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Kenneth Arnold’s alien UFO reflections imply time’s bidirectional arrow

Vancouver, BC – An exclusive video published to YouTube on June 18, 2014, purported to reveal alien origins behind what the Atlantic magazine had cited as a 1947 UFO incident that “introduced the world to flying saucers.” The unprecedented video report filtered pilot Kenneth Arnold’s spoken witness testimony through a lossless digital audio mirror to demonstrate his unconscious sleep talking-like narrative indicating contact with “alien UFOs” during three separate interviews recorded over a thirty year period. This new evidence emerged prior to publication of scientific research suggesting how the thermodynamic arrow of time points in two distinct directions.

Authenticating the pilot’s testimony in the absence of any photographic or other instrumental record offered significant progress in a stagnant research climate where legacy UFO scientists demanded improved methods of witness interrogation. In his evaluation of Project Blue Book as an attempt by the United States Air Force to cover up valid phenomena, astronomer and former United States government UFO scientist Dr. J. Allen Hynek once cited the absence of any Blue Book-improved method of comprehensive witness interrogation.

This critique suggested how Dr. Hynek envisioned possible witness testimony rich in additional details being overlooked by investigators intent upon enforcing an official doctrine of ignorance and denial regarding the existence of UFOs (along with implications of intelligent operators). Evidence of such doctrine can be found in the Durant Report from the CIA Robertson Panel of 1953 which recommended a policy of public smear campaigns targeting individuals claiming UFO sightings and extraterrestrial contact.

On January 12, 2015, researcher and media producer John Greenewald announced his publication of the government archives to The Black Vault website, stating “I am very excited to announce that after months of collecting, programming and converting, I’ve completed a database of 130,000 pages, consisting of more than 10,000 cases, of the Project Blue Book files (including Sign and Grudge). Although some sites exist out there with some of these files, many are not complete, nor do they have the records in a searchable, .PDF format. This new site has it all, is easily navigable, searchable, and free.”

Click here to watch “Decrypting Kenneth Arnold’s Aliens”: “Produced by a veteran Mt. Adams wilderness region UFO videographer and internationally acclaimed speech analyst, this video takes an unprecedented look at how, in the absence of any photographic or other instrumental evidence gathered in support of Kenneth Arnold’s personal UFO narrative, the authenticity of this case can be established using lossless digital mirror filtering that allows observers to study audible reflections of unconscious sleep talking-like communications.”

On June 24, 1947, private aircraft operator Kenneth Arnold told staff at an air strip in Yakima, Washington, how he saw nine supersonic UFOs traveling in formation between Mt. Rainer and Mt. Adams earlier that afternoon. He would participate in a number of subsequent media interviews over a period of thirty years, of which at least three are available online. The new video draws from his June 26, 1947, KWRC radio interview, a May, 1949, CBS Radio Special Report along with on-camera statements reportedly offered during the June 24, 1977, First International UFO Congress in Chicago.

The video subjects these recordings of Kenneth Arnold’s spoken testimony to lossless digital mirror filtering whereby portions of the audio reveal apparently intelligible phrases encrypted backwards within his speech. It is a matter of public record that this innovative analytic procedure (popularized through late-night talk radio during the 1990’s) has revealed the signatures of unconscious sleep talking-like communications disclosing verifiably factual information characterized by military, forensic and clinical precision that anticipated details of the Iraq War, identified the BTK Killer and disclosed Edward Snowden’s UFOs.

Three recurring incidents of any event can invoke notions of planned intelligent actions. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Norman Mineta has illustrated his personal plan-detecting methodology by citing the rule of three on a number of occasions as expressed in the maxim “omne trium perfectum” (Latin: “Everything that comes in groups of three is complete”).

“When you see one of something happen, it’s an accident. When you see two of the same thing happening, it’s a trend. When you see three, it’s a plan,” said the former transportation secretary.

By such a Mineta standard it can be understood that multiple incidents of the term “alien” encrypted backwards within the recorded spoken testimony of pilot and UFO witness Kenneth Arnold over a 30-year period are no accident and not simply a pattern but are in fact indicative of planned communications leading to the unfoldment of human consciousness and the integration of modern civilization with a larger cosmic society.

The publication of new evidence in support of pilot Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 UFO claims provided new and unprecedented insight into a case that evidenced the power of terrestrial media to capture the public imagination (in what has now become a meme-driven online environment). Concurrently, reported secret messages describing aliens and UFOs appear to contradict orthodox notions of time both in the production of backwards real-time encryption and in transmitting acronyms that would not be formalized until the next decade, years after their appearance in the 1947 KWRC radio interview.

While scientists including Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences Kourosh Saberi acknowledge human speech as a multidimensional stimulus, there is presently no published neurological theory that explains the existence of these communications as native to brain performance in human speech behavior. The messages also appear in defiance of the arrow of time as defined by physics, in which time and all time-dependent events flow in one direction only, from past to present to future. The notion of a past which itself originates from the future appears to evade such discussions.

Two distinct, symmetric and opposite arrows of time were recently identified in research that suggests how time’s arrow may move concurrently in two directions. Those findings published this past October in Physical Review Letters explained how a simple “big bang” computer simulation demonstrated the influence of Newtonian gravity on particles expanding outwards along two temporal pathways.

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“The authors study one of the simplest possible systems: a collection of N point particles interacting through Newtonian gravity. Their only assumptions are that the total energy (potential plus kinetic) and the total angular momentum of the system are zero. From earlier numerical simulations and analytic analysis, it is known that in the distant future, such a system tends to break up into weakly interacting subsystems—typically, pairs of masses in Keplerian orbits. Starting with such a dispersed system and running time backwards, one might expect that it would coalesce in the past into a state of high density. Barbour and his coauthors show analytically that this expectation is right: for almost every initial configuration of masses, there is a unique moment of minimum size and maximum uniformity. From this point, the system expands outward, approximately symmetrically in both directions of time.”

If the term UFO was officially created in 1953 by the United States Air Force, it also appears in the secret messages derived from a 1947 radio broadcast. This observation may represent wishful thinking and bias on the part of the observer or could provide further evidence of time-independent functions of the human brain in which the past, present and future are all perceived as elements of a singular continuum.

The filtering procedure used to mirror Kenneth Arnold’s spoken testimony has been cited above for its power to forecast future events. Perhaps the apparently time-independent nature of these communications lend themselves best to revealing information that resides beyond the horizon of conventional human time perception, disclosing now-common acronyms that would not come into usage until six years later.

The following partial transcript of Kenneth Arnold’s three interviews describing the events of June 24, 1947, was edited for clarity.

Aliens won’t attack: (1947) As I kept looking at them I kept looking for their tails. They didn’t have any tails. I thought, well, maybe something’s wrong with my eyes. I turned the plane around and opened the window and looked out the window and sure enough I couldn’t find any tails on them. The whole observation of these particular ships didn’t last more than about two and a half minutes. I could see them only plainly when they seemed to tip their wing (or whatever it was) and the sun flashed on them.

Saw my spaceship. A UFO: (1947) They looked something like a pie plate that was cut in half with sort of a convex triangle in the rear. I thought that maybe they’re jet planes with just the tails painted green or brown and didn’t think too much of it but kept on watching them. They didn’t fly in the conventional formation that’s taught in our army. They seemed to weave in and out right above the mountain tops. I would say that they even went down into the canyons in several instances probably 100 feet.

Aliens. Listen. Laugh. They’re real: (1949) They passed almost directly in front of me but at a distance of about 23 miles (which is not very great in the air). I judged the wingspan to be at least 100 feet across. The sighting did not particularly disturb me at the time except that I had never seen planes of that type.

Alien. Need the plan: (1977) Right here we’ve seen something. I’ve seen something. Hundreds of pilots have seen something in the skies. We have dutifully reported these things. And we have to have 15 million witnesses before anybody is going to look into the problem seriously? Why this is utterly fantastic. This is more fantastic than flying saucers or people from Venus or anything as far as I’m concerned.

[This article originally appeared as “Kenneth Arnold’s aliens in the mirror transcend flying saucer cover-ups” in the Vancouver UFO Examiner for June 18, 2014.]

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Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star near the Milky Way

A star identified by the Kepler Space Telescope may harbour structures which could point to an adanced technological civilisation

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A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would "expect an alien civilization to build", astronomers have said.

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish a report on the “bizarre” star system suggesting the objects could be a “swarm of megastructures”, according to a new report.

"I was fascinated by how crazy it looked," Wright told The Atlantic. "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build."

The snappily named KIC 8462852 star lies just above the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. It first attracted the attention of astronomers in 2009 when the Kepler Space Telescope identified it as a candidate for having orbiting Earth-like planets.

But KIC 8462852 was emitting a stranger light pattern than any of the other stars in Kepler’s search for habitable planets.

Kepler works by analysing light from distant places in the universe — looking for changes that take place when planets move in front of their stars. But the dip in starlight from KIC 8462852 doesn't seem to be the normal pattern for a planet.

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.”

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In 2011 the star was flagged up again by several members of Kepler’s “Planet Hunters” team – a group of ‘citizen scientists’ tasked with analysing the data from the 150,000 stars Kepler was watching.

The analysts tagged the star as “interesting “ and “bizarre” because it was surrounded by a mass of matter in tight formation.

This was consistent with the mass of debris that surrounds a young star just as it did with our sun before the planets formed. However this star wasn’t young and the debris must have been deposited around it fairly recently or it would have been clumped together by gravity – or swallowed by the star itself.

Boyajian, who oversees the Planet Hunters project, recently published a paper looking at all the possible natural explanations for the objects and found all of them wanting except one – that another star had pulled a string of comets close to KIC 8462852. But even this would involve an incredibly improbable coincidence.

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That’s when Wright, the astronomer from Penn State University and his colleague Andrew Siemion, the Director of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) got involved. Now the possibility that the objects were created by intelligent creatures is being taken very seriously by the team.

As civilisations become more technologically advanced, they create new and better ways of collecting energy — with the end result being the harnessing of energy directly from their star. If the speculation about a megastructure being placed around the star system is correct, it could for instance be a huge set of solar panels placed around the star, scientists say.

The three astronomers want to point a radio dish at the star to look for wavelengths associated with technological civilisations. And the first observations could be ready to take place as early as January, with follow-up observations potentially coming even quicker.

“If things go really well, the follow-up could happen sooner,” Wright told The Atlantic. “If we saw something exciting… we’d be asking to go on right away.”

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Pebbles on Mars Shaped by Ancient Long-Gone Rivers Dozens of Miles Long

Researchers have used the shape of rounded Martian pebbles to extrapolate how far they must have traveled down an ancient riverbed on the Red Planet. The analysis suggests they moved approximately 30 miles (50 kilometers), indicating that Mars once had an extensive river system.
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The shape of some Martian pebbles suggests these rocks once rolled dozens of miles down a river, hinting that ancient Martian waterways were stable and not merely ephemeral streams, researchers say.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity discovered the small, round stones near its landing site in Gale Crater on the Red Planet in 2013. Researchers previously determined that these stones resemble those found in rivers on Earth, which become round as they slide, roll and hop down riverbeds and scrape other rocks.

Now, a new study suggests the Martian rocks rolled in the river for quite a while — a finding that should help scientists reconstruct what ancient Mars was like and shed light on the Red Planet's past potential to support life, study team members said. [Photos: The Search for Water on Mars]

"We believe liquid water is a principal ingredient for life," study co-author Douglas Jerolmack, a geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, told Space.com. "Knowing whether pebbles in a river moved 1 kilometer or 100 kilometers [0.6 miles or 62 miles] could tell us how stable water was on the surface of ancient Mars."

The researchers developed a mathematical model to deduce how blocky rocks become rounder and smoother as bits of them chip off due to erosion. Then, the investigators analyzed the shape of the Martian pebbles to estimate the amount of mass each lost due to erosion.

"An object's shape can itself tell you a lot," study co-author Gábor Domokos, an applied mathematician at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, said in a statement today (Oct. 13). "If you go to the beach, natural history is written underneath your feet. We started to understand that there is a code that you can read to begin to understand that history."

To test their model, the researchers rolled limestone fragments in a drum and recorded the changes in their shape and mass. They found that the pattern of changes in the rocks closely followed their models.

Next, the researchers went to a mountain river in Puerto Rico, to analyze the rocks there.

"We started at the headwaters, where chunks of angular rock are breaking off from the walls of the stream, and went downstream," Jerolmack said in the same statement. "Every few hundred meters, we would pull thousands of rocks out and take images of their silhouette and record their weight." The scientists again found that the trend of changes in these rocks closely followed their model.

The researchers also analyzed rocks in an alluvial fan — the fan-shaped deposit of sediment that builds up as a stream flows — at the mouth of a canyon in New Mexico. This area closely mirrors the location where the round pebbles were found on Mars. This work suggested that the shape of the rocks could help scientists estimate how far these stones traveled.

"This is the first attempt to deduce the history of a particle from its shape alone," Domokos told Space.com.

