Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
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België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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UFOs Over Saint Paul, Minnesota On Dec 20, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Photo above and below are the same. Just below I added light.
Date of sighting: December 20, 2015 Location of sighting: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA Source: MUFON At first I was worried these were antenna lights on a hill so I added light to it to see the mountain, but found there was none. The lights were in the sky and seen through tree branches. This tells me it is a real sighting and the UFOs are flying together as if watching out for their wingman. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I was walking my dog along the railroad track, two blocks east of where the tracks go over Como ave.. I was points of light in the sky in the North moving N to S in a line. None of the lights were were in a perfect line but formed a rough line. All moved uniformly and in sync WRT velocity. My suspicions were raised when I realized no sound was being emoitted, contrary to my initial belief that they were military helicopters in formation. As the four of them passed overhead, the second to the vanguard diminished in brightness and in doing so began emitting a redder light until finally it disappeared. I then noticed more movement to the North and observed a fifth apparently catching up because of it's slightly higher rate of speed. At this point there were only four and all continued in the same vector at the same speed. After a short time, as with the first one, all began to disappear in the same as the first. Detailed description of lights: each light had a bright center enveloped on a fuzz glow. I felt elated and surprised.
A man at Bluff City in Sullivan County, Tennessee claimed to have seen two sets of Christmas tree-like UFOs with lights. According to his testimony filed in Case 73064 in Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database, he was in a vehicle driven by a friend around 6 p.m. on December 10, 2015, as they were traveling along Chinquapin Grove Road during a drive from Cater County to Sullivan County.
The reporting witness was sitting in the passenger seat when he saw the UFOs to his left shortly and then to his right, just above the Holston Mountain. It appeared as if several UFOs flew in sets of two.
According to the reporting witness, one set was traveling side-by-side, while another set was hovering over the mountain, but they weren’t side-by-side, one was above the other. The witness went on to say that they resembled flashing Christmas trees, but no mountains or trees as their background because they were flying in the sky.
The witness said that each set had a different color as one appeared orange-red, and the other one had bluish-white. The witness believes other people could have seen these UFOs too. The reporting witness and his friend stopped their vehicle along Weaver Pike Road and got out of the vehicle for a better vantage point.
They saw a helicopter with a spotlight going to the area following one of the unusual Christmas tree craft. They saw one flying at a low level with a sound similar to a jet, but much softer for the given distance. No videos or photos were included with the report filed on December 11, 2015.
Argentina Air Force Release First Report About Their Official UFO Study
There are dozens of UFO investigation organizations around the world, and Argentina’s Air Force (FAA) is handling one of them. The FAA’s official UFO investigation organization studies photo and video of UFO cases. It was established in mid-2011, but only recently that it released its first report.
The FAA first announced the formation of a commission to investigate UFO reports in the latter part of December 2010. It officially launched the Commission for the Investigation of Aerospace Phenomena (CEFAe) in May 2011 with a ceremony held at the Condor Building in Buenos Aires, the headquarters of the FAA and the location of CEFAe. After that official launching, not much has been heard from the organization.
A translated story about a report posted on CEFAe’s website was featured on the website Inexplicata – The Journal of Hispanic Ufology. The CEFAe website looks simple with only a few paragraphs that explain the people behind the organization and a link to download a form for UFO reports.
The published report includes the investigations of ten cases, the majority of them were reported in January 2015. The investigators seemed to find simple answers to the cases, which include photos or videos except for one report.
CEFAe relies on the help of civilian UFO researchers, which is one of the interesting aspects of the organization as it adds to the transparency of the process. The original Spanish version of the report can be found at the CEFAe website.
Aside from Argentina, there are other South American countries with an official UFO investigation organization, namely, Uruguay, Chile, and Peru.
A short 15-second footage has caught the attention of many UFO observers. It shows a glowing, morphing UFO in the sky above China. Captured on December 13, 2015, many people in Sina Weibo forum exclaimed their disbelief about what the video was showing in the night sky. With several witnesses, it can’t be denied that they saw something unusual.
A photo of identified flying object shocked witnesses in Western China at around 8:20 p.m. on Sunday evening. In several cities, such as Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, and other places, online users said they had seen a strange object in the sky. They uploaded photos and videos to the network.
The white object in the picture looks like an anti-missile, or anti-satellite missile with the familiar halo. Some are wondering if it is a DF41D missile intercept test. Others say it can be an unidentified flying object or aliens. The rest just believe it is a military training. What do you think? Let us know in the comment section below.
Ancient Sumerian texts refer to the Anunnaki as “those that came down from the heaven,” a race of extremely powerful and advanced beings that engineered mankind hundreds of thousands of years ago.
According to the genesis story, the twelfth planet, known as Nibiru was populated by humanoid beings very similar to us humans. After they encountered a severe atmosphere problem, they went on a quest through the solar system in order to find gold, a special metal that could heal their planet.
When Nibiru approached Earth’s orbit, about 432,000 years BC, the Nibiruans used space ships to send people and essential goods from their planet to Earth. After they reached the surface, the advanced beings established bases in ancient Mesopotamia.
In order to extract the precious metal, gold mines were established in southern Africa where they found abundant gold deposits. Because the work as a miner did not befit the Nibiruan masters, the Anunnaki people were sent to do the job for them. Treated like some sort of slaves, they represented the working element of this society, even though their physical and intellectual features were considered imposing by our current modern human standards.
Because of their superior traits, the Anunnaki soon revolted against their overseers and demanded them to create an inferior being in order to do this petty job in their stead. Their leaders consulted and eventually concluded that a lesser being is indeed needed for this kind of exploiting work, and so they created a new race by combining their own genes with those of the most evolved primates that lived on Earth at that point in time, which was probably Australopitechus.
At first, Enki and Ninmah (two of the leaders) designed beings with formidable strength and size that worked for the Anunnaki on Earth, helping them to extract gold. As perfect as this sounds, their creation had one major flow – they couldn’t reproduce themselves, and so the so called “Gods” had to continuously make more of them to keep the mining process up and running at the desired capacity.
As time passed, Enki and Ninmah developed several beings until they managed to reach the desired goal. After all their struggle, the final product of their combined knowledge was able to talk and most important they could produce children themselves, this way the first human race appeared under the form of Homo Erectus.
Whenever Nibiru distanced away from Earth, a part of the “Gods” returned to their home planet until it completed the 3,600 year cycle again, period of time which the Sumerians called a Sar.
Meanwhile, the Anunnaki remained on Earth to take care of the gold mines and the so called slaves, precisely as they were ordered by their “Gods”. Because some human characteristics were also found in the Anunnaki, as the humans were created in their image, they eventually started to fight over earthly desires.
Taking advantage of the situation, the slaves formed an alliance and revolted against their Masters, like the Anunnaki once did. Many of them managed to escape the mines and eventually settled as free people in other parts of the Earth, living their lives as depicted in many ancient texts – “like the Wild Beasts”.
After the 3,600 years cycle was completed once again, the Leaders of the Anunnaki returned to Earth and were very unpleased when they saw that the situation was out of control. They sentenced the Anunnaki to work the mines yet again.
During their brief stay on planet Earth, the Masters conducted more experiments in order to create a more sophisticated race of workers. They made Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus until they eventually developed a race able to think, speak and reproduce themselves, and so they created MAN also known as Homo Sapiens.
The chief scientist Enqi and the medical chief Ninti of the Anunnaki used genetic manipulation and in-vitro fertilization in order to create humans in their own image. The process consisted in the development of a biological body in a controlled, non-living environment, similar to a laboratory vessel or glass tubes as shown on the seal of an ancient Sumerian cylinder.
"Man and Female created he them, and blessed them and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. – Genesis 5:2 "
The Hebrew word for man is ADAM, referring not to a single person but rather more, in our case a tribe of human beings called Adamites or “Those who are of the ground.”
After the Anunnaki created man – Homo Sapiens, they still confronted with one major problem: the slaves who escaped and scattered over a big portion of the planet. The solution came along with the Great Flood that was about to come as a result of what was happening in our solar system back then.
They mutually agreed upon leaving them all to die, unknowingly of what was to come. However, chief scientist Enqi who was one of the leaders, convinced the others that his latest creation – Homo Sapiens, was too complex and unique and deserved to live on this planet and so was finally decided. The events that followed brought the Great Flood, wiping humanity except for Homo Sapiens.
Recent scientific discoveries such as the Neolithic goldmines in southern Africa or the tracking of all human DNA back to a single source, called ‘Eve” by the genesis have tended to confirm the interpretation of the Sumerian records.
And yet another intriguing fact is that scientist can’t relate why Homo Sapiens has only been around for about 49,000 years, without any possible explanations about his sudden evolvement.
This study was based on Zecharia Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles that present the forbidden history of the human species, based on countless studies and interpretations of the ancient civilizations that once thrived and developed using now-forgotten techniques.
Green UFO Orb Reported at Ground Level in Hutto, Texas
Another orb UFO encounter has troubled a witness from Hutton, Texas, who reported seeing the bizarre craft in broad daylight and extremely close to the ground.
It was about 8:14 a.m. local time on November 22, 2015, when the sighting occurred. While driving into Hutton, the witness saw a strange green light hovering over an open grass area close to the road, so she pulled the car aside and watched with amazement how the orb UFO “was hovering over the grassy area as if looking for something.”
She describes the craft as being a silver-colored orb with green lights attached. It moved from side-to-side, similar to a dog sniffing for clues, and after that, the green pulsating lights were suddenly turned off. As the witness describes:
It went side-to-side and then just zoomed off. This thing was very close to landing. It was just searching for something in the grass. I have never in my life seen something like this. It was silver, but the lights were green. Not too far from the grass.”
The woman was terrified by the spontaneous UFO orb as it took off after about 30 seconds after she pulled over. She describes how she felt the panic when the orb departed her way.
I was so scared. I thought it would come close to my car. This is something I will never forget. It kept going side-to-side looking and this went on for 20 or 30 seconds and then it just turned off the light and zoomed away straight forward as fast as it could.
According to reports, representatives of MUFON in Texas are already investigating this matter. If they’ll reveal more info on the case, it remains to be seen, but before that, we came up with a recent case that is likely to be related to this one. It occurred on December 6th, 2015, about two weeks after the events described above.
The orb UFO had the same characteristics, and even more – there were two orbs “playing” over Lost Angeles, CA while pulsating in green light and performing law-defying maneuvers. While the flying devices were not seen so close to the ground, the footagefrom LA provides stunning evidence of UFO activity over dense populated areas.
The sighting described above strongly resembles another case from August 27, 1979 reported by Marshall County Sheriff’s Deputy Val Johnson. The deputy describes how his squad car got hit by a mysterious bright orb while he was driving on a desolate road in Warren, Minnesota.
At first, he pulled over to observe the glowing UFO, but he wasn’t so fortunate as the other witness because the UFO charged towards him and left the man unconscious. Hypotheses vary from an energy beam shot at the car to an actual collision.
What is certain is that the deputy had a hazy mind after the events that followed, but he recalls that just before passing out he saw a blinding flash of green light. The man woke up in a hospital with severe burn marks on his face and near the eyes. Doctors who were treating him compared the burns to his eyes to burns induced by the brightness of flames from a welder’s equipment. Could there be a link between the Johnnson UFO and the Hutto UFO incident?
From what we know, it’s likely that some connections exist, and if we consider the link between these two cases, the possibility of the bright orbs being in fact secret military devices is slowly fading away. And then what other possibility should we consider? Alien entities? Or maybe artificial intelligence? Whatever the case, it appears that the orb UFOs are a known sighting even from the 90s if not stretching back for hundreds or thousands of years.
As you’ve probably read in a previous article on this subject, the critically acclaimed crime series on FX was filled with UFO scenes or vanishing riddles since the first episode of season 2.
Warning, spoilers ahead!
Before every episode, we are told that the events and characters depicted in the show are all very real, and only the names have been changed out of respect for the dead.
The whole season is a puzzle itself and significant details may be hard to catch for even the sharpest eye or Fargo fanatics. So, let’s analyze.
Let’s pick up where we left off. The last piece of the puzzle we talked about is Lou’s dying wife finding the strange drawings in her father’s (or mother’s) room. We still don’t know why the mother isn’t present. She could’ve been abducted and not dead as we first thought. We can’t be sure if the drawings were made by the Sheriff or his wife. In the latest episode (season 2, episode 9), we get some clues but are still left staring at the sun.
First, the terminally ill wife falls to the kitchen floor. Her daughter, who has a mysterious visitor in her room, in the person of a young beautiful woman, holds a drawing of a strange creature with 3 UFOs of different sizes above it. When the woman urges her to show her mother, the toddler finds her unconscious.
We catch a glimpse of an old picture of the clerk and someone who must be his daughter or wife next to signs saying WE ARE NOT ALONE or FUTURE IS HERE , KEEP YOUR EYES TO THE SKY and a picture of a UFO, at the gas station, as the he tries to make a call before receiving a subtle head shot. This leads us to believe the young girl in the photo had also been abducted and her father has been seeking answers ever since (posting signs).
This girl, probably missing since who knows when, is surely the visitor of Lou’s daughter. This visitor, who is very likely extraterrestrial, places something inside a drawer. It could be a tiny medicine kit or recording device…
When Lou calls to check on his wife, we hear the ringing phone and see the shattered glass she left through the kitchen when falling, but there’s no sign of her. From what we’ve seen so far, the aliens have a tendency to abduct or at least visit the females in the series, maybe for study, maybe for impregnation.
Then, comes the blast. In the middle of the main violence scene (which is practically the show’s theme), a huge, round, UFO lights up the motel’s parking lot, thus rescuing Lou just as he was about to be strangled by the powerful hands of Bear, who is caught off guard and shot in the head by the deputy.
In a wide view of the parking lot, we can clearly see the UFO shining bright blue circular lights on 3 spots, one where the chocking incident was taking place, and on 2 other fallen shooters (presumably dead, but maybe alive). It hovers very low and flashes many other lights, before shutting them down and quietly leaving when the Blumqists stare at it.
UFOs have been known to frequent conflict areas and even try to stop the violence or somehow help the weak. The aliens could’ve helped Lou out of mercy for his dying wife, or as a strange compensation for abducting her mother (or even his daughter in the past or future, judging by her drawings).
REMEMBER. THIS IS ALL REAL, PEOPLE !!!
Fargo fanatics however, have noticed that anybody who encountered the UFO died soon afterwards. That may be, but the extraterrestrials could also bring them back to life or even use their bodies as earthly vessels.
At the end, on the background of the classic “cops rushing in scene,” the UFO slowly takes off in the horizon, towards a strange, barely visible, moonlike celestial body.
Keep your eyes to the sky, and tell us what we missed.
I colored the photos above to make it easier on the eyes. Hessdalen UFOs most often appears as a bright white or yellow or red light of unknown origin standing or floating above the ground level. Sometimes the light can be seen for more than one hour. Sometimes the light moves with enormous speed, or sometimes just swayed to and fro with almost zero speed and it may sometimes just stand still in mid air. These cams were placed there to observe the UFOs. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Streetcap1 of Youtube states: I saw this at the top of the screen on checking the Hessdalen Livecam and immediately noticed it was heading downward. The footage you see is about 50 seconds later as I had to setup my recording software very quickly. There are no flashing aircraft lights on this object and no nearby airport as far as I know. Hessdalen is famous for unusual phenomena and ufos. Streetcap1.
Sending humans to Mars could uncover a disturbing truth to one of life's greatest mysteries
By Jessica Orwig
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(NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) This version of a self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at a drilling site called “Buckskin” is presented as a stereographic projection, which shows the horizon as a circle. The MAHLI camera on Curiosity’s robotic arm took dozens of component images for this selfie on Aug. 5, 2015.
If humankind successfully lands people on the surface of Mars, we could discover an important clue about the origins of life on Earth — one of the greatest scientific mysteries in human history.
A theory called panspermia, which dates back to the 5th century BC, posits that certain life forms can hop between planets, and even star systems, to fertilize them with life.
Following this theory, some scientists suspect that the first life on Earth never formed on our planet at all, but instead, hitched a ride inside planetary fragments from Mars that were flung into space after a powerful impact and eventually fell to Earth. We could be the aliens!
While some write the theory off as outrageous, others think it could harbor some potential. If true, it could deeply impact how we identify ourselves as a species.
None of the landers or satellites we’ve sent to the Red Planet thus far have uncovered evidence of past or present life of any kind.
(20th Century Fox) Scene from the sci-fi film “The Martian.”
It’s possible that a robot simply cannot dig deep enough or collect enough of the right kind of sample. In the end, it might take a human to explore what robotic rovers cannot.
