Scientists Claim To Have Invented A ‘Magnetic Wormhole’

Scientists in Spain have created a “magnetic wormhole” in the laboratory which is reportedly capable of transmitting magnetic fields invisibly through space.

While the manufactured wormhole does not connect two separate points in “spacetime” as does a genuine theoretical wormhole and cannot answer physic’s and cosmology’s fundamental questions, it can however connect two points in three dimensional space, albeit electromagnetically.

Researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have developed a spherical device capable of transferring a magnetic field from one point in space to another via a path that is magnetically undetectable. The results are published inNature.com.

Smash reports:

The experiment involved designing a three-layer device which had two spheres connected by an interior spiral cylinder. It enabled the magnetic field to travel from one point to another on a hidden path. The inner layer was made of a ferromagnetic mu-metal, giving it a high level of magnetism, while the next two layers worked to conceal the travelling field.

One was a superconductor shell that bent the field as it travelled through the ferromagnetic material, the other was a different mu-metal, cut and formed so as to cancel out the bending. The entire device was placed in liquid nitrogen to aide the superconductors.

Normally, as a magnetic field travels its path can be detected, but the device enabled it to disappear while in transit so it appeared to arrive from out of nowhere at its destination, like a cloaking effect.

“This device can transmit the magnetic field from one point in space to another point, through a path that is magnetically invisible,” said Jordi Prat-Camps, a co-author of the study. “From a magnetic point of view, this device acts like a wormhole, as if the magnetic field was transferred through an extra special dimension.”

While what’s been created isn’t a space-time wormhole, or Einstein-Rosen bridge, like the sort seen inInterstellar and Thor (see below), it does hold real-world potential. For instance it could have applications for MRI scanners which use strong magnets and require people to sit inside a huge machine.

Using a more refined version of this technique means the magnet could still be effective placed further away, doing away with the confined space of an MRI.

Of course, these are all the positive applications that it could possibly used for, but just to keep you on your toes the sphere does have more than a passing resemblance to a certain film (below), Event Horizon, where things didn’t go quite as planned:

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How Planet Nine may have been exiled to solar system’s edge

Both images: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)

Our solar system might not be the weird kid on the block after all. Astronomers announced this week that they’ve seen strong evidence for a planet around 10 times Earth’s mass lurking unseen in the outer solar system. If it bears out, this world would fill a hole in our solar system’s family tree: a missing super-Earth.

Super-Earths, also known as mini-Neptunes since they may be gassy or rocky, are among the most common planets in the Milky Way. Hundreds have been spotted in other solar systems over the past two decades, but even so there appeared to be none back home.

But now Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown, astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology, say they can make a convincing case for a super-Earth here in our solar system.

Only a giant planet will do

“We didn’t want to invoke a distant giant planet to explain anything about the outer solar system,” says Batygin. “We tried every trick in the book, and some that aren’t in the book. Simply nothing else worked.”

“We usually talk about how the most common type of planet, two to three times the size of Earth, is not found in our solar system, yet now we might have one,” says Sara Seager at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. “That’s cool.”

But even if there is a super-Earth out on the edges of our solar system, we’re still pretty weird. “Even with Planet Nine bringing us a bit closer to the galactic planetary catalogue, the solar system does still appear to be an overall outlier,” says Batygin, as super-Earths in other star systems are much closer to their stars.

Jupiter is the culprit

Simulations of the young solar system suggest that the early formation of Jupiter probably prevented this from happening here. But those simulations also suggest that a super-Earth couldn’t have formed as far away as Planet Nine would have to be, at least, not then – there simply wasn’t enough material out there to make a planet that big.

So how did Planet Nine, if it exists, get all the way out there?

The answer must lie in the very beginnings of the solar system, when our stellar neighbourhood was a very different – and much more dangerous – place. “We know the process of planet formation is not placid,” says Batygin. “There was a very chaotic sequence of events.” Planets were thrown around by their gravitational pulls on each other, occasionally colliding, as in the process that is thought to have formed Earth’s moon.

Planet Nine was the “core of a giant planet, which was forming with the other planets we know and love, that was thrown out of the solar system,” says Batygin.

Violent births

“We know that Uranus and Neptune probably had a very violent final phase of formation,” says Sean Raymond of Bordeaux Observatory in France – they essentially came together through a series of collisions. Last year he and colleagues simulated this process and found that planets around five times the mass of Earth were ejected from the solar system during the pileup.

At the time the team didn’t think too much about their eventual fate, but hints of Planet Nine suggest one could have settled down into a lengthy orbit. “This extra planet could be representative of the building blocks of the ice giants,” says Raymond.

That gives us a new mystery: what prevented the planet’s escape? Brown believes that gas and dust in the very early solar system may have slowed down the planet, but Batygin has his eye on a different culprit: the other stars nearby in the early days of our solar system. He thinks that gravitational tugs from those stars, are the best candidates for slowing down Planet Nine enough to keep it in a huge, elongated orbit around the sun.

Random pattern or real object?

But Planet Nine might not even be there. While Batygin and Brown have pointed out compelling evidence for the existence of Planet Nine by studying the unusual orbits of six distant rocks called Kuiper belt objects (KBOs), that is not the same as a discovery, says Brown. “People are good at seeing patterns in places, and maybe we have just seen a random pattern and convinced ourselves it’s statistically significant. That’s my biggest worry.”

Future discoveries of KBOs will provide the true test. “If you find more of these objects and they really are randomly distributed around the sky, then it’s time for us to hang our heads in shame and retreat from the national media,” says Brown. But if the anomalies in the outer Kuiper belt remain, then Planet Nine will remain a likely explanation for them.

“Further work is needed to explain the origin of Planet Nine,” says Lucie Jílková of Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands, who last year suggested the strange orbits of these KBOs could be explained if they were stolen from a passing star. “Observations of more outer solar system bodies will help to further constrain and distinguish the theories.”

Lightbulb on the moon

If Planet Nine really is out there, with any luck astronomers will be able to spot it soon, despite the scant light it reflects from the sun. “Finding this object is like finding a lightbulb on the moon,” says Batygin. “But our calculations have provided a roadmap for where to look for this very dim object in the sky. Hopefully, that will trigger a hunt.”

We might even send a probe there one day. “It’s not as crazy as it sounds,” says Brown. “The way you do it is head straight for the sun, and as you swing around the sun and you’re getting this gravitational slingshot, you fire a whole bank of rocket engines.” Depending on the distance to Planet Nine, this could take anywhere from a few years to 20 years.

Other schemes like this have been proposed in the past, some with nuclear-powered rockets, but they never got past the planning stages. But a target like Planet Nine could make all the difference. “The societal impact of having that destination would be very exciting,” says Greg Laughlin at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “The stars are just too far away, we’re not going there. But this is a place where we could get to.”

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Galaxy-mapping Gaia space telescope gets an eye test from Pluto

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Gaia spies, with its gigapixel eye, something beginning with “P”. The European Space Agency launched its Gaia space telescope in December 2013 to map the locations of a billion stars in the Milky Way, but it can also spot objects a little closer to home. Between September 2014 and December 2015 it made nine observations of Pluto and its moon Charon, which have served as a kind of eye test for the probe.

When you take an eye examination, your optometrist asks you to distinguish between increasingly small letters on a chart. The test is designed to determine the resolution of your vision. Having 20/20 vision means you can distinguish two distant objects separated by one sixtieth of a degree, otherwise known as an arcminute. Any closer, and the objects blur together, appearing as one.

Gaia can do the same trick with Pluto and Charon, though it is a little more difficult because both bodies are moving with respect to each other and the spacecraft, slightly changing their angular separation. But Gaia has the advantage of being in orbit. Observations from Earth’s surface can be thrown off by the shimmer of the atmosphere, which can slightly bend light and make it harder to distinguish distant objects.

A good warm-up

In seven of the observations, Gaia was able to make out both the dwarf planet and its moon, but only saw a single point of light in the other two.

From these measurements, Gaia team member François Mignard of the Côte d’Azur Observatory in Nice, France, was able to calculate that Gaia’s resolving power is between 0.23 and 0.36 arcseconds – around 200 times better than 20/20 vision.

Mignard says this value should improve once the Gaia team starts detailed analysis of data from binary stars, which also orbit each other. But it’s a good warm-up challenge for this particular test.

“Pluto and Charon have a symbolic value of a source not easy to resolve from the Earth,” he says. “These observations with Gaia epitomise the gain in spatial resolution we get when go outside the atmosphere.”

Gaia will also help pinpoint the orbit of Pluto, eventually bringing down errors in its measurement from 2000 kilometres to around 50 kilometres. Improvements will partly come from tracking Pluto itself, but also from clearing up the positions of the stars behind it, which should benefit all astronomical measurements, says Mignard. “This will be a lasting legacy of Gaia.”

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New rumours that gravitational waves have finally been detected

A rumour that the world’s largest gravitational-wave observatory has caught the first whiff of its quarry is heating up.

Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time produced by massive bodies accelerating through space, such as pairs of neutron stars orbiting each other or the merging of two black holes.

They were predicted as part of Einstein’s general relativity a century ago, but have yet to be seen directly. Finding them would confirm the final piece of his theory, and also give us a new way to view the universe, allowing us to probe distant objects that might otherwise be dark or obscured by interstellar dust.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) searched for such signals from 2002 to 2010 with no luck. Its more sensitive successor, Advanced LIGO or aLIGO, started collecting data on 18 September.

Fresh sighting

Barely a week later, cosmologist Lawrence Krauss at Arizona State University tweeted a rumour that the detector had already picked up a signal.

Now Krauss claims that the original rumour has been confirmed by an independent source.

“Stay tuned!” he tweeted. “Gravitational waves may have been discovered!! Exciting.”

Off Twitter, however, Krauss was more cautious. The signal could have been a false one deliberately injected into the data to test the detection team. “I’m told this isn’t that,” Krauss told New Scientist. His source says that the LIGO collaboration is writing up a paper on the possible find. “That suggests it’s not a false signal – but who knows for sure?”

The official word from the LIGO team is tha

t they are still analysing the data from the first run, which should finish on 12 January. “It takes time to analyse, interpret and review results,” says spokesperson Gabriela González at Louisiana State University. “We expect to have news on the run results in the next few months.”

“We’ll use something other than the rumour mill when we have a contribution to the discussion!” adds David Shoemaker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Image credit: NASA/C. Henze

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SECRET UNDERGROUND BASE BENEATH DENVER INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT NOW REVEALED

By John Ale (Reporter)

New X-files Series to Reveal: 9/11 Conspiracy, Global Warming, NSA Spying, Chem-trails, Police Militarization, FEMA Camps, and a “takeover of America” by a UN-like group of “multinational elites.”

Related Awakening Your Force | Science Fiction and Psychology - Star Wars, Ancient Tibet, and Jedi Training

The following is an article by Kauilapele regarding this newly rehashed X-files series set to debut this Sunday. With the items he highlighted, along with a fair understanding ufology, secret space program disclosures and the truth movement in general, it is easy to see how this show is hiding information in plain site. 

This section of an article he cites is particularly revealing:

“In the first return episode screened for reporters (trailer below), paranormal investigators Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) team up with a charming web-series host named Tad O’Malley… O’Malley eventually sways Mulder and Scully to adopt a new conspiracy that lays a framework for the six-episode revival. The theory involves global warming, war in the Middle East, NSA spying, chem-trails (here called “aerial contaminants”), police militarization, supposed FEMA prison camps, and the eventual military “takeover of America” by a UN-like group of “multinational elites.” [Sound familiar?]