Using publicly available images of the rounded pebbles on Mars from the Curiosity rover mission, the scientists calculated that those rocks had lost about 20 percent of their volume. When they factored in the reduced Martian gravity, which is only about 40 percent of Earth's, they estimated that the pebbles had traveled about 30 miles (50 km) from their source, perhaps from the northern rim of Gale Crater.

This research could also help scientists analyze river-borne particles on other planets and moons, such as Saturn's largest satellite, Titan. "There are pebbles there made of frozen water imaged by the Huygens probe at the mouth of what looks like a river channel," Jerolmack said.

The new method the researchers developed could help analyze not only the history of pebbles in liquids, "but also sand grains in less viscous fluids like air," Jerolmack said. "Our findings can be utilized to look at windblown sediments on Mars, Earth and other planetary bodies where windblown sediments are found."

Despite the extraterrestrial applications, a better understanding of the history of particles "is probably most useful on Earth," Jerolmack said. "Gold and iron ores are often found in rivers, and gas and oil in river deposits, and people will want to know how far pebbles associated with these resources have traveled, to identify their sources."

The scientists detailed their findings online today in the journal Nature Communications.

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'Mysterieus licht van ster duidt mogelijk op bestaan aliens'

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Astronomen staan voor een raadsel na de ontdekking van een ster waar talloze mysterieuze objecten omheen cirkelen. Het lichtpatroon dat de ster uitstraalt, is bij geen enkele van 150.000 andere bekeken sterren te zien. Een verklaring hebben wetenschappers niet, maar ze vermoeden dat het gaat om werk van buitenaards leven.

  Aliens moeten altijd de laatste verklaring zijn waar je naar kijkt, maar dit ziet eruit als iets wat buitenaardse wezens zouden bouwen

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Een foto van het sterrenbeeld Lyra (Lier), een van de twee sterrenbeelden waar de bijzondere ster zich tussen bevindt.

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Je moet pas gaan denken aan buitenaardse wezens als al het andere is uitgesloten

Govert Schilling

Flauwekul
De Nederlandse wetenschapsjournalist Govert Schilling heeft al over de ster gehoord. Hij vindt het idee dat het mysterieuze licht duidt op aliens 'flauwekul'. ,,Er zijn talloze verklaringen die veel logischer zijn, bijvoorbeeld dat het om stof gaat'', zegt hij. ,,En daarvan weten we wel zeker dat het bestaat. Een Amerikaanse wetenschapper zei eens dat je voor buitengewone claims ook buitengewoon bewijs moet hebben. En het bestaan van buitenaards leven is een buitengewone claim, waarvoor geen bewijs is. Je moet pas gaan denken aan buitenaardse wezens als al het andere is uitgesloten.''

Opmerkelijke objecten die rond sterren zweven, zijn mogelijk dé indicatie voor onontdekte wezens in de ruimte. Dat roept het SETI-instituut, dat onderzoek doet naar buitenaards leven, al jaren. En het lichtpatroon van de bijzondere ster lijkt te worden veroorzaakt door, jawel, onbekende objecten.

De ster kwam aan het licht dankzij oplettende burgers. Amerikaanse wetenschappers gebruiken onder meer de zogenoemde Kepler Space Telescope om naar sterren te kijken, maar het menselijk oog kan soms beter patronen ontdekken dan apparatuur.

Daarom hadden wetenschappers de hulp van burgers ingeroepen om vanuit huis mee te kijken naar de 150.000 sterren die de Kepler Telescope observeert. Dat kan niet met het blote oog, maar wel dankzij beelden van de telescoop, die al sinds 2009 naar de hemel kijkt.

Cirkelende objecten
In 2011 viel het meerdere burgers op dat één 'bizarre' ster een heel ander lichtpatroon uitstraalde dan de andere sterren. Ook de onderzoekers hadden nog nooit zoiets gezien. Zij denken dat het lichtpatroon wordt veroorzaakt door een hoop objecten die om de ster heen cirkelt.

Dat zou niet zo raar zijn als de ster jong is. Toen het zonnestelsel ontstond, draaide er tenslotte ook een verzameling stof en andere objecten om de zon (die ook een ster is). Maar: de ster is niet jong. Als dat zo was, zou er stof omheen zweven dat infraroodlicht uitstraalt. En dat is niet zo.

Alien
Wat voor objecten zorgen dan voor het opmerkelijke lichtpatroon? Wetenschappers weten het niet zeker. Het lijkt geen normaal ruimteafval te zijn. Dat zou al lang verdwenen zijn, bijvoorbeeld door in de oppervlakte van de ster te zijn opgenomen.

Het kan gaan om resten van botsende asteroïdes. Of om een enorme groep kometen, meegekomen met een andere ster die dichtbij de bijzondere ster kwam. Of: om een aanwijzing voor buitenaards leven.

Onderzoeker Jason Wright van de Penn State Universiteit denkt dat de objecten bij de bijzondere ster mogelijk een soort lichtpanelen zijn waarmee buitenaardse wezens proberen energie op te wekken. ,,Aliens moeten altijd de laatste verklaring zijn waar je naar kijkt, maar dit ziet eruit als iets wat buitenaardse wezens zouden bouwen'', zegt hij tegen The Atlantic.

Radiostralen
Talloze onderzoekers kunnen dan ook niet wachten om te kijken wat er aan de hand is. Het plan is om een enorme radiotelescoop op de ster te richten en te zien of er radiostralen vandaan komen die duiden op technologische activiteit bij de ster. Als alles goed gaat, gebeurt dat in januari. Tot die tijd is het de vraag of er vanuit de omgeving van de mysterieuze ster wezens naar de wetenschappers terugkijken.

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Could mysterious KIC 8462852 star be home to an ALIEN megastructure?

Could this be the smoking gun that proves we are not alone in the universe?

Scientists are baffled by a strange mess of objects that are circling around a distant star, prompting speculation there could be an ALIEN megastructure out there in space.

The Kepler Space Telescope has picked out KIC 8462852, 1,480 light-years away from Earth, as being of particular interest.

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KIC 8462852 appears to be giving off a series of bizarre light fluctuations that are so far unexplained.

Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoc at Yale, told the Atlantic that nobody has ever seen anything like the KIC 8462852 star.

Her report on KIC 8462852 goes into great detail about possible explanations for the star.

She said: “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”

Kepler Space Telescope.

Credit: NASA/Troy Cryder

The star in question appears to be mature, which means typical explanations for when a mess of matter is circling a star do not apply.

Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is among those looking into the star, with investigators from the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) also interested.

“When [Boyajian] showed me the data, I was fascinated by how crazy it looked,” Wright said.

“Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build.”

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Author of the UFO Investigations Manual Nigel Watson agrees that aliens are a possible explanation for KIC 8462852.

He said: “This is the next best thing to getting a direct message from an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation, as it suggests some form of alien activity. Unfortunately, much like the search for alien radio communications there are plenty of alternative possibilities for these latest findings.

“The search for radio signals or Dyson spheres are based on our own human assumptions about technology, and very possibly advanced aliens are impossible for us to contact or imagine. We can only hope we will stumble on civilisations that have evolved in a similar way to us and have developed technology much like our own.

“Otherwise SETI is a futile enterprise, though KIC 8462852 does give us a glimmer of hope that we are not alone in this vast universe.”

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George Bush Sénior réalise une étonnante déclaration sur les ovnis et extraterrestres

George Bush père, l'ancien président des États-Unis, fut occupé ces derniers jours par la campagne de candidature à présidentielle de son fils Jeb Bush, qui, cette semaine a été impliqué dans un événement de collecte de fonds à Orlando, en Floride.

Pendant l'événement, un homme dans la foule a posé une question "inhabituelle", ayant conduit à une réponse tout aussi surprenante de la part de l'ancien chef de la CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).

La question a été posée par un journaliste passionné d'ufologie au sujet du secret autour des ovnis et des extraterrestres.

George Bush sénior répondit : « Les Américains ne seraient pas en mesure de supporter la vérité. »

Suite à cette réponse, le climat a complètement changé dans la salle et toutes les personnes présentes furent extrêmement surprises.

Les organisateurs de l'événement ont immédiatement interrompu le jeu des questions/réponses.

De nombreuses voix se sont ensuite élevées pour expliquer que Bush était âgé de 91 ans et pouvait souffrir d'un trouble des fonctions cognitives ou de la maladie d'Alzheimer.

Cependant, ce n’est pas la première fois que Bush fait référence à la question OVNI.

Déclarations antérieures

Pendant la course à la présidentielle de 1988, James Adder, journaliste du Globe Arkansas, a interviewé à Bush à propos de l'existence des ovnis, et il avait répondu : « Je sais quelque chose. Je connais suffisamment le sujet », entraînant l’arrêt de la conférence.

George Bush père était, à l'époque, vice-président des États-Unis et avait donc accès à des documents classifiés.

L'ancien président américain est par conséquent le plus crédible et qualifié pour répondre à ce type de question, ayant de surcroit été directeur de la CIA entre 1976 et 1977.

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Quantum Equation Suggests The Big Bang Never Occurred – The Universe Has No Beginning

When it comes to the science regarding the true nature of our reality, you won’t find a shortage of theories, or a shortage of criticisms of each theory. We are like a race with amnesia, trying to discover and search for an answer that most probably exists, but has yet to be discovered. How did the universe begin?

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When it comes to the science regarding the true nature of our reality, you won’t find a shortage of theories, or a shortage of criticisms of each theory. We are like a race with amnesia, trying to discover and search for an answer that most probably exists, but has yet to be discovered. How did the universe begin?

According to new research, there might not have been a big bang. Instead, the universe might have existed forever. The theory was derived from the mathematics of general relativity, and compliment Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

“The Big Bang singularity is the most serious problem of general relativity because the laws of physics appear to break down there.” – Ahmed Farag Ali, Benha University, Co-Author of the study.

The big bang theory postulates that everything in existence resulted from a single event that launched the creation of the entire universe and that everything in existence today was once part of a single infinitely dense point, also known as the “singularity.”

Here is a good picture representing what the big bang theory is referring to.

So the big bang, again, postulates that the universe started out as an infinitely small point in space called a singularity, then exploded and created space where there was no space before, and that it is continually expanding. One big question regarding that expansion is; how did it happen? As you can see in the picture, “who is that guy?!”

According to Nassim Haramein, the Director of Research for the Resonance Project

    “For every action there is an equal opposite reaction.” is one of the most foundational and proven concepts in all ofphysics. Therefore, if the universe is expanding then “the guy” (or whatever “he” is), who is blowing up that balloon, has to have some huge lungs that are contracting to be able to blow it up. This a concept that Nassim Haramein began exploring when creating an alternative unified field theory to explain the universe.”

This is one out of many criticisms regarding the big bang theory. There are many considerations to be pondered. Can something come from nothing? What about quantum mechanics and the possibility that there is no moment of time at which the universe did not exist?

Again, so many considerations to be pondered.

According to Phys.org:

     “The scientists propose that this fluid might be composed of gravitons—hypoth  etical massless particles that mediate the force of gravity. If they exist, gravitons are thought to play a key role in a theory of quantum gravity.In a related paper, Das and another collaborator, Rajat Bhaduri of McMaster University, Canada, have lent further credence to this model. They show that gravitons can form a Bose-Einstein condensate (named after Einstein and another Indian physicist, Satyendranath Bose) at temperatures that were present in the universe at all epochs.”

The theory also suggests (obviously) that there are no singularities or dark matter, and that the universe is filled with a “quantum fluid.” These scientists are suggesting that this quantum fluid is filled with gravitons.

According to Phys.org:

     “In a related paper, Das and another collaborator, Rajat Bhaduri of McMaster University, Canada, have lent further credence to this model. They show that gravitons can form a Bose-Einstein condensate (named after Einstein and another Indian physicist, Satyendranath Bose) at temperatures that were present in the universe at all epochs.”

As you can see, when quantum mechanics is thrown into the equation things appear to be far different. Again, this new theory is suggesting that the universe could have always existed, that it never was what we perceive to be as “the beginning.” Perhaps it was just an event that did occur that we perceive as the beginning, perhaps the event occurred not from nothing, but something. Again, who is that guy blowing on the balloon in the picture? There is something there that has yet to be discovered.

    “As far as we can see, since different points in the universe never actually converged in the past, it did not have a beginning. It lasted forever. It will also not have an end, in other words, there is no singularity. The universe could have lasted forever. It could have gone through cycles of being small and big. or it could have been created much earlier.” – Saurya Das at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, Co-Author of the study.

What We Know Is Often Just Theory

To conclude, it’s clear that we do not yet have a solid explanation regarding what happened during the Big Bang, or if it even happened at all. This new theory is combining general relativity with quantum mechanics, and at the end of the day these are all just theories.

Not to mention the fact that theories regarding multiple dimensions, multiple universes and more have to be considered. When looking for the starting point of creation, our own universe might not even be the place to start. It might be hard given the fact that we cannot yet perceive other factors that have played a part in the make up of what we call reality. What is even harder is the fact that quantum physics is showing that the true nature and make up of the universe is not a physical material thing!

