NASA Brings Scientists & Theologians Together To Prepare World For Extraterrestrial Contact 

A couple of months ago top US astronomers gathered in front of congress to let them know that extraterrestrial life exists without question. Their main argument was the size of the universe, emphasizing that there are trillions of stars out there, with one in every five most likely harboring an Earth-like planet. It’s also important to keep in mind that planets do not have to be “Earth-like” in order to harbor life. You can read more about that story here.

“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.” – Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at California’s SETI Institute 

“We’re looking at all scenarios about finding life. If you find microbes, that’s one thing. If you find intelligence, it’s another. And if they communicate, it’s something else, and depending on what they say, it’s something else! The idea is not to wait until we make a discovery, but to try and prepare the public for what the implications might be when such a discovery is made. I think the reason that NASA is backing this is because of all the recent activity in the discovery of exoplanets and the advances in astrobiology in general. People just consider it much more likely now that we’re going to find something — probably microbes first and maybe intelligence later. The driving force behind this is from a scientific point of view that it seems much more likely now that we are going to find life at some point in the future.” – Astronomer, symposium organizer and former chief NASA historian, Steven J. Dick.

“I Believe [alien life exists], but I have no evidence. I would be really excited and it would make my understanding of my religion deeper and richer in ways that I can’t even predict yet, which is why it would be so exciting.”

The Other Probability – Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life Is Already Here

• “Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.”  – Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dr. Edgar Mitchell

1. The Size of the Universe

2. Whistle Blowers
The past few years have seen a surge of whistle-blowers that’ve come out and said some remarkable things. Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have received the most attention, but the reality is that there are hundreds of whistle blowers who have come forward with verified credentials and backgrounds. Mass survelience and the security state is not the only thing shocking people around the world, it’s the fact that many of these whistle blowers claim that we are not alone in the universe. It wouldn’t be so hard to ignore if it wasn’t for the backgrounds these people have in their respected fields. 

3. The Evidence of UFOs

4. Mass Mainstream Media Attention

5. Personal Experience & Video Footage

Final Thoughts

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Chilling UFO video filmed: Experts say its real

Ecosse : un système élaboré de calendrier vieux de 10 000 ans découvert

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Selon une nouvelle étude, les humains ont inventé un système sophistiqué calendaire des milliers d'années plus tôt qu'on ne le pensait précédemment.

La découverte est basée sur une analyse détaillée des données d'un site archéologique dans le nord de l'Ecosse - une rangée de fosses anciennes que les archéologues croient être le plus ancien calendrier mondial. Il a près de cinq mille années de plus que son plus proche rival - un ancien calendrier créé à partir de l'âge du bronze en Mésopotamie.

Créé par les Britanniques de l'âge de la Pierre, il y a quelques 10.000 années, des archéologues croient que le complexe de puits a été conçu pour représenter les mois de l'année et les phases lunaires du mois. Ils croient qu'il a également permis l'observation du lever du soleil en plein hiver - en effet, la naissance de la nouvelle année - alors que le calendrier lunaire pourrait être re-calibré annuellement pour le ramener en ligne avec l'année solaire.

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Représentation artistique d'un artiste de Warren Champ y a environ 10.000 ans, montrant un matériau qui brûle dans une des fosses du calendrier

Remarquablement le monument était en usage pendant quelque 4000 ans - à partir de 8000 avant JC (période au début du mésolithique) à environ 4000 avant JC (début du néolithique).

Les fosses ont été périodiquement retaillées - probablement des dizaines de fois, voire des centaines de fois - par rapport à celles de quatre millénaires. Il est donc impossible de savoir si oui ou non elles contenaient originellement des poteaux en bois ou des pierres dressées après qu'elles aient été creusées il y a 10.000 ans. Cependant les variations dans les profondeurs des fosses suggérent que l'arc avait une conception complexe - avec chaque mois lunaire potentiellement divisé en trois «semaines» d'environ dix jours  - ce qui représente la lune croissante, la lune gibbeuse / pleine et la lune décroissante.

Les 50 mètres de longueur de la rangée de 12 fosses principales ont été organisés comme un arc vers un plongeon en forme de V à l'horizon sur lequel le soleil se levait le jour de la mi-hiver. Il y a 12,37 cycles lunaires (mois lunaire) dans une année solaire - et les archéologues croient que chaque fosse représentait un mois en particulier, avec l'ensemble de l'arc représentant une année.

Les 12 puits ont peut-être joué un autre rôle en représentant le mois lunaire. Reflétant les phases de la lune, le noir et l'affaiblissement de ce qui prend 29 jours et demi, la succession de creux, disposés en arc peu profond (peut-être symbolisant le mouvement de la lune dans le ciel), commence petit et peu profond à une extrémité , croît en diamètre et en profondeur vers le centre de l'arc, puis décroît dans sa taille, à l'autre extrémité.

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Une illustration sur la façon dont les fosses auraient fonctionné. Les universités de St Andrews, Leicester et Bradford ont également participé.

Dans son rôle d'un calendrier annuel (couvrant 12 mois - une pour chaque fosse), un système d'alternance des profondeurs de la fosse suggère que les mois voisins peuvent être jumelés en quelque sorte, ce qui pourrait refléter une sorte de système de croyance cosmologique dualiste - connu dans les documents ethnographiques et historiques dans de nombreuses parties du monde, mais pas encore détecté archéologiquement à l'âge de pierre.

Garder la trace du temps aurait été d'une immense utilité économique et spirituelle aux communautés de chasseurs-cueilleurs du mésolithique. Leur calendrier aurait aidés à déterminer le moment précis où les troupeaux d'animaux pouvaient s'attendre à migrer ou à la fois plus susceptibles où les saumons pourraient commencer leur voyage.

Mais les leaders des communautés de l'Age de Pierre - y compris potentiellement des Shamans - peuvent aussi avoir utilisé le calendrier pour se donner l'apparence d'être en mesure de prédire ou de contrôler les saisons ou le comportement de la lune et du soleil...

Le site - à Warren Field, Crathes, Aberdeenshire - a été fouillé en 2004 par le National Trust for Scotland, mais les données ne furent analysées en détail qu'au cours des six derniers mois en utilisant le logiciel spécialement écrit, ce qui a permis une exploration interactive de la relation entre le 12 puits, la topographie locale et les mouvements de la lune et du soleil.

L'analyse a été réalisée par une équipe de spécialistes dirigée par le professeur Vincent Gaffney, de l'Université de Birmingham.

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« La recherche démontre que la société de l'âge de pierre il y a 10.000 ans était beaucoup plus sophistiquée que ce que nous avions déjà soupçonné. Le site a des implications sur la façon dont nous comprenons comment la société du Mésolithique s'est développée sur le plan économique, social et cosmologique ", a déclaré le professeur Gaffney.

« Les preuves suggèrent que les sociétés des chasseurs-cueilleurs en Ecosse avaient à la fois la nécessité et la technicité de suivre le temps à travers les années, à corriger la dérive des saisons de l'année lunaire et que cela s'est produit près de 5000 ans avant les premiers calendriers officiels connus dans le Proche-Orient . Ce faisant, cela illustre une étape importante vers la construction formelle du temps et donc de l'histoire elle-même ", a-t-il dit.

Source : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/found-after-10000-years-the-worlds-first-calendar-8708322.html

Dr Richard Bates, de l'Université de St Andrews, a déclaré la découverte fournie " de nouvelles preuves passionnantes " du début du Mésolithique en Ecosse.

Il a ajouté: " C'est le premier exemple d'une telle structure et il n'y a pas de site comparable connu en Grande-Bretagne ou en Europe pendant plusieurs milliers d'années après que le monument à Warren Camp ait été construit. "

Le site de Champ Warren a été découvert parce que des hirondelles inhabituelles avaient été repérées dans l'air par la Commission royale sur les monuments anciens et historiques de l'Ecosse (RCAHMS).

Dave Cowley, enquêteur chargé de projets à RCAHMS, a déclaré: " Nous avons pris des photos du paysage écossais depuis près de 40 ans, en enregistrant des milliers de sites archéologiques qui n'auraient jamais été détectés depuis le sol.

" Le Champ Warren apparaît comme quelque chose de spécial, cependant. Il est remarquable de penser que notre étude aérienne a peut-être aidé à trouver l'endroit où le temps lui-même a été inventé ".

Source : http://24allnews.com/98393/worlds-oldest-calendar-in-field/

Le site avait déjà révélé de nombreuses traces préhistoriques, dont les restes d'une grande habitation datée d'environ 5800 ans avant maintenant : http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6134

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Traductions Yves Herbo-S,F,H, 07-2013 - http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/blog/preuves-autre-histoire/ecosse-un-systeme-elabore-de-calendrier-vieux-de-10-000-ans-decouvert.html

Les excavations sur les iles Orkney révèlent un temple de 5000 ans

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les îles Orcades en Ecosse

Les excavations sur les iles Orkney révèlent un temple incroyable sophistiqué âgé de 5000 ans minimum. L'excavation révolutionnaire d'un Temple préhistorique complexe sur l'île écossaise d'Orkney a révélé que les habitants du néolithique de l'île étaient beaucoup plus avancés qu'on ne l'avait d'abord réalisé, selon un communiqué dans The Scotsman. Alors qu'une vaste collection d'objets anciens reflètent une société complexe et culturellement riche, les archéologues ont également découvert que les trois grandes structures monumentales de l'île - l'Anneau de Brodgar, les Pierres de Stennes, et le tombeau de Maes Howe - étaient " inextricablement liés à un unique grand thème ".

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Photograph courtesy Hugo Whymark, ORCA

Le site archéologique, connu sous le nom Ness de Brodgar, couvre une superficie de plus de 6 hectares et comprend des restes de logements, des restes de toits d'ardoise, des allées pavées, des façades colorées, des dalles de pierre décorées, un mur en pierres massives avec des fondations, et un grand bâtiment décrit comme un «cathedra» néolithique ou «palais», habité depuis au moins 3.500 avant JC jusqu'à la fin de la période néolithique plus d'un millénaire et demi plus tard.

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Credit: Hugo Anderson-Whymark

« Leur fabrication était impeccable. Les murs imposants qu'ils ont construits auraient fait honneur aux centurions romains qui, quelques 30 siècles plus tard, ont érigé le mur d'Hadrien dans une autre partie de la Grande-Bretagne. Cloîtrés dans ces murs il y avait des dizaines de bâtiments, dont une des plus grandes structures couvertes construites dans la préhistoire au nord de l'Europe. " Elle avait plus de 80 pieds (25 m) de long et 60 pieds (18 m) de large, avec des murs épais 13 pieds (4 m) ", a déclaré Roff Smith, auteur d'un article sur le Ness de Brogar qui va être publié dans l'édition de Août de National Geographic.

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La fouille archéologique, qui a jusquà présent découvert seulement environ 10 pour cent du site original, a déjà donné des milliers d'artefacts incroyables y compris des têtes de massues de cérémonie, des haches en pierre polie, des couteaux de silex, une figurine humaine, des pots miniatures faits au pouce, des spatules en pierre magnifiquement ciselées, de très raffinées poteries colorées, et plus de 650 pièces d'art du néolithique, de loin la plus grande collection jamais trouvée en Grande-Bretagne.

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Roche gravée dans l'Anneau de Brodgar

Dirigez-vous assez loin vers le nord en partant de Derbyshire, et vous arrivez à la frontière avec l'Ecosse. Continuez et vous finirez par arriver dans les îles Orcades, une série de 70 îles et îlots situés à 6.2 miles (10 km) de la pointe nord de l'Ecosse. Vous pourriez penser que cela aurait été abandonné tout de suite après le Néolithique, mais il y a des preuves pour suggérer une civilisation florissante ici. Le cercle de l'Anneau de Brodgar en pierre massive en est seulement une partie de la dépouille de cette culture, qui comprennent le site bien conservé de Skara Brae, le site de Barnhouse, la belle tombe en encorbellement de Maes Howe et le Tombeau des Aigles.

