Are Mars's moons homegrown—or snatched from the asteroid belt?

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This false-color image of Phobos shows the large crater Stickney at lower right, which bears the maiden name of the moon's discoverer's wife.

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Galactic Signal Boosts LHC's Dark Matter Search

High-energy photons from the Milky Way’s core suggest dark matter may soon be found by the world's most powerful particle accelerator

By Davide Castelvecchi and Nature magazine | May 5, 2015 

Y-rays emitted from the Galactic Centre are giving the LHC a firm target in its hunt for dark matter.

Credit: A. Mellinger, CMU; T. Linden, Univ. of Chicago/NASA Goddard

It is one of the most disputed observations in physics. But an explanation may be in sight for a mysterious excess of high-energy photons at the centre of the Milky Way. The latest analysis suggests that the signal could come from a dark-matter particle that has just the right mass to show up at the world’s largest particle accelerator.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), housed at the CERN particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, is due to restart colliding protons this summer after a two-year hiatus (see 'LHC 2.0: A new view of the Universe'). Physicists there have told Nature that they now plan to make the search for such a particle a top target for the collider’s second run.

A positive detection would resolve the source of the galactic γ-rays. But it would also reveal the nature of dark matter, the invisible stuff thought to make up around 85% of the Universe’s matter, and would be long-sought evidence for supersymmetry, a grand way to extend the current standard model of particle physics.

“This could very well be the single most promising explanation for the Galactic Centre proposed to date,” says Dan Hooper of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, although he adds that “there are quite a few others that are not too far behind”.

In 2009, Hooper and Lisa Goodenough, then a graduate student at New York University, were the first to spot the signal, in data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. They proposed that the bump was a signature of dark matter. Two colliding dark-matter particles would annihilate each other, just as ordinary matter does with antimatter. The annihilation would generate a succession of short-lived particles that would eventually produce γ-rays.

But the proposed particle, which has been dubbed the hooperon or gooperon after its proponents, soon ran into problems with physicists’ favourite version of supersymmetry. Although the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) allows for dark-matter particles with the estimated mass of hooperons—about 25–30 gigaelectronvolts (1 GeV is roughly the mass of a proton)—multiple experiments had suggested that the particles must be heavier. To accommodate hooperons, MSSM would have to be modified to an extent that makes many physicists uncomfortable. “It would have required a completely new theory,” says Sascha Caron, a particle physicist at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, who leads the team behind the latest calculations.

Sceptics suggested that the γ-ray excess spotted in the Fermi data had more-mundane explanations, such as emissions from neutron stars or from the remnants of exploded stars.

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But in late 2014, it emerged that calculations for the range of dark-matter-particle masses that would be compatible with the Fermi bump were too conservative. Fresh estimates of the γ-ray ‘noise’ produced by known sources, provided by the Fermi science team and others, allow for much heavier particles. “The excess can be explained with a particle of up to 200 GeV,” says Simona Murgia, a physicist at the University of California, Irvine, and a leading scientist in the Fermi team.

Big-Bang fit
Armed with this insight, Caron and his collaborators recalculated the predictions of the MSSM theory and found another potential explanation for the excess—an existing dark-matter candidate called a neutralino. The neutralino was heavy enough not to be excluded by previous experiments, yet light enough to potentially be produced in the second run of the LHC.

Caron’s model also produces a prediction for the amount of dark matter that should have been created in the Big Bang that is compatible with state-of-the-art observations of the cosmic microwave background—the relic radiation of the Big Bang—performed by the European Space Agency’s Planck probe (see Nature http://doi.org/38k; 2014). This cannot be a coincidence, he says. “I find this quite amazing.”

Caron’s team is not the only one reanalysing the Fermi bump in light of the new estimates. Similar but less-detailed calculations done by Fermilab physicist Patrick Fox and his colleagues last November also revealed the neutralino as a potential cause of the Fermi γ-rays. And Katherine Freese, director of Nordita, the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm, says that she and her collaborators have calculated that the excess could be caused by a type of dark matter that features in a less-popular theory of supersymmetry.

Resolution may be just around the corner. In addition to being produced at the LHC, the neutralino could also be within the shooting range of next-generation underground experiments that are trying to catch dark-matter particles that happen to fly through Earth, says physicist Albert De Roeck, who works on the CMS, one of the two LHC detectors that will hunt for dark matter. If such a particle is indeed the cause of the γ-rays, he says, “it seems that the dark-matter signals should be observed very soon now”.

This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on May 5, 2015.

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Nearby Super-Earth May Harbor Huge Volcanoes

        Patrick Macnee Explores the 'Top Secret' UFO Mysteries of Roswell

Did a UFO, flown by alien beings from outer space, crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947?

At first, the government said yes. Then, it said no — it was only a weather balloon. Thirty years later, when eyewitnesses to the strange event began talking, and UFO investigators and authors seriously began probing, a mystery was born which still exists to this day.

At 9 p.m. Sunday, Newsmax TV will air the gripping documentary, "Roswell: Top Secret," which investigates the controversial history of the "Roswell incident," which spawned an avalanche of books, television specials and movies and turned rural Roswell overnight into "UFO central."

Narrated by British actor Patrick Macnee of "The Avengers" fame, the film traces the entire history of the Roswell investigation, from the first government statements that it was a crashed UFO to the immediate correction into the "weather balloon" story, which few believed.

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"What we're talking about is a story of visitation by beings from another planet, here on a mission of exploration, perhaps, only to end up casualties," Macnee states. "It is a story of our government deliberately concealing details of the incident.

Were the remains of a "stingray-shaped" spacecraft containing the alien pilots found in Roswell? Watch this shocking film to find out.

The documentary adds to the diverse programming featured on Newsmax TV, the new lifestyle, news and information channel. Newsmax TV is America's fast-growing news and information channel, now carried in more than 40 million U.S. satellite and cable homes.

Watch Newsmax TV on DirecTV channel 349, Dish Network channel 223 and Verizon Fios 115, via OTT devices, as a free app on iPhone (iOS), Android and other smartphones, and at NewsmaxTV.com.
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Daily UFO Headlines 5/20/15

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• Do aliens exist? Peculiar UFO sightings – Yahoo!7 News
• Patrick Macnee Explores the ‘Top Secret’ UFO Mysteries of Roswell – Newsmax
• Spaceship Hotel in Baker Breaks Ground – NBC Southern California
• NASA Pluto Probe May Carry Crowdsourced Message to Aliens – Space.com
• Have aliens landed at London City Airport? Delays caused by runway repairs spark UFO speculation – This is Local London

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Latest release of ‘X-files’ shows MoD took idea of alien visitors seriously

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Latest release of ‘X-files’ shows MoD took idea of alien visitors seriously

Britain’s defence intelligence agency considered the possibility of alien craft visiting Earth and asked “UFO desk officers” to monitor any potential threat from outer space, hitherto top secret documents released on Thursday show.

Thousands of pages of highly classified files document how officials in the Ministry of Defence were worried they would be accused by the public of not taking UFOs seriously enough, and how some thought there really could be someone out there. “It was important to appreciate that what is scientific ‘fact’ today may not be true tomorrow,” a defence intelligence officer warned in August 1993.

He pointed out: “It was only a few hundred years ago that ‘scientists’ believed that the Earth was the centre of the universe.” He added: “It was generally agreed until early this century that the atom could not be split.”

Sightings of alleged UFOs could be explained by very strange-shaped clouds, ball lightning, or US “black” (secret project) aircraft, the unidentified official suggested.

“If the sightings are of devices not of the Earth, then their purpose needs to be established as a matter of priority. There had been no apparently hostile intent and other possibilities are one, military reconnaissance; two, scientific; three, tourism.”

The clearly frustrated intelligence official observed that the MoD might have taken the prospect more seriously if UFOs had “a red star painted on them”, a reference to the Soviet Union.

The selection of documents released to the National Archives is the ninth tranche of the UK’s “X-files” to be made public since the government decided in 2008 that keeping them secret was no longer justified.

Most officials in the MoD were deeply sceptical. Papers released today show that back in 1979, a UFO intelligence officer wondered why aliens would want to visit “an insignificant planet [the Earth] of an uninteresting star [the sun]“.

But officials had to cover their backs because of persistent claims of UFO sightings and questions from the public. MPs also regularly returned to the subject, requiring answers from the prime minister. In 2009, before he was elected, David Cameron promised to publish Whitehall’s remaining secret files on UFOs.

“I don’t think any of us have any clue whether there’s intelligent life out there, and it is certainly not something that any government should seek to hide from anyone,” he said.

John Major told MPs in 1996: “The government has no plans to allocate resources to researching extraterrestrial phenomena.”

The MoD did, however, decide to devote more resources on a study as officials warned Tony Blair he could expect even more questions following the passing of the Freedom of Information Act. A MoD official reported in 2000 that the study concluded: “Many of sightings can be explained as mis-reporting of man-made vehicles, [and] natural but unusual phenomena.”

In a valedictory note in December 2008, the last unidentified “UFO desk officer” – described yesterday by David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University, author of The UFO Files, as “one of the strangest jobs in Whitehall” – wrote to the RAF’s operations headquarters in High Wycombe. “The MoD’s position on UFOs, aliens and extra terrestrials is quite clear. We know of no evidence to confirm the existence of aliens, spaceships, extra terrestrials etc, or if they have visited the Earth.”

Suggestions that there were secret teams of scientists “scurrying around the country in a real-life version of the X-files” was “total fiction”.

But in a perhaps reassuring conclusion, the officer continued: “However, since the universe is a very large place and mankind has only explored a very small corner of it, we cannot rule out the existence of intelligent life on other planets. We therefore remain open minded on the topic. In the absence of proof either way, this position seems a perfectly sensible one. However, as you can probably guess, the above position does not make very interesting headlines nor, I suspect, would sell many books”.

UFO ‘sightings’

Ministers and the MoD have been inundated with claims of many hundreds of sightings of aliens. They include: two tall silver-suited “faceless humanoids” in Wales, three tall “men in black” in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and “golden orbs” across Britain – the result of a craze for releasing sky lanterns.

A mounted police officer reported a sighting of a “square/diamond shaped object moving across the sky and changing shape” while on duty at Chelsea football ground in 1999.

Files released on Thursday show the MoD recorded “UFO sightings” throughout the UK, from the Orkney Islands to Cornwall, and in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Thailand, New Zealand and the US.

 UFOs: the (boring) truth is out there

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UFOs: the (boring) truth is out there

There’s an old saying that the best place to hide a book is in a library. The latest Ministry of Defence UFO files released to the National Archives contain more than 6,000 pages of documentation, so if there was a memo somewhere in there saying the MoD had a crashed spaceship hidden away in an RAF hangar somewhere, it might not be found.

Before I start all manner of conspiracy theories with that remark, however, I should say that there is no such memo and no such spaceship – and I say that as someone who spent three years of my 21-year MoD career working on this issue.

This is the fifth batch of UFO files to be made available and is part of an ongoing three-year programme to release the entire archive. The decision to release the files was taken in 2007, to deal with the administrative burden of responding to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act. At one time, MoD was receiving more FOI requests on UFOs than on any other subject.

The newly released files cover the period 1994 to 2000. It’s interesting to note that the cult TV series The X-Files was at the height of its popularity at this time. Might this have influenced people making UFO reports?

I’m sceptical about the link between science fiction and UFO sightings. While the popularity of The X-Files might make some people speculate about aliens and government cover-ups, there’s no evidence to suggest that sci-fi films and TV shows influence people’s perceptions of anything strange that they see. Given the current stratospheric popularity of the blockbuster movie Avatar, if people were being influenced by sci-fi in the way suggested, we’d be inundated with reports of people seeing blue aliens. We’re not!

So, how do the MoD’s real-life Mulders and Scullys compare to their fictional counterparts? Having done the job myself, from 1991 to 1994, I’m sorry to have to report that it’s not quite as glamorous as people might suspect. There’s no running around dark warehouses with guns and torches. It’s more a case of asking colleagues in the RAF to check the radar tapes and writing polite letters back to members of the public, stating that most UFOs turn out to be misidentifications of ordinary objects and phenomena.

For those with the patience to wade through 6,000 pages of documents, it’s a mixed bag. There’s a great deal of mundane correspondence between the MoD and the public, together with a vast number of UFO sightings which are clearly aircraft lights, satellites or meteors. But there is some more interesting material.

