise of which we can avail ourselves today. However clearly, we have a long way to go –we haven’t even found the cure for various cancers. We have not yet found the cure for Alzheimer’s or the common cold. It can be assumed we will live longer than we do now – in the future.

This is all food for thought if you care to think about it! I feel the concept that the Greek gods were time traveling humans, perhaps from a thousand years in advance of us – is a leading theory. After all, the descriptions of the actual gods and goddesses were not like extraterrestrials of the “ET” kind, they were more the “golden human” type of UFO beings.

The gods and goddesses created bizarre life-forms like Harpies, Sphinx, Satyrs, Minotaur and Cyclops, but the gods themselves were quite beautiful. Future Humans will probably have perfected or greatly improved, the human genome.

Or perhaps the gods were an alien space-going race who landed on Earth and began the classic Greek Civilization.

Or perhaps the common Greek people simply made it all up because we humans are a creative and imaginative race.

However, I have a suspicion that we have never been – alone.

For those who want to refresh themselves on the Greek gods and their myths and legends, I recommend this website for starters: http://www.greek-gods.info/greek-gods/

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