Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
Blijf Op De Hoogte!
Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren!
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UFO sightings DOUBLED last month – are the aliens up to something?
Whether it’s a huge black flying saucer hovering over Stonehenge, or tiny dots flying past the Space Stations, aliens were pretty busy last month.
UFO hunting group MUFON says that the number of UFO sightings doubled last month – to 1,179 unexplained craft in June.
That’s a rise from just over 600 in the same period the previous year.
Could we be on the verge of ‘disclosure’ – where world governments finally ‘fess up to the fact they’ve been in cahoots with the little green men for decades?
Probably not, according to Roger Marsh of MUFON, who says, ‘We feel it was directly related to the final two episodes of Season 2 of ‘Hangar 1: The UFO Files,.
‘A very high percentage of the June UFO report surge were historical cases.
‘People were watching our show and decided they finally discovered a place where they could report their encounter.
‘”Some of these are very, very interesting and compelling cases currently under investigation.’
Angela Merkel gedwongen om geheime UFO-files vrij te geven die de overheid probeerde achter te houden
Na jaren juridisch getouwtrek heeft de rechtbank in Leipzig de Duitse Bondsdag opdracht gegeven geheime documenten over UFO’s vrij te geven. De Bondsdag heeft een tijd lang geprobeerd de stukken verborgen te houden.
Eerder maakte het Britse ministerie van Defensie bekend in maart volgend jaar 18 geheime UFO-files te openbaren, hoewel nog niet duidelijk is wanneer het publiek toegang zal krijgen tot de informatie.
In 2008 zei toenmalig minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Wolfgang Schäuble dat de Duitse overheid nooit onderzoek heeft gedaan naar UFO’s en er geen interesse in had. Twee jaar later ontdekte Robert Fleischer van Exopolitik.org dat de wetenschappelijke dienst van het Duitse parlement een speciale afdeling had voor het onderzoek naar buitenaardse intelligenties en UFO’s.
De Duitse blogger Frank Reitemeyer sleepte de Bundestag voor de rechter, die tot op heden probeert de documenten geheim te houden. De stukken bevatten onder meer een samenvatting van feiten over UFO’s en de zoektocht naar aliens en details over een VN-resolutie over een internationaal UFO-onderzoeksagentschap.
De Lions Ground Entertainment Group zei in een videoverklaring: “Het nieuws is een doorbraak voor alle UFO-jagers en -onderzoekers.” Anderen zijn bang dat de echte, oorspronkelijke documenten nooit zullen worden overhandigd.
Schrijver Nigel Watson zei: “Soms verbergen overheden dit soort informatie om operationele procedures of andere geheimen te beschermen, zoals bijvoorbeeld namen van getuigen. In dit geval willen ze misschien niet door laten schemeren dat ze dit onderwerp serieus nemen of dat ze net zo in het duister tasten als de rest.”
“Eén ding is zeker: ze zullen geen geheimen over buitenaardse technologie of lichamen van buitenaardsen onthullen, maar we kunnen altijd blijven hopen,” besloot hij.
De Russen hebben een buitenaardse mummie ( Video )
De Russische KGB ontdekte in het begin van de jaren zestig een buitenaardse mummie in één van de piramides in Giza.
Een mummie die wordt genoemd de “Godsbezoeker” en meer dan 12.000 jaar oud is.
De verhouding tussen Egypte en Rusland is zonder meer goed te noemen. Sinds de crisis rondom het Suezkanaal in 1956 heeft Rusland de kant van Egypte gekozen en dat heeft ze het op bepaalde gebieden geen windeieren gelegd.
Het volgende verhaal is ooit uitgezonden via een documentaire op het Amerikaanse netwerk Sci-Fi in 1998. De documentaire, The Secret KGB Abduction Files, is ook ooit maar eenmalig uitgezonden.
Volgens een team van experts, verbonden aan het televisiestation, zijn de opnames echt.
Het verhaal gaat als volgt:
De Russen hadden in 1961 een expeditie georganiseerd naar Egypte onder de naam ISIS (die naam blijft ook maar overal opduiken). Het team bestond uit Egyptologen en militaire experts. De bedoeling was dat men op zoek ging naar kennis die bestond in het oude Egypte en die de Russen zouden kunnen gebruiken in hun militaire toepassingen.
In diezelfde periode vindt er een vreemde toevalligheid plaats.
Twee Bedoeïenen hadden een graftombe ontdekt in één van de piramides van Giza en waren naar binnen gegaan. De twee werden ziek nadat ze de grafkamer hadden betreden en kwamen in het ziekenhuis terecht.
De twee slachtoffers werden in het ziekenhuis niet alleen door de Egyptische veiligheidsdienst ondervraagd, maar ook de Russische KGB.
De twee Bedoeïenen beweerden dat ze de “Godsbezoeker” hadden ontdekt en dit was uiteraard koren op de molen voor Project ISIS.
Het duurde dan ook niet lang voordat de Russische expeditie zich op weg begaf naar de graftombe zoals je op de volgende afbeeldingen kunt zien.
In de stenen sarcofaag bevond zich een buitenaardse mummie met een lengte van ongeveer 2 meter.
De ouderdom van de mummie werd vastgesteld op zo’n 12.000 jaar, ver voordat volgens onze geschiedenisboeken de piramides werden gebouwd.
Is dit misschien het begin geweest van de prille buitenaardse contacten van Rusland die uiteindelijk hebben geresulteerd in een door president Poetin gesloten overeenkomst met buitenaardsen?
Hieronder volgt de originele documentaire uit 1998 waar het allemaal mee begon.
Did A UFO Experience Unfortunate Event In Rendlesham Forest In 1983?
U.S. Army personnel stationed close to Rendlesham in Suffolk spotted a mysterious metallic triangle in 1983.
Considered as one of the most unusual events in British history, the Rendlesham Forest Incident will be explored in a new film. Rendlesham UFO has been the subject of a government cover-up for two decades.
In 1983, a weird, metallic triangle, dripping molten metal with a large red eye-like light was observed by U.S. Army personnel stationed near Rendlesham in 1983.
Not like most of the reported UFO sightings, it was highlighted by audio recordings from senior U.S. soldiers, who also took some photos of the object they had seen.
One witness claimed to have received a binary code through telepathy but has never been deciphered.
But despite all of these, the Ministry of Defence concluded that natural phenomena were responsible after they investigated the strange incident.
This explanation has never been accepted by some soldiers involved and UFO fans.
Researcher and film director Daniel Simpson said he did investigations regarding the voice recordings before deciding to direct his fictional take on the incident.
Simpson firmly believes that USAF saw something that was not from Earth.
Witness Lt Col Charles Halt went on record to say the same thing.
Simpson said that the Rendlesham UFO Incident is one of the biggest UFO events if not the largest ever recorded along with Roswell case. It happened for 3 consecutive nights, which Simpson has believed being amplified by USAF personnel’s statements. One of them was a lieutenant colonel, who made a voice recording on a Dictaphone as the incident happened.
Retired soldier Colonel Charles Halt said that their security team saw a light that appeared similar to a large red eye, moving through the trees. According to Halt, it started to drip after a few minutes, something analogous to molten metal.
Other witnesses claimed to have experienced losing time period, seen unusual lights and heard howling noises.
Sceptics have argued that the apparent landing marks were just rabbit holes.
Several soldiers described the craft as flying saucer.
Author of the Haynes UFO Investigations Manual, Nigel Watson, said that the Rendlesham case is one of the most fascinating UFO incidents not only in Britain but the entire world. But no one offered substantial evidence to support the apparent crashes, noted Watson. It has been suspected that debris of crashed flying saucers and their alien pilots were taken away by Government retrieval teams.
Hangar 1: The UFO Files – Cops vs. UFOs History Channel, Season 2 Episode 9 5th June 2015
MUFON investigates extraterrestrial incidents involving security officers; The U.S. government’s denial and obfuscation methods escalate from discrediting UFO witnesses to ‘transferring’ military personnel to remote regions of the world.
Majestic 12 (MJ-12) is the code name of a secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft after the Roswell, NM UFO incident.
When President Truman was informed about the crash, he authorized Defense Secretary James Forrestal to set up a committee to investigate and deal with the situation. In 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower became President-elect, he was briefed on Operation Majestic-12. The briefing paper listed a 12-man committee and gave details of the UFO crash in Roswell. The final paragraph stressed the need to ‘avoid public panic at all costs’, confirming that the government was covering up the truth about UFOs.
In 1954, in conjunction with the US military, a ship landed to recover the deceased aliens from the Roswell crash. These ET’s made a pact that assumedly still stands today.
According to the work of Dan Burisch, a treaty was created by a group of beings who stated they time traveled from 45,000 years into the future AND 52,000 years into the future in order to obtain our DNA due to a cataclysm on Earth that wiped out most of humanity. Because they were living in underground bases at the time, only some of these people survived. This treaty is known as TAU-9 and involves the exchange of advanced technology for a limited amount of abductions. As part of their agreement, any abducted person would have amnesia and would not remember any part of the abduction or being aboard any spaceship. Terms of this agreement were set to be renewed every 9 years and has been ongoing since 1958.
Because of his involvement and concern for where America was heading, President Eisenhower warned the world of the power of the military industrial complex in his exiting speech in 1961:
It is estimated that there are at least 200 deep underground bases (DUMBs) throughout the world.
According to Phil Schneider, one of these DUMBs is located in UFO hotspot, Dulce, New Mexico.
Because these bases are so secretive and information about them is hidden from the public, it is assumed that they are created for nefarious reasons, including the preservation of those who have kept us enslaved for thousands of years. Supposition has inferred that once underground, the female menstrual cycle becomes irregular and reproduction would drop off significantly. Additionally, many of these people who have been assured underground base privileges come from similar bloodlines, which would be genetically deficient through inbreeding amongst themselves.
If these are they types of beings who returned from the future to harvest our DNA, then do you really think they are benevolent people? I seriously doubt it. Chances are, THEY were the ones who were responsible for whatever cataclysm that became their demise somewhere in the future and are turning to humanity as we know it today to bail them out.
SafeFriction: Noted UFO researcher Robert Hastings discussed his investigation into a decades-long connection between UFOs and nuclear weapon activity. “You’ve got UFO activity at virtually every type of nuclear weapons site and facility,” Hastings said. To that end, he noted that documents and witness testimony reveal that these encounters happen not just where the actual missiles are housed, but even at nuclear laboratories.
While the idea of UFOs tampering with Earth’s nuclear weapons may sound troubling, Hasting was more optimistic about the trend. He mused, “if these beings are attempting to warn our government of the perils of having nuclear weapons then, to me, that’s an entirely positive development.” However, he stressed that just because UFOs have taken an interest in our nuclear weapons, it does not mean that they could, or would, prevent a nuclear war should one erupt. “What has happened so far is no predictor of future events,” he warned.
The archeologists and other workers on Easter Island have made another strange discovery. This time they have found an elongated head with almond shaped eyes. Why is there no mention of this in mainstream media? Or do we really know the answer to that?
From the article:
Heads Up! An Exciting New Discovery!
“Among the many wonderful insights we have gained during our excavations in Rano Raraku Zone, Interior Quarry Region this new head is the most exciting! Measuring 69cm tall, it is located in Square 6 at a depth of 420cm. When we discovered it the head was standing upright, propped in place with stones, close to the right side of the moai (RR-001-156). The moai, in turn, is unfinished and standing in a basin cut with great skill and care into the bedrock. There was no intention of moving this moai out of the quarry.
The rounded form of the head and its incised, almond-shaped eye is more in keeping with petroglyph styles that with the elongated, rectilinear style of themoai. However, and as the new 3D imagery created by EISP team member Greg Downing of xRES Studio clearly shows, the head style is also very similar to that of Tukuturi (RR-002-030), the famous kneeling statue uncovered by the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition, 1954-55. This incredible new find means that we will now have to reconsider our ideas of moai style.
Other finds during our 2014 seasons include a large shaped block of coral, an obsidian eye of a small carving, more pigments, basalt and obsidian tools, and a bone fishhook. To date, we have also recovered more than 6,000 stone tools (toki)! The analysis of this incredible amount of material is a huge undertaking, and we are hard at work with colleagues on laboratory studies of obsidian, basalt, wood, and carbon. We’ll keep you informed as we make, quite literally, new headway!”
A former NASA astronaut who has walked on the moon has said aliens are not only real but have visited Earth several times. Dr Edgar Mitchell, said he was aware of several UFO visits during his career, but each one had been covered up. The 77-year-old, who was a crew member of the Apollo 14 mission, said sources at the space agency had described aliens as resembling “little people who look strange to us” Dr Mitchell told Kerrang! Radio that human technology was “not nearly as sophisticated” as theirs and had they been hostile, he warned: “We would be been gone by now”.
He said: “There’s not much question at all that there’s life throughout the universe, we are not alone at all. I’m most assured about that. “Have we been able to identify where the other planets are? No, certainly not in our Solar System but we have been able to identify quite a number of planets that could be life bearing planets. “I happen to have been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we’ve been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomena is real. “It’s been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it’s leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it. “I’ve been in military and intelligence circles, who know that beneath the surface of what has been public knowledge, yes we have been visited. “Reading the papers recently, it’s been happening quite a bit.”
Dr Mitchell, along with Apollo 14 Commander Alan Shepard, still holds the record for the longest ever moonwalking session at nine hours and 17 minutes following their 1971 mission. Officials from NASA, were quick to play the comments down. In a statement, a spokesman said: “NASA does not track UFOs. NASA is not involved in any sort of cover up about alien life on this planet or anywhere in the universe. “Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinions on this issue.” NASA means Never A Straight Answer.