We just don’t know yet, and there are still new findings in modern day physics that delve into non-materialistic science that many mainstream materialistic scientists have yet to grasp and acknowledge.

I’ll leave you with a quote that might give you something to think about:

     “A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit thatthe universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.” (R. C. Henry, “The Mental Universe”; Nature 436:29, 2005)

    “Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension and even anger. (T. Folger, “Quantum Shmantum”; Discover 22:37-43, 2001)

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Back to the future: Science studies the possibility of time travel

Who doesn’t remember Marty McFly, back to the future and all the good times watching the awesome movies? Well, it seems that scientists love them as much as we and do not take movies like that lightly.

Before we start, I have to mention that no one is actually building a secret time machine and as things look, a time machine that can take you back and forth through time won’t be built anytime soon. Now, let’s get to the interesting part.

An international group of researchers led by experts from the University of Birmingham, England, opened the debate about the possibility of time travel and if it could be achieved.

Alastair Wilson, the head of scientific research raises key questions in order to investigate the phenomenon: The linear notion that we humans have about time is just our way of perceiving it. This proposes considering temporality as a dimension of the same nature as those that make up the space where we live today.

If we can travel so easily among the top three dimensions, why would it be impossible to make it through a fourth?

According to Wilson, the possibility is somewhere in the universe, near a black hole. There, we could find something physicists refer to as the gateway to the fourth dimension. The team of researchers devoted time to assess the known paradoxes about time travel and the possibility of travelling through time (The Grandfather Paradox).


Dr Nikk Effingham PhD had some interesting things to say about time travel in an interview:

“This ‘Grandfather Paradox’ seems to tell against time travel’s possibility. The most famous contribution to this debate is David Lewis’s ‘The Paradoxes of Time Travel’. We could travel in time, says Lewis, but don’t think you can thereby do the impossible.”

“If you go back in time and try to bring about a paradox, then something will get in your way. Perhaps you slip on a banana peel and miss; perhaps the gun jams; perhaps you bump into the woman of your dreams and decide romance is better than murder. Lots of things might stop you. These questions about the possibility of time travel are still live questions. What have received less attention are issues concerning the probability of time travel, and the project headed by myself and Alastair Wilson investigates just these questions.”

“Is Stephan Hawking as likely as Joey Essex to find his future self telling him how to build a time machine?”

“Am I as likely to meet myself coming from the future, telling myself how to build a time machine as I am to meet myself coming from the future telling me how to answer a tricky crossword puzzle?

"Answers to these questions are difficult to figure out. These issues feature in various attempts to reconcile quantum physics with relativity. Such theories talk about ‘closed timelike curves’ – effectively tunnels through space and time that go back to the past – and so what one says about probability and time travel will have bearing on these difficult questions in physics. So musing about people appearing from nowhere and the likelihood of slipping on banana peels is more than mere navel-gazing.”

As we can see, scientists are finally thinking outside the box which can lead to very exciting results. Despite everything, the team of experts rejects the idea that a machine that would allow mankind to travel through time can be built by ‘humans’.

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How NASA Plans To Protect Planets Against An Alien Invasion

NASA has an Office of Planetary Protection. Its purpose is not to protect Earth from invasion by some green skinned monsters, but rather to protect the rest of the Universe from us. With the recent evidence of liquid water on Mars , the possibility of life on the red planet has become a bit more possible, and protecting potential martians from an alien threat is a real challenge.

While Earth is the only planet for which the presence of life is certain, we know that living things can be extraordinarily hardy. We’ve seen organisms thrive in areas of extreme temperature and acid environments. Tardigrades (also known as water bears) have survived the cold vacuum of space, and bacteria have been found within nuclear waste. So it’s not unreasonable to imagine a terrestrial organism hitching a ride on a spacecraft. If that spacecraft comes into contact with a potentially habitable environment they could become an invasive species on another world.
An adult tardigrade. Photo: Schokraie E, Warnken U, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Grohme MA, Hengherr S, et al. CC BY 2.5.

An adult tardigrade. Photo: Schokraie E, Warnken U, Hotz-Wagenblatt A, Grohme MA, Hengherr S, et al. CC BY 2.5.

To protect against such an event, NASA has defined different levels of risk, each requiring a different level of spacecraft decontamination. These categories are part of the Outer Space Treaty, which is in international agreement of space faring nations. Under the agreement there are four broad categories:

I – No risk of contamination. This includes orbiters and landers on Mercury and Jupiter’s moon Io, where the chance of life is (as far as we know) zero.

II – Negligible risk. Landers on the Moon and Venus, for example, where indigenous life is not likely to be found.

III – Slight risk. This typically applies to flybys and orbiters for worlds that might have life, such as Mars, Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus. These worlds are known to have liquid water and conditions that could sustain life, but the mission is not scheduled to come into direct contact with them.

IV – Possible risk. Landing on potentially habitable worlds such as Mars, Europa and Enceladus.

The last category is further differentiated into three subcategories, based upon whether a lander mission will contain experiments seeking to detect life, or whether it will enter a “special region” such as the areas of Mars where liquid water could be present.

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Because of these subcategories the Curiosity rover currently active on Mars is forbidden to study a region with liquid water, even though it’s less than 30 miles away from one of them. NASA’s next generation of Mars rovers scheduled to launch in 2020 cannot study the regions, since they won’t meet the most stringent of sterilization levels.

While robotic missions can be sterilized to high standards, crewed missions cannot. Currently any landing of a crewed mission must first be visited by a robotic mission to verify the region is inhospitable, and humans wouldn’t be allowed to enter special regions. But will that be enough? Our dreams of a human voyage to Mars will be an invasion of terrestrial organisms, and that could put our dreams of finding alien life at risk.

Brian Koberlein is an astrophysicist, professor and author. You can find more of his writing at One Universe at a Time.

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A Stone's Throw From Stonehenge Lies a Massive New Mystery

Located in Wittshire, England, Stonehenge is one of the world's most iconic man-made landmarks. Tourists flock to the raised stones to ponder their origins and meaning. Are these the marks of an alien burial site? Were ancient sacrificial rituals conducted here? How were these stones raised before the advent of modern technology? Stonehenge baffles tourists (and historians) to this day as it sits isolated in the middle of the English countryside.

Recently, a group of archaeologists from the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project uncovered the extensive remains of a 90-stone structure less than two miles from Stonehenge. Using remote sensing technologies, the archaeologists were able to detect the presence of the massive stone monument, which is currently buried under a bank of grass. Though the archaeologists aren't entirely sure when the monument was built, they are able to place its construction as contemporary to Stonehenge itself, some time between 2,000 and 3,000 BC.

This new discovery means Stonehenge is not isolated and may in fact be relatively small in comparison to its newfound neighbor. Scientists and archaeologists alike are scrambling to figure out the significance of the new monument and where it figures into the history of the area.

Luckily for them, the new monument is surprisingly well-preserved, and excavation of the stones could lead to specimens more easily researchable than Stonehenge. If full excavation occurs, the monument would form a half moon that dwarfs its sister site. Preemptive hypotheses suggest the new stones might've been used for ancient calendar purposes, as a sacred space for religious acts, or as the wall of an arena.

In a statement released to the press by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, Paul Garwood, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, reflected on the project's game-changing discovery, "The extraordinary scale, detail and novelty of the evidence produced by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project is changing fundamentally our understanding of Stonehenge and the world around it. Everything written previously about the Stonehenge landscape and the ancient monuments within it will need to be re-written."

Regardless of what scientists uncover, this story will be an important one to watch unfold. And in the near future, the discovery might also be a can't-miss addition to the English travel itinerary.

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Three Ancient Alien Sanctuaries that scientists cannot explain

There are many places on Earth that baffle archaeologists and scholars ever since their discovery but we can probably isolate a few of them which have been built which such precision that modern-day engineers and architects cannot replicate them. Among our favorites are without a doubt Puma Punku, Tiahuanaco and Teotihuacan, our three Ancient Alien Sanctuaries.

These three majestic ancient citadels have caused quite a debate among researchers and the general population. All three defy our understanding of ancient man in every way, raising numerous questions that modern-day scholars cannot answer.

Just how did ancient mankind construct Puma Punku with such precision? Why is it that at Tiahuanaco, every race on Earth is depicted? And why did the builders of Teotihuacan use mica in their constructions? These are some of the questions that challenge mainstream understanding of ancient mankind.

We believe that ancient mankind was much more advanced than what scholars tell us today. We believe that there are lost technologies somewhere out there that allowed the builders of Teotihuacan, Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco erect such majestic buildings.

Teotihuacan, built by the Quinametzin giants?

This ancient citadel was established around 100 B.C., lasting until its fall between the seventh and eighth centuries. Teotihuacan was one of the largest cities in the ancient world, it is one of the most incredible ancient cities in America, there we can find evidence that the builders , unknown to history, had incredible knowledge in Mathematics, Geology, Astronomy and Engineering. Just as many other ancient cities, Teotihuacan was mysteriously abandoned in 700 A.D.

Among the most interesting findings at Teotihuacan we have MICA.

Mica was known to ancient Indian, Egyptian, Greek and Roman and Chinese civilizations, as well as the Aztec civilization of the New World. Mica is stable when exposed to electricity, light, moisture, and extreme temperatures. It has superior electrical properties as an insulator and as a dielectric, and can support an electrostatic field while dissipating minimal energy in the form of heat and is thermally stable to 500 °C. The question is... why did the builders of Teotihuacan use mica in their buildings? The mica used in the buildings of Teotihuacan was brought from Brazil.

Puma Punku is one of the most important places if you want to see what ancient man was capable of. These stone structures are among the biggest ever found.

Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco: Lost in space and time

Puma Punku is a large temple complex or monument group that is part of the Tiwanaku Site near Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Puma Punku is so unique in the way that it was constructed, shaped and positioned, that it is among the most intriguing ancient site on the planet. No one has been able to explain the precision found at Puma Punku. The massive stones were hewn at quarries over 60 miles away according to archaeologists... and oh just in case you did not know, Puma Punku is located at an altitude of 12,800 feet, which means it is located above the natural tree line, this means NO trees grew in that area which means that no trees were cut down in order to use wooden rollers, the question is how did they transport the stones?

As for Tiahuanaco...

The ancient citadel of Tiahuanaco is located near Puma Punku, less than a quarter-mile northeast of Puma Punku. Scientists believe Tiahuanaco was once the center of a civilization with more than 40,000 inhabitants. It’s said that Tiahuanaco displays all the races of mankind, even elongated skulls, people wearing turbans, people with broad noses, people with thin noses, people with thick lips, people with thin lips, and some of the statues are particularly unusual and are unlike the ones found in the nearby area.

One of the most important archaeological artifacts ever discovered in Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku is the famous Fuente Magna Bowl, a ceramic bowl that has Sumerian cuneiform and Proto-Sumerian hieroglyphic written on it.

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'Hand of God' Spotted by NASA Space Telescope (Photo)

The hand might look like an X-ray from the doctor's office, but it is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft has imaged the structure in high-energy X-rays for the first time, shown in blue. Lower-energy X-ray light previously detected by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is shown in green and red.
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Religion and astronomy may not overlap often, but a new NASA X-ray image captures a celestial object that resembles the "Hand of God."

The cosmic "hand of God" photo was produced when a star exploded and ejected an enormous cloud of material, which NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, glimpsed in high-energy X-rays, shown in blue in the photo. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory had imaged the green and red parts previously, using lower-energy X-rays.

"NuSTAR's unique viewpoint, in seeing the highest-energy X-rays, is showing us well-studied objects and regions in a whole new light," NuSTAR telescope principal investigator Fiona Harrison, of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a statement.

The new image depicts a pulsar wind nebula, produced by the dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova. What's left behind is a pulsar, called PSR B1509-58 (B1509 for short), which spins around 7 times per second blowing a wind of particles into material ejected during the star's death throes.

As these particles interact with nearby magnetic fields, they produce an X-ray glow in the shape of a hand. (The pulsar is located near the bright white spot in the image but cannot be seen itself, NASA officials said.)

Scientists aren't sure whether the ejected material actually assumes the shape of a hand, or whether its interaction with the pulsar's particles is just making it appear that way.

"We don't know if the hand shape is an optical illusion," Hongjun An, of McGill University in Montreal, said in a statement. "With NuSTAR, the hand looks more like a fist, which is giving us some clues."

The red cloud appearing at the fingertips is a separate structure called RCW 89. The pulsar's wind may be heating the cloud to produce the low-energy X-ray glow, astronomers believe.

The X-ray energies seen by NuSTAR range from 7 to 25 kiloelectron volts, or keV, whereas the energies seen by Chandra range from 0.5 to 2 keV.

The Hand of God is an example of pareidolia, the psychological phenomenon of perceiving familiar shapes in random or vague images. Other common forms of pareidolia include seeing animals or faces in clouds, or the man in the moon. Despite its supernatural appearance, the Hand of God was produced by natural astrophysical phenomena.