Plus, what it takes NASA’s best Mars rovers a week to do, a well-equipped human could complete in 15 minutes, according to mechanical engineer and popular science communicator Bill Nye in his latest book “Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World.”
“If we found microbes on Mars that are clearly related to those on Earth, such a discovery would change the course of human history … everyone everywhere would soon come to feel differently about what it means to be a living thing in the cosmos,” Nye writes.
It won't be a surprise
This kind of discovery, however, won’t come suddenly, according to Linda Billings, the consultant to NASA’s Astrobiology and Near Earth Object Programs.
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(Courtesy of Heritage Auctions ) This Mars meteorite, which weighs 0.75 pounds (327 grams), landed in July 2011 as part of a shower in the vicinity of Tissint, Morocco, the location that gives the meteorite its name.
“As is the case with most scientific discoveries, the discovery of extraterrestrial life will likely be a prolonged process,” Billings told Business Insider. “Claims of evidence of extraterrestrial life will be subjected to peer review, and other scientists will continue to look for further evidence.”
One example of this prolonged process took place in the mid-90’s when a team of scientists announced that they found convincing evidence for extraterrestrial life inside of a Martian meteorite — a rock that formed on Mars, were ejected into space after a powerful impact by an asteroid or comet, and eventually landed on Earth.
To date, scientists have identified 132 Martian meteorites.
In 1996, the NASA-led team published a paper in the prestigious journal Science that they’d identified grooves and organic compounds in the “ALH8400” Martian meteorite, discovered in Antarctica, that could be fossilized evidence for extraterrestrial nanobacteria.
“The astrobiology community spent months into years investigating those claims,” Billings said. “Eventually a consensus emerged in the science community that the original claim of fossil evidence of martian life did not stand up to scrutiny.”
If astrobiologists do eventually discover that life came from Mars, NASA will be ready for what happens next.
NASA explores the repercussions
In 2011, NASA and the Library of Congress established the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Astrobiology Program, which explores the philosophical, religious, ethical, legal, and cultural impact related to the possible discovery of extraterrestrial life.
(REUTERS/Sucheta Das) The current chair of the program, Nathani Comfort, who is also a scientific historian and professor at the Institute of the History of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University, shared his thoughts with Business Insider about what the notion that we all have a little Martian in us might mean:
“It wouldn’t alter the views of those who hold literal interpretations of Scripture. And the rest of evolution would follow as before,” Comfort said. “The tabloids would have a field day of course. But once the headlines faded and the conferences ended, I think life would continue on much as before.”
As for the people who dedicate their lives to the scientific process, Comfort said:
“Academics would debate questions of human identity afresh … in short, it might throw an existential monkey wrench into the works, but the principles of moral behavior would remain the same.”
The probability of panspermia
The idea that life came from Mars is a highly-debated topic. Both Comfort and Billings agree that the possibility is unlikely.
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(Thomson Reuters) Reef corals are seen in the Western Indo-Pacific Ocean in this undated handout picture
“It seems to me extremely unlikely that life on Earth came from Mars (or anywhere else),” Comfort said. “The logic and data I find most persuasive dismisses the idea of life coming from a ‘seed’ at all, whether terrestrial or not.”
Yet, other scientists, like Steven Benner — who’s a chemist and one of the world’s leading experts on the origins of life — argue otherwise.
In 2013, Benner said during a talk at the Goldschmidt conference for geochemists that Mars might have been a better place for life to begin than Earth.
That’s because ancient Martian meteorites contain more boron and molybdenum — important precursors to the formation of RNA — than early Earth.
Moreover, Christopher Adcock and Elizabeth Hausrath, both researchers at the University of Nevada in 2013, discovered that phosphates — another important chemical in the formation of RNA, DNA, and essential proteins — in Martian meteorites are more water-soluble than those on early Earth.
And since life is suspected to have begun in the presence of water, their research suggests that Mars could have formed life more readily than Earth.
However, studying Martian meteorites for signs of life has been ongoing for over two decades without success. Perhaps the only way to know for sure if we are the true aliens is to head to Mars ourselves and dig up the potential proof.
The Secret Space Program Built with Alien Technology
"We now have the technology to take ET home." – Ben Rich, CEO of Lockheed Skunk Works, 1993
The story behind this quote is an interesting one. At a lecture held in 1993 at the UCLA Alumni center, Ben Rich, the former CEO of Lockheed Martin Skunk Works held a speech about the advancements in space engineering during the previous 40 years.
He concluded with the quote about taking ET home while the final image in his slide presentation showed a “black disk zipping out into outer space.”
Over the years, the Skunk Works division of Lockheed has designed and built a number of high-tech aircraft such as the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-22 Raptor and the F-117 Nighthawk.
Taking this into account, some have drawn the conclusion that Rich alluded to advanced technology being secretly developed and it might be responsible for some of the flying disks we see today.
Seems too far-fetched? We’re on the same page but wait, it gets better.
In 2001, British systems administrator Gary McKinnon hacked his way into 97 U.S. military and NASA computers. He intended to find top-secret files regarding free energy but stumbled upon something bigger.
McKinnon claimed to have uncovered a spreadsheet containing names and information about “non-terrestrial officers” and transfers between fleets.
He cross referenced these names with a database of all U.S. Navy and military personnel but was unable to find any of the officers. McKinnon therefore concluded they were not of this world and labeled them as “Space Marines”.
In an interview with the BBC, he said he had been motivated by The Disclosure Project because:
“They are some very credible, relied-upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extraterrestrial in origin and they’ve captured spacecraft and reverse engineered them.”
McKinnon was discovered just as he was examining the image of a UFO stored in a NASA computer in Johnson Space Center’s Building 8. Caught in 2002, he was facing up to 70 years in prison and several million dollars in fines.
However, the U.K. never extradited him to the U.S. and McKinnon managed to avoid prison. Some say that he was able to do so because he had amassed sensitive information that he used as leverage.
He maintains his claim that extraterrestrial spacecraft have been captured and reverse-engineered and now the alien technology is being used by entities in our own figurative backyard.
Program Solar Warden
This brings us to Solar Warden. According to conspiracy theorists, Solar Warden is an ultra-secret project that maintains a fleet (or several fleets) of spaceships that are operating within our solar system. Some say they’re defending us against alien threats. Others say they’re involved in the covert colonization of space.
Such a fleet would require technology way ahead of what we’ve currently got. In order to send manned missions into the far reaches of our solar system we’d need exotic materials and propulsion systems. But there are some who claim we already do.
"I suspect that in the last 60 years or so, that there has been some back-engineering and the creation of this type of equipment, that is not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the apparent visitors have." -
Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth astronaut to walk on the Moon
Even so, who would have the coin required to fund such a venture?
The United States’ black budget for 2014 amounted to some $52.6 billion and they plan on spending around $58.7 B this year. But even this astronomical sum isn’t enough to fund or maintain a secret space fleet. And that’s when conspiracy voices start mentioning the deep black budgets.
As it turns out, there might be UFOs that were built on Earth, based on technology that originated elsewhere in the universe, and we might actually have a secret space fleet [capable of interplanetary travel].
The Ancient Reptilian Gods that Helped Humanity Break Away from Chains—Part I
Records depicting reptilian gods are scattered all around the globe, with most cultures worshiping these curious beings in return for the knowledge offered when they descended on Earth.
Considered the cradle of civilization by the Western world, the area of ancient Mesopotamia and modern-day Iraq preserved some of the most mysterious writings and petroglyphs ever discovered. They speak of godly race that ruled over ancient Sumerian people around 3,500 BC and were particularly advanced in their way of living and achieving things.
According to the uncovered records, the godly overlords were humanoid creatures of extraterrestrial origin who came from the sky in their enchanted crafts. Several clay tablets unearthed from this area, describe how these “gods” had to do all the hard labor on their own when they first established an outpost on Earth.
It wasn’t long until this extraterrestrial society decided to create lower beings who would work in their stead, so they genetically combined features of their own DNA with that of the “ape man”, thus creating the first Homo sapiens.
At first, these gods were very satisfied with the achieved results. They now had a lesser species doing all the manual labor such as farming, excavation, building and of course, mining. However, the newly designed race of slaves found no pleasure in this ruthless, constant work because they were forced into it and were considerably mistreated.
Because these beings suffered greatly under the rule of the masters, the idea of freedom sparkled in their hearts and fortunately they were not the only ones desiring this. As the Sumerian tablets reveal, a group of these godly creatures formed an alliance in order to free the Homo sapiens and offered them scientific and spiritual knowledge so that they could ascend to a God-like status more fit for their nature.
The name of the extraterrestrial leader of the rebellion was engraved on the Sumerian tablets – he was known as Enlil or EA. He was the genetic engineer who designed the Homo sapiens and from a former subjugator scientist, he became a liberal fighter. Other engravings reveal that EA’s center of operations was located in a swamp-like area named “Snake Marsh” because of the many reptiles (particularly snakes) who had their DEN there.
When the uprising begun, the first battles were fought on EA’s headquarters, also referred to as EA-DEN. It’s interesting to notice that, according to Biblical writings, a snake or “reptilian” seduced Eve, the first female caretaker of the garden from Adam’s grasp while also offering them knowledge in the previous mentioned garden of E-DEN.
As a result of his disobedience, the reptilian engineer and his alien followers were sent in exile underground, inside the vast cavernous labyrinth underneath the earth. As a complementary punishment, the overlords forbade the rebellious reptilian from meddling with humans again and so their generations will come to know each other, but will also come to hate each other. Along with the burdening punishment, the name of the reptilian was changed from “Lucifer” – meaning “the bringer of light and knowledge” to “Satan” or “adversary”.
After EA offered the early Homo sapiens the gift of knowledge, the humans underwent powerful shifts in perception as well as in the basic understanding of life. Historical references of reptilian beings share one common element and that is wisdom; every culture adopting the snake agrees that it influenced mankind’s evolution.
Another relevant fact is the tree of knowledge, the palm tree from the garden of EA-DEN, described as having a half-snake, half-man entwined on its trunk. It is believed that from this tree, the reptilian taught Eve who taught Adam, so when they “opened their eyes” for the first time, an intense feeling of fear overcame them both – “It is said that a person who is totally unaware of the reality in which they live, resides in an Edenic state”.
After the two humans got hold of this knowledge, they soon formed a couple, engaging into their first sexual act. At first, they were shy of their naked bodies because they found a huge difference between them and the reptilians who had scales covering and at the same time protecting their bodies and the humans didn’t know until then that they were different from their creators in any way. In that crucial moment, the two humans surpassed their ignorance and realized that, by design, they were meant to be workers of the land.
Other gods descended from the sky as time passed, in different attempts to save humanity by teaching them spiritual and magical knowledge. Among them were the Mayan Serpent God, Quetzalcoatl, the colossal Serpent God of the Hopi Indians, Baholinkonga, the Egyptian Serpent God Enuph, the Phoenicians’ Agathodemon, the Hebrews Nakhustan or Brazen Serpent that guided Moses and the Israelites through the desert by pillar of cloud and fire and also the East Indian esoteric human-like reptilians known as Nagas.
There is a considerable amount of records from different ancient and modern cultures depicting their old gods as having reptilian and human physical features as well as having descended from the heavens or stars, none of them denying the important amount of knowledge the Serpents offered their culture.
Orb UFO Filmed While Chasing After the ISS at Tremendous Speed
While the world is preparing for the upcoming holidays, the astronauts on the ISS are still working on innovative projects that someday might ease life in space and possibly on other planets.
Six days ago, on December 15, the ISS was filmed while traveling at a dazzling speed of 18,000 MPH above Earth. While the sighting is impressive on its own, the small “intruder” chasing after the space station sure puzzled a lot of UFO enthusiasts.
The following video reveals a fascinating sight of the ISS seen from ground level. However, a small dot was surprised as it was chasing the station at a similar speed (look carefully in the back, left of the ISS). Could this be an orb UFO spying on the International Space Station? Or is this an identified object after all?
According to official reports, six days ago was the launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket destined to dock with the ISS. It carried a crew of three astronauts, among them being Tim Peake, the first official British astronaut to ever set foot on the ISS. After a failed attempt to dock, Russian astronaut Yuri Malenchenko had to take manual control of the module in order to safely land on the station. Now, if the official information is correct, the small dot from the above video might be the Russian Soyuz spacecraft in a desperate attempt to land with the ISS.
However, since this explanation was released 24 hours after the launch took place, some skeptics claimed that the footage shows in fact a speeding orb UFO that is either spying on the ISS or trying to make contact. Because the official explanation arrived with a one day delay, some UFO analysts believe that NASA is covering the actual situation once again, and that the small dot chasing after the ISS is an actual UFO with possible alien origins or maybe an advanced military craft engaged into a secret space mission.
Even though NASA interrupted the live feed many times whenever a strange object approached the ISS, and even though former space engineers spoke of secret meetings between ISS astronauts and aliens, it’s likely that this time the renowned space agency spoke the truth, but we do not deny the cover-up hypothesis either. Stay vigilant!
It is nearly every week now that a fresh new UFO sighting is seen above Earth or next to the International Space Station. Many people believe that the number of sightings means astronauts on board the ISS “are probably being monitored by extraterrestrials” almost daily.
A large brightly lit UFO was captured on the International Space Stations camera, watching over them close by. StreetCap1 who is the Youtuber who discovered this footage has confirmed that this capture has come straight off NASA’s live feed footage.
Many people believe that NASA’s lack of response when questioned about these UFO’s caught on their cameras, says a lot in itself! NASA are in a way teasing us with these videos and then keeping quiet when approached about these unusual crafts caught in space.
Despite allowing public access to the recordings, many Ufologists from around the world now claim that NASA is purposely withholding information about UFOs from the public.
Please check out the quick yet ‘clear’ capture of the UFO near the ISS:
Streetcap1 who posted the intriguing video onto YouTube after capturing off NASA’s ISS live feed footage, said:
“Bright UFO above Earth”
“During a period when the camera is moving for around two minutes, NASA captures a distant pink and gold object. “Caught August 3 2015. We need them to maybe start pointing the ISS cameras outward and stop treating people like children.”
Streetcap1’s comment reference NASA pointing their cameras outward is a very fair point as apart from thee UFO’s being caught on camera, I feel its important to also give the people of planet earth, a better, clearer perspective of the Universe around us. However saying this, it is very clear WHY NASA don’t point their cameras outwards, what with the apparent amount of UFO’s around us!
The large UFO caught watching over the ISS
NASA ‘blatantly’ ignore people’s questions about these UFO’s caught on camera, and it is clear as to why they never comment, because they do NOT want us to see these crafts in space! Of course NASA know theses UFO’s are there, BUT occasionally they must slip up and perhaps the ET’s purposely show up out of nowhere so that the people of this world can SEE that they are up there in all their glory!
U.I.P SUMMARY
U.I.P have posted quite a lot of posts about the sheer amount of UFO’s being caught on camera above the ISS (please see some of the videos below) which like everything in life it’s all a numbers game! Some of the footage caught on NASA’s live feed could be something completely innocent (perhaps) BUT some of the images caught on camera have no explanations whatsoever as to what they are and where they are from – Hence they are a 100% UFO’s caught on camera!
No matter how much we moan about it, NASA at this moment in time will NOT discuss what these UFO’s are, this could be for two reasons (1) They do not know what they are, or (2) They know what they are, but are too afraid for the public to know the TRUTH (this is more likely!).
One thing is for sure, the ET’s are VERY much here with us, and have been for a long time! I could imagine NASA must be regretting ever promising the public live feed from the space station! We have seen all sorts of crafts and large structures above earth, it appears that we are being watched DAILY and something BIG is going on around us!
With UFO sightings DOUBLED this summer and sightings aplenty above Earth – could it be that a species of Aliens are forcing their OWN DISCLOSURE!?
WETENSCHAPNASA heeft een foto van de 'opkomst' van de Aarde boven de maanhorizon vrijgegeven. De Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of LRO nam de foto, of eigenlijk foto's. De LRO vloog tijdens het maken van de foto 134km boven de Compton-maankrater.
Het maken van een foto van de Aarde is geen sinecure met de LRO. Het ruimtevaartuig moet eerst op zijn zij kantelen, in dit geval onder een hoek van 67 graden; daarna moet de LRO in de vliegrichting draaien om de maanhorizon zo breed mogelijk op de gevoelige plaat vast te leggen met de kleinhoekcamera van het vaartuig. Dat alles terwijl het apparaat met 1.600 meter per seconde of 5.760 kilometer per uur ten opzichte van het maanoppervlak reist.