As well as today’s news story regarding the sighting of a large, triangular “humming” object in the sky above Michael Howard’s Folkestone home, other examples include the UFO seen by a police officer over the ground of Chelsea FC, and the air traffic controller at Prestwick who tracked an uncorrelated target on radar, travelling at phenomenal speed. Most disturbing, however, is the incident that occurred on 6 January 1995, when a Boeing 737 on approach to Manchester airport nearly collided with a delta-shaped UFO. The pilot and first officer both witnessed this and made an official report. Neither the MoD nor the Civil Aviation Authority could find any explanation.

As one reads the files, one can sense the MoD’s growing irritation with the subject – an irritation that arguably culminated on 1 December 2009 when the MoD finally disengaged altogether and announced that they would no longer be investigating UFO sightings reported by the public. Some of the files are entitled “persistent correspondent”. This is a coded way of saying “this person is becoming a nuisance”. As will be seen in future file releases – the last files won’t be released until 2011 – this frustration boiled over when the Freedom of Information Act came fully into force.

Another sign of the MoD’s “corporate irritation” with the subject is revealed in the response to somebody who claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens (it’s not just UFOs; these real-life X-Files include material on other mysteries such as alien abductions and crop circles). The person concerned had written to ask about MoD policy on alien abductions and pointed out that if the experience was real, the MoD was failing to maintain the territorial integrity of UK airspace – a core defence mission. After explaining the MoD’s role with respect to UFOs, the somewhat sniffy response stated: “Abduction is a criminal offence and as such is a matter for the civil police.”

This conjures up the bizarre thought of a flying saucer landed on the side of a road, with a bemused constable leaning through the entrance hatch saying, “Excuse me sir, have you any idea how fast you were going?”

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/

Thanks to the UFO files release, the truth is out there

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Thanks to the UFO files release, the truth is out there

UFO festival in Roswell, New Mexico Photograph: Ted Soqui/Corbis

After five years of a rolling disclosure programme, the contents of Britain’s “UFO files” are no longer a secret.In total 209 files and approximately 52,000 pages of information on unidentified things in the sky, collected by the Ministry of Defence, have been made available to the public by the National Archives. But what have we learned from the mountain of paperwork that has slowly emerged into the public domain since the project began in May 2008?

Top 10 UFO sightings: from Roswell to a pub in Berkshire

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Mysterieus groen licht in de lucht boven Groningen

Harry Perton uit Groningen maakt graag foto’s van de natuur. Dinsdag ging hij op pad in de Onlanden, het grensgebied tussen de provincies Groningen en Drenthe.

Bij thuiskomst keek hij even raar op. Op één van zijn foto’s van dreigende luchten is een groen lichtverschijnsel aan de hemel te zien.

“Opeens flitste er iets,” schrijft Perton op zijn weblog. “Ik dacht eerst mijn toestel, maar de flitskap stond niet omhoog. Ook zat er geen druppel op mijn lens. Ik besloot dat het een bliksem moest zijn geweest. Maar thuis zie ik wat vreemds op één van de foto’s die ik aan het eind van het bomenlaantje maakte.”

Was het een UFO, een meteoor of een bijzonder natuurverschijnsel? Zegt u het maar.

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Norway’s Hessdalen Valley: Where UFO Mania Meets

Hessdalen is a village and a long valley in Norway. It isn’t just a pristine community, but it is also known for its occasional occurrences of luminous phenomena known as the Hessdalen Phenomenon, which are the strange, hovering and flashing series of lights. The glowing orbs appear to be as large as cars, that’s why they have drawn attention from most ufologists. They are moving very slowly and was seen separating, but reforming later on. They also winked in and out. In most cases, they shoot down the valley and disappear. In the human eye’s point of view, you may see them, but will vanish later on.

The Extreme Flashing

When the strange light appeared in 1980s, it attracted to physicists. In December 1981, the hovering lights shone brighter. Residents took the notice, and the press descended as well. The occurrence of strange balls of light soaring over a valley in central Norway has mystified scientists and spectators across Europe for years. Ivar Kvaal, the Norwegian photographer, tells TIME that he has also met oddball fanatic. The case has been divided. But most villagers are honest and sane.

The Debatable Statements

However, scientists think that the unusual lights could be a natural ‘battery’ that was deeply buried underground, created by metallic minerals. As reacted with a sulfurous river that run through it. These occurrences have paved the way for theories to flourish. In the atmosphere, the light came from the ionized gasses in ball lightning, decaying radon or the atmosphere. It was the earth acting like a giant battery. While others believe these are aliens, there are those that believed it is a result from tapped clean energy. But where does this charge to energize plasma originated? It may be extraterrestrial.

The science was certainly not definitive, but the facts so far are incredibly intriguing.

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Mind Blowing NASA UFO Evidence 7 Photos That Will Shock You! 2015

Mind Blowing NASA UFO Evidence 7 Photos That Will Shock You! 2015... New Insight to the Extraterrestrial Visit To Hubble and Enhanced Footage! 

Mililtary F-4 Jet Chases Ufo Over Iran

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MILITARY F-4 Jet Chases UFO over Iran
Date: September 18, 1976

Location: Tehran, Iran
 The sequence of events can be reconstructed from both Iranian sources and declassified U.S. intelligence documents:  t pay too much attention. The radar system was turned off since it was under repair. After he received the fourth telephone call at 11:15 p.m., Perouzi went to the terrace next to the tower and observed the UFO with binoculars:  Suddenly I saw it. It was rectangular in shape, probably seven to eight meters [24 to 27 ft.] long and about two meters [7 ft.] wide.

  4 Phantom jet from Shahrokhi AFB to investigate.

The first scramble is summarized in a “Memorandum for Record” from the U.S. Defense Attaché Office (DAO) in Tehran:  “The F-4 took off at 01:30 a.m. and proceeded to a point about 40 nm [45 statute miles or 75 km.] North of Tehran. Due to its brilliance the object was easily visible from 70 miles [110 km.] away. As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nm [29 statute miles or 46 km.], he lost all instrumentation and communications (UHF and Intercom). He broke off the intercept and headed back to Shahrokhi. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications.”   At 01:40 a.m., Gen. Yousefi authorized a second F-4 scramble piloted by Lt. Jafari, who quickly established radar contact with the UFO.
 

The DAO Memorandum describes the events of the second scramble:  “The size of the radar return was comparable to that of a [Boeing] 707 tanker. The visual size of the object was difficult to discern because of its intense brilliance. The light that it gave off was that of flashing strobe lights arranged in a rectangular pattern of alternating blue, green, red and orange, in color. The sequence of the lights was so fast that all the colors could be seen at once.” 

“The object and the pursuing F-4 continued a course to the south of Tehran when another brightly lighted object, estimated to be .5 to .33 the apparent size of the moon, came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F-4 at a very fast rate. The pilot attempted to fire an AIM-9 missile at the object, but at that instant his weapons control panel went off and he lost all communications (UHF and Interphone). At this point, the pilot initiated a turn and negative G dive to get away.”  The aircraft electric system went back to normal once the F-4 reached a certain distance from the UFO.

The small object returned to the primary object, but a second one emerged and flew toward the ground. Gen. Yousefi observed the landing from the balcony of his Tehran residence:  “He went down and landed on the ground and now it is a communication between the mothership and that small flying object, and it shows the lights between those two is connected.” 

More strange events were still reported that night. A UFO seemed to follow the F-4 as it approached the runway, and a civil airliner experienced communications failure but did not see anything.

The DAO Memorandum describes the investigation early that morning:  “During daylight, the F-4 crew was taken out to the area in a helicopter where the object apparently had landed. Nothing was noticed at the spot where they thought the object landed (a dry lake bed), but as they circled off to the West of the area they picked up a very noticeable beeper signal. At that point, where the return was the loudest was a small house with a garden. They landed and asked the people within if they had noticed anything strange last night. The people talked about a loud noise and a very bright light like lightning.” 

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Nick Redfern on the Roswell Alien Slides

Japanse graftombes op Mars?

Wat zijn de kansen dat op Mars een vrijwel identieke graftombe wordt ontdekt zoals die werden gemaakt in Japan in de zogenaamde Kofun periode.

Wanneer je de beelden naast elkaar legt, zijn beide tombes vrijwel identiek.


De Kofunperiode is de periode in de Japanse geschiedenis tussen circa AD 300 en 538. Het is genoemd naar de grafheuvels die het meest in het oog springende aspect van de cultuur vormen.

Op de volgende afbeelding zie je hoe zo’n Japanse graftombe er vanuit de lucht gezien uitziet.

Vanaf de zijkant gezien, zien ze er ongeveer zo uit:

De structuur zoals we die zien in Japan is uniek, met scherpe randen en specifieke patronen uit de tijde van het oude Japan. Maar, is er misschien een mogelijkheid dat er een connectie is met structuren buiten deze wereld? Een aantal mensen denkt van wel.

Dan hoeven we in de ruimte niet zo gek ver te kijken want op Mars is er een vrijwel identieke structuur gevonden door NASA.

NASA zelf zegt uiteraard dat wat we daar zien, is gevormd door natuurlijke erosie. Dat is hun standaard antwoord op bijna alles wat op Mars wordt aangetroffen aan vreemde zaken.

De structuur op Mars ziet er ongeveer zo uit:

Wanneer je beide afbeeldingen naast elkaar legt dan krijg je het volgende:

In de volgende video worden er aan de hand van voorbeelden nog meer gelijkenissen getoond tussen de constructie op Mars en de graftomben in Japan.

Toeval? Of was er in oude tijden een relatie tussen de bewoners van Japan en die van Mars?



Bron:

David Icke

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UFO activity over Florida 15-May-2015

Here’s one interesting footage of a bright unidentified flying object or orbs making maneuvers in the daytime sky above Florida. This was taken on 15th May 2015.

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UFO crash in Bolivia witnessed by thousands of people

May 20, 2015 - On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina. Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail. It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away.

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Photograph of El Taire mountain.The crash site is marked with an arrow. (credit: Hesemann)

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The UFO crash in Bolivia. Sketch according to eyewitness reports. (credit: Hesemann)

 Source: Michael Hesemann, 1998

On May 6, 1978, at about 4:15 p.m., something crashed into a mountain near El Taire on the Bermejo River, the border between the Bolivian province of Tarija and Argentina. Thousands of people saw this happening and later described the object as being cylindrical in shape with a flaming tail. It had caused a supersonic bang that was heard up to 150 miles away and that cracked windowpanes as far away as 30 miles in every direction. The next day, the papers were speculating on what had come down in that godforsaken place. The explanations ranged from meteorites to UFOs and belated reentry of some Apollo capsule. All of them referred to statements of eye witnesses.

Then it was announced that the Argentinian authorities had sent the 20th unit of the border police to the area in question to look for wreckage on their side of the border. The search in that mountainous country could last for weeks, so swarms of reporters went to the nearest big town, Aguas Blancas, to take up quarters there and await further developments, as well as to interview eyewitnesses in the town. And in fact, there were a number of witnesses who claimed to have seen the object. Most of them described it as oval or cylindrical and metallic. The army, too, seemed to be convinced that it was a UFO. Corporal Natalio Farfan Ruiz, the commandant of a small border police unit at the little village of La Marmora (800 inhabitants), confirmed the crash to Argentinian reporters saying: "It was about 4:30 p.m. when a cylindrical object made the earth tremble. Just imagine what would have happened if the UFO had fallen on the houses!" Policeman Juan Hurtado had also seen what had happened: "It looked like a gigantic wine container emitting a trace of white smoke. I saw it clearly. It flew directly above my head. I was on duty and at that moment was talking with three engineers from the mine in La Paz, when we saw the object crashing into the El Taire mountain. The impact was so strong that it threw me to the ground. The earth trembled at that moment."

Finally, the Bolivian Air Force sent three single-motored AT6 airplanes—a model from World War II—to the area and discovered the crash site on the southern slope of the El Taire mountain. Whereas the pilots found it impossible to land anywhere near it, the newspaper Clarin of Buenos Aires announced on May 14, that the object had been found. As proof, they quoted the police chief of Tarija: "Our men have discovered the object and inspected it, but have received no instructions for further action. It is a dull metallic cylinder twelve feet long with a few dents. No one knows what is inside it, and we are awaiting the arrival of various technical commissions. A NASA expert is also expected to arrive tomorrow morning."