“The most eyebrow-raising moment in the premiere is when O’Malley brings the 9/11 terrorist attacks into his conspiracy framework. “9/11 was a false flag operation,” O’Malley declares on his Truth Squad with Tad O’Malley show, echoing on Infowars theory. “It’s all part of a conspiracy dating back to the UFO crash at Roswell.” The clip is presented early in the episode. Later, Mulder and Scully embrace O’Malley’s overall position, though the 9/11 element isn’t referenced." (Emphasis added)

I think even the most close-minded person can see the writing on the wall. Clearly this show is an effort to label all these concepts and more as fictional, to be dismissed, ridiculed and scoffed at. 

But as a wise man once said: 

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

― Søren Kierkegaard

Related Solar Warden: Secret Space Program

Related Cosmic Disclosure with David Wilcock and Corey Goode 

Source - Kauilapele's Blog

Entertainment Weekly 1-12-16… “Fox’s X-Files revival has controversial new theories”

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Le phénomène étrange dans le ciel Perrigny-sur-l'Ognon immortalisé

Voici un mystère qui ravira les amateurs d'Ovni et de Fox Mulder et Dana Scully en ce jour de retour sur les écrans (américains) de la célèbre série X-Files. Plusieurs témoins racontent en tout cas avoir vu la même chose en divers points de la Côte-d'Or samedi.

Que s'est-il passé samedi soir, vers 18h30, dans le ciel de Perrigny-sur-l'Ognon ? Mystère. Mais Guy et Eliane Rondot sont encore très marqués, ce dimanche matin, par ce qu'ils ont vu hier. 

A 18h30 donc, Guy se trouvait dans sa cour lorsqu'il a aperçu "une grosse boule orange scintillante, trois fois plus grosse qu'un avion". Une différence de taille que l'homme peut assurer puisqu'il certifie qu'un avion est passé dans le ciel juste après la première boule.

Le phénomène se répète quelques minutes plus tard

C'est à ce moment-là qu'Eliane découvre elle aussi ce qui traverse le ciel de la commune. "J'étais en train de fermer les volets quand j'ai entendu mon mari crier. Il me disait de regarder le ciel et c'est alors que j'ai vu ce cylindre orange qui brillait. Je suis partie couper le son de la TV, il n'y avait plus aucun bruit. Cette chose superbe donnait l'impression de glisser dans le ciel et ne laissait aucune trace derrière elle."

Et le couple n'est pas au bout de ses surprises. Car, selon leurs dires, trois autres "boules ou sphères" sont apparues une à deux minutes plus tard. Toujours avec le même silence et la même forme. Avant de disparaître à l'horizon vers le sud.

Deux autres témoins... à Seurre

Ce dimanche, le couple se demande toujours de quoi il peut s'agir. Et regrette de n'avoir pas eu le réflexe de prendre en photo ce qu'ils ont vu. D'autant plus que ni la gendarmerie ni la société d'astronomie de Bourgogne n'ont eu de signalement de la sorte pour le moment. Ce qui n'empêche pas Guy et Eliane d'être confiants : "C'était tellement impressionnant, on ne pouvait pas le rater. D'autres gens ont forcément vu la même chose..."

Et justement, à peine notre article était-il publié que Sophie Petitjean, une internaute, nous contactait. "Mon copain et moi-même avons vu la même chose mais dans le ciel de Seurre en regardant dans la direction de Chamblanc. Nous n'avons pas de photos, je conduisais et le phénomène a rapidement disparu", explique-t-elle. 

Et si c'était la lune ? 

D'autres internautes sont, en revanche, plus sceptiques et avancent une hypothèse : la lune. En effet, celle-ci était pleine samedi soir et avait une apparence un peu différente de d'habitude. Parmi eux, Lionel raconte : "Nous étions sur l'autoroute A38 avec ma famille. Je me rappelle avoir dit aux enfants "Regardez, c'est la pleine lune, elle est 10 fois plus grande que d'habitude". Elle était orange et brillait à l'entrée de Dijon."

Une théorie que rejette vigoureusement Sophie : "Cette chose avançait doucement et je peux certifier qu'il ne s'agissait pas de la lune qui se trouvait à ce moment là plus à l'ouest de la position de ce phénomène. J'ai aussi lu sur Facebook que des gens songeait à des lanternes thaïlandaises. Pour en avoir déjà vu, je peux certifier que cette chose brillait bien plus qu'une lanterne."

Si vous avez été témoin du même phénomène samedi soir, n'hésitez pas à nous raconter cela à l'adresse lbpredacweb@lebienpublic.fr. Et si vous avez pris une ou plusieurs photos n'hésitez pas à nous les transmettre.

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Alien Life on Ceres: New evidence points towards intelligent life on the dwarf planet

NASA has tried really hard to understand all the enigmas surrounding the dwarf planet Ceres. Ever since the first image was beamed back by NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft scientists around the world have tried to explain all the mysteries about one of the most interesting dwarf planets in the solar system. But what makes Ceres so unique?

 

Well we could say that the mysterious bright lights that were spotted on the surface of Ceres are the most talked about mystery surrounding Ceres. The truth is that no one has been able to accurately explain what the mysterious lights are, what causes them, and why they are not present anywhere else. The first high-resolution images of the surface of the dwarf planet arrived to Earth in January 19, 2015 and since then everyone started talking about the unique and mysterious features of Ceres.

 

Ok so, what do the lights look like? Well, to be honest if you compare the image of the bright lights on Ceres to an image of a city on Earth, taken from Space, I’d say that the two look very much alike… It’s as if we are looking at an Alien city on Ceres… But optical illusion can play around with your mind. While no one can rule out at this point an alien city on Ceres, no one can rule out Pareidolia either.

 

Let’s compare the bright spots on Ceres with an image of a city on Earth as seen from space:

 

 

Ummm… Is that an Alien city on Ceres?

 

As if the mysterious bright lights of Ceres weren’t enough, there is more about Ceres that could creep you out. New images of the dwarf planet show what appears to be a pyramid-shaped structure located on a flat landscape. According to scientists, that mysterious pyramid should be there geologically speaking. The ‘Ceres pyramid’ measures around 3 miles in height, but the size of the ‘pyramid’ isn’t the most mysterious part of the story. What has caused even greater confusion is the fact that one side of the oddly shaped mountain is nearly completely dark on one side while the other side glows just like the bright spots on the dwarf planet.

 

So what is causing the bright spots to shine like that? And why is there a pyramid in the middle of nowhere?

 

 

Bright lights that cannot be explained… a huge pyramid sticking out of nowhere… Ceres is as mysterious as it gets.

 

According to Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator of the Dawn Mission declared: The surface of Ceres has revealed many interesting and unique features. For example, icy moons in the outer solar system have craters with central pits, but on Ceres central pits in large craters are much more common. These and other features will allow us to understand the inner structure of Ceres that we cannot sense directly.”

 

What does this mean? Well it means that Ceres is as mysterious as it can get with distinct features that make it extremely rare and unique when compared to other celestial bodies in our solar system. There are many things on Ceres that simply put, should not be there.

 

 

But if the pyramid-shaped structures and huge bright lights that resemble a city aren’t enough, Ceres has more to offer. According to scientists, the dwarf planet is split into a rocky core and an icy mantle and is believed to have an internal ocean of LIQUID WATER under its thick coating of ice. Scientists picked up ‘traces of water’ back in 2014 when they spotted emissions of water vapor from different regions on Ceres something that caused great confusion among experts since massive bodies located in the asteroid belt DO NOT emit vapors.

 

All of the above means that Ceres is one of its kind. No other planet- dwarf planet is as mysterious as this one. Its incredible features have given us a lot to talk about and its mysterious geology still continues to amaze anyone who looks at it. The only thing left to do is continue following the Dawn spacecraft mission as it explores one of the most mysterious objects in our solar system, an object that could have an Alien connection according to UFO hunters.

 

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Glowing Orb Over Netherlands Changes Speed And Direction, Jan 2016, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: January 12, 2016
Location of sighting: Groningen, Netherlands
Source: MUFON #73825

This glowing orb was seen this week over the Netherlands and for it to change speed helps us to rule out Chinese lantern. These glowing orbs have been seen all around the world this year and seem to be scanning the communities, recording everything. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
I was on my way to the car with my girlfriend, when we suddenly saw a bright moving light up in the sky. It wasn't an airplane and it sure wasn't a satelite. This object was changing speed constantly (from fast to slow to fast, etc.) and wasn't moving in a straight line. Luckily we caught it on camera!

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

Scientists Say There’s Evidence That Aliens Might Be In Our Galaxy

Curiosity has found fossilized traces of life on Mars according to geobiologist

As we meticulously scrutinize high-resolution images that are sent to Earth by NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars, we see strange formations, configurations that seem artificial, and rocks of all kinds that have caused people from all around the world to believe intelligent beings (or, at least, some sort of life form) inhabited the red planet in the distant past.

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Sometimes the Martian landscape plays tricks with our imagination, and sometimes suspiciously observed characteristics match natural processes that we have seen on our own planet. But now, in an article published in the journal Astrobiology, one geobiologist found in images of sedimentary rock from Mars, proof of structures created by microbial life on the red planet.

The discovery was made by Nora Noffke, a geobiologist at Old Dominion University in Virginia. She has spent the past 20 years studying these microbial structures. In 2014, she reported the discovery of MISS that are 3.48 billion years old in the Western Australia’s Dresser Formation, making them potentially the oldest signs of life on Earth, a discovery of huge importance if we are to understand how life evolved on Earth.

Now, Noffke details striking morphological similarities between Martian sedimentary structures in the Gillespie Lake outcrop (believed to be at most 3.7 billion years old) and microbial structures on Earth.

The image in question was taken by the Curiosity rover on Lake Gillespie, an area located in the Bay of Yellowknife, Gale Crater where the rover arrived in December 2012. The sedimentary rock photographed by Curiosity is sandstone, which formed when Mars had water on its surface. The layers of sedimentary rock and conglomerations that exist in them led scientists to conclude that Curiosity was exploring an ancient lakebed.

Overlay of a sketch on a photograph from above to assist in the identification of the structures on the rock bed surface. Image credit: Noffke (2015). Courtesy of ASTROBIOLOGY, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

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The Martian Lake Gillespie, which has been dated to around 3,700 million years, seems to have its very own structures which can be attributed to ancient Martian microbes. In her study, Noffke emphasizes that his is only a hypothesis and should be taken as such while she is certain that this meets the necessary goal of explaining the process of formation responsible for the visible structures on the surface of sedimentary rocks on Mars.

“All I can say is, here’s my hypothesis and here’s all the evidence that I have,” Noffke says, “although I do think that this evidence is a lot.”

“The fact that she pointed out these structures is a great contribution to the field,” says Penelope Boston, a geomicrobiologist at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. “Along with the recent reports of methane and organics on Mars, her findings add an intriguing piece to the puzzle of a possible history for life on our neighboring planet.”

To check out all of the images used by Noffke in her study, click here.

So… traces of life on Mars?

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Mars is just incredibly interesting since it is so different yet so similar to Earth and in the views of many people around the globe if there was life anywhere else in the solar system than that place is surely Mars.