De hogeresolutiecamera van de LRO heeft een lens met een kleine beeldhoek en maakt zwart-witfoto's. De camera met de groothoeklens maakt kleurenfoto's. Om die data in een plaatje te verwerken, moest wel het een en ander gedaan worden, schrijft de Arizona State University op zijn LRO Camera-blog, waar ooktiff-bestanden met hoge resolutie van de foto's te vinden zijn.
De zwart-witfoto met de kleinhoekcamera wordt slechts een keer gemaakt. Deze foto heeft de hoge resolutie. De groothoekcamera maakt verschillende foto's. De pixelschaal van de kleinhoekcamera is 75 keer zo klein als die van de groothoek. Door verschillende groothoekfoto's te gebruiken, kan toch een scherpe kleurenversie van de plaat gemaakt worden.
Voor elke groothoekpixel was de Aarde tussen de twintig en vijftig keer op de foto gezet. Het maanoppervlak ziet eruit zoals gemaakt met de kleinhoekcamera. De kleuren zijn bij benadering, want het spectrum dat de groothoekcamera waarneemt, is een combinatie van de 604nm-, 556nm- en 415nm-band, ofwel oranje, geel-groen en violet. Dit is omgezet in rood, groen en blauw voor een weergave die overeenkomt met de menselijke waarneming.
Technisch gezien zal de Aarde nooit 'opkomen' als er vanaf de maan gekeken wordt, omdat de maan met een vaste zijde naar de aarde staat. Als de Aarde op de maan zichtbaar is, blijft hij zichtbaar.
SpaceX, het private ruimtevaartbedrijf van zakenman Elon Musk, is er maandag voor het eerst in geslaagd een onderdeel van de raket Falcon 9 die satellieten in de ruimte brengt, onbeschadigd terug naar de aarde te doen keren. De vorige pogingen mislukten telkens.
De Falcon 9 werd rond 20.30 uur lokale tijd (2.30 uur Belgische tijd) in Cape Canaveral in Florida gelanceerd. Zo'n elf minuten later kwam het imposante onderste deel van de raket heelhuids naar de aarde terug. Dat is een primeur: bij de vorige pogingen mislukte dat. Het onderdeel produceert kracht bij de lancering, en kan nu worden hergebruikt.
Falen De rest van de raket zet zijn ruimtetocht verder. Aan boord zijn er elf satellieten van het bedrijf Orbcomm, die in een baan rond de aarde worden gebracht.
Bij een vorige poging van SpaceX in juni, waarbij de raket het Internationaal Ruimtestation (ISS) moest bevoorraden, ontplofte de raket. Ook eerdere pogingen van het bedrijf, waarbij getracht werd het raketonderdeel te doen neerkomen op een platform in zee, faalden.
Goedkoper Rivaal Blue Origin, het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Amazon-topman Jeff Bezos, slaagde er vorige maand wel in een testvlucht uit te voeren waarbij de raket kan worden hergebruikt.
Door onderdelen te recupereren, kan ruimtevaart vele malen goedkoper worden. De NASA maakt nu nog gebruik van Russische Sojoez-raketten om het ISS te bevoorraden, maar hoopt in de toekomst private bedrijven te kunnen inschakelen. De Amerikanen zouden zich dan ook kunnen toeleggen op andere doelen, zoals het bereiken van een asteroïde of zelfs Mars.
STONEHENGETerwijl vandaag een massa toeristen samenkomt aan Stonehenge om er de winterzonnewende te vieren, zijn archeologen naarstig op zoek naar de geheimen die het gebied nog niet heeft prijsgegeven. De meest recente vondst is een mysterieuze put die met opmerkelijke precisie werd uitgegraven.
Het landschap rond het historische monument wordt op dit moment nog in tweeën gesplitst door een drukke weg. Op termijn is het de bedoeling de weg te vervangen door een tunnel. Voor het zover is, zijn archeologen het hele gebied aan het uitkammen om de geheimen in kaart te brengen die het nog herbergt.
Aan de vooravond van de winterzonnewende leverde de studie een raadselachtige nieuwe ontdekking op, vlakbij het beroemde mystieke monument. Het gaat om een put van bijna een meter diep, wellicht uitgegraven met hertengeweien maar desondanks met grote precisie ontworpen.
Poort of grenspaal?
Experten vermoeden dat de put bedoeld was om een grote houten paal op te trekken. Een kleine geul verbindt de plek met een gelijkaardige constructie. De gigantische palen zouden in het landschap vanop kilometers afstand zichtbaar geweest zijn. Maar waarvoor dienden ze? Dat antwoord moeten de onderzoekers schuldig blijven. "Een poort? Een grenspaal? Een schutting? We weten het niet", zegt archeoloog Nick Snashall aan The Guardian.
Het onderzoek in het kader van de herinrichtingsplannen bleek al bijzonder vruchtbaar. Er werden diverse nieuwe vondsten gedaan, waaronder enkele begraafplekken, en foutieve hypothesen werden weerlegd, zoals een veronderstelde grafheuvel die er geen bleek te zijn.
En het gebied heeft wellicht nog veel meer verrassingen in petto. Naarmate de planning en later de graafwerken aan de tunnel vorderen, vermoeden de onderzoekers dat er nog meer mysterieuze vondsten aan het licht zullen komen.
When I was younger, I was distressed and frantic about my sightings of overhead UFOs; confused and alarmed by accompanying, concurrent paranormal experiences, I by fortuitous chance, stumbled upon Derrel Sims.
He was patient, wise and reassuring to me, over the telephone.
Well known, as an "Alien Hunter", Derrel seemed omnipresent throughout the World Wide Web of the Internet ; he was very busily engaged in helping alien abductees.
Nonetheless, I held on for an hour, sure that he was too tired to return my many calls.
I had seen a virtual flotilla of round craft assemble overhead and had suffered repeated nightmare like "dreams", vivid recollections of aliens and of abductions. I had sat, eyeball to eyeball with a telepathic being, a Gumby character with long arms and legs, who had flashed a tidal wave of LOVE, at me, at one point.
All of him was visible except for his eyes, which were clouded and obscured by his willpower, for me not to see his eyes.
I still wonder why his eyes were purposefully removed, blurred for me to observe or regard.
I am still ambivalent about how to accept, or whether to embrace that vividly recalled wave of telepathic LOVE.
Modern abductees report that during their abductions on board craft, they often see a frightening alien race.
These beings radiates rage and hatred, and appear to be overlords of the many alien races who frequent the crossroads of Earth for salvage, and to abduct humans and these beings command and pilot UFOs.
Small greys, who act in unison like robots, are work beings, designed and created and labeled,'synthetic'.
There are similar descriptions of these overlords:
Muscular, winged, sentient, highly technological, upright standing to seven or eight feet tall, scaled reptilian beings, with webbing between their claws, who have yellow/red cat-like eyes, upright saurian 'monitor lizards', Mothmen, alien reptilians who looked upon us, as we fancied veal.
(That may completely explain the alien- 'God-ordered' Kosher dietary laws; strictly control what human animals eat,( as we do with beef and snails fed strictly on corn) and you make them more edible. )
At Bud Hopkins' house, during Saturday evening meetings, I learned that abductees had also somehow gleaned what reptoids regular diets consisted of..
It was a chilling story I was to hear
repeatedly, echoed elsewhere, like Rod Serling's Twilight Zone episode,"To Serve Man", where our importance as a race in the Universe is that of a mere condiment.
It re framed correctly, the true
modus operandi behind this particular alien type and its ancient and continuing interaction/visitations with mankind.
We were NOT the top of the food chain!
Unhappy evidence suggested that most people who entered an alien spaceship did not remember it or even know what had happened to them, except in recalled 'dreams', or under medical hypnosis .
Few people can even remember or carefully examine their dreams, dreams lost as they struggle into consciousness each morning.
I had called him, in near hysterics; I had seen, eyeball-to-eyeball, alien entities.
I told him that I had recalled being onboard an alien craft, with a larger mass abduction group of 'sleeping' people, and had recalled seeing our Moon and Earth visible amidst stars, from the craft's window; later, unseen poltergeist activity, a paranormal chaos, had erupted in my house.
I had experienced being vibrated out of my body, in my bed; while my whole body had electrically tingled, I had seen two bodies, one slowly rising out of my body, while another remained on my bed, face up.
I also recalled that while I had been onboard an alien craft, I had been subjected to a fun-house series of worst scenario, vivid nightmarish like 'scenes', as though one were the main character, in a staged filmset.
These sceanrios were imposed, and enveloping as 3-D holographs; each one edged towards a test or type of "exam".
Within each dreamstate scenario, one was tested, measured and assessed, recorded, for emotional and cognitive psychological reactions to the situation presented before one.
The back of the brain seemed detached from the front, where one's shoe hung before one, and one could strain but could not quite discern just what precisely it was.
I thought that I had begun to lose my mind to fear, in the full realization of all these bizarre recalled experiences and I told Derrel so.
During many of these conversations, over many months, he tried to assuage my extreme trepidations and to replace them with a mindset of courage and small acts of resistance.
He had unblocked my fears, directly describing the abducting alien entities that I had seen: "tall, white like a refrigerator, flat like a Gumby character, highly telepathic and sinisterly controlling."
I also recalled the presences of smaller, very dark greys, sinister and mind controlling; they had amazing telepathic powers.
They were diminuitive and mean spirited and could both read my mind and control my mind.
Resisting their mind control, a paralyzing tsunami of extreme fear, was like running down an up escalator, like swimming against the current of rapids.
It WAS possible.
Once, onboard a craft, I had managed to wander into a 'wrong' room and had been slammed sideways by a sudden Niagara of "terror".
Agog, I looked all about for the source of this sudden, overwhelming flood of terror and I realized that the avalanche of terror emanated from a very small mean faced scowling dark creature who was off in a far corner.
Derrel had assured me that I was not alone; though these beings characteristically micro managed many people's lives, throughout, I could, he said, now put a stop to it all.
When I asked him about what motives, purposes these entities had, in such encounters, he gave me the metaphor of 'farmers milking cows' as an overview.
To him, this metaphor distilled the precise relationship between alien entities and all of the human beings who they abducted.
He went on to tell me, in subsequent conversations, that he had learned that the traces of post-abduction are as subtle as fast growing hair and fingernails, as dramatic as a detectable luminous phosphorescence," alien touches", revealed under black light, on an alien abductee's skin.
He had noticed, he told me, that alien abductees had higher serotonin levels than other people and these people were resistant to pain killers, like Novocain, and could even awaken during surgery.
This higher level of serotonin, he said, may make it easier for aliens to 'contact' these people.
He was fearless, seeking creative resistances to abductions and pointedly asked me, "Why not turn the tables on these aliens, and abduct one of them?!"
He assured me that aliens often made lots of mistakes and were clearly sloppy in many of the abductions; people were alerted to and recalled these episodes rather than forgot them.
He had even played a game of "Manchurian Candidate" with abducting alien entities, using his tools of hypnotherapy to plant 'spies' within their midst and their crafts, using abductees as his ears and eyes.
He told me about the experience he had, when he had tried a unique experiment .
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He had taken a row of pre-selected abductees, had put them all in a light trance and in a light state of altered consciousness, had put in a post hypnotic suggestion, buried in amnesia, with a target trigger.
They would all pass the initial alien mind scan; they could not reveal what they themselves did not know.
All were programmed to release an accusatorial finger pointing indictment at the aliens and break the short psychic leash.
When they were within twenty inches of their captors, always just out of sight, the statement would be released and triggered. They would come out of their mind controlled fugue and they would ask,
"why are you doing these terrible things to innocent people!?"
Within five days the results were in.
In the delivery of that sentence, the trance had been broken and each abductee could clearly see that they had faced a small, dark, large-eyed creature.
One member had said that for the first time in over thirty years of her abductions, the alien had become enraged and livid, violently angry, something she had never seen before.
The response from all had been identical, instantly chilling in its vindictiveness:
"Tell Derrel, we're going to come for him and his son." .......
I had shivered in fear, long ago, when Derrel related this to me; I held him in my esteem as one of the bravest people I had ever stumbled across in my long journey to understand and integrate my experiences with these same entities.
I highly recommend buying and reading this newest book by Derrel Sims; it is an expose, an amazing read, a compendium of facts gleaned about these intruders since he and I last spoke many years ago.
Director of CIA, Admiral R.H. Hillenkoetter: "It is time for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings. Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel." p. 58, quoted from New York Times, February 28, 1960, p. L30
Paul Schroeder's bio:
Abductions and their remnant elusive memories have opened all this for Paul, a confirmed atheist, UNTIL Paul saw aliens float him out of his body, in his bed, at night.
Then, he knew that they were interested in an essence that he never suspected that he had: a nonphysical soul.
Our spiritual powers that interest and addict interdimensionals are the very powers that can be used to thwart further attacks.
They infect auras with attachments to themselves and ride the reincarnation roller coaster with human beings, as a sanctuary, to avoid the death that they fear and to steal the spiritual recycling that we have.
Souls are garnered, detoured from our natural spiritual evolution in Heaven.
These joyriding grays can be sinister, discorporate alien souls, stuck to our energies, who bring a new meaning to the concept of a silent invasion.
Aliens Found in Mars? Curiosity Rover Finds Ancient Flowing Water
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NASA’s robot on Mars, aptly named Curiosity, has recently come across some fascinating finds which will help solve the mystery of the presence of water on the Red Planet.
As noted by The Christian Science Monitor, “In the last several months, Curiosity has for the first time found an abundance of the rock-forming chemical silica, a mineral composed of silicon and oxygen and, on Earth, usually deposited by water.”
As shared by NASA, “Curiosity rover has found much higher concentrations of silica at some sites it has investigated in the past seven months than anywhere else it has visited since landing on Mars 40 months ago.”
In a video which can be viewed below, astro-geologist Jens Frydenvang from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico shared, “We don’t have a full understanding yet of what this means.” He added, “On earth, all the environments where we find this kind of silica require some kind of water activity. Often it’s also a very nice environment to find microbial life.”
NASA further shared, “Adding to the puzzle, some silica at one rock Curiosity drilled, called ‘Buckskin,’ is in a mineral named tridymite, rare on Earth and never seen before on Mars.”
On our planet Earth, the mineral tridymite is found in volcanic deposits with rich silica content. So, the mineral being discovered hints at volcanic evolution on Mars. It is also possible that tridymite could have formed by other processes.
As reported by The Christian Science Monitor, Elizabeth Rampe, planetary geologist at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, said, “We could solve this by determining whether trydymite in the sediment comes from a volcanic source or has another origin.” She added, “A lot of us are in our labs trying to see if there’s a way to make tridymite without such a high temperature.”
Geophysicist Ashwin Vasavada shared at the American Geophysical Union meeting that “scientists have observed signs of the building blocks for life on Mars.” So, keep coming back to see how the mystery unfolds.
Editors note: This story is part of The Daily Times' annual “Rewind” series. The series allows us to follow up on stories we have written during the past year that have fallen out of the news. To read more “Rewind” stories, go to daily-times.com.
Scott and Susan Ramsey, stand for a photo in March at a plaque they placed to mark the "UFO Aztec Incident" at Hart Canyon near Aztec.
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FARMINGTON — For UFO authors Scott and Suzanne Ramsey, the truth is still out there.
After self-publishing their 2012 book, "The Aztec Incident: Recovery at Hart Canyon," the couple along with Frank Thayer have just published a new expanded edition, released by New Jersey publisher New Page Books on Dec. 14, with a longer title, "The Aztec UFO Incident — The Case, Evidence and Elaborate Cover-up of One of the Most Perplexing Crashes in History."
Scott Ramsey said during a phone interview on Monday from the couple's home in North Carolina that they are still adding to the 1948 flying saucer story that has captivated them since the late 1980s.
"When we self-published our book, within a year we had more people knocking on our door with new information," Scott Ramsey said. We're still getting leads. And when I first heard about (the Aztec UFO), I said, 'I'll have this whole thing figured out in 16 months tops.' That was late 1986. I was a young guy back then."
As reported in The Daily Times in March, the Ramseys last returned to Aztec to visit the site of the fabled flying saucer crash in Hart Canyon, about eight miles northeast of Aztec. The couple installed a plaque where they are convinced a UFO came down in Hart Canyon in 2012.
"The spacecraft was approximately 100 feet in diameter and 18 feet tall. It was one of the most intact crafts that the government had recovered at that time. Sadly, all occupants, as many as 16, died as a result of this crash, making the full disclosure of both purpose and origin all but impossible," the sign reads.