Black Knight Satellite Caught Creeping Up on the ISS (VIDEO)
This intriguing video was probably smuggled out of the Russian Federal Space Agency by someone who wanted the truth out there.
NASA would never have released such a video but, as we’ve all come to know, Russia has always been straightforward about the UFO phenomenon. A large number of cases take place in Russia and researchers routinely report them.
The video in question was shot by Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In the lower right of the screen we can see the Progress Cargo Ship slowly approaching the station when an unusual shape becomes visible.
As the strange object draws closer, it becomes obvious that it wasn’t made by man. We’ve never built any craft of that particular shape. It does however resemble the infamous Black Knight Satellite.
Concerned researchers have suspected the existence of an alien satellite orbiting Earth since 1954, three years before the launch of the first man made satellite, Sputnik 1. In fact, observations suggested not one, but two of these watchers were orbiting high above. By 1960, even the United States Department of Defense had recognized this presence.
During humanity’s first orbital flights, the Black Knight made its appearance and was allegedly seen by Gordon Cooper on the last day of his mission. Reports continued sporadically throughout the next decade, until Scottish astronomer and writer Duncan Lunan brought it back into attention.
He decoded an extraterrestrial signal that allegedly came from the Black Knight and translated it into a star map. The map pointed to a star in the constellation Boötes, but the constellation was depicted as it would have looked 13,000 years ago. Therefore, the extraterrestrial satellite must have been orbiting our planet for the past thirteen millennia. The prospect of having been monitored that long is a bit disturbing, to say the least.
Closer inspection reveals the object is solid and strangely-shaped
If half the rumors about the extraterrestrial space probe are true, and the object in the video is indeed the Black Knight, we might be in a tight spot. Word around the UFO community is that this satellite is a watcher tasked with monitoring our technological level. With humanity’s increased presence outside our atmosphere, the Black Knight could communicate that to its makers and draw them here. Even worse, it could take action on its own.
One thing is certain—seeing it floating slowly towards the ISS is a sign that of its interest.
On the other hand, this could be a very unusual incident involving space junk.
“Rotstekeningen bewijzen dat oude Chinezen Amerika duizenden jaren eerder hebben ontdekt dan Columbus”
Al honderden jaren wordt gedacht dat de Italiaanse ontdekkingsreiziger Christoffel Columbus Amerika heeft ontdekt, maar oude rotstekeningen die in de VS zijn gevonden zouden ervoor kunnen zorgen dat de geschiedenis moet worden herschreven.
Wetenschappers hebben oude graveringen gevonden die erop wijzen dat Chinese ontdekkingsreizigers Amerika al ver voor de Europeanen hebben ontdekt. Ze ontdekten pictogrammen die lijken op oude Chinese tekens.
De onderzoekers zeggen dat de rotstekeningen duizenden jaren geleden kunnen zijn gemaakt door Chinese ontdekkingsreizigers. John Ruskamp, een gepensioneerd scheikundige en amateur-epigraaf uit Illinois, stuitte tijdens een bezoek aan het Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico op de ongewone pictogrammen.
Positief contact
Hij claimt dat de pictogrammen erop wijzen dat oude volken uit Azië rond 1300 voor Christus al voet aan wal hebben gezet in Amerika, bijna 2800 jaar voordat de schepen van Columbus de Nieuwe Wereld bereikten.
“Deze oude Chinese tekens in Noord-Amerika kunnen niet nep zijn,” zei Ruskamp. “Ze zijn zeer oud. Deze wetenschappelijke studie bevestigt dat de oude Chinezen meer dan 2500 jaar geleden op een positieve manier contact onderhielden met de indianen en Amerika verkenden. Uit het patroon kunnen we opmaken dat het eerder om een expeditie ging dan om een nederzetting.”
Veel experts reageerden sceptisch op de uitspraken van Ruskamp vanwege het gebrek aan archeologisch bewijs voor de aanwezigheid van oude Chinezen in de Nieuwe Wereld. Ruskamp is niet de eerste die claimt dat de Chinezen Amerika als eerste ontdekten. Luitenant-commandant Gavin Menzies beweerde dat een vloot Chinese schepen in 1421, 70 jaar voor de expeditie van Columbus, naar Noord-Amerika is gevaren.
Verweerd
Ruskamp heeft 84 pictogrammen gevonden die overeenkomen met unieke Chinese vindplaatsen verspreid over de VS. Hij zegt dat veel van deze pictogrammen zijn onderzocht door experts op het gebied van oude Chinese teksten. Ze lijken op vormen van schrift die duizenden jaren geleden verloren zijn gegaan.
Pictogrammen die hij op rotsen in Albuquerque heeft gevonden lijken op een vorm van schrift die de Chinezen na het einde van de Shang-dynastie gebruikten. Ruskamp zegt onder meer Chinese tekens voor honden, bloemen en de aarde te hebben gevonden.
Ruskamp heeft een boek en een paper geschreven over het onderwerp. Hij legt daarin uit dat de graveringen duidelijk zijn verweerd, wat erop wijst dat ze lang geleden zijn gemaakt en niet in de afgelopen 150 jaar.
Enkele dagen geleden, op 6 juli 2015, vond er een vreemde gebeurtenis plaats boven de Russische stad St. Petersburg.
Een studente die brokstukken in de lucht naar beneden zag vallen, was ervan overtuigd dat ze een vliegtuigongeluk zag.
Het was toeval dat Ana Zhmaeva die dag op straat liep, in de lucht keek en daar iets zag dat verdacht veel leek op een botsing tussen twee vliegtuigen.
Het volgende is wat ze zag:
Het lijkt op de filmbeelden die je hieronder ziet of er twee objecten met elkaar in botsing komen, waarna uiteindelijk de brokstukken richting aarde vallen.
Ana Zhmaeva vertelt het volgende: “Toen ik begon met filmen verdwenen de twee UFO’s alsof ze waren geëxplodeerd of tegen elkaar gebotst”.
Vervolgens meldde ze het voorval bij de politie, in de hoop dat die meer informatie hadden. Echter, deze ontkenden dat er sprake zou zijn van een vliegtuigongeluk omdat daar bij hen geen enkele melding van was binnen gekomen. Ook waren er nergens brokstukken gevonden, volgens de politie.
Nu wil het toeval dat er ergens in de buurt die dag klaarblijkelijk wel een vliegshow was, maar ook verkeersleiders ontkennen dat er daar sprake geweest zou zijn van een ongeluk. Volgens hen was alles bij de vliegshow zonder problemen verlopen.
De politie bevestigt wel dat zij de video hebben gezien en zeggen dat ze verder onderzoek gaan doen.
Wanneer je de beelden bekijkt dan is het ook duidelijk dat er enkele objecten tegen elkaar botsen, maar wat voor objecten blijft voorlopig een raadsel.
Nu is St Petersburg ook weer één van die plekken op aarde waar regelmatig UFO’s worden waargenomen. Misschien is dat het geval omdat de Russische president Poetin daar is geboren, wie weet.
Zo waren er in begin april 2012 bijvoorbeeld talloze getuigen die een soort vloot van oranjeachtige UFO’s waarnamen boven de stad. De volgende video is gemaakt op 9 april 2012.
Twee dagen later, op 11 april van dat jaar, was het weer raak:
Wat dat betreft is het dus niet zo vreemd dat er twee van die UFO’s boven St. Petersburg tegen elkaar zouden kunnen botsen. Wat natuurlijk ook nog een mogelijkheid zou kunnen zijn, is dat het geen botsing betreft tussen verschillende UFO’s, maar dat het er één is die explodeert.
Latest Videos and Pics of the Latest Flight Test of NASA’s Flying Saucer
NASA’s latest test flight of its flying saucer in hopes to send humans to Mars safely and efficiently was considered as a partial success of the most ambitious project so far after its parachute failed to open properly.
NASA website statement said that its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) project completed the second flight test when the large saucer-shaped craft splashed down successfully in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
But a problem was encountered during the live recorded launch when the parachute only partially opened. The parachute was intended to slow the craft in descent only.
However, the second test was an improvement on the previous one where the parachute was ripped to shreds after opening, which means that more work should be done before it can be used. The U.S. space agency has until 2035 to improve the flying saucer-shaped craft.
The latest launch has been delayed due to poor or unstable weather conditions near the surface, which prevented the launch of the balloon. The test flight used a balloon to transport the spaceship above Earth’s atmosphere, so calm conditions are needed for the test flight to go ahead.
The craft underwent preliminary tests in June 2014 when it was sent 120,000 feet above Earth, where the thin atmosphere is similar to Mars. The balloon exploded after it reaches the correct height. We’ll keep you updated with more pictures and videos of the test and other tests in the future.
Hangar 1: The UFO Files – The Smoking Gun History Channel, Season 2 Episode 8 22nd May 2015
Hangar 1 investigates the discovery of SOM1-01, a top-secret Special Operations Manual detailing government protocols for recovering extraterrestrial UFOs that have crashed on Earth. Is this the smoking gun we’ve been looking for, proving the government’s knowledge and interaction with UFOs and extraterrestrial life?
Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified by the observer. The United States Air Force, which coined the term in 1952, initially defined UFOs as those objects that remain unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, though the term UFO is often used more generally to describe any sighting unidentifiable to the reporting observer(s). Popular culture frequently takes the term UFO as a synonym for alien spacecraft. Cults have become associated with UFOs, and mythology and folklore have evolved around the phenomenon. Some investigators now prefer to use the broader term unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP), to avoid the confusion and speculative associations that have become attached to UFO. Another widely known acronym for UFO in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian is OVNI.
1) There are an average of 70,000 reported UFO sightings every year, worldwide. That’s an average of 192 per day.
2) No UFO has ever been tracked on radar entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
3) 1 in 5 Americans believe in alien abductions. Interestingly, males are more likely to believe in abductions than females.
4) 1 in 7 Americans say that they, or someone they know, have had an “encounter" with a UFO.
5) According to some UFO aficionados, the Men in Black (MIBs) really do exist, and have been hammering on the doors of alien witnesses ever since the first appearance of flying saucers in 1947.
6) Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
7) Kenneth Arnold Sighting (1947) – Washington, United States Just before 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Kenneth Arnold, a private pilot and a fire control equipment salesman from Boise, Idaho, was taking a flight over the Cascade Mountains looking for the remains of a lost C-46, over which there was a $5,000 reward being offered.
Arnold did not find the missing aircraft but he saw a bright flash of light and spotted nine brilliant objects, with the lead object a little higher than the rest, moving south toward Mount Rainer. He calculated their speed at 1,700 miles per hour which was an impossible speed. The main object looked like a dark crescent; the other eight objects were flat and disc-shaped. Arnold estimated their chain length to be five miles long. They disappeared soon after. A new era of unidentified flying objects began after this widely publicized sighting in the United States. In fact, it was his descriptions that gave rise to the now common terms “flying disk” and “flying saucer.”
8) No discussion on UFOs is complete without mentioning Roswell. It is considered to be the bread and butter of Ufology, and the heart of UFO studies for long. The news spread worldwide about the first alien craft crash. It was considered as the long awaited proof of extraterrestrial intelligence. The Air Force announced being in possession of the flying saucer but later denied, saying it was a weather balloon.
Years later, there was talk of military cover up of an actual UFO crash. A large area filled with debris from wreckage was discovered and the material found was unfamiliar and metallic, unlike anything seen before. Although, theories are composed of conflicting accounts, there were some facts that were clear. Something huge had crashed near Corona. Rumors had it that witnesses were threatened if they revealed what they saw. There were too many witnesses who claimed to have seen alien bodies. There is also enough evidence that autopsie were done on an alien body.
9) One of the most interesting and convincing cases is the abduction of Betty and Barney Hill. The couple was driving home at night on Interstate Route 3 in New Hampshire after a short vacation in Canada, when they noticed a while light in the sky.
Barney got out of the car to look at the object through his binoculars. The light got closer and it looked like a pancake shaped object with windows revealing occupants. They got scared and went back home and realized they had lost a couple of hours without them realizing it.
Betty started having nightmares about aliens and Barney had severe back. A respected psychiatrist in Boston, Massachusetts, felt they were suffering from anxiety syndrome and put them both under hypnosis.
He was convinced that they were abducted by the aliens. During the hypnosis sessions, both revealed separately that they were abducted by bald aliens about five feet tall, green skin and large heads. They said their skin, nail and hair samples were taken. Betty said they inserted a long needle into her naval, which they said was a pregnancy test and Barney had to provide a semen specimen.
One aspect of this investigation that cannot be explained to this day is that in 1963, Betty Hill drew a very detailed map of a star system that was only discovered later in 1969. She said she was shown this map by the aliens. Astronomers at Ohio State University compared their computer generated map with this one and both were completely alike.
Skeptics point out the inconsistencies, including the aliens speaking to Betty in English while Barney said they used some sort of telepathy.
Now, more than forty years later, it could not be proved that it was a hoax.
10) Philip Spencer, a policeman in London, moved to Ilkley Moor after leaving his job. While getting some photographs of the moor, he heard a humming sound and saw a small green creature, around four feet tall. That creature moved away quickly and when Spencer shouted, it turned and waved an arm dismissively, which is when Spencer said he took this photograph. It moved faster than a human. He followed it and saw a huge silver saucer disappear into the clouds. He realized the humming sound was from the saucer.
Later, he realized that he lost more than two hours of his time and his compass also went haywire. The picture was shown to a UFO researcher and a thorough investigation started. Wildlife photography experts and Kodak laboratories revealed that it was no animal and that the object was indeed part of the photo and not superimposed.
Spencer started having weird dreams and under hypnosis, he revealed a fascinating tale of being abducted by an alien and taken aboard the craft and given a medical examination before being released. Spencer could now remember that the picture was taken after his release from the UFO.