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En fait, les îles sont jonchées de restes de structures, des bâtiments et des murs, des pierres debout et des établissements, ce qui rend le patrimoine préhistorique vibrant, vivant et dans un état de conservation impressionnant. Les îles Orcades, si vous avez déjà eu la chance de les visiter, sont une série de falaises, de baies peu profondes et des routes sinueuses (où se trouvent tout ce qui existe actuellement), ce qui signifie que le niveau de développement moderne est faible, et n'a pas vraiment un impact sur le paysage autant qu'on pourrait le dire, comme le centre d'une ville moderne. L'endroit de la capitale est à Kirkwall, pas plus de 8500 habitants, et à l'ouest de la capitale, entre les pierres massives de Stenness et le puissant Anneau de Brodgar, il y a une petite bande de terre, qui semble assez modeste sur un carte moderne. Vous pourriez donc réaliser maintenant que quelque chose de tout à fait modeste pour la recherche est peu susceptible d'attirer les archéologues, et il n'y a donc actuellement qu'une excavation en cours sur le site :

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Retour au Néolithique, cependant, et que le peu de bande de terre était le centre et le site de certaines activités culturelles et comportementales intenses. Les Pierres de Stenness, dans le bas de l'image ci-dessus, a un foyer central, et est entouré par des preuves de festins et d'une activité de colonisation (notamment au site Barnhouse). L'Anneau de Brodgar, en haut de l'image, est entouré par des tumulus et des cimetières et a un manque d'activités domestiques. Alors que se trouve-t-il sur la bande entre le lieu de la vie et le lieu de la mort ? La première chose qu'il s'est passée en 2002, a été que les archéologues sur le Loch de Stenness, sous le commandement du directeur du site et chef du projet Orkney Archaeological Trust, Nick Cave, a entrepris un relevé géophysique massif du site, qui s'est terminé avec des résultats qui ressemblaient à ceci (cliquez pour agrandir image) :

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Il y a certaines choses à remarquer ici :

1) Les marques blanches sont où le levé géophysique a révélé une différence dans les dépôts enterrés. Malheureusement, il ne vous dira pas précisément ce que ces dépôts sont, ni où se trouvent le les plus intéressants sont à creuser.
2) Il y a une zone de forme sombre près du centre des résultats, c'est la taille de la zone d'excavation en cours par rapport à la taille de l'ensemble du site. Les fouilles couvrent environ 10% de l'ensemble de la région à ce jour.
3) Le tout semble être entouré par un mur rectangulaire, qui a une sorte d'entrée courbée vers l'intérieur dans le milieu du bord de la partie droite, et une autre entrée de l'autre côté, qui se recroqueville à nouveau vers l'intérieur vers le haut du bord gauche. Donc tout ce que nous voyons sont des bâtiments, vous pouvez essayer de deviner qu'ils sont bien murés.

Toutes les choses dans le centre sont à peu près un fouillis de restants de lignes et de murs, aussi en 2008, les archéologues ont pu faire ce qu'ils font le mieux et creuser un beau trou ordonné pour voir ce qui ce trouve plus bas.

Pour la partie nord-est de la zone fouillée, vous obtenez quelque chose qui ressemble à ceci :

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Vous pourriez commencer à voir les lignes d'un imposant bâtiment rectangulaire étrange avec des alcôves autour des parois intérieures. Ce n'est pas le seul bâtiment qui a été découvert, car, à l'intérieur cette grande enceinte fortifiée du Ness, tout en est couvert, avec plus de 100 en cours d'identification dans les résultats de l'enquête et des fouilles :

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Celui que nous avons dégagé en premier était la structure 8 sur la carte ci-dessus, et la recherche à partir du bord du plan ci-dessus vers le milieu.

La théorie la plus courante (maintenant), est que l'ensemble du site est un lieu liminal de transition (un Seuil) entre les mondes des vivants et le monde des morts. C'est une théorie parallèle à l'hypothèse pour les sites à Durrington Walls et de Stonehenge, reliés par l'avenue, d'abord proposée par Mike Parker Pearson lors de la Conférence sur le néolithique à Kirkwall en 1998. Voilà que le Loch Ness est un chemin conducteur entre les pierres du site de Steness / Barnhouse et l'Anneau de Brodgar. Il existe dans l'endroit un liminal (seuil) parfait, la géographie du site permet de créer une étroite bande de terre entre le sel et les lacs d'eau douce, en alignement avec deux énormes monuments de pierre représentant où la population vivait et le foyer spirituel des ancêtres et dominant le paysage. Les bâtiments de forme étranges sur le plan ci-dessus sont tous uniques, et n'existaient pas tous sur le site au même moment. Certains d'entre eux ont des foyers d'incendie dans les portes, et certains ont des fentes étroites dans les murs, peut-être pour des entrées / sorties. Les grands murs qui entourent le site peuvent avoir été faits pour séparer physiquement l'espace, pour la création d'une zone de transition dans laquelle les nouveaux morts partaient à travers la terre des ancêtres de l'autre côté. D'autres, comme la structure 10, qui est celui avec les murs très épais au fond du plan ci-dessus, ont les restes d'environ 600 bovins, tous presque exclusivement des os, datant de 2.300 avant JC. Il y a même des preuves de peintures sur les murs, et une multitude de poteries brisées et de têtes de hache de pierre / masses. Et parmi toute cette multitude céramique il y a ce petit bonhomme, nommé le Brogar Boy :

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Vous pourriez être très familier avec les figurines de Vénus, mais celle-ci a été provisoirement décrite comme une représentation rare d'un homme, voici son visage en gros plan :

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Les sites monumentaux de l'Anneau de Brodgar, les pierres dressées de Stenness, et la tombe de Maes Howe, tous situés à quelques miles de la Ness, étaient considérés comme étant utilisés comme des monuments isolés, avec des histoires distinctes, jusqu'à présent. Mais depuis que les fouilles sur le Ness se soient étendues et aient progréssé, les archéologues en sont venus à croire que les sites mégalithiques de la région environnante ont tous été reliés en quelque sorte avec le Ness de Brodgar, bien que son objectif reste inconnu.

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Ring Brodgar

" Ce que le Ness nous dit, c'est que c'était un paysage beaucoup plus intégré que quiconque ne l'avait jamais soupçonné ", a déclaré l'archéologue Nick Card, directeur des fouilles de l'Institut d'archéologie de l'Université des Highlands et des îles. " Tous ces monuments sont inextricablement liés à un quelconque grand thème que nous ne pouvons que deviner. Les gens qui ont construit tout cela faisaient partie d'une société beaucoup plus complexe et capable que cela n'a été dépeint dans l'Histoire".

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" Allez au Ness aujourd'hui et plusieurs structures emblématiques de l'Age de la Pierre sont à portées de vue facilement, formant le noyau d'un site du patrimoine mondial appelé le Coeur néolithique des Orcades," a déclaré Smith. " Le Ness de Brogar semble être la pièce d'ancrage - la pièce maîtresse, si vous voulez - qui relie ces autres grands monuments dans un grand paysage monumental  dont une personne d'élite avait rêvé l'existance. Et de l'avoir eu gisant sous nos pieds, insoupçonné, depuis tant de siècles ne fait qu'ajouter à l'émerveillement entourant cette découverte.

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Les fouilles sur le site sont toujours en cours, mais vous pouvez en savoir plus en consultant le site en ligne ICI
Dans le programme de télévision récente sur le site, William MacNeil était responsable d'impressionnantes reconstructions des images du site. Vous pouvez également en savoir plus sur les événements récents au National Geographic

Photographs courtesy Hugo Whymark, ORCA, Hugo Anderson

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Lima Ed making the best use of the Caledonian Sleeper for a too short autumn visit to Orkney. Taking in John O'Groats, Scapa Flow, the Old Man of Hoy, and Skara Brae. Part of the Orkney series, October 2009.

A Video Tour of the Orkney Islands - Scotland

Video of one of Scotland's most rural and mystical places. The Orkney Islands in the far north. This footage was taken during a hostel/backpacking tour through the Orkney's in July of 2009 by Alex Berger of VirtualWayfarer.

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L'une des falaises abîmées des îles Orkney, image tirée d'une vidéo ci-dessus (vous pouvez l'agrandir)

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Une étrange vision d'une réalité possible de falaises gravées artificiellement et abîmées, fissurées par le temps et les éléments... (YH)

Yves Herbo, Sciences, F, Histoires, 31-07-2014 - http://www.sciences-fictions-histoires.com/blog/preuves-autre-histoire/les-excavations-sur-les-iles-orkney-revelent-un-temple-de-5000-ans.html

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The shimmering colours visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image show off the remarkable complexity of the Twin Jet Nebula. The new image highlights the nebula's shells and its knots of expanding gas in striking detail. Two iridescent lobes of material stretch outwards from a central star system. Within these lobes two huge jets of gas are streaming from the star system at speeds in excess of one million kilometres per hour.

The Twin Jet Nebula. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

The cosmic butterfly pictured in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image goes by many names. It is called the Twin Jet Nebula as well as answering to the slightly less poetic name of PN M2-9.

The M in this name refers to Rudolph Minkowski, a German-American astronomer who discovered the nebula in 1947. The PN, meanwhile, refers to the fact that M2-9 is a planetary nebula. The glowing and expanding shells of gas clearly visible in this image represent the final stages of life for an old star of low to intermediate mass. The star has not only ejected its outer layers, but the exposed remnant core is now illuminating these layers – resulting in a spectacular light show like the one seen here. However, the Twin Jet Nebula is not just any planetary nebula, it is a bipolar nebula.

Ordinary planetary nebulae have one star at their centre, bipolar nebulae have two, in a binary star system. Astronomers have found that the two stars in this pair each have around the same mass as the Sun, ranging from 0.6 to 1.0 solar masses for the smaller star, and from 1.0 to 1.4 solar masses for its larger companion. The larger star is approaching the end of its days and has already ejected its outer layers of gas into space, whereas its partner is further evolved, and is a small white dwarf.

The characteristic shape of the wings of the Twin Jet Nebula is most likely caused by the motion of the two central stars around each other. It is believed that a white dwarf orbits its partner star and thus the ejected gas from the dying star is pulled into two lobes rather than expanding as a uniform sphere. However, astronomers are still debating whether all bipolar nebulae are created by binary stars. Meanwhile the nebula's wings are still growing and, by measuring their expansion, astronomers have calculated that the nebula was created only 1200 years ago.

Within the wings, starting from the star system and extending horizontally outwards like veins are two faint blue patches. Although these may seem subtle in comparison to the nebula's rainbow colours, these are actually violent twin jets streaming out into space, at speeds in excess of one million kilometres per hour. This is a phenomenon that is another consequence of the binary system at the heart of the nebula. These jets slowly change their orientation, precessing across the lobes as they are pulled by the wayward gravity of the binary system.

The two stars at the heart of the nebula circle one another roughly every 100 years. This rotation not only creates the wings of the butterfly and the two jets, it also allows the white dwarf to strip gas from its larger companion, which then forms a large disc of material around the stars, extending out as far as 15 times the orbit of Pluto! Even though this disc is of incredible size, it is much too small to be seen on the image taken by Hubble.

An earlier image of the Twin Jet Nebula using data gathered by Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2was released in 1997. This newer version incorporates more recent observations from the telescope'sSpace Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS).

A version of this image was entered into the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition, submitted by contestant Judy Schmidt.

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The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.

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Giant plumes of methane on Mars may be the belches of buried microbes

Above photo: Nili Fossae, one of the regions on Mars emitting methane. The area was already a proposed landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory because of the presence of mineral-rich clays (red).

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Nasa is keeping an open mind, but says there is an urgent need to analyse the methane clouds for other chemicals that would either confirm or rule out life as the cause.

The search for extraterrestrial life has received a tantalising boost with the announcement that Nasa scientists have detected wafts of methane on Mars that could be the emissions of microbes living deep beneath the surface.

A seven-year survey of the red planet using three powerful ground-based telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona and Chile spotted giant plumes of the noxious gas being released from the ground in the northern hemisphere during the Martian summer.

Over three months in 2003 around 19,000 tonnes of methane belched into the atmosphere from two valleys and a volcano, each about 620 miles apart, Nasa scientists report in the US journal Science.

On Earth more than 90% of methane in the atmosphere is produced by living things as a byproduct of food digestion. But the gas can also be emitted by common geological processes in volcanoes and from fissures in ocean floors.

Nasa scientists calculate that a colony of Martian microbes covering 2,316 sq miles of the planet’s permafrost could account for the volumes of methane detected. Alternatively, the gas could be released by a community of ancient bugs living in aquifers nearly five miles beneath the surface, under the permafrost.

Michael Mumma, director of Nasa’s Goddard Centre for Astrobiology in Maryland, US, said the agency was keeping an open mind about the origins of the plumes but added that there was now an urgent need to analyse the methane clouds for other chemicals that would either confirm or rule out life as the cause.

“We do not claim to have identified life, nor do we think it is possible to draw that conclusion solely on the basis of methane detection,” he said. “But we now know where, and maybe when, to go and look for other chemical signatures that will distinguish whether this is biology or other processes at work. To me it is compelling and imperative that we now map the entire planet repeatedly over two Mars years to identify all of the active regions of methane release and to establish their ­seasonal variability.” If it can predict when the plumes will appear, he said, Nasa could send probes to fly through them and investigate them further.”

Scientists previously sniffed a haze of methane around Mars in 2004. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter recorded levels of methane in the atmosphere at around 10 parts in a billion, suggesting that any releases from the planet were tiny.

The latest study provides evidence that substantial amounts of methane could be released on a seasonal basis, but is quickly broken down in the atmosphere.

The Nasa team used infrared detectors on the telescopes to confirm the presence of methane at three locations on Mars. One region, a valley known as Nili Fossae, is rich in clay minerals and was once covered in standing water. The two other sites are known as Syrtis Major, an enormous volcano nearly 500 miles wide, and the region of Terra Sabae.

