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Huge UFO flying over Brazil

Here’s one interesting, but probably a fake footage, of a huge unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above Mogi das Cruzes in Brazil. This was taken back in June 2015.

What do you think about this video? Please leave your comments below!

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The Moon Is A Big Alien Space Station

When I heard that the moon is possibly a big alien space station I just had to do some research especially when someone told me that it is not even there it is just a hologram to hide the space station. This would raise a load of new questions like, Wow … were would we get all our cheese if the big rock in the sky was gone?

“What do you call a moon out of orbit? A Lunatic! ”
Is the moon really an alien space station?

I would be so disappointed to find out that Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin did not land on the rock at all in Apollo 11. How could they go to the moon if it was not there? I remember when every Apollo take off was such an important event that everybody just had to watch the rocket take off on our little Tv’s. Although this eventually became a non event it was extremely important at the time and while I can see why they would fake a moon landing I certainly hope they did not. It is rumored that Neil and Buzz both witnessed UFO‘s shortly after their historic landing in 1969. Radio transmissions that where picked up seemingly confirmed conversations noting a light spotted on the crater and mission control asking what is there. On this point I always wondered if it were me getting out of my little space craft in 1969 and I spotted UFO’s would I really have been able to stick to the script and the line I had been practicing the whole trip, “one small step for man………” or would I have said “one small Ffffffff…. what the hell……” That just seems more likely if you spot UFO’s on the moon. Now once again I am struggling to find any facts during my research so you will have to bear with me as we go along with hearsay as usual. I did find this guys video who seems to believe that there is an anomaly in his recording that proves the hologram theory.

“Two blondes in California were sitting on a bench talking … and one blonde says to the other,
“Which do you think is farther away … Florida or the moon?”
The other blonde turns and says “Helloooooooooo, can you see Florida …?”

Perhaps and perhaps not it is neither here nor there but interesting all the same. I don’t know a lot about faking videos or photo shopping pictures so I go with what I can see. One of the most interesting theories I came across a while ago is that Apollo 18 did actually go on it’s mission and fly around the back side of the moon. This mission never happened according to authorities but there are loads of pictures going around and even some video relating to this mission.They even made a movie based on this, but unfortunately not a very good one. This claims to have found alien space stations or evidence of alien the stations through shapes that have been manipulated to show that it looks unnatural and more city like. There are also pictures and a video of what looks like a crashed space ship and there are claims that they found dead aliens on this craft that they brought back. WOW we could do all that back in the 70″s? I somehow just don’t think so. So many people claim that we have technologies way in advance of what we can see , but I can never understand why this would be. If we had the technology we would obviously use it not hide it surely. This next video is seemingly Apollo 20 that shot a video of a UFO.

“Einstein developed a theory about space, and it was about time too!”

Now the big thing to understand here is that the so called alien base is not on top of the moon but rather that it is hollowed out and that they live inside below the surface. Hey perhaps that’s how many alien races live. I am still struggling with the hologram theory and why it would be there as surly they would not really need to hide from us, as what threat could we possibly be to them, unless we are just one big experiment they don’t want us to know about. Due to budget constraints and politics these trips were put on hold and over time our attention turned to Mars or was it really due to budget constraints and politics? Some say we were prevented from returning by the so called residents. Yea, well if that was the case then I don’t think we are going to be accommodated on Mars either. Interestingly it was very recently during the Bush era that there was talk of going back to the moon but it fell away and suddenly just went quietly. When asked it seems they had simply canned the whole operation as it was deemed to achieve nothing of use. Really?? This does get one thinking. I am pretty sure it would have been interesting to go back with the improved technology we have today if only to try out the equipment we plan to use for a trip to Mars. When the Apollo missions were popular we believed that by the year 2000 we would be star trekking around the universe at our leisure but it just did not happen and we never achieved that level of technology. Now what if it is not a rock at all and rather a space star ‘big round space ship’ that brought life to earth. That theory is also a little bit weak as why would it just stay there forever as it is a space ship after all it should be moving around. If that were the case there would be something far more sinister than we could understand happening in the universe.

“I’m reading a book about anti-gravity.. it’s impossible to put down!”

So far the so called Apollo missions 18 and up that never happened and the photo’s and videos alike are only hearsay and nothing can be proved from them. The Apollo 11 mission has also given us very little to work with as the astronauts that were there are not saying anything about what they have seen if anything at all. I would like to believe that the Apollo 11 mission did take place and that they did land on the moon in 1969 with the little technology we had back then. So lets base our facts on the theory that it did all happen and that it does exist moving our tides around as it should. Aliens could easily use it as a stop over as it does not involve any difficulty a bit like a refuel station, and perhaps they are not interested in us at all except to keep us away. This would make a lot more sense than our self importance that they are watching us. We may have no bearing or value to them at all as they pass us by on some kind of space route that they use on a regular basis. If it is a space station rather than a large rock then perhaps it is placed there for a reason, but not for earth rather for their purposes. They could even be trying to gain something from earth such as the sea water thus the strategic placement. This would provide a more sensible reason for them to keep us away and to perhaps hide it from us.

“Did you hear about the great new restaurant on the moon?
The food is excellent, but there’s no atmosphere.”

Then again perhaps it just a big rock in the sky just like it always has been, dusty with nothing on it and no atmosphere. I somehow doubt it is the death star that is expected to be. It gives us a little light at night when it is out thanks to the reflection of the sun and does not provide a home or a base to any species of any kind. This said we turn our attention to Mars as we can find nothing of use on our moon. Perhaps one day when we have better space travel we can drop past and confirm this.

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“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity.”

“When Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind statement but followed it by several remarks, usual between him, the other astronauts and Mission Control. Just before he re-entered the lander, however, he made the enigmatic remark, “Good luck Mr. Jones”.

Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, upon checking, there was no Jones in either the Russian or American space programs.

Over the years many people questioned Armstrong as to what the Good luck Mr. Jones statement meant, but Armstrong always just smiled.

Four years ago, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26 year old question to Armstrong. This time he finally responded. Mr. Jones had finally died and so Neil Armstrong felt he could answer the question.

When he was a kid, he was playing baseball with a friend in the backyard. His friend hit a fly ball which landed in the front of his neighbours’ bedroom windows. His neighbours were Mr. & Mrs. Jones. As he leaned down to pick up the ball, young Armstrong heard Mrs. Jones shouting at Mr. Jones.

“Oral sex? You want oral sex? You’ll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!”

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Are Humans Intelligent In The Grand Scheme Of The Universe?

We humans are an arrogant lot. We trundle throughout our days thinking we are intelligent. We (well most of us) value our perceived intelligence. We look around at our fellow Earthicans and can readily see that we humans are the smartest creatures around.

But really who are we to say that we are intelligent.

We define ourselves to be intelligent in ways no other Earth creature can rival. What do we credit that intelligence too? You look at the genome, and take the chimpanzee which is a really close relative of ours. We have 98.5% identical indistinguishable DNA which both humans and chimps have in common. The chimp does not build the Hubble telescope, does not compose symphonies, and does not create iPhones for example. So we must then declare that everything we say about us that is intelligent is found in the 1.5% difference in DNA.

Now lets invert that question, if the genetic difference between human and chimps is that small, maybe the difference in our intelligence is also that small. Maybe the difference between stacking boxes and reaching for a banana, putting up an umbrella when it rains, or whatever else rudimentary things that a chimp does; that the primatologist rolls them forward and boasts about. Which of course our human toddlers can do. Maybe the difference between that and the Hubble telescope is as small as that difference in DNA.

I pose the question, suppose an alien intelligence that in that same type of vector of 1.5 % difference as we are to chimps, suppose they were 1.5% different from us.

They would then roll the smartest of us out in front of their humantologists. They roll out Professor Steven Hawking which is our greatest mind at this time. They would say that this one is slightly smarter then the rest of them because he can perform astrophysics calculations in his head, like little Gorignac over there.

I wonder if we are just blithering idiots in the presence of even a trivially smarter species then us? So therefore who are we even to assert that we are intelligent. We look for others at least as intelligent as us in the Universe for us to talk to. There is no other species on earth that we can talk to. Can we have a conversation with a chimp? Even though we share nearly identical DNA? We can’t ask them to go see a movie or go grab some Tapas. Yet somehow we believe, we want to believe that an alien on a another planet that is not even based on DNA (and even if it is it is nothing like us) that we could communicate with it.

We all have walked passed an earthworm that has just come to the surface, have you ever though about what the worm was thinking? Of course not , we are so more advanced that it would be a non-sequitur. Any alien race that can traverse the endless void of space and time and travels here may not have any interest in communicating with us. May not even perceive us as a life form at all. We may not even be able to perceive them as intelligent as well.

I propose it could be no other way.

Any life that advanced to get here will see us no more advanced as we think of earthworms, or even less. The human created fantasy that they are infiltrating our politics, are shape shifting reptilian humanoids bent on our planetary subjugation is completely laughable. Or at least it would be if not so many people believed it. That is a product of unimaginative humans anthropomorphizing their narrow view of the Universe. The slice of Universal life that we meet will be more wondrous and indifferent to us then we can imagine.

We humans are truly in the special Olympics category of intergalactic intelligence’s. We are just hairless apes dreaming of superiority. We are no where near the top of the intelligentsia food chain. We have not yet begun to climb the rungs of intelligence.

I will never ask you dear reader to believe anything, it will only ever be about how compelling the evidence is to you.

Science is the poetry of reality. Peace.

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Why it’s so hard for astronomers to discuss the possibility of alien life

The internet went crazy this week over a strange star observed by NASA's Kepler spacecraft

The internet has been abuzz this week over the possibility of intelligent alien life somewhere in our galaxy. This time, an article published by The Atlantic set off the storm. The story details how NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has spotted a strange star in the Milky Way named KIC 8462852. The star exhibits weird fluctuations in its brightness, leading a few astronomers to propose — among many other ideas — that maybe a swarm of alien megastructures is orbiting around the object.

"I was fascinated by how crazy it looked," Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University who studied the star, told The Atlantic. "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build." Wright said he is working on a paper that explores the theory further.

""Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider.""

It's perhaps the least likely scenario to explain the star's behavior, but since the story's publication, there have been numerous articles suggesting that NASA has found complex alien life around KIC 8462852. "Astronomers believe bizarre light patterns from a star millions of miles away to be alien megastructures" offered one article, and another claimed: "Astronomers think they have found an alien megastructure." The headlines are completely ridiculous and misleading, according to astronomer Sara Seager.

"It’s just irresponsible reporting. Because if you take a look at the paper — the scientific paper the authors wrote — [that idea] is not really even in there," Seager, astronomer and planetary scientist at MIT, told The Verge.

Seager noted this has long been a problem for astronomy. Whenever astronomers talk about potential evidence for alien life, their statements are often overblown. It’s an unfortunate byproduct of the field, she said, because discussing how to find extraterrestrial beings is an important part of exoplanet science. "We definitely visit that question a lot: How will we know? What evidence does it take?" she said.

Artist rendering of NASA's Kepler spacecraft. (NASA)

Planetary scientists are always looking for signs that extraterrestrial beings may exist on planets elsewhere in the Universe. For example, finding gases on a planet that wouldn't normally belong there may indicate the presence of single-celled organisms. There are also discussions among researchers about how to spot intelligent life, too; perhaps they would try to communicate with us, possibly by constructing a big signal of some kind that our telescopes could see. "Think about people who are lost in the woods," said Seager. "They start a fire or show something very reflective. There are papers written about it: what would the aliens have to do to get our attention?"

No concrete evidence has ever been found to support the existence of alien life, but scientists still need guidance for the best places to look. The bizarre qualities of KIC 8462852, first described in a paper published by a Yale group called Planet Hunters, are what gave Wright the idea that this star could be a good target. The Planet Hunters' paper discusses how this object, observed by the Kepler spacecraft, differs from other stars with orbiting planets. Normally, when planets pass in front of their host star, they temporarily dim the star's light by a minuscule amount. This dip in brightness is often observed in patterns, indicating the planet's uniform path around the star.

"Scientists still need guidance for the best places to look for alien life"

KIC 8462852 also dips in brightness, but in a much more abnormal way; its brightness will dip by as much as 20 percent for irregular periods of time — anywhere between five to 80 days. That means something very large is passing around the star in a non-uniform pattern.

The Planet Hunters' study offers many different scenarios that could explain the abnormal light dipping. The main theory centers on a large group of comets that have been pulled in by the star's gravity. However, Wright, who helped the Planet Hunters group with their paper, told The Atlantic that he is working on an additional report to suggest that an alternative, unnatural scenario might be occurring. Wright explained later in a blog post that he has been working on a theory about how Kepler might be able to detect "planet-sized megastructures — solar panels, ring worlds, telescopes, beacons, whatever" that are orbiting planets. If they were large enough, they'd cause the huge light dips like the ones seen on KIC 8462852.

"One of the things that occurred to me is that a civilization that would build one megastructure would eventually build more. The star might be surrounded by them (a Dyson swarm)," wrote Wright in his blog post.

Wright goes on to say that he isn't claiming that's what's going on here, and suggesting otherwise is "overstating the evidence." However, when it comes to the SETI Institute — the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence — scientists need to focus on the "best targets." The Universe is a big place, so researchers are always looking for ways to narrow their search. Pointing our antennas at KIC 8462852 would be a better strategy than analyzing the many other millions of stars we know about.

""Something's going in front of the star, but we don't know what.""

But in regards to the frenzy surrounding this particular star, Seager said that jumping to the alien conclusion is way too premature. Inexplicable stars like KIC 8462852 are observed all the time in astronomy. "It's correct that this star seems to be anomalous and unique in all of the Kepler star data, but there are other one-off objects like this in astronomy," said Seager. "Not all puzzles are solved right away. Something's going in front of the star, but we don't know what."

NASA also cautions not to get too enthusiastic, since Wright's paper on the alien theory hasn't even been published yet. "The paper, as far as I know is not yet accepted," said Dr. Steve Howell, a Kepler project scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. "We have this belief in the scientific community that until a paper is accepted, what’s said there and the results may change, so I think until this gets accepted we should scientifically be cautious. That’s kind of how things work."

Until that happens, Seager said speculating any further is just silly. "We love media attention; it's great for the field. But I just find this a little awkward."

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The US government made a pact with Aliens for otherworldly technology

There are numerous Ufologists who claim that extraterrestrial beings have worked with our government for years. This theory, which has been seriously ridiculed by many, might actually be true since numerous scientists and governmental official have come forward suggesting that there is more to alien life on Earth than previously believed.

Philip Schneider was a man who is believed to have come forward with highly classified information. He was a geologist and structural engineer of the Government of the United States and was involved in the construction of deep underground military bases in the United States with the Army Corps of Engineers. He was one of three people to survive the 1979 fire fight between the large Greys and U.S. intelligence and military forces at Dulce underground base. At Dulce, Schneider maintained, "gray" humanoid extraterrestrials worked side by side with American technicians. In 1979, a misunderstanding arose. In the ensuing shootout, 66 Secret Service, FBI and Black Berets were killed along with an unspecified number of "grays".

Philip Schneider's father, Oscar Schneider was a medical advisor to the US Navy. During the last two years of his life, Phil Schneider gave over 30 lectures to a variety of audiences around the world talking about highly classified information of the government involving alien technology, alien weapons, experiments and pacts between governments worldwide and aliens.

Many people remained skeptical about what Schneider had brought forward and much of his life was seriously questioned by people worldwide. He was ridiculed by many, but there were many who believed that what Schneider was telling was the absolute truth, something that no one dared to talk about.

Mysteriously in 1996, Schneider was found dead in his apartment. Authorities said it was a suicide, but many people believe that Schneider was killed because he had leaked extremely classified information to the public.

In 1954, former President Dwight Eisenhower, made a pact with three species of aliens, Schneider said at a conference in 1995. n exchange for alien technology, Eisenhower allegedly gave permission for the aliens to abduct a limited number human beings to perform numerous experiments on Earth and in space.