One thing that makes the researchers confident that Spencer may not have set the whole thing up was due to the fact that he never wanted publicity or money.
11) The Alien Named “Aleshenka” (1996) – Kashtim, Russia This is a compelling account of an Alien body from Russia. An elderly woman in the village of Kashtim saw a small creature near the Ural Mountains, and the creature was whistling to catch her attention. She took it home. The creature had skin that was gray with dark brown spots on the head. There was no hair, small holes in place of ears, small and flat nose, long fingers with sharp claws, a tiny hole in place of a mouth and no lips. The old woman nursed it back to health. After a couple of weeks, the woman was hospitalized for a psychiatric problem and left her companion at home without food.
Later, the dead body of the being that measured 8 ½ inches in length was found by the police. After testing, doctors claimed that the creature is not could not have been a child.
The body was handed over to Galina Semenkova, head of a UFO expert organization. Galina later said that aliens from a flying saucer demanded the body and she gave it to them.
However, the whereabouts of Aleshenka’s remains are a mystery to this day. Have the aliens really taken it back? Is the mummy under research in some laboratory?
There are several controversies surrounding UFOs. While proponents feel that UFOs are vehicles from other dimensions; skeptics propose the psychological-social hypothesis. There is even the man-made craft hypothesis by some who feel they are nothing but American or Russian aircraft. Fact or Fiction?
12) The first documented UFO sighting is in the Bible. The prophet Ezekiel described a “great cloud with fire enfolding itself, a wheel in the middle of a wheel that descended and fired lightning bolts into the earth.”
13) The first photograph of a UFO was taken in 1883 by astronomer Jose Bonilla in Zacatecas, Mexico.
14) Alexander Hamilton reported a cow being kidnapped by an airship in Le Roy, Kan., in April 1897.
15) Winston Churchill reported a strange airship in Kent, England, Oct. 14, 1912. It was the first case of a UFO being “officially” reported.
16) On Feb. 25, 1942, a large, dark object over the Los Angeles coastline was mistaken for a Japanese attack and drew a barrage of anti-aircraft fire. Memos to President Roosevelt confirmed the existence of unidentified aerial objects.
17) UFOs were often seen and photographed during NASA’s space missions in the 1960s.
18) UFO sightings have been claimed by former President Jimmy Carter, Clyde Tombaough (the astronomer who discovered Pluto) and William Shatner (who claims to have been rescued by aliens who pointed him in the right direction when he was lost in the Mojave Desert).
Germany's parliament has been ordered to release confidential documents about UFOs after a lengthy legal battle.
The existence of the files was disputed as recently as 2008, but a UFO enthusiast discovered evidence to the contrary and pushed for their release.
News of the impending publication has been welcomed by UFO researchers, but some fear they may not be as exciting as hoped.
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Germany's parliament has been ordered to release confidential documents about UFOs, after a lengthy legal battle. A stock image of Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel is shown
The German Supreme Administrative Court in Leipzig ordered the Bundestag to make the UFO files available.
In 2008, Dr Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's Minister of the Interior denied that the German government had ever investigated UFOs, but in 2009, a UFO enthusiast named Robert Fleischer discovered a parliamentary department had been investigating extraterrestrial objects.
A German blogger named Frank Reitemeyer took the Bundestag to court over the secret reports and the dispute has only just been resolved,The Express reported.
No date for the release of information has yet been confirmed.
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In 2008, Dr Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany's Minister of the Interior denied that the German government had ever investigated UFOs (illustrated with a stock image), but in 2009, a UFO enthusiast named Robert Fleischer discovered a parliamentary department about extraterrestrial objects
FAMOUS UFO SIGHTINGS IN THE UK
The British version of Roswell reportedly took place over Christmas in 1980.
It occurred in Rendlesham Forest, which is next to RAF military bases.
Soldiers reportedly saw unusual lights and when they investigated, found a metal object with coloured lights.
But as they approached the 'craft', it moved away, frightening farm animals.
The incident is unexplained, but some people say the lights were reflections from a nearby lighthouse and the craft may have been a secret weapon.
On March 31, 1992, high speed white objects were spotted in the skies and an officer at RAF Cosford and Shawbury spotted a large triangular craft hovering at 200ft, which was humming and shining a spotlight.
The incident was reported to the Ministry of Defence and sceptics say it could be explained by a nearby police tracking helicopter or a Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere.
UFO enthusiasts are already looking forward to March, when the UK's Ministry of Defence will make 18 confidential UFO files available in the National Archive, although there's a chance they may not be accessible by the public.
Some paranormal investigators have greeted the forthcoming German release with enthusiasm, but Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigation Manual, said: 'They won't reveal any secrets about hidden alien technology or alien bodies, but then again we can always hope!'
Mr Watson believes some governments hide UFO-related information to protect other secrets.
'Sometimes governments hide information like this to protect operational procedures or protect non-UFO related secrets, like the capabilities of early warning systems or the names and details of witnesses,' he said.
'In this case perhaps they don't want to show they have taken this subject seriously, or that they are as much in the dark as everyone else.'
It was only in 2005 that the British government admitted conducting a thorough scientific study into UFOs, after years of denial.
'It concluded that unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, do exist, but not flying saucers,' Mr Watson said.
'When, or if the German files are released, it will be interesting to see if they come to similar conclusions.
He told MailOnline: 'I doubt it [the information] will be anything related to the recovery of crashed saucers or clandestine meetings with aliens.
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Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigation Manual, said: 'Sometimes governments hide information like this to protect operational procedures or protect non-UFO related secrets, like the capabilities of early warning systems or the names and details of witnesses.' A stock image of secret documents is shown
'It looks like much of their material is related to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Seti) and the implications of alien contact and whether this relates to UFO sightings in Germany.
'Then again there might be some surprises!'
Mr Reitemeyer told the Berlin Court in 2011: 'I want to know facts and it bothers me that in France, England, USA, Canada, the citizens can see the UFO files, and I am not informed as a German from my German government,' The Huffington Post reported.
Mr Watson said the move 'shows that public pressure, and the work of activists, does eventually work to get these UFO 'secrets' released by Governments.
'In Britain, it literally took decades for most of the UFO files to be released.
'The demand for UFO information is such that governments are forced to respond and the internet is the ideal medium for making this material available, taking pressure off civil servants who have to deal with requests on a daily basis.'
When will we know we have found extraterrestrial life?
This is the "South Pillar" region of the star-forming region called the Carina Nebula. Like cracking open a watermelon and finding its seeds, the infrared telescope "busted open" this murky cloud to reveal star embryos tucked inside finger-like pillars of thick dust.
Credit: NASA
(Phys.org)—As we become more advanced in astronomy, continuously searching and finding lots of potentially habitable extrasolar planets that could harbor alien life, it seems that it's not a matter of if but when we will find extraterrestrial organisms. However, the real tough problem here is: How we could determine if the alien life has really been found? "The question is not so much 'when will we find extraterrestrial life?' But 'when will we know we have found extraterrestrial life?'" Terence Kee, the President of the Astrobiology Society of Britain told Phys.org. "My feeling is that we may indeed find signs of life in a few decades, but whether we will be unambiguously able to identify it as 'extraterrestrial life' - as opposed to terrestrial contamination or abiotic far-from-equilibrium processes - in such a short time-frame, I'm not so sure."
Kee noted that we are able in any realistic sense to detect only life forms that have a terrestrial-based biochemistry, so we would probably bet on bodies that have liquid water and some form of geological free energy source. He puts his hopes on space probes looking at out-of-equilibrium gas distributions in exo-planetary atmospheres. However, any potential findings revealed by these probes would be only an indication, without the capability to definitively determine the existence of alien lifeforms.
We could also turn to meteorites in the ongoing search for E.T. and hope that these rocks came from a parent body that may have harbored life. If we're lucky, relics of life are contained within that sample and have not been destroyed. Kee surprisingly admits that luck is really the key condition here.
"As most of these relics are likely to have been fossilized in some way, we would need to cash in on some more luck so that we can demonstrate sufficient differences between such relics and potential abiotic mechanisms of formation on earth—chemical compositional differences, isotopic ratio's mineral morphologies or, most valuable perhaps, presence of specific molecules which could only be produced by biogenic processes, etcetera," he said.
The biggest challenge is to clearly identify if the life forms existed on the studied meteorites a long time prior to re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Before that is established, any new finding would be just a potential signature of extraterrestrial life. For example, in 2011, Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, claimed he had found the remains of living organisms from a parent celestial body in a rare class of meteorites, called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites.
"The complex filaments found embedded in the CI1 carbonaceous meteorites represent the remains of indigenous microfossils of cyanobacteria," Hoover claimed.
His team used Environmental (ESEM) and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM) to analyze the meteorite samples, studying internal surfaces. For comparison, Hoover compared the samples to those of terrestrial minerals and biological materials.
Hoover's claims sparked controversy and NASA distanced from his conclusions, pointing out his lack of expert peer reviews. The findings were soon debunked after publication.
More recently, two scientists suggested that the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which is studied by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, hosts microbial alien life. The University of Buckingham's Chandra Wickramasinghe and his colleague, Max Wallis of the University of Cardiff, insist that the characteristic features on the comet, including a black, carbon-containing crust and underlying ice; large, smooth 'seas'; flat-bottomed craters and a surface peppered with mega-boulders, might only be explained by the presence of life.
But the last week's claims also sparked skepticism among other scientists specializing in the search for extraterrestrial life, debunking the newly presented hypothesis. The researchers rejecting the new findings emphasize that complex organics are generated in many places in the solar system through photochemistry and this is evidence for anything other than abiotic chemistry.
So far, we haven't found any convincing proof of alien life embedded in meteorites. However, Kee, undeterred by the long-lasting search and continuous skepticism, is looking to the future with hope.
"In order to receive Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket of Astrobiology, we would need to be ready to search as many meteorites as we can get hold of, which we already do. Overall, I reckon we would need to be lucky. But hey, many people have won the lottery. The trick is to keep buying the tickets," Kee concluded.
ET phone Earth! We could be on the verge of answering one of the essential questions of humanity that has captivated our minds for centuries. As we advance in technology the search for extraterrestrial life becomes more sophisticated and promising. But the real frosting on the cake would be finding any signs of an intelligent alien civilization. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project is looking carefully for these signs, listening to the Universe that may be full of potential ET signals. In an interview with astrowatch.net, key figures of alien life hunting discuss the ongoing search for extraterrestrial life. SETI’s Seth Shostak, Paul Shuch, Douglas Vakoch and Gerry Harp talk the odds of finding ETs, explain the famous “Wow!” signal received in 1977 and unveil the future of the search for aliens.
Astrowatch.net: When will we find extraterrestrial life? Will it take less than 20 years as some NASA scientists believe?
Seth Shostak: No one knows, obviously. But based on the speed of our SETI searches, I predicted five years ago, in a talk and a paper, that we could find a signal proving the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence within two dozen years. More recently, NASA says the same thing, but “life” not “intelligent life”. I suspect they’re betting more heavily on finding evidence of microbial life in the solar system.
Paul Shuch: I am less optimistic, short-term, though very hopeful, long-term. I believe SETI is a multigenerational enterprise. We have only had telecommunications technology and radio astronomy for less than an eye-blink, on the cosmic calendar.
Douglas Vakoch: There are three ways we could find life beyond Earth in the next twenty years. As we explore the planets and moons of our own solar system, we could find evidence of microbial life close to home. As our capabilities for detecting atmospheres of planets circling other stars improve, we might find support for life on those distant worlds. And as we use radio telescopes to look for signals from advanced civilizations through SETI, we could find the telltale signs of alien technologies. Of these three search strategies, only SETI has the potential for a discovery as early as tonight. With enough commitment and funding, any of the three approaches could succeed by 2035.
Gerry Harp: It might happen in less than 20 years. If I were to guess, I’d say there is a 50% chance that we will discover life elsewhere within 30 years from now. The first generation of planet-characterization telescopes in space may be coming on line in less than 20 years, but my guess is that life won’t be discovered until the second generation.
The other way life may be discovered is via SETI. Carl Sagan once famously estimated that there are one million transmitting civilizations in the galaxy. Taking this as a working hypothesis, we will be able to test this hypothesis within the next 10 years. I have little doubt that there are so many active civilizations in the galaxy, but again, we may need more sensitive telescopes than the ones we currently have or will have soon to find ET. So once again, I estimate that there is a 50% chance that life will be discovered via SETI in the next 30 years.
There is a substantial chance that within 30 years, we will find life by both methods.
Astrowatch.net: In your opinion, what was the famous “Wow!” signal? Was it really a signal from an alien civilization?
Shuch: That is one of two reasonable hypotheses. The other is that this was a previously undiscovered natural astrophysical phenomenon. Either possibility is exciting, but we are likely never to know which is the case.
Harp: The “Wow!” signal was almost certainly radio frequency interference. The signal failed to pass even the simplest tests to exclude interfering signals from that observation campaign. From another perspective, at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), we see dozens of signals comparable to “Wow!” every day. This is simply because we have much more computational power than they did back when “Wow!” was seen. If the “Wow!” signal were seen today, it would be a yawn. However, there is a silver lining to the “Wow!” signal. “Wow!” has inspired a lot of public interest in SETI. Despite being a not very scientific result, public awareness of “Wow”! has been beneficial to SETI. So I generally think of “Wow!” as being a good thing from that perspective.
Shostak: We cannot say that “Wow!” had anything to do with extraterrestrial intelligence. I was searched for a bit over one minute after first being found, and was not detected again. It was a one-off, and could easily have been terrestrial interference. It’s not good science to make claims that this was due to extraterrestrial beings.