On Earth there are two geological processes that produce methane. One, called serpentinisation, requires heat, water and carbon dioxide. “It could be responsible, but if it’s ongoing it means there is hot rock below the surface, so Mars must still be active,” said Mumma.

Methane is also produced in magma underneath volcanoes, but there is no evidence of active volcanoes on Mars.

If the methane is the belchings of Martian microbes, these are either living about three metres below the surface, or deep beneath the permafrost, said Mumma. The gas is thought to build up during the winter and is then released in the summer as the warmth of the sun opens up fissures in the ground.

John Parnell, an expert in astrobiology and professor of geology at Aberdeen University, said: “One of the key things about methane is it degrades in the atmosphere, so if it’s there, something is replenishing it. If it’s not life then something else is active on Mars. Even if it’s not being produced by living organisms the methane could be used as a fuel by other microbes. On Earth some of the most primitive organisms, which are billions of years old, use methane as a fuel.”

Nasa’s next opportunity to analyse samples on the red planet will be provided by theMars Science Laboratory, due for launch in 2011, which will carry more advanced sensors than any other probe to have set down on the planet.

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Could Alien Life Spread 'Like a Virus' to the Stars?

In this theoretical artist’s conception of the Milky Way galaxy, translucent green “bubbles” mark areas where life has spread beyond its home system to create cosmic oases, a process called panspermia. New research suggests that we could detect the pattern of panspermia, if it occurs.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Heflin UFO case revisited August 28, 2015 Heflin UFO photos. CLICK TO ENLARGE We ran this back in 2012 or 2013. People came out of the woodwork to read this thing. Overloaded the systems. Blew up one of our servers. Smoke was coming off circuit breakers that were snapping. People were screaming "Incoming!". It was awful. But then...danger is our business. So here goes again. (We've since beefed everything up.) The Set up: Aug. 3, 1965. Rex Heflin, at that time an Orange County highway inspector was at work one day in his county rig when at 12:37 p.m. he says he spotted a kind of “hat shaped” thing flying in the air in Santa Anna, California.  He said the object was hovering right above the road right in front of him. He grabbed his Polaroid camera (a Model 101 Polaroid camera) that he used during his normal work day to take photos of highway obstructions etc. and got off three photographs of what was (he says) a “metallic-appearing object” and a fourth photo of a black "smoke ring" he says was left behind by the UFO after it sped away at high speed. Heflin estimated the size of the UFO at around 20 feet wide and saId that as it flew across the road it seemed to hover a bit. He photographed it through his car's windshield as it crossed his line of vision (he got a second photo through his passenger window) and he said that as the object moved toward the east, it tipped a bit and he could see a dark (darker?) underside.  At that point he says he saw a type of "rotating beam of light" coming from the center of the bottom of the object. He said the beam was colored a greenish-white and it rotated (slowly) clockwise from the center of the object out to the rim of the thing. Heflin also said the craft appeared to "wobble" a bit, kind of like when you see a kid's gyroscope on a table top begin to wobble as it runs out steam. Then he got off a third shot and by then, he says, the object had turned and continued moving east and slowly gaining altitude, then increased it's speed and altitude and as it kept moving it left a smoke like vapor in its wake. One of the snapshots was published by the Santa Ana Register newspaper on September 20th of that year and the story got much bigger when the newswire services picked it up and fed it national. THE PHOTOS AND ANALYSIS The photos at above right are the ones he took. The second shot down on the page is enlarged quite a bit to get a better idea of what he saw. There are several interesting aspects to this story. 1. The U.S. Air Force (which investigated the case via operation Blue Book) issued a statement saying the photos are a hoax.  2. A UFO investigating group called NICAP investigated the case (both Heflin and the newspaper cooperated in the investigation) which included, among other things, a detailed background check on Heflin (presumably to insure he had not spent any time in a "rest home") and a computer photo analysis study done by Robert Nathan at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked with both first-generation prints and copy negatives made by the newspaper. The Nathan analysis of the photo prints and negs (reportedly) showed there was some kind of light beam emanating from the underside of the object. The analysis also ruled out that the object was something that was dangling in the air from a string or wire.  Years later some people claimed to have a found a "string like object" in the photos but in 1993 a MUFON photo analyst re-examined all the data and the photos from their initial investigation and rejected the string theory (they said it was an “artifact” generated by the photos being copied and recopied so many times).  TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE? According to NICAP, persons unknown attempted to tamper with evidence and “manipulate information.” So the story goes, the copy negatives of Heflin's famous photos were at some point obtained from Heflin “under false pretenses” by some men claiming to be from the North American Air Defense Command.  The Air Force said if there ever were such people claiming to be from NORAD who came to get the photos, they were most certainly not from the Air Force or NORAD. Implication being: they were imposters, if they ever existed. In the end the conclusion of UFO investigators was and is the case is a credible, thoroughly investigated sighting and meets all the criteria for evidence of a legit UFO -- which means it is simply a "legitimate" Unidentified Flying Object which brings us right back to that very day in 1965 when Heflin took the photos.  No more, no less.  Now, there is a fellow (named Marvin) who has done his own rather interesting analysis of the photos and he claims, "The odds are not in favor of a large free flying object remaining the same distance (to the camera) and altitude in both Photo #2 and Photo #3. The evidence supports a small object suspended from the truck near the mirror." He notes that Heflin never filed any UFO report and we know from other sources that Heflin never sought any publicity (how the photos became public was actually by accident, more or less) so Marvin asks: "Was the whole affair just a practical joke that grew out of control?" A very good question. He's put his analysis, with the photos, online. You'll find it here . P.S. If you ever take a photo of a UFO, send it to us. The merciless, take-no-prisoners, mostly sober (most of the time) crack Investigative Team here at the Chronicle will investigate that bad boy like nobody's business. Make NICAP look they have training wheels on their feet.

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Daily UFO Headlines 8/28/2015

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• The UFOs Didn’t Come In Peace! Astronaut Sets Record Straight On ET Nuclear War – The Huffington Post
• PHOTO OF THE DAY: Heflin UFO case revisited – The Sky Chronicle
• UFO alert as shape-shifting orb spotted above Leatherhead – Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser
• A Guide to Detecting an Alien Apocalypse – National Geographic
• Could Alien Life Spread ‘Like a Virus’ to the Stars? – Discovery News

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WATCH: famous Black Knight UFO myth 'solved' by YouTube novice in just 11 minutes

From the nervous, shaky start, you can tell it's his first ever YouTube video.

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The narrator even apologised for his amateur presenting style and asked viewers to bear with him.

But after an 11-minute DIY filming attempt, YouTube user NUA appears to have successfully debunked 1998 photographs of the so-called 'Black Knight satellite'. 

Over the past 24 hours Express.co.uk has revealed new video and photographic footage from UFO conspiracists who claimed they had further proof of the mysterious alien satellite.

Alien researchers have been calling the myth "one of the most convincing pieces of evidence for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life" for the past 17 years, while some claim it has orbited Earth for at least 13,000 years.

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But NUA's video - titled "Black Knight Satellite UFO Documentary - Truth Exposed 2015 - (Debunked)" - claims to conclusively prove the 'Black Knight', as photographed in 1998 NASA images, was nothing more than a satellite thermal blanket lost by the crew of the Endeavor space shuttle as they worked on the developing the International Space Station (ISS).

In his video, NUA compared NASA video of the Endeavor mission which shows a thermal blanket on the ISS.

The same blanket is then seen being dropped by the crew as it tubules away into space.

He highlights the blanket as being exactly the same shape as the 'Black Knight' in the 1998 pictures seized on by conspiracists and explains that the object only appeared to change shape because it was turning as it fell away.

After releasing the pictures in 1998, NASA said it was a thermal blanket, but it did not stop a wave of conspiracists branding it a huge cover up.

The legend of the alien satellite seems to have then been retrospectively dated back to 1899 when Nicola Tesla announced he was picking up radio waves coming from space, prompting people to suggest something alien was out there.

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Experiments in 1928 in Oslo, Norway, picked up the same signals.

In 1954, US state newspapers carried quotes from Donald Keyhoe, a retired naval aviation major and UFO researcher, claiming the US Air Force had detected two satellites orbiting Earth, despite none yet being launched from our planet.

Time then ran a 1960 piece, following the launch of satellites from Earth, stating that the US Navy detected a dark object, possibly a Soviet spy satellite, with a highly irregular orbit.

The myth developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the 'Black Knight Satellite' while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.

It has been reported that a decade later in 1973, a researcher from Scotland, Duncan Lunan, looked back at the Norwegian scientists' data from 1928, before claiming the "messages" suggested the 'Black Knight' was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.

Many sceptics claim the legend was retrospectively created after the 1998 pictures emerged, with the preceding odd events weaved into the story to make it more convincing.

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The noises from 1899 and 1928 remain a mystery, but the possible causes do not so far include an alien satellite, according to scientists. 

They insist research shows that in 1954 Mr Keyhoe had been promoting a UFO book and the articles had been written in a tongue-in-cheek fashion by the papers.

A follow-up, but less widely read, article in Time also confirmed that the strange satellite had in fact been the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray, they found.

There are reports that Mr Cooper, although maintaining he saw a number of UFOs in space, never claimed to have seen the 'Black Knight satellite' on that mission or at all.

Mr Lunan is also later reported to have denied suggesting any alien satellite had its origins 12,600 years ago and that his conclusion that the noises were a star map were from unscientific methods.

Despite NUA's video, many UFO researchers refuse to believe the fabled 'Black Knight satellite' could be just a thermal blanket, insisting, it is a craft of solid construction.

One 'Black Knight' believer posted online about the thermal blanket explanation: "Classic debunking (rubbish). The things these nutters will come up with just so someone will listen to them." 

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Daily UFO Headlines 8/27/2015

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• UFOs in Yuma? Incident at YPG has gone unexplained for 60-plus years – Yuma Sun
• Witness: UFO abductee honored with monument – News10 ABC
• WATCH: famous Black Knight UFO myth ‘solved’ by YouTube novice in just 11 minutes – Daily Express
• ‘UFO sighting’ filmed over Manchester – ITV
• U.S. astronaut says he was told there were UFO’s at Roswell – KRMG

Groot ruimteschip verlicht ruimtestation ISS ( Video )

Voor iemand die de gebeurtenissen rondom het ISS ruimtestation op regelmatige basis volgt, is het onvoorstelbaar dat hiervan zo goed als niets terug te vinden is in het mainstream nieuws. 

Zelfs een enorm ruimteschip dat ’s nachts het ISS ruimtestation verlicht, haalt de “normale pers” niet eens. 

Het lijkt wel alsof mensen volkomen blind zijn voor wat er zich boven hun hoofden afspeelt of misschien is het simpelweg de angst voor het onbekende. 

“Als we net doen alsof we het niet zien, dan bestaat het ook niet”. 

Mensen zoals ufoloog Scott Waring die zich iedere minuut van hun vrije tijd bezighouden met onbekende objecten in de lucht zien vaak bijzondere dingen. 

Zo ontdekte hij via de camerabeelden van NASA een UFO die op gelijke hoogte met het ruimtestation bleef meevliegen, af en toe vertraagde en versnelde om dan vervolgens weer voorbij te komen.

Naast deze UFO ontdekte hij nog een enorm ruimteschip, pal boven het ISS. Op de volgende afbeelding zie je de UFO en helemaal bovenin een deel van het ruimteschip.

Dan, op een zeker moment begint het ruimtestation in de nacht op te lichten door het grote ruimteschip. Een soort gloeiend blauwachtig/paars licht schijnt van bovenaf richting ruimtestation.

Het was volgens Scott ook niet bepaald een klein ruimteschip wat het ruimtestation verlichtte. Al het bovenstaande is vastgelegd op de video hieronder met commentaar van Scott Waring. 

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Child Confession: Stalked By UFO for Two Weeks

One of the credible witnesses in this world full of cruel people is the kids. Though, this is not an absolute principle; their stories are worth hearing. Unidentified Flying Objects are those objects flying in the sky, cannot be identified. It does not necessarily link to aliens, but most people relate it to them because aliens and extraterrestrial beings somehow exist in our stories. Who would make it, if it is not a man-made phenomenon?

Recently, there is a clip about the boy being captured on the mobile phone owned by the parents. Since the parents are concerned, they decide to send it to the “experts” for confirmation and verification. This strange footage was being recorded by a nine-year-old boy admitting that an alien had been following him every single day for two weeks. At first, his parents did not believe. However, the young boy was able to film the object, they considered the explanations. The object is flying around while changing its direction. Afterward, it vanishes in the midair.

According to the experts, the footage is a proof of alien craft following children. In fact, they camouflage themselves from parents to abduct the child. One YouTube comment said that the aircraft is almost invisible to the parents but visible to the child. Because of this, the object is frightening. The report is in connection with those recently claimed that there are strange objects following children, tantamount to a presumption to abduct them. While the story is unbelievable, the fact that the child was able to record the footage, it is a substantial proof that the incident is not fiction or a product of excessive imagination.