As a matter of fact, no NASA expert came at Tarija.-Instead, two U.S. Air Force officers, Col. Robert Simmons and Maj. John Heise arrived. According to a newspaper, although these officers were officially on leave, they had been instructed to take the object to the United States in a Hercules C-130 transport machine, which was waiting for them at La Paz. When other newspapers made inquiries at the American Embassy regarding this secret mission of Simmons and Heise they were met with a denial. Only two years later, 5 relevant documents were released by the U.S. State Department: they revealed that Simmons and Heise had been assigned to the military attache of the U.S. Embassy in La Paz and did, in fact, fly to Tarija accompanied by an officer of the Bolivian Air Force, in connection with Project Moon Dust.

The first of these documents was a telex sent by the U.S. Ambassador in Bolivia, Paul H. Boeker, to the State Department. In that, he quoted newspaper reports and requested the department "to ask the relevant agencies whether they could explain what this object could be," adding "during the last week, more and more UFO reports are coming from this region." The answer was a telex classified "secret" dated May 18 in which the U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance personally declared: "Preliminary information has been checked with appropriate government agencies. No direct correlation with known space objects that may have reentered the earth's atmosphere near May 6 can be made. However we are continuing to examine any possibilities."

He then referred the embassy to "State aerogram A-6343" of July 26, 1973, classified 'Secret,' "which provides background information and guidance for dealing with space objects. In particular any information pertaining to the pre-impact observations, direction of trajectory, number of objects observed, time of impact and detailed description, including any markings would be helpful." The next document was a "Moon Dust Message" of the office of the U.S. military attache, dated May 24, addressed to the Division for Foreign Technologies at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the headquarters of the U.S. Air Force at the Pentagon, classified as "confidential NOFORN (No Forwarding To Foreign Nationals)." Under reference Moon Dust, the military attache at La Paz reported that "they had taken pains to verify the press reports. " In addition to that, they had asked the general staff of the Bolivian Air Force and the chiefs of the Bolivian Army who had declared—apparently after a first unsuccessful attempt— "we have sent search troops to the area in question but have found nothing. " The army came to the conclusion that there could have been an object there, or maybe not, but to date they had found nothing. The attache added that he would send two officials to Tarija and promised, "We will keep you informed if anything turns up. " These "two officials," we can assume, were Simmons and Heise.

Regrettably, no further reports concerning the Simmons-Heise expedition were released and, to get a picture of what happened, we are forced to rely on reports in the Argentinian press. Apparently, however, nobody came to the conclusion that a meteorite had hit the earth. At the world-famous Smithsonian Institution there is a data bank of scientific occurrences, or an "alarm network," that keeps track of every volcanic eruption, every earthquake and every meteorite collision since 1973 with painstaking accuracy. The data bank reveals no mention of a meteorite falling during May 1978 at the Bolivian-Argentinian border. The Air Force documents reveal that the 1127th field activities group, which coordinated Project Moon Dust, was interested in another task besides the recoveiy of UFO wrecks and other space objects, represented by the code name HUMINT. This code name, short for Human Intelligence, means the collection of information from human sources through clandestine undercover methods—in contrast to interrogations, reading through files and correspondence, etc. In other words, it meant the collection of information about UFOs from reliable sources through a game of deceit. The method which was chosen to achieve HUMINTs goals was so bizarre that nobody outside the UFO community would believe it. It was the birth of the "Men In Black," subject of a Hollywood blockbuster movie in 1997.

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We Will Live on the Moon in 50 Years, Says Stephen Hawking

British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said last night, in a television show dedicated to the International Space Station (ISS), that in 50 years people will live on the Moon and we will be on our way to Mars, considering that this century will be the “Space Age.”

Professor Hawking believes that the human race will face imminent risk of extinction if other planets will not be colonized because too many people will live on Earth, and the planet can not support an infinite number of people.

Stephen Hawking made ​​the comments during the show “Live from Space: Lap of the Planet,” broadcast on Channel 4 in United Kingdom, during which astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) were broadcast live from the orbit.

The 72-year-old professor said: “Our planet is an old world, threatened with an ever-expanding population and finite resources. We must anticipate these threats and have a plan B.

If our species is to survive the next hundred years, let alone a thousand, it is imperative we voyage out into the blackness of space to colonize new worlds across the cosmos.

If we follow this path, I have no doubt that this century will go down, in the history of humankind, as the true Space Age.”

ISS ranks third among the brightest objects in the sky after the Sun and Moon, and can be seen on clear nights as a bright spot. The show presented British viewers the life and work of astronauts aboard the ISS.

Stephen Hawking, moving with a wheelchair and communicating through a computer and a voice synthesizer, has been diagnosed with a degenerative neural disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) at the age of 21, and doctors said at the time that he had left not more than two or three years. Now Stephen Hawking is one of the most respected scientists in the world, known for his work on black holes and his “Brief History of Time”, which became an international bestseller.

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It's Raining Spiders In Australia, And That Excites UFO Believers

This month, the weather reports from down under are downright terrible for arachnophobes. That’s because the story that it has literally been raining down baby spiders in one part of Australia appears credible, according to scientists.

Clouds of millions of baby spiders were spotted falling out of the sky upon the so-called southern tablelands of New South Wales earlier this month, coating parts of the countryside and even some homes with the strands of their webs that they rode upon the wind.

“What happens is that during a particular time of the year, particularly in May and August, young spiders in the Outback somewhere throw these threads of spiderwebs up in the air and use them as a parachute to detach themselves from the ground and move in large colonies through the sky,” one local retiree named Keith Basterfield told the Goulburn Post newspaper.

Basterfield also took the opportunity to request the public to send him samples of the spider web material, which is also sometimes called “angel hair.” The paper obliged, publishing his post office box where the public can send their samples.

But there’s a hidden, more bizarre side to angel hair that might be compelling this retiree to ask for spider web donations. Basterfield is well known in the UFO research community, having published a few books over the years on the topic. He’s also been cataloging and analyzing Australian instances of angel hair since at least 2001.

Normal cobwebs. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)

Why? Well, it could be because many UFO enthusiasts and researchers believe that some instances of angel hair could actually be a mysterious substance created by the interaction of a UFO or its electromagnetic field with Earth’s atmosphere.

So, there’s that.

But in this particular instance, both Basterfield and scientists seem to be in agreement that what fell onto Australian fields this month was probably drifting spider webs.

Naturalist Martyn Robinson from the Australian Museum told the Sydney Morning Herald that spiders that release a streamer of their silk web into the breeze can sometimes travel long distances this way en masse.

“You can have entire fields and paddocks and trees festooned with this gossamer or Angel Hair, as some people call it,” he said, also stressing that it is unlikely that these flying flocks of spiders are poisonous or otherwise harmful.

Of course, if we’re talking about alien spiders riding on angel hair created by UFO exhaust, perhaps there is some reason for concern.

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Daily UFO Headlines 5/19/15

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• UFO Spotted At PGA Tournament – Huffington Post
• A UFO or sounds from God – just what is that evil-sounding trumpet noise coming from the sky? – Mirror Online
• VIDEO: Sights & sounds at the Pine Bush UFO fair – Times Herald-Record
• It’s Raining Spiders In Australia, And Why That Excites UFO Believers – Forbes
• ‘Area 51′: Watch the Opening Minutes of UFO-Themed Found-Footage Thriller – Yahoo! Movies

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The Great Sphinx of Egypt: Built by a civilization predating the Egyptian?

May 17, 2015 - The Great Sphinx of Giza has, since ancient times, attracted great interest among researchers and tourists alike. This majestic monument eternally gazing at the East, where the sun rises, has caused great curiosity since there is very little knowledge about it. Is the sphinx the product of the ancient Egyptian civilization? Or is it possible that this incredible monument was constructed by an ancient civilization much older than the Egyptian?

Around 1816 and 1818 Captain Giovanni Battista Caviglia performed excavations at the Sphinx and surrounding temples. Due to the proximity to the Pyramid of Khafre, the great sphinx was quickly linked to the figure of the pharaoh of the fourth dynasty, claiming that the face of the Sphinx actually is that of Khufu.

From that day until today, the idea that the Sphinx belongs to the time of Pharaoh Khufu has remained unchanged and mainstream archaeology has not been willing to suggest any other theories explaining the great Sphinx and its origin.

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This majestic monument was carved from a single block of stone, yet there are no written documents that could tell us much about its origin or purpose. The only "written" evidence that exists from ancient times about the sphinx is that of Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, who does not mention that the pharaohs of the fourth dynasty (Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure) were the builders of the Sphinx, nor the Pyramids of Giza. Therefore, we can easily say that there is no written evidence that "its" creators were ancient Egyptians, there are indications however, that the great Sphinx could have been created much before the ancient Egyptians.

The 'Inventory stella' - Found at Ghiza by Auguste Mariette in the 1850's, in the ruins of the Temple of Isis clearly states that Khufu restored the Sphinx. This points to the fact that the Sphinx was constructed much before Khufu and not by him as some suggest. These Stelle reads:

"Long live The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Khufu, given life

He found the house of Isis, Mistress of the Pyramid, by the side of the hollow of Hwran (The Sphinx)

and he built his pyramid beside the temple of this goddess and he built a pyramid for the King's daughter Henutsen beside this temple.

The place of Hwran Horemakhet is on the South side of the House of Isis, Mistress of the pyramid

He restored the statue, all covered in painting, of the guardian of the atmosphere, who guides the winds with his gaze.

He replaced the back part of the Nemes head-dress, which was missing with gilded stone

The figure of this god, cut in stone, is solid and will last to eternity, keeping its face looking always to the East"

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French Egyptologist and Director General of Excavations and Antiquities for the Egyptian government, Gaston Maspero, who surveyed the Sphinx in the 1920s asserted that:

"The Sphinx stela shows, in line thirteen, the cartouche of Khephren. I believe that to indicate an excavation carried out by that prince, following which, the almost certain proof that the Sphinx was already buried in sand by the time of Khafre and his predecessors."

The dream of Thutmose

According to legend, before he was proclaimed king, Thutmose IV fell asleep between the paws of the Sphinx and dreamt Hor-em-akhet-Atum-Khepri was actually his father and that he was destined to be pharaoh. The god promised Tuthmosis the throne if he removed the sand which covering the Sphinx. Tuthmosis agreed and kept his word. He became pharaoh and not only cleared the sand but promoted Ra-Hor-em akhet above Amon-Ra - heralding perhaps the rejection of Amun by Akhenaten in favor of the Aten, which was represented as a sun disk.

Interestingly, according to senior forensic expert Frank Domingo of the New York Police Department, using his own detailed measurements taken of the Sphinx, determined through forensic drawings and computer analysis that the face of the Sphinx and the face seen on signed statues of Khafre could not be one and the same person

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The western wall of the Sphinx enclosure, showing erosion consistently along its length.

Courtesy and copyright of Colin Reader.

Dating the Sphinx accurately, is it possible?

In the early nineties, John Anthony West began questioning the dating of the mysterious Sphinx. He analyzed the erosion marks on the surface of the majestic monument coming to conclusions that have been very difficult to assimilate. In collaboration with geophysicist Thomas Dobecki and geologist Robert Schoch of the Boston University, a thorough analysis of the limestone of the Sphinx was conducted, concluding that the erosion was the result of extensive rain. But when did it rain that much in Egypt? The answer would prove to be a key detail in the accurate dating of the Sphinx. According to experts, extensive rainfall could have occurred in ancient Egypt around 13000 years ago.

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Even though there are numerous theories surrounding the great Sphinx, most of them have not been accepted by mainstream archaeology. Some theories even suggest that both the great pyramids and the Sphinx were once submerged under water. According to archaeologist Sherif El Morsi: “During one of the documentation of the ancient coastline, I almost tripped with a block of the second level of a temple,” said Mr. Morsi in an article published on the website Gigal Research. “To my surprise, the bump on the top surface of the block that almost tripped me was in fact an exoskeleton of a fossil of what appears to be a echinoid (sea urchin) which are marine creatures that live in relatively shallow waters.”