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Conférence "Ovnis et Conscience", Lyon, le 27 juin 2015

Published on Jul 5, 2015

Découvrez la conférence inédite réalisée à Lyon, le 27 juin 2015, en présence des auteurs de l'ouvrage "Ovnis et Conscience" paru en avril 2015 chez JMG.

Le site de l'ouvrage :
http://ovniconscience.com/

Le média ufologique francophone :
http://ovnis-direct.com/

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Project Mercury: America's 1st Manned Space Program

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration came into being on October 1, 1958. NASA announced the seven Project Mercury Astronauts on April 9, 1959, only six months later. They are: (front, l to r) Walter H. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter; (back, l to r) Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Gus Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper.
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Mercury was NASA's first human spaceflight program. Its major aim was to see if humans could function effectively in space for a few minutes or hours at a time. Each mission flew only one person at once into space, starting with 15-minute long missions and gradually expanding to a day's time.

The first seven astronauts were chosen in 1959, and they and their families instantly became worldwide celebrities. Their fame was further enhanced with an exclusive contract with Life magazine for $500,000 (or about $4 million today). The stories painted the astronauts as American heroes fighting communism with their space missions.

The PR was part of the Mercury program's push to fly a man in space before the Soviet Union did. While Mercury failed in that aim, it did provide a technological basis for the more challenging orbital missions of Gemini and the moon missions of Apollo that took place later in the 1960s.

Early Mercury flights

There were several tests of the Mercury spacecraft before humans were put on board. The first living creature to fly on Mercury was not a test pilot, but a chimpanzee.

The chimp, named Ham (an acronym for Holloman Aerospace Medical Center), blasted off aboard a Mercury Redstone rocket on Jan. 31, 1961. NASA officials wanted to fly Ham first in case the flight ran into technical problems, which it did. The spacecraft flew higher and faster than anticipated and splashed down more than 400 miles off course, but Ham emerged healthy except for mild dehydration and fatigue. [Related: Laika the Dog & the First Animals in Space]

After one more test flight on March 24, NASA felt ready to bring its first astronaut into space. That person was Alan Shepard, a World War II veteran and Navy test pilot. When he lifted off on May 5, 1961, for a suborbital flight, his milestone came just weeks after the first man (a Russian, Yuri Gagarin) made it into space on April 12.

Shepard's 15-minute flight aboard Freedom 7 was a success, but he was frustrated at not making it first. "We had 'em," Shepard is reported to have said about the Soviets at the time. "We had 'em by the short hairs, and we gave it away."

Mercury's next flight on July 21, 1961, ran into a major snag. Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 performed relatively well on the 15-minute suborbital hop until splashdown, when the door unexpectedly blew open. Grissom found himself in the water as the recovery helicopter tried in vain to rescue the spacecraft. The cause of the door problem was never found. Sadly, Grissom died in a launch pad fire aboard Apollo 1; one factor in his death was a hatch door his three-person crew could not open.

Reaching orbit

While the Mercury missions were technological feats for NASA and its contractors, they were quite short — only 15-minute arcs between Florida and the Atlantic Ocean. The Soviets, meanwhile, had already done orbital missions that circled the Earth several times. Getting the Americans to that stage would require a more powerful rocket, among other mission changes.

So when John Glenn aimed for three orbits of Earth, his Friendship 7 spacecraft did it aboard a more powerful Mercury-Atlas rocket combination. He blasted off on Feb. 20, 1962, and during his three-orbit and five-hour mission, discovered strange "fireflies" that were appearing to follow his spacecraft, a phenomenon later explained as ice crystals coming off the hull.

Controllers saw an indication that his landing bag had prematurely deployed. They waited to tell Glenn, then close to re-entry instructed Glenn to keep his retrorocket package strapped on to his spacecraft as a precaution. The indication turned out to be false, and Glenn was upset that he had not been told as soon as the problem arose. He nevertheless became a public hero and eventually parlayed that popularity to make a second career in the Senate before returning to space aboard a shuttle in 1998.

The next mission, Aurora 7, again ran into splashdown problems on May 24, 1962. Pilot Scott Carpenter landed about 250 miles (400 kilometers) off course after about five hours in space. Some space program officials, notably flight director Chris Kraft, blamed the problem on Carpenter's inattention during the mission.

In two oral interviews with NASA, Carpenter said it was a combination of technical problems (some sensors were malfunctioning) and excessive fuel use as Carpenter worked to solve Glenn's firefly mystery. "There was excessive fuel use, which scared a lot of the folks on the ground. There was enough. There was enough for the entry. A lot of people thought there would not be. And it was anybody's guess," Carpenter recalled in 1998. He never flew again.

Closing the program

With the two-man Gemini spacecraft heavily in development, NASA focused the last two missions on making sure that spacecraft and astronauts could be ready for missions that lasted over several days. Wally Schirra, who named his spacecraft Sigma 7 to honor excellence in engineering, went so far as to ask program officials to turn off the automatic controls on his spacecraft so he could better manage fuel use. Schirra launched on Oct. 3, 1962, for a six-orbit mission, carefully rationing his fuel through the mission by using just small bursts of thruster fuel at a time.

By the time he was ready to go back to Earth, more than half of Schirra's fuel was left. In his autobiography "Schirra's Space," the astronaut said he had to dump the remainder. His mission drew praise in NASA and he flew two more missions in the Gemini and Apollo programs, becoming the only astronaut to fly in all three of NASA's manned space programs.

Schirra's success cleared the way for Gordon Cooper to go for 22 orbits between May 15 and 16, 1963, aboard his spacecraft, Faith 7. With astronaut Deke Slayton sidelined due to a heart condition, and the Gemini program ready for flights, NASA shifted its attention to this new program. There, the agency aimed to learn more about orbital maneuvering and human endurance for future moon missions.

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Extensive Ancient Underground Network Discovered From Scotland to Turkey

Stone Age man created a massive network of underground tunnels criss-crossing Europe from Scotland to Turkey, a new book on the ancient superhighways has claimed.

German archaeologist Dr Heinrich Kusch said evidence of the tunnels has been found under hundreds of Neolithic settlements all over the continent.

In his book – Secrets Of The Underground Door To An Ancient World – he claims the fact that so many have survived after 12,000 years shows that the original tunnel network must have been enormous.

‘In Bavaria in Germany alone we have found 700 metres of these underground tunnel networks. In Styria in Austria we have found 350 metres,’ he said.

‘Across Europe there were thousands of them – from the north in Scotland down to the Mediterranean.

‘Most are not much larger than big wormholes – just 70cm wide – just wide enough for a person to wriggle along but nothing else.

‘They are interspersed with nooks, at some places it’s larger and there is seating, or storage chambers and rooms.

‘They do not all link up but taken together it is a massive underground network.’

Some experts believe the network was a way of protecting man from predators while others believe that some of the linked tunnels were used like motorways are today, for people to travel safely regardless of wars or violence or even weather above ground.

The book notes that chapels were often built by the entrances perhaps because the Church were afraid of the heathen legacy the tunnels might have represented, and wanted to negate their influence.

In some cases writings have been discovered referring to the tunnels seen as a gateway to the underworld.

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Not even close encounters: If UFOs really exist, why would intelligent life forms use 1950s earth technology to travel here?

Sun Kwok says that if intelligent life exists elsewhere in our galaxy, and it probably does, then it will be far more technologically advanced than our own primitive civilisation

Venus is the brightest celestial object in the sky after the sun and moon. Many city folk are often astonished when they suddenly catch a glimpse of Venus.

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When people hear that I am a professional astronomer, they often ask "Do you believe in UFOs?" Sometimes they say, "I have seen a UFO…" and then proceed to describe their incredible encounter. Quite often they say they saw a bright light in the sky; some describe it moving at high speed and following them.

These types of stories are quite common among UFO believers. In 1967, police officers in 11 counties in the US state of Georgia chased after a reported UFO for several days - until someone told them they were chasing the planet Venus.
If extraterrestrials visit our planet, they will travel in forms that are entirely unknown and invisible to us

Venus is the brightest celestial object in the sky after the sun and moon. Since many city folk are not accustomed to viewing the sky, they are often astonished when they suddenly catch a glimpse of Venus. It can at times be very bright, even in early morning or late afternoon light. When the observer is in a moving vehicle, he often has the illusion that Venus is chasing after him. When I hear reports of UFOs, my first response is usually, "Which direction was it?" If the person says west, I then ask, "What time of day did you see it?" If they answer, "In the evening," I reply, "It is quite likely you saw Venus".

     If extraterrestrials visit our planet, they will travel in forms that are entirely unknown and invisible to us

Casual observers have been known to confuse planes, balloons, meteors, fireballs, clouds and optical atmospheric phenomena with UFOs. Our skies are crowded with artificial satellites that move quickly across the sky. When sunlight reflects on them, they may be perceived as UFOs.

UFO believers may accuse me of being narrow-minded or conservative. But I would argue that it is they who are conservative. If an alien civilisation was capable of space travel and came hundreds of light years to reach us, why would they travel in a primitive mechanical device? Why would their spacecraft emit visible light, when they have the entire electromagnetic spectrum available? We forget that visible light is only a very narrow part of the spectrum, and our eyes are tuned to this narrow part to take maximum advantage of sunlight.

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Intelligent life forms other than humans likely exist, and may already be among us. But would we recognise them?

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Our galaxy is 10 billion years old and has 100 billion stars. There are probably more than 100 billion planets in it. It is therefore not unreasonable to think that it contains other intelligent life forms, and we are not alone. We must, however, remember that we are a very young and primitive civilisation. Humans have been around for only 100,000 years, and we have been capable of distant communication for only about 100 years. Given the age of our galaxy, probability suggests that if there are alien civilisations in it, they will be millions of years older and technologically far more advanced.

We cannot imagine technologies 100 years from now, let alone 1,000 years. I am sure, however, that visiting aliens won't be using 1950s earth technology, which is what a light-emitting flying saucer is. If extraterrestrials visit our planet, they will travel in forms that are entirely unknown and invisible to us. They may actually be here already.

If you dropped a thumb drive onto a street in Paris or London 100 years ago and someone picked it up, would they know that it contained thousands of songs, hours of movies and volumes of books? Would they have any idea what it was? Almost certainly not. This is what technological progress can do - and that is only a few decades, not thousands of years.

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UFO believers are often adamant about what they have seen and describe their encounters as emotional or even spiritual experiences. They can be highly educated. It is very difficult to convince them that they are probably wrong.

I think the physicist Richard Feynman said it very well: "It is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extraterrestrial intelligence." Along this line of thought, I suggest that UFO studies should be pursued as a branch of psychological research. There are more mysteries in the human mind than bright lights in the sky.

Sun Kwok is a professional astronomer and president of the Astrobiology Commission of the International Astronomical Union. He serves as dean of science and chair professor of physics at the University of Hong Kong

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Drone Video: The Gigantic New Telescope China's Building To Hunt Aliens

Bigger is better when it comes to radio telescopes--and China is building the biggest.

China began constructing the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope this past summer. New drone footage released by China Central Television shows they are making rapid progress. The telescope is expected to be ready by September of next year.

When it's finished, the Five-hundred-meter-Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) dish's diameter will surpass the current record holder, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, by 200 meters. It will be able to detect radio signals from planets a billion miles away, potentially widening the search for alien life. It could also detect new exoplanets, pulsars, and galaxies, while helping to shed light on the evolution of the cosmos.

The telescope dish will be supported and moved around by a system of poles and cables, which can be seen in the video. Read more about how it will work.

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DEMONT: The mystery of Shag Harbour, 48 years on

Museum of photos, articles about alleged UFO sightings still draws many visitors

The Chronicle Herald published an article Oct. 7, 1967, about alleged sightings of a UFO at Shag Harbour.

There’s always something spooky weird about places meant for people — fairgrounds, amusement parks, hotels, seaside holiday spots — during the off-season.

The UFO museum in Shag Harbour is no exception.

A kindly woman named Dorothy Nickerson was there when I arrived Wednesday, a few weeks after the museum closed for the year. Outside, the wind howled, but it was quiet in the museum, which possessed the kind of stillness that can give you the feeling someone has just left.

I arrived, as is obvious, in a Fox Mulder frame of mind. Because 48 years is long enough to wait to see if the truth is actually out there where the land ends on the southwest corner of this province.

Nickerson was a young busy mother of four back on Oct. 4, 1967. So it was the next day before she learned the village was abuzz over something strange that had been glimpsed flying over the nearby waters.

It’s all there in the clippings and photos on the walls of the converted store on Shag Harbour’s main drag.

How a range of witnesses saw an object with orange flashing lights flying from the northwest. How the unidentified object was said to emit a loud noise — in some cases, described as a whistle; in others, a whoosh — as it flew over them. And how, picking up speed, the object hit the water with a loud noise and then seemed to glide along, either on or in the water, before disappearing.

All it left behind, according to a Chronicle Herald story headlined “Could be Something Concrete in Shag Harbour UFO — RCAF”, was “an extremely large patch of bubbling water and foam.” That and a nearly half-century mystery that people just can’t seem to let go of.