Initial witnesses responding to a reported brush fire near drip tanks in the canyon described seeing a "lens-shaped disc" and after peering inside the saucer, "several child-size bodies in form-fitting jumpsuits, slumped over a control panel and charred 'like fried ducks,'" according to the book.
The Ramseys plan on returning again next year on Mar. 25 to mark the 68th year since the flying saucer allegedly crashed atop a mesa in Hart Canyon.
They met when Suzanne Ramsey invited Scott Ramsey to speak on her Farmington radio show in 2001 about his research and she was intrigued by her future husband's ardent pursuit of historical research, she said. For 26 years, the two have followed an "investigative journey" that has taken them through 28 states, poring over 55,000 FBI, CIA and other related documents at a personal cost of than $500,000, Scott Ramsey said.
Scott Ramsey, talks on March 27 about where a flying saucer most likely crashed during the 'Aztec Incident' of 1948 at Hart Canyon in Aztec.
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And still, the crash continues to provide more and more leads, the couple says. They are considering spending the next few years continuing to gather more and more leads and evidence and releasing a third edition on their latest findings.
"I don't care where the answers lead, I just want to know the truth," Suzanne Ramsey said. "We just love gathering facts. It's the greatest treasure hunt. It's been a challenge on our marriage, our time, money and energy. But we really enjoy it. Life's never boring."
While a better known purported brush with aliens in New Mexico came eight months earlier in Roswell, the Ramseys said the hunt for new leads keeps them going, all while they each run separate businesses — Scott Ramsey has a wire supply business and Suzanne has a company that sells root beer. They live on and operate a farm, the third of their many enterprises.
But the Ramseys say that what really drives their interest in the event has very little to do with aliens from outer space — it's history and research, not the tin foil hat crowd.
"If somebody says they lived in Aztec, we pull the tax records. It's a lot of detective work," Scott Ramsey said. "You watch these new UFO shows, there’s only a handful of people doing real research. The majority of the people are just doing fluff. We’re trying to do legitimate historical research."
One of the Ramsey's closer readers, former college professor and accountant Monte Shriver, spent about a year researching the fabled crash near Aztec after first reading their 2012 book. the work resulted in his self-publishing his own book in response to "The Aztec Incident," called "It's About Time."
"I don't deny that there are things called UFOs, but they're just what they're called, unidentifiable flying objects," Shriver said on Monday from his home in Las Cruces. "I still disagree about many of their conclusions."
He said he has personally witnessed three UFOs — all of them near his Las Cruces home — over the last decade, but finds little credible evidence of verifiable alien life as presented in the Ramseys' new edition.
He's even part of the Ramsey's new book.
"They call me a 'sincere skeptic,'" Shriver said. "They were very nice to me."
Shriver plans on rebutting many of the conclusions in the Ramsey's new book at a San Juan County Historical meeting in April at the Aztec Senior and Community Center, roughly a week after the UFO crash anniversary brings the Ramseys out from North Carolina.
"Maybe they'll be there the same time I am," Shriver said. "That would be pretty interesting and fun. We'll see."
James Fenton is the business editor of The Daily Times. He can be reached at 505-564-4621.
Southport UFO specialist joins crowd funding group to learn more about extraterrestrial activity
BYFRANCESCA FITZSIMMONS
The UFO Pat Regan saw while fishing in Rufford.
A Southport UFO specialist has joined a project to raise money to buy a new satellite to check for extra-terrestrial activity.
Pat Regan, an author from Ainsdale, joined the six-man team who hope to raise $50,000 (or £33,000), as a UFO consultant.
The 58-year-old dad-of-four was approached after he published work on his own UFO sighting.
Pat said: “I got involved after a woman in Canada wrote to me who had seen my UFO report.
“I was fishing in Rufford in 2008 with my little girl at the canal and there was some really bad weather.
“We saw this tunnel cloud and I climbed up onto a bridge to take a photo of it and when we got home we saw a speck in the picture, and when we zoomed in we saw a green disc.”
Pat, who also has four grandchildren, has been an author since the 1990s, and has published nine books.
Pat Regan is the UFO consultant on a new crowdfunding project which is hoping to buy a Low-Earth Orbit satellite.
He said the project was “exciting” to be involved with and was nothing like talking about “little green men”.
Pat said after national media picked up the picture he was contacted by an American history channel who came over and interviewed him.
He wrote about his experiences and became inundated with people contacting him with their own exper- iences, which was how he became involved with his latest project.
Pat said it was an “honour” to be featured on the project, entitled CubeSat – after the satellite they hope to buy with the money they raise.
The team’s CubeSat will be cap-able of detecting and measuring various radiation sources which can then be visually confirmed with two nano-cameras giving a 360-degree view around the satellite.
They are also hoping to include a micro-radar system which would give them the ability to verify detected objects in space.
Pat said: “I find the mystery behind it the most interesting.
“The day I saw the disc in Rufford was just one of those days when you get a weird feeling that something was going to happen.”
Dave Cote says he used to be skeptical about the existence of unidentified flying objects but after seeing some lights in the sky that he couldn’t explain, he’s looking for an answer.
Cote is now planning to launch a small satellite into low-Earth orbit in the hopes of getting those answers and he’s raising the money to do it through a crowdfunding campaign.
“There’s a lot of people who believe, there’s a lot of people who don’t,” Cote says. “But there’s very little actual scientific experimentation to study the phenomenon, so I thought, why don’t we try and do that.”
Cote says he was with a friend, who had seen UFOs before, the first time he saw one for himself
Cote says the two were out at night, near his hometown of Maple Ridge B.C., looking for UFOs when it happened.
“We saw something, we had a few lights turn on above us and start zigging and zagging and turning in circular motions, no sound, and this was before the time of drones, I couldn’t explain it. And from that day, I think my skepticism sort of dissolved a bit,” he says.
Before that, he says he had met other people with UFO experiences, but he wasn’t quite ready to believe until he saw something with his own eyes.
Cote says that a large number of former airforce pilots have reported seeing UFOs. There’s also former Canadian defence minister Paul Hellyer, who has said that aliens are visiting Earth.
“It sounds really crazy but these are a lot of people with reputations and careers and its hard to think that they would all lose their minds,” he says. “Usually when you have that kind of testimony, you take the topic seriously, but with this particular topic, it’s never really been taken so seriously.”
And that’s what Cote says he wants to do, a serious, scientific inquiry into what might be causing this. He says he doesn’t know what he’ll find.
“I’d be interested to find anything, we’ll be measuring things like radiation, we’ll probably get infrared, we’ll get visual, maybe we’ll find things with the magnetic field or solar flares,” he says. “If we actually capture something, like a craft of some kind, that will definitely raise some questions.”
Working with him is Matthew Lippert, an expert in the type of miniature satellite that Cote wants to launch who works at a U.S. airforce base in Ohio.
Cote says that when Lippert first emailed him, he was a little surprised.
“If you go into the UFO literature, apparently the Roswell Incident, when there was a crashed disc, it’s claimed that the U.S. government captured it,” Cote says, “ and brought it to the Wright-Patterson Airforce Base,” the base that Lippert works at.
But he says he soon realized that Lippert was just a fan of satellites who was interested in the topic.
Cote wants to raise US$50,000 to get the project off the ground, of that around $8,000 will go to the space launch with the rest being used to improve the capabilities of the satellite.
With over two weeks left, he’s raised over US$11,500.
Verrassende vondst suggereert dat Romeinen Amerika ver voor Columbus ontdekten
Christoffel Columbus kwam in 1492 aan in het gebied dat nu de Bahama’s omvat. Maar was hij de eerste niet-inheemse persoon die Amerika bereikte? Zo zouden onder meer de Vikingen, Polynesiërs en de Chinezen de beroemde ontdekkingsreiziger al voor zijn geweest.
Een groep onderzoekers verkondigt nu een controversiële theorie, namelijk dat de Romeinen 1000 jaar voor Columbus voet aan wal zetten in de Nieuwe Wereld. Hoofdonderzoeker Jovan Hutton Pulitzer zegt bewijs te hebben dat Romeinse schepen Noord-Amerika in de eerste eeuw of eerder hebben bezocht.
De onderzoekers zeggen een Romeins zwaard te hebben gevonden op Oak Island, voor de kust van Nova Scotia. Pulitzer heeft een paper geschreven over zijn ontdekkingen. Het is volgens hem 100 procent zeker dat het gaat om een Romeins zwaard.
Grottekeningen
“Het ceremoniële zwaard komt uit dat scheepswrak,” vertelde hij aan The Boston Standard. “Het is een indrukwekkend Romeins artefact.” Het zwaard is vergeleken met andere Romeinse zwaarden en blijkt qua samenstelling overeen te komen.
Pulitzer keek ook naar grottekeningen die zijn gemaakt door de inheemse Mi’kmaq. Sommige afbeeldingen tonen volgens hem Romeinse legionairs.
Uitheemse plant
In 1901 werden al een fluit van een Romeinse legionair en een Romeins schild gevonden op Oak Island. In 1933 stuitte men op een klein Romeins beeldhouwwerk in Mexico-Stad. Ook zijn in de buurt van Oak Island gouden munten uit Carthago ontdekt.
Pulitzer wijst daarnaast op de aanwezigheid van een uitheemse plant die ooit werd gebruikt door de Romeinen. Het team is van plan de onderzoeksresultaten begin volgend jaar te publiceren.
Door de jaren heen waren er al veel opnames te zien van UFO’s die zich ophouden in de buurt van het ISS ruimtestation.
Er zijn nu beelden door NASA gemaakt waarop niet één, maar talloze UFO’s zijn te zien.
Tijdens de aankoppeling van de Sojoez ruimtecapsule enkele dagen geleden bij het ISS ruimtestation kregen mensen die de gebeurtenissen via de webcam volgden een mooie voorstelling.
Er waren talloze UFO’s te zien die aan alle kanten langs de Sojoez capsule scheerden.
Ongetwijfeld hadden ze de afgelopen week koffiepauze bij NASA toen de beelden van de aankoppeling van de Sojoez capsule werden vertoond via de webcam.
Normaal gesproken wanneer iets dergelijks gebeurt, gaat de boel onmiddellijk op zwart en komt er een mededeling dat er technische problemen zijn met de verbinding.
Niets echter van dit alles dit keer. Over het scherm zie je talloze UFO’s die zich met hoge snelheid in alle richtingen begeven.
Op een zeker moment komt er zelfs een soort donut-achtige UFO voorbij zeilen.
Het meest bizarre van alles is dat de hele wereld dit kan zien en dat er nimmer een verklaring komt.
We zien ze overal, maar we doen net of er helemaal niets te zien is.
Van jongs af aan worden wij voorgelogen in de schoolbanken omtrent onze werkelijke afkomst en onze geschiedenis.
De bewijzen dat er veel meer was, staren ons in het gezicht, niet alleen op deze planeet, maar ook op Mars.
In de zomer van 2012 schreven wij een artikel over Brien Foerster en de langwerpige schedels in een klein museum in Peru.
Brien Foerster, bekend van de Discovery Channel serie “Ancient Aliens” werkt op dit moment samen met een piepklein museum in Peru. Hier liggen een aantal overblijfselen van mensen met een langgerekte schedel.
Sommige historici stellen dat deze schedels zijn ontstaan door het “afbinden” van het hoofd, waardoor de vreemde vorm zou zijn ontstaan. Er zijn echter een aantal aanwijzingen waaruit valt af te leiden dat dit wellicht niet het geval is.
Zo schijnt het dat de schedels een indicatie zijn dat er een grotere hersencapaciteit aanwezig was dan bij normale schedels. In het museum bevindt zich ook een baby met een langwerpige schedel. Nu is het al niet aannemelijk dat een schedel bij een jonge baby gevormd zou zijn door “afbinden” van het hoofd.
Bovendien is er nog een merkwaardigheid. De baby heeft elf ribben, terwijl de mens 12 ribben hoort te hebben. Ook de verbinding tussen het lichaam en het hoofd laat zien dat deze dikker is dan bij doorsnee mensen. Bovendien ziet de schedel er volkomen natuurlijk uit en laat totaal geen sporen zien van enige misvorming.
Bij wijze van grote uitzonderding heeft Brien van de curator van het museum toestemming gekregen om DNA-monsters te nemen van deze baby, tesamen met een ook daar aanwezige foetus.
Dit DNA zal dan in de zeer nabije toekomst moeten uitwijzen of het hier inderdaad om een menselijke baby gaat of wellicht toch een buitenaardse.
In de onderstaande video kun je zien hoe het nemen van het DNA monsters in zijn werk ging.
Inmiddels zijn in ieder geval een deel van de resultaten van het door Brien Foerster uitgevoerde onderzoek bekend en het zal niemand verbazen dat de schedels die gevonden zijn in Paracas in Peru in 1928 niet menselijk DNA bevatten.
Nu naar Mars waar deze week op een NASA foto iets is ontdekt dat verdacht veel lijkt op de soort langwerpige schedels uit Peru.
Eigenlijk niet meer dan logisch. Buitenaardsen die zich ooit op aarde bevonden zullen ongetwijfeld ook op Mars zijn geweest.
UFO's Seen Everywhere During Soyuz Docking On NASA Ustream. Dec 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Both the above and below photos are close ups of the first photo (above) on this post.
Date of sighting:December 20, 2015 Location of sighting: International Space Station, Earths orbit Source video:http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/79907092 This raw footage from the Internet live cam was recorded by Mister Enigma of Youtube. Its at the moment the Russian Soyuz is docking with the space station. Many tiny drone like UFOs shoot around the Soyuz, probably news recording drones for aliens across the universe that are interested in human evolution and technological capabilities. Basically, those are drone paparazzi. They do what they want to cover the story before other drones do. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
UFOs Over Saint Paul, Minnesota On Dec 20, 2015, Video, UFO Sighting News
Photo above and below are the same. Just below I added light.
Date of sighting: December 20, 2015 Location of sighting: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA Source: MUFON At first I was worried these were antenna lights on a hill so I added light to it to see the mountain, but found there was none. The lights were in the sky and seen through tree branches. This tells me it is a real sighting and the UFOs are flying together as if watching out for their wingman. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: I was walking my dog along the railroad track, two blocks east of where the tracks go over Como ave.. I was points of light in the sky in the North moving N to S in a line. None of the lights were were in a perfect line but formed a rough line. All moved uniformly and in sync WRT velocity. My suspicions were raised when I realized no sound was being emoitted, contrary to my initial belief that they were military helicopters in formation. As the four of them passed overhead, the second to the vanguard diminished in brightness and in doing so began emitting a redder light until finally it disappeared. I then noticed more movement to the North and observed a fifth apparently catching up because of it's slightly higher rate of speed. At this point there were only four and all continued in the same vector at the same speed. After a short time, as with the first one, all began to disappear in the same as the first. Detailed description of lights: each light had a bright center enveloped on a fuzz glow. I felt elated and surprised.
British Astronaut Tim Peake makes shocking statements about Alien life
According to British Astronaut Major Tim Peake, life exists elsewhere in the universe. Major Tim is confident that we are not the only intelligent species in the universe. Peake has joined a long list of Astronauts and government officials who claim that Alien life does exist in other parts of the universe.
“There is a high chance we will soon discover there was – or is – life in our solar system,” the 43-year-old told Mirror Online.
“I would be very surprised if there wasn’t life elsewhere in the universe.”
Even though Peake believes in Alien life, he does not expect to see ‘little green men’ popping out of a crater on Mars. However in a surprising statement he added that “Single cell life forms might be found on Mars.”
Not only does Peake believe life can be found on Mars today, he also states that it is very likely that extraterrestrial organisms might be found on the moons of Saturn or Jupiter, some of which are proven to hide vast oceans of water.
He said: “Wherever there is water, there is the possibility of life.”
The statements from Peake are anything but surprising. Before him, numerous other astronauts have come forward speaking about alien life and the UFO phenomenon. One of the most incredible statements about Alien life was made by the sixth man to walk on the surface of the moon, Edgar Mitchell who claims that aliens came to Earth to stop a nuclear war between America and Russia. Edgar Mitchel has spoken about the fact that military personnel had seen mysterious flying objects over missile bases around the world, even above the White Sands facility, where the world’s first ever nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945.
“White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons – and that’s what the extraterrestrials were interested in.
“They wanted to know about our military capabilities.
“My own experience talking to people has made it clear the ETs had been attempting to keep us from going to war and help create peace on Earth.”
“I have spoken to many Air Force officers who worked at these silos during the Cold War,” he continued.
“They told me UFOs were frequently seen overhead and often disabled their missiles.