Vakoch: The “Wow!” signal had all the characteristics of a real signal from ET with one critical exception – it never repeated. Without this one essential requirement of science – that observations can be replicated – we have no basis for thinking it was really from an extraterrestrial civilization.
A scan of a color copy of the original computer printout, taken several years after the 1977 arrival of the "Wow!" signal. It was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while he was working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University. The signal appears to have come from an area of the sky with no stars or planets, northwest of the globular cluster M55. Image Credit: The Ohio State University Radio Observatory and the North American AstroPhysical Observatory (NAAPO).
Astrowatch.net: Why the “Wow!” signal is so special? How much it differs from the other ordinary signals we receive every day?
Vakoch: In the SETI Institute’s ongoing search for radio signals from other civilizations, we find promising signals all the time. The critical difference is that we can immediately follow-up to see whether the signal is really coming from a distant star, or whether it’s caused by a satellite in Earth’s orbit or a radio transmitter on Earth. When the “Wow!” signal was detected in 1977, such real-time follow-up was impossible.
Shostak: It’s special because the name is appealing. There were more than 100 other types of signals back then, before we had equipment able to quickly follow up on signals.
Shuch: There are about a half a dozen tests that can be run on received signals to mark them as being of possible extraterrestrial origin. Many detections pass one or a few of these tests, and remain interesting SETI candidates. The “Wow!” signal was the first detection to pass all of the tests to which it was subjected. Of course, even that is not conclusive evidence, because there was no independent confirmation, a necessary condition for certainty.
Harp: It isn’t at all special or different from signals that we observe every day at the ATA. I hope you’re not disappointed that I’m not so impressed by the “Wow!” signal. I think you will find that many professional scientists in the field do not find the “Wow!” signal very convincing. But that doesn’t mean that SETI isn’t a good thing to do. There is still a 50% chance, by my estimates, that our first discovery of life off of our planet will be a discovery of a transmitting civilization.
Astrowatch.net: Do you think that we will receive similar signals in the future?
Shuch: We will in the future; we have in the past. We continue to see a few interesting candidates every year. The “Wow!” was merely the first such phenomenon to be observed, and then extensively sought in follow-on experiments. Until such time as they can be independently verified, all signals are enigmas.
Shostak: Less probable. Many SETI experiments, including ours, have the ability to “follow up” almost immediately. When you can do that, “Wow” type signals don’t seem to occur!
Harp: We see such signals all the time. To answer a different question, we do sometimes observe signals that look even more interesting, from our perspective, than “Wow!” Sometimes the signals that repeat – “Wow!” was not repeatable – that carry on for some time and then disappear. I wish I knew more about such signals, but if we can’t prove a signal really is ET, it is our duty to not make a big deal about it.
Vakoch: We receive promising candidate signals every night, but so far, they don’t repeat, so we have to assume they’re made by humankind.
Astrowatch.net: How close is SETI today to finding signals from an extraterrestrial civilization?
Vakoch: We could find a signal from extraterrestrials any day now. And the search will get better as technology advances. In the next twenty years, we should be able to look closely at about a million stars for signs of advanced civilizations, and that’s a large enough number to have a reasonable chance of finding intelligence in the cosmos, if it’s really out there and trying to make contact.
Harp: Although I am rather conservative about when we will find ET, there is always a chance we will find it today or tomorrow. We are observing with the ATA every day, 12 hours a day. It could happen any time.
Shuch: We are in the phase of developing hardware, software, and other tools for designing and conducting our experiments. We are still in our technological infancy.
Astrowatch.net: What needs to be done to better detect potential signals from ETs?
Shuch: We need to dramatically increase our coverage of the search space, by bringing online many more observing stations, monitoring a wider portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, operating around the clock, and coordinating among themselves to provide independent verification of candidate signals.
Shostak: The real problem is lack of adequate money to do the experiments.
Vakoch: SETI searches through the cosmic static, looking for signals that stand out from the background noise as distinctly artificial, signals that nature can’t create. We need a lot of computing power to sort through all that data. The good news is that computing power increases every year, so the normal trajectory of technological progress is on SETI’s side!
Harp: We need faster signal processing. The ATA is actually not sensitivity limited. We are limited by the large amount of so-called radio frequency interference in our observations. In order to find ET faster, we need to be able to process a larger number of candidate signals and this requires a lot more computational power. If I were king, I would upgrade the electronics at the ATA with a $10 million dollar analysis system to increase our observing speed one hundred-fold. Then we’d crank through observations of the entire sky and find ET in a lot less time.
Seth Shostak is the Senior Astronomer and Director of the Center for SETI Research. He also heads up the International Academy of Astronautics’ SETI Permanent Committee. He’s co-authored a college textbook on astrobiology, and has written three trade books on SETI. In addition, he’s published more than 400 popular articles on science – including regular contributions to both the Huffington Post and Discover Magazine blogs – gives many dozens of talks annually, and is the host of the SETI Institute’s weekly science radio show, “Big Picture Science.”
Paul Shuch is the Executive Director Emeritus of The SETI League, Inc. He is also the principal investigator for the Invitation to ETI, a web-based SETI experiment. He developed the San Marino Scale, an analytical tool for quantifying the significance of transmissions from Earth into Space. He’s the author or editor of more than 650 publications, including a dozen books and roughly 300 papers in various conference proceedings, technical, scholarly and popular journals.
Douglas Vakoch is the Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute. He leads the SETI Institute’s project to compose interstellar messages of the kind that may some day be sent in reply to a signal from extraterrestrials. As a member of the International Institute of Space Law, he examines international policy issues related to sending such responses. He serves as Chair of both the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Study Group on Interstellar Message Construction and the IAA Study Group on Active SETI: Scientific, Technical, Societal, and Legal Dimensions.
Gerry Harp is the Director of the Center for SETI Research. Most of his effort is still focused on doing SETI with the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a radio interferometer telescope owned by the SETI Institute. The technical side of this work involves automated control of the ATA and ultra-high speed digital signal processing systems to isolate weak signals potentially from outer space, from the sometimes strong human-made signals all around us.
Reposted with permission from Astrowatch.net. See the original article here.
BOOMERANG ALIEN CRAFT SPOTTED OVER NEW JERSEYMAY 12, 2015
……. BRIDGEWATER NEW JERSEY
I was driving south on Route 202/206 approaching the high voltage power lines south of I-78. I noticed a very low flying craft up ahead. It was gliding slowly eastbound and had large lights. About ten seconds later the craft came into sight again gliding westbound. I crossed paths with it. It came into view in front of me and I never took my eyes off of it as it glided by. I drove under it as it glided out of view of my windshield. It glided very slowly in my line of sight from left to right for about 4 seconds. I estimate it was about 500 ft off the ground and the “wing” span was at least 100ft. The front end was boomerang shaped. It had five large lights along the boomerang end, one at the tip, one at the center of each “wing” and one at the end of each “wing”. The lights were bright white but did not project any beam of light. I could tell that the craft was more than just a boomerang shape because it was very dark behind the white lights and there was one small blue-ish ring of light about 50ft behind the center white light. I heard no noise as it glided by. I pulled over hoping to see it in the distance but the area where I pulled over had many trees. I drew a sketch of it for my husband but have no way to scan if from home to attach.
NOTE: The above image was a rendering.
This case is under investigation by Ed Dobson of MUFON New Jersey.
Researchers have discovered a mummy belonging to an ancient lost Arctic civilization and artifact that originated in Persia
The new discovery was made at the Zeleny Yar necropolis and further analysis are under way, scientists expect to have new results within the next couple of weeks.
The finding, defined by the government of Yamalo-Nenets district as “sensational”, was conducted in the necropolis Zeleny Yar, near the city of Salekhard, located just above the Arctic Circle, reports The Siberian Times. Archaeologists have discovered a “pit” which is believed to date back to the twelfth-thirteenth century. inside the pit, researchers have come across some sort of cocoon made of birch bark that has not been opened: the researchers suspect it hides a mysterious human being that belonged to a previously unknown civilization to history.
Interestingly, archaeologists have found artifacts in the vicinity that point towards a Persian connection.
Persian artifact and a lost civilization of the Arctic, sensational historical news!
Researchers believe that the human remains found inside the cocoon are wrapped in birch bark, probably containing copper, and in combination with permafrost, produced a “permanent” layer of ice which caused an accidental mummification. Archaeologists suspect that within the casing, which measures 1.3 meters long and 30 centimeters wide, are the hidden remains of a child or teenager from the XII-XIII century.
According to the Siberian Times, the new find matches others discovered at Zeleny Yar, belonging to a mystery medieval civilization with links to Persia despite its position on the edge of the Siberian Arctic. If confirmed, it will be the first mummy from the civilisation found at this intriguing site since 2002.
Alexander Gusev, one of the researchers said: ‘We decided, after consulting with colleagues, to take the find as a whole piece, that is without opening it in the field, taking for further research in the city.’
‘It follows the contours of the human body. If there is really a mummy, the head and skull are likely to be in good condition. We think it is a child, maybe a teenager. The find is now in Salekhard, in the Shemanovsky Museum, in special freezer. We plan to return to Salekhard on 15 July and immediately start the opening of the ‘cocoon’.
Local Vesti.Yamal TV came to the site as the find was made. Their images show it being removed from the ground.
It seems that the amount of discoveries made in the recent years points out that history as we know it is not as accurate as previously thought.
Now, with this discovery in the vicinity of the Arctic circle, archaeologists are a step closer at finding the remains of a unknown civilization that might have inhabited the area in the distant past. Interestingly, among the artifacts discovered were an iron combat knife, silver medallion and a bronze bird figurine and bronze bowls.
Researchers believe that these artifacts date back from the seventh to the ninth centuries. The bronze bowls originated in Persia 3,700 miles to the south-west, dating from the tenth or eleventh centuries.
Official NAVY images of UFO encounter in the Arctic
The incredible images of Unidentified Flying Objects in the Arctic originated from the USS Trepang, SSN 674 in March, 1971.
The following case was made available thanks to John Greenewald from ”The Black Vault” who in turn received the incredible images from researcher Alex Mistretta.
The photos here displayed are evidence of a ”close encounter” between forces of the United States Navy and Unidentified Flying Objects on the ”edge” of the Arctic Ocean in March, 1971.
These images were supposedly taken in March, 1971 from a United States Submarine, the USS Trepang (SSN-674), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine.
The official location where the sighting occurred was between Iceland and Jan Mayen island in the Atlantic Ocean. (Jan Mayen belongs to Norway, and is only inhabited by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian military.)
The UFO sighting occurred by accident as the military was in the region on a routine joint military and ”scientific” expedition. According to reports, the officer who initially spotted the Unidentified Flying Object was John Kilika using the periscope.
So after looking at the images what are your thoughts? When I first looked at the images I was shocked. I have seen thousands of images of alleged UFOs throughout the years, while some of them cannot be explained in any way, some others are certainly fabricated images.
The images made available by Alex Mistretta have certainly puzzled me and seem authentic. Yet, they seem to resemble the movie ”Battleship” at the moment the giant alien ships which were submerged under the ocean, come out underneath the ocean and confront the military.
The USS Trepang sighting will surely become one of the best recorded UFO sightings in history.
Let us know what you think about these images, do you think they are really depicting extraterrestrial vehicles? Or is it possible that another explanation, more ”human” can be attributed?
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AIR FORCE VETERANS CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN OREGON6-17-15
……. FLORENCE OREGON
Shape: Circle Duration:15 minutes
USAF Veteran witnessed a glowing amber pulsating ball floating in a field. While driving my asthmatic wife at 0255 hours, during an asthmatic episode, to open up her lungs. Myself…a USAF veteran, with 4 1/2 years of flight line experience, working night shift, viewing normal flight patterns, witnessed an amber pulsating ball floating in a field to the right of the road we were traveling. The circular light was eye level with me driving my vehicle. The field was around 6 feet lower than the road I was traveling in a valley surrounded my forest.
The ball was glowing an amber color but pulsating light with small light glowing beneath it. The light looked like a dim flame or my best description of it is it looked as if it was a reflection of light off a lake but in the air. To me it looked more like some kind of energy source over a physical object because of the unusual light it was emitting. After questioning what we witnessed we turned around and confirmed our sighting. Because of my wife’s fragile condition, I was unable to park and investigate, and document, the sighting.
Topgeheime foto’s uit 1971 tonen ‘enorme UFO’s’ boven noordpoolgebied
Op internet wordt druk gespeculeerd over een aantal ‘gelekte’ UFO-beelden uit 1971. De foto’s zouden zijn gemaakt vanaf de onderzeeër USS Trepang, die op weg was van IJsland naar het eiland Jan Mayen.
Volgens sommigen zijn de foto’s bewijs voor geheime tests met vliegtuigen, terwijl anderen claimen dat het gaat om buitenaardse schepen die op zoek waren naar olie. De beelden zijn bestudeerd door Alex Mistretta, nadat ze in een Frans paranormaal tijdschrift waren verschenen, meldt de Black Vault.
Driehoekig object boven poolgebied (US Navy)
Mistretta zei dat hij te horen had gekregen dat de foto’s zijn gemaakt vanaf een Amerikaanse onderzeeër die werd bestuurd door admiraal Dean Reynolds. Deze informatie lijkt te kloppen. Op één van de foto’s staat de tekst: ‘Officiële foto. Wordt niet vrijgegeven. CT’.
Reageerder Bill Smillie suggereerde dat alle foto’s hetzelfde object tonen en dat het in staat is om van vorm te veranderen. Schrijver Nigel Watson zei over de beelden: “Dit is een vreemde verzameling foto’s waarop UFO’s zijn te zien die regelmatig worden waargenomen door getuigen van over de hele wereld. Sigaarvormige objecten worden al sinds 1896 gemeld, toen er overal in de VS ‘spookluchtschepen’ werden gespot.”