“I’ve seen many papers that say ‘Look, here’s a pile of dirt on Mars, and here’s a pile of dirt on Earth,” says Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center and an associate editor of the journal Astrobiology. “And because they look the same, the same mechanism must have made each pile on the two planets.’”

McKay adds: “That’s an easy argument to make, and it’s typically not very convincing. However, Noffke’s paper is the most carefully done analysis of the sort that I’ve seen, which is why it’s the first of its kind published in Astrobiology.”

Mars has proven to be far more similar to Earth in many ways than what scientist have been willing to accept. After over 3 years of collecting data, images and readings from Mars, researchers are finally accepting the idea that Mars could have been inhabited by life forms in the distant past when the red planet had an atmosphere similar to that of Earth, rivers, lakes and oceans.

“In one image, I saw something that looked very familiar,” Noffke recalls. “So I took a closer look, meaning I spent several weeks investigating certain images centimeter by centimeter, drawing sketches, and comparing them to data from terrestrial structures. And I’ve worked on these for 20 years, so I knew what to look for.”

Potential MISS erosional remnant on Mars (top); edge of a microbial mat–overgrown erosional remnant on Portsmouth Island, USA (middle); an erosional remnant of a modern MISS on Mellum Island, Germany (bottom). Image credit for Mars: NASA; Earth: Nora Noffke

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Noffke meticulously compared several images taken on Mars by NASA’s rovers to several sites photographed on Earth including modern sediment surfaces in Mellum Island, Germany; Portsmouth Island, USA; and Carbla Point, Western Australia; as well as older fossils of microbial mats in Bahar Alouane, Tunisia; the Pongola Supergroup in Africa; and the Dresser Formation in Western Australia. Interestingly, the images showed incredible morphological similarities between the terrestrial and Martian sedimentary structures.

Researchers note that distribution patterns of microbial structures on our planet usually vary depending on where they are found. This is why different types of structures are located together in different environments. As noted by astrobio.net, microbial mats that grow in rivers will create a different set of associations than those that grow in seasonally flooded environments.

Interestingly, the patterns which Noffke found in the Gillespie Lake outcrop are consistent with the microbial structures found in similar environments on Earth.

But the similarities found by Noffke are quite a few. According to the geobiologist, terrestrial structures change in a certain way over time, and this is something Noffke found on Mars since the distribution pattern in Martian rocks eerily resembles microbial structures on Earth which have changed over time. This is why Noffke has been able to make strong arguments with respected data even though she has also taken the time to describe other processes that could have created similar patterns. In her study Noffke noted that the chips, pits, and cracks could be the product of erosion by salt, water, or the wind.

Comparison of cracks in Gillespie Lake outcrop on Mars and in a modern microbial mat in Bahar Alouane, Tunisia. Credits Mars image: NASA; Earth image: Nora Noffke

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“But if the Martian structures aren’t of biological origin,” Noffke says, “then the similarities in morphology, but also in distribution patterns with regards to MISS on Earth would be an extraordinary coincidence.”

“At this point, all I’d like to do is point out these similarities,” she adds. “Further evidence must be provided to verify this hypothesis.”

Even though confirmation of the discovery made by Noffke is still pending, the geobiologist has outlined a strategy to confirm the potential biological nature of the Martian structures, the only issue is… returning a sample to Earth in order to properly test it. Since this is not an option at the moment, Noffke has listed a series of measurements NASA’s curiosity rover could perform if it came across similar structures again, one of them is looking for organic chemical signatures using the SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) instrument, something that according to McKay wouldn’t work: “In principle, that instrument could tell us something about the nature of these materials biologically, if there were still large amounts of biological organics in the samples,” he explains. “But these are just ancient sedimentary structures, and biology has long since left.”

“What’s more, in practice this instrument is restricted,” he adds. “There was a contamination spill in the instrument presumably during landing. So it has a very high background contamination level.”

So, as you can see we could be onto a groundbreaking discovery, one which we cannot confirm at the moment. However, the study itself is more than incredible and proves that Mars is a planet full of surprises.

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PROJECT LUCIFER, THE STRANGEST CONSPIRACY INVOLVING NASA

July 10, 2015 - Saddle up, it’s time for an awesome conspiracy theory. If you’re a fan of science fiction, you know about Arthur C. Clarke’s (and Stanley Kubrick’s) seminal novel series 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the second installment, 2010: Odyssey Two, the alien monolith that was orbiting Jupiter replicates itself and begins condensing the gas giant, eventually transforming it into a smaller sun. This process turns the former planet’s moons into habitable worlds suitable for life. The people of Earth consequently name the second sun in the sky Lucifer. Without getting too ecclesiastic, the term Lucifer comes from Latin and literally means ‘light-bringing.’ Fitting name for the solar system’s new star. Most of us regard this concept as nothing more than science fiction and nigh impossible to achieve with our current level of technology. But a number of conspiracy theorists not only believe it possible, they actually claim this is one of NASA’s ongoing projects. Here’s why. 

 

 

Jupiter has been called a failed star, in the sense that if it had more mass, it could have started nuclear fusion and effectively become a star. Unfortunately (fortunately?), astrophysicists calculated it would have needed to be 75 times more massive in order to do so. Conspiracy theorists believe this mass deficit could be corrected with the addition of nuclear fuel that could jump-start the process of nuclear fusion. Enter NASA’s space probes Galileo, Cassini, Voyager and the rest. 

 

 

In order for these space probes to work, they need a reliable fuel source as solar energy becomes difficult to catch once you get past the orbit of Mars. Therefore, NASA equipped its probes with an energy source called an RTG, short for radioisotope thermoelectric generator. The radioactive decay of the Plutonium-238 pellets contained in an RTG steadily produces electricity that powers the probe. For example, the Galileo space probe contained 2 RTGs, each carrying 17 pounds of Plutonium-238. What would happen if this payload were detonated inside Jupiter? 

 

Well, nothing, or at least, nothing observable. In 2003, Galileo was deliberately crashed into Jupiter’s atmosphere. NASA followed this approach because they feared crashing it into one of Jupiter’s solid moons carried the risk of contamination with terrestrial bacteria.

 

Conspiracy theorists saw this venture as an expression of Project Lucifer. They feared that, as Galileo fell through Jupiter’s dense atmosphere, the pressure would have steadily increased, causing the Plutonium in the RTGs to trigger a thermonuclear reaction, birthing the new sun.

 

It’s been almost twelve years since Galileo was buried in the heart of the gaseous planet and nothing’s happened. There is no second sun on our sky. So we’re in the clear, right?

 

 

Not exactly. There’s another gas giant in our solar system: Saturn and it’s not much smaller than Jupiter. And there’s another probe orbiting Saturn, the Cassini space probe. And it’s equipped with 73 pounds of Plutonium-238. And it’s still orbiting Saturn, until commanded otherwise by NASA. So are we in danger?

 

Physics says no.

 

Even if every atom of Plutonium aboard the space probe would participate in a nuclear detonation, it wouldn’t be enough to start a chain reaction. It would be like a drop of water in a swimming pool – harmless.

 

Our technology would need to steadily advance for hundreds if not thousands of years before we could reach the capability of star formation. And even if such technology would be available today, why would we need a second sun? Our own functions perfectly, even with massive UFOs stealing its energy once in a while. If one of the gas giants were to suddenly become a star, it would most likely disrupt the delicate balance of our solar system. Its gravitational pull would tug on the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, undoubtedly sending some of them our way.

 

So why did this conspiracy theory gain traction? It must be our fascination with doomsday scenarios.

 

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Heeft ons zonnestelsel een spookplaneet?

Groot nieuws, verschillende onderzoekers beweren dat ons zonnestelsel niet acht maar negen planeten heeft. Niemand heeft de mysterieuze negende planeet al gezien, toch zijn er sterke aanwijzingen om te geloven dat de spookplaneet bestaat.

Toen Pluto werd gedegradeerd van planeet tot dwergplaneet, ontstond er heel wat ophef. Mensen vonden het onterecht en plots was ons zonnestelsel een planeet armer. Nu kan iedereen weer op beide oren slapen want wetenschappers van Caltech beweren dat er toch negen planeten rondzweven in ons zonnestelsel.

De mysterieuze planeet draait op een erg grote afstand om de zon en dit is de reden waarom de planeet nog niet werd opgemerkt door ruimtetelescopen. Toch gaat het om een grote planeet: hij is maar liefst 500 keer zwaarder dan Pluto en tien keer groter dan de Aarde. De wetenschappers baseren zich op de vreemde manier waarop andere hemellichamen zich bewegen. Ze volgen een vaste baan, wat erop wijst dat er wel een negende planeet moet bestaan.

De planeet zal wellicht over enkele jaren dicht genoeg bij de zon staan om te kunnen opgemerkt worden door telescopen.

New Paper Asserts that Life Could Survive on a Planet Orbiting a Black Hole

Living on a planet orbiting a black hole might be a reality in our future.

Living on a planet orbiting a black hole might be better than you’d imagine. In fact, looking for real estate in such a location could be in our (very) distant future.

A BRIGHT BLACK HOLE

According to the second law of thermodynamics, life requires a temperature difference to provide a source of useable energy. Life on Earth, for example, relies on the heat of the Sun and the cold vacuum of space. What if you reversed the situation, though?

A planet orbiting a black hole, for example, would experience a cold sun and a hot sky. That’s what Tomáš Opatrný of Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic says in his research.

Comparing a black hole to a Sun might sound strange, but black holes, despite the name, are actually some of the brightest objects in the universe. Gas and other matter that falls into the hole is superheated and glows as it accretes. However, an older black hole that has already cleared its surroundings, effectively has zero temperature, meaning it could potentially act as a cold Sun, according to Opatrný.

SUSTAINING LIFE UNDER A BLACK SUN

The rest of the universe is actually pretty warm compared to a black hole, thanks to the heat left over from the explosion of the big bang.

Avi Loeb of Harvard University has previously pointed out the universe’s background temperature would be 300 kelvin (27 ˚C) around 15 million years after the big bang, making it warm enough to host liquid water.

At this temperature, a planet around a cool black hole would receive enough power to support complex life. However, because the planet would be so new to the universe, it’s unlikely that it would have had enough time to evolve to explore this power source.

TURNING TO MOVIES

The team, led by Opatrný,  decided to check out the film Interstellar, which they learned explored a similar concept. The film depicts a world called “Miller’s planet” which orbits very close to a massive, spinning black hole called Gargntua.

Paramount/Warner Brothers/The Kobal Collection

Like any good researchers, the team began to ask questions. “We saw the movie, it was a very interesting idea, but then we started thinking about the problems,” says Opatrný.

For example, the planet in the film is swept by huge tidal waves of water. But Opatrný says that, for a planet like one depicted in the movie, molten aluminum would be more likely. That said, if the planet was further out from the black hole, conditions would be cooler, and the planet might be able to sustain life.

In the paper, when discussing the ultimate hope for life around a black hole, Opatrný explains: “For nonrotating black holes and the present temperature of the cosmic microwave background, the available power appears to be rather small for the living standards of our civilization. One might speculate of the distant future when hydrogen as the nuclear fuel for stars is exhausted and black holes together with background radiation become one of the few relevant sources of negative entropy. Nevertheless, with the accelerated expansion of the Universe the background radiation becomes colder so that even less power would be available.”