“Other officers from bases on the Pacific coast told me their [test] missiles were frequently shot down by alien spacecraft.
“There was a lot of activity in those days.”
Nick Pope, the former ministry of Defense, and one of the most prominent UFO researchers on the planet said in an interview for British media:
“Edgar Mitchell is an honorable and truthful man, who I’ve had the privilege of meeting,” he said.
“But so far as I’m aware, most of his information on this issue comes not from things he’s experienced himself, but from things he’s been told by others.
“Clearly, because of who he is, he’s had access to government, military and intelligence community personnel at the highest level, but because – quite understandably – he won’t name his sources, we can’t be certain these people were being straight with him, or indeed that they were privy to any classified information about UFOs.”
On approach in July 2015, the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured Pluto rotating over the course of a full “Pluto day.” The best available images of each side of Pluto taken during approach have been combined to create this view of a full rotation. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
The changing faces of Pluto and its biggest moon, Charon, are highlighted in a set of newly released photos captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.
New Horizons took the images from July 7 through July 13, in the lead-up to the probe's historic flyby of Pluto on July 14. The photos show Pluto and Charon rotating through a full day on those worlds, which lasts 6.4 Earth days on both frigid, faraway objects. (Charon is tidally locked to Pluto, just as Earth's moon is locked to Earth; an astronaut on Pluto would always see the same face of Charon.)
The images — captured by New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager and its Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera — show the famous heart-shaped feature on Pluto, dubbed Tombaugh Regio. The photos also highlight that while Pluto's two hemispheres differ radically from one another, Charon seems much the same all over, NASA officials said.
On approach to the Pluto system in July 2015, the cameras on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured images of the largest of Pluto’s five moons, Charon, rotating over the course of a full day. The best currently available images of each side of Charon taken during approach have been combined to create this view of a full rotation of the moon. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Although Pluto completes one rotation every 6.4 Earth days, the time from sunrise to sunset will vary a lot as the "seasons," each of which lasts decades, pass by. Pluto's seasons are much more extreme than those on Earth, incidentally, because the dwarf planet's axis is tilted 120 degrees, compared to just 23.5 degrees for our planet.
Pluto's orbit is also highly inclined. As a result, the sun would appear to circle overhead from large parts of the dwarf planet for most of its 248-year-long orbit around the sun.
New Horizons took the images from distances that ranged from about 5 million miles (8 million kilometers) on July 7 to 400,000 miles (645,000 km) on July 13, NASA officials said. During the July 14 flyby, the spacecraft approached within 7,800 miles (12,550 km) of Pluto's surface.
New Horizons is still beaming home images and data from the July 14 flyby, and will continue to do so through next August or so, mission team members have said. The spacecraft is currently cruising toward a small object located about 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km) beyond Pluto, called2014 MU69, which the probe will study up close on Jan. 1, 2019, if NASA approves a potential extended mission.
The stealth superwing: Next generation 'Air Dominance' fighter jet that will have built in laser weapons and could even travel at supersonic speeds revealed
Northrop Grumman say concept is known as NG Air Dominance
Will feature laswer weapons capable of tracking multiple targets
Northrop Grumman has revealed a tantalising image of a new stealth 'superjet' capable of firing laser weapons.
The so called 'sixth generation fighter' is rumoured to fly at supersonic speeds, although Northrop Grumman, who are developing it, say the specifications are still secret.
The stealth craft is expected to use advanced cooling systems to help disguise its laser systems.
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Known internally as NG Air Dominance, the craft features laser weapons. The so called 'sixth generation fighter' is rumoured to fly at supersonic speeds, although Northrop Grumman, who are developing it, say the specifications are still classified.
LASER WEAPONS 'COMING SON'
Air Force bosses have boasted combat lasers will be fitted to fighters planes 'very soon' and have revealed a full scale prototype is being built.
'I believe we'll have a directed energy pod we can put on a fighter plane very soon,' Air Force General Hawk Carlisle has claimed at the Air Force Association Air & Space conference in a presentation on what he called Fifth-Generation Warfare, according to Ars Technica.
'That day is a lot closer than I think a lot of people think it is.'
Chris Hernandez, Northrop's vice president for research, technology and advanced design, told BreakingDefence the sixth-gem fighter will be long range because it won't have many bases to operate from overseas; it must 'carry a lot of weapons;' survivability will be key.
What do those requirements and physics lead you to?
'This looks a lot like a baby B-2 and this is really getting into our sweet spot,' Hernandez said.
Northrop Grumman has two design teams working on the new aircraft.
However, the firm would not discuss the plane's speed, saying that would have to wait for clearer direction from the Pentagon in the future.
It is expected to use laser weapons - and this has caused major problems around heat.
As Northrop president for aerospace Tom Vice said, managing heat will be key.
'Add in all the aircraft's power and thrust systems, and you have an enormous heat challenge,' said Hernandez.
In April 2012, the Navy issued a formal request for information for the F/A-XX.
It calls for an air superiority fighter with multi-role capabilities to replace the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft in the 2030s,
Boeing and Northrop Grumman are both developing concepts.
Lockheed Martin has been working on next-generation air dominance-related activities with the U.S. Armed Services and most recently the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to determine the best way to maintain air dominance in the post-2035 world.
In October of 2012, Frank Kendall, Undersecretary of Defense, tasked DARPA to explore concepts for the next generation of air dominance.
Boeing (pictured) and Northrop Grumman are both developing concepts.
In an attempt to break the battle space into smaller pieces, DARPA defined separate focus areas that span capabilities across the air dominance battle space.
'This decomposition may not be perfect and will most certainly be fine-tuned over time, but it does provide a logical construct for looking at the future battle space,' said Mark Jefferson, director of Next Generation Air Dominance programs at the Skunk Works.
Previous reports say the superjet might even not have a pilot.
According to the Pentagon, it may partially fall in the hands of artificial intelligence (AI).
Reports say that both the US Navy and Air Force are planning next-generation fighters that don't have just a human pilot.
Future fighter jets may have an AI co-pilot on board that can help with sensory data in addition to autonomously landing the plane on an aircraft carrier.
According to the US Naval Institute (USNI), artificial intelligence will feature prominently on the successors to the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
The US Navy is working on the F/A-XX and the Air Force on the F-X, with both designed to replace their predecessors by 2030 at the earliest.
'AI is going to be huge,' a US Navy official told the USNI.
While the exact purpose of AI in aircraft isn't known yet, it could have a number of uses from acting as a co-pilot to carrying out autonomous landings.
According to Popular Science the robotic co-pilots would be especially helpful for aircraft carriers, which are difficult to land on.
Recently the Navy's X-47B experimental drone landed autonomously on an aircraft, demonstrating the usefulness of AI in such a situation.
AI could also help with something known as advanced sensor fusion.
This involves combining data from various sensors to get a more accurate reading of a situation or location.
The Navy and Air Force are also hoping to get help from industry experts in Silicon Valley to aid them in the design of such sixth-generation fighters.
Humanoid Alien Lands Red UFO in India, Leaves Witnesses in Shock
India has been an attractive region for UFOs lately, such objects being filmed over the skies of the capital city, New Delhi, and the Indira Gandhi airport.
Authorities have taken public notice and the air force pilots have received orders to fire at will on UFOs, if they return.
This time, a red glowing spacecraft landed somewhere in the west of India and put an entire village on their toes. Scared witnesses described a human like shape emerging from the UFO for a few seconds and retreating just before the ship went airborne, covered in what villagers saw as a glowing fire that was leaving sparks behind.
Investigators sent to Kangal to question witnesses, somewhere in the Mysuru region, concluded that :
"The women claim that the spacecraft descended close to 500 feet from them and they could spot humanoid figures. They have no clue about aliens and they have not even heard about such things. So we are assuming that they are not lying.”
There were 7 people who claim to have experienced the encounter, which took place in broad daylight on the 1st of October, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.
They say the alien was wearing orange apparel and approached them in order to gather information or quickly study them, before reentering the UFO and taking off. The burning debris left behind is very unusual, as almost all UFOs encountered make no noise and leave no residue behind.
This particular UFO might have been plagued by technical difficulties and looking for the right place to gather the needed resources and proper hiding spot for repair. Indian UFOlogists have even claimed that this is the same UFO from the international airport, or at least a similar one, ran down by the Indian Air Force and probably damaged as a result.
Skeptics say that the villagers could’ve easily seen just a military aircraft, which would also be completely unknown and strange for farmers in that region of India. The skeptics, however, have failed to explain the orange suited alien.
As the Indian authorities are clearly taking this matter seriously, we can expect to hear more on the subject before too long.
Une nouvelle carte composite de Titan, une des lunes de Saturne, a été publiée par la Nasa. Elle révèle de nouvelles similitudes avec les paysages terrestres.
Carte composite de Titan avec des détails de la surface visibles sous la brume. NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho
Titan, une lune de Saturne, est le deuxième plus grand satellite naturel du système solaire, après Ganymède. Il s’agit du seul satellite connu à posséder une atmosphère dense et des paysages pouvant rappeler ceux de la Terre avec des collines, des lacs et des rivières…d’hydrocarbures. Mais l’épaisse couche nuageuse au-dessus de Titan masque la plupart du temps ces détails. Cette nouvelle image livrée par la Nasa et issue des données récoltées par la sonde Cassinilève (un peu) le voile sur la surface de l’astre.
L’infrarouge contre la brume
La photographie composite ci-dessous a été réalisée à partir de clichés pris le 13 novembre 2015 à haute altitude (10.000 km) par l’instrument VIMS, un spectromètre fonctionnant en lumière visible et en infrarouge. Il a obtenu des vues dans le proche infrarouge de Titan à des longueurs d’onde pouvant percer la brume nuageuse et orangée de l’astre et laisser apparaître quelques détails de la surface.
Carte composite de Titan :
Crédit : NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Idaho
Sur l'image sont notamment visibles deux régions sombres et parallèles : Fensal au nord et Aztlan au sud qui forment une sorte de H renversé. Les couleurs de l'image sont fausses et représentent les longueurs d'onde de la lumière collectée par VIMS, le bleu pour 1,3 microns, le vert pour 2,0 microns, et le rouge pour 5,0 microns. Pour la Nasa cette nouvelle image de la surface confirme que sur Titan se déroulent des processus remarquablement semblables à ceux qui façonnent la Terre. De fait la surface de la lune est parsemée de dunes, de lacs et de rivières. Mais avec une température qui peut descendre jusqu’à -179°C, Titan ne possède pas d’eau liquide mais plutôt des lacs de méthane et d’éthane et une atmosphère composée à 95% d’azote. Des composés qui n’excluent pas la possibilité de l’existence d’une forme de vie avec un métabolisme basé sur le méthane.
CURIOSITY UNCOVERS MYSTERIOUS MATERIAL IN MARTIAN DRILLHOLES
The first manned mission to Mars is still a goal for the future, so the best we can do to explore the Red Planet is to send robots. Curiosity has proven itself to be a good stand-in for boots on the ground, though. After rolling farther than any rover before it, Curiosity has found something new on Mars — silica. There’s silica everywhere on Earth, but we haven’t seen much of it on Mars before no, and that’s what makes this find so important.
Our story starts seven months ago when Curiosity was passing through an area called Marias Pass. It stopped and used its ChemCam laser drill into the rock to perform a mineral analysis, as it had done at many points since landing on Mars in 2012. The data was acquired and Curiosity went along its way up Mount Sharp. Then, NASA did something it almost never does — it turned the rover around and sent it back to do more science in Marias Pass.
It was the presence of silica in the sample that got scientists so excited. That sample analyzed by Curiosity showed concentrations of up to 90 percent silica, which is a big change from seeing only traces of silica in all previous samples. Curiosity spent the next four months checking various areas around Marias Pass, which is where two different sediment layers converge, to see how extensive the silica enrichment was. It turns out, pretty extensive.
The presence of silica is important because it points to the presence of water in Mars’ geologic past. Of course, we now know that Mars has a little flowing water now, and that it had large lakes and flowing rivers in the past. Curiosity has found the dried lake and river beds, after all. All those dry lake beds only tell us there was water, not whether or not it would have been suitable for life. The water could have been too salty or acidic for live to develop, and it’s hard to know what conditions were like millions of years ago.
A high concentration of silica could, however, help us make draw some conclusions about the nature of Martian water from ages ago. Silica in these concentrations would probably end up there because of other minerals dissolving (acidic environment) or deposition of silica (neutral pH). Silica precipitates out of water at pH 7 or 8, so the layer of strata in Marias Pass and surrounding areas could have been ideal for living organisms. Scientists are still examining the data from Curiosity’s stop-off in Marias Pass in hopes of determining how the silica got there, which might change the way we imagine an ancient Martian environment ( via extremetech.com ).
This artist's impression shows the planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, a member of the triple star system that is the closest to Earth in this image released on October 17, 2012. Alpha Centauri B is the most brilliant object in the sky and the other dazzling object is Alpha Centauri A. Our own Sun is visible to the upper right. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO?s La Silla Observatory in Chile. Reuters/ESO/L. Calcada/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org)/Handout
Astronomers spotted a faint, distant object located in the outer region of the solar system. Using the Atacama large millimetre/submillimetre array (ALMA), a powerful telescope located in Chile, the scientists said that this object could possibly be the ninth planet of the solar system.
The object can possibly be a super-Earth, a planet with a mass higher than Earth but substantially below that of Neptune and Uranus. However, other scientists have doubted the discovery. Mike Brown, an astronomer from the California Institute of Technology, remarked that the evidence to support the claim is too little and finding a ninth planet is very unlikely.
"One possibility (and I think the most likely) is that it's an extreme trans-Neptunian object about 100 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun," claimed astrophysicist Brian Koberlein, Christian todaynotes. "Another possibility (which seems more likely to the object's discoverers) is that it is about 300 AU away and about 1.5 times the size of Earth, making it the first 'super-Earth' found in our solar system."
The discovery has been submitted but has not been peer-reviewed or formally published yet due to scepticism. However, the discoverers defend that they need other scientists’ opinion to confirm the discovery. If proven to be incorrect , they will fully withdraw the papers.
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Ten years ago a Google employee, Dave Bacon, may have unlocked the secret to quantum time travel, creating a computer that could theoretically travel back in time.
Around ten years ago researcher Dave Bacon, now at Google, showed that a time-travelling quantum computer could quickly solve a group of problems, known as NP-complete, which mathematicians have lumped together as being hard. The problem was, Bacon’s quantum computer was travelling around ‘closed timelike curves‘. These are paths through the fabric of spacetime that loop back on themselves. General relativity allows such paths to exist through contortions in spacetime known as wormholes.
Why send a message back in time, but lock it so that no one can ever read the contents? Because it may be the key to solving currently intractable problems. That’s the claim of an international collaboration.It turns out that an unopened message can be exceedingly useful. This is true if the experimenter entangles the message with some other system in the laboratory before sending it. Entanglement, a strange effect only possible in the realm of quantum physics, creates correlations between the time-travelling message and the laboratory system. These correlations can fuel a quantum computation.
Physicists argue something must stop such opportunities arising because it would threaten ‘causality’ — in the classic example, someone could travel back in time and kill their grandfather, negating their own existence.
And it’s not only family ties that are threatened. Breaking the causal flow of time has consequences for quantum physics too. Over the past two decades, researchers have shown that foundational principles of quantum physics break in the presence of closed timelike curves: you can beat the uncertainty principle, an inherent fuzziness of quantum properties, and the no-cloning theorem, which says quantum states can’t be copied.
However, the new work shows that a quantum computer can solve insoluble problems even if it is traveling along ‘open timelike curves’, which don’t create causality problems. That’s because they don’t allow direct interaction with anything in the object’s own past: the time travelling particles (or data they contain) never interact with themselves. Nevertheless, the strange quantum properties that permit ‘impossible’ computations are left intact. “We avoid ‘classical’ paradoxes, like the grandfathers paradox, but you still get all these weird results,” says Mile Gu, who led the work.
Gu is at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) at the National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University in Beijing. His eight other coauthors come from these institutions, the University of Oxford, UK, Australian National University in Canberra, the University of Queensland in St Lucia, Australia, and QKD Corp in Toronto, Canada.
“Whenever we present the idea, people say no way can this have an effect” says Jayne Thompson, a co-author at CQT. But it does: quantum particles sent on a timeloop could gain super computational power, even though the particles never interact with anything in the past. “The reason there is an effect is because some information is stored in the entangling correlations: this is what we’re harnessing,” Thompson says.