When you look closer, you’ll see the shifts of craft shape that changes its direction before dematerialising. It is normal for the viewers to share their opinions online. One audience even believed that the video is of title accusation, is more a reflection of the mindset of the uploader, than proof of anything nefarious on behalf of the craft pilot.

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Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut, Speaks Out on Roswell & the Existence of Aliens 

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell walks on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission. (NASA)

Recently, U.K. tabloid The Mirror, published a story quoting Apollo 14 Astronaut and sixth man to walk on the Moon, Edgar Mitchell, as saying that “Peace-loving aliens tried to save America from nuclear war.” To follow up on this claim and prior statements made to the Observer, we called Edgar Mitchell for a short follow up interview. 

While the existence of extraterrestrials has always been a fascination driven by science fiction and supposed UFO sightings, this is not a claim you regularly hear from people who have actually been to space. Most recently, with the discovery of the potentially life-harboring planet Kepler 452b and NASA’s new mission to look for water and life on Jupiter’s moon Europa, the topic is once again in the mainstream and up for fierce debate. 

I’d like to follow up on some of your previous comments regarding extraterrestrial life. Going back to the Roswell incident, many believe the crashing of an alien craft was covered up by the government—which supports your claim made in our previous interview. Is there anything that you know that differs from what the public is aware of? 

Well I think it’s out there in the public. Circumstances were of course, that the Roswell incident was a post World War II event. We were doing nuclear testing over in the White Sands proving ground which was right across the mountain from Roswell and the Roswell Air Field was a military base supporting that. So it seems that most likely what the aliens were interested in was the fact we had a weapons testing facility at the White Sands Proving Ground and were also interested in what we were doing or what the U.S. military was doing. 

What exactly were these crashed aliens doing there?

They were observing our activities at the White Sands proving ground and were monitoring our development. 

A story went viral two weeks ago citing you as saying, “My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.” Can you elaborate?

I don’t remember speaking to them personally. I don’t know where they got that information. I didn’t make those statements. Somebody has added to my words. Those weren’t my exact words but I don’t necessarily disagree with those statements.

But have you been told by individuals who worked at the White Sands nuclear testing facility that there was UFO activity?

Yes I have. 

The Roswell Daily Record from July 8, 1947 sparked years of conspiracy theories of government coverup. (Wikimedia) 

You grew up near the site of the Roswell incident. Did you ever see any UFOs?

No, I have not personally, but I’ve spoken to individuals who were in the military and worked at the base at the time. You mentioned in a previous interview that the existence of extraterrestrials was being kept from the public because of the technology they can offer and that may affect the ‘moneyed’ interest.

Who are these people that keep the information secret?

Whoever sets the stage for military or government activity. We’ll probably never know the exact reason for why they do what they do but those are the interpretations that seem common. Switching gears now, I recently interviewed a startup that you sit on the advisory board of, SpaceVR.

Do you think their technology will assist consumers in experiencing a similar effect you had during Apollo 14?

They could react to it that way. There’s a long history in human civilization where people have these powerful effects and responses to different perspectives. My experience in space is what people call a samadhi experience. I think that back in time people were having these kinds of experiences and being overwhelmed by them. Seeing the big picture. That seems to go back in history. You’ll find that those kinds of experiences have been around a long time. 

Samadhi—is that a term from Hinduism?

I think that came out of the hindu tradition, yes. In the greek tradition it was metanoia—change of mind, change of heart. I believe in the Buddhist tradition Satori was enlightenment. In other words, these various traditions of the past have added the sub verbiage to these types of expressions of people’s reactions to a new experience of some sort. A powerful experience that caused a change of thinking.

Do you subscribe to any one religion?

Let’s put it this way, I think most of our religions are early attempts at cosmology. In other words, explaining ourselves. How did we get here? Where are we going? Where did all this come from? How did it happen? People from all times have asked these sorts of questions and they came up with their own answers throughout history. Thats perfectly natural. All of our religious experiences are the same thing. Attempts to answer these ancient cosmological questions.

You have been cited many times when discussing the future of quantum physics as a science that could link spirituality and consciousness to everyday science. Can you explain this?

Well let’s put it in context. Quantum physics didn’t exist until the 20th century. It was the result of the work of Max Planck, Albert Einstein and the greats at the end of the 19th and into the 20th century. When quantum physics was formalized, we recognized the interactions between particles and that’s when we started to explain it. The awareness of particles and their interactions down at that level of nature have not been studied or understood before. That’s the quantum world as we understand it. We now know that particles interact. That they are aware of each other. We use that term that they are “aware” because they interact to each other. That was only quantified in the early 20th century. In the 1920s, quantum mechanics had a fairly good scientific organization and it’s taken us all the 20th century to be able to explain that these particles can show consciousness and awareness. 

I think we can have a science for it.

Click here to read our early, more in-depth interview with Edgar Mitchell Robin

Seemangal focuses on NASA and advocacy for space exploration. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he currently resides. Find him on Instagram for more space-related content: @not_gatsby 

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Astronaut: “Er waren UFO’s bij Roswell, maar dat is stilgehouden vanwege de technologie die ze gebruiken”

Apollo 14-astronaut Edgar Mitchell sprak onlangs in een interview met Observer.com over UFO’s en het beroemde Roswellincident. Volgens velen is er in de jaren veertig een UFO gecrasht bij het Amerikaanse plaatsje.

Mitchell, die in het gebied opgroeide, zei dat hij zelf nog nooit een UFO heeft gezien. Hij zei wel te hebben gesproken met mensen die op de nucleaire basis White Sands hadden gewerkt. Die bevestigden tegenover hem dat er UFO-activiteit was geweest.

Hij zei ook dat het incident geheim is gehouden vanwege de technologie die uit de UFO’s kon worden gehaald door ‘vermogende partijen’. Hij doelde hiermee op de mensen die achter de schermen het overheidsbeleid uitstippelen en het leger aansturen.

De 84-jarige Mitchell maakte deel uit van de Apollo 14-missie in 1971 en was de zesde maanwandelaar ooit. Hij is dus niet zomaar iemand. Volgens Mitchell vlogen aliens met hun UFO’s boven Amerikaanse raketbases en boven White Sands, waar in 1945 de atoombom Trinity werd gedropt, om zich te informeren over de militaire kracht van de Amerikanen.

Uit gesprekken met mensen bleek duidelijk dat de buitenaardse wezens wilden voorkomen dat Amerika oorlog zou voeren, zei hij. Luchtmachtofficieren die de raketbases in de Koude Oorlog bemanden zeiden tegen hem dat er toen geregeld UFO’s werden gespot. Die zouden raketten vaak onklaar hebben gemaakt, met name aan de Pacifische kust. “In die dagen was er hevige activiteit,” zei Mitchell. Vond je dit interessant? Denk er dan aan het artikel te delen op Facebook.

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Flitsende UFO-formatie niet opgemerkt door publiek ( Video )

Een man is met zijn gezin aan het wandelen in Chicago wanneer hij plotseling iets in de lucht ziet. 

Hij maakt er een prachtige opname van, maar verbaast zich erover dat de rest van de bevolking dit simpelweg niet lijkt te zien. 

Vorige week schreven wij een artikel over dat een formatie van drie UFO’s relatief vaak voor komt. 

Wij ontvingen enkele interessante foto’s van een lezer die genomen zijn in de buurt van Steenbergen (Noord-Brabant) en die niet alleen enkele bijzondere wolken tonen, maar ook een driehoekige UFO-formatie. 

Ik zie geen link waar ik m'n zojuist gemaakte foto kan doorsturen van wolken die redelijk in de buurt komen van wat onlangs passeerde op deze site. Het grappige is (toeval of niet) dat er 2 formaties van 3 witte bollen te zien zijn in driehoeksvorm in de wolk. Ik heb meerdere foto's gemaakt ter hoogte van Steenbergen.

Voor wie beschikt over goede ogen; in de laatste foto zijn er zelfs 3 formaties te zien.

Voor wie ze niet heeft kunnen ontdekken, volgt hier een kort filmpje waarbij de lezer aanwijst waar de UFO-formaties zich bevinden: 

 

Naast de driehoeksformatie of drie UFO’s is er nog een verschijningsvorm van deze objecten die de laatste tijd veelvuldig voorkomt. 

Dat is de flitsende UFO die vaak wordt gezien als een soort ronde cirkel. Wat we bedoelen is duidelijk te zien op de volgende foto die is genomen door een vrouw in het plaatsje Bismarck in de Amerikaanse staat North Dakota. 

De vrouw heeft geen flauw benul wat voor object het is.

In dezelfde staat, maar in een plaats iets meer dan honderd kilometer verderop, werd in Dickinson ook een dergelijke UFO gezien. Beide waarnemingen vonden niet op dezelfde dag plaats voor zover wij kunnen beoordelen. 

Ook bij de waarneming in Dickinson waren er een aantal UFO’s zichtbaar in een soort cirkelformatie, waarbij die in het centrum van de cirkel groter was dan de omringende. 

De getuige heeft helaas geen foto kunnen maken, maar wel de volgende tekening:

Op een gegeven moment bewogen al de kleinere UFO’s zich weg van de grote in het midden, maar bleven wel exact in dezelfde formatie. Drie tot vijf seconden later kwamen ze allemaal weer netjes terug in hun oorspronkelijke positie. 

De gehele voorstelling nam ongeveer een halve minuut in beslag. 

Iets vergelijkbaars gebeurde er ook in Chicago op 12 augustus 2015. Een man is samen met zijn gezin aan het wandelen bij de aldaar bekende Buckingham fontein, wanneer hij een aantal vreemde lichten opmerkt in de lucht.

Ook deze UFO’s schijnen zich in eerste instantie in een cirkel te bewegen, maar dan verandert het geheel naar de volgende formatie:

De getuige zegt dat hij zijn leven lang in Chicago heeft gewoond en nog nooit iets dergelijks heeft gezien. Wat hem misschien nog wel het meest verbaasde was dat bijna niemand op de grond dit soort dingen opmerkte. 

Iedereen ging gewoon door met wat ze aan het doen waren en ze zagen het niet of ze deden alsof ze het niet zagen. 

Ook boven een Turkse stad werd enkele dagen geleden op 24 augustus iets dergelijks gefilmd. Van deze waarneming zijn geen verdere gegevens bekend, maar ook hier een soort cirkelformatie van UFO’s met daar omheen een flitsend licht.

Kortom, we zijn eigenlijk nog geen stap dichterbij een verklaring voor al die onbekende objecten die in ons luchtruim vertoeven. Dat ze er inderdaad zijn, is een discussie die gepasseerd is.

Bronnen: 

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AllUFOs.com

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Extraordinary UFO sightings from the US Air Force's Project Blue Book

Four remarkable stories from the new online database of 130,000 pages of UFO sightings

A photographic negative allegedly showing a fleet of unidentified craft in the skies above Lubbock, Texas 

Britain's Roswell: the truth behind the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident

Did an extra-terrestrial craft land in a Suffolk forest during the winter of 1980? The maker of a new film, The Rendlesham UFO Incident, believes so

The truth is out there? The Rendlesham UFO incident is the subject of a new film Photo: Eyevine

City On Mars Inside Alien Skull Found In India Mars Photo, Aug 27, 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of discovery: August 27, 2015
Location of discovery: Ophir Chasma, Mars
Source photo: http://www.isro.gov.in/pslv-c25-mars-orbiter-mission/3d-portrayals-of-ophir-chasma-terrain

Was reading in the news that India Mars orbiter had taken some fantastic photos and they were sharing some with the news. I had to dive in head first on this one. I was looking for structures and faces, but what I found was a combination of both. This structure is actually in the shape of an alien shoulders, neck, cranium and face, but the eerie part is that the head is split wide open, and there are structures inside this head. There is also another face inside the head, but it was to dark with the shadows to bother trying to point it out. I added yellow to outline the outer body, pink being the inside of the skull. A city inside a head shaped structure. This is proof that sometimes aliens can be artistic, bizarre, and eerie. 
Scott C. Waring
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Cloacked UFO during a storm over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Here’s one interesting footage of a UFO during a lightning storm. This video was taken on Rio de Janeiro back in February 2015.

What do you think about this sighting? Please leave your comment below!

The Conspiracy Theorists 'Holy Grail' UFO Has Returned After A Mysterious Absence

© YouTube/secureteam10Conspiracy theories are a natural by-product of space exploration, surfacing to provide an answer when neither our eyes or governments are able to provide one.

One of the oldest theories around has to be the 'Black Knight' satellite, a mysterious black object which has been repeatedly referred to in reference to sightings all over the world and indeed even outside of this world.

After a period of absence from the limelight it appears as though the 'Black Knight' is back again, appearing in the sky above Jacksonville, Florida.