Sherif El Morsi suggests that the Giza plateau was once flooded by a surge. The temple site of Menkare in particular may have been a former lagoon when the sea level covered the Necropolis, the Sphinx, the complex of temples and other monuments of the area. According to El Morsi, the flooding, was quite significant, peaking at about 75 meters above current sea level and creating a coastline spanning to the Khafra enclosure near the Sphinx at the temple of Menkare.

Is it possible that the Sphinx was created by a civilization that predates the ancient Egyptian? Could it be that the Giza plateau was in fact flooded in the distant past? There are numerous mysteries surrounding both the Sphinx and the surrounding monuments, yet one thing has remained unchanged for centuries, the beauty that these majestic structures irradiate.

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Underwater Extraterrestrials: Declassified Russian Navy Records Say They’re Real!

by Locklip

Unidentified submerged objects (USOs) are not as famous as UFOs although they are often encountered, according to declassified Russian Navy records. The common trait of all USO phenomena is that they involve unexplained and technologically advanced objects, far superior to anything we’ve ever built.

The recently declassified documents contain Soviet era reports detailing many cases of possible USO encounters. Former naval officer and Russian UFO researcher Vladimir Azhazha believes these documents are of great value. One of the most interesting cases he examined involved a nuclear submarine on a combat mission in the Southern Pacific. During the routine operation, the submarine detected six unknown objects traveling in formation at speeds in excess of 230 knots (265+ mph). In comparison, the fastest submarine was the Soviet K-222, which reached about 44 knots (51 mph).

The submarine’s sonar determined the objects were heading straight for it so the captain gave the order to surface. The USOs followed them to the surface then flew away. Similar instances have been reported in the region of the Bermuda Triangle, as retired submarine commander Yuri Beketov recalls. On-board instruments often malfunctioned, indicating the presence of strong interference. Many believe this is a clear sign of USO/UFO presence.

• On several occasions the instruments gave reading of material objects moving at incredible speed. Calculations showed speeds of about 230 knots, or 265 mph. Speeding so fast is a challenge even on the surface. But water resistance is much higher. It was like the objects defied the laws of physics. There’s only one explanation: the creatures who built them far surpass us in development,” said Beketov.

Both UFOs and USOs seem to concentrate wherever military operations occur, indicating their interest in humanity’s military arsenal.

Another USO hotspot is Lake Baikal in Russia. The world’s deepest freshwater lake has always had a certain mysterious nature and fishermen tell tales of lights being spotted in its deep waters. Multiple folk tales describe swimmers being dragged down by creatures lurking beneath Baikal’s calm waves.

Another of the Russian documents described the encounter between a group of military divers and several humanoid beings in silver suits. The divers were training in Lake Baikal at a depth of 150 feet (50 meters) when they came upon a group of unknown creatures. The divers went deeper in the pursuit of the humanoids. Three men were killed, while the other four were severely injured.

Vladimir Azhazha believes the issue should be thoroughly investigated. “I think about underwater bases and say: why not? Nothing should be discarded,” says Azhazha. “Skepticism is the easiest way: believe nothing, do nothing. People rarely visit great depths. So it’s very important to analyze what they encounter there.”

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Deze geluiden uit de lucht al gehoord? Experten kunnen ze niet precies verklaren - HLN.be

Door: Joeri Vlemings 

video  Op Youtube circuleren filmpjes met vreemde 'trompetgeluiden' die uit de lucht lijken te komen. Niemand kan echt verklaren wat het is.

De laatste opname komt uit Duitsland, maar het bizarre geluid dook tien jaar geleden ook al op. Het lijkt wat op een mix van een trompet en een remmende trein en zou niet misstaan als achtergrond bij een thriller.

In de Duitse clip van vorige maand staat een kind aan de grond genageld van schrik voor het onheilspellende geluid uit de atmosfeer.

De Canadese Kimberly Wookey trok ook naar YouTube met haar ervaringen: "Dit is al de tweede keer dat ik zelf deze geluiden heb gehoord hier in Terrace BC Canada. De eerste keer was op 19 juni 2013 rond 9u-9u30. Maar dat was niet zo intens toen", schrijft ze. Dit is haar angstaanjagende video.

Metro meldt dat het volgens NASA om "achtergrondgeluiden" van de aarde gaat. "Als mensen radio-antennes zouden hebben in plaats van oren, dan zouden we een opvallende symfonie van vreemde geluiden afkomstig van onze eigen planeet horen. Wetenschappers noemen ze 'tweeks', 'whistlers' en 'sferics'. Ze lijken op achtergrondmuziek bij een flamboyante science fictionfilm, maar het is geen science fiction. De natuurlijke radiogolven van de aarde zijn echt en ze zijn constant rondom ons, ook al zijn we er ons meestal niet van bewust."

The truth is out there...

OVNIs : Special Roswell 2015 - MAJ 19-05-2015

Massale UFO-invasie boven Rio de Janeiro, Brazillië ( Video )

Wat het ook was dat daar op die dag in april boven Rio de Janeiro hing, bijzonder was het wel.

Talloze mensen waren getuige van tientallen, zo niet honderden UFO’s die een bizarre lichtshow boven de stad opvoerden.


De onderstaande video’s zijn een compilatie van opnames gemaakt door de bevolking van Rio de Janeiro op een dag in april dit jaar, onduidelijk is de exacte datum.

Op sommige opnames zie je een enkele UFO, op andere zie je een bonte verzameling van verschillend gekleurde UFO’s die als het ware aan en uit flitsen.

Hier volgen enkele still shots om een idee te krijgen hoe ze eruit zagen.

Niemand heeft enig idee, zoals gebruikelijk, wat die objecten die daar prominent boven een miljoenenstad hangen, zijn.

Er zijn mensen die denken dat dit niets met buitenaardse UFO’s te maken heeft, maar voorbereidingen zijn voor het beruchte Project Bluebeam. Als dat het geval geweest zou zijn dan zou je denken dat dit soort massale UFO vertoningen ook op mainstream televisie in Brazilië zouden verschijnen, maar dat is niet het geval.

En dat is wel vreemd want normaal gesproken zijn die Zuid Amerikaanse televisiestations er als de kippen bij om interessante reportages over UFO’s uit te zenden. Of het moet wel op televisie geweest zijn en wij hebben het gemist, dat kan natuurlijk ook.

Merkwaardig blijft het wel dat de lokale kranten niet vol staan over dat er zo enorm veel onbekende vliegende objecten te zien waren in de lucht. Je zou zeggen dat men graag antwoorden zou willen, maar ook dat gebeurt niet.

Dat de waarneming echt was, blijkt uit de vele verschillende opnames vanaf verschillende locaties. 

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Vreemde radiosignalen maken marineschip vleugellam

Een Amerikaans marineschip bevindt zich ongeveer 50 kilometer van de Filipijnse kust wanneer ineens alles uitvalt, van lichten tot motoren.

Eén van de bemanningsleden vangt een radiosignaal op wat hij niet als aards herkende en wat hij een niet menselijke intelligentie noemde.

De mens heeft een soort aangeboren angst voor het grote open water. Zelfs nu, eeuwen nadat de we kaarten maakte die monsters lieten zien aan het eind van de wereld, blijven een groot deel van oceanen op deze planeet onontgonnen terrein die geheimen herbergen die zelfs de meest ervaren zeelieden de stuipen op het lijf jagen.

Dit is ook het geval met het volgende verhaal.

Het gaat over een man die een tiental jaren lang dienst heeft gedaan bij de Amerikaanse marine en een “vreselijke” ontmoeting had met wat hij noemt een niet menselijke intelligentie.

Deze intelligentie zorgde ervoor dat het schip waarop hij dienst deed zonder stroom en motoren kwam te zitten en de hoge frequentiegolven overnam waarlangs het communicatie verspreidde die als het ware “onder je huid kroop”.

De man zegt dat in de tien jaar dat hij dienst heeft gedaan, hij zoiets nooit eerder heeft gehoord en het ook nooit weer wil horen.

“Ik heb bijna tien jaar lang dienst gedaan en ik ben op dit moment bezig met mijn derde trip naar het westelijk deel van de Stille Oceaan. Ik werk met communicatieapparatuur en breng een groot deel van mijn tijd door met het simpelweg scannen van verschillende frequenties om te kijken wat ik zoals tegenkom”.

“Een paar jaar geleden bevonden we ons ongeveer op een afstand van zo’n 50 kilometer van de Filipijnse kust. We konden die kust net zien aan de horizon en opeens werd het donker en doodstil op het schip want alles was uitgevallen. De verlichting, de motoren, alles. Ik zal niet zeggen dat dit regelmatig voorkomt, maar het is paar keer eerder in mijn carrière voorgekomen en ik maakte mij dan ook niet zo druk. De noodverlichting kwam aan en de UPS (uninterruptible power supply) hield de communicatie in de lucht totdat de monteurs het euvel verholpen zouden hebben”.

Ik richt me dan vervolgens ook weer, zoals gebruikelijk, op het scannen van de HF frequenties. Op dat moment pikt mijn ontvanger iets op. De meest vreselijke, interessante en verschrikkelijke geluiden die ik ooit in mijn leven heb gehoord.

Ik heb van allerlei soorten storingen gehoord en dat was dit niet. Ik heb mensen gehoord die probeerden over een versleuteld circuit te gaan zonder sleutel, maar dat was het ook niet.

De haren in mijn nek gingen recht overeind staan en ik voelde mij klein, heel erg klein. Voor mijn gevoel zat ik daar urenlang, terwijl het geluid als het ware onder mijn huid kroop.

Na ongeveer 5 minuten stopte het geluid plotseling en alles werkte weer normaal aan boord. Ik zal de geluiden die ik gehoord heb nooit vergeten.

Het klinkt heel spookachtig en de man werd gevraagd om een betere omschrijving van het geluid te geven.

“Sorry dat ik eerder niet een betere omschrijving van het geluid heb gegeven. Maar, zelfs na al die jaren voel ik mij ongemakkelijk als ik alleen al aan het geluid denk.

Het was een soort oergeluid, niet menselijk. Alsof er iets heel groots was dat zich probeerde uit te drukken, maar het niet kon bevatten. Ik was er niet echt bang voor. Ik kan het niet goed uitleggen want ik heb nog nooit iets gehoord dat qua geluid zelfs maar in de buurt kwam.

Ik weet ook niet of het iemand was die idiote geluiden uitzond om iemand te pesten of dat het veel enger was vanwege de timing met alles wat aan boord tegelijkertijd ermee uitviel. Ik weet het niet zeker en het spijt mij dat ik het niet beter kan uitleggen”.

Bron:

Sott Net

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UFO Sighting 1955: Disc-Shaped Seen By Senator Richard Russell In The USSR

Senator Richard Russell and US president Richard Nixon

A lot of people know sighting reports about UFOs – a strange object that flies through the air. But not only through the air. U.S. Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr., the Armed Services Committee chairman has spotted a mysterious disc-shaped object taking off from near the tracks when he was on a Soviet. Afterwards, he hastily called his interpreter and military aide to the window and saw the mystifying UFO, and on the minute later, another one has appeared.

The UFO Scene

On October 4, 1955, just after 7 P.M, while on a train, the senator gazed out a window to the south. To his amazement, his eyes focused on a huge disc-shaped object ascending slowly as a flame shot from underneath it. Then, the object raced north in front of the train across the tracks. The first one ascended vertically, at a slow speed, with its outer surface slowly revolving to the right, at an altitude of 6000 feet. The second flying disc has performed the same action. Russell dashed to alert his 2 companions, who looked out to see the second disc. As soon as they were out of Russia, the astounded trio reported the sightings to the U.S. Air Force, but the U.S. government has made the UFO sightings in secret for about thirty years.

Why Government Keep it a Secret?

This is not conclusive, but the reason why the government wanted secrecy behind Ultradimensional and Extraterrestrial Aliens in contact with humans is because of POWER.  Yes, it’s the power and control over others.

According to Maccabee, the long confidential documents are of paramount importance since they show off for the first time in one of the most powerful U.S. Senators who witnessed and reported a UFO sighting. In a report, Col. Hathaway emphasized that the flying disc was his first UFO sighting.

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Man Grilled by UFO? - Alien Abduction at Falcon Lake

A strange UFO alien abduction is documented in the Falcon Lake area where a man is left with what seems like grill marks on him.

A man has an encounter with a spacecraft and is left with strange rectangular burn marks on his chest.