Thus, it sounds like there isn’t any hope for life forming on planets orbiting these monstrous beasts. However, remember that we are just talking about nonrotating black holes. Things change when they start spinning.

Opatrný continues, “the situation is different for fast rotating Kerr black holes and planets on close orbits: gravitational and Doppler shifts change the temperature map of the sky to allow for harvesting much more power”

All of these speculations do have a purpose. For example, research into sustaining life near a black could become relevant 100 trillion years from now, when all the stars have died out and the universe is an eternal wasteland of coldness and eternal darkness.

Planets around black holes will certainly be an option for inhabitants.

“When the stars are gone, black holes will be a last-resort source of energy,” says Krauss. However, he adds, “for the practical future, there are much easier ways to live.”

Scientists Find Evidence of a 9th Planet Lurking at the Edge of Our Solar System

Astronomers set out to prove that Planet Nine does not exist. As it turns out, they may have done the exact opposite.

Scientists Find Evidence of a 9th Planet Lurking at the Edge of Our Solar System fromFuturism on Vimeo.

Today,  astronomers at the California Institute of Technology announced that a giant icy planet might be hiding at the edge of our known solar system. This planet has been appropriately named “Planet Nine” (usurping the title previous held by Pluto).

An artist’s version of Planet Nine, which could sit at the edge of our solar system. (R. Hurt, California Institute of Technology)

Notably, this is early research, and the existence of the planet is, at the present point, simply inferred.

In other words, the planet has not been seen directly using telescopes, but in the published paper in the Astronomical Journal Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin explained how they acquired evidence of this planet’s existence based on other astronomical data.

The two astronomers initially set out to prove that Planet Nine does not exist. In 2014, another paper published in the journal Nature, hinted at the possible existence of this new planet. It was written by Scott Shepard from the Carnegie Institution of Science and Chad Trujillo from the Gemini Observation in Hawaii.

They suggested that this giant planet existed due to the impact that it seemed to have on the orbits of other, nearby dwarf worlds.

Brown even admitted he thought that this idea “was crazy,” saying that it is always suggested that a new planet exists when strange orbital behavior occurs.

To that end, with the help of Batygin, they used mathematical equations and computer models to prove this theory wrong. Or at least, they tried to. They were utterly surprised at the results of their “investigation”.

Their results indicate that a 9th planet does exist. “Until then, we didn’t really believe our results ourselves. It just didn’t make sense to us,” Brown said.

 THE FINDINGS

Planet Nine is described to have 10 times the mass of Earth. This planet would exert an influence over the orbits of the smaller bodies and keep them from coming as close to the Sun as they should. It would also slowly twist these orbits by 90 degrees, making them periodically perpendicular to the plane of the solar system.

“In the back of my head, I had this nagging memory that someone had found some of these modulating objects and not known what to make of them,” Brown said. “And sure enough, these objects do exist. And they were exactly where our theory predicts they should be.”

Now, the search is on to find and prove the existence of Planet Nine.

Sheppard stated that the chances of finding it has increased from 40% to 60%. Planet Nine is estimated to be located 20 times farther than the eigth planet, Neptune. It is believed to be made out of ice, rocks and gas.

Planetary scientist Alessandro Morbidelli from the Côte d’Azur Observatory in Nice, France agreed with Brown that the chances of finding it is much bigger this time. “I immediately felt that this paper, for the first time, was providing convincing evidence for a new planet in the solar system,” said Morbidelli, an expert in these kinds of orbital movements who was not involved in either study.

“I don’t see any alternative explanation to that offered by Batygin and Brown.” It is now just a matter of “when” they will discover this massive planet.

Michael Brown has recently “demoted” the planet Pluto in his book “Why I Killed Pluto and Why It had It Coming”.

UFO Shuts Down a Major Airport in China Again

There don’t appear to be any official records of a UFO ever shutting down a major airport in the U.S. In China on the other hand, it’s happened three times in five years. Are Chinese air traffic controllers more respectful of UFO airspace … or more fearful?

 

The latest instance of a Chinese airport closing down because of a UFO sighting appears to have happened late last week or over the weekend. A video of a newscast showing the UFO was posted on August 29th, 2015.

 

 

There’s no indication of which airport it is (at least for non-Chinese speakers). At the beginning, it shows a round object passing over the airport. The object appears to change forms and become elongated to a cigar shape. The video shows military personnel apparently watching the UFO but no one seems to be mobilizing or panicking. Could it be because they’ve been through this before?

 

On July 7th, 2010, a UFO was spotted at the Xiaoshan Airport in Hangzhou, China, at 8:40 p.m. by the crew of a plane preparing to land. The crew notified air traffic control and the airport was immediately shut down. All outgoing flights were grounded and 18 incoming flights were diverted to airports in Ningbo and Wuxi.

 

UFO shuts down Xiaoshan Airport in China

 

Normal operations were resumed somewhere between one and four hours later, but passengers and local residents were left in the dark as to what the UFO might be. Speculation ranged from a U.S. missile to a Russian satellite to a secret Chinese military plane to a meteor. Officials from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) told the media that the incident was “under investigation” but no record of any formal explanation is readily available. There seems to be no information from the Shanghai UFO Investigative Research Center either. Why not?

 

Perhaps they were warned by yet another UFO shutting down an airport, this time on October 6, 2010, in Inner Mongolia. The news report mentions the previous sighting and says it was a military test, but gives no details nor no information on the next one.

 

 

Three Chinese airports shut down by UFOs in five years. Do you think there’s more shutdowns that we don’t know about? Why are Chinese officials so quick to close airports after UFO sightings? What do they know and why don’t WE know it? 

 

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Santilli telescope detected invisible entities that are real, Jan 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of interview: January 2016
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Source 2: http://www.santilli-foundation.org/news.html

Now I have been saying for years that IR cameras or night vision cameras can see things our eyes can't. Also, the angle of the sun during a UFO sighting causes the UFO cloak to become visible. Everything these doctors say in this video confirms that there are cloaked UFOs or Entities that our eyes cannot see. 
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News states:
Thunder Energies Corp (TNRG:OTC) has recently detected invisible entities in our terrestrial environment with the revolutionary Santilli telescope with concave lenses (Trade Mark and patent pending by Thunder Energies). Thunder Energies Corporation has previously presented confirmations of the apparent existence of antimatter galaxies, antimatter asteroids and antimatter cosmic rays detected in preceding tests. In this breaking news, Thunder Energies presents evidence for the existence of Invisible Terrestrial Entities (ITE) if the dark and bright type. 

Technical information can be obtained from the scientific paper R. M. Santilli, “Apparent Detection via New Telescopes with Concave Lenses of Otherwise Invisible Terrestrial Entities (ITE),” American Journal of Modern Physics (in press), http://www.thunder-energies.com/docs/... or from the scientific archives of the R. M. Santilli Foundation. http://www.santilli-foundation.org/ne... ABOUT Thunder Energies Corp: Thunder Energies Corporation is a breakthrough technology company featuring three cutting edge technologies in the fields of optics, nuclear physics and fuel combustion. Thunder Energies is led by Dr. Ruggero Santilli, CEO and Chief Science Officer and Dr. George Gaines, President & COO. Dr. Santilli is a former faculty at MIT, Harvard and other leading institutions around the world. http://thunder-energies.com/

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Band Group Recalls Triangle UFO Sighting 50 Feet Above Kansas City

A witness in Kansas City recalled a UFO sighting incident from 1978 where he and two fellow bandmates had encountered a flying object just 50 feet overhead. The strange incident was reported to Mutual UFO Network or MUFON and filed under Case 73425 in the network’s witness reporting database.

While in the show band in April 1978, the witnesses traveled the Midwest and rehearsed a new act at the parent’s farm of the singer just outside Kansas City, KS.

According to the reporting witness, the keyboard player, guitar player and himself went outside for a smoke break at around 8 in the evening when they noticed a bright light in the eastern sky. As they watched, they saw that it grew larger and moved directly towards them.

When the object reached directly overhead, the group clearly saw the triangle-shaped or delta-wing shaped craft hovering without any noise approximately 50 feet above them. They saw two globes hanging from the UFO, one from each wing. One of these two globes was a bright, white light and another one was dark.

While they observed it hovering in silent, the guitar player went inside to grab his camera. When he came back outside, the mysterious object darted off at a very fast speed towards the north – Kansas City.

The group continued to watch it and spotted an electrical storm in the area where it was headed. As it came close to that storm, the globe under the craft began to glow evenly with another globe.

he ship entered the storm and disappeared. The group concluded that it must be an electric or magnetic powered aircraft because of its ability to replenish from electrical storms.

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Cube-shaped UFO filmed over Chiapas in Mexico 15-Jan-2016

Check out this interesting footage of a cube-shaped object hovering in the sky above Chiapas in Mexico. This was seen and recorded on 15th January 2016.

What do you think about this video? Real or fake? Please leave your comment below!

CIA Murdered JFK After Demanding The Release Of Top Secret UFO Files

It has been claimed that CIA killed former US President John F Kennedy after requiring the agency to release top-secret UFO files.

Kennedy was shot dead while in an open-topped car travelling on November 22, 1963, through the centre of Dallas, Texas.

The incident brought shockwaves not just in the US but also around the world and has created dozens of conspiracy theories.

However, UFO experts recently shared perhaps the most astonishing claim to date. They said that the president made a letter and sent it to the CIA head ten days before he was assassinated.

They further revealed that the president also made a visit to NASA’s base at Cape Canaveral in Florida just four days after he sent the memo.

In the letter, JFK seemingly asks the CIA to give details about everything it knows about UFO sightings.

The letter specifically asks a review of the high threat cases. It stresses the important to have a clear distinction between the knowns and unknowns. It also proposes an arrangement of the program of data sharing with NASA where unknowns are a factor. The president also apparently sent a letter to NASA requesting the agency to cooperate with the Soviets on UFO issues.

UFO conspiracy theorists believe that JFK was worried that the Soviets could mistakenly identify UFOs over Russia as spy planes. They also think that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who makes a promise to release all UFO files to the public if she wins, does not know it yet, but she doesn’t have the power to release such information. They add that CIA would kill Hillary before she could do it, just like JFK. They believe that Hillary will be too scared to release the truth.

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A Second Snowden Has Leaked a Mother Lode of Drone Docs

IT’S BEEN JUST over two years since Edward Snowden leaked a massive trove of NSA documents, and more than five since Chelsea Manning gave WikiLeaks a megacache of military and diplomatic secrets. Now there appears to be a new source on that scale of classified leaks—this time with a focus on drones.

On Thursday the Intercept published a groundbreaking new collection of documents related to America’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles to kill foreign targets in countries ranging from Afghanistan to Yemen. The revelations about the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command actionsinclude primary source evidence that as many as 90 percent of US drone killings in one five month period weren’t the intended target, that a former British citizen was killed in a drone strike despite repeated opportunities to capture him instead, and details of the grisly process by which the American government chooses who will die, down to the “baseball cards” of profile information created for individual targets, and the chain of authorization that goes up directly to the president.¹

All of this new information, according to the Intercept, appears to have come from a single anonymous whistleblower. A spokesperson for the investigative news site declined to comment on that source. But unlike the leaks of Snowden or Manning, the spilled classified materials are accompanied by statements about the whistleblower’s motivation in his or her own words.