Believed to be a '13,000 year-old alien satellite' (no, really), the 'Black Knight' story originates as far back as 1954, however theorists use a series of images taken in 1998 by the Space Shuttle Endeavour which showed a mysterious black object apparently in orbit around the Earth.

© Provided by Huffington Post black knight satellite

NASA quickly dealt with the 'rumour' calling it nothing more than a thermal heat plate that had fallen off the shuttle.

Of course once a theorist gets hold of a good set of images you're unlikely to keep them quiet and the idea has persisted ever since.

YouTube user "secureteam10" who posted the video has a history of posting UFO videos that could be considered 'dubious' by even the most believing of theorists.

That hasn't stopped the video from getting over 133,000 views though, cementing the one singular truth that comes out of every 'UFO discovery'. Whether you believe them or not, people don't want us to be alone in the universe, and in some ways, that's pretty reassuring. 

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Astronauts Photograph 35 Mile High 'Sky Jellyfish' That Live Above the Clouds

Over the past century a number of writers on Fortean topics have speculated that there are strange, unknown beings that live above us in the sky - atmospheric beasts that range from dragons to massive 'sky jellyfish'. Could it be possible that some sightings - in particular of the latter type of 'beast' - are caused by atmospheric phenomena that are only just now beginning to be understood?

A case in point would be so-called 'sprites' - "large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky." The first report of a sprite sighting was in the late 19th century, but they weren't photographed until a century later.

Now, sprites are captured in photographs and on video quite often - and recently, some were even seen from above, by astronauts on the International Space Station (see image at the top of this post). On August 10th, the astronauts spotted red sprites above a cluster of storms over Mexico and El Salvador, and managed to snap some wonderful images.

Click through the link below for more imagery and information.

Link: Red Sprites Above the U.S. and Central America

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Huge Beam of Light appears above Earth captured during ISS Live Stream

Whatever happened to the Marshall County cop who hit a UFO?

Moonwalker Edgar Mitchell Speaks: UFO Cover-Ups Must End

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Black Knight UFO Satellite Debunked

A new video and photographic images has arisen from UFOlogists who claimed they had further proof of the mysterious ‘Black Knight’ satellite. Alien researchers have been calling the ‘Black Knight’ “one of the most convincing pieces of evidence for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life” for the past 17 years, while some claimit has orbited Earth for at least 13,000 years.

Watch the proof on ParaNormicsTV (video below)

The above video claims to conclusively prove the ‘Black Knight’, as photographed in 1998 NASA images, was nothing more than a satellite thermal blanket lost by the crew of the Endeavor space shuttle as they worked on the developing the International Space Station (ISS).

In the above video from NASA of the Endeavor mission which shows a thermal blanket on the ISS. The same blanket is then seen being dropped by the crew as it tumbles away into space. It is easy to identify that the blanket as being exactly the same shape as the ‘Black Knight’ in the 1998 pictures seized on by tin-foilists and explains that the object only appeared to change shape because it was turning as it fell away.

After releasing the pictures in 1998, NASA said it was a thermal blanket, but it did not stop a wave of branding it a huge cover up.

The legend of the alien satellite seems to have then been retrospectively dated back to 1899 when Nicola Tesla announced he was picking up radio waves coming from space, prompting people to suggest something alien was out there. He was one of the first people to hear the rhythmic beating of a pulsar.

In 1954, US state newspapers carried quotes from Donald Keyhoe, a retired naval aviation major and UFO researcher, claiming the US Air Force had detected two satellites orbiting Earth, despite none yet being launched from our planet. Time then ran a 1960 piece, following the launch of satellites from Earth, stating that the US Navy detected a dark object, possibly a Soviet spy satellite, with a highly irregular orbit.

The myth developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the ‘Black Knight Satellite’ while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.

It has been reported that a decade later in 1973, a researcher from Scotland, Duncan Lunan, looked back at the Norwegian scientists’ data from 1928, before claiming the “messages” suggested the ‘Black Knight’ was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.

Many skeptics claim the legend was retrospectively created after the 1998 pictures emerged, with the preceding odd events weaved into the story to make it more convincing.

They insist research shows that in 1954 Mr Keyhoe had been promoting a UFO book and the articles had been written in a tongue-in-cheek fashion by the papers.

A follow-up, but less widely read, article in Time also confirmed that the strange satellite had in fact been the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray, they found. There are reports that Mr Cooper, although maintaining he saw a number of UFOs in space, never claimed to have seen the ‘Black Knight satellite’ on that mission or at all.

Mr Lunan is also later reported to have denied suggesting any alien satellite had its origins 12,600 years ago and that his conclusion that the noises were a star map were from unscientific methods. Despite this video, many UFO researchers refuse to believe the fabled ‘Black Knight satellite’ could be just a thermal blanket, insisting, it is a craft of solid construction. Not sure how the true believers would know that since the shape and dimensions of an ISS thermal blanket is unknown to them. They just know. These thermal blankets are custom formed to fit over the heavily utilized and odd shaped ISS components for a custom fit.

So a thermal blanket (which can be up to 10 cm’s thick) that is the exact shape and size is discarded or lost on the ISS. ISS cameras catch it slowly meandering away…but no it’s a 13,000 year old alien probe obviously…

For some reason which I can not fathom many, many people purposely and intentionally want and can believe anything. Facts do not sway them and anything that substantially threatens their topsy-turvey worldview is instantly labelled a conspiracy. It is the height of intellectual laziness. This whole ‘Black Knight’ subject was explained to 100% satisfaction to the people that really know…NASA themselves. But to some people UFOlogy has become a religion. None of those pesky facts for them…belief is all they need even if it provably wrong.

UFOlogy MUST sway and discourage this religiosity of the UFO subject. It helps no one, confuses most and irritates people that KNOW better. Faith in anything is a bad thing. It robs a person of the burden of thinking too much and festers lies and deceit.

UFOlogy and UFO’s are REAL…no faith required. The scientific facts all point to a Universe teaming with life. Science is our only hope to validate and legitimize the study of such a paradigm shaking subject.  People have to learn to critically think about what they believe. In the end what you believe does not matter, it is what you know that counts.

Source: http://www.express.co.uk

Source: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast21mar_1/

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Astronaut André Kuipers: “Buitenaards leven bestaat”

Ruimtevaarder en wetenschapper André Kuipers gaf woensdagmiddag een lezing op het Lauwers College in Buitenpost. Honderden leerlingen hingen ruim anderhalf uur aan zijn lippen. Na afloop mochten er prangende vragen worden gesteld. Rector Gerard Janze was erg tevreden. “Deze investering betaalt zich wel terug,” zei hij.

Is er buitenaards leven? Wie vraagt zich dit nu niet af. Een leerlinge legde deze vraag woensdag voor aan dr. Kuipers, de enige Nederlander met twee ruimtemissies achter zijn naam en daarmee een autoriteit op dit gebied.

In december 2002 werd Kuipers geselecteerd als boordwerktuigkundige voor de Sojoez TMA-4 naar het internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Hij verbleef ruim een week aan boord van het ruimtestation en voerde wetenschappelijke experimenten uit. Op 21 december 2011 vertrok Kuipers voor vijf maanden naar het ISS om deel te nemen aan een tweetal expedities.

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NSW Skywatcher Confession: Quizzed by Men in Black Incident

Unidentified Flying Objects are always an exciting challenge not only to both science and scientists, but also those for the masses. A person who admits seeing strange objects in the sky were often subject to ridicule. However, it is important to note that each sighting has its elements and occurrences that must be taken into consideration before judging the same. Recently, there has been a documentary film showing the discovery of unidentified flying objects by the witnesses residing in Australia. Next week in Sydney, there’s a movie being screened that is sure to polarize its audience. The film is called Australien Skies.

So, what does the film say? It is a documentary of the unexplained stuff that were seen by the people. These people were called skywatchers, and guess what the timing is incredibly good. Earlier this month, Yuri Milner, the prominent Russian billionaire, announced to spend $US 100 million just to see if there’s anything “out there”. Meanwhile, Australia committed to contributing the CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope.

When speaking about the documentary, Kiama knows how intriguing it is. No doubt, he is a builder, at the same time a married person with two kids. He is a simple guy who had no particular interest in strange objects, or at least has a thing to stare up at the heavens. It started in March 2013 when he and his workmate saw the daylight. Afterwards, the bright stars were seen gathering around a ball of white light that reappeared and disappeared before approached by an F18 Super Hornet. Once done, the whole thing vanished.

What is unique about the incident is the fact that he begins to see strange objects regularly, at least twenty to thirty times. He got in touch with Mariana Flynn, the president of UFO Research NSW and Damien Nott. In fact, she testified that they had seen reports of black helicopters hovering over numerous homes.

Watch – Three UFOs Flying Over the Moon

Several UFOs captured on high definition digital camera passing the lunar surface, cameraman claims. In a series of videos posted on YouTube, black objects are apparently moving near the Moon, including one object that looks to be powered by the rocket jets.

The cameraman named Crow777 claims he never post any hoax video and says he only manipulates colour, contrast, and zoom to point further the anomalies he caught on camera rather than misleads the viewers.

He states in the video description that he’s not saying he captured an alien, but a ship that’s controlled intelligently.

The cameraman rules out objects being satellites orbiting Earth in these three clips because of the length of time he took the video while they were passing the lunar surface – lasted for up to a minute in one case.

He concludes that they are very close to the Moon for them to be satellites orbiting Earth, which would only need two to three seconds to pass the Moon because of their distance from it.
On his channel, the cameraman said that everything in the video is in high definition, and some are captured using an eight-inch telescope. He claimed to have shot UFOs, lunar UFOs, the Moon, and space anomalies.

He makes a pledge to his channel’s subscribers never to edit the clips to make them deceptive. He says that what viewers see is what he observes through his camera and telescope.

Former Navy Rescue Films A Triangle UFO

A witness with a military background reported spotting and capturing a photograph of a triangle-shaped UFO with three white, pulsating lights in North Carolina at Concord. The witness was with his dogs outside his home at 8 p.m. on 11th of June 2015.

He said in a Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) report that he saw the object hovering and then travelling northeast slowly before the lights went off, and the UFO disappeared.
The witness said that he had a military background being a former Navy rescue. He claims to have known all about aircraft warning lights and he says he never saw anything like the UFO in the military.

Along with the video, the witness also provided MUFON a still shot of the object. The witness reported to MUFON on 20th June 2015. North Carolina MUFON investigated the case led by field investigator Sanford Davis, who closed the case as Unknown.

David also stated in his report that two witnesses spotted another triangle 50 miles away in Case # 66524 four days later.

According to Davis, the object in the video seems military, perhaps a type of black project aircraft, a variation of the Astra, TR3B.

In Case 66524, a witness reported spotting a black triangle with blinking lights near Gastonia, NC. The witness said that the UFO moved 150 miles in less than a minute. David also closed this particular case as Unknown.

David stated that there had been numerous sightings in and around the Charlotte area in the last few months.

UFO Eyewitness Harassed By Helicopters: Men in Black Documentary

Just this week, a new Australian documentary was released. Such documentary points out UFO information showing the interviews with people who saw the shaky video of odd and lights, with a silvery and shimmering shapes hovering in the skies. However, there is one section of the documented footage that may entice the viewers, and it is the story of Liam Freaney.  Liam Freaney is a married person having two kids residing in Australia. Working as a construction worker, he and his co-worker saw bright stars piling up around a ball of white lights in broad daylight. After watching them, the stars and balls disappear and reappeared. The strange happening occurred just before the objects were being strafed by an F-18 Hornet fighter jet. After the arrival of the jet, once they disappeared, they vanished for good.

A few months later, he started seeing the objects regularly. He even bought a video camera to film in this regard. After capturing several strange objects on videotape, helicopters began to show up and hover low over his house. In a documentary, Freaney gives further details about the strange objects.  He would see and film the object. Afterwards, a helicopter would show up and sit around his house. So he started shooting the helicopters and unidentified flying objects. He communicated with the locals and spoke with the president named Mariana Flynn, telling her what he saw on the videotape. Mariana Flynn also told him that he was not the sole person videotaping the UFOs. In fact, there are many reports of people filming the helicopter.

In the documentary, he admitted giving finally a presentation on what he recorded. There was a buzz about his speeches, but his performances were advertised well. Extraterrestrials are a controversial topic that many are quick to hop on opposite sides of the battlefield on. However, it is also important to consider the totality of the evidence.

Zie jij het verschil tussen een maan en een doodgewone pan? NASA daagt je uit

Bron: https://twitter.com/NASAEuropa

Afbeelding weergeven op Twitter

RUIMTEVAART Wie zegt dat wetenschap saai hoeft te zijn? De onderzoekers van de 'NASA Europa Mission' deelden onlangs alvast een erg leuk vraagstuk op Twitter: "Europa of braadpan? Eén van deze is een maan van Jupiter, Europa. De rest zijn pannen..." Zie jij het verschil?