Canada's most documented close encounter with a UFO took place on May 20th 1967, in a forest surrounding Falcon Lake near Winnipeg, Manitoba. Amateur prospector Stephen Mickalak was chipping at some quartz when amazingly, a pair of saucer shaped aircraft approached over the trees, gliding in perfect unison. 

Then one broke away and settled on the rocky ground in front of him. The other hovered directly overhead momentarily, and then took off with incredible speed in a flash of red light, that was witnessed by at least 20 cottagers around the lake.

Mickalak watched in amazement and sketched what he saw as a door hatch opened near the top of the seamless fuselage. Intensely bright violet light spilled out, and the sound of two voices speaking inside was almost drowned out by a loud hum from within. He approached the silvery aircraft, but the door slid shut, and when he reached out to touch it, it melted his glove.

The saucer then rotated until a vent-like grill was aimed directly at Mickalak's chest. The humming sound increased to a loud whirring, and the saucer's glassy surface glowed red hot. The vent suddenly blasted him with such intense heat that his shirt caught fire and his chest was branded with the grill pattern, and then the saucer took off in a bright red flash. 

In addition to the burns that stank of sulfur, he was immediately ill and showed all the signs of radiation sickness. His compass had gone crazy, but he somehow made his way to the hospital where he lost 13 pounds in 2 days, but no radioactivity was detected.

When he was well enough to return to the scene he found the burnt outline of the ship, and within it were several odd-shaped items manufactured of almost pure silver foil, coated with quartz and radioactive uranium crystals. He took soil samples as well, that also tested positive for radiation. 

The Department of National Defence launched a thorough investigation in partnership with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but no satisfactory conclusion has ever been made regarding the origins of the silver artifacts or Mickalak's mysterious burn pattern.

Göbekli Tepe: The Burying Of An Ancient Megalithic Site

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Dr. Rita Louise, Guest
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Why Did Our Ancestors Inter This Ancient Massive Architectural Wonder?

Located at the highest point of the Germus range in the southeastern Anatolia region of Turkey is the mysterious site of Göbekli Tepe. Excavations at Göbekli Tepe commenced in 1995 after German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt realized what was thought to be a Byzantine cemetery was actually a prehistoric site. Schmidt quickly unearthed a number of T-shaped pillars, which set the archeological world ablaze. It was not only the discovery of this ancient massive and magnificent location but also what researchers determined to be the period of its construction. Samples taken placed the earliest parts of the edifice during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period some 12,000 years ago.

Excavations and geomagnetic results of this mountain top complex have revealed at least 20 circular structures. The enclosures all appear to have similar design elements. In the center of each circle stand two monumental t-shaped pillars. They are surrounded by a series of smaller t-shaped limestone pillars that radiate out from the center of each circular chamber and stand against or near a low retaining wall, made up of unworked hewn stones. The pillars vary in height from 3 to 6 meters and weigh between 40 to 60 tons.  Many of them are decorated with pictograms and carvings of animals including lions, bulls, boars, foxes, gazelles, donkeys, snakes, insects, and birds. Included among these carvings are several in which anthropomorphic human figures are depicted. The floors of these enclosures are terrazzo, a mixture of burnt lime and clay that is polished.

The discovery of Göbekli Tepe perplexed archaeologists. How could a group of hunter/gatherers construct such a complex monument? Smaller structures that demonstrated an advancing progression toward this overwhelming achievement are absent from the archeological record. What also confounds them is the realization that the most complex, ornate portions of this unique site are the oldest. Sections that date to later periods of construction show a significant deterioration to the quality of design and artisanship when compared to earlier portions.

Investigations into Göbekli Tepe have primarily focused on why the complex was initially constructed. Was it a ritualistic center?  An astronomical observatory? Or something more? They yearn to explain how our ancestors were able to accomplish such a grandiose feat of architecture and engineering. They seek to reveal the secrets held in the mysterious carving found on the upright pillars.  The answers, like all that has been found at this unique location, have been obscure.

The riddle that surrounds Göbekli Tepe does not end there. Around 8,000 BCE Göbekli Tepe was intentionally buried. Why would our forefathers, after creating such an elaborate complex, decide to backfill it? The reason eludes investigators. Some believe it was covered to preserve it for future generations. Others contend that an outside group with a different belief system invaded the region. This new group hid the site to facilitate the purging of old religious beliefs.

These conjectures may explain why the twenty-two acres that make up the complex were hidden under a mixture of stone tools, animal bones and flint gravel. To unravel why the entire construction was entombed it is important to understand the hearts and minds of our ancestors. What was the world like for our forbearers? What did they hold true? What did they believe in, fear or revere? A concept that was pervasive in antiquity that easily explains why Göbekli Tepe was covered up was because the entire complex may have been considered “taboo”.

Taboo (tabu/tapu) is a Polynesian word that is associated with a person, place or thing that is prohibited or banned. Something can be considered too sacred or too accursed that it is excluded, separated or forbidden. The consequence of interacting with a forbidden item is the threat of supernatural punishment.

The concept of items being prohibited is not limited to Polynesia. The banning of an item in ancient and indigenous cultures is universal. It is only in our current society that the implication of the word taboo has changed. The deeply held belief in divine intervention and retribution often associated with something illicit has been abandoned. We use the word taboo in contemporary vernacular to identify something that is deemed improper, unacceptable or objectionable by society in general. Other than social scorn, the penalties previously tied to something forbidden are no longer applied.

Many things in today’s social climate are seen as being aberrant and are deemed taboo. Worldwide there are rules that prohibit sexual intercourse (incest) between different degrees of kinship. Cannibalism, or the practice of consuming human flesh, still is considered sacrilegious. The same holds true for necrophilia, the sleeping or having sexual relations with a dead person. It has only been in very recent times that our view towards inter-racial, inter-religious or homosexual unions has changed, moving them from being taboo to having varied levels of social acceptability.

Ancient taboos have survived into modern times in many cultures. They are prevalent in Judaism where a large number of prohibitions are still observed by conservative Jews. The consumption of animals that have cloven hooves and chews its cud is permitted in this religious tradition. Camels, rabbit and pork, none of which have both of these qualities, are forbidden. Shellfish, such as lobsters, oysters, shrimp, clams and crabs are all prohibited. Any product that is derived from these forbidden animals, such as their milk, eggs, fat, or organs also cannot be eaten. The Torah bans the consumption of blood. It also forbids eating meat and dairy together.

These prohibitions also extend to the pots, pans, plates and utensils used to cook and eat the food. If a pot or pan, for example, is used to cook meat and then later used to heat milk, it is believed that meat and milk have just been mixed (basar bechalav) and the forbidden status has now been transmitted to the pan, taking away its proper, “kosher” status. The pan is now taboo.

A vast number of things were universally prohibited in antiquity and included touching or coming in contact with a corpse. This rendered the mourners and anyone else involved with the passing of an individual impure. The house the deceased live in, in some cultures, was torn down, burned with all of his or her possessions inside or deserted, never to be used again. Menstruating woman were perceived as being unclean and contact with them was forbidden. Women, during their cycle, were quarantined to prevent contaminating other members of society. To mitigate exposure, huts or tents were erected on the edge of the village and women during this period were required to spend their time in them. Touching a woman during this interval, an item she touched, sat or laid upon would contaminate the other person.

Taboos ruled the lives of our predecessors. Their belief in their power was commanding. There was a mysterious and dangerous quality to them. A person who was exposed to something that was prohibited was perceived as being infected.  The infection they carried was communicable and life threatening. The taboo, like a rampant virus, would infect anyone the contagious individual encountered. Instead of worrying about the aches and pains of a physical malady, they dreaded the retribution of the gods for transgressing a divine command. Stories have emerged of individuals getting sick and dying after being infected by this powerful charm. These stories, like fairy tales, further supported the power taboos held over a community.

Once something was deemed improper or unclean it was only by means of cleansing and ritual purification that its taboo status could be lifted.  The use of water as a vehicle of purification is consistent in most cultures. The act of washing, whether water is sprinkled on the body, the hands and face are washed or the entire body is immersed, seems widespread in eliminating ones unclean or improper status.  Fasting, praying, animal sacrifices and smudging were also methods employed to remove specific taboos.

Not everything that was “unclean” was considered taboo.  Things that were holy fell into this category, rendering persons, places or things prohibited as well.  It is easy to imagine the perceived toxicity of something that is conceived of as being unclean.  It is hard for us to envision how contact with something that is holy would produce the same result.  Sacred items in antiquity were believed to belong to the gods and were forbidden to man.  They were to be avoided, kept away from and not touched.  They were only accessible to a select few.  These ordained individuals fasted and purified themselves prior to contact with the divine.

Hallowed items followed the same rules as unclean ones.  Blood, with the exception of menstrual blood, was inherently viewed as being sacred.  It was the essence of life.  This included human blood as well as animal blood.  It was not to be touched and as we learn from Jewish tradition consumed.  Anything that blood fell upon was rendered taboo making it unusable for common purposes.

This prohibition extended to the individual who shed the blood.  Priests and holy men who performed ritual sacrifice were uniquely qualified to interact with this holy liquid.  Animals were not hunted, caught and killed in the irreverent way they are today.  Rituals were performed before the hunt began as well as when the animals were slaughtered and butchered.  There was a deep respect for the animal and its role in their lives.  The gods were thanked after a successful hunt and the spirit of the animal praised for being willing to participate in their success.

Certain animals (totem animals) were especially revered because they were associated with a god or the presence of a god.  They were not to be killed unless it was part of a ritual sacrifice.  The Hindu text the Manu smṛti, or Laws of Manu, describes what foods were deemed lawful and those that were forbidden in Indian culture.  Eating meat was acceptable if it was done while honoring the gods.  Manu emphasizes that killing an animal for rituals was “non-killing” and acceptable.  On the other hand, if the slaughtering was not in accordance the correct Vedic practice the individual would sink into the depths of hell.

Many cultures required the consumption of the entire ritually sacrificed animal within a prescribed period.  The parts of the animal that were left over, because of their sanctified nature, were burned, buried or otherwise carefully disposed of.  This eliminated the possibility of accidentally coming into contact with something sacred.

A god or other supernatural being was inherently taboo.  Rulers around the world were similarly regarded.  They were perceived to be divine or semi-divine.  The rules associated with the gods applied to their earthly emissaries.  When a god was exposed to an object, the object could no longer be used in everyday “ordinary” life.  It was forbidden in some cultures to look upon a god.  Similarly, if he looked at you, you, your clothes and all that you possessed in that moment were instantly affected.

The names of the gods were never spoken.  We see this reflected in Jewish tradition where uttering God’s name (יהוה – YHVH) is prohibited.  The word Adonai (“my Lord”) or HaShem” (“the Name”) is often substituted to keep from violating this restriction.  And like Moses who removed his sandals when he encountered God on Mount Sinai, it was common practice in many cultures to remove their shoes when walking on sacred ground lest their sandals become transformed.  Contact with hallowed ground would have made their shoes unusable for everyday living.  Priests and other individuals, who regularly were exposed to the divine, often wore special garments that were reserved for that purpose.

• They shall be worn by Aaron and by his sons when they enter the Tent of Meeting or when they approach the altar to serve in the Holy, so they will not bear iniquity and die. It shall be a perpetual statute for him and for his descendants after him.  –  Exodus 28: 43

A god, or his human counterpart, could not be touched; his possessions could not be handled. Likewise, if he touched you or something that belonged to you, its status was instantly changed. The rules of taboo included their home and anything in it.  If a divine agent entered someone’s home, their home became sanctified and no one else could go into it or use it. Even the ground a divinity walked upon was deemed holy. Their fear of unintentionally coming into contact with something sacred was so powerful that it became custom in many regions to carry the god-king upon a littler so his feet did not touch the ground.

This brings us back to Göbekli Tepe and why it was entombed. No written record exists attesting to the grandeur of Göbekli Tepe.  There are no stories, myths or legends referring to it.  The site and its inhabitants have been forgotten, lost in time. Yet the magnificence that has been unearthed on this remote, mountain top testifies to a people, a culture or a god that defies history and with all of is luster it was buried, hidden under tons of debris for 10,000 years.