“Ik weet niet of ze authentiek zijn,” zei Watson. “Ze hebben er wel toe geleid dat UFO-onderzoekers momenteel speculeren dat UFO’s een basis hebben in het poolgebied.”
“Het universum zit vol met gigantische verborgen zwarte gaten”
Röntgentelescoop NuSTAR van NASA heeft onlangs een aantal gigantische zwarte gaten ontdekt. Voorheen waren die aan het zicht onttrokken door stof en gassen.
Volgens wetenschappers van de Universiteit van Durham in Engeland zijn er miljoenen meer ‘superzware’ zwarte gaten in het universum dan eerder werd aangenomen. De vijf ontdekte zwarte gaten bevinden zich in het centrum van sterrenstelsels die op enkele miljoenen lichtjaren van de aarde staan.
Lange tijd hebben astronomen gedacht dat gas en stof superzware zwarte gaten niet aan het zicht konden onttrekken, maar dankzij NuSTAR zijn ze er voor de eerste keer in geslaagd deze verborgen monsters duidelijk te zien.
“We hebben er maar vijf gezien, maar als we de resultaten extrapoleren naar de rest van het universum, is het geschatte aantal enorm,” zei hoofdonderzoeker George Lansbury. NuSTAR bestaat uit twee telescopen die zijn bevestigd aan een satelliet. Omdat het instrument zich in een baan om de aarde bevindt, kan het veel scherper waarnemen dan telescopen op het aardoppervlak.
Het onderzoek is gepubliceerd in The Astrophysical Journal. De wetenschappers gaan NuSTAR nu gebruiken om meer superzware zwarte gaten in het hart van andere sterrenstelsels op te sporen.
Groot ruimteschip boven Mexicaanse vulkaan ( video )
Het verschijnen van grote sigaarvormige ruimteschepen boven vulkanen in Mexico is nog steeds heel bijzonder.
Al meerder malen is vastgelegd hoe dit soort schepen met grote snelheid de krater in duiken.
De Colima is een vulkaan in Mexico. Anders dan de naam doet vermoeden, ligt hij niet in de deelstaat Colima, maar vlak over de grens in Jalisco. De vulkaan heeft twee toppen. De Nevado de Colima is met 4330 meter de hoogste, maar is inactief. De Volcán de Colima ligt ten zuiden van de vorige, is 3830 meter hoog en erg actief. De afgelopen jaren zijn omwonenden regelmatig geëvacueerd wegens eruptiegevaar.
Op 4 juli werd er door de webcam van de Colimavulkaan een bijzonder grote sigaarvormige UFO vastgelegd.
We zeggen wel één, maar tegelijkertijd is er onderin het beeld nog een tweede te zien die de andere kant op schiet.
Naast deze vulkaan wordt ook de Popocatépetl vulkaan druk bezocht door UFO’s. Het is dan ook niet voor niets dat deze beide vulkanen worden genoemd door de Azteken als plaatsen waar de buitenaardsen wonen.
De lokale bevolking in de buurt van deze vulkanen gelooft dan ook dat de Azteken afstammelingen waren van deze buitenaardsen uit de vulkanen.
Oklahoma: News Broadcast Video Caught A UFO Streaking Across the Camera Screen
A UFO caught on video during an Oklahoma City morning news broadcast, and they are asking opinions from the viewers about the mysterious UFO’s identity.
A short 13 second video was posted by KOCO 5 News in Oklahoma City on the morning of March 12, 2015. It shows a mysterious bright object flying across the screen. The video was taken by a camera mounted at the top of Grand Casino, located just east of the city.
The news broadcast presented the live video feed from the Grand Casino camera to show traffic on nearby I-40. All of a sudden, a bright object appears across the screen at a blazing speed. It moves away the screen and off to the right. It seems flying nearby and luminescent the whole time.
The broadcasters seem not noticing the object in the video because they did not mention it. One broadcaster only mentioned about the live camera feed from Grand Casino and then went on to introduce their meteorologist.
It appears that KOCO staff did notice the object while shooting the scene and posted the video of the UFO on their website with the title “Caught on camera: UFO flying through the sky near Shawnee.”
The video description says that they caught a flying object on KOCO 5 News at 6 a.m. during a morning news broadcast. However, no other details included in the report.
Viewers suggested shooting stars, meteors, bugs, fireworks, aircraft, and aliens. One viewer wrote in the comment section that aliens have gambling addictions as well. As of this writing, no one suggested the video as a hoax, perhaps because the news station itself took the video.
Hangar 1: The UFO Files – UFOs Over Texas History Channel, Season 2 Episode 7 22nd May 2015
Texas has been a hotbed for extraordinary UFO activity for decades. As Hangar 1 digs into some of the Lone Star State’s most unusual and best-known cases, patterns point to Texas‘s unique role in a larger government conspiracy.
EXCLUSIVE: MOD to release UK's top secret UFO 'X-Files' that 'could prove aliens exist'
CONFIDENTIAL government reports into Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings - dubbed the "British X-Files" - could be made publicly available within EIGHT months.
Will release of top secret UK UFO files reveal proof of aliens?
The major boost for alien hunters can be exclusively revealed by Express.co.uk on World UFO Day, which campaigners are using to call for the release of all such records globally.
UFO researchers, backed by House of Lords peer, have been fighting for the release of 18 top secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) files about UFO sightings from more than 30 years ago.
The Government faced claims of a cover-up from conspiracy theorists when their release was stalled at the end of 2013.
Some investigators claim the files could provide key evidence of extra-terrestrial life visiting the UK and of specific information about famous controversial sightings such as the Rendlesham Forest incident - a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of one or more craft in Suffolk in late December 1980.
Lord Black of Brentwood, who asked the Government for an update through a Parliamentary question, was assured yesterday - the day before World UFO day - the files would be released by the MoD to the National Archives by March next year.
Alien hunters are confident these records could prove if extra-terrestrial life actually exists, as these were the most secretive files held in the private offices of various Cabinet ministers.
Although the files are being released to the National Archives, it is not yet clear when they will be available for public inspection.
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The files have been top secret for over 30 years
In his Parliamentary question, Lord Black asked: "In relation to the 18 Ministry of Defence files on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) that have yet to be released to the public, what is the originating division of the file reference M9/18; what is the remit of that division in relation to UAP; and what is their latest estimate of when the 18 files will be passed to the National Archives, and then released to the public."
Defence Minister Earl Howe replied: "The originating branch of file reference MO9/18 relates to ministers' private offices. The latest estimate of when the 18 files will be delivered to the National Archives is before March 2016.
"The National Archives will make the necessary judgement about when they release these files to the public."
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The UK "X-Files" are being released
A number of older UFO files held by the UK government have already been released, including details of sightings by officials and police.
Nick Pope, who used to investigate the existence of UFOs for the MoD, said the files should contain some fascinating sightings.
However, referring to what is often called the most famous UFO claim in history - sparked by claims an alien spaceship crashed in New Mexico, US, in 1947 - Mr Pope added the soon-to-be-released files are probably not a "UK Roswell-style UFO in a hangar style cover up".
When the release of the files were stalled in 2014, which the MoD blamed on "additional processing requirements", Mr Pope sympathised with alien researchers.
He said at the time: "This massive delay will have conspiracy theorists up in arms. It looks like the MoD is stalling.
"The suspicion will be that there's a bombshell in these files and that the Ministry does not know how to handle it.
"I can understand why conspiracy theorists will be angry and suspicious."
Mr Pope worked at the MoD for 21 years, but was specifically assigned to investigate UFOs for a three-year period.
He told Express.co.uk today: "Coincidentally, to World UFO Day, the government just announced the date for the release of the final batch of Ministry of Defence UFO files.
"The fact that there is a World UFO Day shows the public's ongoing fascination with one of the great mysteries of our time. Having worked on the MoD's UFO project I'm sorry to say that we don't have any crashed spaceships hidden away in some RAF hangar, as some believe, but we do have some fascinating and unexplained cases in our files."
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Long sought after UK 'X-Files' to be released
The latest estimate of when the 18 files will be delivered to the National Archives is before March 2016.
Defence Minister Earl Howe
Today's World UFO Day is the fifteenth to be held on the anniversary of the Roswell mystery, when a UFO was alleged to have crashed near Roswell in New Mexico in July 1947, before being squirelled away by the military with aliens still inside the craft.
It is then claimed officials covered up the spacecraft's crash as being a downed weather balloon.
The 'Redlesham Forest incident', which is alleged to have taken place near RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1980, saw US Airman First Class John Burroughs, who was stationed there, exposed to radiation after a mystery "UFO visitation".
He has since won damages from the American military, but still wants answers about what happened and hopes they will be in the new files.
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Will files get to the bottom of the Rendlesham Forest Incident?
Pat Frascogna, his lawyer, said: "We know there is information contained in these MoD files about the Rendlesham Forest incident because the MoD clearly indicated so in responding to a Freedom of Information request by John Burroughs last year."
UFO hunters are keeping their eyes firmly on the skies today and tonight to celebrate the global fascination with the flying saucer.
According to the World UFO Day website, it is dedicated to "raising awareness about the undoubted existence of UFO’s and with that intelligent beings from outer space."
It is also part of a campaign to get international governments to "declassify" their so-called confidential "X-Files" on UFO sightings throughout their history.
Are you marking World UFO Day?
Send details, pictures or videos of UFOs spotted on the day to Jon.Austin@express.co.uk or tweet to @JonAustinjourn1.
Government To Release Secret UFO Files Which 'Could Prove Aliens Visited UK'
Details on incidents including one in 1983 where 'alien craft landed in Suffolk'
Ministry of Defence
Files which UFO hunters believe could prove that an alien craft landed in Suffolk in 1980 are to be published by the incident.
UFO hunters have campaigned for the release of 18 files about UFO sightings in the UK ,backed by Lord Black of Brentwood, who was assured in a Parliamentary question that they would be published in March next year.
The files cover alien ‘visits’ such as the Rendlesham Forest Incident in 1983, U.S. Army personnel stationed near Rendlesham in Suffolk saw a strange, metallic triangle which was ‘dripping molten metal’ - and witnessed a light like a ‘huge red eye’.
Unlike most UFO sightings, it was documented in voice recordings from senior American soldiers, who also drew disturbing pictures of the object they saw.
One witness claimed to have telepathically ‘received’ a binary code, which has never been deciphered.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said, ‘Its great that these files will be released but I’m reliably informed that some contain duplicates of documents already made available to the public. It seems very unlikely they will not contain anything like the type of evidence UFO supporters yearn for, like crashed saucers or interviews with aliens.
‘Up to now literally thousands of UK government UFO have been released. In 2005, after years of denial, the government admitted it conducted a thorough scientific study of UFOs, which concluded that unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, do exist, but not flying saucers.
‘An unnamed security contractor carried out the study on behalf of the Defence Intelligence Staff, section DI55, based in Whitehall, London. Codenamed Project Condign, the study was started in December 1996 and completed four years later in March 2000. The findings were published in a four-volume, 460-page report, titled "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the U.K. Air Defence Region."
‘Only 11 copies of the report were produced, and they were circulated to a restricted number of high-ranking Royal Air Force and defence ministry officials. It was so secret that not even the Ministry of Defence's UFO department or the government ministers in charge of the defence ministry were made aware of it.
‘It concluded some sightings were possibly of rare atmospheric phenomena -- pockets of electrically charged plasmas forming in the atmosphere. The plasmas would appear as bright, fast-moving UFOs to observers, but be invisible to radar.
‘At least 10,000 UFO reports collected by the US, Project Blue Book, have been put online and many other governments have released their UFO files. So we have an embarrassment of riches yet these have been largely ignored by UFO researchers, yet they could provide lots of information about types of sightings and their patterns over time and place. The problem is alien saucers and body parts remain as elusive now as they always have been, and it frustrates the hell out of conspiracy mongers and ufologists.
Government To Release Secret UFO Files Which 'Could Prove Aliens Visited UK'
Details on incidents including one in 1983 where 'alien craft landed in Suffolk'
Ministry of Defence
Files which UFO hunters believe could prove that an alien craft landed in Suffolk in 1980 are to be published by the incident.
UFO hunters have campaigned for the release of 18 files about UFO sightings in the UK ,backed by Lord Black of Brentwood, who was assured in a Parliamentary question that they would be published in March next year.
The files cover alien ‘visits’ such as the Rendlesham Forest Incident in 1983, U.S. Army personnel stationed near Rendlesham in Suffolk saw a strange, metallic triangle which was ‘dripping molten metal’ - and witnessed a light like a ‘huge red eye’.
Unlike most UFO sightings, it was documented in voice recordings from senior American soldiers, who also drew disturbing pictures of the object they saw.
One witness claimed to have telepathically ‘received’ a binary code, which has never been deciphered.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said, ‘Its great that these files will be released but I’m reliably informed that some contain duplicates of documents already made available to the public. It seems very unlikely they will not contain anything like the type of evidence UFO supporters yearn for, like crashed saucers or interviews with aliens.
‘Up to now literally thousands of UK government UFO have been released. In 2005, after years of denial, the government admitted it conducted a thorough scientific study of UFOs, which concluded that unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, do exist, but not flying saucers.
‘An unnamed security contractor carried out the study on behalf of the Defence Intelligence Staff, section DI55, based in Whitehall, London. Codenamed Project Condign, the study was started in December 1996 and completed four years later in March 2000. The findings were published in a four-volume, 460-page report, titled "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the U.K. Air Defence Region."