There’s a Shag Harbour “incident” stamp. Books have been written about it, including one called Dark Object with the intriguing subtitle, The World’s Only Government-Documented UFO Crash, and films and television shows shot about it.

Go online and it’s like Canada’s Roswell just happened. This summer, they had to add a couple of days to the village’s annual UFO festival.

All told, more than 1,500 people visited the museum from June to September. Some of them are skeptics, but just as many are believers who make references in the museum guest book to The X-Files, the sci-fi movie classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and alleged UFO sightings elsewhere. One woman named Michelle just wrote “wants to believe.”

“Nobody around here thinks it was some little green men,” says Nickerson, who housed the museum in her barn until it outgrew the space.

“But there was something there.”

Count the museum’s vice-chairwoman, Dale Nickerson — perhaps some distant relative to Dorothy — among that group. She was just a schoolgirl living in nearby Woods Harbour that night 48 years ago.

“We’re trying to stay away from the alien stuff at the museum in the future,” she said over the telephone.

That moment isn’t quite yet. As well as displaying UFO literature and a series of hand-painted rocks showing what the aliens’ journey might have been like after their crash, the museum sells UFO cookie cutters, alien-themed plates and Star Wars paraphernalia.

I can hear Dale shrug across the phone line when I ask what she thinks went down in those waters.

The Cold War was underway, she points out; lots of weird things were flying around in lots of places back then.

“If it was Canadian, American or Russian, I really don’t know.”

If any government knows the answer, the 50th anniversary of the event in 2017 would be a great time to reveal it.

“On the one hand, I would love to know,” Dale says.

“On the other hand, the mystery is gone, and I guess so is the museum.”

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One in four Ukip voters believe aliens have made contact - but government is hiding it

YouGov survey finds Ukip voters most likely to believe that extra-terrestrial life has made contact but the government is suppressing the news

E.T. from Steven Spielberg's 1982 blockbuster E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Photo: UNIVERSAL
Michael Wilkinson

By Michael Wilkinson, Political Correspondent

One in four Ukip voters believe that aliens have made contact but the government has covered it up.

A YouGov survey found that 24 per cent of people who support Ukip think that extra-terrestrial life has been in touch but the government is suppressing the news.

Some 18 per cent of Labour voters and 14 per cent of Conservative voters believe the same, while only eight per cent of Liberal Democrats agree.

Aliens have made contact but the government is hiding it

While just 12 per cent of men agree that there is a government cover-up, 25 per of women believe the same.

Asked whether they thought humans were created by God or another higher being, 24 per cent of Tories agreed with the statement, while just 10 per cent of Labour voters supported the idea.

The survey comes after Nasa scientists confirmed that water exists in liquid form on the surface of Mars, making it possible for life to be sustained on the Red Planet.

Nasa hailed the “strongest evidence yet” of intermittent flows of briny water on Mars after scientists identified hydrated salts in dark streaks that ebb and flow down the planet’s slopes.

The dark marks, which appear in summer months, are thought to be caused by the salty water wicking up from a shallow flow beneath the surface – although the origins of the briny flows remain a mystery.

Humans will be living and working on Mars in colonies entirely independent of Earth by the 2030s, Nasa has also said.

The US space organisation has released its plan for establishing permanent settlements on the Red Planet, setting out in detail plans to create ‘deep-space habitation facilities’ which will act as stepping stones to Mars.

In a new report entitled ‘Journey to Mars’ Nasa said the mission was ‘historic pioneering endeavor’ similar to the early settlers in America and Moon landing.

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“Ik werd door reptielachtige wezens ontvoerd naar de achterkant van de maan”

Een oud-medewerker van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht heeft een aantal opmerkelijke uitspraken gedaan. Ze beweert namelijk dat reptielachtige aliens haar hebben meegenomen naar de maan, waar ze kratten moest tillen en bovendien werd verkracht. Dat meldt de Britse Daily Mirror.

Niara Terela Isley zei dat ze werd ontvoerd door een ‘humanoïde met een staart’, die haar meenam naar een geheime basis op de achterkant van de maan. Isley zei dat ze destijds was gestationeerd op de Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, maar dat ze zich daar erg weinig van kon herinneren.

‘Geheugen gewist’

Ze verklaarde dat ze eerst werd verkracht door veiligheidsmedewerkers, nadat ze met een mysterieuze drug in haar nek was gespoten. Isley vermoedde dat haar geheugen was gewist. Onder hypnose kwamen de herinneringen weer terug.

Tijdens een interview met aquarianradio claimde ze dat ze op 25-jarige leeftijd acht tot 10 keer is meegenomen in de ruimte. Ze zei dat ze op een legerbasis op de maan met zware machines graafwerkzaamheden moest verrichten.

Doofpot

Op de maan werd ze naar eigen zeggen vrijwel iedere avond misbruikt door de reptielachtige wezens. Ze zei dat ‘grijze aliens’ en andere mensen hielpen bij de werkzaamheden. In 1980 kwam er een einde aan de incidenten, aldus de vrouw.

Isley, een moeder van twee die momenteel in Colorado woonachtig is, zei: “’s Avonds mocht ik niet slapen. Ik was bang. Ik wilde terug naar mijn dochter dus ik deed wat ze zeiden.”

Volgens veel complottheorieën is de Amerikaanse overheid betrokken bij de ontvoeringen en bied zij hulp aan de ‘grijzen’. Dit zou ook de reden zijn dat berichten van (voormalig) medewerkers in de doofpot worden gestopt.

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UFO Over Mexico Neighbourhood Startles Residents On Oct 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 11, 2015
Location of sighting: Iztacalco, Mexico

UFOs are frequently seen in Mexico and may have been mistaken by the ancient Aztecs and Mayans as gods. These sightings are very common as is this shape of UFO in the area.
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states:
UFO recorded at 7PM west south-east in him DF Mexico. Iztacalco. October 11, 2015

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Disc – shaped UFO sighting over Sofia, Bulgaria on 8th October 2015

New interesting UFO sightings photo of a Disc – shaped UFO sighting recorded over Sofia, Bulgaria on 8th October 2015.

Poster said:
I was taking a picture of some new skyscraper in the area, then suddenly this disc like UFO appared over the city and moved very fast. It made sharp turns and was extremely fast. I thought I had to take a picture of it so I did. I took about 10-15 photos, but only one came out non blurry, as the object was stationary at that time. After this it shot up into the sky and disappeared.

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Is Sodom gevonden? ‘Monsterlijk grote’ vindplaats komt overeen met stad die in de Bijbel door God wordt verwoest

Archeologen hebben naar eigen zeggen in Jordanië resten van de stad Sodom gevonden. Dat zou betekenen dat de Bijbelse stad, die in het boek Genesis van het Oude Testament wordt vernietigd, echt heeft bestaan. Dat meldt Popular Archaeology.

Wetenschappers zijn al tientallen jaren op zoek naar mogelijke resten van de stad die door God werd verwoest in een regen van zwavel en vuur. Het gebied aan de rivier de Jordaan komt overeen met de regio waar volgens de Bijbel de stad Sodom was gevestigd. Archeologen besloten daarop in dat gebied te zoeken.

Connectie met Sodom ‘zeer waarschijnlijk’

Na 10 jaar onderzoek hebben archeologen in de regio Tall el-Hammam een grote stad blootgelegd. “De connectie met Sodom is zeer waarschijnlijk,” aldus Steven Collins van de Trinity Southwestern University in New Mexico.

De resten van de ‘monsterlijk grote’ stad stammen waarschijnlijk uit de periode tussen 3500 en 1450 voor Christus. “We hebben een belangrijke stadstaat gevonden die voor de start van dit project in 2005 nog onbekend was,” zei Collins, die ervan overtuigd is dat de Bijbelse stad eindelijk gevonden is. “Zelfs de meeste archeologische kaarten van het gebied waren grotendeels oningevuld.”

Aardbeving

Volgens de archeoloog is de stad verwoest als gevolg van een aardbeving. Indertijd kon een dergelijke natuurramp ook worden gezien als een boodschap van God. De stad, die minstens vijf tot 10 keer groter is dan alle andere steden uit de bronstijd in de regio, stond meer dan 700 jaar leeg, maar werd daarna weer in gebruik genomen.

De reusachtige stad werd omgeven door een 5,2 meter dikke en 10 meter hoge muur, bestaande uit miljoenen kleistenen.

Kijk hier voor meer foto’s.

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Low Flying Orb Over Naples, Italy On Oct 8, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: October 8, 2015
Location of sighting: Naples, Italy

This fast moving orb was recorded over a park in Italy this week. It hovers in place observing the people below, then suddenly darts away. Very cool catch and not to far from the alien base below Rocca Pia, Italy. The W56 probably own the UFO.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
Ball of light flying at low altitude over the park Pomigliano in the presence of numerous witnesses.

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UFO sighting over Iztacalco, Mexico on 11th October 2015

New interesting video footage of a UFO sighting recorded over Iztacalco, Mexico on 11th October 2015.

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The Aztecs and the Ancient Giants of Mesoamerica

Not only are Giant beings mentioned in cultures and ancient civilizations around the world, their existence is a key part of folklore and history. Their presence and existence is confirmed in religious texts such as the bible and many other ancient sacred texts. Yet, for some mysterious reasons, mainstream scholars have found it very hard to believe that such beings existed in the past.

According to the Codex Rios, or the Vatican A codex, the Italian translation of an ancient manuscript written during the Spanish Conquest, Giant beings lived in Mesoamerica. According to the depictions of the codex, Aztec warriors fought against giant beings, and interestingly, and in the ancient manuscript, next to the image of the Giant we can see the name of the giant: Quinametzin which in translation means the old ones.

The Quinametzin Giants, according to Aztec Mythology, populated this world during the previous era of the Sun Rain.

Interestingly, it is said that the Quinametzin giants built the ancient citadel of Teotihuacan (Place where men become Gods) and the Great Pyramid of Cholula. Ten Quinametzin are mentioned in ancient Aztec mythology. It is said that when the Spanish conquistadores came to America, they saw, real flesh and blood giants.

According to legend, and accounts of the Spanish invasion in the book “The Broken Spears” Giants lived among the Aztecs, and one of their heroes, Tzilacatzin helped fight the Spanish during an attempt of hostile takeover of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan.

Tzilacatzin managed to defend Tenochtitlan by throwing huge stones at the Spanish Conquistadores, and his courage and strength can be seen in the Florentine Codex.

As you can see, Giant beings are widely mentioned in ancient times, and not only were some of these giant beings considered as divine, some of them like Tzilacatzin are real flesh and blood proof that such beings lived among humans in the distant past, stories that ancient religious texts back up.

There were giants [nephilim] on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown (Genesis 6:4)

Dominican Fray Diego Duran tells us a lot about Aztec history and culture.
His writings offer some of the oldest texts about the ancient Aztecs, their life, religion, customs and mythology. Duran learned nearly everything there is to learn about the Ancient Aztecs, and by winning their trust, he had access to material no one else before him had. When it comes to giant beings, Duran wrote the following: "It cannot be denied that there have been giants in this country. I can affirm this as an eyewitness, for I have met men of monstrous stature here. I believe that there are many in Mexico who will remember, as I do, a giant Indian who appeared in a procession of the feast of Corpus Christi. He appeared dressed in yellow silk and a halberd at his shoulder and a helmet on his head. And he was all of three feet taller than the others." ‑Fray Diego Duran, The Aztecs (New York: Orion Press, 1964), pp. 5-6. The manuscript lay for nearly three centuries in the National Library of Madrid. The first of three volumes from it was first published in 1867, under the title History of New Spain.

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Documentaire : Nos ancêtres extra-terrestres - Et s'ils étaient déjà venus

Depuis des millénaires, nous nous demandons si nous sommes seuls dans l'univers, ou si la vie a pu apparaître également ailleurs. Parmi les 200 milliards de planètes que compte l'Univers, il est fort probable que les conditions de la vie ont été réunies à nouveau. Mais où ? Et quelles formes étranges la vie a-t-elle pu adopter sous d'autres environnements ?

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The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy

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.

“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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Astronomers Discover Something 'You Would Expect an Alien Civilization to Build', and SETI Wants a Look

Well this is interesting. Astronomers have spotted a strange bunch of objects around a distant star - "like something you would expect an alien civilization to build" - and SETI is scrambling for a closer look:

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.

...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.

[T]his light pattern doesn’t show up anywhere else, across 150,000 stars. We know that something strange is going on out there.

...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.”

Full story: The Most Mysterious Star in Our Galaxy

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Amazing Photo Of An Alien Craft In The Upper Atmosphere

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OCTOBER 19, 2015 ……….. TEHRAN IRAN

About 23:30 we arrived home and as usual I looked at the sky to just watch constellations that I can recognise, then instantly I saw several flashing starlike dots aligned in an exact line and I knew there is no such constellation. I looked more carefully and I saw a non glowing object at the beginning of the alignment line which looked like a jet or airplane. I counted the flashing dots following the jet-like object and they were 11. flashing most of them with blueish light and one of them flashing red light. their movement along the jet-like object was like a kite; floating together like they have string attached to them. I grabbed my camera and tried to capture them.