Scholars suggest that the region had been invaded by an outside culture. Their goal in concealing the complex was to purge the indigenous people of their old religious beliefs.  If this were the case, the site could have been destroyed.  The massive t-shaped pillars could have been knocked over, the enclosing structures dismantled and the delicate stone carvings defaced.  This is not what was found. The entire complex was in virtually pristine condition.  The stones used to construct it were undisturbed, as if it had been preserved in a time capsule, only to be unearthed later.

The sheer effort it took to inter this location suggests something else.  It indicates that something bigger, more important was at stake for the local residents.  Individuals who are diagnosed with a highly contagious disease are immediately put under quarantine.  If the threat of a pandemic were perceived, drastic measures would be taken to contain it.  Would we use nuclear weapons or something worse to eradicate the potential spread of a communicable virus?  Stepping into the hearts and minds of our ancestors, did the people who lived in the Germus range in southeastern Turkey find themselves in a similar situation?

Ancient customs suggests that when an individual died it was commonplace to abandon, desert or destroy his or her home.  It was also a widespread practice to avoid contact with sacred places, including walking on holy ground. Likewise, if the stones used to construct the site were utilized somewhere else their infectious nature would follow. Their obsession over potential contamination may have been so intense that they may have believed they risked divine retribution if a particle of dust from this grand and mysterious site were to blow down from its mountain perch and land on their soil.

Could the inhabitants, from the region surrounding Göbekli Tepe, considered this location so holy, so sacred that when its resident left or died it was decided to bury it and avoid accidental exposure?  Were they saving themselves from potentially spreading a rampant taboo through their society and its associated punishment?  Taken as a whole, it seems clear that the people of the region inhumed the entire complex to save themselves from the wrath of gods and their own potential demise.

About The Author

Bestselling author, Dr. Rita Louise is the host of Just Energy Radio and the Founder of the Institute Of Applied Energetics. She is the author of the books The ET Chronicles,Avoiding The Cosmic 2X4, Dark Angels and The Power Within as well as hundreds of articles that have been published worldwide. She is also the producer of the videos iKon: Deconstructing The Archetypes Of The Ancients, The Truth About The Nephilim and Deceit, Lies & Deception: The Reptilian Agenda. Dr. Rita has appeared on radio and television and has spoken at conferences covering topics such as health and healing, ghosts, intuition, ancient mysteries and the paranormal. For more information about Dr. Rita please visit http://soulhealer.com or listen to her live at http://www.justenergyradio.com.

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Bermuda Triangle

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You can't be a child of the 70s and not be utterly and forever fascinated with the Bermuda Triangle and its mystery.

Although the term “Bermuda Triangle” is not utilized by any military or map-making texts, it is popularly coined as an area of the western Atlantic between Puerto Rico, Miami and Bermuda that creates a triangular shaped location in the ocean of about 500,000 square miles where a great deal of ships and planes have gone missing.

One hundred ships and planes and about 1000 people have gone missing in the past 100 years in this region. Authorities claim this is not an unusual count for a well trafficked are in some tricky water conditions. 

It really caught the public's attention in a big way in 1945 when five Navy Avenger planes went missing. It was listed as pilot error, the squadron following the leader until they ran out of gas, but without recovery or more evidence, it is all a great unknown. In fact, my father had a friend in the Navy who was on one of the planes. He said that his friend was going to take his time off, but my father convinced him to visit his family for the holidays and save his time off. He regretted that advice ever since.

Putting all this mystery into perspective, insurers don't even recognize the Triangle as an issue, as the statistics do not frighten them. More likely, Cape Horn or another deadly region of the ocean would be more questionable.

There was a great deal of publicity and romance involving the Bermuda Triangle to make it a public love affair. I think one of the most significant things is the amount of aircraft that went down, which cannot be accounted for rough seas, and the most unusual cases that perplex. Let's have a look at some of those.

A 1918 cargo ship, the USS Cyclops, went missing with 300 men on board, making it perhaps the largest loss in the Triangle. It was a WWI disaster for America, as the ship went missing and they are certain it went down, but could not find it. It was taking bulk cargo from America to Brazil when it went missing. She came back with a load of manganese ore. But, the ship went missing somewhere around Barbados and left everyone wondering what had become of it. 

Cary Trantham in 1995 was flying her plane in a corner of the Bermuda Triangle when something happened that forever changed her. When she took off from the Florida Keys heading up the coast to visit her daughter, she recalled another pilot telling her of a dead space for radio silence along the coast. She did, however, have an uneventful landing and visit with her daughter, but when she went to fly back home, there was a storm on the horizon. Cary checked with the weather service. They told her to take a different path back.

When she was over Orlando, the plane began to shake wildly. Once she regained control, the sun began to set and she saw the lights of Miami. She was over the everglades when she saw a surface haze. All at once, it was like the entire plane was draped in something and she couldn't see out. Her compass was erratic, her headset was buzzing. She wasn't sure if she was level or not and could not get anyone on the radio – it was dead. Flying with no instruments or communications, she climbed and tried to see if that might help. Finally, a voice came over and helped her out and she was able to land, but not without the memories of the horrible fight to get out of the weird place she had entered.

Cary's experiences are chronicled on her site (below) and her book (below). I highly suggest reading these. 
  

The explanations have run the gamut from some kind of portal/vortex, alien abduction, releasing gases from the floor of the ocean, gravity fields, and more. I think we'd find that, like accidents on the highway, there are dozens of explanations for why and it may have nothing to do with that stretch of roadway in their explanation.

- Movies about it - 

Triangle
Satan's Triangle
Lost Voyage
The Bermuda Triangle
The Triangle
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle
The Fantasy Journey
The Bermuda Depths
Mystery in the Bermuda Triangle
Escape From Atlantis
1313: Bermuda Triangle

More info:
Cary Trantham's book
Cary Trantham's site

**Tomorrow's post is “Alien Bases in Antarctica”**

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A 1200 Year Old Vimana – Alien Flying Machine? (Video)

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We are in Ellora caves in India and I am going to show you a Vimana, which is an ancient flying device. You are in for a big surprise because it is completely different from what we think it is. By the end of this video, I hope you will come to a logical conclusion if such a flying device could have ever been used in the past.

What is special about this 1200 year old carving? It shows a scene from the Hindu epic Ramayana where Ravana, who was the King of Sri Lanka, is shown as flying in the air. According to the scripture, he uses a flying object called “Pushpaka Vimana”. During this flight, he was attacked by a bird called Jatayu, which is also shown in the carving. There is no guess work involved here, because it is all documented in the Hindu epic Ramayana. 

Now, let us take a closer look at how this flying device looks. Instead of an aircraft like machine, it is shown as a much smaller device which is attached to Ravana’s back. Surprisingly, this device looks very similar to a modern day jet pack. How detailed is this carving? 

First, notice how firmly Ravana is fastened to the Vimana using plenty of straps. In his safety harness, there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 straps. Remarkably, you can even see the main strap going from his waist and being securely hooked on to the Vimana. This is the exact same technique that we use today in a jetpack. If you are flying, you wouldn’t want to lose the jetpack in mid-air, would you? You know what would happen if you did. It’s just incredible that the so called primitive people carved these 6 straps, over 1200 years ago.

Now, there is also a circular object carved on this Vimana, that’s very similar to a modern day propeller. You can even see the spinning blades of the propeller. Remember that this is a side view of a scene, which shows only one side of everything. This means that there could have been another propeller on the other side for balance. Again, notice the similarity with the modern day jetpack that uses two rotors on either side. Was this 1200 year old carving created based on an actual working Vimana? Why else would it be so similar to a working jetpack today?

Look at this part at the top of a modern day jetpack. It is called a safety roll bar, which is a gear stick like device used for safe landing. Now, look at the top of the Vimana, a very similar device that looks like a gear stick too. Is this all just a coincidence? Were these carvings done based on pure imagination, or did people carve what they really saw? 

Speaking of creating what you see, let’s take a look at how the Pushpaka Vimana is shown in modern day Indian movies and TV shows. You can see how our generation which is more used to commercial and private planes show it as a small aircraft with wings. This is because the directors create these scenes with machines that they are familiar with. Could this be true with this ancient carving as well? Did ancient people see human like figures flying with devices attached to their backs? Did they simply carve what they saw? I say human like figures because Ravana is defined as a “humanoid” with supernatural capabilities. Were these flying humanoids with complex machines, in fact extraterrestrials? 

This 1200 year old Vimana has almost all the features including a fuel tank, but something very important is missing. For jetpacks or rocket belts to take off from the ground, you need at least two pipes facing downwards that will blow out heat to create a steam powered thrust. This is a crucial piece for a jetpack, so just hold on to that thought that this Vimana does not have that tube or pipe-like extension.

Now, you can see a carving of a horse as a part of the Vimana. There is no way it can be a real horse because it cannot be that much smaller than Ravana and Jatayu, and there is no reason why it would be attached to Ravana’s back. Moreover, notice that this horse is carved facing the opposite direction of Ravana’s flight. What’s the secret behind this mysterious horse that makes no sense at all?

I am going to read a few lines from a Hindu scripture about this horse or mare that’s called Vadavamukha. “This was a lifeless mare with a needle like mouth. It hissed like a snake, breathed fire and spit out hot smoke which blistered human skin”. End of passage from the scripture. This must be the answer to the missing piece. This horse after all, is the mechanical device that pumped out the heat and steam needed for the jet pack to take off. Notice its mouth facing downwards and when it breathes fire or steam, the Vimana would be pushed up in the air.

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Vliegen we binnenkort in vier uur naar de maan?

NASA heeft een nieuwe motor getest die de ruimtevaart revolutionair kan veranderen. De EmDrive heeft geen brandstof nodig, maar zet in plaats daarvan elektriciteit om in micogolven, die vervolgens een ruimteschip voortstuwen.

Deze vorm van aandrijving is bijna een decennium geleden bedacht door de Britse wetenschapper Roger Shawyer, die na zijn uitvinding jarenlang voor gek werd versleten. Toch werden de rechten om de EmDrive te ontwikkelen gekocht door vliegtuigreus Boeing en financierde de Britse overheid de uitwerking van Shawyers ideeën.

Er wordt al jaren gediscussieerd over de vraag of de motor kan werken. NASA heeft onlangs voor het eerst een experiment gedaan waarbij de EmDrive is getest in een vacuüm. Het lijkt erop dat de motor werkt, hoewel niet iedereen het eens is over de interpretatie van de testresultaten.

De EmDrive is vele malen krachtiger dan raketmotoren. Je kunt er in twee tot drie weken in plaats van zeven maanden mee naar Mars vliegen en in slechts vier uur ben je bij de maan. Dat maakt ruimtereizen ineens een heel stuk interessanter.

Het apparaat past in een koffer en kan naar verluidt bijna eeuwig blijven doorvliegen. Shawyer werkt momenteel voor een Brits bedrijf dat zijn onderzoek voortzet. Hij zegt dat in andere landen wordt gewerkt aan soortgelijke apparaten. Vijf jaar geleden claimden de Chinezen dat ze een werkende EmDrive hadden gebouwd, maar niemand geloofde ze.

“Het voorstellingsvermogen is eigenlijk de enige beperkende factor,” zei Shawyer. “Als je niet langer brandstof hoeft mee te nemen, zijn de mogelijkheden immens. Het belangrijkste is dat de EmDrive groen en handig is en in de komende decennia onze wereld zal veranderen.”

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VIDEO: Piloot die Barack Obama rondvloog spreekt zich uit over UFO’s

Andy Danziger, de piloot die Barack Obama rondvloog tijdens zijn presidentscampagne in 2008, zegt dat UFO’s echt bestaan en dat hij er zelf één gezien heeft.

In 1989 vloog Danziger op een dag als copiloot van Kansas City naar Waterloo in Iowa toen hij rechts van hem in de verte een witte schijf achter de wolken zag. Het vliegtuig had net de kruishoogte bereikt en de lucht was helder. Er was verder alleen wat dunne sluierbewolking te zien.

Danziger dacht in eerste instantie aan de maan, aangezien het object bolvormig was. De maan stond echter op een ander punt aan de hemel en was sikkelvormig. Na zo’n 40 minuten begon het vliegtuig te dalen en zag Danziger samen met de piloot plotseling een gigantische rode bol boven de wolken.

Het blijkt dat vrijwel alle piloten wel UFO’s zien in de lucht, maar ze praten er meestal niet over uit angst om hun baan te verliezen of voor gek te worden versleten. Danziger wijst erop dat de overheid elke UFO-waarneming die wordt gedaan ontkracht en dat de media het onderwerp over het algemeen belachelijk maken.