Schneider said that many of the thousands people who have gone missing around the world, may have been taken by aliens. He said there are nine races of aliens who see the human race as "a bag of food."

According to Schneider, the technology that aliens gave us as part of this exchange includes a type of metal that is almost indestructible. Schneider showed the audience what he said was a piece of this metal. It is made of niobium, an element that we have in the periodic table, and Marinite, a strange element which is not found on Earth.

But there were other technological utilities that aliens gave to humans thanks to the pacts. The government was able to develop a spy satellite with help of aliens that can detect a penny on the floor of your kitchen according to Schneider. This spy-satellite uses some sort of infrared technology with a resolution factor of 99.99961.

But this pact was broken by the aliens since they have abducted way more aliens than agreed. According to Schneider, since the pact was broken there have been tensions among alien races and humans.

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Scientists: Geological evidence shows the Great Sphinx is 800,000 years old

One of the most mysterious and enigmatic monuments on the surface of the planet is without a doubt the Great Sphinx at the Giza plateau in Egypt. It is an ancient construction that has baffled researchers ever since its discovery and until today, no one has been able to accurately date the Sphinx, since there are no written records or mentions in the past about it.

Now, two Ukrainian researchers have proposed a new provocative theory where the two scientists propose that the Great Sphinx of Egypt is around 800,000 years old. A Revolutionary theory that is backed up by science.

The study was presented at the International Conference of Geoarchaeology and Archaeomineralogy held in Sofia titled: GEOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF DATING THE GREAT EGYPTIAN SPHINX CONSTRUCTION.

The authors of this paper are scientists Manichev Vjacheslav I. (Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and Alexander G. Parkhomenko (Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).

The starting point of these two experts is the paradigm shift initiated by West and Schoch, a ‘debate’ intended to overcome the orthodox view of Egyptology referring to the possible remote origins of the Egyptian civilization and, on the other, physical evidence of water erosion present at the monuments of the Giza Plateau.

According to Manichev and Parkhomenko:

“The problem of dating the Great Egyptian Sphinx construction is still valid, despite of the long-term history of its research. Geological approach in connection to other scientific-natural methods permits to answer the question about the relative age of the Sphinx. The conducted visual investigation of the Sphinx allowed the conclusion about the important role of water from large water bodies which partially flooded the monument with formation of wave-cut hollows on its vertical walls.”

“The morphology of these formations has an analogy with similar such hollows formed by the sea in the coastal zones. Genetic resemblance of the compared erosion forms and the geological structure and petrographic composition of sedimentary rock complexes lead to a conclusion that the decisive factor of destruction of the historic monument is the wave energy rather than sand abrasion in Eolian process. Voluminous geological literature confirms the fact of existence of long-living fresh-water lakes in various periods of the Quaternary from the Lower Pleistocene to the Holocene. These lakes were distributed in the territories adjacent to the Nile. The absolute mark of the upper large erosion hollow of the Sphinx corresponds to the level of water surface which took place in the Early Pleistocene. The Great Egyptian Sphinx had already stood on the Giza Plateau by that geological (historical) time.”

A strong argument was made by Ukrainian scientists in regards of the Sphinx, arguments based upon geological studies which support Schoch’s view regarding the Sphinx and its age. Manichev and Parkhomenko focus on the deteriorated aspect of the body of the Sphinx, leaving aside the erosive features where the Sphinx is located, which had been studied previously by Schoch. Ukrainian scholars focused on the undulating terrain of the Sphinx which displays the mysterious pattern.

Mainstream scientists offer explanations for this sharp feature and state that it is based on the abrasive effect of the wind and sand, the undulations were formed because the harder layers of rock are better at withstanding the erosions while the softer layers would have been more affected, forming voids.

However, as noted Manichev and Parkhomenko, this argument does not explain why the front of the head of the Sphinx lacks such features. In regards to the argument made by Schoch about the heavy rain period which occurred around 13,000 BC, the Ukrainian scientists recognized Schoch hypothesis partially suggesting that the erosive features of the Sphinx go further back than 13.000 BC. Manichev and Parkhomenko argue is that the mountainous and coastal areas of the Caucasus and Crimea, which they know well, have a type of wind erosion that differs morphologically to the erosive features noted on the Sphinx. Essentially, they argue that such wind erosion has a very soft effect, regardless of the geological composition of the rocks.The western wall of the Sphinx enclosure, showing erosion consistently along its length. Courtesy and copyright of Colin Reader.

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

Courtesy and copyright of Colin Reader.

“In our geological field expeditions in different mountains and littoral zones of the Crimea and Caucasus we could often observe the forms of Eolian weathering which morphology differs considerably from the weathering taking place on the GES. Most natural forms of weathering are of smoothed character, independent of lithological composition of the rocks.”

They continue further and explain:

“Our personal experience in scientific investigation of geology of the sea coasts gives reasons to draw an analogy with the GES and to suggest another mechanism of its destruction. Specialists-geologists, who work in the field of sea-coast geomorphology, know such forms of relief as wave-cut hollows (Morskaya Geomorfologiya, 1980). They can be one- and multi-storey. They are arranged horizontally to the sea water surface, if the coast makes a vertical wall (cliff). Especially deep wave-cut hollows are formed in precipitous cliffs built by the strata of carbonaceous rocks. Such forms of the coast relief are well-known and studied in detail on the Black-Sea coast of the Caucasus and Crimea (Popov, 1953; Zenkovich, 1960). General model of formation of the wave-cut hollows in the rocks of the Caucasian flysch is given by Popov (1953, 162; Fig. 3). In dynamics of the process of wave-cut hollows formation one can notice such a characteristic feature that the wave energy is directed to the rock stratum at the level of water surface. Besides, both saline and fresh water can dissolve the rocks.”

Manichev and Parkhomenko propose a new natural mechanism that may explain the undulations and mysterious features of the Sphinx. This mechanism is the impact of waves on the rocks of the coast. Basically, this could produce, in a period of thousands of years the formation of one or more layers of ripples, a fact that is clearly visible, for example, on the shores of the Black Sea. This process, which acts horizontally (that is, when the waves hit the rock up to the surface), will produce a wear or dissolution of the rock.

The fact is that the observation of these cavities in the Great Sphinx made the Ukranian scientists think that this great monument could have been affected by above said process in the context of immersion in large bodies of water, not the regular flooding of the Nile.

Manichev and Parkhomenko suggest that the geological composition of the body of the Sphinx is a sequence of layers composed of limestone with small interlayers of clays. Manichev and Parkhomenko explain that these rocks possess different degree of resistance to the water effect and say that if the hollows formation were due to sand abrasion only, the hollows had to correspond to the strata of a certain lithological composition. They suggest that the Great Sphinx hollows are formed in fact within several strata, or occupy some part of the stratum of homogeneous composition.7

The Back of the Great Sphinx of Egypt

Manichev and Parkhomenko firmly believe that the Sphinx had to be submerged for a long time under water and, to support this hypothesis, they point towards existing literature of geological studies of the Giza Plateau. According to these studies at the end of the Pliocene geologic period (between 5.2 and 1.6 million years ago), sea water entered the Nile valley and gradually creating flooding in the area. This led to formation of lacustrine deposits which are at the mark of 180 m above the present level of the Mediterranean Sea.

According to Manichev and Parkhomenko, it is the sea level during the Calabrian phase which is the closest to the present mark with the highest GES hollow at its level. High level of sea water also caused the Nile overflowing and created long-living water-bodies. As to time it corresponds to 800000 years.

What we have here is evidence which contradicts the conventional theory of deterioration caused by Sand and Water, a theory already criticized by West and Schoch, who recalled that during many centuries, the body of the Sphinx was buried by the sands of the desert, so Wind and Sand erosion would not have done any damage to the enigmatic Sphinx.

However, where Schoch clearly saw the action of streams of water caused by continuous rains, Ukrainian geologists see the effect of erosion caused by the direct contact of the waters of the lakes formed in the Pleistocene on the body Sphinx. This means that the Great Sphinx of Egypt is one of the oldest monuments on the surface of the Earth, pushing back drastically the origin of mankind and civilization.

Some might say that the theory proposed by Manichev and Parkhomenko is very extreme because it places the Great Sphinx in an era where there were no humans, according to currently accepted evolutionary patterns. Furthermore, as it has been demonstrated, the two megalithic temples, located adjacent to the Great Sphinx were built by the same stone which means that the new dating of the Sphinx drags these monuments with the Sphinx back 800,000 years. In other words, this means that ancient civilizations inhabited our planet much longer than mainstream scientists are willing to accept.

Source and Reference: Geoarchaeology and Archaeomineralogy (Eds. R. I. Kostov, B. Gaydarska, M. Gurova). 2008. Proceedings of the International Conference, 29-30 October 2008 Sofia, Publishing House “St. Ivan Rilski”, Sofia, 308-311.

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Giant Mystery Ring of Galaxies Should Not Exist

Featured Image: An image of the distribution of GRBs on the sky at a distance of 7 billion light years, centred on the newly discovered ring. The positions of the GRBs are marked by blue dots and the Milky Way is indicated for reference, running from left to right across the image.

Astronomers are constantly uncovering the “most distant,” “most massive” or “most energetic” objects in our universe, but today, researchers have announced the discovery of a truly monstrous structure consisting of a ring of galaxies around 5 billion light-years across.

The galactic ring, which was revealed by 9 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), is located 7 billion light-years away and spans an area of the sky more than 70 times the diameter of a full moon.

GRBs are thought to be detonated when a massive star reaches the end of its life. As the star implodes after running out of fuel, a black hole is formed and vast quantities of energy are blasted in collimated beams. Should Earth be aligned with these beams, an incredibly luminous signal can be observed and these beacons can be used to precisely gauge the distance to the GRB and the location of the galaxy that hosts it.

The GRBs are all cataloged in the Gamma Ray Burst Online Index, which precisely records each GRB distance and location, like pins on a cosmic map.

Astronomers believe these GRBs (and therefore the galaxies they inhabit) are somehow associated as all 9 are located at a similar distance from Earth. According to its discoverers, there’s a 1 in 20,000 probability of the GRBs being in this distribution by chance — in other words, they are very likely associated with the same structure, a structure that, according to cosmological models,should not exist.

“If the ring represents a real spatial structure, then it has to be seen nearly face-on because of the small variations of GRB distances around the object’s center,” said Lajos Balazs, of Konkoly Observatory in Budapest, Hungary, and lead author of a paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. “The ring could though instead be a projection of a sphere, where the GRBs all occurred within a 250 million year period, a short timescale compared with the age of the universe.”

But what could possibly be creating a sphere an unprescedented 5 billion light-years across?

According to most cosmological models, the universe should have a roughly uniform distribution of matter over the largest scales. This is known as the “Cosmological Principle” and observations by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and Europe’s Planck space telescope, which both studied the distribution of the universe’s ancient cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, seem to agree. However, other results have recently challenged this idea hinting that structures as large as 1.2 billion light-years may exist. But a growing list of discoveries in the cosmic abyss seem to contradict even the 1.2 billion light-year “limit.”

The GRB ring is 5 times larger than the 1.2 billion light-year limit; a pretty huge anomaly by anyone’s standard. And this latest discovery isn’t even the biggest. In 2013, another distribution of GRBs revealed a 10 billion light-year structure. Other large structures also defy this theoretical limit.

So what could be causing this particular ring of GRBs? One idea focuses around the large-scale structure of the universe where clusters of galaxies amass together in a web-like structure, thought to be clumped around concentrations of dark matter. The “holes” in this web are referred to as voids — regions of the cosmos that are conspicuously near-empty of any matter. The largest voids are called, unsurprisingly, “super-voids.”

But this new structure dwarfs all known super-voids.

“If we are right, this structure contradicts the current models of the universe. It was a huge surprise to find something this big — and we still don’t quite understand how it came to exist at all,” added Balazs.

So is the Cosmological Principle flawed? It’s certainly looking that way.

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The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for Aliens

by George Dvorsky, Gawker Media

The science world is all in a tizzy this week about the supposed discovery of an alien megastructure. It's an intriguing theory, no doubt, but one deserving hefty amounts of skepticism. As we've learned before, inexplicable observations are all too often confused for aliens. Here are some classic examples.

A strange star located about 1,500 light-years from here is confounding astronomers. As reported by Ross Andersen in The Atlantic, the star, dubbed KIC 8462852, appears to be surrounded by "a strange mess of objects," compelling scientists involved in the hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence "to get a closer look."

A likely explanation for the anomaly is a massive and irregular cloud of debris left over from a celestial collision. But Jason Wright, an astronomer who studies exoplanets and astrobiology, suspects it may be a Dyson Sphere-an alien-built megastructure consisting of solar panels placed in orbit around a star.

There's much more to this story than my summary, so I highly recommend Phil Plait's post at Slate. As Plait himself admits, this star's behavior is indeed difficult to explain and it's "clear something weird is happening there." To be clear, it's probably not ET, but the suggestion that aliens may somehow be involved is not completely outrageous. As I've said before, the search for alien artifacts-or what's called Dysonian SETI-may be our best route to finally detecting signs of an extraterrestrial civilization.

This issue brings to mind previous instances in scientific history when a "God is in the gaps" explanation gets invoked for inexplicable phenomenon. There seems to be a tendency-and again, not a completely unwarranted tendency-among some astronomers to attribute extraterrestrial intervention when they observe something unexpected or seemingly outside the bounds of established knowledge. But in virtually every instance, these initial deliberations have been superseded by more reasonable explanations, as these following examples attest.

Canals on Mars

Back at the turn of the 20th century, American astronomer Percival Lowell posited the theory that an advanced alien civilization had irrigated crops on the surface of Mars with water drawn from the Red Planet's poles via an elaborate canal network.

The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for Aliens

"That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be," wrote Lowell in 1906.

Since the time of Lowell, however, closer inspection of the surface has shown that Mars does indeed feature a complex and dynamic surface, one carved by the ravages of time rather than an alien civilization.

Pulsars

Another example is the discovery of pulsars, those freakishly precise flashes of electromagnetic radiation produced by highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars.

The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for Aliens

(Credit: NASA)

Because they flash at such steady and rapid intervals, some astronomers speculated that pulsars are actually beacons set up by advanced alien intelligences. When they were first described in 1967, one of the scientists involved in the discovery, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, said that :

we did not really believe that we had picked up signals from another civilization, but obviously the idea had crossed our minds and we had no proof that it was an entirely natural radio emission. It is an interesting problem-if one thinks one may have detected life elsewhere in the universe, how does one announce the results responsibly?

Despite their initial skepticism, they named the pulsar LGM-1, which stands for "little green men."

The Wow! Signal

There's also the infamous Wow! signal- a 72-second-long radio burst that initially appeared to good to be true. It was.

The Many, Many Times Astronomers Mistook Mundane Phenomena for Aliens

Patrick J. KIger from National Geographic explains:

[Jerry] Ehman, a volunteer researcher for Ohio State University's now-defunct Big Ear radio observatory, perused data from the telescope's scan of the skies on August 15, a few days earlier. In those days, such information was run through an IBM 1130 mainframe computer and printed on perforated paper, and then laboriously examined by hand. But the tedium was shattered when Ehman spotted something surprising-a vertical column with the alphanumerical sequence "6EQUJ5," which had occurred at 10:16 p.m. EST. He grabbed a red pen and circled the sequence. In the margin, wrote "Wow!"

Ehman's excitement over that bit of arcane information stemmed from the Big Ear's mission at the time, which was searching space for radio signals of the sort that might be emanated by extraterrestrial civilizations, if they were attempting to make contact with intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. To Ehman, this signal, which had come from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, looked an awful lot like it could be such a message. Observatory director John Krauss and his assistant Bob Dixon, who subsequently examined the data, were similarly astonished by it.

The signal, which lasted 72 seconds, was never detected again, even during follow-up studies. Though never fully explained, the signal was likely a natural, continuous signal, or some human-caused artifact.