KEN PFEIFER 10-9-15 TEHRAN IRAN TRIANGLE

When you zoom in the jet like object it is actually two triangles forming a lung shape. It looked so much like military UAVs but in an alien way. But the 11 flashing objects are not clear enough to see what they are. In one of the best pictures I could only see that one of them is a rectangular shaped red-green flashing thing.
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Groot moederschip verschijnt boven INDIA

Een aantal studenten uit India kijkt vol verbazing naar de lucht want daar verschijnt een groot, doorzichtig en ovaalvormig object.

Dit keer zijn zelfs de experts het erover eens dat hier geen sprake is van een zogenaamde lenswolk.

Wij raken er steeds meer van overtuigd dat grote moederschepen heen en weer pendelen tussen verschillende dimensies.

Of deze dimensies misschien gebruiken als manieren om heel snel van A naar B te kunnen reizen. Zo zijn er regelmatig kleinere UFO’s die verdwijnen in grote wolkachtige UFO’s die naast als moederschip ook als een soort dimensieportaal schijnen te fungeren.

Misschien is dat wel wat door een aantal studenten in India is vastgelegd.

Enkele studenten die verbleven in een hostel in de stad Imphal in het disctrict Manipur zagen iets vreemd in de lucht.

Wat ze zagen is op de volgende foto zien.

Er is een soort ovaalvormig doorzichtig object te zien dat zich door de lucht beweegt te oordelen aan de hierna volgende foto’s.

Is het misschien doorzichtig omdat het net op het punt staat vanuit de ene dimensie zichtbaar te worden in de andere?

Zelfs de experts zijn dit keer van mening dat hier niet het standaard antwoord, een lenswolk, van toepassing is. Omdat het er toch niet echt uitziet als een lenswolk en die ook niet doorzichtig zijn.

Daarnaast worden ze normaal gesproken niet aangetroffen in vlakke gebieden zoals hier, maar meer in de buurt van heuvels of bergen. Ook UFO-specialist Scott Waring heeft er het nodige over te zeggen en dat is hier te lezen.

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Ancient Aliens: Alien Evolution S08E05

Ancient Aliens: Alien Evolution
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 5
21st August 2015

Ancient Astronaut theorists have suggested that many of the divine beings depicted in cultures throughout the world are not really divine–or mythological–but instead reflect extraterrestrial visitations that our ancestors did not understand. If true, what can account for all the different types of beings that are depicted, from anthropomorphic birds and reptiles, to gods with blue skin to multi-limbed humanoids? Might there have been numerous alien species inhabiting Earth? Could the accounts given by modern day alien abductees be evidence that these otherworldly entities continue to visit Earth to this day? And is it possible that they all have a common ancestor? In 1928, archaeologist Julio Tello discovered the Paracas skulls of Peru–elongated heads with cranial volumes at least 25% larger than the largest known human skulls. Some believe that these remains are of extraterrestrial origin.

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A Russian scientists injected himself with a 3.5 million year old ‘bacteria’ found in Siberia and the results are staggering

Controversial ‘Mad Scientists’ Anatoli Brouchkov has injected himself with a 3.5 million year old bacteria said to be the key to ‘eternal life’. Broushkov found the revolutionary cells in the Siberian permafrost and says that ever since he injected himself with the bacteria, he feels stronger and healthier than ever.

The cells discovered in the Siberian permafrost have an incredible level of vitality and high resistance to environmental factors. Tests on animals showed that these cells substantially increased physical activity and strengthened the immune system.

Prof Anatoli Broushkov is the head of the Geocryology Department at Moscow State University and according to Russian media, he has not gotten sick in two years, ever since he started experimenting on himself.

The 3.5 million year old Bacillus F is believed to be a key component in improving the longevity of humans. Researchers from Russia have managed to unlock the DNA of the bacteria and have been testing it on Mice and human cells. Broushkov however decided to test it out on himself, the results? A healthy and strong body resisting time better than ever.

What makes this bacteria so special? Well Bacillus F as it has been dubbed by scientists has managed to survive for millions of years in Siberia, one of the most extreme places on Earth.

'I started to work longer, I've never had a flu for the last two years,' he told The Siberian Times

'After successful experiments on mice and fruit flies, I thought it would be interesting to try the inactivated bacterial culture.'

Prof Broushkov believes that there are trace amounts of the bacteria in the water supplies of the region.

'The permafrost is thawing, and I guess these bacteria get into the environment, into the water, so the local population, the Yakut people, in fact, for a long time are getting these cells with water, and even seem to live longer than some other nations. So there was no danger for me.'

At first it was difficult to understand what the bacteria was doing with inside the body said Broushkov.

'But we do not know yet exactly how it works. In fact, we do not know exactly how aspirin works, for example, but it does.

'The same is true here: we cannot understand the mechanism, but we see the impact.'

'Perhaps there were some side-effects, but there should be some special medical equipment to spot them.’

'Of course, such experiments need to be conducted in clinic, with the special equipment and statistics.’

'Then we could say clearly about all the effects.'

'If we can find how the bacteria stays alive we probably would be able to find a tool to extend our own lives,' he told RT in an interview.

The 3.5 million year old bacteria could not only be the key to human longevity but it can be a key factor to fertility say scientists. Once injected into mice, Bacillus F allowed older female mice to reproduce after they stopped being able to. The bacteria has the ability to heal plants as well.

Dr Viktor Chernyavsky, an epidemiologist from Yakutsk described the discovery as a ‘scientific sensation’ and as an ‘elixir of life,’ saying 'The bacteria gives out biologically active substances throughout its life, which activates the immune status of experimental animals.'

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Strange orb flying over Montreal, Canada 14-Sep-2015

Here’s one night time footage of a bright object making maneuvers over Montreal in Canada. This was filmed on 14th September 2015.

Note: Watch in full screen!

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Ancient Aliens: Dark Forces S08E04

Ancient Aliens: Dark Forces
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 4
14th August 2015

Good and Evil. Light and Dark. God and Satan. In nearly every culture there are stories of opposing forces at work here on Earth–forces of a supernatural or otherworldly nature. Could these forces really exist? And if so, what is the true nature of the dark forces? Throughout history, there have been individuals accused of being in league with agents of darkness. The infamous mad monk Rasputin believed he served as a conduit for an otherworldly realm, the Nazi SS were said to have tapped into dark powers through ancient symbols, and famed occultist Aleister Crowley claimed to have summoned a non-human entity through the use of dark magic. Is it possible the entities these men claimed to be in touch with were, in fact, extraterrestrials? And might humans serve as the pawns in a cosmic battle between the forces of light and dark?

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Strange Lights Hovering Near A Mexican Volcano

Over the years, alien hunters love to observe the volcanoes, especially the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico. Now, conspiracy theorists get excited once again with sightings of mysterious series of lights above the Popocatepetl. They say the sightings suggest extraterrestrials are studying the geothermal activity of the Earth so that they’ll have a clear understanding of how it works.

Cameras of Webcams Mexico captured bizarre orbs and a long cigar-shaped aerial objects above the Popocatepetl volcano. The lights appeared during the four explosions of the 18,000 feet volcano, which released gas vapour.

Social media and UFO forums have discussed the video after Webcams Mexico uploaded it. Some scientists offered a more radical theory saying that these UFOs were the product of hallucinations. Author of UFOs of the First World War, Nigel Watson, said that the combination of geopsychological and geophysical factors may have at work and produced UFOs.

In this case, according to Watson, the plasma that glows at night and looks metallic or black at day may have caused the UFO illusions. Meanwhile, cognitive neuroscience researcher Michael Persinger said UFO EM fields can trigger hallucinations in people who are near to them. Watson added that this could be the reason many stories of extraterrestrial abductions were experienced after a witness has noticed a light from the sky.

Paul Seaburn, a UFO hunter, said it has become a common occurrence observing UFOs around volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. But the reason people see so many UFOs near volcanoes, nuclear power plants, and earthquakes has not been established. Are we being warned? Watched? Controlled? Cared?

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UFO Video Sighting In the Northern Suburbs of Australia

An expert got baffled of a video that shows a bright ball of light flying across the sky. Taken in the northern suburbs, the video shows a bright object that drifts through the sunset. The UFO appears to have a thick and short tail. Its look makes an expert to rule out the possibility of a meteorite. Others thought the thing could have been space junk re-entering furiously.

Forty-year-old Quentin Theron said his two children Kylie (14), and Georgia (8) were in the pool at their home in Coconut Grove when they yelled out they could observe a shooting star around 6 pm on Monday.

Quentin wondered why there was a shooting star early in the night, and it was brighter than a shooting star. Quentin’s son said it was a meteorite, but it could also be a satellite. He, however, could not decide what the object was.

Astronomer Geoff Carr said he was also baffled by the photo of that aerial stuff. He can only think of a high altitude military jet with an afterburner. He cannot also rule out a piece of space junk re-entering the atmosphere of Earth.

Mr Carr also opened up the possibility of an Iridium Flare, a large communication satellite in a cube shape. But as an astronomer for 20 years and owner of Star Safaris business, Mr Carr doesn’t think it is of alien origin though it’s unidentified flying and an object. Other than that, Mr Carr has no idea of the interesting piece of footage.

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Ancient Aliens: NASA’s Secret Agenda S08E02

Ancient Aliens: NASA’s Secret Agenda
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 2
31st July 2015

When German aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun joined the U.S. military and space programs after World War II, he quickly became one of the foremost scientists credited with developing the ballistic missile, the first American satellite and the enormous Saturn V rocket that enabled man to reach the moon. Von Braun’s bold predictions that we would explore Mars and build a space station have become reality. But how is it that von Braun–whose contemporaries included such scientific geniuses as Nikola Tesla, Robert Oppenheimer, and Albert Einstein–was so far ahead of everyone when it came to rocketry? Did he have secret information collected by the Nazi party during WWII–or access to advanced technology recovered from the alleged UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? Or is it possible that the greatest rocket scientist the world has ever known found his inspiration not on our world, but another?

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A Woman Gets A Video Of Bizarre Orange Light Flying Into The UK Sky

A woman took her camera out to get a video of a strange object. While making breakfast in the kitchen, Kirstie Hockley of St Neots in Cambridgeshire spotted a strange, glowing UFO. She first noticed the mysterious light through her window from downstairs at 7 am. Kirstie then got her phone to use the video and record her bizarre sighting.

Her video shows two strands of orange light hovering in the sky. Few seconds later, the light starts to look like a tiny dot on the dark blue background before it vanishes.

Kirstie doesn’t think it is an airplane because it doesn’t seem like one. However, she’s also uncertain what exactly she had seen. Furthermore, the way the light disappears is so weird for the witness.

Earlier this month, a mysterious light was spotted about Washington, US hovering and changing color as well as the size in the night sky high above the trees.

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Strange UFO Spotted By Indian Villagers

Unidentified flying objects are the mystery of the sky. It is still a mystery if they exist or not. There are many reports on strange objects by competent observers which cannot be identified by the witness and remain unidentified after an investigation by competent investigators. These appearances and the flight behavior indicate that they were manufactured somewhere other than the Earth. Multiple witnesses confirmed many of these reports and corroborated by trace evidence such as photographs, radar, video and landing marks.

After claiming to have spotted a strange humanoid creature, Indian villagers were left stumped and feared. It was the agricultural workers in Kanagal village around 2 pm who saw the unknown figure. According to them, there was a red extraterrestrial craft that emerged from the clouds and came towards them. After landing, it allegedly took off in just one minute. During the occurrence, there were sparks and flashes around. According to Nigel Watson, the prominent UFO investigator, seeing a person flying in the sky was not a rare sighting as it occurred long before flying aliens and saucers. It is an expected fact that what these people saw is hard to imagine, but it made an impact on their existence. Indeed, it is something strange and usual. Since the sighting, people who are very much interested in aliens were among a trip to Kanagal to speak with these women, who happen to be a witness to said incident. They said the object came towards them from a red spacecraft that emerged from the clouds.

T A Manjunatha said that the women are claiming to have seen the spacecraft descended to 500 feet from them that they could spot humanoid creatures. When speaking about aliens, they did not hear about those things. This is why experts were assuming that these women were not lying. The alien enthusiast has the plan to bring the matter to the government for attention. While they seem to be under intelligent control, their source is a question of speculation. This indicates that there may be a technology involved that can manipulate time as we know it.

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Ancient Aliens: Aliens B.C.

Ancient Aliens – Aliens B.C.
History Channel, Season 8 Episode 1
24th July 2015

Enormous manmade caves… Unexplainable structures… And underwater discoveries that challenge everything we know about the past…Is it possible that an advanced civilization inhabited Earth thousands of years ago? And if so, were they human, or something out of this world? Modern archaeologists are continuously unearthing artifacts and sites that defy the conventional timeline of human history. Throughout the world we find megalithic stone monuments that are attributed to mysterious ancestors, strange humanoid figures that date to pre-historic times, and evidence of ancient underground shelters hewn out of solid rock. Could it be that a sophisticated culture existed on here Earth–thousands and even tens of thousands of years earlier than we believe? Could the stories of a time when gods and otherworldly beings inhabited the planet be more than just mythology?