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• Dawn stuurt scherpste beelden van Ceres tot nu toe
• NASA doet aan recyclage
• Ruimtesla: een 'grote hap' voor de mensheid

Jupiter. © photo news.

De ruimte is een wonderlijke plek vol prachtige planeten, manen, sterren en magisch aandoende verschijnselen. Dankzij NASA kunnen ook wij van al dat moois genieten, zowaar vanuit onze luie zetel.

Daar waar NASA meestal foto's deelt die ergens heel ver weg van ons zijn genomen, koos het nu voor enkele kunstige kiekjes van objecten die we allemaal in onze keukenkast hebben liggen: doodgewone pannen. Maar NASA zou natuurlijk NASA niet zijn moest er niet ergens tussen dat simpel keukengerei een echte maan verstopt zitten: een maan van Jupiter, die luistert naar de klinkende naam 'Europa'. Maar waar staat die? Weet jij het? 

Wat later stuurde het Twitter-account van de NASA-missie de volgende tweet uit: "Dat is geen maan! Artiest Chris Jonassen maakte de 'panfoto's' voor zijnDevour Project". Wie dat project eens bekijkt, weet meteen ook het antwoord op het vraagstuk. Inderdaad: de linkse foto in de middelste rij (dus de vierde foto) is geen pan, maar wel Europa. Wist jij het?

Hypersonische SpaceLiner zal in anderhalf uur van Londen naar Sydney vliegen - HLN.be

Op een hoogte van 80 kilometer splitsen de raketmotoren en het passagiersgedeelte dat vervolgens door de toplaag van de atmosfeer glijdt met 25.200 km per uur. 

© DLR Space Launcher Systems Analysis Group.

In de toekomst zal je met het nieuwe hypersonische vliegtuig Spaceliner in 90 minuten van Londen naar Sydney kunnen vliegen. Het toestel zal met een waterstof-zuurstofraket tot een hoogte van 80 kilometer gecatapulteerd worden. Daarna zal het door de hogere atmosfeer glijden met 20 keer de snelheid van het geluid.

De SpaceLiner zou in 2030 kunnen opstijgen, maar het team achter het ambitieuze project moet wel nog even 33 miljard dollar bij elkaar zien te krijgen.

Zoals Space Shuttle
Inschepen op een SpaceLiner wordt heel anders dan bij een normale vlucht. Het toestel zal rechtop staan op het lanceerplatform, zoals bij een ruimtelancering. Raketmotoren brengen het toestel dan tot 80 kilometer hoog. Beide delen zullen dan opsplitsen, zoals bij de Space Shuttle gebeurt, en de raketbooster keert dan autonoom terug naar de aarde. 

25.200 km/u
Het passagiersgedeelte, met plaats voor honderd mensen, zal volgens de huidige plannen vervolgens door de bovenkant van de atmosfeer glijden met een topsnelheid van 7 km per seconde of 25.200 km per uur. De landing zal in niets verschillen van die van een normaal vliegtuig.

Lees ook

• Reizen we binnenkort supersnel in lagedrukbuizen?
• Luchtmacht VS test nieuw toestel met 7.242 km per uur
• In drie uur van Europa naar Australië: fictie of realiteit?

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The Effect of Ancient Catastrophe on Humankind (Video)

(Before It's News)

It is the hypothesis of many members of the Electric Universe community that within human memory, perhaps a mere four or five thousand years ago, the Earth’s sky and the inner solar system underwent profound changes.

An epoch of planetary instability produced extraordinary electromagnetic events and global catastrophes that were recorded in myths and legends around the world.

Today, we shift our focus to perhaps the most important question one can explore when considering this thesis – what were the effects of these events on humankind, and to what extent did they shape our world and our species to this day?
 

  

Is Military The Cause Of The UFO Lights Over El Paso, Texas That Cause Residents To Worry, Aug 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: August 2015
Location of sighting: El Paso, Texas, USA
News source: http://www.kvia.com/news/some-believe-lights-in-east-el-paso-are-ufo/34921124
News source 2: http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/Mystery-lights-turn-out-to-be-Fort-Bliss-training-exercise-191084.shtml#.Vd5s3OtiCtY

This string of lights was seen over El Paso last night. The video only shows us 10 seconds of the sighting, but still gives us a good idea of what took place. Normally I would not believe the military, they like to cover up UFO sightings, but this does look like flares, in a row, falling together. Still, we need some views of people living in El Paso to be certain its flares. If you live there, please tell us about it in comments below. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

News states:
EL PASO, Texas – Flashing lights near Fort Bliss sparked curiosity among Northeast residents Tuesday night. A Fort Bliss spokesperson said aviation and artillery units were training in the area Tuesday night. “Trainings are conducted during hours of limited visibility using flares, visible laser aiming devices and other equipment that could contribute to strange sights to the untrained observer,” said Lt. Col. Craig Childs with Fort Bliss. Childs said the units were firing illumination rounds which hover in the air for several minutes like a giant flare at various altitudes. "This is most likely the culprit of the reports," said Childs.

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Two UFO Near Space Station, On So big It Lights Up the entire ISS, Aug 26, 2015, 19 min video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: August 26, 2015
Location of sighting: Earths orbit at ISS

I caught this UFO near the space station. It was matching speed with the station, then it would slowly allow the station to catch up with it and pass it. I caught sight of the UFO during the day and night. I show you both views in the video. The grey metallic UFO comes very close to the station. 

Later the UFO is seen during night and something very strange happens. The space station begins to glow with a black light off of it. Then I thought maybe a UFO was very close lighting up both the small UFO and the ISS at the same time. My feelings were confirmed when glowing blue/purple lights from above begin shining down on the space station. It was a very large UFO above causing the space station to light up.

I caught over 19 minutes of video, so you know its real.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

These are the lights shining down on the space station.

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UFO Caught Near Sun On SOHO Image, Aug 23, 2015, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: Aug 23, 2015
Location of sighting: Between Earth and Sun 

NASA URL: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2015/c2/20150823/20150823_2124_c2_1024.jpg

This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube and shows a spaceship that has a lot of similarities to the old Atlas rocket. However the bright spot may just be a reflection of sunlight and the two other lines (total three) could mean this is a three armed ship. Difficult to say for sure on this one. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Streetcap1 of Youtube states:
I am going to stick my neck out here and say that does look awfully like some sort of spacecraft a few miles off from the SOHO satellite. Please stop thinking they are near the sun, if that was the case you would not see them.

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Fan Made Pilot Of New Star Trek Series Called Renegades Has Been Released! Aug 24, 2015, UFO Sighting News

Release Date: August 24, 2015

I know this is off topic, but I know this is important to a lot of viewers, so its going up. This is best news I have heard all month. A fan made series has begun and it includes some very big stars from each of the old Star Trek series. Nobody can argue that Star Trek hasn't shaped today in many ways, as well as it helping us to see what we may be able to become one day, hundreds of years into the future. I know, this is somewhat similar to what is out there, so here is the full episode below, grab a sandwich and a beer, and kick back, I know I did.

I didn't read the about section of the video, so when I watched it, every 7-10 minutes, I got a wonderful nostalgic surprise. I wont post it, I would hate to give spoilers, but wow! I was very impressed with this and I really hope a big TV network picks it up. This is 1 hour and 28 minutes of heaven. 
Scott C. Waring
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How SETI Will Understand Messages Broadcast by an Alien Intelligence

Imagine the day when we finally receive a signal from an extraterrestrial intelligence, only to find that there’s a message embedded within. Given that we don’t speak the same language, how could we ever hope to make sense of it? We spoke to the experts to find out.

Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, aka “CETI”, is the branch of SETI concerned with both the transmission and reception of messages between ourselves and an alien civilization. Scientists have been trying to detect signals from an extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) since the 1960s, but haven’t found anything.

At least not yet. If and when we do receive a signal, whether it be an intercepted transmission or a deliberate attempt to get our attention, we’ll be tasked with deciphering an alien message. It could prove to be a monumental task, but it’s a problem with no shortage of solutions.

Natural or Unnatural Signals?

The first challenge will be to recognize an incoming alien signal. This may prove easier said than done.

When pulsars were first discovered, for example, their eerily precise spectral flashes convinced some scientists that we were actually looking at some sort of alien beacon. And in 1977, the 72-second-long Wow! signal was likewise interpreted as extraterrestrial in nature. More plausibly, it was just a natural, continuous signal, or some human-instigated artifact. 

These episodes aside, most SETI researchers agree that an alien signal will be unambiguous.

“Due to the random motions of the particles that are ultimately at the source of natural electromagnetic emission, these emissions tend to get spread out in frequency or in time,” says Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center. “Technology, on the other hand, is capable of producing very fine time and frequency structure. We can use this fine structure to distinguish between natural and ‘unnatural’ sources.”

Siemion says it’s important to keep in mind that our knowledge of physics and the cosmos isn’t complete, and it’s conceivable that there are some natural processes that could mimic the types of signals we look for in SETI experiments.

“But discovering these would be great as well,” he told io9. 

•          “If an advanced civilization did want to communicate with us, they would probably choose to base their communication on something we have in common, such as the fact that we live in the same physical universe.”

- Andrew Siemion, SETI-Berkeley 

According to Douglas Vakoch, Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute, we should actively look for signals that stand out from the cosmic static as distinctly artificial.

“The radio signals created by nature are spread out on the radio dial,” he says. “We’re looking for narrowband signals at one place on the radio dial.”

Overcoming the Language Barrier

Given that an ETI would most assuredly “speak” a different language than any found on Earth, it’s fair to ask how we could ever hope to overcome such a barrier. 

Linear A tablets. (Credit: University of Houston/CC BY 3.0)

And indeed, linguists are already struggling with this issue as it pertains to Linear A—an undeciphered writing system used in ancient Greece. It’s not immediately obvious if we’ll ever crack the code of this ancient language. Likewise, if we ever intercept an unintentional alien message, say something akin to a radio or television transmission, we may never be able to decipher the message, save for any visual or acoustic information gleaned from the broadcast.

But it would likely be a different story if the message was intentional.

“If an advanced civilization did want to communicate with us, they would probably choose to base their communication on something we have in common, such as the fact that we live in the same physical universe,” says Siemion. “They might use the properties of astrophysical objects, like pulsars, quasars or the shape of our galaxy, as a first step at teaching us their language.”

Siemion says that an advanced ETI, if they were fairly close to us, say within 40-50 light-years, might actually know quite a lot about us. They may have already taken it upon themselves to decipher parts of our early radio and television transmissions. If this is the case, Siemion says it may be very easy for them to communicate with us in a way we understand.

Speaking in Math

Alternately, we can forgo arbitrary symbolic communication altogether and use the logic of math as a communication medium. As Vakoch says, the ability to communicate mathematics will allow aliens to communicate virtually anything that can be quantified.

“One of the most basic parts of mathematics is counting,” Vakoch told io9. “When we think of counting, we usually imagine counting 1, 2, 3, and so on. But there are other ways to count as well.”

For example, Vakoch says we could tell an ETI about the Fibonacci series by starting with the simplest numbers, zero and one, and then add them together, and then repeat the process over and over, adding the last two numbers in the series. Zero plus one is one, one plus two is three, and so on until the Fibonacci series is obvious. 

Spencer Greenberg from Ask a Mathematician says it shouldn’t be too hard for an ETI to develop a signal that, if we received it, could tell us it was created by another intelligent life.

To understand why, Greenberg considers how we ourselves might construct a signal if we wanted aliens to notice that we’re intelligent. To that end, he devised a (somewhat oversimplified) approach that assumes an ETI would have developed the notions of binary encodings of integers (which is by no means an overreaching assumption).

Talking in code: Greenberg says we could pulse our signal by emitting a relatively high frequency, and at other times emitting a relatively low frequency. Each high section of our signal could represent the digit 1, and each low section, the digit 0. “With this mechanism in place, it’s easy to transmit in binary,” says Greenberg.

By sending out pulses in binary, Greenberg says we could let the receiver know how many bits we’re using to represent a single number. After settling on the number of bits per group (e.g. 16), we could communicate our system by simply starting the message off with counting.

So for instance, if we wanted to signal that we are treating groups of 16 bits as a single number, we could transmit all the binary numbers from 0 to 65,535 in order, each of which would be represented by 16 binary digits. Therefore, our transmission would start 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on, which in binary, with 16 bits per number, would be:

0000000000000000, 0000000000000001, 0000000000000010, 0000000000000011, 0000000000000100, etc.

Greenberg says that instead of sending each of these numbers a single time through, we might actually want to send each sequence of 16 bits a fixed number of times in a row (say, 100 times each) to provide for redundancy. That way if our signal gets corrupted in transit, it’s still easy to correct any mistakes that are introduced.

It should be obvious to an alien receiver that we are sending digits in groups of 16, with each 16 digit block representing a number. That would allow us to transmit any number we please (so long as it’s between 0 and 65,535) by representing it in the next 16 digits of our binary code.