‘Only 11 copies of the report were produced, and they were circulated to a restricted number of high-ranking Royal Air Force and defence ministry officials. It was so secret that not even the Ministry of Defence's UFO department or the government ministers in charge of the defence ministry were made aware of it.
‘It concluded some sightings were possibly of rare atmospheric phenomena -- pockets of electrically charged plasmas forming in the atmosphere. The plasmas would appear as bright, fast-moving UFOs to observers, but be invisible to radar.
‘At least 10,000 UFO reports collected by the US, Project Blue Book, have been put online and many other governments have released their UFO files. So we have an embarrassment of riches yet these have been largely ignored by UFO researchers, yet they could provide lots of information about types of sightings and their patterns over time and place. The problem is alien saucers and body parts remain as elusive now as they always have been, and it frustrates the hell out of conspiracy mongers and ufologists.
The Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy instrument hangs under the wing of a research aircraft. Relying on measurements from the instrument, CIRES Fellow Rainer Volkamer and international colleagues report that halogens, natural chemicals from the ocean, can contribute to much more vigorous atmospheric chemistry than previously understood. The discovery may help explain levels of mercury contamination in the air, on land and in the oceans, and some climate mysteries as well. For a larger version of this image please go here.
Atmospheric mysteries unraveling
It's been difficult to explain patterns of toxic mercury in some parts of the world, such as why there's so much of the toxin deposited into ecosystems from the air in the southeastern United States, even upwind of usual sources. A new analysis led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder shows that one key to understanding mercury's strange behavior may be the unexpected reactivity of naturally occurring halogen compounds from the ocean.
"Atmospheric chemistry involving bromine and iodine is turning out to be much more vigorous than we expected," said CU-Boulder atmospheric chemist Rainer Volkamer, the corresponding author of the new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "These halogen reactions can turn mercury into a form that can rain out of the air onto the ground or into oceans" up to 3.5 times faster than previously estimated, he said.
The new chemistry that Volkamer and his colleagues have uncovered, with the help of an innovative instrument developed at CU-Boulder, may also help scientists better understand a longstanding limitation of global climate models. Those models have difficulty explaining why levels of ozone, a greenhouse gas, were so low before the Industrial Revolution.
"The models have been largely untested for halogen chemistry because we didn't have measurements in the tropical free troposphere before," Volkamer said. "The naturally occurring halogen chemistry can help explain that low ozone because more abundant halogens destroy ozone faster than had previously been realized."
Volkamer is a Fellow of CIRES, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, at CU-Boulder and is an associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. For the new paper, he worked with scientists from the U.S., China, Denmark and England.
The international team relied on a differential optical absorption spectroscopy instruments (DOAS) that Volkamer's research group built to measure tiny amounts of atmospheric chemicals including highly reactive bromine oxide and iodine oxide radicals.
Those radicals are very short-lived in the air, and collecting air samples doesn't work well. DOAS uses solar light, measuring the scattering and absorption of sunlight by gases and particles to identify the chemicals' distinct spectroscopic fingerprints and to quantify extremely small amounts directly in the atmosphere.
Reactions involving those bromine and iodine radicals can turn airborne mercury--emitted by power plants and other sources--into a water-soluble form that can stay high in the atmosphere for a long time. High in the air, the mercury can sweep around the world. Towering thunderstorms can then pull some of that mercury back out of the atmosphere to the ground, lakes or oceans. There, the toxin can accumulate in fish, creating a public health concern.
Volkamer's team's measurements show that the first step in that process, the oxidation of mercury in the atmosphere by bromine, happens up to 3.5 times faster than previously estimated because of halogen sources in oceans. Their work may help explain a mystery: For many pollutants, thunderstorms can rain out the chemicals quickly, so by the end of the storm there's little left in the air. Not so for mercury. Volkamer said its concentration in rainwater remains constant throughout a storm.
"To some extent, because of these halogens, we have a larger pool of oxidized mercury up there," Volkamer said.
Naturally occurring bromine in air aloft illustrates the global interconnectedness between energy choices affecting mercury emissions in developing nations, and mercury deposition in the U.S.
Finally, the measurements will be helpful for climate modelers seeking to improve their understanding of halogen impacts on ozone and other greenhouse gases.
The annual Canadian UFO Survey, prepared by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research, has been collecting data on reports of unidentified flying objects since the late 1980s. Its 25-year analysis of Canadian UFO cases looked at about 15,000 reports from coast to coast, with an average of several hundred per year. Last year, Ufology Research’s 2014 Canadian Survey studied more than 1,000 UFO cases reported in Canada, or almost three cases each day.
But what about Manitoba, by itself?
Last year, in 2014, there were 44 UFO sightings reported in Manitoba. The number per year has varied from as low as only six in 1999 to as many as 124 in 2012. During the 25-year Ufology Research study, covering 1989-2013, there were 1,075 UFO reports from Manitoba.
However, Ufology Research originally had been the local provincial group Ufology Research of Manitoba (UFOROM), created in 1976 through the encouragement of the US-based UFO organization, the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). Ufology Research thus also had access to the UFOROM cases for analyses.
Although unusual objects in the sky have been seen and reported throughout history, the “modern” UFO era began in 1947 when pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing several metallic objects flying over Mount Rainer in Washington. In subsequent years, the then-called “flying saucers” were reported around the globe. Not surprisingly, many sightings were reported in Canada, and many were by observers in Manitoba. The infamous Project Blue Book and related earlier official studies by the US Air Force included many Manitoba reports. Blue Book files have been released to researchers and the Manitoba cases have been extractedIn addition, historical records from newspaper archives, journals and personal diaries have been scoured for reports of unusual aerial objects. These and all other sources were used to add Manitoba reports into a master database for studying what Manitobans have been seeing in the province’s skies.
The oldest account of an odd object over Manitoba took place in the fall of 1792. Explorers David Thompson and Andrew Davy were camped on the shore of Landing Lake, near what is now Thicket Portage. In Thompson’s diary, he recorded that one night he and his companion were surprised by the appearance of a brilliant “meteor of globular form... larger than the Moon.” This object seemed to move directly towards them, descending slightly, and “when within three hundred yards of us, it struck the River ice with a sound like a mass of jelly, was dashed in innumerable luminous pieces and instantly expired.” Thompson noted that the next morning, when they went to see the hole it should have made in the ice, they could not find any sign of the object’s apparent impact on the Earth.
Between then and now, Ufology Research has collected more than 2,000 reports of unidentified flying objects over Manitoba. These reports include observations by people from all walks of life―from farmers, pilots, campers and police. There are reports noted in newspapers, mailed to civilian investigators and posted to Facebook groups. Cases have been obtained from private files, RCMP files, Canadian Forces documents and the National Archives in Ottawa.
It should be emphasized that UFOs classified as Unknown or Unexplained do not imply alien visitation. Each case might have an explanation following further investigation. And of those that remain unexplained, they may remain unexplained, but still are not incontrovertible proof of extraterrestrial intervention or some mysterious natural phenomenon.
The Results
A total of 2,023 Manitoba reports were found in historical records, existing files and modern databases. Of these, most were clustered during the years 1952, 1967, 1975, 1992, 2004 and 2012. Some of these years correspond with UFO report trends elsewhere in the world, although there are some differences.
Breaking down the cases by month, UFO reports peak in Manitoba in July and August, which is what we would expect for a province that has harsh winters. Most sightings occur when the weather is warm and more witnesses are outside, at cottages, campgrounds or when evening sky observing is comfortable.
For the type of UFO reported, the most common was a simple Nocturnal Light (NL) at 54% of the total. This was followed closely by Nocturnal Disc (ND), at 28%. What this means is that at least 82% of all sightings occur at night and that most are simply lights in the night sky. Less than 10% of all cases are Daylight Discs (DD), and are objects reported during the day. Less than 7% of all cases were Close Encounters, where witnesses were within 100 metres of an unusual object
Since previous studies have shown that the density of UFO reports is related to population, it should not be surprising that the largest proportion of Manitoba UFO reports occurred in Winnipeg (38%). However, towns with small populations such as Carman and Sperling made the top five list of UFO “hotspots” in the province, obviously due to the major UFO flap in the Carman area in the 1970s.
The prime time for seeing UFOs in Manitoba was between 10:00 pm and midnight. The average duration of a UFO sighting was about 20 minutes, suggesting that a witness had plenty of time to observe and try and explain the object being observed. Curiously, in cases where the UFO was Unexplained, the average duration of observation is lower, at only about 17 minutes. The average number of witnesses per sighting is 2.08, meaning that the typical case involved two people observing a UFO together
The predominant colour of reported UFOs was white, followed by red, orange and “multicoloured.” The predominant shape reported was “point source” (i.e. a distant light), followed by fireball, sphere and then “irregular.”
For Source of reports, about 37% were reported directly to Ufology Research. National Defence had 8% of the cases, with smaller fractions coming from RCMP, Transport Canada and the National Research Centre in Ottawa. US-based UFO organizations such as MUFON, APRO and NUFORC provided about 25% of the data.
The breakdown of all Manitoba UFO reports by Conclusion is as follows:
NASA Openly Admits Alien Life Exists: Get Ready for Disclosure
Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.
Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:
“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”
It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.
Stofan goes on to say:
“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”
What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, our shadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.
William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.
We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millenia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10 million years old.
We will also learn that chemtrails and GMOs were the LEAST of plans made for us ‘sheeple’ and ‘useless eaters’ by a Luciferian cabal, and that President Harry Truman signed a document with certain ETs that allowed the ‘elite’ to conduct highly technological experiments with intelligence gained from these ETs in exchange for looking the other way when certain humans were abducted for ET experiments.
We will learn that we are not helpless, as we have been programmed to believe. We are, in fact, a rare humanoid race that has an incredible range of emotion and creative power. We will learn that our minds and emotions can either fuel chaos on this planet, or restore it to its rightful place of peace and cooperation, of care for others at least as much as ourselves.
We will learn that our ascension into infinitely peaceful beings is indeed possible, and it has been described in countless books, many of which have been suppressed along with UFO information.
NASA is telling us now that the likelihood of alien life is a ruse. Be sure to remember those who have been executed to try to prove this information to us decades ago, and to use discernment when the truth is finally revealed.
Christina Sarich is a musician, yogi, humanitarian and freelance writer who channels many hours of studying Lao Tzu, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rob Brezny, Miles Davis, and Tom Robbins into interesting tidbits to help you Wake up Your Sleepy Little H }ead, and *See the Big Picture*. Her blog is Yoga for the New World . Her latest book is Pharma Sutra: Healing The Body And Mind Through The Art Of Yoga. Please reprint this article with attribution bio and all links in tact.
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Originally featured on Waking Times. Used here with permission.
Official NAVY images of UFO encounter in the Arctic
The following case was
The incredible images of Unidentified Flying Objects in the Arctic originated from the USS Trepang, SSN 674 in March, 1971.
made available thanks to John Greenewald from "The Black Vault" who in turn received the incredible images from researcher Alex Mistretta.
The photos here displayed are evidence of a "close encounter" between forces of the United States Navy and Unidentified Flying Objects on the "edge" of the Arctic Ocean in March, 1971.
These images were supposedly taken in March, 1971 from a United States Submarine, the USS Trepang (SSN-674), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine.
The official location where the sighting occurred was between Iceland and Jan Mayen island in the Atlantic Ocean. (Jan Mayen belongs to Norway, and is only inhabited by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian military.)
The UFO sighting occurred by accident as the military was in the region on a routine joint military and "scientific" expedition. According to reports, the officer who initially spotted the Unidentified Flying Object was John Kilika using the periscope.
So after looking at the images what are your thoughts? When I first looked at the images I was shocked. I have seen thousands of images of alleged UFOs throughout the years, while some of them cannot be explained in any way, some others are certainly fabricated images.
The images made available by Alex Mistretta have certainly puzzled me and seem authentic. Yet, they seem to resemble the movie "Battleship" at the moment the giant alien ships which were submerged under the ocean, come out underneath the ocean and confront the military.
The USS Trepang sighting will surely become one of the best recorded UFO sightings in history.
Let us know what you think about these images, do you think they are really depicting extraterrestrial vehicles? Or is it possible that another explanation, more "human" can be attributed?
Roswell Anniversary...68 years ago: How the Roswell UFO Theory Got Started
July 8, 2015 - Odds are, if you’re familiar with the city of Roswell, N.M., you’re familiar with what happened there on this day, July 7, in 1947: a rancher named W.W. Brazel told Sheriff George Wilcox that he had found something strange on a sheep ranch northwest of the town. After finding bits of rubber, wood, foil, tape and paper in the field, the Sheriff called the local Army air field, which sent Major Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer, to check it out. Marcel was convinced that Brazel stumbled upon nothing less than the remains of a flying saucer. He told his group commander, who told the press officer on duty, Walter Haut, who sent out a press release. The next day the Roswell Daily Record bore a headline—”RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION”—that instantly turned the town into the nation’s UFO capital.
But there’s a big hitch in that oft-told tale. As TIME reported in an investigation on the 50th anniversary of the incident, the same day that the Daily Record ran the sensational story, it was determined that the litter was from a destroyed weather balloon. The paper printed a follow-up retraction the next day, and Brazel stated that he was embarrassed to have gotten so worked up over nothing.