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Mind Blowing proof of Alien Activity in new NASA images

The batch of images released to the public of the Apollo missions earlier this week is perhaps the most exciting and ultimate proof of extraterrestrial activity. UFO hunters are extremely excited as they discovered numerous anomalies in the images of the Apollo missions. One of the images in particular is believed to show a mysterious object with three glimmering lights: According to ufologist an extraterrestrial vehicle.

According to editor of ufosightingsdaily Scott C. Waring, there are numerous UFO’s in the images taken in 1972, and the Apollo missions traveled to the moon by a craft with “alien technology at its finest”.

Scott Waring identified numerous other anomalies objects in the Apollo images that according to him, are the ultimate proof of Alien activity not only on the moon, but on Earth as well.

He added: “The UFO looks metallic and even seems to have a window facing the Apollo team.

“Absolutely amazing find and I just don’t see why NASA doesn’t just cave in from the massive amount of evidence the public is posting.”

Not only are several Unidentified Flying Objects visible in the newest images released by NASA, but according to UFO hunters, several anomalous structures are visible on the moon. These structures prove that NASA went to the moon in search of Alien technology and Earth’s satellite isn’t a desolate place like we believed in the past.

The mysterious objects seen in the images below are not part of NASA’s spacecraft and the only logical explanation for them is that they are in fact Alien technology say ufologist. What else could they be?

What do you think? Do these images really show alien activity on the moon? And do you believe it is possible that NASA knew about UFO’s and Alien life during the Apollo missions? Let us know what you think.

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The first photos of water on Pluto are puzzling scientists in 2 ways

Planetary scientists have suspected for months the presence of water on Pluto in the form of towering ice mountains (shown below) — some of which rival Earth's Rocky Mountains in height.

But it wasn't until recently that they had solid proof, and the discovery is raising intriguing questions about the color and location of the water ice.

pluto
(NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI)

The latest images of Pluto, released on Thursday, are the first to reveal patches of frozen water on its surface. And adding to the growing list of Pluto mysteries, neither the color nor location of water ice on Pluto is what the scientists were expecting.

The most recent photo, shown below, offers an especially intriguing view of both the oldest and newest surfaces on Pluto: To the left of the close-up shot is the most heavily cratered region on Pluto, which scientists suspect is extremely old.

To the far right, however, you can see the dividing outline of Pluto's iconic heart-shaped region, informally named Tombaugh Regio — the water ice is identified in falsely colored blue:

pluto water ice map
(NASA/New Horizons)

The false colors in the image above help scientists differentiate between the water ice on Pluto and the other ices, such as nitrogen, methane, and carbon-dioxide ice.

In reality, the water ice on Pluto is red, not blue like in the photo or clear like it is here on Earth. And scientists are dumbfounded as to why.

"I'm surprised that this water ice is so red," Silvia Protopapa, a New Horizons team member, said in a NASA press release. "We don't yet understand the relationship between water ice and the reddish tholin colorants on Pluto's surface."

The "tholin colorants" that Protopapa is referring to are a type of molecule that are generally red in color and form when organic compounds — which have nothing to do with life in this case — are blasted with ultraviolet light from the sun. Pluto's atmosphere is rich with tholins, but whether the red-tinted water ice on Pluto's surface contains any of them remains an unanswered question.

The tholins in Pluto's atmosphere eventually fall down to the surface, which scientists think contributes to the dwarf planet's red coloring:

global mosaic of pluto in true color
(NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
Another mystery concerning water ice on Pluto is its location.

When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto on July 14, it focused on this intriguing part of the dwarf planet that has since mystified scientists as to how geologically diverse it is — with four mountain ranges, a vast expanse of craters, and smooth plateaus, Pluto is one of the most geologically diverse places in the solar system.

When scientists first saw the mountains on Pluto, their immediate conclusion was that the mountains must be made of water ice because that's the only kind of ice strong enough to support mountains over 10,000 feet tall.

Now, they can give themselves a pat on the back because this latest image reveals a large amount of water ice in one of the mountain ranges, called Baré Montes and identified below:

plutomountains
(NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)
But what about the other places? There appears to be a vast expanse of ice in the mysterious crack featured on the far left and in the heavily cratered patch, called Viking Terra, to the north.

"Large expanses of Pluto don't show exposed water ice, because it's apparently masked by other, more volatile ices across most of the planet" Jason Cook, a New Horizons team member, said in NASA's press release for the latest images.

"Understanding why water appears exactly where it does, and not in other places, is a challenge that we are digging into."

Since its closest approach to Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft has traveled an additional 500 million miles and is now 3.1 billion miles from Earth. NASA reports that its systems are "healthy and operating normally."

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AT LEAST 4 KNOWN ALIEN SPECIES HAVE BEEN VISITING EARTH FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS

I am well aware that just because somebody (no matter what their ‘position’) says something to be true, does not mean it’s true. Exceptions, however can be made if there is evidence that goes beyond their words and correlates with what they say. At the end of the day, you have to listen to what your heart tells you.

Paul Hellyer was the Canadian Minister of National Defense in the 1960’s during the cold war. He was responsible for combining the Canadian Air Force, Navy and Army into what is known today as the Canadian Forces. He was the highest ranking person (on paper) inside of the Department of Defence for Canada. The Honorable Paul Hellyer is the highest ranking person among all g8 countries to openly speak about UFOs and extraterrestrials.

He has been speaking about UFOs and extraterrestrials for quite some time now, and he recently made an appearance on RT news stating that there are at least 4 known alien species that have been visiting Earth for thousands of years.

Upon retirement, Hellyer began to blow the whistle on UFOs and extraterrestrials. His testimony is backed up by hundreds of other high ranking military and political personnel all over the world, including official documents released by dozens of governments worldwide that have officially acknowledged the presence of UFOs.

I think it’s also important to point out that the Canadian government recently acknowledged the fact that various federal agencies, including Transport Canada, the RCMP and the Department of National Defence used to track and investigate UFO sightings. (1) They claim to have stopped those programs, but that contradicts the defence minister’s (Hellyer) claims. There is good reason to believe, and a lot of evidence to suggest that some of these UFOs are indeed extraterrestrial space craft (not all military), and the activities of the agencies responsible for these programs goes far beyond just tracking of UFOs, but into contact with various extraterrestrial races, other classified technological developments and more.

Here is some of what Paul Hellyer has to say, for more you can watch the video clip below:

“In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb. They are very concerned about that and if we will use it again, because the whole cosmos is a unity and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos. They’re very much afraid that we might start using atomic weapons again and this would be very bad for us, and them also.”
– Paul Hellyer

“Many are benign and benevolent, and a few are not. They come from various places, for a long while I only knew about ones that came from different star systems, the Pleiades. There are extraterrestrials that come from Andromeda, and ones that live on one of Saturn’s moon’s. There is a federation of these people, and they have rules, one of them is that they don’t interfere with our affairs unless they are invited. They have accepted the fact that this is our planet, and we have the right to run it but they are very concerned, they don’t think that we are good stewards of our planet. We are ruining our planet, we’re doing all sorts of things that we shouldn’t be doing, and they don’t like that. They’ve made it clear, and they have given us a warning.”
– Paul Hellyer

“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. It is ironic that the US should be fighting monstrously expensive wars, allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can no longer claim to be called a democracy when trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.”
– Paul Hellyer

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Is Stephen Hawking Right About Hostile Aliens?

E.T. was the perfect extraterrestrial: Cute, smart and — best of all — a perfect pacifist.

Unfortunately, scientists aren't so sure that an actual intelligent alien would be so benign. In a recent interview with El País, famed physicist Stephen Hawking posited that an alien visitation would put Earthlings in the same position as Native Americans when Columbus landed on their shores.

"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach," Hawking speculated. [7 Huge Misconceptions About Aliens]

The likelihood that intelligent life is out there is up for debate; less discussed are the conditions necessary to evolve a life-form that's both smart and nice. But the lessons from Earth suggest that intelligence and aggression might evolve hand-in-hand.

No one really knows how humans got to be so clever. What's clear is that hominin brains began expanding wildly about 2 million years ago. (Hominins include those species after the human lineage — the genus Homo — split from the chimpanzee lineage.) By around 100,000 years ago, humans made the never-before-seen leap to inventing language. And by at least 40,000 years ago, our ancestors were making art.

"We have brains that are three times bigger than those of our closest relatives," said Mark Flinn, an anthropologist at the University of Missouri who has researched the emergence of human intelligence. Humans have unprecedented abilities to think about each other's thoughts and motivations, he said, to play out social scenarios in their brains and to think about the past and future.

"The general presumption is that this is just sort of a natural outcome of the evolutionary process, but that's really giving short shrift to the very special circumstances of human evolution," Flinn said.

Huge brains are expensive. They take an enormous number of calories to grow and function (up to 50 percent of intake in infancy and childhood, Flinn said) and make humans basically helpless for years after birth.

"Our babies are born as larvae, basically," said David Carrier, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Utah.

Many anthropologists and evolutionary biologists have tried to pinpoint the special circumstances that make these huge brains worth the expense. Charles Darwin suggested that perhaps males developed cleverness to attract females, much as a male peacock developed showy tail feathers to prove to potential mates that he could strut his stuff. But if brains were just for sexual display, scientists would expect to see big differences between male and female intelligence — females, not having to attract mates, shouldn't waste so much effort on their brains, much as peahens don't waste effort on growing shiny feathers (theirs are dull and brown). And female humans are just as smart as males.

Would smart aliens have energy-intensive brains? Hard to say — perhaps E.T. could evolve a more efficient, yet just as clever, organ. But if aliens were sending signals into space or building rockets, they'd have to have achieved an intelligence that far exceeds what is needed to survive. [13 Ways to Hunt for Intelligent Aliens]

Humans have done the same, and researchers can't quite figure out why. The brain could have evolved to allow humans to use tools, but chimpanzees use tools without developing complex languages, art and culture. One provocative theory holds that pathogens play a role: The brain is vulnerable to infection, wrote Hungarian researcher Lajos Rózsa in a 2008 article in the journal Medical Hypotheses. Showing off one's cleverness may be a way of showing off how resistant one is to infection. After all, if you're smart enough to invent language and art, you must be pretty good at battling brain parasites.

So perhaps intelligent aliens might be subject to alien parasites. Flinn and his colleagues favor another theory, though. They argue that humanity underwent a runaway cycle of brain evolution because of hominins' social nature.

The ecological dominance-social competition hypothesis works like this: Human ancestors reached a point in which their interactions with one another were the most important factor in whether they'd survive and pass on their genes. Finding food and shelter was still important, Flinn said, but it wasn't the main factor determining evolutionary success. The difference between clever humans and, say, caribou, is that intraspecies relationships drove evolution the fastest in humans, Flinn said. A herd of caribou has social interactions, to be sure: Males have to fight for mates, for example. But a more pressing concern would be avoiding predators and finding food. For hominins, these external issues became relatively less important, the theory goes, while their ability to form coalitions, to have empathy and to behave in such a way as to win friendships from others became key to their survival. [10 Things That Make Humans Special]

In this heavily social context, it became very important to be smarter than the competition. Each generation got a little smarter and a little better at building complex social relationships, which created a feedback loop in which even smarter brains were beneficial.

"The thing about social competition is it's a dynamic challenge and it's also creative," Flinn said. "You need to have the better mousetrap every time. The competition adjusts to the current winning model, so you need to be one better than the current winning strategy."

The model seems to work with other clever animals, too, he added. Dolphins, orcas and chimps all form social coalitions with each other and depend on their social groups to survive. It's possible that this social factor would hold for species on other planets, too.

A key part of this theory is competition. Chimps form coalitions that battle against other chimps. And humans are far from peaceful. So if an alien species were to evolve intelligence, would aggression be an inevitable part of the package?

Perhaps. The evolution of aggression is a question unto itself. Fights to the death occur only in species where the options are mate or die, Carrier said. [Fight, Fight, Fight: The History of Human Aggression]

"If you can walk away from a fight and reproduce another day, you do that," he said. "But if circumstances are such that your ability to reproduce is threatened by a competitor, in that situation it makes sense to fight."

Environmental factors may determine whether a mate-or-die system emerges. For example, chimpanzees are a particularly homicidal (chimpacidal?) species, Carrier said. Work by primatologist Richard Wrangham at Harvard University and colleagues finds that chimp "wars" arise from a chimpanzee's territorialism. Small groups of foraging chimps may come into contact with other chimpanzees; killing these competitors (particularly when the foragers have numbers on their side) can be beneficial by opening up access to more resources.

Deadly male-male competition is less of a way of life for bonobos, humankind's other closest primate ancestor. Male bonobos stick by their mothers and the species is less territorial than chimpanzees. Bonobo foraging groups are also larger, perhaps because their food sources are more abundant, studies have found. Would aliens act more like bonobos or chimps? Hard to say. Researchers are even split on whether humans are more inherently aggressive or inherently peaceful.