Danziger wordt gesteund door andere piloten. Een vriend van hem zei zelf ook een UFO te hebben gezien en hoopt dat er openheid zal komen, nu Danziger in de openbaarheid is getreden. Hij voegde toe dat het tijd werd dat er eens iemand opstond.

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Roswell UFO Crash Slides Finally Here UPDATE

Original article date: 7th May 2015

ET enthusiasts have long been preparing for the big revelation of the controversial Roswell Slides for the first time.

The highly-contested photographs were allegedly snapped by geologist Bernard A. Ray on a Kodachrome film, which prove the remains of an extraterrestrial recovered dead in New Mexico.

Despite dozens of testimonies from locals and experts, the incident has been generally considered fake. UFO investigator Anthony Bragalia has been making a tremendous effort to find evidence of the authenticity of the incident for many years.

Bragalia claims the creature in the slides isn’t a terrestrial being. On his blog, he revealed that professionals from different disciplines who examined the slides closely agree seeing a small humanoid creature and formerly a living thing that isn’t a prop or genetically defective human.

Bragalia explained that the humanoid wasn’t a deformed person, dummy, mummy, simian or dead serviceman. He added that what is shown in the slides is an actual moment in time in 1947. He said science admitted that there are real slides from that year.

Chase Brandon, a CIA agent for 35 years, believes the evidence revealed on May 5 is worth it. Brandon said that he first saw the slides in a vaulted area, particularly in a box labelled as Roswell.

The so-called Roswell Slides were publicly released at an exclusive live-streamed event in National Auditorium of Mexico City, showing an apparent ET body recovered from the 1947 Roswell UFO crash. Popular Mexican television program Tercer Milenio (with Jaime Maussan) organized the event that attracted world attention.

The slides show an alien-looking body lying horizontally on a glass shelf. The alleged ET body is approximately 4 feet tall, with large eyes, small mouth, enlarged skull, thin arms, legs and torsos. The pictures seem to suggest that they were taken after an autopsy since the internal organs have been removed.

Several medical and photographic experts were present at the event, including former Canadian forensic and academic pathology consultant of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Dr. Richard Doble. He said the photo seems to show a deformed human at first glance but after a closer examination he clearly saw that it has only four pairs of ribs instead of 12 in a normal human being. He added that the hands and feet bone structures were very different to a human.

Photographic and medical experts are convinced that the photos are genuine. The list of experts was presented at the Mexico City event and it included photographic analysis expert Dr. David Rudiak, computer enhancement specialist Dr. Donald Burleson, material expert of the Studio MacBeth Ray Dowing, Col. Jeffrey Tau of Pentagon’s Photo Interpretation Department, and former Director of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography Prof. Rod Slemmons.

Alien Roswell Slides:

1st Update:

• Man Behind 1947’s UFO Roswell Incident Linked to Alien Hoaxes

19th May 2015 UPDATE:

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Nick Redfern on the Roswell Alien Slides

Nick Redfern is a paranormal writer and investigator. In this recent interview, Nick shares his personal experience with the promoters of old slides they believe may depict an alien. He also talks about some of his history and what is in store for him in the future.

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• Roswell UFO Crash Slides Finally Here
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The Vimana, flying machines from ancient India

According to Dr. V. Raghavan, former professor of Sanskrit at the University of Madras, there are countless documents in Sanskrit, dating back thousands of years, that proved that extraterrestrial beings were in ancient India thousands of years ago. There extraterrestrial visitors were referred to as Gods. And these gods had numerous weapons and technologies that were interpreted by ancient people as heavenly.

But not only due to ancient text have the aerodynamic qualities of these Vimana but there are also texts that talk about how these flying machines can be built. The Ramayana indicates that 16 types of metals are needed to build a Viana, here on Earth we only have three of the metals mentioned in the sacred texts.

According to researchers, these ancient texts also refer to incredible technologies like anti gravity. Dr. Ruth Reyna of the University of Chandrigarh managed to translate some of the texts written in Sanskrit that make reference to "anti-gravitational" forces. Technology that the Yogis developed to "levitate". According to research, the same anti-gravitational force is what allowed the Vimana to move freely through space.

The Viana are mentioned in several other texts, apart from Hindu mythology, indicating that these flying machines of the gods were a possibility thousands of years ago. Doctor Raghavan says that the technology was brought by beings from other planets thousands of years ago at a time when the Anunnaki lived among people and the Sumeria culture flushed in ancient Mesopotamia. 

Many Ufologists believe that the Vimana are what we today refer to as "flying saucers". These mysterious vehicles are piloted by otherworldly beings and we can find proof of them in ancient texts across the globe, like the Sanskrit where the flying machines are mentioned in detail. Researchers believe that there are many other texts that have not been translated yet, and hold important details regarding otherworldly visitations and their technology thousands of years ago.

Those who came from above" is, in Sumerian language, Anunnaki. Ancient Astronaut theorists believe that the Anunnaki showed the Sumerians, then the Babylonians, how to build and manage these sophisticated machines. Some believe that his knowledge extended all the way to ancient India pointing towards the iconography of some Hindu gods and some mythological accounts as being evidence of a possible connection to the ancient Anunnaki.

And if ancient texts don't convince you about ancient flying machines, then check out the incredible similarities between NASA's new Orion capsule and the ancient Indian Vimanas.

Below, the image of the Orion Capsule.

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Former NASA officials reveal the best kept secret of the US government?

As revealed by the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Ken Johnston, former manager of the Data and Photo Control Department at NASA’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the manned Apollo Lunar Program and Richard Hoagland, a former consultant of NASA, uncovered the secret at a conference held at the National Press Club in Washington. Both of them were involved in the Apollo missions, Hoagland in particular, who presided the Apollo moon landing transmission on television.

Skeptics have already attacked both Johnston and Hoagland suggesting that they have little to none evidence that can support their claims. But is there a chance that they might be right? And that there is something happening on the moon?

Johnston confirmed that, in the 70s, American astronauts saw and recorded “vestiges of human constructions of antiquity” on the moon and photographed some of the technological evidence found on the surface. After the astronauts brought back the images to Earth, they were handed over to Johnston, responsible for the conservation of the images. Even though some officials had ordered Johnston to destroy the images he kept them as a secret. Nearly forty years after, Johnston decided to publish these pictures. He accused NASA of editing original images of the Moon and replacing them with fake images where the structures on the moon had been erased.

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The official photos underwent special treatment and, particularly those of the moon landing, which were eventually modified. According to Hoagland, the Apollo mission astronauts even brought back physical evidence of extraterrestrial technology, advancements that have already been incorporated and are used by countries such as the United States, Russia, China, India and Japan. The United States astronauts brought back from the moon, clear evidence of structures, and items.

Johnston believes that a new round of struggle will have its outcome and, unlike political competition with Russia 50 years ago, this outcome will decide the fate of each and every human being on Earth. Hoagland stated clearly that besides the truth hidden on the Moon, there are several pieces of evidence that point to the existence of life and traces of life on the red planet. Adding to the mystery, packages 698,699 and 700 where the moon landing records were kept have vanished from sight.

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Whether these two individuals are right about their theories and are telling the truth is something that we will perhaps, not known. But we have to accept for a fact that the moon missions have been, since the beginning, surrounded by numerous enigmas. Why we have not been to the moon recently is another quest that nobody seems to address.

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See the Norwegian Town at the Center of a UFO Mania

Film still from the documentary "The Portal: The Hessdalen Light Phenomenon" (2009). Directed by Terje Toftenes

In Norway's Hessdalen valley, strange lights have sparked a photographer's interest.

Hessdalen, a valley in the Norwegian countryside, isn’t in the pristine north or by the magnificent fjords in the west. It’s, in fact, an unremarkable place of scrubby, low-lying hills; a former mining center that has slipped into depression and depopulation. It is unremarkable — except for the strange and unexplained lights.

They appear in the sky, moving slowly, separating and reforming, winking in and out. At other times they shoot down the valley and disappear, or simply switch on for a moment and vanish. I know what you’re thinking — but there’s video footage.

Word of the phenomena didn’t leave this tight-knit, insular community for quite a while. But in December 1981, the lights shone brighter, outsiders took notice, and the press descended.

The town attracted both legit scientists and spectators from across Europe. “Most people are [just] enthusiasts,” Norwegian photographer Ivar Kvaal tells TIME, “but I have also met the oddball fanatic. It’s divided. Most of the villagers are sane and honest.”

Kvaal says that “some of the villagers have hopes of making some money from UFO tourism. They tried to run a small gift shop, but it had to close. Now you can get souvenirs at the local pub, when it’s open.” Mostly, what the town has gotten is ridicule, which made it especially hard for Kvaal to gain people’s trust.

Theories for these occurrences abound: the light comes from ionized gases in the atmosphere, or ball lightning, or decaying radon. The earth itself is acting like a giant battery — which some say could be tapped for clean energy. And, of course, others believe these are aliens.

Kvaal isn’t interested in any of these theories. He’s never seen the lights himself. “I’m interested in how the lights have affected the community and the people,” he says.

This is instead, as Mark Durant writes of the work, “a meditation on the human desire to experience the otherworldly.”

Through a mixture of documentary photos, archival material, still lifes and portraits of believers, Kvaal creates a quiet but suggestive series about, in Durant’s words, “one of those forlorn frontiers where the mysterious and the desperate coincide to produce a new culture of wonder and paranoia.”

One of those frontiers where belief precedes evidence, and where the truth is always just around the corner.

Ivar Kvaal is a photographer based in Oslo.

Myles Little is an associate photo editor at TIME.

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A large fleet of spherical UFO's captured on video over the Philippines

According to numerous witnesses, a large fleet of spherical UFO's hovered over the Philippines

• People do not believe that these mysterious lights were Military Drones
• The Philippine Air Force states that no military tests were performed in the area

60 School Kids Recount Witnessing Non-Humans Emerge From UFO

One of the biggest and most corroborated UFO and alien sightings comes from an encounter where over sixty schoolchildren from the town of Ruwa, Zimbabwe saw spaceships hovering nearby and multiple “non-human” beings emerge from the spacecraft.

On September 16th 1994over sixty schoolchildren were playing outside during break time when they all say they saw a large craft and smaller crafts land in a nearby field. Multiple non-humans also allegedly emerged from the craft according to their statements.

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There is also footage (in the videos linked within this article) of interviews with the children many years after the incident.

The remarkable thing about this story is that all of the children told the exact same story, precisely, as if what had happened really did occur; they were being completely sincere about their experience. Another remarkable fact about this case is that the children’s drawings of what they saw were also extremely consistent with one another. They were, as Dr. Mack points out, clearly telling a story as if it had actually happened – they believed what they were saying and there was no evidence of psychosis or delusion.

Personally, after researching this case and others, I have no doubt that these children were being completely sincere, and that what they said happened really did occur.

Below is quite a shocking clip of some of the children talking to Dr. Mack about what they saw, as well as drawings (left) and some footage with school teachers and administrators. Anybody who has any type of experience with children will know that these children believe what they are saying, and anybody who feels the same way as I do about children would know that something big probably happened here. What adds even more validity to the story is the fact that these children are on a very long list of (completely normal) people who have had real, genuine unexplained encounters.

“They came running up here in such a panic, and even if we staged it they could have not all run together like that. They came up here like a living snake, we were in a staff meeting and we just heard them screaming and screaming… A child cannot make that up.” – Teacher from the school (video below)

“I was very skeptical in the beginning as well, I believed that they had seen something, but I wasn’t prepared to accept that it was anything supernatural, but I think the consistency of what’s been going on indicates that it was more than I was prepared to admit in the beginning.” – A second teacher from the school (video below)

Again, the children in the video are described as being mentally sound, and there are no indications that they were distorting the truth or were confused, or otherwise unable to make an account of what they saw.

“They describe these events like a person talks about something that has happened to them. I can tell that these are people of sound mind telling me something…” (quote continued in the video) -Dr. John Mack, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Some of the children were asked what they got from the experience. One of them answered that they were here to tell us that “we don’t look after the planet properly.” This makes one wonder, were these extraterrestrial beings from another world trying to get children to think about what we are doing to our planet? Out of the various extraterrestrial encounters that have been reported, this type of theme is common among those who have claimed to have had contact with extraterrestrial beings. This was no joke, the child was stricken with a horrible feeling and vision that the world might end, that “all the trees would go down and nobody would be able to breath.” (quote taken from video above)

Quite a scary thought for a child to bear.