“This outrageous explosion of watchlisting—of monitoring people and racking and stacking them on lists, assigning them numbers, assigning them ‘baseball cards,’ assigning them death sentences without notice, on a worldwide battlefield—it was, from the very first instance, wrong,” the source tells the Intercept. “We’re allowing this to happen. And by ‘we,’ I mean every American citizen who has access to this information now, but continues to do nothing about it.”

Reports first surfaced in the fall of last year that theIntercept, a news site created in part to analyze and publish the remaining cache of Snowden NSA documents, had found a second source of highly classified information. The final scene of the film “Citizenfour,” directed by Intercept co-founder Laura Poitras, shows fellow Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald meeting with Snowden in Moscow to tell him about a new source with information about the U.S. drone program, whom he says has been communicating with the Intercept‘s Jeremy Scahill. At one point, Greenwald draws Snowden a diagram of the authorization chain for drone strikes that ends with the president, one that looks very similar to the one included in Thursday’s publication.

“It’s really risky,” Snowden tells Greenwald in the scene. “That person is incredibly bold.”

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“The boldness of it is shocking,” Greenwald responds, “But it was obviously motivated by what you did.”

In the scene, Greenwald also tells Snowden the security tools the Intercept is using to communicate with the source, writing the names of the software on a piece of paper in what may have been an attempt to avoid eavesdroppers. Those security tools, along with the Intercept‘s reputation for combative, unapologetic investigation of the U.S. government, may help explain how the site seems to have found another Snowden-like source of national security secrets. The Intercept and its parent company First Look Media employ world-class security staff like former Googler Morgan Marquis-Boire, Tor developer Erinn Clark, and former EFF technologist Micah Lee. Far more than most news sites, its reporters use tools like the encryption software PGP and the anonymous upload system SecureDrop to protect the identities of its sources.

Whether those measures can actually protect this particular source—or whether the source Greenwald told Snowden about is even the same one who leaked the Intercept‘s Drone Papers—remains to be seen. Yahoo News reported last year that the FBI had identified a “second leaker” to the Interceptand searched his or her home as part of a criminal investigation.

If that reported search of the leaker’s home did happen, however, it doesn’t seem to have slowed down the Interceptor its whistleblower. A year later, no arrests or charges have been made public, and the site has now published what appear to be the biggest revelations yet from its new source.

In the Citizenfour scene, Snowden tells Greenwald he hopes that the new leaks could help change the perception of whistleblowers in general. “This could raise the political situation with whistleblowing to a whole new level, he says.

“Exactly,” Greenwald responds. “People are going to see what’s being hidden by a totally different part of the government.”

Read the Intercept‘s full Drone Papers release here.

¹ Correction 10/15/2015 12:45pm: An earlier version of this story stated that a former US citizen, Bilal el-Berjawi, was killed by a drone. In fact, el-Berjawi was a former British citizen.

² Updated 10/15/2015 2:15pm to include Erinn Clark in the list of First Look Media security engineers.

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Aliens & Animal Mutilations

We have the unique opportunity to speak with Richard Bonenfant, Ph.D. a retired research scientist and lecturer who is now dedicated to the investigation of phenomena that lie on the fringes of scientific understanding. Prior to his interest in cattle and animal mutilations, Dr. Bonenfant's research career at Albany Medical Center Hospital and the New York State Department of Health was centered on the study of birth defects in newborn children. With advanced degrees in anthropology and psychology, Dr. Bonenfant served as an adjunct professor at Siena College in Loudonville, NY and City College in Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Bonenfant most recently retired from the Veterans' Hospital in Gainesville, Florida, and Richard is likewise credited with publishing several professional articles on near-death experiences. 

Agent D - Richard, I just finished listening to a podcast with Randy Maugan's Off Planet Radio on Animal mutilations and was impressed with the depth of the discussion on the topic in that interview. We will assume the readers here on The Object Report blog have a basic awareness of animal or cattle mutilations and likewise are aware that an ET angle might be involved here. 

Richard - Thank you for your gracious introduction Agent D. Hearing it makes me seem larger-than-life. Actually I come to the subject at hand with only limited knowledge of the phenomenon of animal mutilations. Therefore, my interpretations may appear naive to those more experienced with this ongoing mystery. I plead for patience as research leads me into deeper levels of entanglement with various aspects of this complex phenomenon. My hope is that previous experience as a medical research scientist can add some understanding as to the purpose and method behind these mutilations. Okay, I guess we can now proceed to chip away at the problem.

Agent D - Cattle mutilations and half cat mutilations have been going on for quite some time, and there is an incredible consistency spanning decades where cattle tissue around the mouth and anus is removed very precisely and at times without any traces of blood. Do we have a theory why these two areas of the cow are consistently the focus of tissue removal? 

Richard -That's an interesting observation Agent D. Like most organisms, human beings are consumption machines. We take in food, digest it to sustain ourselves, and remove waste matter that serves no purpose in this process. Of course this is but one functional aspect of existence but a very fundamental one. Without absorbing the nutrition of food, we would soon become extinct. The mouth initiates this ingestion process, the digestive tract sorts out what can and can't be used, and the final segment of this tract discharges waste that is toxic to our bodies. This leads back to your initial question. The organs you mentioned, the mouth and the anus, are the alpha and omega points of the process. Therefore, as an environmental epidemiologist, I would say that whatever agency is responsible for animal mutilations has an interest in what is eaten, absorbed, and discarded by cattle and other animals from the environment in which they live. In other words, it suggests to me a kind of environmental monitoring less the moral implications of the methodology being used.

The techniques and instrumentation used in these mutilations imply a technological sophistication far in advance of current technology. This is immediately evident in what is medically termed exsanguination or the removal of blood from the body. In most cases, the carcass contains little or no trace of blood. It's almost as if some pump-like device had been inserted into the circulatory system in a way that would completely drain the animal of its blood with little or no wastage. This is no mean feat in a clinical setting, let alone in some remote natural environment without the advantage of surgical devices. Then, there is the evidence of laser-like incisions creating portals through which internal tissue and organs are removed. To do this would require some kind of device be inserted into the body cavity which could break down collagen, the main component of connective tissue, such as tendons, ligaments, cartilage, bones, blood vessels and guts in order to remove them from the body cavity through the small portals previously mentioned. This process would basically turn organs to mush from which it would be suctioned out from the body cavity. One example, is the creation of a small aperture in the skull through which an animal's brain are suctioned out from its skull. While I have no knowledge of what is currently being done in highly advanced medical research facilities, I seriously doubt that such capabilities were available over the past duration of animal mutilation events. Therefore, to answer your question more concisely, the only logical conclusion that can be drawn is that the technology necessary to carry out these mutilations lies far in advance of our own.

Agent D - Linda Moulton Howe has been researching cattle and half cat mutilations for over three decades, having been the first reporter to cover cattle mutilations in fact, and she continues to cover these ongoing mutilations from a journalist's perspective. Your approach to cattle mutilations is from that of biological interest - do you feel your findings and theories on cattle mutilations parallel Linda’s perceptions or is there some deviation?

Richard - Let me just say at the outset that this interview probably would not be taking place were it not for the investigative journalism of Linda Moulton Howe. She almost single handedly alerted the general public to the mysterious mutilations that were taking place in the western prairies. Through her archival website, she continues to accumulate a wealth of data not only on various forms of animal mutilations but also on other strange and unexplained phenomenon that we should all pay attention to, especially those in the scientific community. For just as Stanley Prusiner, the 1997 Nobel prize laureate, once remarked, “While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.” With regards to your question, I would say that our views concerning animal mutilations are in very close alignment. In fact, while preparing a follow up article to“Significant Observations Relating to Animal Mutilations,” Ms. Howe graciously provided me with a reference to an abductee’s observation from her 1989 book Strange Harvest. This abductee reported witnessing the mutilation of a young calf by aliens aboard their craft. While doing this I soon realized that Ms. Howe’s archive of abductee accounts may contain a treasure trove of data to other professional investigators who take the time to review these accounts from their various perspectives. The only variations readily evident in our views stems from differences of focus. Ms. Howe presents compelling evidence that these mutilations are the result of alien intervention while my limited research attempts to determine why these mutilations may be carried out. We concur in the sense that mutilations are being purposefully carried out with a high degree of technological precision. I suggest that a possible motive for these mutilations may be to monitor a quiet epidemic of neurological pathologies related to prion diseases. I believe Ms. Howe holds a slightly different view. It doesn't matter who’s correct, what matters is that we diligently work towards finding the reason behind these atrocities regardless of what it might be.

Agent D - I've always had the inclination that the tissue from cattle is used in an ongoing study of man made pollution and the effects of this global pollution on animals, particularly mammals. During the last decade or so the idea of an ongoing Human ET Hybrid project has gained traction - do you have any evidence or leads that would suggest the study of non-human animal tissue could in some way be connected to this ongoing ET-Human genetic program?

Richard - Up to very recently I would have responded that, from my limited perspective, I couldn't see any direct connection between the animal mutilations and the accepted ET-Human hybridization program. But while working on a follow up article to my Prion proposal, I came across something that has changed my mind. This article intended to demonstrate the link between UFO activity and cattle mutilations in a convincing way. When I began to investigate one particular account, that of abductee Judy Doraty, I discovered a direct connection between gray aliens, cattle mutilations and human abductions. This connection will be reviewed in great detail in my forthcoming article. So my answer to your question is yes, I believe there is indeed a connection between these two types of activities.

Agent D - The insensitive way the animal mutilations are being carried out seems to be in keeping with the M.O. of the Grays from what we have heard from other eyewitnesses, and perhaps this is in itself a small clue the Grays are involved to some degree. It has been noted before on the Off Planet Radio show - and this is quite subtle - whomever is carrying out these dissections and studies is leaving the carcass behind in an almost deliberate manner versus simply disposing of the evidence which logically might have prevented humans from being aware of animal mutilations from day one. Is there possibly a read between the lines message to us here through their choice to put the carcass back? 

Richard - The question of why aliens dump mutilated carcasses in the vicinity of where they were abducted comes up quite frequently. Certainly, the carcasses could be disposed of in a way that would not bring attention to what is being done to them. It seems to me that there could be at least two reasons why they do so. The first one is that they simply don’t care and are contemptuous of any consequences. But, that does not explain why the carcasses are discarded so near the location where the animals were captured. Assuming cattle and other animals are dissected within some surgical area within UFOs, it is highly unlikely that simply dumping their carcasses after a mutilation would result in their being deposited so close to the point of capture. Therefore, a logical argument could be made that the way carcasses are disposed is indeed intentional. In consequence, it would be just a matter of time before we humans would come to associate the presence of UFOs with the mutilation phenomenon. The question now arises; why have they chosen to do so? Our curiosity would certainly be evoked and lead us to focus greater attention on the matter. Of the two possibilities, I would lean towards the view that their actions are indeed intentional and directed towards awakening our awareness. Once again I remain cautious about attributing human motives to alien behavior. However, if it is intentional, they certainly have gotten our attention.

Agent D - Richard, do you remember the moment or circumstance when you decided to take a step forward from the silent majority and become directly involved with the study of cattle and animal mutilations?