A controversial theory holds that aggression was a driving force in human evolution. The "Killer Ape" hypothesis argues that the human ancestors who thrived were those better adapted for fighting. For example, Carrier said, modern humans can form fists, which our closest primate relatives cannot. This particular hand configuration may have evolved primarily for better manual dexterity — but it also could have come in handy as a club. Likewise, when human ancestors started walking on two legs, their face bones also evolved to be stronger and less delicate. This could be due to diet, Carrier said, but male face bones are more robust than female face bones, a sign that male-male competition could be at play. In other words, thick facial bones could be a defense against the fist, a weapon that would have become available once human ancestors became bipedal.

If intelligence evolves in the context of social competition, and aggression is the natural outcome of competition, it's hard to imagine that clever aliens could also be kind. Is this the end for hopes of sweet little E.T.?

Maybe not. The social competition model doesn't work without cooperation, after all. Humans fight, wage war and sometimes murder each other. But humans also form coalitions, care for each other and even build coalitions of coalitions, such as nation-states.

"There are two sides to our nature," Carrier said. "It's not that one is any more real than the other. It's just who we are."

Humans are unique among Earth life in forming long-lasting alliances between groups, not just individuals, Flinn said. Chimpanzees can't pull that off, he said, so it's not clear that aliens could, either.

"On Planet X, it may not be inevitable that social competition results in a morality and a creativity of the sort that allows these intelligent life-forms to negotiate with us for a mutually beneficial outcome," Flinn said.

On the other hand, chimpanzees don't explore space. Perhaps a civilization that can band together to reach for the stars has to be cooperative by definition. If that's the case, humanity might be a greater threat to aliens than aliens are to humanity. Luckily, evolution has given humans the tools for peace ( via livescience.com ).

"We can, in effect, rise above the design, potentially," Flinn said. "If we understand what our are designed to do, we are going to be way more capable of rising above those tendencies that we have."

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The Curiosity Mars rover could tap into the greatest mystery behind liquid water on Mars, but there's a big problem

When NASA recently announced the discovery of liquid water on Mars, the location of this water is what intrigued some scientists the most.

These water flows are related to unique features on Mars called recurring slope linae (RSL) — identified in the photo to the right — that pop up in a handful of locations near and along the Martian equator.

As it turns out, the Curiosity rover is within driving distance of a mountain called Mount Sharp, which might contain these RSLs — though their presence has not yet been confirmed at that spot. Even more exciting is that Curiosity could scoop up samples and analyze them in far greater detail than the satellites that scientists have been using so far.

"If we decide it's safe to go up and touch one, basically the whole rover is full of equipment that is designed to figure out composition and mineralogy of materials on Mars," Ashwin Vasavada, who is the project scientist for Curiosity, told Business Insider. "We could do a nice job of understanding the chemistry of what's going on."

There are still many questions about these RSLs that need answers. Perhaps the greatest one of them all is where this water is coming from. Is it groundwater, melting frost, or something else? The answer will shed light on how the water source's abundance and potential as a vital resource for future manned missions and colonies on Mars.

While Curiosity could help answer some of these questions, there is a big problem that needs solving first.

An unavoidable risk and a difficult challenge

As Vasavada says, NASA must first decide if it's safe for the rover to approach these features for scientific analyses. However, it's not the rover's safety NASA is worried about — it's the planet Mars. And right now NASA's planetary protection officer, Cassie Conley, is trying to figure out if Mars and its flowing water is safe from contamination.

Conley's role as NASA's planetary protection officer is to safeguard Mars — and any other alien surface NASA chooses to visit — from contamination by Earth-based microorganisms. There is so much life on Earth that it is impossible to sterilize any lander completely, and it's Conley's job to figure out just how much contamination is acceptable.

The problem is that Curiosity has been on the Martian surface for over 3 years, so no one knows if the small amount of bacteria that contaminated it on launch day are still alive. And because no one knows, that means Vasavada and the rest of the rover team can't go near these RSLs for risk of contaminating future searches for the potential for life— at least until the problem is solved.

And it's going to be a difficult one to tackle because NASA can't simply swab Curiosity's instruments because, well, it's on Mars, and unfortunately no swab stick is that long. So, scientists will have to take the same types and amounts of bacteria that were on Curiosity when it launched and expose them to conditions akin to what's on Mars.

"Curiosity has been on Mars now for more than 3 years and a lot of the rover has been exposed to ultraviolet light and the dryness of Mars," Vasavada told Business Insider. "It would be a pretty challenging study to work through how Curiosity may have been cleaned just by being in the harsh environment of Mars."

What Curiosity can contribute right now

Even if such an analysis proves that Curiosity is too dirty to approach these RSLs, the rover could still contribute to this area of research, Vasavada said, with its camera.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSA view from the "Kimberley" formation on Mars where scientists found evidence of ancient lakes. Photo was taken by Curiosity rover.

"One thing that Curiosity can do is to image these potential RSLs," he said. "Even without going up to them super close, we have a telephoto lens camera that once we get a little closer than we are now, it will actually get higher resolution images than what we can do from orbiters."

That's very important, because the features on Mount Sharp are too small for orbiters to see — which is why scientists haven't managed to confirm or disprove whether the features in question are RSLs or something else. Curiosity's camera could help solve that mystery.

As for the potential for life and Curiosity's ability to detect it within these features, Vasavada is skeptical.

"The water would be quite salty and perhaps too salty to offer a good environment for life," he said. Moreover, the instruments on board Curiosity can identify the chemistry of Martian soil but not necessarily the detection of living organisms, Vasavada said. NASA's Mars 2020 rover, however, will have instruments on board that can detect life.

When it comes to hunting for evidence for life on Mars, Vasavada is more interested in the ancient lakes on Mars than these RSLs. Vasavada and the Curiosity team recently confirmed the existence of these ancient lakes in the region where Curiosity is currently located.

"We can't forget that 3.5 billion years ago there were giant fresh water lakes that lasted millions of years," he said. "That is even a more fantastic environment to think of the possibility of life."
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Russia declassified secret images from Venus that show extraterrestrial life

The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, published a series of photographs, taken by the Venera probe which allegedly show evidence of living organisms on Venus, one of the most inhospitable places for humans in the solar system. Venus, the second planet from the sun is the most similar planet in our solar system in terms of size and structure to Earth. In terms of the surface it is anything but Earth-like.

It is the hottest planet in the solar system, mainly due to its atmosphere which is 97 percent carbon dioxide, a heat trapping greenhouse gas.

The constant temperature on Venus is 480 degrees Celsius, a temperature which is hot enough to melt lead and it even hotter than the nearest planet to the Sun, Mercury.

According to Russian scientist Leonid Ksanfomaliti, this image, taken from a Russian probe that landed on Venus in 1982, we can see a scorpion-shaped life form

According to an explanation by Leonid Ksanfomaliti, doctor of physical and mathematical science, at the Institute of Space Research, the images taken 30 years ago reveal the movement of extremely strange objects on the surface of Venus.

NASA quickly went on to debunk the discovery. As explained, the ‘disc’ that is seen moving on the surface is a lens cap, and the ‘scorpion-like-creature’ proposed by Ksanfomaliti is actually ‘noise’ in a second-hand picture which isn’t present in the original image.

Ksanfomaliti believes that in the images, a scorpion-shaped creature, a disk and a ‘black flap’ are visible moving in front of the onboard camera of the Venera 13.

According to reports from a Russian news agency Ksanfomaliti explained in an article of the Russian journal Solar System Research magazine: 'They all 'emerge, fluctuate and disappear,

'What if we forget about the current theories about the non-existence of life on Venus, let's boldly suggest that the objects' morphological features would allow us to say that they are living,' he added.

But American counterparts seem to firmly disagree with Ksanfomaliti. Ted Stryk who is a photo analyst at NASA says it is more likely that the disc Ksanfomaliti is talking about could have come from the spacecraft.

'Venera-13 had two cameras, one in front and one in back. The one image shows the front camera lens cap and the other shows the rear camera lens cap, not one lens cap that moved,' he says, in comments on Life's Little Mysteries.

NASA says there is no way that anything can survive on Venus today. However, scientists have not ruled out that once, in the distant past, Venus might have supported life, in a time when the planet might have had giant oceans and possibly life, before the ‘greenhouse effect’ created the temperatures that rule over the planet today.

'Current theories suggest that Venus and the Earth may have started out alike. There might have been a lot of water on Venus and there might have been a lot of carbon dioxide on Earth,' Professor Andrew Ingersoll of Caltech said in a paper published in Astrobiology in 2004.

Images of the surface of Venus taken by the Soviet Venera-13 descent module in 1982

The problem with science and scholars in search for extraterrestrial life is that mankind believes that for life to exist elsewhere in the solar system or universe, a planet should have a similar climate and conditions to those of Earth.

What if elsewhere, on Venus perhaps, there are living beings which need scorching temperatures in order to survive, beings that can breathe carbon dioxide and cannot survive with water or oxygen. In order to search more adequately for extraterrestrial life, we need to change the conditions and patterns for extraterrestrial life.

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Boyhood Encounter With UFO Inspired Art That Soared Around The World

Ionel Talpazan's "Fundamental UFO".
Courtesy of Henry Boxer Gallery

Ionel Talpazan thought he saw a UFO when he was a boy, and never stopped seeing them. Of course, he created them.

Ionel Talpazan was 60 years old when he died this week, of diabetes and stroke. He was a boy in a small village in Romania, given up by his parents and raised by a succession of foster parents. He told interviewers he escaped into the woods one night because he thought he would be beaten.

He saw a blue, beating light in the sky above, and was sure it was a spacecraft.

Ionel began to draw spacecraft; I'm not sure you can call them UFOs when an artist gives them such a vivid, colorful identify.

It is hard not to think that a lost, frightened little boy in the woods would dream and draw pictures of amazing machines to swoop down from the heavens and take him away.

But Ionel Talpazan had to make his own escape. As a young adult, he swam across the Danube River and into Yugoslavia, where he lived in a refugee camp before he could get to New York in the 1980s.

He had rough times in his new world, too. But Ionel continued to draw pictures of spacecraft he imagined, often thrown open to reveal innards as elaborate as schematics; but rarely people. He slept in a cardboard box near Columbus Circle and sold drawings, paintings, and small flying saucers that he made out of plaster and scavenged parts.

I don't know where life would have led Ionel Talpazan if he'd slept in a cardboard box on a corner of, say, Akron or Peoria. But in New York, a famous art figure named Henry Tobler saw an artist in his drawings, and wrote about him in scholarly journals. His pictures were included in Manhattan art galleries, and from the 1990s on, Ionel made his way in the world by his art.

By the time he died, his works had hung at the American Visionary Art Museum, and museums in San Franciso, London, Berlin, Madrid, and France. Talpazans were sold in fancy galleries from Soho to Chelsea. The man who had slept in a box moved to a New York apartment.

"My art shows spiritual technology, something beautiful and beyond human imagination, that comes from another galaxy," he once told the Western Folklore journal. "So, in relative way, this is like the God."

Ionel Talpazan imagined incredible things, and made them alive in the eyes of others. In a way, he did escape on his UFO.

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Hubble-telescoop spot mysterieuze objecten in de ruimte: “Ze lijken in niets op wat ooit is gezien of voorspeld”

In de protoplanetaire schijf rond de nabije ster AU Microscopii hebben sterrenkundigen nog nooit eerder waargenomen objecten ontdekt. De snel bewegende, golfachtige formaties lijken in niets op wat ooit is gezien of voorspeld.

AU Microscopii is een relatief jonge ster die op 32 lichtjaar van de aarde staat. Het gaat om een zogeheten rode dwerg. Astronomen wisten al langer dat de ster wordt omgeven door een schijf van materie. Ze denken dat deze schijf is ontstaan doordat planetoïden zo hard op elkaar zijn gebotst dat ze zijn vermalen tot stof.

Tijdens het analyseren van opnames die zijn gemaakt door de Very Large Telescope en de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop hebben wetenschappers onder leiding van Anthony Boccaletti iets bijzonder vreemds ontdekt. Er zijn golfachtige formaties te zien, die doen denken aan rimpelingen in water.

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Door oudere foto’s van de Hubble-telescoop te bestuderen, kwamen onderzoekers tot de conclusie dat de ongewone objecten zich met extreem hoge snelheden voortbewegen, tot wel 40.000 kilometer per uur. Er zijn vijf van deze golfachtige formaties ontdekt. Drie objecten bewegen zo snel dat ze aan de zwaartekracht van de ster kunnen ontsnappen.

“Alles aan deze vondst was verrassend!” zei coauteur Carol Grady. “Omdat er nog nooit zoiets is waargenomen of voorspeld, kunnen we alleen maar speculeren.”

De onderzoekers kunnen niet met zekerheid zeggen waardoor de mysterieuze rimpelingen zijn ontstaan. Ze vermoeden dat de golven zijn veroorzaakt door een grote zonnevlam. Het onderzoek is verschenen in vakblad Nature.

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