There is a caveat — not all physicists think that these open timeline curves are any more likely to be realisable in the physical universe than the closed ones. One argument against closed timelike curves is that no-one from the future has ever visited us. That argument, at least, doesn’t apply to the open kind, because any messages from the future would be locked.
Remains of Ancient Extraterrestrial Laboratory Discovered in China
Thirteen years ago, a group of Chinese researchers located and explored an ancient structure so unusual that an extraterrestrial hypothesis was promptly taken into consideration.
The fascinating ruins were discovered in the remote wilderness that makes up most of the intersection between China’s Qinghai province and the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. Throughout history, humans have seldom settled in this harsh and inhospitable area. Only occasionally, migrant herdsmen pass through the mountainous regions to the north.
No industrial facilities can be found in the zone, much less the remnants of civilizations with advanced metalworking capabilities.
Despite this, atop a rocky ridge called Mt Baigong lies a pyramid-shaped ruin with three triangular entrances. Two of them are collapsed but the remaining one leads into an artificially-dug cave going deep into the heart of the mountain. Embedded in the cave walls and floor are hundreds of ancient metal pipes, arranged in what appears to have been a sophisticated network of unknown purpose and origin.
The rusted pipes range from toothpick-sized to 1.5 feet in diameter and connect the cave to nearby Toson Hu, a saltwater lake 300 feet away. On the northern shore of Lake Toson, erosion exposed hundreds more of these archaic ducts. This detail led researchers into believing whoever built the pipework either used it as a drainage system or as a way to pump saltwater from the lake.
Baffled by the complexity of the network of pipes, the researchers took samples of the strange metallic tubes to the Beijing Institute of Geology for analysis. That’s when they had their biggest surprise.
Making use of a process called thermoluminescence dating, the scientists were able to analyze the pipes’ crystalline structure and determined they had been subjected to extreme heat approximately 140-150,000 years ago. In other words, the pipes had been smelted long before humans started dabbling in metalworking. An advanced civilization building complex structures 145,000 before us? Could it have been alien?
The chemical analysis revealed even stranger details. The pipes had been smelted using a strange alloy composed of 92% common metals and minerals like ferric oxide, silicon dioxide and calcium oxide but it also contained 8% unknown materials. This intriguing aspect did not prove the pipes were out of this world but it did pave the way for speculation.
Unable to identify the exotic 8 percent, researchers turned to the remaining constituents and discovered another puzzling aspect: the pipes contained a proportion of silica that is specific to Mars.
The news fell like a bomb, the story quickly went viral and people started flocking to Mt Baigong to gawk at the anomalous artifacts. They even erected a monument with a satellite dish on top, a direct reference to the efforts to contact extraterrestrial civilizations.
As a consequence, the Chinese Government closed off the area and posted guards at the entrance to the cave. This attitude is highly suspicious, to say the least.
Skeptics say the Baigong pipes are nothing more than fossilized tree roots that somehow got lodged in sediment, hardening over the years and eventually becoming the unusual structures that stumped everyone. If this is the case, why would the authorities step in and have the military guard the site?
This situation led conspiracy theorists to believe Mt Baigong was once visited by an advanced extraterrestrial race, possibly originating from Mars. For whatever reason, they constructed an artificial pyramid on top of the mountain, housing what appears to have been a laboratory. This theory is intriguing for a number of reasons.
The entire area surrounding the mountain consists of wide expanses of flat terrain that would have been an ideal landing site for large spacecraft. The mountaintop makes for a perfect vantage point one could use to oversee landings and takeoffs.
THE ENTRANCE IS GUARDED AND ACCESS IS DENIED TO OUTSIDERS.
Recently, mineral explorations have shown the area contains various ore deposits. Any industrious civilization, no matter how advanced, could see the utility of extracting and managing these resources. In order to do so, they would have needed some type of energy source and that is where the pipes’ purpose might become obvious.
The Chinese scientists wondered why the pipes went into saltwater when another freshwater lake was even closer to the pyramid. Why the need for water containing a greater percentage of sodium chloride? Let’s examine some of our own activities and perhaps we can find an answer.
Modern chemistry and manufacturing makes use of a process called electrolysis, which basically requires passing an electric current through a solution or a molten substance. This triggers a chemical reaction which allows for the separation of materials. When water undergoes electrolysis, it breaks down into hydrogen and oxygen but this only works when saltwater is used. And it’s worth noting that a mixture of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen is commonly used as rocket fuel.
LAKE TOSON
Admittedly, this is all speculation but when combined, the totality of the details start painting a clear picture for the open-minded:
-Scientists discover ancient artifacts that predate modern history.
-Evidence suggests they were part of a much more complex structure.
-Complexity of said structure suggests the presence and activity of an advanced civilization, possibly from Mars.
-Government intervenes and prevents access.
-This scenario seems all too familiar to overlook.
Naturally, some have claimed the Baigong pipes are nothing more than a hoax. Unfortunately, this proposition seems to ignore the facts. The Chinese Government is well-known for its attitude towards those who sabotage the country’s image in the eyes of the rest of the world. It would have taken measures to punish those responsible for spreading false information rather than occupying the ancient pyramid.
Whatever the truth behind this perplexing discovery might be, one thing is certain: it doesn’t seem to fit in any of our traditional textbooks.
[1937] UFO Descends Over City Hall, Two Brothers Photograph the Craft Before Takeoff
History has many ways of surprising us if we know where to look. However, our attention has to be pointed at the alternative history, at the obscure events which mean nothing to science, but in reality they could change the way we see and understand life in our Solar System and beyond.
In 1937, Leonard Lamoureaux, age 21 was on leave from the army when he decided to visit Vancouver City Hall in order to take a few photos of the brilliant Christmas light display. Accompanying him was his brother Wilfred.
After they found a good spot to take the photos, a sudden “bright blue light” descending from the sky puzzled them both. It became larger and larger as it zoomed into their line of sight, and after a while the two brothers managed to see the source from where all this bright light was coming.
Leonardo depicted the bizarre sighting as “two saucers” with open ends, facing each other and glowing bright blue. After the UFO got quite close to the city hall, it started to slowly move horizontally across the sky until it reached the top of the flagpole. From there, the luminous craft hovered for a moment in front of the two astounded brothers, and fortunately that was enough for Leonardo to immortalize the moment using his camera.
After that brief moment, the bright UFO took off rapidly without making any specific engine sound, as the two described. They were shocked because of what they’ve seen, and couldn’t explain what actually happened there.
We’ve never seen anything fly so fast.
Even though Leonard Lamoureux and his bother Wilfred passed away some time ago, their unique UFO episode still lives on through Leonard’s daughter, Debra DeCamillis who still resides in the Vancouver Lower Mainland area.
The negative has been lost due to the passing of time, thus leading some skeptics into believing that what the picture reveals is nothing more than a watermark defect caused by the development of the print. However, Leonard’s daughter contradicts the nonbelievers by telling about her father who seemed so excited every time he told others about this peculiar event. Debra also stated that:
I know for a fact there was no bubbles on the film, or watermarks because I was fascinated by negatives as a child and saw that negative many times. On the rest of the pictures there was nothing but pictures of lights, so I know it had no bubbles or watermarks on it.
She provided additional details regarding this UFO encounter, all the information originating from her father’s tales and analysis of the event:
The camera was on a tri-pod of sorts because Dad was trying to take sequential shots of the courthouse to capture all the lights. But he was not using a timed exposure, his camera was not sophisticated enough. He did say that he could actually see the bubble or tail as he called it that the object was encapsulated in.
The detailed description of the event along with the disputed picture offers amazing proof of the UFO phenomenon seen almost one hundred years ago in a time when CGI and Photoshop were nothing but faint idea.
Another thing to note is the remarkable likeness between the object from this photo and another seen in a fresco from 1350. The objects from both images show similar characteristics, while at the same time fitting the description of present days ET crafts and some UFOs
Could there be indeed a link between these two appearances? If so, could this connection extend to religion, since both objects appear in a religious and holy environment? Is it possible that extraterrestrials beings were involved (and maybe still are) in religious affairs, thus explaining the miraculous deeds of different saints or prophets throughout history?
[1937] UFO Descends Over City Hall, Two Brothers Photograph the Craft Before Takeoff
History has many ways of surprising us if we know where to look. However, our attention has to be pointed at the alternative history, at the obscure events which mean nothing to science, but in reality they could change the way we see and understand life in our Solar System and beyond.
In 1937, Leonard Lamoureaux, age 21 was on leave from the army when he decided to visit Vancouver City Hall in order to take a few photos of the brilliant Christmas light display. Accompanying him was his brother Wilfred.
After they found a good spot to take the photos, a sudden “bright blue light” descending from the sky puzzled them both. It became larger and larger as it zoomed into their line of sight, and after a while the two brothers managed to see the source from where all this bright light was coming.
Leonardo depicted the bizarre sighting as “two saucers” with open ends, facing each other and glowing bright blue. After the UFO got quite close to the city hall, it started to slowly move horizontally across the sky until it reached the top of the flagpole. From there, the luminous craft hovered for a moment in front of the two astounded brothers, and fortunately that was enough for Leonardo to immortalize the moment using his camera.
After that brief moment, the bright UFO took off rapidly without making any specific engine sound, as the two described. They were shocked because of what they’ve seen, and couldn’t explain what actually happened there.
We’ve never seen anything fly so fast.
Even though Leonard Lamoureux and his bother Wilfred passed away some time ago, their unique UFO episode still lives on through Leonard’s daughter, Debra DeCamillis who still resides in the Vancouver Lower Mainland area.
The negative has been lost due to the passing of time, thus leading some skeptics into believing that what the picture reveals is nothing more than a watermark defect caused by the development of the print. However, Leonard’s daughter contradicts the nonbelievers by telling about her father who seemed so excited every time he told others about this peculiar event. Debra also stated that:
I know for a fact there was no bubbles on the film, or watermarks because I was fascinated by negatives as a child and saw that negative many times. On the rest of the pictures there was nothing but pictures of lights, so I know it had no bubbles or watermarks on it.
She provided additional details regarding this UFO encounter, all the information originating from her father’s tales and analysis of the event:
The camera was on a tri-pod of sorts because Dad was trying to take sequential shots of the courthouse to capture all the lights. But he was not using a timed exposure, his camera was not sophisticated enough. He did say that he could actually see the bubble or tail as he called it that the object was encapsulated in.
The detailed description of the event along with the disputed picture offers amazing proof of the UFO phenomenon seen almost one hundred years ago in a time when CGI and Photoshop were nothing but faint idea.
Another thing to note is the remarkable likeness between the object from this photo and another seen in a fresco from 1350. The objects from both images show similar characteristics, while at the same time fitting the description of present days ET crafts and some UFOs
Could there be indeed a link between these two appearances? If so, could this connection extend to religion, since both objects appear in a religious and holy environment? Is it possible that extraterrestrials beings were involved (and maybe still are) in religious affairs, thus explaining the miraculous deeds of different saints or prophets throughout history?
FIRST CONTACT WITH EXTRATERRESTIALS WOULD HAVE MINIMAL IMPACT ON THE DAY-TO-DAY LIFE OF PUNY HUMANS
If we were to discover an alien civilisation in the far-reaches of space, it would have little impact on humanity and our day-to-day life, a Seti scientist has said. John W Traphagan, a trustee at Seti International and professor of religious studies and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, posed the question of what would happen if we did find an alien megastructure around the star KIC 8462852.
The idea of this megastructure came about because KIC 8462852 showed extremely unusual patterns of dimming – with something cutting out over 20% of its light. The biggest planets in our solar system would only block out around 1-2%, in comparison. This led some to speculate an advanced alien civilisation had built a huge structure around the star to harness its energy – a theory first proposed by theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson decades ago.
Since then, researchers have found no evidence of such a structure and Nasa has said it is probably comets. Nevertheless, Traphagan asked what would happen on Earth if they had finally found evidence of alien life.
In a blog for Seti International, he said the discovery of extraterrestrial life would be "one of the biggest discoveries in human history", but it would probably not change humanity – at least in the short term. Traphagan said that for scientists, it would be tremendously exciting, while "religious zealots", who believe we are somehow special "because god made us", would likely claim the data was incorrect.
"Then there's everyone else," he said. "Will impoverished people in Haiti or Africa be changed by this? Will those billions who simply struggle to get from one day to the next care about the fact that we are not alone in the universe? ... I'm not so sure. In fact, while discovery of an alien civilisation may, in the very long run, have a significant influence on humanity, in the short run I doubt it will have much impact at all."
Traphagan said for most people, the discovery of alien life would not matter a great deal because this knowledge would have little impact on their lives. He said: "[The] discovery of ET may represent little more than a brief, intriguing blip on the radar as they build careers, raise families, and look at their smartphones ( via ibtimes.co.uk ).
"The fact is that as important discovery of ET may be in the abstract, at the concrete level of daily life, learning that another civilisation exists/existed 1,400 light years away from us doesn't necessarily mean much to many of Earth's inhabitants. It's interesting, but it may not be very relevant to life on a very self-absorbed world.
" He concludes by saying that regardless of if and when we find alien life, just considering the possibility it is there could help to make people a little less focused on themselves. Traphagan added: "Maybe thinking about others out there might get some to think more about others right here on Earth."
Dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”, the Rendlesham Forest incident, which took place over a series of nights in December 1980, continues to fascinate UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists. It is easy to understand why. Consider the following three statements, for example:
1) “This was not some vague ‘lights in the sky’ sighting – the UFO actually landed.” – Nick Pope, a Ministry of Defence employee from 1985 to 2006.
2) “When I arrived [at the scene], it was going in and out through the trees and at one stage it was hovering.” – Sgt. Adrian Bustinza, a security police commander who investigated the incident at the time.
3) “Okay, we’re looking at the thing; we’re probably about two to three hundred yards away. It looks like an eye winking at you... And the flash is so bright to the starscope that it almost burns your eye.” – Taken from the Halt tape, recorded on December 27 1980 by United States Air Force lieutenant colonel Charles Halt.
Only last month, a dog walker uploaded fresh footage of unidentified lights in the sky above Rendlesham Forest, while a new film on the subject, produced by long-time Suffolk resident and Rendlesham Forest incident expert Daniel Simpson, has recently been released. There is even an official UFO trail for walkers to follow through Rendlesham Forest. But what actually happened? And, 35 years after the event, are we any closer to unravelling the mystery?
The start of the Rendlesham Forest UFO trail
As the years have passed, the facts have become increasingly hazy, as statements change and new witnesses come forward. But what we do know for sure is that, in the early hours of December 26 1980, US military personnel (sections of the US Air Force were temporarily stationed at RAF bases in Woodbridge and Bentwaters) spotted strange lights above Rendlesham Forest.
One of these men, John Burroughs, accompanied by his supervisor and one other individual, went to investigate the blue, red, orange and white lights. In his subsequent witness statement, published in 1981, Burroughs explains: “As we went down the east-gate road and the road that leads into the forest, the lights were moving back and they appeared to stop in a bunch of trees... Also, the woods lit up and you could hear the farm animals making a lot of noises, and there was a lot of movement in the woods. All three of us hit the ground and whatever it was started moving back towards the open field… We got up to a fence that separated the trees from the open field. You could see the lights down by a farmer’s house. We climbed over the fence and started walking toward the red and blue lights and they just disappeared.”
Jim Penniston, who accompanied Burroughs into Rendlesham Forest on December 26, claims to have encountered a craft, covered in hieroglyphic-like characters. “I estimated it to be about three metres tall and about three metres wide at the base,” Penniston later explained. “No landing gear was apparent, but it seemed like she was on fixed legs. I moved a little closer. I had already taken all 36 pictures on my roll of film. I walked around the craft, and finally, I walked right up to the craft. I noticed the fabric of the shell was more like a smooth, opaque, black glass.”
Burroughs does not recall this. Indentations on the forest floor, as well as damage to the trees in the area where the lights had been spotted, were found the following morning, however. Radiation levels recorded at the site of the indentations were also unusually high.
In the book Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, which was published last year, Penniston writes: “I left the forest a different man… I was in awe of the technology and yes, a knowing that it was not an aircraft which could have been manufactured in 1980 or even now.” Both Penniston and Burroughs have since suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Two nights later, a different set of military personnel experienced a similar series of events. On this occasion, when the lights were spotted, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt was prepared. A pragmatic character, Halt intended to disprove the wild rumours swirling around RAF bases Woodbridge and Bentwaters. Arming himself with a recording device, he set out to investigate. The subsequent audio tape is now considered one of the most valuable pieces of evidence in the Rendlesham Forest incident.