Perytons

More recently, astronomers at the Parkes Observatory in Australia detected mysterious radio signals known as perytons.

(Credit: CSIRO)

These brief but intense bursts, which appeared to emanate from deep space, were so strange that some scientists thought they might be coming from, what else, aliens. But a follow-up study ruined the party by showing that the signals were coming from-get this-microwave ovens used in the observatory to re-heat coffee. Ouch.

UFOs

Of course, supposed signs of aliens need not be limited to space.

Unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, are often associated with alien visitations, though empirical evidence for such claims are completely lacking. In virtually all cases, however, there are perfectly reasonable explanations for these observations.

Keep an Open Mind

The strange behavior of KIC 8462852 may never be explained. Our inability to posit a more reasonable explanation may be due to our limited technologies, insufficient science, or lack of imagination.

In time we may discover what's really going on, and it'll probably be a really fascinating explanation. Until then however, we should seek out the simplest solution, while keeping an open mind to other, more radical possibilities. Failure to do both would be a terrible disservice to the scientific process.

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BOOK REVIEW: "Bloodline of the Gods" by Nick Redfern

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BOOK REVIEW: Bloodline of the Gods by Nick Redfern (New Page Books) 2015

With fellow Red Dirt Report writer Sarah Hussain behind the wheel, as we headed to an assignment in faraway Alva, Oklahoma, I sat in the passenger seat plowing through Nick Redfern’s newest book, Bloodline of the Gods, and subtitled “Unravel the Mystery of the Human Blood Type to Reveal the Aliens Among Us.”

Redfern, a prolific writer who refuses to shy away from any controversial issue or paranormal enigma, kept me absolutely captivated, page after page, as the autumnal Oklahoma countryside rolled by. By the time we got back to Oklahoma City, later in the afternoon, I had completed the book, my mind racing. What if this is true?

And Redfern warns readers that the information on those pages is “controversial in the extreme” and that his story “requires us to accept the possibility that the history of the human race is woefully incomplete, incorrect, and lacking in key, critical data.” Anyone who has watched the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens program will know where I’m going with this.

Is humanity, as Redfern suggests, part of a planet-wide lab experiment where at least 10 percent of us are actual descendants of an ancient and advanced alien civilization – the Anunnaki – due to having Rh negative blood. What that means is that while most of us are Rh positive (where our blood cells contain a specific antigen). In fact, Redfern tells us that in the U.S., approximately 85 percent of Caucasians, 90 percent of African-Americans and approximately 98 percent of Asian-Americans are Rh positive.

But that minority of Rh negatives, which includes many well-known world leaders, past and present, are not like us. They are different. Just as the Basque people of northern Spain are different. They are different in many ways, and the bloodlines matter, Redfern tells us in his easy-to-read manner.

Redfern, an Englishman based in Texas, takes us on a wild, historical journey. From many thousands of years ago, when Cro-Magnon man and the Neanderthals were trying to survive (something – or someone – killed off the Neanderthals), a race of aliens, living on the planet Nibiru (which is in our solar system, but on an unusual orbit), came here over 400,000 years ago seeking gold to be used to repair the thinning ozone layer on their own planet.

We learn about Enki and Enlil, the Anunnaki sons of Anu, who are in charge of the gold mining operations, largely in Africa, and eventually lead to the creation of what became human beings, although not without significant controversy amongst Anunnaki leaders.

Sound too bizarre to be true? Yes, I know. I thought the same thing when I was first introduced to these ideas via the works of Zecharia Sitchin and guests on late night Coast to Coast AM. And later, in my previous book reviews – Our Occulted History by Jim Marrs and Slave Species of the Gods and African Temples of the Anunnaki, both by Michael Tellinger – I began to realize that these ideas hold water and are very likely valid. What of the “Great Deluge”? What of the ancient mining operation sites that can’t be explained in South Africa?

And then there’s us. Did Anunnaki biological engineers tinker with the all-ready existing Homo erectus to ultimately create a slave species to mine the gold?

From here, Redfern’s book takes us through the ancient stories of the distant past, like The Epic of Gilgamesh. How the Biblical tale of Noah may actually be about Utnapishtim, who was warned of the impending doom as Nibiru passed Earth’s orbit – creating a planetary cataclysm – and made an “ark” to save genetic material of Earth creatures so that when the catastrophe ended, life could begin anew.

Was this when the Anunnaki split for Nibiru, leaving a few “watchers” behind? And are they behind the flying saucer and alien abduction phenomenon that began in the early 1960’s with Betty and Barney Hill and has continued to the present day? Are the “Grays” (likely biological robots – drones), like the ones written about in Whitley Strieber’s chilling 1987 book Communion, doing the dirty work of abducting humans with Rh negative blood, in hopes of keeping remnants of their race going forward?

These Rh negative people are known to be psychic and very intelligent, with slightly larger brains – like Cro-Magnons – and includes note only President John F. Kennedy but his alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald’s Russian wife Marina. Other “negatives” include Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. And we can’t foget members of the British Royal family. One can agree that there is something different about these people. Some argue there is even a “reptilian” angle to this phenomena, as popularized by UK researcher David Icke.

And the U.S. military, Redfern writes, appears to be monitoring Rh negative people. Those with that blood characteristic have told of strange people and black helicopters seemingly monitoring their every move. UFOs seem to show up when they're least expected. It can be unsettling and even terrifying, although some victims and researchers see these encounters in a positive light.

So, one has to ask: Where is this all going? Will Rh negatives be outed? Will they be vilified as being different and somehow dangerous? And are we heading towards some soulless, transhumanist future as Oz-like aliens work behind the proverbial curtain?

Once again, Nick Redfern pushes the envelope on what our actual history may involve and that what we have been taught to believe is just a cover story. After all, isn't reality usually stranger than fiction?

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Boeing creëert "lichtste metaal ooit" - HLN.be

Bron: CNN, The International Business Times

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Vliegtuigbouwer Boeing heeft een nieuw metaal ontwikkeld waarvan de structuur naar eigen zeggen voor 99,99 procent uit lucht bestaat. Het metaal, dat door Boeing "Microlattice" werd gedoopt, ziet eruit als een spons is tegelijkertijd sterk én flexibel.

Microlattice is volgens Boeing voor 99,99 procent hol. Het revolutionaire product is 100 keer lichter dan piepschuim en zou wel eens het materiaal van de toekomst voor de luchtvaart zijn.

Het materiaal werd ontwikkeld door HRL Laboratories, een joint venture van Boeing en General Motors, in samenwerking met twee Amerikaanse universiteiten. De wetenschappers inspireerden het metaal op de samenstelling van menselijke botten, waarbij de buitenste rand ook hard en vast is, maar het merg binnenin een holle, lichte en tegelijkertijd bijzonder sterke structuur vormt. Microlattice bestaat uit allemaal holle buisjes die met elkaar verbonden werden. De wand van elk buisje is 1000 keer dunner dan een haar.

In een video bewijst Boeing hoe licht Microlattice precies is: het stukje metaal wordt moeiteloos omhoog gehouden door een paardenbloem en zweeft als een veer door de lucht. Terwijl het materiaal erg licht is, zorgt de bijzondere structuur ervoor dat het bij elkaar gedrukt kan worden en vervolgens weer zijn oorspronkelijke vorm aannemen.

"Eén van de voornaamste toepassingen waar we op dit ogenblik naar kijken," zegt onderzoekster Sophia Yang die samen met Boeing aan het project werkte, "zijn de structurele componenten in de luchtvaart. De sterkte en de lichtheid van het materiaal zullen ervoor zorgen dat het brandstofverbruik van het vliegtuig veel zuiniger zal zijn door de besparing van zoveel gewicht."

Het materiaal is te licht voor de bouw van een volledig vliegtuig, maar het kan als vervanging dienen voor sommige zwaardere metalen onderdelen, zoals vloeren, stoelframes, of muren.

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Straaljager duikt plots op naast vliegtuig, reizigers weten niet wat hen overkomt

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UFO Planet + Ep9 Blue Skin Pleiadian Attends Screening of Travis Walton Movie - Audrey Hewins, UFO Sighting News.

This is an interesting interview and Crapo seems to have a good show he puts on with a lot of important information about UFO news. Have a look and subscribe to his channel. Cool info here. Darin Crapo of Youtube.
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Crapo states:
Conference organizer Audrey "Starborn" Hewins, founder of Starborn Support and Experience Speakers, joins Darin Crapo to tell the experience of 4 blue-skin Pleiadian aliens attending a Experiencer conference where the most recent Travis Walton movie was being screened. Audrey shares her reaction and the reaction of other like Travis Walton and further paranormal activity that followed later in the evening at the cabin.

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Flight Attendant Snaps UFO from SWA 3357 Over Florida On Sept 26, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: September 26, 2015
Location of sighting: Over St. Louis, Florida, USA

Eyewitness states:
Missouri - 09-26-15 - I was flying on SWA flight 3357 on Sept 26, 2015 and had just taken off out of St. Louis to Florida. About 15-20 minutes into our flight I noticed what I thought was another plane and all of the sudden whatever it was did a 180 without losing altitude or speed. I can only see two contrails but no object. I was shocked as I'm a flight attendant and have never witnessed anything like this before and my husband also saw it and he flies every week for the last 25 years and has never seen anything like it. I have shown many others, commercial pilots included, and they also have no idea what it could have been. The stills I have included are stills that I took from pausing the video.

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NASA’s revolutionary ‘propulsion system’ can get Astronauts to Mars in 39 days

According to reports, a company from Texas has been selected by NASA to develop a revolutionary engine that could send mankind to Mars in less than 40 days. Ad Astra's Vasimr engine is apparently capable of getting a spacecraft to Mars in 39 days. This project is just one of the twelve projects currently funded by NASA. Among the revolutionary propulsion system, there are other technologies currently in development, among them are improved habits for humans and smaller satellites that could explore space more efficiently.

Vasimr is short for Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket.

Remember, there is a long way to go here since Ad Astra’s Vasimr engine is just one part of the entire spacecraft that could eventually take astronauts to Mars. Scientists still need to figure out the type of spacecraft astronauts would travel in.

The Revolutionary Vasimr Engine during testing

The revolutionary engine uses plasma as a propellant and is developed by Texas based company Ad Astra. The engine hit the headlines a couple of years ago when sources revealed that this revolutionary engine could reduce the trip to Mars from months to weeks. The only downside if there is one is that the engine requires a Nuclear power source.

In 2013, the company completed the testing of the first prototype.

‘We are thrilled by this announcement and proud to be joining forces with NASA in the final steps of the technology maturation,’ said Dr Franklin Chang Diaz, Ad Astra’s Chairman and CEO, in a statement.

‘We look forward to a very successful partnership as we jointly advance the technology to flight readiness.’

This is just one of the many technologies currently in development that will allow NASA to explore and colonize space in a much more efficient manner.

It seems that all of a sudden, Mars isn't that far away... is it?

‘Commercial partners were selected for their technical ability to mature key technologies and their commitment to the potential applications both for government and private sector uses,’ said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA Headquarters.

‘This work ultimately will inform the strategy to move human presence further into the solar system.’

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Une grande pyramide sous-marine a été découverte près du Portugal

Une grande pyramide sous-marine a été découverte près du Portugal

Une très grande pyramide sous-marine a été découverte par Dioclétien Silva entre les îles de São Miguel et Terceira aux Açores du Portugal. D’après nos informations, la structure serait parfaitement carrée et orientée grâce aux points cardinaux.

Grâce à un GPS haute technologie , on a pu estimer que cette pyramide sous-marine mesurait 60 mètres de haut avec une base de 8000 mètres carrés. L’Institut Hydrographique de la Marine portugaise a actuellement la tâche d’analyser les données pour déterminer si la structure a été conçue par l’homme ou non.

« La pyramide est parfaitement façonnée et apparemment orientée grâce aux points cardinaux », a déclaré Silva Diário, du journal local.Le journaliste insulaire a indiqué que la pyramide sous-marine a été découverte dans une région médio-atlantique et qu’elle existe depuis au moins 20.000 ans.

Si la pyramide a été érigée il y a plus de 20 000 ans, c’est donc une civilisation, humaine ou non, d’avant l’âge de glace qui en a été responsable ce qui paraît très étonnant. La marine Portugaise est en cours d’analyse des origines de cette Pyramide et le processus d’identification durera certainement plusieurs années. Ce qui rend plus intéressant cette découverte, c’est que elle génère beaucoup de questions :– Pourquoi cette structure n’a pas été signalée plus tôt?

– L’organisme NOAA qui étudie cette zone de forte ‘activité volcanique , aurait découvert par hasard cette mystérieuse structure grâce à l’imagerie sonar et d’autres équipements de pointe sophistiqués pour analyser cette activité volcanique.

Beaucoup de personnes pensent que le NOAA avait déjà découvert cette pyramide et qu’il gardait cette information secrète.

Afin de soutenir davantage l’idée que cette pyramide aurait été construite par des civilisations différentes, les archéologues de l’Association Portugaise des Recherches Archéologiques ont découvert des preuves sur l’île de Pico qui suggère que des croyances humaines auraient existé à l’époque dans la région des Açores avant l’arrivée des Portugais.

Aujourd’hui, il n’existe toujours pas d’explications sur l’origine de l’art rupestre retrouvé sur les îles. La pyramide aurait-elle été construite par une autre civilisation avant les Portugais? Aurait-elle été construite par des mains extraterrestres?

Est-ce le continent englouti d’Atlantis?

Açores est une région intéressante car c’est une chaîne de neuf îles volcaniques réparties en trois groupes principaux situés à environ 1500 km à l’ouest de Lisbonne.

Elles sont toutes situées autour des lignes de fracture entre l’Amérique du Nord, des plaques tectoniques Eurasienne et Africaine. Un endroit intéressant pour l’emplacement d’une pyramide étant donné les qualités énergétiques situées autour.

Il est important de noter que le lieu exact où est située la pyramide n’a pas été communiqué. On croit qu’une découverte de deux autres pyramides a eu lieu dans la région suggérée dans les images ci-dessus qui auraient un lien avec celles construites en Egypte.

Cette vidéo parle d’informations intéressantes qui explorent l’authenticité de l’histoire et de l’emplacement visuel à l’aide des cartes.

NOAA : La National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) est l’agence américaine responsable de l’étude de l’océan et de l’atmosphère. NOAA fut fondée le 3 octobre 1970 à la suite d’une proposition du président Richard Nixon afin de créer un service national« …afin de mieux protéger la vie et la propriété des catastrophes naturelles… de mieux comprendre l’environnement… (et) pour l’exploration et le développement vers une utilisation intelligente des ressources marines ».

La NOAA fut créée par le Congrès des États-Unis comme un service au sein du Département du Commerce des États-Unis, via le plan de réorganisation no 4 de 1970. Elle regroupait alors trois agences déjà existantes et fort anciennes du gouvernement américains, soit le United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, fondé en 1807, le National Weather Service, fondé en 1870, et le Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, fondé en 1871. Elle remplaçait ainsi l’Environmental Science Services Administration, créée en 1965 comme un début de regroupement des services environnementaux.

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Are Those Really Alien Megastructures? How Astronomers Plan To Investigate

There's something weird happening around a faraway star.

Artist's concept of rock and dust orbiting a star

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Skywatchers have noticed something "bizarre" in the data from the planet-hunting Kepler telescope. Located 1,480 light-years away, a star named KIC 8462852 has something big circling around it, and it's not a planet.

Usually when a planet passes in front of a star, it dims the star's light for a few hours or days, then disappears and returns again after completing its yearly revolution around its sun. But this particular star's light has dimmed for up to 80 days at a time, and at irregular intervals. That's no planet.

Nor is it likely to be a clot of dust and rocks. Those sorts of debris disks are only known to occur around young stars, and this star is not a young 'un. Plus, debris usually gives off extra infrared radiation, which is not the case here. The data has been validated by the Kepler team, and the telescope was functioning fine when it collected the data.