That should have been that. But not everyone bought the official explanation, as TIME explained in 1997:
Enter Stanton Friedman, a former itinerant nuclear physicist now living in New Brunswick, Canada, who has long been, in his words, “a clear-cut, unambiguous UFOlogist.” In 1978, while waiting in a Baton Rouge, La., television station for an interview, Friedman was told that Jesse Marcel, long retired from the Air Force and living nearby, had once handled the wreckage of a UFO. After quizzing Marcel, who still believed the debris he retrieved was extraterrestrial, Friedman reviewed the old stories about Roswell, painstakingly sought out and interviewed other witnesses, and came to a dramatic conclusion: there had been a cover-up of “cosmic Watergate” proportions. His research and conclusions became the basis of the 1980 book The Roswell Incident, co-written by Charles Berlitz (author of The Bermuda Triangle) and UFO investigator William Moore. Its publication put Roswell back on the map.
The next decades saw the publication of several more Roswell books. Public awareness of the supposed cover-up grew to a point that the Air Force did its own investigation, eventually making public details of a top-secret balloon-tracking project that had been going on during that 1947 period and which they said explained the original wreckage. ( via time.com )
Others clung to their belief that it was a flying saucer—including Walter Haut. Haut, who died in 2007 without ever giving up on the idea of the alien landing, was one of the founders of the city’s UFO Museum.
Interestingly, 5% of the images of unidentified flying objects across the skies of the United States could never be explained. Here, in this article, we show you the most enigmatic images.
These are considered by many ufologists as the best photographs of UFO's ever taken.
While some of the UFO sightings can be explained by weather phenomena or experimental military craft, other UFO sightings have anything but a rational explanation.
1) This image was taken in 1957 near Edwards Air Force Base in California. In the image we can see a disk-shaped object following a B-47 jet.
2) On the 2nd of February in 1942, a very mysterious event took place in Los Angeles. An Unidentified Flying Object had put on red alert the US Navy. Even though military personnel thought it was a Japanese Spy Plane it turned out to be unidentified. The bright spots seen in the images are exploding anti-aircraft shells that were not able to damage the "object".
3) This image was taken in 1951 in New Zealand. Even though most individuals believe the object in the image to be a genuine UFO, the US Air Force concluded that it was a lenticular cloud. What do you think?
4) A fairly "recent" image taken by a passenger from a flight from Hong Kong to southwest China. A disk-shaped object can clearly be seen near the aircraft. While most skeptics believe it to be a photoshopped image, ufologists state that the image is authentic.
5) This mysterious image is one of the best examples of mysterious objects in the sky. It was taken somewhere in the United States on June 10th 1964. The image was found years later.
Un OVNI sphérique et lumineux survole une base en Antarctique
Quelle est la nature de cette orbe lumineuse ? [DR] source: directmatin.fr
Une base de recherche située sur le continent antarctique a été le théâtre d’un étrange phénomène. Au crépuscule, les installations ont été survolées par une orbe lumineuse que certains considèrent comme un OVNI.
Les images ont été filmées le 28 juin au crépuscule, à 04H25 de l’après-midi précisément, sur la base Davis située sur la Terre de la Princesse-Elisabeth.
Réalisée par une webcam, cette séquence laisse apparaître très nettement une sphère très lumineusequi semble survoler la base. Le phénomène peut être observé de manière très fugace sur le timelapse qui était encore disponible mardi matin sur le site web dédié.
Certains passionnés d’ufologie ont dressé un parallèle immédiat entre ce phénomène et le célèbre OVNI de l’esplanade des Mosquée qui aurait été observé en 2011 à Jérusalem, mais dont on a su par la suite qu’il s’agissait d’un hoax.
Il n’en demeure pas moins que l’apparition de la base Davis demeure inexpliquée pour le moment.
Astronomers have Discovered A Truly Exotic Star System Of Five Stars
It’s a small point in the constellation Ursa Major but if we could cross the 250 light-years that separate us from it, we would observe a rare spectacle: a quintuple star system (five stars) containing two eclipsing binary stars — it is the first known system of its kind.
If double or even triple stars are common in the galaxy, this one though is very rare, a truly exotic star system. This particular system has no name, just a possible designation to remember: 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5 (J093010 for short) indicating that it is part of the objects studied by the program SuperWASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) project, in the Canary Islands and South Africa, to image almost the whole sky looking for exoplanets.
For now, we have not discovered any planets around these five stars, but this does not mean there’s no one there. Dr Marcus Lohr, of the Open University, lead author of the new finding says:
This is a truly exotic star system. In principle there’s no reason it couldn’t have planets in orbit around each of the pairs of stars. Any inhabitants would have a sky that would put the makers of Star Wars to shame. – there could sometimes be no fewer than five Suns of different brightnesses lighting up the landscape.
Days would have dramatically varying light levels as the different stars were eclipsed. They would though miss out on night for a large part of their ‘year’, only experiencing darkness (and a night sky) when the stars were on the same side of their world.
Currently, we have detected ‘only’ five stars. Yet they are worth seeing! The data collected suggests the existence of a contact eclipsing binary — a system in which the two stars are orbiting so close together that they share an outer atmosphere. This means that the two stars share the same binary plane of revolution, indicating that they are probably formed from a single disk of gas and dust; they were born in the same ‘cradle’.
The first pair consists of two stars rather smaller and cooler than our Sun, separated by a distance of three million kilometers (twice the size of the Sun) with a longer orbital period of 8 hours. The second couple is what we call a contact binary. These two stars have a rotation period of less than 6 hours.
The 2 sets of stars are at 21 billion kilometers from each other, or rather larger than the distance between the Sun and Pluto. However, they are gravitationally bound in a single system, as the fifth star, which is up to 2 billion km away from the first binary, but not apparently producing any additional eclipses.
Although these stars are smaller and cooler than the sun the entire collective system is bright enough to be visible, so amateur astronomers with small telescopes should even be able to observe the eclipses for themselves.
By studying this bizarre and rare system, scientists could better understand how stars and planets, including our small and green ‘ball’, came into being.
Could 'leaked UFO photos taken from US submarine in 1971' prove existence of aliens?
PHOTOGRAPHS revealing bizarre UFOs claimed to have been taken by a US Navy submarine crew have been hailed as the best EVER evidence of extra-terrestrial visits to Earth.
Huge looking bizarre UFOs allegedly snapped from a submarine
Specialist researchers of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) believe the black and white images - supposedly taken from the USS Trepang SSN 674 submarine in March 1971 - are evidence of secret US aircraft tests or alien lifeforms looking to carry out an early form of fracking.
Alex Mistretta, a paranormal investigator and author, investigated the images after they first appeared in French paranormal magazine Top Secret following an alleged leaked.
He claimed insiders told him the pictures were taken from the US submarine on its journey between Iceland and Norway's Jan Mayen island in the Atlantic Ocean, with the admiral on board at the time said to be Dean Reynolds.
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Another triangular shaped craft
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The USS Trepang
Top Secret described an inscription on one of the pictures as stating: “Official Photograph. Not to be Released. CT”
According to a US Naval archive, the USS Trepang was in the area at the time and a Rear Admiral Dean Reynolds Sackett, Jr from Beatrice, Nebraska, was its commanding officer from August 1970 to December 1973.
Some researchers have claimed this proves the pictures are genuine, but others suggested the information is so readily available it could also have aided a hoaxer.
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Another airship-like UFO
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This object in the tatty picture appears to be exploding
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Going down?
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It is not clear if this is the same triangular object
Top Secret described an inscription on one of the pictures as stating: “Official Photograph. Not to be Released. CT”
According to a US Naval archive, the USS Trepang was in the area at the time and a Rear Admiral Dean Reynolds Sackett, Jr from Beatrice, Nebraska, was its commanding officer from August 1970 to December 1973.
Some researchers have claimed this proves the pictures are genuine, but others suggested the information is so readily available it could also have aided a hoaxer.
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Another airship-like UFO
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This object in the tatty picture appears to be exploding
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Going down?These look like the real deal. Possibly a shape changer which accounts for so many, yet actually a single object
Online commenter and fellow UFO hunter Bill Smillie
Others said one of the claimed UFOs looked like the manmade Aereon 26, a US experimental aircraft that was part airship and part conventional aircraft and powered by a piston engine, which was tested in 1971.
Online commenter and fellow UFO hunter Bill Smillie said: "These look like the real deal. Possibly a shape changer which accounts for so many, yet actually a single object."
Michael Waters said: "Some UFOs can function through and under water quite well."
And Rob Whitford added: "Makes sense I still put money on fracking connected to them."
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Rear Admiral Dean Reynolds Sackett
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More pictures of bizarre sighting
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Did craft end up in the sea or is this something else?
Nigel Watson, UK UFO investigator, said: "They are an odd selection of pictures, that feature types of UFOs that have been regularly spotted by witnesses in all parts of the world.
"Airship or cigar-shaped type craft have been reported since 1896 when there was a great wave of 'phantom airship' sightings thoughout the USA.
"This batch of pictures back-ups such claims but I'm not sure about their authenticity.
"They have certainly got UFO researchers scratching their heads and wondering and speculating that UFOs have a base in the Arctic regions."
There seems to have been something in the air in June.
According to an international group of alien hunters, the number of UFO sightings doubled last month.
The Mutual UFO Network (Mufon) recorded sightings of 1,179 mysterious unexplained crafts in June – an increase from around 600 in the same period last year.
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There appears to have been something in the air in June. According to an international group of alien hunters, the number of UFO sightings doubled last month. High-profile sightings last month included one of a 'flying saucer' UFO which visited Stonehenge
The majority of Mufon's cases are in the US, and the organisation usually receives anywhere from 400 to 700 reports each month.
Around 10 to 20 per cent of these cases turn out to be unidentified when matched up weather phenomenon and man-made objects.
But Roger Marsh, Mufon director of communications, doesn't think this means an impending alien invasion.
'We feel [it] was directly related to the final two episodes of Season 2 of 'Hangar 1: The UFO Files,' he told the alternative news site Open Minds.
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The Mutual UFO Network (Mufon) recorded sightings of 1,179 mysterious unexplained crafts in June – an increase from around 600 in the same period last year
Roger Marsh, Mufon director of communications, doesn't think this means an impending alien invasion. 'We feel [it] was directly related to the final two episodes of Season 2 of 'Hangar 1: The UFO Files,'' he told the alternative news site Open Minds
This History Channel documentary took a look at Hangar 1, a facility that houses an archive of more than 70,000 files that have been gathered over a period of nearly 50 years.
The files, maintained by Mufon have recently been opened for investigation.
High-profile sightings last month included one of a 'flying saucer' UFO which visited Stonehenge, according to UFO Sightings Blog.
The site said the UFO was 'black in colour and disc shaped,' and described it as 'medium' size at around 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 metres) across.
In a separate report a UFO enthusiast claims to have found the wreckage of an alien spaceship in Antarctica.
MAPPING 90 YEARS OF UFO SIGHTINGS
Last month a data visualisation expert created a map of the US showing almost 90 years of official UFO sightings (above), including information such as the time of day they are typically noticed in different months.
The data also reveals that UFO sightings of fireballs are the most common, while egg-shaped craft are the rarest over time.
John Nelson combined census data with statistics compiled between 1925 and 2014 by the National UFO Reporting Centre to make his maps.
'Of course, as is the case for any observation data, there is a strong tendency towards echoing a population map' he wrote on his blog.
'This is certainly the case with this sighting data, as well. In order to visualise the actual sighting phenomenon, I needed to normalise by the underlying population.'
To do this, he created a map showing sightings by population density, as well as maps based on more complex calculations to build the most accurate maps he could.
Using Google Earth, Valentin Degterev zoomed in on a dark area and says that the shape is a clear sign that it is a crashed UFO.
However, an expert has told MailOnline that it is just a shadow caused by a crevasse, while the blue tinge is bare ice.
Marsh said a very high percentage of the June UFO report surge were historical cases.
'People were watching our show and decided they finally discovered a place where they could report their encounter,' he said.
He added that another explanation for the sightings may be that more people were outside celebrating during the evening hours, and looking up for events such as Memorial Day.
'Some of these are very, very interesting and compelling cases currently under investigation,' he added.
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Valentin Degterev from Russia claimed to have found a UFO. He located it using Google Earth and says it is 'from the distant cosmos'. The elliptical object (shown) is 65ft (20 metres) wide and 230ft (70 metres) long. However it açàppears to be most likely just a shadow or a fissure
Will truth about 'UFO crash in Roswell desert' 68 years ago TODAY ever be known?
EXACTLY 68 years ago today arguably the world's most notorious UFO mystery began after an "object" crashed near a ranch in the desert on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico.
A scene from a hoax Roswell alien autopsy released in 1995
Despite countless alien investigators pouring over the "evidence" from the alleged UFO crash which reportedly included aliens, both alive and dead inside the wreckage, the riddle has never been solved.
The story goes that on July 7 1947 rancher W W Brazel told Sheriff George Wilcox he had found "something strange" on his sheep ranch on the outskirts of Roswell.
Mr Brazel stumbled across some rubber, foil, and other debris on the ground and told the Sheriff who alerted the nearby Army base air field.
Major Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer, was sent to investigate.
Mr Marcel was apparently convinced that the rancher had found the world's first evidence of aliens and what they were looking at were the remains of a flying saucer.
He, in turn, reported this up the chain, prompting duty press officer Walter Haut, at the now notorious Nevada Area 51 base, to send this out in a news release.
The following day's edition of the local paper, the Roswell Daily Record, unsurprisingly had the dream headline: "RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION”.
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That edition of the Roswell Daily
But next came a big U-turn and still no sign of actual aliens.
Perhaps in 1947 people would have thought a cosmos travelling flying saucer would be made from foil, rubber, tape, paper and wood, as Mr Brazel found.
But the day of the news report, the RAAF retracted its original release and said what was found were the parts of a downed weather balloon.
The paper duly printed a follow-up in which Mr Brazel spoke of his embarrassment to have got "worked up over nothing".
But by now the snowball had started, and it was gathering pace.