Perhaps the beings accidentally came upon these children? Perhaps they meant to? Maybe they were there for other reasons? The fact that all of the adults were in a staff meeting is also intriguing; did these beings purposefully make an appearance, timing it perfectly for when there were no adults around? What do you think the purpose for such an encounter could be?

The video footage above also has footage from some of the children 20 years later speaking about their experience. They are able to communicate clearly and maturely about what happened. I just wanted to re-iterate that here, as it is some important footage of them from another perspective speaking about their experience, years after the event occurred.

“All of a sudden it was just like imaging going through my head, a message, telepathic communication.”

“We met up on many occasions after that, hugged and shook our heads and said that was the most amazing experience of our lives wasn’t it?”

It’s not uncommon for a child to make something up, but when you have more than sixty children doing it with such accuracy, it’s difficult to believe that something extraordinary didn’t happen here.

“I must say that if your listeners could see for themselves the mass of reports coming in from airborne gendarmerie, and from the gendarmerie charged with the job of conducting investigations, all of which reports are being forwarded by us to the CNES (National Center for Space Studies), then they would see that it is all pretty disturbing.” – Former French Minister of Defense, Robert Galley (Dolan, Richard. UFOs For the 21st Century Mind: New York: Richard Dolan Press, 2014.)

There are no official documents that prove the existence of extraterrestrial life, or that intelligent extraterrestrial life is operating these craft. On the other hand, we do have a great deal of evidence lending belief to the idea that some of these craft could indeed be controlled by a non-human intelligence, and this specific case in Zimbabwe is one of many supposed encounters that has so many people believing that we are not alone, and that intelligent extraterrestrial life is, and has been, visiting us for quite some time now.

“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.”  – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee

“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic Western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.” – Dr. Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor

“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after.” – Former Canadian Defense Minister, Paul Hellyer

Below are some more pictures that the children drew; there are also a couple above within the article.

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Senior US senator's report of seeing 'TWO UFOs' was 'covered up' secret documents show

THREE 'highly reliable' US government officials reported seeing TWO UFOs hovering near a train line, but their superiors covered the sightings up, it has emerged.

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ISS astronauts capture spectacular aurora

Astronauts onboard the International Space Station were given a treat – they witnessed one of the most spectacular natural phenomenon on Earth, from space. From onboard the station, Terry Virts also filmed it and took some pictures, so we can all enjoy.

We’ve been recently spoiled by the Tweets of ISS astronauts – Samantha Cristoforetti tweeted pictures of coffee drinking in space for the first time, as well as some amazing shots of the Earth taken from above, while Virts posted some amazing shots of India and the Gange. But this one definitely takes the crown.

• “Flying away from one of the most incredible auroras I’ve seen,” said Virts, “just west of Australia.” In addition to capturing the photo you’re about to see full size, Virts also captured a Vine, which you can see below
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Space oddity: Police feared extraterrestrial attacks at turn of the millennium

IT MIGHT sound more like a script for The X Files than a case for the real-life detectives of Scotland Yard but secret Special Branch files have revealed the Met regarded Mulder and Scully, not to mention Captain Kirk and his Star Trek crew, as threats to national security.

Astronomers Create A Weather Map For Distant Planets

Using data gathered by Kepler space telescope scientists have finally forecasting the daily weather cycles for six distant planets.

These phase variations happens as different parts of the planets are illuminated by its parent star, in much the same way that Earth’ moon cycles going through different phases.

And based on these phases, the discoveries were both spectacular and extreme:       

•    Cloudy for the morning, turning to clear with scorching heat in the afternoon.
•    We determined the weather on these alien worlds by measuring changes as the planets circle their host stars, and identifying the day-night cycle.

Said Lisa Esteves.

•     We traced each of them going through a cycle of phases in which different portions of the planet are illuminated by its star, from fully lit to completely dark.

The exoplanets astronomers observed are situated very close to their host stars, they are expected to rotate counter-clockwise. Therefore, in the case of these massive planets, this causes an eastward movement of the exoplanet’s surface which results in cloud cover during the night but clear skies during the day.

•     As the winds continue to transport the clouds to the day side, they heat up and dissipate, leaving the afternoon sky cloud-free.

Said Esteves. 

•     These winds also push the hot air eastward from the meridian, where it is the middle of the day, resulting in higher temperatures in the afternoon.

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In four of the planets — Kepler-7b, Kepler-8b, Kepler-12b and Kepler-41b — which are much cooler, the astronomers found an excess brightness in the Kepler data that corresponds to when the morning side is visible, most likely because of reflected starlight. The hottest two planets of the six exhibited excess brightness when the evening side is visible.

• By comparing the planets’ previously determined temperatures to the phase cycle measurements provided by Kepler, we found that the excess brightness on the morning side is most likely generated by reflected starlight. These four planets are not hot enough to generate this excess light through thermal emission.

• The excess light seen on the two very hot planets can be explained by thermal emission. A likely explanation is that on these two planets, the winds are moving heat towards the evening side, resulting in the excess brightness.

• Upcoming space missions should reveal many more small planets around bright stars that will make great targets for detailed studies.

Said co-author Ray Jayawardhana.

• Someday soon we hope to be talking about weather reports for alien worlds not much bigger than Earth, and to be making comparisons with our home planet.

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The mysterious monoliths of Asuka

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The mysterious monoliths of Asuka

The village of Asuka is located in the Takaichi District of the Nara Prefecture in Japan. Asuka is an ancient land with historical interest. It has its origins in the Tumulus Period (250-552 AD), also called Kofun jidai, which means Old Mound period. This era of Japanese history is characterised by a particular type of burial mound that was popular at the time; specifically key shaped earthen mounds surrounded by moats. One of the most unique features of Asuka is the multiple carved granite stones in peculiar shapes in various parts of the region. The largest and most unusual of the carved stones is the Masuda-no-iwafune (the ‘rock ship of Masuda’).

The stone carving, which stands near the top of a hill in Asuka, is 11 metres in length, 8 metres in width and 4.7 metres in height, and weighs approximately 800 tonnes. The top of has been completely flattened and there are two one-meter square holes carved into it and a ridge line that is parallel to both holes. At the base of the stone are lattice-shaped indentations which are believed to be related to the process that was used by the builders to flatten the sides of the rock.

So what is the nature of this rock and what is its purpose? Who made it, when and why? Unfortunately, there are no definite answers to those questions, but numerous suggestions have been put forward to account for this unique and unusual structure. 

In the region in which Masuda no iwafune is found, there are many Buddhist temples and shrines that may suggest the carving was made by Buddhists, perhaps for some kind of religious or ceremonial purpose. However, Masuda no iwafune does not resemble the style or construction of any other Buddhist monument.

Another suggestion comes from the name of the rock itself, which translates to ‘the rock ship of Masuda’. It has been suggested that the stone was carved in commemoration of the building of Masuda Lake, which was once located nearby (now drained and part of Kashiwara City). 

Another popular theory is that it was used as an astronomical observation point. Evidence for this perspective comes from the ridge line across the top of the rock which runs parallel to the mountain ridge in Asuka and lines up with the sunset on a certain day of the year called “spring doyou entry”, which occurs 13 days after the sectional solar term ‘Pure Brightness’. This day was important in the lunar calendar and for early Japanese agriculture as it signalled the beginning of the agricultural season. However, this perspective has been largely dismissed by scholars who do not recognise it as an ancient astronomical observing station.

Some historians believe that the rock is just the remains of a tomb that was designed for members of the royal family. However, this does not explain the unusual features, such as the square holes on top, nor have any bodies been found. To account for this, some have suggested it was intended as the entrance of a tomb but was unfinished. 

Interestingly, Masuda no iwafune bears a similarity to another stone block in Japan – the Ishi-no-Hoden megalith, which is situated in Takasago city. The Ishi-no-Hoden megalith measures 6.45m x 5.7 m x 5.45 m, and has similar ridges on the sides but without any visible holes – although some suggest that they are beneath the trees on the top of the rock.

Today, Ishi-no-Hoden is a shrine dedicated to the Shinto god Oshiko Jinja, but no one knows who originally built it and why.

Very little is known about the Masuda no iwafune stone carving and definitive evidence is still lacking with regards to who built it and why. The fact that there are so many other stone slabs and structures in the area suggests that the region was inhabited prior to the Tumulus period, but again, there is no proof to support this perspective. In the end, the true origin and purpose of these enigmatic features of ancient Japan may be lost to the pages of history.

A 1200 Year Old Vimana - Alien Flying Machine?

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We are in Ellora caves in India and I am going to show you a Vimana, which is an ancient flying device. You are in for a big surprise because it is completely different from what we think it is. By the end of this video, I hope you will come to a logical conclusion if such a flying device could have ever been used in the past.

What is special about this 1200 year old carving? It shows a scene from the Hindu epic Ramayana where Ravana, who was the King of Sri Lanka, is shown as flying in the air. According to the scripture, he uses a flying object called "Pushpaka Vimana". During this flight, he was attacked by a bird called Jatayu, which is also shown in the carving. There is no guess work involved here, because it is all documented in the Hindu epic Ramayana. 

Now, let us take a closer look at how this flying device looks. Instead of an aircraft like machine, it is shown as a much smaller device which is attached to Ravana's back. Surprisingly, this device looks very similar to a modern day jet pack. How detailed is this carving? 

First, notice how firmly Ravana is fastened to the Vimana using plenty of straps. In his safety harness, there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 straps. Remarkably, you can even see the main strap going from his waist and being securely hooked on to the Vimana. This is the exact same technique that we use today in a jetpack. If you are flying, you wouldn't want to lose the jetpack in mid-air, would you? You know what would happen if you did. It's just incredible that the so called primitive people carved these 6 straps, over 1200 years ago.

Now, there is also a circular object carved on this Vimana, that's very similar to a modern day propeller. You can even see the spinning blades of the propeller. Remember that this is a side view of a scene, which shows only one side of everything. This means that there could have been another propeller on the other side for balance. Again, notice the similarity with the modern day jetpack that uses two rotors on either side. Was this 1200 year old carving created based on an actual working Vimana? Why else would it be so similar to a working jetpack today?

Look at this part at the top of a modern day jetpack. It is called a safety roll bar, which is a gear stick like device used for safe landing. Now, look at the top of the Vimana, a very similar device that looks like a gear stick too. Is this all just a coincidence? Were these carvings done based on pure imagination, or did people carve what they really saw? 

Speaking of creating what you see, let's take a look at how the Pushpaka Vimana is shown in modern day Indian movies and TV shows. You can see how our generation which is more used to commercial and private planes show it as a small aircraft with wings. This is because the directors create these scenes with machines that they are familiar with. Could this be true with this ancient carving as well? Did ancient people see human like figures flying with devices attached to their backs? Did they simply carve what they saw? I say human like figures because Ravana is defined as a "humanoid" with supernatural capabilities. Were these flying humanoids with complex machines, in fact extraterrestrials? 

This 1200 year old Vimana has almost all the features including a fuel tank, but something very important is missing. For jetpacks or rocket belts to take off from the ground, you need at least two pipes facing downwards that will blow out heat to create a steam powered thrust. This is a crucial piece for a jetpack, so just hold on to that thought that this Vimana does not have that tube or pipe-like extension.

Now, you can see a carving of a horse as a part of the Vimana. There is no way it can be a real horse because it cannot be that much smaller than Ravana and Jatayu, and there is no reason why it would be attached to Ravana's back. Moreover, notice that this horse is carved facing the opposite direction of Ravana's flight. What's the secret behind this mysterious horse that makes no sense at all?

I am going to read a few lines from a Hindu scripture about this horse or mare that's called Vadavamukha. "This was a lifeless mare with a needle like mouth. It hissed like a snake, breathed fire and spit out hot smoke which blistered human skin". End of passage from the scripture. This must be the answer to the missing piece. This horse after all, is the mechanical device that pumped out the heat and steam needed for the jet pack to take off. Notice its mouth facing downwards and when it breathes fire or steam, the Vimana would be pushed up in the air.