Richard - You caught me unprepared on this one! I guess it would be fair to say that I've been interested in UFOs since first reading about them in comic books and various other magazines as a teenager. However, at the time more pressing matters prevented me from taking an active role. Even then my interest in UFOs and particularly in human abductions led me to feel that there was little I could do or contribute beyond what was already being done by such prominent investigators as John Mack, Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs and a number of others who where active at the time. After retiring I made a deliberate effort to read the accounts of various individuals who had actually undergone an abduction experience. During this process I came across the account of one particular abductee that greatly impressed me. I was touched by the genuineness, intelligence, and I dare say even virtue of her testimony. Out of respect for the privacy of this person, I choose not to mention her name. Anyway, after reading even more about her experiences as well as those of other abductees, I decided to do something to get the attention and respect of the abduction community. To do so I focused on what I knew best, namely the study of environmental epidemiology to make sense of animal mutilations. What followed were several months of intensive research in which I attempted to make the case that mammals were being subjected to an silent epidemic of prion related diseases. And furthermore, that these mutilations were the result of some alien agency monitoring of the spread of these diseases. I guess that was the point were I jumped in. So here we are.

Agent D - Most people think of cats and or cows when we say animal mutilations, but these activities are not just happening to cats and cattle, they appear to be happening to other animals as well, is this correct?

Richard - Absolutely! During my initial analysis I broke the species into two categories; domestic and wild animals. For example, Domestic included family pets such as cats and dogs, farm animals such as sheep, goats, cattle and horses. Everything else fell into the wild category; some examples include elk, deer, bison, badgers and foxes. But more and more, wild mutilated animals are being found all the time. Recently, I was even alerted that mutilated seals, and dolphins have been found in the coastal regions of the northern United Kingdom, especially in Scotland and Ireland. The only common denominator was that they were all mammals. But, this may be about to change. The Director of the the U.K.’s Animal Pathology Field Unit (APFU) has recently told me that birds have now joined the mutilated community after a large flock of seabirds were found decapitated in this same region of the U.K. I would venture to say that as time goes on the list of mutilated species will become even larger.
 
Agent D - The new buzzword associated with animal mutilations on the web is Prions. Rik, can you give a "Prions 101" introduction to our readers who have never heard of this term before?

 

Richard - Now that’s a real challenge; in how many words or less? Let's begin by stating that prions are protein chains found in our cells. We don’t know their purpose but they are likely to serve some function. Recently, scientists discovered that these prions proteins have a rogue double. While rogue prions are similar in form to their functional counterparts, they contain a mutation in their protein chain which converts normal prions into dysfunctional ones simply by contact. So over time there is a geometric increase in the dysfunctional prions which lead to a plaque build up in the brain. This plaque destroys neurons creating dark lifeless islands giving the brain’s overall architecture a sponge-like appearance. Thus, neurologists refer to prion related diseases as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs). TSEs are generally recognized by which areas of the brain they affect; the cerebral cortex in cases of classic Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, the brain stem in cases of Scrapie and Chronic Wasting Disease, the thalamus in cases of Fatal Familial Insomnia and the Cerebellum in cases of Kuru Disease. Mutated prions have been found in both humans and other mammals. Mammals also suffer from prion related diseases. The most common are known as Chronic Wasting Disease in deer and elk, Scrapie in sheep, Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy in cats, Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy in minks, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in cattle...etc. The problem is that these diverse brain diseases were always believed to be confined to the species in which they were found. However, in the late 1980s and early 90s British scientists discovered that Mad Cow Disease had somehow managed to cross this species barrier. A version of Mad Cow Disease had mutated to humans through the ingestion of infected meat. 

This new infection now became internationally recognized as an entirely new TSE in humans. Its defining characteristic was an early onset, (28 instead of 68 Years) accompanied by a wide range of behavioral problems and the distortion of the senses, particularly that of touch. From that initial awakening, scientists soon came to realize that similar trans-species infections were also taking place in a wide range of other mammals such as mink, deer, elk and many more. The question then became; What’s causing this violation of the species boundaries in TSEs? There presently is no answer to that question. Epidemiologist only know that something very “scary” is taking place. What makes this silent epidemic of prion diseases so dangerous is that prions are nearly indestructible. Since they have no genetic material like RNA or DNA, they are immune to radiation and most traditional means of eradicating infectious diseases. They can even survive traditional incineration and autoclave sterilization. So we have no means of either treating or eradicating TSEs. Cattle and other mutilations could be a rather harsh means of monitoring the spread of TSEs throughout the world's mammal populations. There are a number or reasons for taking this view, the primary one being that many mutilated animals are decapitated and even when they are not, a number of cases have small holes in their skulls from which their entire brains have been removed. It’s also very likely that other organ systems and tissues are involved of which we have no knowledge. Therefore, I feel the Prion Hypothesis offers a starting point in the search for determining why the entire phenomenon of animal mutilations is taking place.

Agent D - The resistance of prions to eradication through traditional means does sound rather disturbing to say the least. Speculating here, do you have the impression we've been alerted to something that could have detrimental effects on homo sapiens down the road and we have benefited in a round about way from the cattle mutilations and the subsequent investigations? 

Richard - Yes, I do think that and you’re absolutely right in your estimate of the situation. A number of problems are nested within it. First and foremost, the medical community must become better informed about the seriousness of the matter in order to focus their attention on the nature mutated prions. It’s critical that we learn how abnormal prions are able to convert normal prions to their own mutated form. We must also investigate how prion diseases have managed to cross the species barrier in so many different types of mammals. In addition, we must do a better job of detecting TSE infected animals and containing them in a way that will prevent their spread. For example, at present we incinerate infected domestic livestock without addressing the issue of how recycled animal byproducts continue to promote the spread of TSEs. Prions have managed to survive this process. The recycled protein supplement added to cattle feed not only reinfects cattle, it also infects wild animals that scrounge left over feed from fields and feed bins. What will society do if TSEs spread to other livestock we consume like chickens, pigs, and other animals products? I suggest that our medical authorities immediately ban this practice. This is a problem of our own doing not something introduced by some alien agency. The only involvement by aliens that I see, is that they are acutely aware of the nature and extent of TSEs and may be waiting to see how we respond to the crisis. Their unwanted intervention appears to represent a kind of global environmental monitoring of something of great significance. I myself only came to understand the full extent of this potential epidemic through the investigation of animal mutilations. Early on I could only see that UFOs and aliens were the most probable cause of these mutilations. However, my research clearly suggests that such a wide range of domestic and wild animal mutilations must represent something of significance. Furthermore, the fact that aliens discard mutilated cattle so near the point where they were captured may be an indirect way of alerting us of the problem. However, what they are doing must also serve their own interests in ways we cannot currently understand. I cannot help but wonder if this potential epidemic is not part of the warning many abductees are often subjected to regarding some eminent environmental catastrophe. Let’s hope not, but there is no question that humans are indirectly responsible for the spread of prion diseases and we must find the courage to address it without further procrastination.  

Agent D - Rik, this has been a very intense, revealing discussion on animal mutilations and you've delivered a lot of new information to us. My final question to you - do you see the animal mutilations continuing into the future and more mutilations occurring as human pollution intensifies?

Richard - Like so many things in life, the spread of prion related diseases is a complicated problem that will not be quickly or easily solved. It may be but one aspect of a far more complex problem relating to how human activity has altered a long standing equilibrium in the natural world. I feel that global warming, commercial exploitation of natural resources, and our species attitude that all things on this planet are subject to the fulfillment of human needs are all involved. Advance entities must surely be aware of how we have disrupted this fragile architecture. Yet, I really don’t know if they will intervene on our behalf. I tend to doubt it. We humans have a tendency to attribute benevolence, malevolence or indifference to non-humans based on our perceptions of how “we” should be treated. But we must accept the premise that their behavior and activities may have purposes beyond our understanding. Based on logical speculation, I believe that we will witness greater numbers of animals being mutilated in the future. So far, these events have largely been limited to mammals, but I suspect that the mutilations will soon spread to birds, and sea life of all kinds. So yes, I see the mutilations continuing in a more diverse range of animals. Lets hope I’m wrong. Regardless of how things turn out, we should try to empathize with the animals being mutilated. There is extensive evidence that they too experience fear, pain and suffering.µ

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Disclosure may be Imminent. But can We Take It?

Hillary Clinton has told a questioner that she will "get to the bottom" of the UFO controversy. Her friend and adviser John Podesta said in a tweet last February that it was not only time for disclosure, but that "it's the law." In September, George H.W. Bush said that "Americans can't handle the truth." In 1988, when questioned about the matter, he commented that he was "very careful in public when dealing with classified information."

The question is always asked, "why can't we handle the truth?" If we were told that there were aliens here studying us, we could handle that. But that cannot be the whole truth, not from all that I have experienced and observed, and it might not be part of the truth in any way. Colonel Philip Corso, the author of "The Day After Roswell" told me that he'd had a direct encounter during which he had asked the question "what's in this for us?" The answer was "a new world, if you can take it."

How Colonel Corso came by that answer I cannot say, but it certainly resonated with me. My experience of the beings I call "visitors" is that their responses are multi-layered. To me, this response would mean both if we can bear it and if we can wrest it from them. Should we ever decide to face them, then, we will need to work hard to understand what is actually on offer. We should not expect anybody to be handed blueprints for a starship, in other words, or for them to open up interstellar trade routes or whatever.

But what would be so difficult that we couldn't handle it? Comments such as Podesta's and Bush's have left the coverup in tatters. The only places where it is still supported with denial is in old media venues with long-standing connections to the intelligence community. For the most part, the media has accepted that something strange is going on, but not drawn any conclusions about what it is. Nor should they. It is not at all clear what the visitors are or what they are doing here, or if they are even "visitors" at all, or something separate from us.

One reason--I think the primary reason--that disclosure has been so long in coming is the abduction phenomenon. Ask most conventional UFO researchers about it, and they'll say as little as possible. Many won't deal with it at all, and those who do seem to come very quickly to conclusions that cannot be supported without ignoring one type of evidence or another. I've had it explained to me by conventional researchers that the abduction phenomenon mustn't be mentioned because it's "too controversial." I've even heard it said that disclosure should come in "stages," first with an acknowledgement by NASA that there may be objects in the sky being flown by unknown parties, then that they might be intelligently guided by non-humans, etc.

They must be dreaming. If any sort of unknown presence is acknowledged in any way at any official level, it will be no more than a few days before the media is demanding answers about the abduction phenomenon. Millions of people who have had the experience will be intensely energized to find out what has happened to them and their families. For, after all, it isn't only adults who are involved, it's children, too.

I think that the hidden truth is that the abduction phenomenon is just as commonplace as it seems, that at official levels it is not well understood, and that nothing whatsoever can be done about it. I also think that the thesis of Super Natural is correct, that we are embedded in a much larger reality that we are just beginning to awaken to. It isn't that the visitors have just come here, but rather that we have just begun to notice what is actually a very ancient presence in our world and our lives. How that presence relates to reality I cannot certainly say, but I do know that it is not as we now believe, and not has we have been taught in the past.

Many things have blocked our progress in the past. Among them is official fear of admitting that the situation is going to be very disturbing to the public and that it cannot be controlled. Another is the intellectual arrogance of scientists and educated people, who cannot face the fact that an intelligence greater than theirs might be present here in some way, but hiding itself from them. A third block is that there is abundant evidence that, when the truth becomes known, it is going to overturn so much of our understanding of the world that it will literally overwhelm us with a flood tide of the new.

What is most likely to come to the forefront, and very quickly, is the issue of the soul. The idea of the soul has been more-or-less completely rejected by western science and the western intellectual community. We are assumed to be automata with no relevance outside of physical reality.