At that point there would be plenty of options for what to send to prove that we’re reasonably intelligent. We could transmit all the prime numbers from 2 up to 65,521. We could also send triplets of numbers where the third number in the triplet is equal to the first two multiplied together, or we could send pairs of numbers that are twin primes. We could even convey mathematical formulas by creating special symbols like an equal sign.

Other ways to Communicate

Once a rudimentary mathematical language is established, we could also send a pictorial message. Again, through the use of binary, a digital image could be transmitted by us which graphically conveys a message. 

In 1974, scientists transmitted a message into space consisting of 1,679 bits, arranged into 73 lines of 23 characters per line. Called the Arecibo Message, it consisted of the Arecibo telescope itself, our Solar System, DNA, a stick figure of a human, the biochemicals of terrestrial life, and other things. 

Such messages aren’t perfect or overly sophisticated, but they can convey simple concepts, like our location relative to our Sun, and our physical appearance. Clearly, an ETI could send or transmit a similar pictorial message. 

The Pioneer message: So simple even an alien could understand it. (Credit: NASA)

Mathematics could also be used to send algorithmic messages. These systems, such as CosmicOSand logic gate matrices, use a small set of math and logic symbols to form the basis of a simple programming language that an alien receiver could conceivably run on a virtual machine. Algorithmic messages, if complex enough, could actually be used to convey advanced concepts—and even signs of intelligence—if run on a sufficiently advanced computer system.

Binary logarithms represent a microarray of expression data for 8,700 mouse genes. (Credit: Louis M. Staudt/National Cancer Institute/Public domain)

As for natural language processing, we’re still a long ways off from having the ability to make sense of arbitrary symbols. But Laurance Doyle, a member of the SETI institute, is using math to do just that. Doyle is trying to use information theory—a branch of math that looks at the structure and relationships of information—to separate binary code from random 0’s and 1’s. The idea is to find linguistic substance within undefined symbols, whether they be written or oral, and an associated grammar and syntax. Fascinatingly, Doyle’s work is being applied by marine biologists in an effort to crack the dolphin language code.

Hmm, What to Talk About...

Assuming that an alien civilization wants to reach out to us and say “hello”, it’s reasonable to wonder what else they might want to say to us.

Vakoch says the most important thing an alien civilization could communicate to another is their intention to make contact.

Siemion says ETIs might offer tips on existential dangers to humanity, both intrinsic threats, like biological weapons or artificial superintelligence, and extrinsic threats, such as asteroid impacts or a looming nearby supernova.

“Some people believe that technological progression and increased altruistic tendency go hand-in-hand—that is, that the more advanced a civilization becomes, the friendlier they get,” says Siemion. “Personally, I don’t think we have any evidence of that. In fact, I think we have evidence that the contrary may be the case.”

The Risk Factor

Indeed, this could be a rather dangerous exercise. We run the risk of receiving and translating a malign message, such as a trojan horse that contains a kind of computer virus, or the seeds of our own destruction.

And as we’ve written before at io9, the effort to deliberately transmit messages to aliens—an endeavor known as METI—needs to be seriously re-considered. Our efforts to reach ETIs could alert an evil force to our presence. 

Alien Outpost

“Sending messages of our own creation to try to make any possible aliens aware that we exist, is an incredibly risky proposition,” says Greenberg. “Sure, they might be friendly, but then again, they might not—and that’s a big risk to take,” says Greenberg. “Attempting to wake up a force more powerful than ourselves that we do not understand is simply not a good plan.”

Vakoch says that concerns of alerting an ETI to our presence are too late.

“Any civilization with the ability to travel between the stars would already know we’re here from our accidental leakage radiation,” he says. “So a sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial might already have picked up ‘I Love Lucy.’ But they still don’t know that we’re attempting to communicate with them. That’s the most important reason for us to transmit powerful, intelligible signals to other stars—to let any intelligence out there know we’re ready to make contact.”

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EXTRATERRESTRIAL CIVILIZATIONS VISITED THE EARTH IN THE DISTANT PAST, THE EVIDENCE IS HERE

Extraterrestrial civilization visited the Earth in the distant past and there is evidence all around us

It isn't a question anymore, if ancient man was visited by intelligent extraterrestrial beings in the distant past. A great amount of evidence has been gathered that proves that in the distant past, human beings were visited by beings from another planet. These visitors were misinterpreted by our ancestor as "Gods", because our ancestor did not understand technology as we do today.

Almost all ancient civilizations that have been studied by researchers and archaeologists point to "myths" and texts of "divine" beings that came from the stars and got involved, in one way or another, with ancient humans on Earth. Ancient Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, and many other ancient civilization make reference to "otherworldly" beings that descended from the sky, considered as divine, since ancient man, did not have the knowledge to explain in another way, these mysterious visitations.

Ancient texts from the Bible are perhaps the best evidence that point to the existence of "otherworldly" beings in the remote past of human history. The myths of creation, the mysterious light that guided the Israelites on the long journey through the desert, the description of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the union of children of the Gods with daughters of men, the power of the Ark of the Covenant and the trip to "heaven" of Elijah and Enoch are just some of the many biblical stories that involve divine beings who come from the skies, incredible technology of the past that was considered by ancient man as being "heavenly" or "divine". In addition to the biblical texts, we can add other stories of different cultures such as the Mahabharata of India where a War between the gods was described.

Another incredible item which seems to resemble a mask, a breathing apparatus and suit. Very similar to modern-day divers and astronauts.

Since the beginning of time, humanity has always had intervention of unknown forces, "Gods", "messengers", "angels" and other beings that, however you put it, are not from our planet, and thus are of extraterrestrial origin. This contact is reflected in ancient texts such as the Bible and the Mahabharata. Translating these ancient texts today, points to the fact of the existence of "supernatural" beings with incredible technology.

Today, if we were to witness a UFO landing, and a being existing the vehicle, we would surely know that it is a being not from Earth, an extraterrestrial. We would probably understand that kind technology and know that it originated from elsewhere. Humans can travel to space, land on Moons and we even have our very own "alien" robots on planets like Mars. But imagine if ancient man were to witness a UFO landing 5000 or 10000 years ago! How would ancient man interpret that moment? Since the difference of technology is so great, ancient man would have interpreted that being and that vehicle as "divine" and would characterize that being as "God" because that being can do something that humans at that point in history could not.

Revising ancient texts, some researchers have come to the conclusion that it is very likely that, ancient cultures such as the Aztecs, Incas and Pre-inca civilizations could have witnessed the presence of otherworldly beings and their technology, and it is very likely that these beings, in one way or another, influenced the development of ancient civilizations in the past.

Today, we continue to have these "encounters" that ancient people had thousands of years ago, the only difference is that, today, we do not catalogue UFO sightings as visitations from "the Gods". We know that "God" does not need vehicles to move from one point to another. But beings, that are similar to us in some way, do need vehicles just as we need cars, bikes, helicopters, airplanes and spacecraft.

These "Ancient Astronauts" left a legacy behind, a legacy that has been recorded in many ancient texts such as the Bible or the Mahabharata to mention a few, intervening for good or for bad, in the history and development of ancient civilizations, the only thing is how you interpret these texts today. At the end, it comes down to what you believe, but the evidence is, without a doubt here.

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Colonel Halt and Airman First Class Larry Warren – Will They Ever Unite?

Is It Really That Difficult?

Colonel Halt is a compassionate man. That statement may shock those who were at his recent Rendlesham Forest Incident presentation in the UK.

It is of course just my opinion but after the private conversations I have had with Colonel Halt since he returned to the USA, I would say my opinion is based on very solid ground. And it is ground I feel I should reveal since many people attending the conference felt that Colonel Halt had more to say but for whatever reason, did not say it.

At this point, I have no idea how Colonel Halt will react when he becomes aware that I want to make our private conversations public. However, if what he has been saying his from his heart, and not from the ‘military head’ he had on at the RFI conference, I believe he will give me his blessing to publish what I want to say.

Colonel Halt delivered what many of Larry Warren’s supporters saw as a damning blow to a much-loved figure in the RFI story. It was a shock, there is no denying that. The day before the conference, I spent some time with Colonel Halt recording an interview. I quickly realised there are two very distinct sides to a man whose military career spanned many decades. It was a career that saw him thrown, unexpectedly, into the highly volatile RFI situation – a situation that plagues him to this day. As indeed it plagues the few individuals that were actually affected by the fall-out from the incident. The few who were actually there at the time.

Perimeter fence at the old RAF Woodbridge Air Base 2015

Colonel Halt’s military career took him to Vietnam, Japan and Korea. But whatever active service he saw in those places, it is overshadowed by one week in the UK in December 1980. Publicly, Colonel Halt will forever be remembered, not for his active service in places where there was conflict but for something that happened one night in a quiet woodland in the UK.

What really happened remains a mystery and possibly always will. But one thing came across to me loud and clear when I talked to Colonel Halt, the military had a job to do on the nights in question and they did it. The military top-brass did whatever they had to do, at the time, under the direction of the US government, to contain the situation. Colonel Charles Halt will always stand by what he says publicly because that is what military people have to do – that is what they sign up for and are bound by in law, even when they leave the military.

The Colonel On Stage

So that is the military man – but what about Chuck, the family man who happens to be a retired Colonel? During my interview with Colonel Halt, I saw glimpses of Chuck when I steered him away from talk of the RFI into his everyday life as a husband and father back in the States. Chuck, I observed, is an entirely different person to ‘Colonel Halt’. The hard lines, defined by the military allegiance that must continue even into retirement, soften and he becomes just an ordinary man. Later when our interview was over, we joined up with Brenda Butler, a friend of Chuck going back 35 years. We went outside for photos and when they were done, we stood outside for sometime while they chatted over old times. The serious face of Colonel Halt dissolved again and there was a great amount of laughter as Chuck pulled memories from the past.

Old Friends In Suffolk – Colonel Halt and Brenda Butler

The RFI was hardly mentioned as the banter went back and forth and it was all good. By the following evening, in public, Colonel Halt was back, as I expected. There is only so much a military man can say about military matters in public. But the attack on Larry Warren and his book? What was that all about? I found it hard to believe that Chuck would say those things and mean them. However, Colonel Halt left the hall immediately after the conference and I did not get the chance to catch up with him again in person.

I then wrote the article which you can find by clicking here. After contacting Colonel Halt back in the states to ask more questions I was finally able to dig down past the public damning of Larry Warren and elicit what Chuck has to say about Larry. I would be lying if I told you I was shocked. Something inside me didn’t quite buy the venom he appeared to spit during his presentation which is why I pursued it further.

My feeling, as I said in my previous Colonel Halt article, is that this was a man pushed to his limits by a naughty child. He came across like a father who has had enough and snaps. I felt Colonel Halt was yelling at a wayward 19-year-old GI who unwittingly made life very difficult for him in the years following the RFI.

But I did not believe for one minute that Colonel Halt’s outburst on that stage would extend to Chuck who had stood laughing in the sun the day before.

Colonel Halt returns to the UK

So after he returned to the US, I did my best to talk to Chuck rather than Colonel Halt and what he told me might shock some people. Hopefully, he will allow me to share the content of our private conversations here. Why do I even care? I care because after talking at length to both of them, I believe Larry deserves to hear what Chuck has to say and Larry’s fans need to hear it too. Larry was naturally very angered at what Colonel Halt said at the conference so I believe it is only fair he hears what the softer side of the man who appears to dislike him had to say in private.

If I get Chuck Halt’s agreement, I will reveal what he told me in my next post. I am sure some people will have a negative reaction. Why? Because keeping Colonel Halt and Larry Warren apart may be more exciting, entertaining, intriguing and profitable  than seeing them united. But I ask you this, if we cannot resolve even the smallest conflicts on our own planet, why in the hell are we looking outwardly into the universe for other beings?

Is it time to do things differently on earth – while we still have time?

If we can’t accept that we have major differences but still be peaceful with each other, why would any ‘aliens’ want to deal with us? If we bitch and fight with each other over things we will never agree on, what happens when the first ‘alien’ says something we don’t like? Going on our horrendous track record on earth, I expect we will lash out at aliens just like we do at each other if they are the wrong colour, say the wrong thing or have the wrong opinion. That is what us humans do and we need to stop because if we don’t, any intelligent life ‘out there’ from other planets will probably just exterminate us all in the way we cull animals we believe are a nuisance to humans. Watch this space.

Update: Since I wrote this, it has been communicated to both Chuck Halt and Larry Warren for approval. They have both said they are happy with the content. I don’t have to do this – I choose to do it because they are people with real lives and families and I will never publish anything about a person without their full co-operation.

I then wrote the follow-up which I also communicated to them. Larry was shocked when I revealed Chuck Halt’s private comments. He seemed happy and appeared to feel vindicated on one point at least. He was happy with what I had written. Larry had many very favourable things to say about Chuck which I  included in the follow-up article. However, I cannot publish the second article yet because I still do not have Chuck’s permission. As the things he said to me were ‘off the record’ – I need his permission to share them.  He has not said ‘no’ – he has been silent and may still respond. I am hoping he will.  