No one was interested in the follow up story, and the original first went national and then global, even without the internet, and in Roswell, USA the world's UFO capital was born.
It was also the birth of the conspiracy theorist, whereby the unimaginable is more likely to be the case than the rational.
Instantly, claims were made that the military had found a craft, but they did not want news getting out and the weather balloon story was quickly made up as a cover.
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But it appears to have taken several years before the "aliens being found inside" element of the story began.
US magazine Time did an investigation published on the Roswell Incident - as it became known - on the 50th anniversary in July 1997.
It said Stanton Friedman, a former nuclear physicist-turned UFOlogist, was told in 1978 that a now retired Mr Marcel had "once handled the wreckage of a UFO".
Mr Friedman reportedly met Mr Marcel, who remained convinced the debris was a flying saucer.
This sparked him to investigate the 31-year-old case, seeking out other witnesses from the time.
His book - The Roswell Incident, co-written by Charles Berlitz and published in 1980 - saw the mystery revisited many times.
There were many more articles and books, and hoaxers in 1995 released a black and white video showing military medics carrying out a makeshift autopsy on an alien corpse, amid claims it was a leaked genuine recording from the incident in 1947.
This was later proved a hoax, although many conspiracists and UFOers still refuse to accept that.
Allegations of the cover up grew so widespread that the Air Force eventually ran its own probe at the end of which it published previously confidential information about a top-secret balloon-tracking project that had been going at the same time in 1947, which it was said explained the found remains.
It has remained one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories and UFO cases.
Some people have always insisted it was a flying saucer.
Walter Haut died in 2007 insisting that after earlier founding Roswell's UFO Museum which remains open.
One thing seems clear - even if "the truth is out there" believers of the Roswell UFO crash will not go away and theories will continue to abound.
On the alien-ufo-research.com website today under the special Roswell section, it still lists the 1995 hoax footage as being genuine leaked material.
The website says: "Was there a government cover up of a UFO or aliens in the Roswell crash? What exactly went on at Area 51?
"It isn't as widely known, but there were actually two crash sites. Did the government acknowledge the first, only to say it was a high tech weather balloon test that crashed, to divert attention away from a second and more important UFO crash site?
"Why if nothing went on is the crash site and Area 51 still in lock down after many decades. Don't believe everything you are told. Do your research and decide for yourself what really happened that night in Roswell."
Black 'cube' UFO over El Paso -- the work of aliens or a hoax?
Two El Paso residents have reported seeing a UFO in the form of a black cube.
According to Secureteam10, an online entity that posts YouTube videos of purported UFOs and similar phenomena, the cube was seen about mid-day June 29 in El Paso by two people.
A man who was leaving his office about 1 p.m. for lunch said it began to get very windy and he noticed that the center of some swirling clouds became "jet black," Secureteam10 stated in a video made from photos the man took.
Just as the man snapped the photo, a massive, cube-shaped UFO appeared, "jetting out of this worm-hole type manifestation," the video narrator said.
"I am personally at a loss for words because this thing is mind-blowing," the narrator continued. "Not only do we not know what it is -- Is is it a craft, is it an entity from another dimension, is it a probe sent here from a higher intelligence in another galaxy?"
Zal de waarheid over het UFO-complot van Roswell ooit naar buiten komen?
68 jaar geleden werden er brokstukken van een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object gevonden nabij Roswell in New Mexico. Een lokale krant schreef in eerste instantie dat het om een vliegende schotel ging. Een dag later meldde het leger dat er een weerballon was neergestort.
Op 7 juli 1947 trof boer W.W. Brazel wrakstukken aan op zijn weiland. Hij haalde sheriff George Wilcox erbij, die weer contact opnam met de plaatselijke vliegbasis. Die stuurde majoor Jesse Marcel naar de crashplek. De majoor was ervan overtuigd dat de boer resten van een vliegende schotel had gevonden.
1900 kilometer per uur
Enkele dagen voor de crash, op 24 juni 1947, zag piloot Kenneth Arnold op weg naar een vliegshow een aantal felblauwe flitsen in de lucht. Tegenover een journalist vertelde hij dat de flitsen afkomstig waren van objecten die op schotels leken. Vanaf dat moment stonden de kranten bol van de UFO-meldingen, schrijft Time. Arnold was er zeker van dat hij getuige was geweest van iets buitenaards. De UFO’s die hij had gezien bereikten snelheden tot 1900 kilometer per uur, zo berekende hij.
In 1978 werd majoor Marcel geïnterviewd door de Canadese kerngeleerde Stanton Friedman. Hij interviewde ook diverse andere getuigen, waarna hij concludeerde dat er sprake was van een doofpotoperatie van ‘kosmische Watergate-proporties’.
Ultrageheim project
Het boek dat Friedman in 1980 publiceerde over het doofpotschandaal veroorzaakte zoveel verontwaardiging bij het publiek dat de Amerikaanse luchtmacht een officieel onderzoek instelde. De luchtmacht stelde dat het object dat bij Roswell was gecrasht onderdeel was van een ultrageheim project.
Veel mensen geloven niet in de verklaring van de luchtmacht. Walter Haut, de man die het oorspronkelijke persbericht schreef en de oprichter van het UFO Museum in Roswell, zei tot zijn dood in 2007 dat het om een vliegende schotel ging.
Van al die verschillende rassen zijn er een zestal die onderling strijden om de heerschappij op deze aarde.
De buitenaardse rassen die controle over de wereld willen, staan in contact met militaire krachten en bepalen voor een deel onze toekomst zonder ons ooit te raadplegen.
De Siriërs
Deze buitenaardsen zijn afkomstig van het Sirius B sterrenstelsel. Het is een zeer oud ras, maar ook één die heel ver gevorderd is. Door de geschiedenis van de mensheid hebben ze hun kennis met bepaalde menselijke beschavingen gedeeld. Zoals de Egyptenaren met medische en astronomische informatie en er wordt gezegd dat de grote piramides en tempels met hun hulp zijn gebouwd.
Ook de Maya’s hadden een speciale band met de Siriërs en ook met deze beschaving hebben zij hun kennis gedeeld. Er wordt gezegd dat de Siriërs een rol hebben gespeeld in de verdwijning van de Maya’s, maar niet zonder het achterlaten van bepaalde voorwerpen zoals de kristallen schedels.
Een andere aardse beschaving die heeft geprofiteerd van de Siriërs waren de inwoners van Atlantis. Men vermoedt dat de Siriërs een grote rol hebben gespeeld tijdens de reddingsoperaties toen Atlantis begon weg te zinken. Een andere nog steeds bestaande beschaving die beïnvloed is door de Siriërs is de Dogon stam uit West Afrika.
Alhoewel ze in het verleden een grote rol hebben gespeeld op aarde is die tegenwoordig wat meer subtiel. Ze worden nu vaak genoemd in verband met onderzoek naar exotische wapens en het experimenten met tijdreizen.
De kleine Grays.
Deze groep buitenaardsen behoort tot de meest bekende en zij zijn het die meestal worden afgebeeld wanneer iemand het over buitenaardsen heeft. Zij zijn ook degenen achter de meeste buitenaardse ontvoeringen van mensen.
Ze zijn tussen de één meter en één meter vijftig groot, hebben bolvormige hoofden en te grote zwarte ogen. Alhoewel ze een mond hebben, spreken ze zelden omdat de meeste communicatie door hen telepathisch wordt gedaan. Er wordt gezegd dat de kleine Grays een genetisch gemaakt werkras is die door hun superieuren, de grote Grays, worden gecontroleerd.
Vanwege hun telepathische mogelijkheden hebben ze een soort bijenkorf bewustzijn ontwikkeld.
Omdat ze genetisch zijn ontwikkeld voor het uitvoeren van bepaalde taken, kennen ze geen emoties en zijn wreed. Ook zijn zij verantwoordelijk voor het ontwikkelen van een menselijk-Gray hybride ras.
De Grote Grays Deze buitenaardsen zijn met een lengte van tussen de twee en tweeëneenhalve meter aanzienlijk groter dan de kleine Grays. Zij zijn altijd aanwezig bij iedere diplomatieke overeenkomst met de wereld schaduwregering. Volgens bronnen zijn zij afkomstig uit de Orion constellatie.
Alle ontvoeringen en experimenten op mensen gebeuren onder toezicht van de grote Grays, alhoewel ze daar zelf zelden bij aanwezig zijn. Ze laten dat soort werkzaamheden liever over aan hun ondergeschikten, de kleine Grays. Het schijnt dat zij belangstelling hebben voor het ontwikkelen van een stabiel menselijk-Gray ras, dat het waardig zou zijn om de aarde te erven.
Als een vergevorderd egocentrisch ras hechten ze weinig waarde aan het menselijk leven. Zij beschouwen ons als hun eigendom.
De Alpha Draconians
Corrupt en gemeen, daarmee omschrijf je dit ras dat duizenden jaren geleden de mensheid heeft geïnfiltreerd. Alhoewel ze naar de aarde zijn gekomen via hun koloniën op Alpha Draconis, weet niemand waar ze origineel vandaan komen.
Ze behoren tot de reptielensoort en ze zijn ergens tussen de viereneenhalve meter en zeven meter groot. Ze wegen ongeveer 900 kilo en hun gespierde lichamen zijn bedekt met een groene of bruine schubbenhuid.
Het is een intelligent ras met grote hoofden en reptielenogen. In sommige beschrijvingen hebben ze een staart of zelfs vleugels.
Iemand die contact heeft gehad met dit ras, Alex Collier, zegt dat hij wat meer informatie over deze buitenaardsen mag geven.
De Draconians zijn de drijvende kracht achter de onderdrukking van volkeren door de gehele Melkweg. Ze doen dit door het hanteren van op angst gebaseerde geloofssystemen en vrijheid beperkende hiërarchieën.
Ze zijn buitengewoon helderziend en intelligent en kunnen ook heel sinister zijn. Ze zien zichzelf dan ook als de meest intelligente soort in de Melkweg en ze hebben al diverse werelden bevolkt. Ze hebben ook een enorm ego en hierdoor zien ze zichzelf als de rechtmatige heersers over de minder ontwikkelde planeten zoals de aarde.
Ze blijven gewoon doorgaan met het exploiteren van de mensheid, wat aantoont dat ze ons zien als een inferieure soort.
Volgens de verslagen zijn er eigenlijk twee types Alpha Draconians. De hele grote zijn onderdeel van een kaste die de Ciakar wordt genoemd en de kleinere vormen een goed getrainde krijgersoort.
De oorspronkelijke Reptilians
Vaak worden deze verward met de krijgerskaste van de Alpha Draconians. Echter deze Reptilians komen oorspronkelijk van de aarde. De weinige informatie die beschikbaar is, zegt dat deze soort oorspronkelijk hier werd achtergelaten door de Alpha Draconians om de aarde te koloniseren.
Hun interactie met mensen gaat duizenden jaren terug. Soms in een assisterende rol, maar vaker gebruiken ze ons als een soort grondstof. Ze zijn geïnfiltreerd in ieder aspect van het menselijk leven en bevinden zich vaak op machtige posities. De Reptilians manipuleren onze elite en regeren over onze instituten en organisaties. Zij hebben het financiële systeem gebouwd en zij beïnvloeden alle religies.
Er wordt gezegd van dit ondergrondse reptielenras dat ze de media en alle grote bedrijven controleren. Zij zijn degenen achter de meeste tegen de mensheid uitgevoerde misdaden.
De Anunnaki
Zij vormen een eliteras dat origineel afkomstig van een andere Melkweg die Illyuwn heet. Hun thuisplaneet heette Rizq. Toen deze planeet werd verwoest bouwden ze een intergalactisch ruimteschip dat ze Nibiru noemden.
Voordat ze naar de Aarde kwamen, koloniseerden de Anunnaki een andere planeet in het Orion sterrenstelsel. Ze kwamen ongeveer een miljoen jaar geleden naar de aarde op zoek naar goud en andere waardevolle mineralen die schaars waren in het universum, maar volop voorkwamen op onze planeet.
Omdat ze werkvolk nodig hadden, hebben ze de mens geschapen. Door genetisch manipulatie slaagden ze erin om de primitieve Homo te “upgraden” naar sapiens kwaliteit. Omdat de Anunnaki op aarde zijn geweest sinds onze schepping hebben ze iedere aspect van het menselijk leven beïnvloed. Wij hebben hun patriarchale cultuur geërfd van geweld en wraak. Het zit in ons gefabriceerde DNA.
De Anunnaki zijn in een directe strijd gewikkeld met de Draconians voor de controle over de mensheid.
Een geruststellende gedachte: de Goden die om ons vechten.
A mysterious flying object was captured on film by a motorist who saw it hovering above Mariners Wharf.
The video was taken by Paul Douglas, who was driving down Upper Parliament Street towards the waterfront when he saw something unusual in the sky on Monday night.
Paul, from Aigburth, said: “It was about 10.20 and I was driving when I saw something strange in the sky.
“It was over the marina and it was just a mad object in the sky. It sort of looked like a drone but it also had three green lights on it.”
Taxi-driver Paul said he pulled over in amazement at what was drifting through the sky and started filming the object as it moved closer towards land then back out towards the water.
He added: “It was hovering over the water and I tried to follow it in the car as I was coming down Upper Parliament Street.
“As it was hovering, the birds were making a funny noise and going a bit mad. Then after a couple of minutes it started going out towards the water again.
“It was pretty high in the sky as it was floating over the water. I went to the waterfront to ask two fishermen if they saw it as it moved on but they didn’t.”
Paul described seeing three green lights sitting horizontally across the object.
He added: “It looked a bit like horizontal traffic lights. There were three green lights and then one different coloured light on the end.”
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