That is, quite simply, not my experience. Not at all. On the contrary, judging from the thirty years I have now spent living with and thinking about the visitors, I can say with conviction that the soul is of absolutely central importance--that, in fact, the physical world is embedded in a much larger, more ancient nonphysical reality that is far more alive--indeed, more conscious--than we physical beings are or can be. And it is this reality and the issues, requirements and needs associated with it, that are the primary driving force behind the actions of the presence that we have discovered among us.

I have tried to address this presence as honestly and directly as I could, indeed, to surrender myself to it. I didn't do this because it was pleasant. It was not pleasant. But I had been offered access to a "new world," and no matter the cost, I determined that I would take up that offer. The cost has been high, both in terms of my life in this world and my new life that extends beyond it. Just yesterday an old friend who is entirely innocent of any of this, spent some time casually mocking me. If I wasn't indifferent to that sort of thing by now, I wouldn't be much good at fulfilling the mission I have set myself, but his innocent teasing yet again reminded me of the gulf between our vision of reality and the extraordinary truth of the world in which we actually live.

As I write this, a dog lies at my feet. I reflect on the fact that he has absolutely no idea where he is or what he is. He cannot know what a table is, a carpet, an automobile, any of that. He doesn't know the meaning of the world in which we live. Nor do we, but there is a great difference. We can know. We can know far more than we do. We can achieve, if not a complete understanding of the presence that embraces us, a much more accurate understanding of the reason for that embrace.

We run from the soul. The reason we do this is deep instinct. We don't want to face the fact that our transitory lives have permanent consequences in our own personal connection to the greater consciousness. We want to live by instinct and desire, but we must find our way to the much harder path of love and compassion if we are to do what we are capable of, which is to become craftsmen of our souls. Our lives make us light and beautiful or they do not, and it is very hard to fact the fact that small choices may have such very large consequences, especially as we have so little real self knowledge.

This may seem a digression from the issue of disclosure, but it isn't. On the first day, there will be an admission of some sort of "alien presence." The next day will bring the questions about the abductions. Then will come the third day, which will last for the rest of the time human being is expressed into the physical world. On that day we will ask who are we, why are we here, and where are we?

We will wrestle for many generations with these questions, but in a new and more useful way. The question of whether or not the soul exists will be in the past, and with it the childhood of man. We will be facing both in ourselves and in the cosmos in which we live, a truly new world--if we can take it.

This is what contact is really about, and why it has been so long in coming. Over the next weeks and months, I will be discussing this in the context of my own experiences in the "special interviews" section of this website, which runs in conjunction with Dreamland. As best I can, I have accepted the challenge of this new world. I have experienced both wonders and terrors in the first few steps I've managed to take, and I am sure that more of both will be forthcoming.

Fine. I say bring it on. I can take it--and so can you.

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Declassified: U.S. Military's Secret Cold War Space Project Revealed

Newly released documents describe the U.S. Air Force's secret cold war project known as the Manned Orbiting Laboratory

• By Leonard David, SPACE.com 

Among the anticipated duties of Manned Orbiting Laboratory crews was overhead reconnaissance, but a range of other tasks were considered.
Credit: NRO

A newly released treasure trove of historical data reveals intriguing details about a secret Cold War project known as the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL).

The U.S. Air Force's MOL program ran from December 1963 until its cancellation in June 1969. The program spent $1.56 billion during that time, according to some estimates.

While the program never actually lofted a crewed space station, those nearly six years were quite eventful, featuring the selection of 17 MOL astronauts, the remodeling of NASA's two-seat Gemini spacecraft, the development of the Titan-3C launch vehicle and the building of an MOL launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. [Photos: Declassified US Spy Satellite Photos & Designs] 

Early in the MOL program, its architects weren't quite sure what MOL was all about. "Is the MOL a laboratory?" reads one of the newly released documents, which were put out by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). "Or is it an operational reconnaissance spacecraft? (Or a bomber?)"

Even today, aspects of the MOL initiative remain secret. 

Superpowerful eye spy
The anticipated duties of MOL crews included reconnaissance activities under the code name Project Dorian. Dorian was a superpowerful camera system that could acquire photographic coverage of the Soviet Union and other locations with a resolution better than the best unmanned system at the time, the NRO's first-generationGambit spacecraft.

But the historical documents suggest numerous other jobs were on the MOL docket for deliberation, including the use of side-looking radar, the evaluation of electronic intelligence-gathering gear and the assembly and servicing of large structures in space. 

Also discussed were the use of MOL-carrying "negation missiles" that would use non-nuclear warheads, the inspection of satellites, and the encapsulation and recovery of enemy spacecraft, which may have been accomplished using rocket-propelled net devices.

For a spacewalking MOL crewmember, a remote maneuvering unit was considered key for approaching and circumnavigating a target while the astronaut remained at a safe distance "to prevent harm from an active defense or booby-trapped target."

Notably, there was much reflection regarding the biological and psychological responses of MOL crewmembers in orbit for 30 days or more. [The Human Body in Space: 6 Weird Facts ]

Rediscover and recover facts
The NRO's release of MOL information was timed for an event held Oct. 22 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, which is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.

Would-be MOL crewmembers and other program officials took part in the event, which was called "The Dorian Files Revealed: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory Crew Members' Secret Mission in Space."

"Time often allows for facts to be distorted or forgotten," said James Outzen, chief of historical documentation and research at the Center for the Study of National Reconnaissance in Chantilly, Virginia. "But history allows the opportunity to rediscover and recover facts."

MOL was born in a Cold War environment in which it was difficult to learn what the United States' adversaries were up to, Outzen said. 

Patricia Cameresi, chief of the NRO's Information Review and Release Group, said the declassification of more than 20,000 pages of MOL documents was no easy task. 

"It took over a year to get all the stakeholders involved … to get them to agree to [the] declassification of additional material and then to do the actual line-by-line review," Cameresi said.

Behind the Iron Curtain
Former MOL astronauts taking part in the Oct. 22 event included James Abrahamson, Karol Bobko, Albert Crews, Bob Crippen and Richard Truly. Michael Yarymovych, who served as technical director of the U.S. Air Force MOL effort, also participated.

"We were doing something that was exciting and important," Yarymovych said. "We're going to also do something very important for national security. We are going to go look behind the Iron Curtain … defend the nation while doing the exciting things of manned spaceflight."

After the termination of MOL, Truly, Crippen and Bobko became NASA astronauts, with Truly eventually ascending to NASA administrator status. Abrahamson led NASA's space shuttle program in the early 1980s, then later headed President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, dubbed the "Star Wars" program.

Memory lane
For the MOL astronauts, the Wright-Patterson museum event was a trip down memory lane.

"It got canceled on June 10, 1969, a date that will live in my memory for a long time, which was one of the low points in my life," Crippen said. 

Truly said MOL "was not a trivial thing that we were working on." He thought the program had solved some complex problems before "black Tuesday," when delays, cost overruns and other factors brought the program to an end.

MOL, which would have zipped around Earth in a polar orbit, pioneered complex human interaction with an automated film camera system, Truly said. "It would have made it far better than it could be done strictly as an automated system," he said. 

Humans in the loop
In the view of Abrahamson, who was also assigned the job of building a training simulator for utilizing the MOL camera system, putting humans in the loop was an added benefit. 

The MOL film camera was going to be so precise, Abrahamson said, that it could have photographed Soviet airfields or snagged imagery of aircraft flight tests and the testing of specialized munitions. 

But the field of view through the camera would have been akin to "looking down a soda straw," making human judgment important, Abrahamson said. The astronauts "were supposed to use judgment and training … and to say, 'Look here, not here; don't waste a pass here,'" he added.

Important legacy
In the end, the death of MOL provided Abrahamson a lesson he has applied to other programs. "If you can just get an empty can up there … do it. Because then, you can build on it," he said.

The strategy with the Congress, "not the technical challenge," was the biggest risk, Abrahamson said.

According to Outzen, the reconnaissance historian, "There is often a misplaced assumption that a canceled program has no important legacy. This should not be said of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program."

The MOL program should be recognized "for its rich legacy in both civilian and national reconnaissance space histories," Outzen concluded.

To begin your own digging into the 20,681 pages of released MOL documents, pictures and other resources, go tohttp://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/MOL.html.

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Wetenschappers staan voor raadsel: onzichtbare entiteiten ontdekt op aarde met revolutionaire telescoop

Het Amerikaanse bedrijf Thunder Energies heeft onlangs met de revolutionaire Santilli-telescoop onzichtbare entiteiten ontdekt op aarde. Ze hebben de naam Invisible Terrestrial Entities (onzichtbare aardse entiteiten) gekregen.

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Quetzalquatl—White An God of the Mesoamericans

How did humanity surpass the test of time? Did we make it on our own, or were we in fact guided by intelligent extraterrestrial beings who were willing to help us grow and prosper in their own image?

According to numerous legends and beliefs, the “White Gods“ once came to Earth and helped humanity develop and thrive by offering knowledge in many ways.

Quetzalcoatl is considered to be one of the first “white gods“ to visit our planet. He was one of the most important Gods from ancient Mesoamerica and was also known as “Kukulkán” to the Mayans, “Gucumatz” to the Quichés of Guatemala, and “Ehecatl” to the Huastecs of the Gulf of Mexico.

Based on Mesoamerican folklore, Quetzalcoatl is the one who created the world and all of mankind, and was regarded as the god of wind and rain. He is also known for structuring art and culture and was looked upon as the organizer of society.

Since 1200 CE in Central Mexico, he was considered the god of learning, agriculture, science, and arts. He was the patron god of merchants, as he managed to discover corn with the help of a giant red ant who led him to a mountain packed full of grain and seeds. Legends named this entity, Quetzalcoatl, or the “God of Dawn”. This is one of the reasons why he is believed to be from a far-away planet.

Keep in mind that according to Maya paintings and sculptures, many structures arose during this period and strongly resembled spaceships from the 21st century. Many images representing the gods showed similarities to what astronauts look like nowadays.

It is believed that Quetzalcoatl burned himself and vanished into the skies towards the planet identified today as Venus. Could this be interpreted as an extraterrestrial being fulfilling its mission on Earth and quickly vanishing through the skies to reach new planets in need of guidance?

The writer Robert Marx has written broadly about the concept of “white gods,“ after he came to the conclusion that they are present in almost every indigenous culture in America.

After his journey in South America, the British writer Harold Wilkins also came to the conclusion that a vanished white race occupied all of South America in ancient times,helping the indigenous people cultivate food, and build up pyramids along with other large structures that would otherwise be impossible to build considering the lack of knowledge and tools during that period. He also claimed that Quetzalcoatl was from Atlantis.

Sharing his beliefs, some ancient astronaut and UFO writers have suited that the “white gods“ were actually extraterrestrial beings. Peter Kolosimo believed that the myths of Quetzalcoatl had support, in fact he stated that the legends actually described a full race of white men who were born in spaceships and migrated to Atlantis; after the city was destroyed by water, the remaining white men moved to the Americas where they were treated like “white gods“ by the “primitive earth – dwellers.“

other interesting theory is based on the writings of the Franciscan friar, Bernardino de Sahaguan, from the 16th century in which he describes the meeting between the Mexica emperor “Moctezuma the 2nd” and the Spanish captain “Hernan Cortes”.