The transcript of the tape runs to some 18 minutes but includes statements from Halt such as: “I see it too... it’s back again... it’s coming this way... there’s no doubt about it... this is weird... it looks like an eye winking at you... it almost burns your eyes... he’s coming toward us now... now we’re observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground... one object still hovering over Woodbridge base... beaming down”. Halt has since given interviews in which he claims that these occurrences were picked up by British radar. “I didn’t know this until recently,” he told AOL News. “Because people have come forward after they’ve retired. There were two radar confirmations.”
The following night, December 28, one final group of men claim to have encountered something out of the ordinary in Rendlesham Forest. Larry Warren, an 18-year-old soldier who was not even at either RAF base on the night of the first incident, was sent out on patrol with Sgt Adrian Bustinza and a number of other military personnel. Sometime after 11pm, the men departed their trucks and headed towards the field where lights had been seen on the previous two nights.
There, Warren claims to have seen “disaster preparedness officers out here with geiger counters, going in an almost half-clockwise motion around this thing on the ground.” A small red light was then seen approaching from the direction of the coast. “It moved in a downward arc, so fast. [It] stopped and hovered about 20 feet off the ground,” said Warren. “It was the size of a basketball, [an] American basketball. [It was] self-illuminated, not quite red, yet that’s the closest I can describe it.”
Things were about to get even stranger, though. This red light suddenly exploded and a craft appeared on the forest floor. According to Warren, it had “no windows, no markings, no flag or country of origin. Nothing. You could hardly look at it head on, and if you looked at it through the side of your peripheral vision you’d get a shape of it… and there it was, clear as a bell.”
A 1983 News of the World headline about Rendlesham sightings (Ian Ridpath/NoW)
At this stage, Warren and Bustinza were asked to retreat by a senior man. From a distance, they then claim to have witnessed Wing Commander Gordon Williams approach the craft and encounter some alien being with “what looked like eyes, facial features, bright clothing and some other device.” Warren is clear that a “silent stand-off”, rather than any communication, took place.
At around 4.30am, Warren returned to his base but Bustinza claims to have seen the craft depart. “When it took off, it was, like, hovering. It went up and, like, took off at about a forty-five-degree angle, and if you would have blinked, you would have missed it… And we got a cold draft of air that lasted about a good ten seconds. You know, like when you get a good blow of dust or wind. No noise though; I do remember that.”
It is understood that almost half of all UFO correspondence directed at the Ministry of Defence relates to the Rendlesham Forest incident. Despite claims of a cover-up, the MoD’s stance has never wavered. It states: “No evidence was found of any threat to the defence of the United Kingdom, and no further investigations were carried out. No further information has come to light which alters our view that the sightings of these lights was of no defence significance.”
Daniel Simpson takes a different view, however. The director of The Rendlesham UFO Incident, a fictionalised account of the story set in the modern day and filmed on location in Rendlesham Forest, is convinced that either there has been a military cover-up or that something extra-terrestrial occurred in December 1980. And moreover, he believes he has uncovered further evidence to prove it. While filming in Rendlesham Forest – “It does have a very strong atmosphere of something strange” – he asked the Forestry Commission to investigate a series of hatches, which Simpson describes as “mysterious”.
“I got the Forestry Commission to tow one of those hatches off with a four wheel drive and there’s a ladder going down,” he explains, as we discuss his film. “Now, they will tell you that those are drainage systems for the airfield but it’s a very elaborate drainage system.”
A drawing from Jim Penniston's original witness statement
Simpson believes that “the twin bases [RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters] are connected by tunnels underneath, which isn’t that far out a thing to suggest, because a lot of these bases do have an underground facility, especially as it’s a nuclear facility. You don’t keep nuclear weapons on ground level, they have to drop down.”
He continues: “I recently heard a very interesting story of a guy that went up to the Bentwaters air base and, because it’s privately owned, some of those buildings are rented out to people. A company up there wanted to have their internet sorted out and this guy dug down and – he was a telecom guy – he came back and he was sheet white. He couldn’t believe it. He said he’d just come across these cables, two foot down, and they were cables delivering such a powerful internet connection – but they were cables from 1980. I haven’t ever told anyone that story. They [the cables] were from 1980 and yet they were so in advance of what we’ve even got now. I’m told that all the time what we get [technologically] is much behind what they [the military] actually know.”
So what, I wonder, is the truth? Simpson appears conflicted about whether this is a military cover-up at a nuclear facility or something even more alarming. “I honestly believe something very strange went on there and I believe that somewhere is the evidence to prove it but that’s hidden away. I think it’s an extra-terrestrial encounter. I do.”
I put a series of theories to Simpson, which I hope might explain away the idea that extra-terrestrial life landed in a forest in Suffolk 35 years ago. But he bats them all away. Could the lights have come from nearby Orford Ness lighthouse, for example? “The lighthouse theory is rubbish,” he scoffs. “Lighthouses don’t fly down into forests, split up into five different lights and zap off into space at Mach-3. They don’t move through the trees and get mistaken by up to 20 witnesses from the United States Air Force.”
Daniel Simpson's film, The Rendlesham UFO Incident, was shot on location in Rendlesham Forest
Astronomers Excited Over Possible Alien Signals From Space
Astronomers are excited over mysterious multiple radio signals emanating from outside of the Milky Way, which are already being heralded as the world’s first verified alien signals from space.
The “fast radio bursts”, including a “double signal”, have left astronomers baffled as to their origins as they analyse the data from the Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia.
One of the researchers who discovered the unique signals says that she believes the origin could be more amazing than anything recorded previously.
Emily Petroff from Swinburne University tweeted: “We have no idea what’s going on, but we know it’s definitely something cool.”
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first discovered from records in 2007, and we finally saw one in real-time last year.
However, there has never, until now, been a double blast.
They are quick-fire bursts of radio energy, originating from great distances away, and, as a result, must have contained a huge amount of energy.
The source remains a total mystery.
Seemingly similar readings which excited astronomers earlier this year called perytons at the time were later found to be coming from microwave ovens on Earth being prematurely opened in the canteens of observatories where observations were being taken.
The announcement in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society of the five new signals has left the research community on tenet hooks.
The team said the double burst FRB (called 121002) had a “clear two-component profile”.
They say each component is similar to the known population of single component FRBs and are separated by 2.4 milliseconds.
They added: “Many of the proposed models to explain FRBs use a single high energy eventinvolving compact objects (such as neutron star mergers) and therefore cannot easily explain a two-component FRB.”
The news comes just days after a research paper claimed FRBs were the result of mergers between black holes and neutron stars.
FRB 121002 has the largest delay yet recorded of any frequency picked up, suggesting it has an origin of an immense distance away – probably several billion light-years beyond our own galaxy the Milky way.
More conventional theories for the bursts include them being created by evaporating black holes, supergiant pulsar pulses or the collapse of epically large stars.
But the team said it was difficult to match any of these with the double bast, suggesting that intelligent origin was a serious possibility.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: “Every unusual signal from outer space encourages us to wonder if it is from an alien civilisation.
“It would be fantastic if this is an alien signal as the knowledge that we are not alone in this vast universe would have a dramatic impact on our perception of our place in the scheme of things.
“It would certainly give the opportunity for UFO spotters to say we told you aliens exist and take an interest in our activities, and you didn’t believe us.”
November 14, 1979: ‘Whatever the objects were, they were certainly interested in my piece of metal,’ the pilot said
A Spanish Caravelle jet aircraft on a charter flight from Salzburg to the Canary Islands was forced to make an emergency landing in Valencia because, the pilot claims, it was buzzed by UFOs.
This story was confirmed yesterday by the pilot of the plane, Captain Javier Lerdo Tejada, in Arrecife, the capital of the Canary Island of Lanzarote. “What I saw,” he said, “was an unidentified flying object.”
The aircraft, belonging to the Spanish charter company TAE, was flying 109 German and Austrian tourists to Tenerife, with a refuelling stop at Palma, Majorca, when Captain Tejada saw the object. The passengers were told that the emergency landing was due to a fault.
“I have never known such danger,” Captain Tejada said yesterday. “Whatever the objects were, they were certainly interested in my piece of metal. I saw two very strong red lights. I had never seen anything like it before. They moved very fast and kept together both vertically and horizontally and came closer. They were with my plane for 10 minutes or more.
“I first saw them when they were at 23,000ft. They appeared to be 15 miles away. At 28,000ft they were half a mile away and at 29,000ft they were on top of me on a collision course.
“Earlier, I had ordered passengers to fasten their seat belts and had turned on landing lights as a precaution. I radioed Barcelona control but they could see nothing on their scanner. Then I radioed the Air Force in Madrid, which is part of Spain’s early warning system and uses more sophisticated equipment. They picked up the objects when they were very close to me.
“I then took emergency procedure, turning sharply away from them. The objects were then clearly spotted by Madrid. The objects followed me down, 12,000ft in 30 seconds. I have never heard of a plane capable of doing that. When I was 30 miles outside Valencia they disappeared.
“A Mirage interceptor was sent up from the air base at Albacete. What the Mirage saw is a military secret but I spoke to the pilot later and he confirmed what I had seen.”
Captain Tejada is an experienced pilot. He served with the Spanish Air Force for six years, and has been a commercial pilot for the past nine years.
A very peculiar phenomenon was recorded by a group of US tourists who were visiting an area near CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Located in Geneva, Switzerland, the renowned CERN is a research organization that operates the largest particle accelerators in the world. The particles are made to collide together at close to the speed of light, and through that scientists want to discover what the universe is made of and where did all life begin.
As fancy and promising as this sounds, the results might surprise even the scientists at CERN, and as some skeptics claim, the resulting experiments might be catastrophic for all humanity. It appears that so far, the CERN facility is attracting UFOs and who knows what else. The video below shows how a peculiar vortex is present over the sky, until an unexpected guest gets sucked into it and the whirlwind suddenly dissipates.
At first, the vortex has a considerable size, but as it vacuums the matter of the clouds found nearby, it compresses considerably until it disappears. If you look closely, a strange ball of light enters the scene from the bottom right of the video. It strongly resembles to the orb UFOs seen so many times lately.
After the UFO gets to the center of the vortex, everything return to normal; even the wind stops howling. So what could this strange phenomenon be? Is it part of the CERN experiments? Or maybe a side effect of those?
To understand the complex experiments undergoing at CERN, one has to understand that they’re responsible for the discovery of the “god particle” – a particle that binds together the universe as we know it, and as Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director of CERN stated:
We have made the discovery of a new particle – a completely new particle – which is most probably very different from all the other particles. It’s nearly a once in a lifetime experience, I would say.
However, after such a promising start, scientists engaged into even more daring projects. So, on September 23, 2015, CERN has gradually increased the number of collisions, while remaining at the same energy level. Even more, they are now running tests with lead ions instead of protons, in the hope of achieving exclusive results for science.
Even though many people expressed their concerns about the power-increase in CERN’s experiments (and the fears are real since we’re talking about nuclear energy and more), officials of the facility reassured everyone that the situation is under control. However, only a few months after the beginning of this, strange appearances like the one seen above have begun to surface. Should we fear for what CERN might discover in the near future?
Whatever may happen, we are too small to make a difference and influence the decisions of renowned scientists working here in Geneva, but at least we can spread the word and show what is happening there. Assuming the vortex sucking up a orb UFO was indeed an authentic phenomenon and not the work of CGI, our assumptions that CERN is into something big this time might prove to be real.
As anyone and everyone with knowledge of the UFO phenomenon will be aware, the entire subject is steeped in controversy. But some aspects of the UFO phenomenon are more controversial than others. And then there are those aspects that are reallycontroversial. All of which brings me to today’s article. In 1997 I interviewed the well-known British UFO investigator, Jenny Randles, regarding a strange series of events she found herself in, back in late 1986. It was a very curious saga involving allegedly classified documents, dead aliens, crashed flying saucers, and much more.
It all began in October 1986, when Randles came into contact with a man who had then recently left his employment with the British Army. According to the man, he had in his possession a large stash of still-classified material on UFOs that he had acquired under very controversial circumstances. Well, despite the nature of the story, Randles agreed to meet with the man – named Robert – at a location in the English town of Eccles, which wasn’t at all far from where Randles lived. Also along for the meeting with Robert was Peter Hough, a friend of Randles and a fellow UFO investigator.
The story that Robert told was as remarkable as it was inflammatory. Roughly a year or so earlier, an American individual, employed by the US military and working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, came across the computerized files while engaged in repairing one particular system at the base. And we’re not talking about just a few pages of material. According to what Robert told Randles and Hough, the number of pages was huge. The man allegedly printed around six hundred pages of material, which wasn’t even anywhere near the overall total.
It turns out that – allegedly – the man in question was friends with Robert’s commanding-officer in the British Army; the two having met on an exchange-program. Fearful about what he had got himself into, the computer-specialist gave the hundreds of pages of material on those aforementioned crashed saucers and alien autopsies to the CO. It wasn’t long before there was disturbing news: the specialist was killed in a car “accident,” supposedly while under the influence of booze.
Back in 1997, when I spoke with Jenny Randles about all this, she told me: “Robert’s CO explained that he was due to take on a new position with the British Army and he needed to offload the UFO files. Was Robert the man for the job?” He certainly was. At first, Robert found the whole thing exciting. High-level secrets concerning Uncle Sam’s collection of deceased ETs, alien technology, and more all dominated Robert’s amazed mind. But, it wasn’t long before reality set in and Robert went from being excited to deeply worried. After all, if the files were the real deal, then he – Robert – was in potential, deep you-know-what. It was this worry that led Robert to approach Randles, with a view to handing the material over to her.
It was a plan that failed to work. One week – or thereabouts – after the meeting between Robert and Randles and Hough took place, Robert got back in touch. He claimed that in the intervening week, what were described as his “former employers” paid him a visit, took him to a military installation in the south of England, and intensely grilled him about those files. Robert claimed he had no choice but to hand over the approximately 600-pages. Failure to do so might backfire on his wife and children, Robert was ominously told. On handing the material over, those same “former employers” informed Robert that the files were nothing but the result of “a prank.”
Many might say that Robert was nothing more than a fantasy-prone character, stringing along Randles and Hough for his own obscure amusement. But, that is likely not the case. Randles, having been on the receiving end of conspiratorial tales in the past, elected to do a bit of digging into Robert. It turns out that when the initial meeting was over, Randles and Hough had the presence of mind to note the license-plate on Robert’s car. They then shared that number with a trusted source in the British Police Force, who agreed to run the number through the Force’s database and see who it belonged to. The outcome was intriguing.
Randles told me: “It turned out that what [Robert] had told us proved to be correct. The name he had given us was his real name. He lived where he said he lived. He had recently been in the Army. And his car had been registered in precisely the same month that his Army career had come to an end.”
And there’s something else, too: one of the documents contained in the vast stash of material was titled “Elimination of Non-Military Personnel.” Randles said to me: “[Robert] said that this was a document discussing the ways in which witnesses who had come into possession of too much information on UFOs were silenced. And although this sounds very much like something out of a spy film, from his detailed discussion of a number of case-histories in the file, the one tactic that was used most often – particularly with people in influential positions – was to offer them high-paid jobs in government departments. They had pretty much determined that, where money was concerned, people usually comply.”
Randles added: “But, there was a discussion of the so-called Men in Black – people going around warning people about national security and intimidating them into silence. However, Robert told us that this tactic was only used on those whose instability was considered to be significant enough that, if they ever told their story publicly, it would not be considered credible.”
Then there was one final tactic: if financial incentives didn’t work, and “instability” wasn’t relevant, there was always termination. Robert stressed to Randles that this last-resort tactic was rarely ever used, primarily because of the dicey and fraught nature of trying to make a murder look like a suicide or an accident.
Was Robert a definitive Walter Mitty? Might he have been telling the absolute truth? Or, was he possibly an unwitting player in some strange mind-game of a psychological-warfare nature? Almost thirty years later, the questions still linger.
Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz, M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI)
Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of "Closer to Truth," a public television and multimedia program that features the world's leading thinkers exploring humanity's deepest questions. Kuhn is co-editor, with John Leslie, of "The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything at All?" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). This article is based on a "Closer to Truth" episode produced and directed by Peter Getzels. Kuhn contributed this article toSpace.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
I began bemused. The notion that humanity might be living in an artificial reality — a simulated universe — seemed sophomoric, at best science fiction.
But speaking with scientists and philosophers on "Closer to Truth," I realized that the notion that everything humans see and know is a gigantic computer game of sorts, the creation of supersmart hackers existing somewhere else, is not a joke. Exploring a "whole-world simulation," I discovered, is a deep probe of reality.