Perhaps the star's light is being blocked by huge pieces of alien architecture.

That leaves just a few possible explanations. One is that perhaps a wandering star pulled foreign comets into orbit around the star. Such a phenomenon is probably rare. "It's a bit of a stretch," says Andrew Siemion, a scientist with Berkeley's SETI center. The mysterious object(s) are blocking up to 20 percent of the star's light, which is much, much more than even a Jupiter-sized planet would block.

Siemion and two other astronomers have suggested an alternate explanation that may be even less likely than comets, but still very intriguing: Perhaps the star's light is being blocked by huge pieces of alien architecture.

Are We Alone?

As far as we know, life may have only evolved once in the universe. We have just one case study, which doesn't tell us much about what it takes to create life from nothing, or how often that might happen on other worlds.

Suppose life did arise elsewhere. What are the chances it would evolve into technologically advanced, intelligent beings? In 1961, the astronomer Francis Drake wrote an equation to help estimate the number of intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way.

The Drake Equation

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N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy that we can communicate with

R*=average rate for the formation of stars that are suitable for life

fp= the fraction of those stars that have planets

ne=the fraction of those planets with an environment suitable for life

fl=the fraction of those planets where life actually appears

fi=the fraction of planets with life that evolves to be intelligent

fc=the fraction of planets with intelligent life that develop technologies that release detectable signs into space

L=length of time those signals are released

Most of the variables can't be filled in--it's a thought experiment more than anything--but it shows the chances of developing intelligent life are probably slim.

However, now that the Kepler telescope has discovered more than 1,000 planets around other stars, scientists calculate that there are probably billions of planets in our galaxy. Even if intelligent life is an extremely rare event, the sheer multitude of worlds provides a multitude of opportunities for nature to roll the dice.

Dyson Spheres

As civilizations become more technologically advanced, they become hungrier for energy. The physicist Freeman Dyson hypothesized that eventually, alien civilizations could become so advanced that they would need to harness all the energy from a star, perhaps sheathing the entire star in solar collectors. Some scientists think that looking for these so-called Dyson spheres could lead us to intelligent extraterrestrials.

Illustration of a Dyson Shell

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Hypothetical Dyson structures could maximize the harvesting of energy from a star.

Other forms of the concept include Dyson swarms, which instead of enclosing the entire star in solar collectors would instead encircle it in one or a few orbits. This kind of structure wouldn't block as huge of a percentage of the star's light.

Siemion and his colleagues Jason Wright and Tabetha Boyajian think there's a chance that a structure like that could be blocking the light from KIC 8462852. And it wouldn't necessarily have to be solar panels either, says Wright. If there's a structure there, it could be a telescope or some sort of habitation.

NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay says the hypothesis “sure sounds interesting and should be followed up,” though he adds the caveat that he doesn't study stars or extraterrestrial intelligence.

Lynne Hillenbrand, an astronomer who studies stars at Caltech, says, “I think that the old adage of 'extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence' probably applies here.”

Looking For Evidence

To test their hypothesis, the team hopes to listen for the tell-tale signs of life around KIC 8462852. They've applied for time on the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. They'll be competing with other scientists who want to use the giant telescope to answer other research questions. If their application is selected, next year the team will point the telescope's 100-meter dish toward KIC 8462852 and scan the radio signals emitting from that region.

The Green Bank telescope

Photograph by Steve Featherstone

Using technology that's being developed for the Breakthrough Listen project—a $100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial life, which Siemion is involved in—the researchers will take the radio waves coming from KIC 8462852 and break them into many wavelengths, similar to a prism that separates white light into its rainbow components.

In nature, electrons move randomly, producing a mess of radio waves, says Siemion. But technology—or at least Earth technology—tends to release a lot of energy at a narrow band of frequencies, and for small windows of time.

After the “prism” (which is really just a computer) separates the radio waves from KIC 8462852 into different frequencies, “we'll look at each channel relative to the others,” says Siemion, “and see if there's a lot of energy at just one frequency.”

“If we heard narrow-band modulated radio emissions coming from that star, I can't imagine any other explanation,” says Wright, an astronomer at Penn State. No known natural phenomenon creates a radio signature like that. But the universe is big enough to contain plenty of unknowns.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

Jon Jenkins from the Kepler team says he's never seen anything like what's happening at KIC 8462852, but "it’s not unusual for new phenomena to be greeted with an explanation calling for extraterrestrials that later prove to be due to more mundane but novel natural phenomena."

Siemion himself points out that when the first pulsar was discovered in 1961, it was given the designation LGM-1, for “little green men.” Like lighthouses of the universe, these rotating stars emit radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation at regular intervals.

In a speech, the pulsar's co-discoverer Jocelyn Bell Burnell once said: “We did not really believe that we had picked up signals from another civilization, but obviously the idea had crossed our minds and we had no proof that it was an entirely natural radio emission.” Now we know at least 1,800 pulsars exist, and the alien hypothesis has been ruled out.

If KIC 8462852 is emitting intriguing radio frequencies, Boyajian, Siemion, and Wright will explore further using a more sensitive telescope--the Very Large Array in New Mexico.

Analyzing the star's light using differential spectroscopy could also tell us something about what the mysterious star shade is made of, says Wright. "We measure the light of the star when it's bright, then again when it's dim, and the difference in brightness in different colors tells us what the intervening material is made of—dust, gas, comet stuff, whatever. That will help a lot."

And Boyajian adds that long-term observation across all kinds of wavelengths is imperative to unraveling the mystery. We may be waiting a while to learn what's going on out there.

We know that comets exist. We don't know whether intelligent life exists. As Hillenbrand points out, in science, the simplest explanation is usually the most likely one.

But even if it's not aliens, whatever gigantic weird thing is orbiting this star is probably going to be fascinating.

Update, 10/16/2015 at 4:10pm EDT: This article was updated to include feedback from Jon Jenkins of NASA, as well as info about differential spectroscopy.

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“Aliens Are Making Contact With Us NOW” Declares Snowden

A man very much in the know?

Edward Snowden, the NSA Whistleblower who is currently living in isolation in Russia called in to Startalk Podcast to make some rather sensational/exciting claims!

He has claimed that Alien Beings are trying to make contact now and there is NO denying this fact. Snowden made the interesting statement whilst living in Isolation in Russia after a critical leak of information reference the way that the government agencies monitor and use our personal information.

Snowden called into Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk podcast to make the brave statement about Aliens contacting earth.

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It's a busy universe out there!

Edward Snowden said:

“So if you have an an alien civilization trying to listen for other civilizations, or our civilization trying to listen for aliens, there’s only one small period in the development of their society when all of their communication will be sent via the most primitive and most unprotected means.

“So when we think about everything that we’re hearing through our satellites or everything that they’re hearing from our civilization (if there are indeed aliens out there), all of their communications are encrypted by default.

“So what we are hearing, that’s actually an alien television show or you know a phone call… is indistinguishable to us from cosmic microwave background radiation.”

PLEASE CHECK OUT THE INTERESTING INTERVIEW BELOW:

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The Former NSA employee has been in hiding in Russia since the major leak of information that was initially published in the Guardian newspaper a little while ago. Snowden has confirmed that he has been threatened on numerous occasions by US officials and is fearful about what could happen to him if he ever returned back to his homeland – He has obviously touched quite a few nerves within the US Administration!

Putin clearly feels that Snowden is a useful ally to have on side living in his country. Interesting how there is also a lot of talk about UFO’s and Alien contact in Russia nowadays, who knows perhaps Snowden knows EVEN MORE than he makes out.

Putin appears to have a great interest in Extra-terrestrial life these days!?

U.I.P SUMMARY – Mr Snowden is a man that is actually rather respected around the world by truth Seekers, and I believe the reason he is respected so much is because he has pretty much gave up everything, including a well paid job and a stunning Girlfriend (please see image below) all for telling US the truth about what is really going on!
Left behind: Lindsay Mills, girlfriend of whistleblower Edward Snowden

Left behind: Lindsay Mills, girlfriend of whistleblower Edward Snowden

This is not a man who appears to want fame, he has pretty much gave up everything in order to unite the world and educate us about what the US Government are supposedly lying to us about.

Edward went into hiding in Hong Kong back in 2013, and was then immediately straight after granted asylum in Russia, where he continues to live to this day.

Mr Snowden claims that the US Government have made an example of him, saying how he has been treated as “a warning to all others who might speak out as I have”.

It is clear that Mr Snowden may actually know EVEN MORE than what he makes out, so here is hoping that we will be hearing and seeing more evidence about the Extra-terrestrial Beings.

Who knows…..Perhaps Mr Snowden is going to help assist RUSSIA with Disclosure!? Just imagine what the US Government would think of that – perhaps this is what they are scared of! With tensions high between the US and Russia at the moment, now would be a perfect time for Russia to tell us the truth about Alien life beyond planet earth.

MWV – U.I.P

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Temple Professor Claims Aliens Have Abducted Millions of Humans

No need to look to the stars in our search for extraterrestrial life; aliens might already be here among us on Earth...Or at least that's what retired Professor David M. Jacobs thinks.

According to Jacobs, extraterrestrial beings have been abducting and sexually molesting humans the world over for aeons, all to create a hybrid race of alien-humans who walk the earth unnoticed but will eventually take over the planet.

But Jacobs isn't your typical UFOlogist. Tenured for 36 years as a Professor of American History at Temple University, Jacobs is a 71 year old intellectual-type who, according to Philly.com makes his case with "well-reasoned, articulate explanations and applies scholarly approach to his research which he has shared in four books- printed by well-known and academic publishers."

Jacobs says he is well aware of the stigma that surrounds Ufology."I knew that it was embarrassing to the university," says Jacobs of his stance on UFOs. "I was not rewarded for my views [...] But you do not often find yourself in the middle of a phenomenon that allows you to make a contribution to something that could be of unsurpassing importance in human history," Jacob adds.

"What I'm doing will either be an interesting but nonessential footnote to popular culture or the most important thing that's ever happened to humankind. I see it as the latter," explains Jacob.

Jacobs claims his evidence is solid, collected primarily from the 150 abductees that he has interviewed over the years. He claims that these abductees independently report similar experiences, recalling common details of intense eye-contact, and neurological scanning. Based on researching this small sample, Jacobs has drawn the conclusion that the number of abductees across the world numbers in the millions.

Jacobs details some of his other conclusions to Philly.com's Dana Difilippo, stating, among other things, that the families of some abductees reported seeing their loved ones simply disappearing into thin air. Other findings included the discovery of mysterious scar tissue on the bodies of abductees and groups of people recalling the same mass-abduction events despite never having seen each other before.

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UFO and Alien Abductions Interview with Dr David Jacobs. ARE THEY REAL?

Jacobs, who claims to never have actually witnessed a UFO or Alien abduction himself, began his journey into Ufology as a college student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1970s. After running into some interesting literature about Aliens and UFOs, he decided to change his dissertation from the portrayal of women in pre-1915 films to the UFO controversy in America.

But what began with what he used to think was "the most amazing, wowee, gee-whiz thing," quickly escalated into the realm of reality for him. "[T]he more I learn about it, the more I fear it, the more I don't want to have anything to do with it," Jacob now reflects.

"This is a clandestine phenomenon," Jacobs said. "There is one thing that I can say for sure: They don't want us to know what they're doing - because what they're doing benefits them and not us."

For more on Jacobs and his work, check out his organization, The International Center for Abduction Research. You can read Difilippo's full right-up of her conversation with Jacobs, here

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Former Obama Pilot Admits To Alien Encounter And Says ‘Virtually All’ Aviators Believe In UFOs

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Former Obama Pilot Admits To Alien Encounter And Says 'Virtually All' Aviators Believe In UFOs

According to the man who flew US president Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign tour, virtually all pilots believe in UFOs.

Andrew Danziger, a veteran pilot with 28 years of experience in the cockpit has also admitted he’s had his own brush with the unexplained.

The American pilot says he saw a white disc flying through the sky during a standard flight between Kansas and Iowa in April 1989. The white disc then changed into a “giant red ball” and glowed for about 30 seconds before disappearing into the clouds.

According to Danziger, both he and the captain who was also in the cockpit saw the spooky alien craft for about 40 minutes before it began to change color and disappeared.

“It looked similar to the moon faintly visible though thin fog, except the two were visible at the same time on opposite sides of our cockpit,” Danziger told the New York Daily News.

“While neither of us had any idea what we had saw one thing we were certain of, it wasn’t from here,” he said.
He says that when he reported the sighting, he was told that many pilots often spotunidentified flying objects while traversing the skies.

“We knew through the grapevine that pilots weren’t supposed to talk about UFOs so we swore the station agent on duty to secrecy and agreed not to talk about our incident to any of our co-workers.”

But Danziger is sure that he isn’t the only airman to have spotted an unexplained craft in the skies.

“I’m not going too far out on a ledge to say that virtually all pilots believe in UFOs,” he said

via mirror.co.uk

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Brothers Witness A Cloaking Triangle Over Minnesota

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BROTHERS WITNESS A CLOAKING TRIANGLE OVER MINNESOTA

OCTOBER 11, 2015 ………… ROCHESTER MINNESOTA

On Sunday October 11, 2015 it was a beautiful, warm, cloudless day. I went for a bike ride with my brother. We went to the Douglas Trail which starts in Rochester, MN and ends in Pine Island, MN. 13 miles each way. At about 10 mile in we were being followed by a large brown hawk. This hawk was acting crazy and would not leave us alone. We finally stopped and the hawk hovered about 30 feet above us. He was catching the wind and was staring at us.

We thought he was going to attack us. I have never seen or heard of a hawk doing this sort of behavior. We did nothing to provoke him. After about 30 seconds he flew off. We kept our eye on him until he was a distance away. We were just about to start our ride again when I looked up above the hawk in the distance and saw a white orb. The orb was way up high. It was a total cloudless day so it was the only thing in the entire sky. I looked at it for about 10 seconds then it started to grow in size. It changed it’s shape and became a large triangle craft. It was transparent but the sunlight reflected off it. It looked like glass. With the sunlight you could see it’s depth and it’s dimensions. Then it shot across the entire sky at an insane speed. It went from the western horizon to the eastern horizon in 1 second flat. A vast distance. It had to be traveling at thousands of miles per hour. It then stopped instantly. I yelled at my brother to look up. He saw it when it stopped and reached for his phone to take a picture. The object then blinked and shrank until it was gone. There was no time to get a picture. From the time it grew and went across the sky to the time it stopped and disappeared was only about 5 seconds. There was not enough reaction time to get a picture. After the sighting we continued our bike ride and witnessed no more actively.

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Real life Star Wars? ‘Millennium Falcon’ UFOs snapped beaming across skies

BIZARRE UFOs that resemble the Star Wars Millennium Falcon have been photographed separately in north and central America.

By Jon Austin

CGI image of Millennium Falcon plus (insets) the two UFOs

The first sighting of a strange series of lights, up to 180 metres across, was said to have resembled the back of the fictional Rebel Alliance craft while in flight.

It was seen by four people on Cony Island, near New York, and has been reported to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) official database.

Roger Marsh, of UFO website Openminds.tv, said: "A New York street photographer driving to Coney Island reported capturing a disc-shaped object while taking ‘rapid fire images’ of a bridge.

"The witness was with three friends on their way to pick up another friend."

The photographer, who has not been named, said: "I always carry my camera with me. At the time I shot with a Fujifilm XT1 and had it on machine gun mode for rapid shots.

"We were passing by the bridge as I decided to just rapid fire some shots of the bridge free hand and I did not have my eye sight in my view finder.

The UFO snapped over Cody Island

  They don't half look like the Millennium Falcon before it blasts into warp speed.

"What caught my attention was a sudden string flash at the corner of my eye, kind of like lightening but in the distance. At that moment I took my finger off the shutter and reviewed my photos from the rapid fire when I came across the object.”

The witness does not believe the object was visible for very long.