Meanwhile, a huge storm seems to be raging in Larry’s camp in response to the Woodbridge conference. It is a storm that may be aimed at former friends who Larry perceives did nothing to defend him on the night. It is certainly aimed at the organisers who facilitated the Halt Briefing while banning Larry from being present to defend himself.  In banning him, it appears his right to reply, at the time of the presentation,  was denied him.

The storm will probably put paid to any reconciliation there might have been. 

It will be a great shame if Colonel Halt goes down in history as a man who had no time for Airman First Class Larry Warren. Chuck and Larry, as they are now with military titles stripped away, are two ordinary family men who have always been so much more than just players in a UFO mystery.

Chuck and Larry – what, or who, is preventing them from laying down their guns and moving past the conflict?

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'Alien warp speed UFO' spotted ZOOMING past the International Space Station

Official NASA footage shows a strange craft before the space agency allegedly cuts the feed

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Alien spotters have glimpsed a strange cigar-shaped UFO zooming past theInternational Space Station at "warp speed".

The unexplained object appears in an official NASA video feed, moving at an incredible pace.

"This craft is moving so fast it only appears in one single, solitary frame," said a spokesman for SecureTeam 10, the alien hunting group which spotted it.

Rather than just dismissing the anomaly as a fault in the film or perhaps a single dust particle, the ET enthusiast zoomed in to have a closer look.

"What appeared to be a possible dust particle or meteor reveals itself to be a massive, cylinder-shaped craft," he claimed.

After the weird object zoomed past, the feed was allegedly cut off - which conspiracy theorists claim is NASA's common reaction to any sighting of an unexplained craft.

Beneath the video on Youtube, commentors excitedly claimed the video was evidence that aliens were visiting the Earth.

"Looky looky," exclaimed one believer.

"Right after that brief shot of that UFO NASA cuts the video, what a coincidence.

"That in my opinion is proof positive that they are hiding SOMETHING from us."

Other posters casted doubt on the veracity of the sighting.

"Nothing to see here, it's probably just a space rock.

"It just looks long because thats what happens with cameras and fast moving objects."

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SHOULD MARS BE INDEPENDENT, OR JUST A COLONY OF EARTH?

ASTROBIOLOGIST WANTS TO MAKE SURE THE RED PLANET IS INDEPENDENT FROM THE START

Artist's vision of a colony on Mars

NASA Ames Research Center

It’s a popular sci-fi plot: Earth sets up colonies on Mars; Mars colonies grow, developing their own technologies and culture; Mars colonies rebel against overbearing Earth government, demanding independence. It happens in Total Recall, in Babylon 5, in Red Mars.

But what if we gave Mars its independence right from the get-go? Rather than giving future colonies to governments or corporations, Jacob Haqq-Misra thinks we should let Martian colonists develop their own values, governments, and technologies, with minimal interference from Earth. Haqq-Misra is an astrobiologist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, a non-profit organization that promotes international unity in space.

Not only would Haqq-Misra's strategy preclude any Martian wars for independence, but cultural independence could help Martians think differently enough to solve problems that Earth continues to struggle with—such as working together to fight global environmental problems, or making long-term plans for the future of humanity.

•    “Maybe Mars is more valuable in trying to seed the second incidence of civilization.”

Instead of getting divided by nations or plundered by industry, says Haqq-Misra, “maybe Mars is more valuable in trying to seed the second incidence of civilization.”

A Free Mars

The plan that Haqq-Misra lays out in an essay in New Space has five main provisions:

1. Humans who leave Earth to permanently settle on Mars relinquish their planetary citizenship as Earthlings and claim a planetary citizenship as Martians.

2. Governments, corporations, and individuals of Earth cannot engage in commerce with Mars and cannot interfere with the political, cultural, economic, or social development of Martian civilization.

3. Scientific exploration may continue as long as it does not interfere with the development of civilization on Mars. Sharing of research and information between Mars and Earth is permitted only to pursue mutual scientific or educational goals.

4. The use of land on Mars will be determined exclusively by the citizens of Mars. No Earthlings may own or otherwise lay claim to land on Mars.

5. Any technology, resources, or other objects brought from Earth to Mars become permanent fixtures of the Martian civilization. Earthlings may not make any demands for resources on Mars.

You Can't Own Mars, But You Can Rule A Colony

There is some legal precedent for the idea. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which 103 nations (including the U.S. and Russia) are party to, prohibits any nation from claiming territory in space. The treaty “makes very clear that a colony on Mars could never become a colony in the classical legal sense of the word, like the U.S. was originally a colony of the U.K.,” says Frans von der Dunk, a space law professor at the University of Nebraska.

Screenshot from 'The Martian' official trailer

20th Century Fox

The Martian, which hits theaters in October, is a great reminder of all the things that can go wrong on another planet.

Nevertheless, under the current legal system, von der Dunk says American colonists on Mars would still probably fall under U.S. jurisdiction.

Sailors in international waters are expected to follow the rules of their ship's flag, and astronauts must do the same. The rules even hold when they're not on board the ship—for example, when the Apollo astronauts roamed around the moon, or when astronauts on the International Space Station do spacewalks, they're still subject to U.S. laws.

But what about when the excursion is longer than a few hours? On the ISS, where astronauts spend months at a time, participating countries have worked up their own quasi legal system, which is pretty similar to Earth's. If an American astronaut were to hit a Russian astronaut over the head, for example, first the U.S. would have the right to determine whether a criminal act was committed. If the U.S. doesn't take action, then he could be tried under Russian jurisdiction.

The rules could be different when we're talking about pioneers who venture to another planet with no intention of returning home. Still, says von der Dunk, “You cannot simply say 'I'm no longer a citizen of the U.S.' It's not for you to decide.”

Cultural (R)evolution

Von der Dunk thinks that if Americans are able to set up self-sustaining communities on Mars, they'll consider themselves Americans and abide by U.S. laws—at least at first. “At some point in time, they will not like that anymore,” he says. “They won't feel like they are American or Russian or wherever they come from, they'll feel like they are Martian. They will say, 'Listen, we don't want to pay taxes anymore, and we want to develop our own legal system.'”

Illustration Showing a Mars Colony with Living Quarters and Solar Panels

Mars One

Cultural evolution is inevitable in small populations that splinter off from Earth. A lot of Earthly traditions just won't apply, and the Martians will develop their own jokes, rules, and customs. Haqq-Misra's suggestion of limiting contact with Earth would simply speed up that transition.

Von der Dunk thinks it would be difficult to set up a colony as a blank slate, as Haqq-Misra proposes. Mars colonists would carry with them a lot of legal and cultural baggage that biases their ideas about how society should work. But over time, Martian culture could change dramatically. "It's hard to think outside the box there, but one could think that because Mars is so different from Earth, that when they tear themselves away from traditional legal structures, they could develop something very new," says von der Dunk. "This is all very hypothetical."

Getting There Is Half The Battle

There are other potential problems. Getting to Mars ain’t easy, and there are a lot of ways to die once you get there. Unfortunately, Earth's help won’t come cheap: these days it costs about $10,000 to send one pound of supplies to the space station, and that's a much closer, easier trip than Mars. Without the financial incentives of Martian communities, resources, and/or business, nations and private companies aren’t likely to rally around the Free Mars idea. Haqq-Misra’s plan relies on either extremely thorough planning to make sure the colonies are completely self-sufficient, or generous donations to send resupply missions to Mars.

Haqq-Misra says he’s not holding his breath for anyone to jump on this idea. Still, he says, since everyone from NASA to SpaceX and Mars One has their sights set on visiting or colonizing Mars in the coming decades, it's important to think about.

“Hopefully it’s going to instigate people to have a longer-term vision for whatever we do on Mars.”

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Has Stephen Hawking Just Solved a Huge Black-Hole Mystery?

Stephen Hawking may have just solved one of the most vexing mysteries in physics — the "information paradox."

Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that the physical information about material gobbled up by a black hole is destroyed, but the laws of quantum mechanics stipulate that information is eternal. Therein lies the paradox.

Hawking — working with Malcolm Perry, of the University of Cambridge in England, and Harvard University's Andrew Stromberg — has come up with a possible solution: The quantum-mechanical information about infalling particles doesn't actually make it inside the black hole.

"I propose that the information is stored not in the interior of the black hole, as one might expect, but on its boundary, the event horizon," Stephen Hawking said during a talk today (Aug. 25) at the Hawking Radiation conference, which is being held at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

The information is stored at the boundary as two-dimensional holograms known as "super translations," he explained. But you wouldn't want super translations, which were first introduced as a concept in 1962, to back up your hard drive.

"The information about ingoing particles is returned, but in a chaotic and useless form," Hawking said. "For all practical purposes, the information is lost."

Hawking also discussed black holes — whose gravitational pull is so intense that nothing, not even light, can escape once it passes the event horizon — during a lecture last night (Aug. 24) in Stockholm.

It's possible that black holes could actually be portals to other universes, he said.

"The hole would need to be large, and if it was rotating, it might have a passage to another universe. But you couldn't come back to our universe," Hawking said at the lecture, according to a KTH Royal Institute of Technology statement. "So, although I'm keen on spaceflight, I'm not going to try that."

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NASA And The European Space Agency Finally Prep Public For Alien Disclosure

First NASA chief scientist, Ellen Stofan openly admitted that alien life is ‘imminent’ and just last Tuesday, Dr. John Grunsfeld of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate announced that the agency was ‘on the verge’ of discovering life onplanets other than earth.

Stofan and Grunsfeld hide the fact that NASA has been lying to the public about known extraterrestrial life for decades now, and that ETs have likely have been visiting earth for centuries.

Grunsfeld told a House Committee:

•      “Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know…. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question.”

And Stofan’s recent comments were even more bold:

•    “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. 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.”

Her declaration is synchronized with the agency’s recent discovery of water of five of Jupiter’s and Saturn’s moons. We were also told by NASA recently, that their Kepler mission found another ‘earth’ in the ‘habitable zone’ in our Universe circulating around a star that resembles our sun. NASA defines ‘habitable’ based on the ability of a planet to pool water ostensibly to support life as we know it.

And then there’s the Guardian article titled “Is Kepler 425b humanity’s best chance to find alien life?” that discusses how earth’s twin – an exoplanet more similar to our own than has ever before been known is a likely case for alien life – never mind the 12 other hospitable planets that theSeti Institute is researching, and the fact that we’ve assumed all life would require the same things as ourselves, without considering that other sentient beings might not even have physical form.

Russia has even threatened the US, essentially saying, “tell the world about aliens or we will.”

But there is more to the story – as usual – than NASA and the European Space Agency, or even Seti are revealing.

Beginning in early March 2015, there was an alleged meeting on the moon involving up to 70 private individuals along with about 120 officials representing different secret space programs and national governments who heard plans about disclosing the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Dr. Michael Salla and David Wilcock have been giving ‘air time’ or you could say ‘Internet real estate’ to a whistleblower named Corey Goode. He is also known as GoodETxSG. He has his own Facebook page titled after the Sphere Being Alliance, a life-form(s) he has been working with to help disclose the massive extent of our corporate military industrial complex into space.

Whether you believe his wild testimony of secret space programs and bases on the moon or not, the very fact that thousands of people are signing up to see him be interviewed by Wilcock on Gaiam TV is a testament to just how ready people are to be told the truth about extra terrestrial life.

When you pontificate the facts, GoodETxSG is showing up precisely when the largest space-related military industrial complex arm is admitting openly that alien life exists after decades of cover-ups and numerous possible murders, or the defaming of military personal, astronauts, and scientists who have been trying to tell us the same thing for some time now.

While it may be difficult to swallow the facts as Goode tells us – particularly that dozens of extra terrestrials have been manipulating our genetic code, and that the military industrial complex is even more bloated in space as it is here on earth – his testimony is at least worth hearing, and then deciding upon for yourself.

You can catch up rather quickly on what Goode has already ‘disclosed’ via Divine Cosmos, David Wilcock’s website, or you can go directly to Gaiam to watch his interviews. Coupled with NASA’s recent statements, and Russia’s threats, it seems something is brewing – perhaps the pressure is truly immense enough finally, that these agencies will now have to tell the truth.

Source: The Mind Unleashed

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Is There Another Advanced Civilization Living Beneath Our Feet?

•     The Earth is hollow, and habitable within; containing a number of solid concentric spheres, one within the other, and that it is open at the poles 12 or 16 degrees; I pledged my life in support of this truth, and I am ready to explore the hollow, if the world will support and aid me in the undertaking.“

•     […] gently rolling hills within an easy sloping shore, covered with verdure, checkered with groves of trees and shrubbery, studded with numerous white buildings and animated with groups of men and cattle, all standing in relief near the foot of a lofty mountain, which in the distance reared its majestic head above the clouds.”