David Brin, sci-fi writer and space scientist, relates the Chinese parable of an emperor dreaming that he was a butterfly dreaming that he was an emperor. In contemporary versions, Brin said, it may be the year 2050 and people are living in a computer simulation of what life was like in the early 21st century — or it may be billions of years from now, and people are in a simulation of what primitive planets and people were once like.
Philosopher Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, describes a fake universe as a "richly detailed software simulation of people, including their historical predecessors, by a very technologically advanced civilization."
It's like the movie "The Matrix," Bostrom said, except that "instead of having brains in vats that are fed by sensory inputs from a simulator, the brains themselves would also be part of the simulation. It would be one big computer program simulating everything, including human brains down to neurons and synapses."
Bostrum is not saying that humanity is living in such a simulation. Rather, his "Simulation Argument" seeks to show that one of three possible scenarios must be true (assuming there are other intelligent civilizations):
All civilizations become extinct before becoming technologically mature;
All technologically mature civilizations lose interest in creating simulations;
Humanity is literally living in a computer simulation.
His point is that all cosmic civilizations either disappear (e.g., destroy themselves) before becoming technologically capable, or all decide not to generate whole-world simulations (e.g., decide such creations are not ethical, or get bored with them). The operative word is "all" — because if even one civilization anywhere in the cosmos could generate such simulations, then simulated worlds would multiply rapidly and almost certainly humanity would be in one.
As technology visionary Ray Kurzweil put it, "maybe our whole universe is a science experiment of some junior high school student in another universe." (Given how things are going, he jokes, she may not get a good grade.)
Kurzweil's worldview is based on the profound implications of what happens over time when computing power grows exponentially. To Kurzweil, a precise simulation is not meaningfully different from real reality. Corroborating the evidence that this universe runs on a computer, he says, is that "physical laws are sets of computational processes" and "information is constantly changing, being manipulated, running on some computational substrate." And that would mean, he concluded, "the universe is a computer." Kurzweil said he considers himself to be a "pattern of information."
"I'm a patternist," he said. "I think patterns, which means that information is the fundamental reality."
How could people know?
If people are in a whole-world simulation, how could they know it? Brin suggests a "back door" in the simulation program that would enable the alleged programmers to control people (much like countries accuse each other of installing "back doors" in code to conduct espionage).
"If we are living in a simulation, then everything is software, including every atom in our bodies," Brin said, "and there may be 'back doors' that the programmers left ajar."
I asked Marvin Minsky, a legendary founder of artificial intelligence, to distinguish among three kinds of simulations: (i) brains in vats, (ii) universal simulation as pure software and (iii) universal simulation as real physical stuff.
"It would be very hard to distinguish among those," Minsky said, "unless the programmer has made some slips — if you notice that some laws of physics aren't quite right, if you find rounding-off errors, you might sense some of the grain of the computer showing through."
If that were the case, he says, it would mean that the universe is easier to understand than scientists had imagined, and that they might even find ways to change it.
For a reality check, I visited Martin Rees, U.K. Astronomer Royal, a bold visionary and hard-nosed realist.
"Well, it's a bit flaky, but a fascinating idea," he said. "The real question is what are the limits of computing powers."
Astronomers are already doing simulations of parts of universes. "We can't do experiments on stars and galaxies," Rees explained, "but we can have a virtual universe in our computer, and calculate what happens if you crash galaxies together, evolve stars, etc. So, because we can simulate some cosmic features in a gross sense, we have to ask, 'As computers become vastly more powerful, what more could we simulate?'
"It's not crazy to believe that some time in the far future," he said, "there could be computers which could simulate a fairly large fraction of a world."
A prime assumption of all simulation theories is that consciousness — the inner sense of awareness, like the sound of Gershwin or the smell of garlic — can be simulated; in other words, that a replication of the complete physical states of the brain will yield, ipso facto, the complete mental states of the mind. (This direct correspondence usually assumes, unknowingly, the veracity of what's known in philosophy of mind as "identity theory," one among many competing theories seeking to solve the intractable "mind-body problem".) Such a brain-only mechanism to account for consciousness, required for whole-world simulations and promulgated by physicalists, is to me not obvious.
I asked Rees whether human-level consciousness and self-consciousness can be simulated.
"That may be the kind of question that would demand a superhuman intelligence to answer," which, he adds, "could be forever beyond our capacity."
Physicist Paul Davies has a different take. He uses simulation theory to tease out possible contradictions in the multiple universe (multiverse) theory, which is his countercultural challenge to today's mainstream cosmology.
"If you take seriously the theory of all possible universes, including all possible variations," Davies said, "at least some of them must have intelligent civilizations with enough computing power to simulate entire fake worlds. Simulated universes are much cheaper to make than the real thing, and so the number of fake universes would proliferate and vastly outnumber the real ones. And assuming we're just typical observers, then we're overwhelmingly likely to find ourselves in a fake universe, not a real one."
So far it's the normal argument.
Then Davies makes his move. He claims that because the theoretical existence of multiple universes is based on the laws of physics in our universe, if this universe is simulated, then its laws of physics are also simulated, which would mean that this universe's physics is a fake. Therefore, Davies reasoned, "We cannot use the argument that the physics in our universe leads to multiple universes, because it also leads to a fake universe with fake physics." That undermines the whole argument that fundamental physics generates multiple universes, because the reasoning collapses in circularity.
Davies concluded, "While multiple universes seem almost inevitable given our understanding of the Big Bang, using them to explain all existence is a dangerous, slippery slope, leading to apparently absurd conclusions."
Five premises to the simulation argument
I find five premises to the simulation argument: (i) Other intelligent civilizations exist; (ii) their technologies grow exponentially; (iii) they do not all go extinct; (iv) there is no universal ban or barrier for running simulations; and (v) consciousness can be simulated.
If these five premises are true, I agree, humanity is likely living in a simulation. The logic seems sound, which means that if you don't accept (or don't want to accept) the conclusion, then you must reject at least one of the premises.
Which to reject? Other intelligent civilizations? Exponential growth of technology?
Not all civilizations going extinct? No simulations ban or barrier? Consciousness simulated?
Whichever you choose, it must apply always, everywhere. For all time. In all universes. No exceptions.
That, to me, makes no sense.
Would the simulation argument relate to theism, the existence of God? Not necessarily.
Bostrum said, "the simulation hypothesis is not an alternative to theism or atheism. It could be a version of either — it's independent of whether God exists." While the simulation argument is "not an attempt to refute theism," he said, it would "imply a weaker form of a creation hypothesis," because the creator-simulators "would have some of the attributes we traditionally associate with God in the sense that they would have created our world."
They would be superintelligent, but they "wouldn't need unlimited or infinite minds." They could "intervene in the world, our experiential world, by manipulating the simulation. So they would have some of the capabilities of omnipotence in the sense that they could change anything they wanted about our world."
So even if this universe looks like it was created, neither scientists nor philosophers nor theologians could easily distinguish between the traditional creator God and hyper-advanced creator-simulators.
But that leads to the old regress game and the question of who created the (weaker) creator-simulators.
At some point, the chain of causation must end — although even this, some would dispute.
Personally, I do not think humanity is living in a whole-world simulation. But because the simulation argument seems to work, what it seems to do is to uncover deep discrepancies, or fundamental flaws, in how people think about deep reality — about this universe, multiple universes, consciousness, and even inferences for and against theism.
Something’s amiss.
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The real color of the red planet: Is Mars really red?
Remember a couple of months ago, that super-viralized controversial question about the infamous dress? While some people saw it as being golden and white there are others who saw it as being blue and black.
The same question could be asked about Mars… What is the true color of the red planet… and is ti really red, or is it possible that mars is actually… very similar to Earth? Is it possible that Mars is very similar to Earth? Today we know that the red planet has liquid water flowing on its surface, we also know that there are anomalous traces of methane registered by NASA’s rovers on Mars, and not long ago we learnt that in the distant past, Mars had an atmosphere very similar to that of Earth.
Just as with the dress which managed to divide the world into two groups, the color of Mars has created immense debate among scientists and astronomers. It might turn out to be that the red planet isn’t so red after all, since researchers have failed to reach an agreement on the true color of Mars.
NASA has recognized that the color photos of the Martian surface are largely an “artistic” vision, and not as representative of the true colors of the surface, due to unique scientific analysis.
Certainly the images obtained on the planet are a mosaic of various pieces of landscape that could be taken at different times and in different weather conditions.
Furthermore, the cameras used for photographing Mars snapped the same image three times using different filters recreating a color balanced image. Subsequently, the information must travel a distance of about 200 million kilometers to reach the screens of astronomers, scientists and researchers.
This is why, the photos beamed back by different rovers reflect a Martian surface with a variety of changing tone colors. For example, photographs taken in 1976 show a blue sky due to special adjustment of the balance between white colors which made Mars look very much like the surface of Earth.
The other next bet question would be… where is all the methane on Mars coming from?
Many people believe that NASA is actually hiding a lot of information on Mars. Numerous ufologists suggest that NASA has intentionally altered the images from Mars to make it look like a desolate and lifeless planet while the truth is very different from what NASA and other space agencies are telling us.
One of the last photographs of the Martian surface by the Curiosity, reveals an apparent blueish-grey surface. While astronomers have proposed several explanations for the phenomenon, the fact is that no one yet knows for sure what color the planet Mars.
The red planet might not be so red after all, and we might just prove that Mars is actually very similar to Earth, or at least was in the distant past.
Shadowy UFO Captured on Tape, then Reported in Different States (VIDEO)
This mysterious flying object was first caught on video as it slowly departed by a father and son who were filming the sunset near the border between Kentucky and Ohio on the 24th of October.
Soon after they posted the footage online, the video became viral and the UFO community started debating what the aircraft is and where it might come from. Its triangular or rather butterfly shape led many to believe it’s a military Stealth aircraft, but those have been antique pieces for some time now and being held in museums.
Few claim it’s just a commercial airliner and tech experts say it’s definitely a home-made drone, but the size makes anybody question that theory. Even the people who agree it’s a drone say it was engineered after previously found alien craft.
As the debate raged on, reports of identical sightings started coming in from all over the country. Keith Hart, a resident of Atlanta posted this picture, taken before the Ohio father and son tape, and couldn’t hide his amazement: ” I swear, with very little, I mean VERY little adjustment, the sighting in Atlanta a couple days ago, looks identical to the sighting last night in Ohio. I mean crazy similar. Same depth ‘tier’ type ship. Maybe at a slightly different angle, or a slight shape shift which has been mentioned. They stills look very similar!”
Some even claim the same aircraft was visible when astrologists studied the distant planet named Ceres, though we have very little clear evidence to support that possibility. The same butterfly shaped aircraft was spotted in the skies above Phoenix, Arizona and people posted photos of it on twitter. The debate is now centered around weather the aircraft is man or alien made, and few people believe it’s just a hoax.
The footage captured near the Kentucky border seems very real and it would take a lot of time for even the most accomplished professional to forge it this good, but, of course, there are skeptics who claim it is fake.
Tyler Glockner, the man operating the YouTube channel where the video was first uploaded, made the following statement: “The reason I am calling this an alien craft rather than just a UFO… is in the stunning detail, where we can see the true structural characteristics of this ship. And guys you take a look and tell me with a straight face this has anything to do with humans. The features on this thing don’t make any sense.”
Mainstream media has failed to approach this story, which leads us to believe governing forces wish it to be overlooked. The aircraft is not similar to any official commercial or military model, from any country, so it could also be prototype being tested or a man-made spaceship built in complete secrecy.
It’s doubtful this is the last we’ll hear on the matter, as reports of sightings and pictures continue to surface from different parts of the US. We’ll keep you updated.
Crashed UFO Discovered on the Surface of Mars (VIDEO)
Over a couple of years, Curiosity rover has gathered countless pictures from the surface of the Red Planet, many of them resembling to lost relics from a former Martian civilization.
We now know that water once flowed over this now-desolated wasteland, therefore the conditions for supporting life had been ideal.
The data received from Curiosity rover indicates that life on Mars might have ended sooner than some scientists believed.
This picture captured by Curiosity caused quite a stir among viewers, as it reveals what seems to be a flying saucer, crashed into the rocky terrain of the Red Planet.
While some people saw nothing more than a strangely shaped rock, others considered it to look like an artificially-made device of some sort, cleverly resembling to a flying machine used by extraterrestrials.
By looking at the terrain on which the object stands, we noticed that the nearby stones are nothing like it, and there is no similar structure around it.
Is it possible that Curiosity rover photographed a relatively new UFO crash site?
With a hemispheric form below the flat, central disk and a similar, narrow dome on top, it fits the classic appearance of a UFO.
In addition to the classic features, the surface of the central disk is smooth and seems to slightly reflect light.
Even though the object is covered with a dense layer of dust from the surface of Mars, it looks rather undamaged , ending there as a result of a forced landing instead of a crash.
UFO supporters have claimed that it’s unlikely that the object was formed due to natural phenomenon which occurred on Mars, because it looks distinct and is also the first and only one of its kind.
There are also skeptics saying that it is most likely a rock with classic UFO features formed along the course of many years, which happens to look like an earthen concept of a flying spaceship, and that people see whatever they want in images such as this.
Whatever the truth might be, this photo shares some evidence regarding the supposition of life being found on Mars or even more, an advanced species that has once dwelt here.
On more than a few occasions I’ve been asked why – for the most part – I don’t take a mainstream “nuts and bolts” approach to the UFO phenomenon. Well, it’s true: I don’t. The reason being that I see clear cross-overs between certain Ufological events and multiple other paranormal phenomena. Take, for example, the more than a few reports on record of Bigfoot seen at the same time and place as strange lights in the sky. Or, the parallels between alien abduction encounters and reports of incubus- and succubus-style activity. Then there’s the matter of UFOs and synchronicities. As I see it, we’re dealing with something far stranger than an extraterrestrial equivalent of NASA. A perfect example of all this is a case from 1980. It’s one that has been hailed as a UFO classic (and in many respects it is). But, when we look deeper, we find it’s steeped in high-strangeness; much of which takes it far away from Ufology.
Back in November 1980, a then-serving English policeman named Alan Godfrey had a profound UFO encounter in Todmorden, Yorkshire – a pleasant locale that has its origins in the 17th century. Godfrey’s encounter came just five months after he was involved in the investigation of a curious death in town. The victim was a man named Zigmund Adamski. As most people will know, the not exactly common name of Adamski is a very famous one in Ufology. It was just one of those strange synchronicities that proliferate when the UFO phenomenon looms large.
Alan Godfrey
As for Godfrey’s UFO encounter, it occurred undercover of darkness, in the pre-dawn morning of November 29, 1980, while he was out on patrol in his police-car. As he drove along one particular stretch of road, Godfrey was amazed by the sight of what he first thought was a bus positioned oddly in the road. As Godfrey got closer, however, he could see it was something else entirely. It was actually nothing less than a somewhat egg-shaped UFO.
There then followed an experience that contained certain, key elements of the UFO phenomenon, such as missing-time, and recollections of being taken on-board a craft. However, the entity Godfrey was confronted by on the craft was not the typical black-eyed, dwarfish “Gray.” Rather, it was a human-looking figure dressed in a long gown and sporting a beard. In that sense, there was more of a “Contactee”-style component to the incident. But, there was even more to the affair, too. And this is where things become intertwined with matters of the paranormal kind.
While undergoing hypnotic regression, Godfrey said that also aboard the UFO was a large black dog. This was not the first encounter Godfrey had with an anomalous hound. Years earlier, he had seen a ghostly Labrador. There was also an odd occasion – in the 1960s, and near Todmorden – when what seemed to be a woman with a large black dog stepped out in front of Godfrey’s vehicle, causing him to slam the brakes on. Both the woman and the dog vanished. It just so happens that Todmorden has in its midst centuries-old legends of what are known as the “Gabriel Hounds.” They are akin to the UK’s wider, ancient, phenomenon of so-called “Phantom Black Dogs” of the kind that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to pen the Sherlock Holmes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Todmorden is also home to Blackheath Barrow, a Bronze Age site at which, legend suggests, the long-dead sometimes show themselves. Missing time, weird balls of light, and strange and dwarfish entities have been reported from within Blackheath Barrow. So, what we have is a man who, in November 1980, had a profound UFO encounter in a fairly small town that has been steeped in weirdness for centuries. That Alan Godfrey recalled – under hypnosis – seeing a large black dog aboard the UFO, and in a town that has a phantom-hound tradition attached to it, is intriguing.
For me, at least, all of this suggests that whatever the truth of the UFO phenomenon, it’s far stranger than anything of that aforementioned “nuts and bolts” nature.
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