He added: “The object moved at such speed that I only had it in the frames for about maybe a second or two. It’s also moved from the front of the bridge to out of the frame in that small amount of time.”

Millennium UFO (right) and what is thought to be a plane (left) over Mexico

MUFON New York State section director Lillian Waters and field investigator John Reinhart investigated the case, filing a report stating: “Although not visible to the naked eye, one picture revealed a disc-like object with a dome shaped top.

“The object was very large – possibly 300 feet in diameter – and appeared to have bright yellow-orange external lights.”

A more recent image was captured on October 10 in the sky above the Tenayuca Pyramid in Mexico.

Another elongated object which appears to have a light at the rear is seen in the sky near what looks like a plane.

One viewer of both "UFOs" said: "They don't half look like the Millennium Falcon before it blasts into warp speed."

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Here are the 5 most convincing signs that aliens have visited Earth

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Most of the time, aliens descend from the sky (with or without anal probes) at moments when there’s just about no one around – or (usually) one absolute weirdo, who survives to tell the tale.

But a few times, the little green men have let their guard down.

A discussion on Reddit compiled people’s most convincing ‘proofs’ that we have been visited by extraterrestrials.

Most of these will – at the very least – make you wonder….

MORE: Someone just found a crashed UFO in Antarctica on Google Maps

1) The Disclosure Project

The Disclosure Project (Picture Getty)

‘On Wednesday, May 9th, 2001, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to provide their insight into ‘UFOs’.’

There’s some real heavyweights there, too – watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkswXVmG4xM#t=862

2) 1976 Tehran UFO Incident

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One of the most well-documented military encounters with a UFO, this encounter saw two F-4 Phantom II jets losing control of communication and weapons systems as they approached a weird object in the sky over Iran.

Several military officers voiced the opinion that the object was not of terrestrial origin – and it was taken seriously enough that the President was informed.

3) Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man on the moon

Edgar Mitchell (Picture Getty)

Mitchell, who piloted the Apollo 14 landing module, has spoken regularly about his belief in aliens.

He claims that peace-loving aliens ‘stepped in’ during early tests of nuclear weapons, to prevent a nuclear war between America and Russia.

Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, claims that high-ranking military officials saw UFOs during weapons tests in the White Sands desert in New Mexico.

4) The Battle of Los Angeles

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The Battle of Los Angeles (Picture YouTube)

A rumoured enemy attack in 1942 led to air raid sirens and a huge anti-aircraft barrage – but then the authorities said it was all a false alarm.

Leaked photos, though, seemed to show lights and weapons trained on an actual alien spacecraft – and UFOlogists claim it was an attack by extraterrestrials.

5) The Westfall UFO Incident

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This is one UFO encounter that’s hard to dismiss – because it happened at 11am, lasted 20 minutes, and was witnessed by 200 students and staff from a school in Westfall, Australia.

Reports have attempted to explain the encounter as being with a military target balloon or an experimental aircraft, but it has never been fully ‘solved’.

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(Very) Local SETI: The Launch of a New UFO Science

Last July, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced the launch of a bold $100 million project "to reinvigorate the search for life in the universe." The amplified SETI initiative is "the most powerful, comprehensive and intensive scientific search ever undertaken for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth," according to the project's website.

"The chance of finding life has risen a billion-fold when we realized that Earth-like planets are not rare, but that there are literally billions of them just within our own galaxy," Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees stated at the time. Noting that the payoff could be "colossal," he wondered whether alien life to be discovered could be organic, or maybe "machines created by long long-dead civilizations."

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As someone who has studied official UFO/UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) documentation for many years, I was naturally inspired -- even elated -- by this announcement. But at the same time, I couldn't help relating it to my all too keen awareness of the taboo against taking UFOs seriously, despite the obvious relationship of UFO phenomena to the quest for finding extraterrestrial life. After all, couldn't some UFOs be the machines that Rees referred to? And must they belong only to dead civilizations?

There is no sign that Milner's team will include our own solar system among the many others that it will search for signs of intelligent life. Most scientists have repeatedly stated that whatever data (if any) we have on UFOs are insufficient for study. Yet, as I made clear in my book UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record, there is plenty of evidence for the existence of unexplained aerial phenomena, and some governments (such as France and Chile), in cooperation with their own scientific teams, have made this a matter of official record.

Even so, the larger, multi-disciplinary search for extraterrestrial intelligence, seeking even the tiniest and most wide ranging clues, has never given a nod to this "forbidden realm" of intriguing, highly suggestive evidence -- in fact, it has been completely ignored. And at the same time, SETI has yet to find any evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence in its effort to detect radio signals or light from distant locations "that would reveal the presence of technically sophisticated beings," as SETI describes it.

But now, for the first time, a new group of scientists and other professionals is determined to change this outdated and unbalanced scenario, once and for all. Yes, we do need more scientific data on UFOs -- but who is going to provide it?

In October 2013, I attended a meeting led by Mark Rodeghier, scientific director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, and political scientist Alexander Wendt, whom some of you might recognize as a co-author of the chapter "Militant Agnosticism and the UFO Taboo" from my book, to solidify a new, rigorously scientific approach to the UFO problem. Rodeghier and Wendt have since formed a non-profit, 501 (c)(3) organization called UFO Detection and TrAcking (UFODATA for short), which includes an international team of scientists and engineers with an interest in UFOs, including (among others) Massimo Teodorani, Dave Akers and Erling Strand, as well as several academic "silent partners" who do not want to be publicly identified. "We are establishing this project out of frustration with the impasse that the UFO debate has been at for over sixty years," Wendt says.

I acknowledge my own current involvement: I accepted Rodeghier and Wendt's invitation to join their Board of Directors, along with Philippe Ailleris, Project Controller at the Space Research and Technology Centre of the European Space Agency.

Please see UFODATA's website -- just launched today -- for more details.

The organization has one goal and one goal only: to design, build and deploy a global network of automated surveillance stations that will monitor the skies full time looking for UFOs. UFODATA has no interest in alleged government conspiracies or adding more witness reports or FOIA documents to the thousands already on file. The idea here is that only a complete change of methodology toward a purely scientific approach to the UFO issue will enable us to move forward.

courtesy Massimo Teodorani, UFODATA

The monitoring stations, of which UFODATA eventually hopes to have dozens, will contain a suite of sophisticated instruments that will record numerous physical characteristics of any UFOs that appear in their range. They will all send their data back to a central location. Current projections are that the stations will cost about $10-20,000 each, thanks to the unprecedented convergence of high resolution digital camera technologies, off-the shelf scientific instrumentation, powerful low-cost computing platforms and far-reaching high-speed internet access. (More information about the instruments and science involved can be found on the site.)

UFODATA will rely on crowd funding to finance the stations, allowing the millions of people who take UFOs seriously to be involved in the effort, independent of the scientific establishment. Some supporters may wish to host a station in their own location or offer their expertise to the organization.

The campaign will unfold in two phases initially. First, it will focus on filling gaps in its volunteer technical staff and on raising enough money by word of mouth to build a prototype station. This prototype will serve as a technical testbed, providing concrete evidence of capabilities to support Phase Two, which will launch the formal crowd-funding campaign. Phase Two will have a larger financial target, to fulfill the objective of building a small but fully functioning network of stations which will begin collecting data and also attract additional media, scientific and public attention to support further network development.

Massimo Teodorani, astrophysicist from Italy, presenting the project in July, 2014 to the first scientific workshop organized by CNES/GEIPAN in Paris. Photos: Philippe Ailleris

courtesy Massimo Teodorani, UFODATA

"Are we really alone? Or are there others out there? It's one of the biggest questions," the Milner announcement reads. "And only science can answer it." We completely agree. Rodeghier points out that we are simply taking SETI to its logical limit -- local SETI. "Several researchers interested in the conventional search for ET have pushed the boundaries to suggest that it is not misguided to search in the solar system, including around the moon, for ET artifacts or other evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence," he says. "But they have rejected looking in near-Earth orbit. Logically this prohibition makes no sense, and so with UFODATA we will also break the taboo of searching for signs of ET right here, not just millions of kilometers away."

He points out that SETI has spent huge amounts of money over fifty years with no success. "Why not, in comparison, take a few years with modest funding to study UFO evidence close to home?"

Short of US government recognition that UAP are worthy of investigation, I believe that this grassroots initiative is the best effort we can make to move toward a rational answer to the UFO question. Ironically, sidestepping government to study UFOs in this way could also ultimately help win respect for the issue within the political (as well as scientific) establishment. UFODATA should appeal to those who are tired of the misplaced certainties on both sides of the UFO debate -- conspiracy theorists convinced that UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft and debunkers equally convinced that UFOs don't even exist. Precisely because so little science has been done on UFOs, humanity is actually quite ignorant about what they are. This is a unique moment for something radically different, with the potential to unite all of us in a pivotal, larger goal. We now have the opportunity to elevate UFO investigations so that they become part of the larger scientific search for extraterrestrial life and will eventually be recognized as such by the world community.

For now, we remain agnostic about the nature and origin of UFOs. However, "whether or not we find any ETs, this will constitute a radical breakthrough in both the study and status of the UFO problem," says Wendt. "And if it does turn up any ETs, well, that would be one of the most important events in human history..."

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Vreemde lichten/objecten  voor Belgische kust.

Vanuit een casino aan de Belgische kust worden een aantal foto’s genomen die niet alleen prachtig zijn om te zien, maar waar merkwaardige dingen op voorkomen.

Deze opnames zijn wel echt, in tegenstelling tot de vreemde UFO in China wat een photoshop exemplaar blijkt te zijn.

Tegenwoordig is, zeker op internet, lang niet alles wat het lijkt en zijn er ook meer en meer mensen die UFO-opnames vervalsen. De reden is uiteraard vaak dat wanneer ze het goed doen dit potentiëel behoorlijk wat geld kan opleveren in reclameinkomsten via bijvoorbeeld Youtube.

Gisteren publiceerden we een artikel over een vreemd object dat zou zijn gefotografeerd in China. Echt of niet, wij weten het niet, maar we zijn afgegaan op het verhaal dat erbij wordt verteld door een Engelse krant.

De foto’s zouden zijn genomen door een groep toeristen op een rondvaartboot. Wat blijkt echter? De foto’s zijn niet echt.

Volgens een lezer:

Ondertussen opnieuw de China UFO onderzocht en het blijkt photoshopped te zijn. Als je alle 3 de foto´s bekijkt zie je dat op elke foto dezelfde wolken partij op dezelfde plaats staat, wat op zich onmogelijk is als het een bewegende ufo zou zijn geweest.

Een lezeres uit België, waarvan wij aannemen dat wat zij zegt ook inderdaad zo is, stuurde ons mooie beelden (dank!).

Zij schrijft het volgende:

Op 21 september 2015 zat ik in het casino van Middelkerke op de zee en het strand uitte kijken. Ik nam foto's van de zee. Er was niets speciaal te zien.

Thuis kijk ik mijn foto's op de computer en zie een verschijning in de lucht. Er kan geen reflectie van de raam zijn, omdat ik mijn fototoestel op 5 cm van de raam hield. Ik stuur u beide foto's door.

Ze heeft inderdaad twee prachtige foto’s bijgesloten.

Op de eerste zie je linksboven een cirkelvormige formatie van UFO’s/lichten.

Hier het deel linksboven wat verder uitvergroot:

In de tweede foto zie je rechtsboven als je goed kijkt, twee cirkelvormige objecten of formaties.

Voor alle duidelijkheid is de rechterbovenhoek van de laatste foto hier wat verder uitvergroot.

Een reflectie in het raam van een object in het casino zoals een kroonluchter aan het plafond dat weerkaatst in het glas lijkt hier uitgesloten omdat ze de camera enkele centimeters van het glas hield.

Waar het echter wel veel op lijkt is op de UFO die ongeveer een jaar geleden boven de Amerikaanse stad Houston werd waargenomen en waar wij een artikel over schreven.

Een vreemd cirkelvorming object boven de stad die Houston toen dagenlang in de grip hield en waar zover bij ons bekend, nooit een verklaring voor is gevonden.

Is er voor de Belgische kust sprake van eenzelfde fenomeen of is er een andere verklaring voor?

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Alien technology spotted orbiting a distant star, Oct 2015, UFO Sighting News.

News source: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/?utm_source=SFFB
Date of news: Oct 14, 2015

News states:
Astronomers have spotted a strange mess of objects whirling around a distant star. Scientists who search for extraterrestrial civilizations are scrambling to get a closer look.

In the Northern hemisphere’s sky, hovering above the Milky Way, there are two constellations—Cygnus the swan, her wings outstretched in full flight, and Lyra, the harp that accompanied poetry in ancient Greece, from which we take our word “lyric.” Between these constellations sits an unusual star, invisible to the naked eye, but visible to the Kepler Space Telescope, which stared at it for more than four years, beginning in 2009.

The Tomorrow Report Ideas from a changing world Read more “We’d never seen anything like this star,” says Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale. “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.” Kepler was looking for tiny dips in the light emitted by this star. Indeed, it was looking for these dips in more than 150,000 stars, simultaneously, because these dips are often shadows cast by transiting planets. Especially when they repeat, periodically, as you’d expect if they were caused by orbiting objects.

The Kepler Space Telescope collected a great deal of light from all of those stars it watched. So much light that Kepler’s science team couldn’t process it all with algorithms. They needed the human eye, and human cognition, which remains unsurpassed in certain sorts of pattern recognition. Kepler’s astronomers decided to found Planet Hunters, a program that asked “citizen scientists” to examine light patterns emitted by the stars, from the comfort of their own homes.

In 2011, several citizen scientists flagged one particular star as “interesting” and “bizarre.” The star was emitting a light pattern that looked stranger than any of the others Kepler was watching. The light pattern suggests there is a big mess of matter circling the star, in tight formation. That would be expected if the star were young. When our solar system first formed, four and a half billion years ago, a messy disk of dust and debris surrounded the sun, before gravity organized it into planets, and rings of rock and ice. But this unusual star isn’t young. If it were young, it would be surrounded by dust that would give off extra infrared light. There doesn’t seem to be an excess of infrared light around this star. It appears to be mature. And yet, there is this mess of objects circling it. A mess big enough to block a substantial number of photons that would have otherwise beamed into the tube of the Kepler Space Telescope.

If blind nature deposited this mess around the star, it must have done so recently. Otherwise, it would be gone by now. Gravity would have consolidated it, or it would have been sucked into the star and swallowed, after a brief fiery splash. “It looked like the kind of thing you might expect an alien civilization to build.” Boyajian, the Yale Postdoc who oversees Planet Hunters, recently published a paper describing the star’s bizarre light pattern.

Several of the citizen scientists are named as co-authors. The paper explores a number of scenarios that might explain the pattern—instrument defects; the shrapnel from an asteroid belt pileup; an impact of planetary scale, like the one that created our moon. The paper finds each explanation wanting, save for one. If another star had passed through the unusual star’s system, it could have yanked a sea of comets inward. Provided there were enough of them, the comets could have made the dimming pattern. But that would be an extraordinary coincidence, if that happened so recently, only a few millennia before humans developed the tech to loft a telescope into space. That’s a narrow band of time, cosmically speaking. And yet, the explanation has to be rare or coincidental. After all, this light pattern doesn’t show up anywhere else, across 150,000 stars. We know that something strange is going on out there.

When I spoke to Boyajian on the phone, she explained that her recent paper only reviews “natural” scenarios. “But,” she said, there were “other scenarios” she was considering. Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish an alternative interpretation of the light pattern.

SETI researchers have long suggested that we might be able to detect distant extraterrestrial civilizations, by looking for enormous technological artifacts orbiting other stars. Wright and his co-authors say the unusual star’s light pattern is consistent with a “swarm of megastructures,” perhaps stellar-light collectors, technology designed to catch energy from the star. “When [Boyajian] showed me the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Wright told me. “Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build.”

Boyajian is now working with Wright and Andrew Siemion, the Director of the SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. The three of them are writing up a proposal. They want to point a massive radio dish at the unusual star, to see if it emits radio waves at frequencies associated with technological activity. If they see a sizable amount of radio waves, they’ll follow up with the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, which may be able to say whether the radio waves were emitted by a technological source, like those that waft out into the universe from Earth’s network of radio stations.

Assuming all goes well, the first observation would take place in January, with the follow-up coming next fall. If things go really well, the follow-up could happen sooner. “If we saw something exciting, we could ask the director for special allotted time on the VLA,” Wright told me. “And in that case, we’d be asking to go on right away.” In the meantime, Boyajian, Siemion, Wright, the citizen scientists, and the rest of us, will have to content ourselves with longing looks at the sky, aimed between the swan and the lyre, where maybe, just maybe, someone is looking back, and seeing the sun dim ever so slightly, every 365 days.

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Ancient Aliens: Circles from the Sky S08E08

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Ancient Aliens: Circles from the Sky
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 8
28th August 2015

Over 10,000 crop circles have been reported worldwide, appearing in 50 different countries, and nearly every continent on Earth. These strange designs pressed into crop fields range from simple circles to elaborate pictograms thousand of feet long. The phenomenon has been associated with scientific anomalies, strange lights, and even UFO activity. But critics say that they are all part of an elaborate hoax. But are they? Crop circles have been making modern headlines since the 1960’s, but their history can be traced back hundreds–if not thousands of years. The designs themselves often contain encrypted messages and complex mathematical, geometric, and astronomical equations that perplex our top mathematicians and scientists. Ancient Astronaut Theorist, Giorgio Tsoukalos travels to England to meet with researchers and scientists to investigate the phenomenon both on the ground and in the lab to find out what we haven’t been told.

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Former Worker of NASA Claims To Have Seen Human Figures Walking On Martian Surface In 1979

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Claiming to be a former NASA employee, a woman said she has seen proof of the biggest cover-up in space history in 1979. She claims to have seen two human figures in space suits walked calmly towards the Viking lander (the older version of today’s Mars Curiosity Rover) in the Martian surface.

Coast to Coast AM in America received a call this year from Jackie, who asked the presenter to investigate a 27-year-old mystery for her.

Jackie said she handled downlink telemetry from the lander for NASA when she noticed two people walking on the surface.

She said the Viking rover was running around while she and six colleagues were observing on multiple screens. Then she saw two men in space suits, which were not bulky but looked protective. These men came over the horizon walking towards the Viking Explorer.

What Jackie and her colleagues had witnessed seemed a little odd considering that if humans were there, they could just fill the lander with petrol or take photographs themselves instead.

To Jackie’s estimate, there were around half a dozen of them downstairs working to maintain the equipment. Then their video feed was cut off.

They ran upstairs, but the mysterious men locked the door and covered it with paper so Jackie and her colleagues could not see. Jackie has been wondering if those were their guys.

Conspiracy theorists claim there were secret landings on the Red Planet in the Sixties, and the Apollo landings were just a cover-up for wider solar system exploration.

John Lear, the former CIA pilot, claims that NASA made a landing on Mars in 1966 and that humans adapted to breath the thin atmosphere of the planet.

However, it is important also to note that Lear thinks human souls travel to the moon when they die and processed inside a mile-high glass tower. Lear also believes that the toxic, crushingly dense Venus is green and beautiful.

The Haynes UFO Investigations Manual author, Nigel Watson, says these reports or claims of secret space missions appear to be growing in number and remind him of the infamous Project Serpo.

An anonymous man claimed in November 2005 that they worked for the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and started sending information on Project Serpo, an alien exchange programme.

He said that six aliens were retrieved from the Roswell crash.

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Ancient Aliens: Creatures of the Deep S08E07

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Ancient Aliens: Creatures of the Deep
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 7
4th September 2015

In August of 2014, Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station discovered something incredibly unexpected covering parts of the windows–living sea plankton. If sea life can thrive in space, might the reverse be true as well? Might there be alien life forms that inhabit our seas? Throughout history, there have been tales of strange creatures hiding in Earth’s waters. While many discount stories of sea monsters as purely mythological, it is estimated that Earth’s oceans are home to between 700,000 to one million species–and shockingly, two-thirds of those species still remain unknown. Considering the recent discovery that some sea life can survive in outer space, is it possible that tales of giant creatures like the Kraken and The Loch Ness Monster are evidence of extraterrestrial entities taking refuge beneath the seas?

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Increasing Appearance of UFOs In The ISS Creates Speculation Of Secret NASA Tests

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Mysterious unidentified flying objects (UFOs), said to have captured on video by NASA live cameras on ISS, have brought a lot of views and comments, especially in YouTube and paranormal websites. The ISS has been in orbit 250 miles above Earth and housed six astronauts.

The so-called UFOs have increased in numbers so much that leads conspiracists to speculate that they may be evidence of secret tests performed by NASA.

The latest of this kind has been recorded on October 1 and featured a glowing object moving towards the space station, but at a distance below its orbit.

Conspiracists think the object could be an alien UFO or a top secret project of NASA. The slow movement baffles them so much.

An earlier video posted to YouTube on 17th of September seems to show another glowing object moving alongside the ISS. Three days earlier, YouTube username White Horse USA uploaded a video to the video sharing site showing an orb UFO, which the ISS seemed to pass under.

On September 13, on the day before White Horse USA posted his video, Streetcap1 posted another one titled “ISS Camera Spots 3 satellites/UFOs/sprites.” According to Streetcap1, he’s hesitant to call them aliens because it’s possible they are part of a secret space tests or projects in the upper atmosphere.

On September 11, a UFO appeared to be caught when the light flashes hit it just right. It looks to be around 125-175 cm away from the station, so it is not too far away. Some conspiracists speculated that this UFO has an orb drone to collect data for it.

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Ancient Aliens: The Other Earth S08E06

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Ancient Aliens: The Other Earth
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 6
28th August 2015

Billions of dollars have been spent in our quest to find an “other Earth.” Since the launch of the Kepler Telescope in 2009, scientists have identified thousands of planets capable of supporting life. Is it possible that this discovery finally answers the age-old question: “Are we alone in the universe?” Could it be that just as we seek out other habitable planets, advanced extraterrestrials from distant galaxies did the same with Earth in the remote past? Throughout world mythologies, there are tales of beings from the stars coming down to Earth. The Dogon tribe in Africa believes their gods came from the Sirius star system. The Maya associated their gods with the Pleiades star cluster. And according to the Hopi tradition, life itself was seeded by celestial beings. Ancient Astronaut theorists propose that not only has our planet been visited by extraterrestrials, but that they are responsible for our very existence.

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Black UFO Releases Smaller Craft Over Atlanta, Georgia

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An aircraft releases a smaller object, which then disappears into thin air. The strange sighting took place on September 13, 2015, in Atlanta, Georgia. The aerial activity’s video has attracted more than 170,000 views. Just like any other claimed UFO videos, there are some debunkers saying it’s fabricated. But debunkers are to be expected after the release of this kind of video.

The video is heavily edited to cut down on the extended periods of still frame images. The video footage was then inserted before the still frames.

Black in appearance, the craft appeared to be a curved ship. It appeared from the clouds, hovered, then discharged a smaller object. After the smaller object had fallen a short distance from the mothership, it disappeared into thin air.

The bizarre aerial activity was uploaded to YouTube with pictures and a video. There’s a link in the comment section that directs to a very clear picture. The one who uploaded the video promises an update, but as of October 14, 2015, there have been no updates to it. The video can be viewed at below and the Twitter still image can be accessed at https://twitter.com/SecureTeam10/status/643528855475605504.

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Cigar – shaped UFO sighting over Tlalnepantla, Mexico on 10th October 2015

New interesting video footage of a Black Cigar – shaped UFO sighting recorded over Tlalnepantla, Mexico on 10th October 2015.

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Bright UFO sighting over Coachella Valley, California on 8th October 2015

New interesting video footage of a Bright UFO sighting recorded over Coachella Valley, California on 8th October 2015.

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Anomalous megastructures found in space: Researchers detect Megastructures built by Aliens around a distant Star?

Astronomers have spotted something really freaky surrounding a distant star thanks to NASA’s Kepler Space telescope.

The Kepler Space Telescope began to search the cosmos for potentially habitable worlds in 2009, hoping to pinpoint planets where life as we know it might exist. Now, during a routing observation, the space telescope spotted something very, very strange in the cosmos. Located between the Constellations of Lyra and Cygnus there is a really freaky star and what’s going on near it has baffled scientists.

Among the thousands of stars that Kepler observed between 2009 and 2013, one located between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra has attracted the attention of astronomers. The light emitted by the star is shown to have some irregularities which has led experts to conclude that there are ‘alien’ objects orbiting the star. Some explanations may be the passage of planets or the formation of a solar system.

Have researchers found evidence of sophisticated Alien Technology?

Basically Kepler is designed to look for stars and spot irregularities or tiny dips in the brightness emitted by the stars. According to astronomers, these dips, if repeated, could be a tale tell sign that the star has planets orbiting it. What researchers do next after they spot the ‘tiny dips’ is measure the timing and size of the dips. The data is analyzed by computers with specific algorithms designed to look for repeating patterns which indicate that ‘something’ is orbiting a star. The Keplar Space Telescope observed the star in question, KIC 8462852 which is located 1480 light-years away from Earth, for a period of four years. When a planet passes in front of its host star, the star in question usually dims for a period of a few hours up to a couple of days. Bu KIC 8462852 is really mysterious because this star darkens as much as 20 percent at irregular intervals, staying dark for 5 to 80 days.

According to astronomers who noticed these mysterious irregularities this behavior is extremely bizarre.

Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale, told The Atlantic: “We’d never seen anything like this star. It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”

So what does this mean?

Well, according to experts, this means that the dips follow a pattern which suggests that the star is being orbited by a large, irregularly shaped object. What is even more interesting is the fact that the object which is causing the mysterious dips has to be a recently formed object according to scientists, as it would have been pulled in by the star’s gravity on the contrary.

Of, so what is this thing?

Well a lot of theories are in the wild but researchers from UC Berkeley’s SETI Institute believe it could be a clear sign of Alien technology. Tabetha Boyajian is working with SETI and Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University in order to develop a plan to observe KIC 8462852 with NRAO’s Green Bank Telescope in search for radio waves. If scientists pick up anything interesting, they might go ahead and used the VERY LARGE ARRAY in New Mexico to listen if they can pick up the sound of ‘Alien Technology’.

According to Jason Wright, an astronomer at the Pennsylvania State University, these structures, or better said mega-structures, could be the product of a highly advanced alien civilization.

To confirm that these structures are not natural occurrences, Kepler is expected to take another peek at KIC 8462852 in May 2017 when the ‘anomalous structures’ are expected to transit the star again.

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Did Comets Spark Alien Life in Europa's Oceans?

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[Pin It] Artist's impression of an impact event on Jupiter's moon Europa.
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If alien life swims in the ocean beneath Europa's icy surface, it might have got its start from comets cracking the icy shell to deliver vital pre-life ingredients, say researchers.

New simulations show that a specific family of comets have the mass, velocity and opportunity to do the job -- penetrating the full range of likely Europan ice thicknesses.

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"It's one of the best candidates for an ecosystem," said Rónadh Cox of Williams College, Mass., regarding Europa's ocean. "But how do you get biological precursers into the ocean?"

To find out if icy, chemical-rich comets could do it, she and her team modeled impacts by the full range of comets that have been influenced by Jupiter, and brought into relatively short orbits around the sun — so-called Jupiter Family Comets. The team simulated the collisions of these known comets into a range of ice thicknesses. Their results were surprising and led to a new insights into the moon's actual ice crust thickness.

"It turns out it doesn't matter how thick the crust is," said Cox, the lead author of a paper about the research in the latest issue of Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets. That's because it's all a matter of the frequency of impacts over the very long window of opportunity -- in this case the almost five billion-years that the solar system has been around.

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If Europa's ice, for instance, is at the very thick end of the spectrum — 40 kilometers (25 miles) deep — it would require a 5 to 7-kilometer (3-5 mile) diameter comet to breach it, she said.

They found that the odds of that happening with a Jupiter Family Comet is once in 100 million years. That's a virtual certainty over five billion years.

The odds of getting through the ice get a lot better if the ice is thinner. Thinner ice would allow the more numerous smaller comets to break through the ice once every 10 million years, Cox explained.

"It means the crust is penetrated frequently in geological time," said Cox.

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It also means that the two dozen impact craters seen on Europa today can be compared to the simulated impact craters to see what size their impactors were. Those that left craters on Europa are failures, because if they had breached the ice they would have probably been flooded with fresh ice. So they provide a clue about how the thick the ice really is.

"We got the best match if ice was 10 to 15 kilometers (6 to 9 miles) thick," said Cox. This ice thickness agrees with other studies that estimate Europa's ice thickness by entirely different methods, she said.

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Could the surface features in Europa's crust reveal where comets have impacted and penetrated through the ice?
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"I think that this is the most complete and careful work yet on the relation between the Europan ice shell thickness and the size and depth of impact craters on its surface," said Purdue University's Jay Melosh, an expert on planetary impacts. "I am particularly impressed that the authors can match the observed crater depth-diameter relation over the entire range of crater sizes on Europa and get an excellent fit for a 10 kilometer (6.2 mile) thick ice shell. There has been a long-standing controversy over whether the ice on Europa is thin (that is, 7 to 15 km) or thick (around 40 km)."

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As for those comets that broke the ice, Cox says the evidence for those is there on Europa's surface as well, although it's harder to be certain, as there are a lot more analogues for studying impact craters than for ice-penetrating impacts.

"If impactors are going through the ice there has to be a scar," Cox said. "Geomorphically, we don't know what that is. What do those look like now that they are frozen?"

They might look like the patchy, complicated Europan icescape called chaos terrain. Very similar looking surface patterns have been created by re-freezing of ice after explosives have been used to break through sea ice on Earth, Cox said. And that's about the only analogue she has seen for what has happened on Europa.

"We advocate that these are sites of impactors that penetrated the ice," said Cox.

If so, and the ice is on the thin side, it's good news for life on Europa and our chances of finding it.

"Cox and Bauer’s paper strongly supports the thin-shell side," said Melosh. "This is good news for the astrobiology community because it means that exchange of material between the surface and underlying ocean is relatively easy, so that nutrients for a putative Europan biosphere can get in and samples of that biosphere may be ejected to the surface, within reach of future sample return missions."

Note: Independent science writer Larry O'Hanlon is also the blogs and social media manager for the American Geophysical Union, which publishes Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets.

This article was provided by Discovery News.

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Alien Megastructures For Dummies: What is a Dyson sphere?!

Proponents of solar power know that only a tiny fraction of the sun’s total energy strikes the Earth. What if we, as a civilization, could collect all of the sun’s energy? If so, we would use some form of Dyson sphere, sometimes referred to as a Dyson shell or megastructure.

Physicist and astronomer Freeman J. Dyson first explored this idea as a thought experiment in 1960. Dyson’s two-page paper in the journal Science was titled Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation because he was imagining a solar-system-sized solar power collection system not as a power source for us earthlings, but as a technology that other advanced civilizations in our galaxy would, inevitably, use.

Dyson proposed that searching for evidence of the existence of such structures might lead to the discovery of advanced civilizations elsewhere in the galaxy, and indeed, in 2013, several groups of astronomers have begun a search for the telltale signs of Dyson spheres.

The central dot in this image represents a star. The simplest form of Dyson sphere might begin as a ring of solar power collectors, at a distance from a star of, say, 100 million miles. This configuration is sometimes called a Dyson ring. Image via Wikipedia.

Originally, some envisioned a Dyson sphere as an artificial hollow sphere of matter around a star, and Dyson did originally use the word shell. But Dyson didn’t picture the energy-collectors in a solid shell. In an exchange of letters in Science with other scientists, following his 1960 Science article, Dyson wrote:

        A solid shell or ring surrounding a star is mechanically impossible. The form of ‘biosphere’ which I envisaged consists of a loose collection or swarm of objects traveling on independent orbits around the star.

As time passed, a civilization might continue to add Dyson rings to the space around its star, creating a relatively simple, but incredibly powerful, Dyson sphere. Image via Wikipedia.

A Dyson sphere might be, say, the size of Earth’s orbit around the sun; we orbit at a distance of 93 million miles (about 150 million kilometers). The website SentientDevelopments describes the Dyson sphere this way:

         It would consist of a shell of solar collectors (or habitats) around the star. With this model, all (or at least a significant amount) of the energy would hit a receiving surface where it can be used. [Dyson] speculated that such structures would be the logical consequence of the long-term survival and escalating energy needs of a technological civilization.

And of course science fiction writers have had a field day writing about Dyson spheres.

In fact, Dyson admitted he borrowed from science fiction before he began his technical exploration of the idea of a megastructure gathering energy from its star. Olaf Stapledon first mentioned this idea in his 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker, which Dyson apparently read and used as inspiration.

Eventually, as a civilization evolved – aided by the boundless energy gathered from its star – its surrounding Dyson sphere would surely evolve as well, in ways that are hard to predict.

As mentioned above, astronomers in 2013 are now seriously discussing the search for evidence of Dyson spheres in the space of our Milky Way galaxy

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Is de legendarische Bijbelse stad Sodom gevonden? - HLN.be

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Opgravingen in Jordanië leggen de restanten van een grote stad bloot. © Facebook.

Na decennia van opgravingen denken archeologen eindelijk de ruïnes van de Bijbelse stad Sodom te hebben blootgelegd. De onderzoekers vermoeden dat de restanten die werden aangetroffen in de regio Tall el-Hammam in Jordanië overeenkomen met de Bijbelse beschrijvingen van Sodom in het boek Genesis van het Oude Testament.

De zoektocht naar de mytische stad die door God werd verwoest na morele verdorvenheid van de inwoners is al tientallen jaren aan de gang. De site waar het over gaat, matcht met het feit dat om de grootste stad uit de regio zou gaan die plots werd verlaten en zou dateren uit de periode tussen 3.500 tot 1.540 voor Christus. De locatie ten oosten van de Jordaan komt overeen met de beschrijvingen in het Oude Testament van het gebied waar Sodom in de bronstijd was gevestigd.

Steven Collins van de Trinity Southwestern University in de Amerikaanse staat New Mexico leidt het onderzoeksteam en is er nu van overtuigd dat Sodom is opgegraven. De restanten die werden blootgelegd, wijzen op een grote stadstaat met verdedigingslinies. Op een bepaald moment werd ze verlaten, mogelijk na een grote aardbeving die in die tijd ervaren kon worden als een straf van God.

Sodom en Gomorra waren twee steden waarvan de verwoesting door God in het Oude Testament wordt vermeld. Ze werden volgens de Bijbel in de as gelegd door een regen van zwavel en vuur als een vergelding van God voor het zondige gedrag van de inwoners.

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Professor Collins temidden van de opgravingen. © Facebook.

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Curiosity bevestigt verhoogde kans op leven op Mars: "Meer vulde ooit Gale-krater" - HLN.be

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Marsrover Curiosity bevestigt dat een oud meer ooit de Gale-krater met water vulde, wat de kans op leven op de rode planeet verhoogt. Het nieuws komt in de nasleep van NASA's bekendmaking op 28 september dat er bewijzen werden gevonden van vloeibaar water op Mars.

De Marsrobot onderzoekt de bewuste site rond de Gale-krater en Mount Sharp al sinds de landing in augustus 2012. De nieuwe bevindingen van de wetenschappers achter Curiosity werden vrijdag gepubliceerd in het vaktijdschrift Science. Weer meer kans op buitenaards leven, in het verleden dan wel in het heden, in de vorm van microben.

Volgens het onderzoek "was Mars ooit, miljarden jaren geleden, in staat om water op te slaan in meren over een langere tijdsperiode". De wetenschappers hebben het over de aanwezigheid van water 3,8 tot 3,3 miljard jaar geleden.

De 'Kimberley'-formatie op Mars. Een foto van Curiosity.

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Dit geweer schiet drones uit de lucht met radiogolven - HLN.be

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video Het Amerikaanse onderzoeksinstituut Battelle heeft een draagbaar wapen ontworpen dat drones kan neerhalen zonder vuurkracht. De DroneDefender gebruikt radiogolven om de vliegende tuigen offline te dwingen.

De technologie dient voor het gebruik in niet-militaire omgevingen. Want hoewel het Amerikaanse leger alsmaar nieuwe manieren blijft uitvinden om drones aan diggelen te schieten, is dat niet meteen praktisch wanneer een toestel bijvoorbeeld een pakje drugs zou willen droppen boven een gevangenis.

"Het kan ons helpen op talrijke plaatsen, van het gazon van het Witte Huis tot basissen en ambassades in het buitenland, van gevangenissen en scholen tot historische sites", zegt Alex Morrow, de technische directeur van het project. "Het is een gemakkelijke en betrouwbare manier om de dreiging te neutraliseren."

Het wapen weegt nog geen vijf kilogram en kan drones tot 400 meter ver raken. Wanneer je de trekker overhaalt, vuurt het wapen een lading elektromagnetische energie af die mikt op de meestgebruikte gps-frequenties en ISM-radiofrequenties. Het doelwit wordt zo op een veilige manier onbruikbaar gemaakt en kan dan geen bijkomende bevelen meer ontvangen van de bestuurder. Dat is in het bijzonder handig wanneer de drone is uitgerust met een explosief.

Deze video bevat een simulatie van een onderschepping:

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Vondst 47 tanden gooit geschiedenis mens omver - HLN.be

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De ontdekking van menselijke tanden die minstens 80.000 jaar oud zijn, in een grot in China, kan betekenen dat de homo sapiens duizenden jaren eerder dan gedacht Afrika heeft verlaten. Dat blijkt uit een nieuwe studie die gisteren in het vakblad Nature is gepubliceerd.

Onderzoekers uit onder meer Londen en Peking onderzochten een verzameling van 47 tanden. De tanden zijn gevonden in een grot in de provincie Hunan, samen met de overblijfselen van hyena's, uitgestorven reuzenpanda's en andere diersoorten.

"Het was heel duidelijk dat ze tot de homo sapiens behoorden", aldus onderzoekster Maria Martinon-Torres, verbonden aan de University College London. De tanden zijn naar schatting tussen de 80.000 en 120.000 jaar oud. De ouderdom van de tanden kon niet precies bepaald worden. De overblijfselen zijn gedateerd met behulp van minerale afzettingen in de grot en dierlijke resten die ter plaatse werden aangetroffen.

"De klassieke hypothese is dat de moderne mensen Afrika pas 50.000 jaar geleden verlieten", zei de onderzoekster aan Nature. Nu blijkt dus dat "ze eerder zijn vertrokken, ze verspreidden zich door een gebied waarvan we dachten dat ze er voordien niet waren."

De aanwezigheid van neanderthalers in Europa kan een reden geweest zijn waarom de homo sapiens niet verder in het continent kon doordringen.

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Did Hitler plan to attack London and New York in UFOs?

As Hitler’s armies began to crumble on fronts as far apart as Stalingrad and North Africa, he turned in increasing desperation to his scientists to create a war-winning super-weapon.

Some, like the V2 rockets and the first jet fighters, saw action but came too late to halt defeat.

Others were so outrageously ambitious that they never got past the drawing board. The idea of building flying saucers to bomb London and even New York could have been just such a scheme.

Claims: Was this bell-shaped craft being developed by the Nazis? A Polish former journalist and historian of military claims the Germans built a UFO

But now it is claimed that Hitler’s scientists had indeed designed this type of aircraft – and were so far advanced with the project that a prototype may even have flown.

The programme, under the command of SS officer Hans Kammler, was said to have made significant breakthroughs with their experiments, says a report in the German science magazine PM.

Target: Hitler ordered Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering to develop the super weapon that would change the war

It quotes eyewitnesses who believe they saw a flying saucer marked with the Iron Cross of the German military flying low over the Thames in 1944.

‘The Americans also treated the existence of the weapons seriously,’ it adds.

At the time the New York Times had written about a ‘mysterious flying disc’ and published photos of the device travelling at high speeds over the city’s high-rise buildings.

The magazine says that the Germans destroyed much of the paperwork on their activities but in 1960 in Canada UFO experts managed to recreate the device which, to their amazement, ‘did actually fly’.

The project was called the Schriever-Habermohl scheme. Rudolf Schriever was an engineer and test pilot, Otto Habermohl an engineer. It was based in Prague between 1941 and 1943.

Initially a Luftwaffe plan after Hitler ordered his airforce chief Hermann Goering to come up with a super-weapon, it was eventually taken over in 1944 by Kammler.

Prisoners of the Allies claimed to have seen the silvery flying saucer, which was about six yards across, on several occasions.

Joseph Andreas Epp, an engineer on the project, said 15 prototypes were built.

He described how a central cockpit was surrounded by rotating adjustable wing-vanes which formed a circle and gave the craft lift.

After take-off, horizontal jets or rockets were ignited.

After the war, many former nazi German scientists helped with the U.S. space programme.

The theory is further fueled by the claims of Igor Witkowski, a Polish former journalist and historian of military and aerospace technology.

In his book, ‘Prawda O Wunderwaffe’ in 2000, he claims that a bell-shaped craft was being created by the Nazis and that Hitler wanted the best scientists and engineers at his disposal.

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If Aliens Exist, Would They Have Sex?

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Humans love to ponder whether alien life is out there, and what it might look like. So here's a burning question: Would extraterrestrials have sex?

The question isn't entirely prurient. The evolution of sex is a tricky subject. Sexual reproduction is costly. It requires finding a mate, convincing that mate to mingle DNA with you, and opening yourself up to the possibility of sexually transmitted disease or predation while you're busy wooing.

All that considered, and it might not even result in viable offspring. After all, mixing and matching a genome is a crapshoot, said Sally Otto, director of the Biodiversity Research Centre at the University of British Columbia.

7 Huge Misconceptions About Aliens

1.They might not exist

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The widespread notion that life probably exists on many or all of the other habitable planets in the universe is largely based on the observation that it arose relatively quickly here on Earth — within a few hundred million years of the planet's formation. But in truth, we know next to nothing about the likelihood of that momentous event. Despite decades of Frankenstein-like effort, we haven't even come close to triggering the genesis of life in the lab.

"Abiogenesis," or life arising from lifeless chemicals, could be exceedingly rare. Life on Earth could be an anomaly.

If you think it improbable that life would only happen once — and that that life would happen be us — that's now known to be a misconception. A pair of Princeton astrophysicists recently applied a new kind of statistical analysis to the early timing of the genesis of life on Earth, and determined that Earth's history says absolutely nothing about the probability of life arising elsewhere. Aliens could be everywhere; they could be nowhere.

2.They won't come in 'person'

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As a civilization advances, it tends to let machines do its dirty work. Cars replace horses, nuclear bombs replace infantries, drones replace fighter jets; it's all about increasing efficiency. This rule of thumb can be generalized as an effort by living things to resist the second law of thermodynamics, or the rule that disorder tends to increase in the universe. In fact, "life" is sometimes even defined as an entity that struggles for order. The tenet of physics holds true cosmos-wide, and so any race of beings would be expected to advance in a similar fashion to humans, gradually becoming more and more efficient through the invention of machinery. By the time an alien race is sophisticated enough to trek between stars, they'll more than likely do it from the comfort of their home planet.

"Chances are, the first invaders will be some sort of artificially intelligent machinery," Shostak said.

3.They won't mate with

Artistic rendering of a human-alien hybrid.

Human DNA can't combine with XYZ, or whatever it is that encodes alien life. "The idea that they've come for breeding purposes is more akin to wishful thinking by members of the audience who don't have good social lives," Shostak told IEEE Spectrum. "Think about how well we breed with other species on Earth, and they have DNA. It would be like trying to breed with an oak tree." [The Surprising Origin of Alien Abduction Stories] us

4. They won't eat us

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Just as they would not be recognized by the local pathogens as potential hosts, aliens would also not recognize Earth's organic matter as a potential food source. They couldn't digest us. And they probably wouldn't need to, anyway. As Jacob Haqq-Misra, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, pointed out, "A society capable of interstellar travel should have solved their development issues such that they do not need humans for food."

5.They're immune to Earth's bacteria

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Alien visitors to Earth are occasionally depicted in science fiction as being brought down by their own alien nature. Lacking immunity to Earth-based bacteria, they all die of infections. This wouldn't really happen. "Alien life forms wouldn't come here only to be done in by our bacteria, unless they were related biochemically to humans," Shostak told IEEE Spectrum. "Bacteria would have to be able to interact with their biochemistry to be dangerous, and their ability to do that is far from a sure thing."

6.They didn't put us here

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A popular fringe theory holds that humans are alien's gift to Earth. Some people say we were delivered here during a near pass to Earth of a life-bearing planet called Nibiru. This alleged planet, which has not actually been observed by astronomers, is said to skirt the edges of the solar system and swing inward from time to time. [A Field Guide to Alien Planets]

"I get emails every week saying that Homo sapiens are the result of alien intervention," Shostak said. "I'm not sure why aliens would be interested in producing us. I think people like to think we're special. But isn't that what got Galileo and Copernicus into trouble — questioning how special we were? But if we're just another duck in the road, it's not very exciting."

7. Aliens.

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A typical Hollywood alien is "soft, squishy and big on mucus," in the words of Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. These sci-fi lumps of goo are inclined to abduct us, probe us, hover above us and even walk among us (in disguise, of course). But far beyond Hollywood's limited scope, aliens might really exist. What are they like, and how would they actually handle a human encounter? Astrobiologists have deduced a few answers by combining their knowledge of life on Earth with their understanding of the cosmos as a whole. Their profile of ET might not be what you expected.

Potential parents "know their genome works in the current environment," Otto told Live Science. "They know they survived to reproduce. And here they are, shuffling their genomes together with another individual. … You have no idea if that combination is going to survive and be fit."

And yet, sexual reproduction is very common on Earth. And given the conditions in which sex evolved, it's quite possible that aliens might get busy, too.

Swapping genes

Not all life on Earth requires sex for reproduction. Amoebas, yeast and millimeter-long freshwater hydra all manage to create offspring solo, as do many invertebrates. So do some surprisingly complex animals: Virgin births have been reported in Komodo dragons, pit vipers and sharks.

There are species, like the tiny crustacean Daphnia middendorffiana, that can only reproduce asexually. But sex appears to go way back. There are few very old lineages that are entirely asexual, Otto said. [Photos: Bizarre Sex Lives of Hermaphrodite Sea Slugs]

Amoebas, for example, date back at least a billion years, long before multicellular life evolved. For a long time, scientists thought amoebas were purely asexual. In 2011, however, researchers from the University of Massachusetts announced that they had discovered amoeba sex.

In fact, swapping genes is the norm for life on Earth. Bacteria, for example, are prokaryotes, meaning they don't have membrane-enclosed nuclei. (Eukaryotes, including both amoebas and animals, have cells with nuclei and other organelles closed in with membranes.) Bacteria don't have sex, Otto said, but they do take up new DNA by swallowing other bacteria or as a result of being infected with viruses or circular DNA molecules called plasmids. The inadvertent genetic gains can benefit bacteria by increasing genetic diversity, thus raising the chances that a new genetic sequence will confer some sort of survival benefit.

Sexual evolution

It's possible, Otto said, that deliberate sexual reproduction arose with the evolution of eukaryotic cells because all those internal membranes prevented the frequent accidental uptake of foreign DNA.

So, one question that might determine whether aliens have sex, Otto said, is what their cells look like.

"Do they evolve nuclei or other ways of protecting their DNA inside a series of membranes?" she said. If extraterrestrial life is equipped with nuclei, they might benefit from sex.

Another thing that Planet Xenon might need to prompt the evolution of sex is change.

Sex is very beneficial to organisms because the environment is rarely static, Otto explained. Offspring may have to deal with challenges that are slightly different from those of their parents' generation. As long as change is a constant, genetic variation is helpful.

If an alien planet had, for some reason, constant weather, temperature and other environmental factors, "sex would have mainly costs, but no benefits," Otto said.

Best of both worlds

Assuming alien planets aren't entirely static, extraterrestrials might try to get the best of both worlds. Some aphids (small insects that suck plant juice) clone themselves asexually when food is abundant. In fact, Otto said, these cloning aphids can have not only their babies inside them but also their babies' babies, "like a set of Russian nesting dolls."

"That really speeds up reproduction when resources are plenty," she said.

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 The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA) searches our galaxy for radio signals from potential intelligent alien life.
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At the end of the growing season, though, the aphids switch to sexual reproduction. This switch to sex during times of stress is a common pattern. Some water flea species spring for sex when food supplies drop or when the environment becomes hostile, according to a 1981 study in the journal The American Naturalist. Yeast simply bud off new offspring most of the time, but the yeast Candida tropicalis can also reproduce sexually, researchers reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

One stress that might prompt the evolution of sex on an alien planet might be alien parasites. Researchers reporting in 2011 in the journal Science found that, when given the choice, organisms pick sex over asexuality when parasites threaten, likely because sexual reproduction gives them more genetic weapons to use in the evolutionary arms race against their parasite foes.

In that study, researchers genetically modified roundworms called Caenorhabditis elegans so that some could only reproduce sexually and some only asexually. A third group was left to switch between asexual and sexual reproduction at will.

Then, the researchers exposed the worms to parasitic bacteria. They found that asexual C. elegans exposed to evolving bacteria went extinct in fewer than 20 generations. Sexual C. elegans did just fine, as did worms that could switch back and forth.

Other studies have shown similar results in yeast and other organisms that can switch from no sex to sex in tough conditions.

Hot stuff?

But even if aliens do have sex, it might not be the sort of thing people watch on pay-per-view.

In amoeba sex, for example, the cell partitions off packets of genetic material and then recombines them, either with another amoeba or with packets from other amoebas. Sexually reproducing yeast cells find each other, grow projections, merge and mate. The hermaphroditic C. elegans worm wiggles its body against another worm until it finds the vulva and then inserts needlelike structures called spicules into the opening to deliver sperm, according to WormBook, an open-access resource on C. elegans biology. [Animal Sex: 7 Tales of Naughty Acts in the Wild]

 Even amoebas, long thought to be purely asexual, get busy, scientists at the University of Massachusetts reported in 2011.
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Even for fuzzier, more familiar animals, sex can get downright weird. The marsupial Antechinus, which lives in Australia and New Guinea, mates in a frenzy over about two weeks. Males often ambush females and copulate with them for up to 14 hours. The effort of their multiple marathon sex sessions takes such a toll on males that they start to bleed internally and lose all immune function. They rarely survive the breeding season. Hyena males have to mount females with care because the female clitoris is so large that it resembles a penis. And some male bats even stimulate females' genitalia with their tongues.

In other words, aliens might have sex, or they might not. But one thing's for sure: It'd be harder to invent something stranger than what already exists here on Earth.

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Huge UFO caught hovering in Manipur, India?

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Huge UFO caught hovering in Manipur, India?

India Edition International Business Times (International Business Times, IBT) published an ‘exclusive’ story on October 8, alleged in India Manipur a huge see-through cloud-like circle shaped object appeared in the sky.

Apparently, some boys from a students’ hostel at Mantripukhri locality, Imphal sighted a huge strange transparent disc-shaped object at around 1.30pm on Wednesday.

Witness, Lincoln Liba, while speaking to IBT, said that the photos were sent to him a day later.

Some boys from a students’ hostel at Mantripukhri locality of Manipur’s capital city Imphal saw a strange transparent circular object hovering over the neighbourhood at around 1:30 pm onWednesday (7 October), claimed Lincoln Liba.

Interestingly, the round, see-through object is seen just above the residential buildings. One of the pictures even has a rainbow in the backdrop. It appears to be a genuine photo and not photoshopped as a person is seen pointing at the object in one of the pictures.

Some people may take it as lenticular clouds but the possibility is less as it doesn’t look like lenticular clouds seen in the past. The object is also transparent with the clouds and rainbow clearly visible in the backdrop.

Read the rest here: http://www.ibtimes.co.in/exclusive-ufo-sighting-2015-huge-see-through-object-caught-hovering-manipur-photos-649730

Times believes that this seems to be a true picture, rather than treat it for what it is,…Photoshop!

Why would they not do some research and find answers before publishing obvious fake photos?

Others have picked up the story and ran with it also including http://www.ufocasebook.com/2015/huge-see-through-object.html with no mention of it being a HOAX!

Coincidentally after 10 minutes of searching, two photographs VERY SIMILAR surfaced on the internet on October 8rd, found in Malaysian media.

Is this a UFO Invasion in India and Malaysia!?

large disc-shape UFO seen hovering over residential buildings and cars parked outside. UFO rotate clockwise.

Then suddenly smaller UFO flew off in the foreground with the turbulence of the object engine kicking up dust on the ground.

Source: http://www.ufoandalientruthnetwork.com/huge-ufo-caught-hovering-in-manipur-india/

Disturbing Video of UFO Flotilla Caught

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Disturbing Video of UFO flotilla caught on Video

A disturbing video has caused havoc on the internet. In the footage, a flotilla of mysterious lights can be seen descending from the sky and suddenly dividing into multiple unidentified flying objects with flashing lights, floating in the air as people observed the sky in amazement.

After watching the bizarre footage, many people have claimed that we are looking at the beginning of an Alien invasion, Independence Day Reloaded, just that this time, there are no special effects, no Hollywood and no fat lady sinking.

In the video footage we see a huge bright light descending from the sky and a few seconds later, the mysterious lights splits into dozens of ‘miniature’ orbs. Ultimate evidence of extraterrestrial beings? Many people believe that this footage is one of the best pieces of recorded evidence that intelligent Alien beings exist elsewhere in the cosmos.

But what if these aren’t Alien UFO’s? What if we are looking at some kind of strange weather phenomena? Or maybe swamp gas as some users wrote on YouTube?

Well, it might not be swamp gas, but at this time we cannot exclude the possibility of some sort of military technology being tested.

What do you think? Are we looking at Alien beings visiting Earth? Or is it possible there is another more plausible explanation?

The video footage has over 200,000 views on YouTube.

Dozens of voices can be heard shouting and screaming in panic as one woman cries: “That’s f****** scary.

“This is for real. Oh my God.”

She adds: “This isn’t funny. You should be scared.”

Comments on social networks flooded the video posted on YouTube.

“These are just our brothers and sisters from out there. Showing us that they are here and helping us”.

“They’ve been here since the beginning. It’s not the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new awakening.”

Source: http://locklip.com/disturbing-video-of-ufo-flotilla-caught-on-video/

Hebben we rond deze mysterieuze ster buitenaardse megastructuren gevonden?

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Wetenschappers hebben een ‘bizarre’ ster ontdekt die mogelijk wordt omgeven door een reusachtige buitenaardse structuur. De ster, KIC 8462852 gedoopt, staat op 1480 lichtjaar en is begin 2009 gevonden door de Kepler-ruimtetelescoop.

Onderzoekers hebben geen verklaring voor de vreemde schommelingen in de lichtkracht van de ster. Sommigen van hen beweren dat zich voor de ster een kolossale buitenaardse megastructuur schuilhoudt.

“We hebben nog nooit zoiets gezien,” zei Tabetha Boyajian van de Yale-universiteit tegenover The Atlantic. “Het is erg vreemd. We dachten eerst dat er een fout in de data zat of dat het kwam door de beweging van het ruimteschip, maar alles klopte.”

Allerlaatste mogelijkheid

Boyajian heeft onlangs een paper gepubliceerd over de mogelijke oorzaken. In 2011 werd het bizarre gedrag van de ster voor het eerst opgemerkt. De schommelingen kunnen vijf tot 80 dagen duren. Onderzoekers dachten in eerste instantie dat ze worden veroorzaakt door de passage van een aantal komeetfragmenten.

Sommige experts zeggen dat de fluctuaties worden veroorzaakt door aliens. “Je zou buitenaardsen als allerlaatste mogelijkheid moeten overwegen, maar dit ziet eruit als een bouwsel dat je verwacht van een buitenaardse beschaving,” zei astronoom Jason Wright van de Pennsylvania State University.

Zwerm megastructuren

Wright en zijn collega’s zeggen dat het ongewone lichtpatroon van de ster wijst op de aanwezigheid van een zwerm megastructuren in de buurt van de ster. Hij suggereert dat het gaat om een massa lichtcollectoren die energie van de ster opslaan.

Wright en Boyajian hebben inmiddels gesproken met directeur van het SETI Research Center Andrew Siemion. Ze willen een enorme schotelantenne op de ster gaan richten, waarmee ze eventuele radiogolven kunnen oppikken die wijzen op technologische activiteit. Als de radiogolven interessant lijken, gaan astronomen ze met de Very Large Telescope in New Mexico verder uitpluizen.

[The Atlantic]
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Ook groot moederschip boven China

Nadat we enkele dagen geleden zagen dat er zich boven India een groot moederschip vertoonde, blijkt er ook iets dergelijks in China te zijn gebeurd.

Een groep toeristen op een rondvaartboot zag ineens een bijzonder object in de lucht.

Eerder deze week schreven wij een artikel over een bijzonder UFO/wolk boven India. Wat duidelijk geen normale wolk was en wat wellicht een groot buitenaards moederschip is dat net bezig is om zichtbaar te worden bij aankomst vanuit een andere dimensie.

Via een lezer (dank!) werden wij er opmerkzaam op gemaakt dat op 7 oktober een vergelijkbaar incident boven China heeft plaatsgevonden.

Ook hier werd een vreemd gevormde wolk waargenomen, dit keer door een groep toeristen op een rondvaartboot in het Heilongtan Reservoir in Renshou County in het midden van China.

Volgens de getuigen bewoog het vreemde object zich door de lucht.

Zoals ieder keer, wanneer dit soort bijzonder objecten zich vertonen, wordt het afgedaan als de, ja, je raadt het al, de lenswolk.

In dat geval hebben we op dit moment te maken met een wereldwijde epidemie van lenswolken.

Alles is mogelijk, maar nu overal dit soort vreemdsoortige objecten in de lucht opduiken, lijkt er toch een patroon van iets anders te ontstaan. Zeker ook omdat er dikwijls bij dit soort grote moederschepen kleinere UFO’s in en uit schieten.

Dat de situatie in de wereld zo langzamerhand op een zeer kritiek punt aankomt, zou misschien voor buitenaardse rassen het moment kunnen zijn zich te mengen in onze earthly affairs.

Formeel zag men in China een lenswolk. Doorlopen mensen, niets aan de hand.

Er gebeuren trouwens nog meer vreemde dingen in China. Zo zagen mensen in de stad Foshan aan de zuidoost kust van het land een vreemde verschijning in de lucht.

Een vreemde wolk die de vorm had van een complete stad, inclusief wolkenkrabbers.

Het fenomeen duurde een paar seconden voordat de lucht er weer normaal uitzag.

Hebben we hier te maken met een fatamorgana of is het iets anders?

Bron:

The Sun

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Two UFOs Seen Over Mexico Pyramids On Oct 10, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 10, 2015
Location of sighting: Tlalnepantla, Mexico

This is a really short video, but it does show us the movement of the UFOs and their appearance so I can't complain. It also looks like the Tenayuca Pyramid is in the background on the bottom right.
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states:
VIDEO OF 10 OCTOBER 2015 BY THE PYRAMID TENAYUCA, TLALNEPANTLA MEXICO STATE

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Cloud Orb Seen Over Coachella Valley, California On Oct 8, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 8, 2015
Location of sighting: Coachella Valley, California, USA

This orb was caught by Youtube user Gohstdog23, and its a nice catch of a cloud orb. The best time to look for orbs are when there is a deep blue sky. It makes seeing them much easier.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
White UFO parked for a few moments, begins to move into the clouds.

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Bright UFO sighting over Naples, Italy on 8th October 2015

New interesting video footage of a Bright UFO sighting recorded over Naples, Italy on 8th October 2015.

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Did prehistoric civilizations with advanced technology exist in the past?

We believe yes, and there are numerous incredible archaeological findings which indicate that thousands, and even millions of years ago, civilizations with extremely advanced technology existed on our planet and just like us, called Earth ‘home’. These ancient civilizations could have had far superior knowledge and technology than we have today. And what if all of mankind’s ‘modern inventions’ are nothing more than re-inventions of the past? Re-inventions from a time when a different people inhabited the planet and disappeared mysteriously from the face of the Earth.

Is it possible that all of these mysterious findings can explain, once and for all mankind’s amnesia? Because it seems that humans are a species suffering from it…

Is it possible that civilization hit 'reset' a couple of times in the distant past?
Would the existence of prehistoric civilizations explain the construction of incredible ancient sites such as Puma Punku, Tiahuanaco, Teotihuacan and the Pyramids of Egypt? Is it possible that our ancestors re-discovered this lost technology and used it in their own lifetime?

Let’s check out some of the revolutionary ancient technologies that still baffle researchers.

The Ancient Chinese seismograph

Over 1500 years before the invention of the modern-day seismograph, Chinese scientists Zhang Heng managed to record an earthquake that originate 480 kilometers away. The invention referred to as the seismoscope is incredibly surprising both by its beauty (an elegant vase with carved bronze animals) and its accuracy. Until today, no one knows exactly how the mysterious device works, but nevertheless it predates the modern-day seismograph by more than 1500 years.

The 1.8 billion year old “Nuclear Reactor”

Did you know that in Africa there is a 1.8 billion year old nuclear reactor? Although mainstream scientists argue that this is in fact a naturally occurring Nuclear Reactor, many scientists argue that this is in fact impossible suggesting that the conditions for the nuclear reactor are far too precise to have occurred by itself as the result of Mother Nature. As you can see, our planet gets mysteriously beautiful by the minute and we realize how little we know about our past and everything that happened before ‘civilization’.


The Baghdad Batteries

1938 the world was introduced to the mysterious Baghdad Batteries. An ancient device, believed to be more than 2000 years old that was used, according to some researchers, by ancient mankind to power certain electrical devices. It is proven that the Baghdad Batteries can actually generate electricity. Is it possible that the Baghdad Batteries are in fact the missing link to mankind’s ancient technology?

Piri Reis: Map Impossible

Did you know that the Piri Reis map depicts Antarctica before the continent was covered by ice? Yeah… it’s one of the most mysterious maps in the world actually. The map Created by cartographer and sailor Piri Reis, which was based on far more ancient maps shows Antarctica as we have never seen it. The map also depicts a piece of land that seems to be connected to South America, a part of land that could have corresponded to the Antarctic coast in prehistoric times.

300,000 year old Nanostructures: Advanced ancient technology

Found in the Ural Mountains in Russia, these objects have caused quite a buzz since their discovery. The tiny structures are believed to have been the product of an extremely ancient civilization that was capable of developing nanotechnology about 300,000 years ago. The age of these mysterious nanostructures have placed them in the list of “out of place artifacts” given the fact that researchers estimate them to be around 300,000 years old. The Russian Academy of sciences performed several tests on these mysterious objects and the results were quite interesting. Researchers found out that the largest pieces that were unearthed were made almost entirely out of copper and the smaller ones from tungsten and molybdenum.

The materials were submitted to a more extensive research a couple of years after their discovery to find out more about the mysterious objects and their composition and according to the Russian Academy of Science and their department for Geology; the metals have not originated in nature on their own, meaning that they are components that have a artificial technological origin, in other words they were manufactured.

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