 At first sight of the white Spanish men, emperor Moctezuma thought the “white gods“ have returned from the east, and Captain Cortes was the god Quetzalcoatl. Because of his beliefs, the Emperor gifted him a mask representing the “Feathered Serpent”.

The mask was carved from a single piece of cedar wood and covered with turquoise mosaic work. The teeth were made of white clam shell. The design consisted of two serpents green and blue, encircling the eyes and entangled over the nose and around the mouth.

According to Sahagun’s description, it was worn with a crown of dazzling long green – blue shimmering feathers, possibly those of the quetzal, a tropical rain forest bird with iridescent green – blue plumage.

Much of the idea of Captain Cortes being seen as a deity can be followed back to the Florentine Codex written down about 50 years after the conquest. In the codex’s tale of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortes, the ruler of the Aztec is illustrated as giving a speech in classical oratorical Nahuatl, a dialect which as reported verbatim in the codex written by Sahagun’s informants, added such prostrate announcement of divine, or near divine adoration.

An imperfect intellectual understanding of high Nahuatl oratory style make the exact intent of these comments tricky to approve, but some argue that Moctezuma politely offering his throne to Cortes may well have been meant as the exact opposite of what it was taken to mean: kindness in Aztec culture was a way to affirm dominance and show superiority.

This speech, which has been extensively referred to, has been a factor in the widespread assumption that Moctezuma was addressing Cortes as the returning god Quetzalcoatl.

Quetzalcoatl is described as light skinned, bearded and tall, with a serpent head hiding his human appearance. The earliest surviving image of Quetzalcoatl comes from the Olmec civilization with a sculpture at La Venta, of a beaked snake with a feather crest surrounded by two quetzal birds.

The earliest representations found in Mexico, is at Teotihuacan where there are sculptures of feathered snakes dating from the 3rd century CE and that is also the place where a six – tiered pyramid was built in the honor of the Serpent God of knowledge.

The deity was often described in architectural and sculptural decorations, appearing in other sites such as Xochivalco but he was rarely represented with any human form before the Late Postclassical period.

Since 1200 CE, Quetzalcoatl was usually represented in his human form and mostly wore shell jewelry and a tapered hat. Representations of the god often have “wind jewelry“ which is a cross section of a clam whorl worn as a pectoral, and often wear red masks like a goose’s beak bearing long canine teeth.

As time passed by, we educated ourselves through history and managed to see a glimpse of what life used to be. At our current level of understanding, we realize that some things from the past might have been impossible to accomplish without any external help.

The White Gods could have given us knowledge, thus explaining how the Mesoamericans used to obtain power. But as the extraterrestrials left, the indigenous people couldn’t suffice in controlling that power, a force given perhaps too early, and without any warning of its side effects.

 It ultimately led to self-destruction of the most knowledgeable and prosperous civilizations of our past because the guidance of aliens had long disappeared.

Will they return as the prophecies foretell and help us again to build a better future?

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Mysterious Sounds Coming From the Sky Reported All Over the World

In the last couple of weeks, Dutch citizens have reported hearing strange sounds in the sky. Martijn Mastenbroek from Pijnacker, a town in the Dutch province of South Holland, was at home on the evening of January 10th, 2016 when he suddenly heard a peculiar sound.

It sounded like trumpets, he recalls. It lasted about five seconds. No, it wasn’t coming from the washer. It really came from outside. My girlfriend heard it too.

A week earlier, on the evening of January 3rd, residents in Casablanca, Agadir, Tangier and other Moroccan cities also heard similar strange sounds, ‘coming from the sky.’ Several citizens were able to catch the sound on film and posted recordings on YouTube.

The following day, on January 4th, a British man – Youtube user ‘Stevie B’ – recorded the same kind of sound in Bristol, southwest England

We suspect that these sounds are some kind of transduced extra-low frequency radio waves. While we wouldn’t normally be able to hear them, due to changes in our near-space and the broader cosmic environment, they seem to interact with other electromagnetic factors in, on and around the planet, causing them to be amplified and converted into sound waves.

Although nobody knows for sure what these sounds are, they are almost certainly related to each other, and together they constitute a unique natural phenomenon that had also been described in ancient times.

The Hopi Indians speak of the trumpet sound coming from earth and sky and consider it to be a precursor of the Red Star Kachina – The Purifier. Could this bizarre “trumpet sound” be interpreted as a sign announcing the arrival of the notorious Planet X? Well, if we look at the recent discovery of a ninth planet in our solar system, the Hopi Indians prophecy doesn’t sound so absurd after all.

Other analysts have suggested that the anomalous sounds are emanating deep from within the earth’s crust. Are the ancient beings finally awakening? Or maybe Mother Earth has had enough of us humans and is now preparing to eradicate us?

Whatever the case, we cannot deny the importance of this sign. Something BIG is upon us and more and more people are feeling it. More evidence in the video below filmed in Morocco.

5 Alien Species That Already Walk Among Us

While it is often believed that most aliens are an unfriendly bunch, there are a few species that proved to be quite benefical for humanity. Some of the more friendly alien species are listed below.

 

THE LYRANS

 

It is widely believed that the Lyrans are our oldest ancestors. In fact, there are those who believe the Lyrans were actually the first “humans” to form a civilization in the Milky Way galaxy.

 

The world famous Billy Meier was the first to spill the beans about Lyrans. He claims that they revealed to him their origins and story. Lucky for us that he was wishful enough to share this story with mankind.

 

 They have described their ancient past, and consequently ours, as originating in a far sun-system in a star group near what we now know today as the Ring Nebula of Lyra, for which we have called them Lyrans in the same manner as we refer to human beings from what we call the Pleiades.

These early Lyrans during their numerous migrations in their great cosmic Arks, went to many other star systems and found suitable habitat, and put down colonies,  eventually launching their own space travelers.

 

Many millennia ago, their civilization achieved a great level of technological advancement, ranking high on Kardashev’s scale of comparison, however, conflicts between different factions turned into a total war. The situation escalated to such a point that many fled and colonized Hyades, the Pleiades and the Vega systems.

 

The offspring of these colonies eventually began to settle on Earth approximately 22 million years ago and have existed here on Earth before taking off for other star systems. Some UFO researchers believe the Lyrans could be the gods depicted in many ancient religious texts. If this theory is correct, then the Lyrans could be credited for being one of the main influences in creating and shaping mankind.

 

 

By most accounts, the Lyrans are often depicted as Nordic in appearance; they are tall people with blue eyes and long blonde hair. They have also been referred to in some circles as “The Galactic Historians” of the human species.

 

THE ARCTURIANS

 

After many eons of existence, one of the oldest alien species in our galaxy, the Arcturians managed to reach such an ascendant state that many classify them as a fifth dimension civilization, the most evolved on Kardashev scale.

  

Their home planet orbits the largest star in the Bootes Constellation and is located approximately 200 light years away from Earth.

 

Millions of years ago, the Arcturians achieved the level of technology we now have on Earth. They now possess some of the most advanced technology in the Milky Way galaxy, if not the entire universe.

 

While few people have directly interacted with the Arcturians, those who had describe them as being between 3 and 5 feet tall, with large heads and big black almond shaped eyes. Their skin is normally a greenish color and they have three fingers on each hand.

 

 

In addition, they appear to be masters of telepathic communication and can move objects or interact with their environment using only their minds. Furthermore, aging and the concept of dying have been virtually removed from their society due to their godlike development.

 

It is believed that their fleet of starships crisscrosses the galaxy and that one of their crafts – Starship Athena, remained in our solar system to prevent a deadly cataclysm that would otherwise wipe our entire human species.

 

The Arcturians take their role as protectors extremely seriously. So seriously that one of their envoys, the Black Knight Satellite, is believed to have been orbiting Earth for the last 13,000 years.

 

THE TELOSIANS

 

Described as being tall, blonde humanoids, the Telosians are considered by many to be the last survivors of a long lost human-like civilization on Earth.

 

 

There are those that say they are the survivors of the cataclysms that sunk Atlantis and Lemuria, while another group of researchers believe they are much older than that.

 

Their name derives from the ancient Greek word “telos” meaning “end’ or “purpose.” It is a fitting name for their gigantic city of Telos considered by some to be located under Mt. Shasta, California.

 

Using highly developed cerebral abilities, their advanced society has been in constant contact with a number of other extraterrestrial civilizations including the Pleiadians and Arcturians.

 

The first person to describe the Telosians was Admiral Richard Byrd in his diaries that were published after his death. He spoke of a secret North Pole mission which led him deep inside the hollow earth where he discovered the home of an advanced subterranean race.

 

Admiral Byrd wrote a detailed paper about this alien species, revealing that they had been living in a few secret underground settlements until our nuclear bombs forced them to come out to the surface. He mentioned this in his diary from Antarctica.

 

“Our interests rightly begins just after your race exploded the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. It was at that alarming time we sent our flying machines, the “Flugelrads” to your surface world to investigate what your race had done”.

 

You see, we have never interfered before in your race’s wars and barbarity, but now we must, for you have learned to tamper with a certain power that is not for man, namely that of atomic energy.

 

“Our emissaries have already delivered messages to the powers of your world, and yet they do not heed. Now you have been chosen to be witness here that our world does exist. You see, our culture and science is many thousands of years beyond our race”.

 

Thousands of years of scientific advancement offered the Telosians the ability to evade disease and aging. The Telosians are widely known for their longevity and it’s likely that some of our earthly shamans also received a glimpse of this knowledge. They are also the true protectors of Earth’s environment and keepers of knowledge about our planet’s past.

 

THE ALPHA CENTAURIANS

 

The extraterrestrials from Alpha Centauri are considered to be the most technologically advanced alien species in the Milky Way galaxy, but at the same time the species with the most destructive force.

 

They got in this position because they are reported to be highly intelligent and possess a natural curiosity which in turn led them to rapid growth in the fields of science and technology.

 

Over time they evolved into an aquatic species with gills and webbed limbs. Some researchers believe they are responsible for most of the underwater and the USO phenomena.

 

 

It’s also believed that they have a number of bases that operate on the bottom of our seas, oceans, and lakes around the planet.

 

In keeping with their nature, the Alpha Centaurians are believed to be very benevolent towards the human race and have a desire to help us overcome some of the many challenges that come with the evolution of our species.

 

It’s believed that they communicate telepathically and their subtle influence is also felt upon us humans. Many researchers believe that the Alpha Centaurians promote social justice and human rights as they are responsible for teaching us not to abuse destructive mass-effect weapon.

 

THE PLEIADIANS

 

Believed to be descendants of the early Lyrans, the Pleiadians, in some circles, have come to represent one of humanity’s most active allies.

 

Their home is located in the Pleiades Star Cluster, which is a group of stars located about 400 light years from Earth.  Their name is derived from the ancient Greek verb, “plein” meaning “to sail”.

 

 

The Pleiadians have always played an important role in humanity’s cultural expanse. One of their chosen representatives, Billy Meir, transmitted the messages of Semjase, a Pleidian female who was deeply concerned for our fate:

 

We are neither guardians of Earth nor beings of God. Many people believe we are watching over Earth and over its beings and that we control the fate.

This is not true, because we only perform a self-selected mission which has nothing to do with supervising or regulating Earth’s fate. Thus it is wrong to expose us as supra terrestrial messengers and guardians.

 

Despite the message from Semjase, the Pleiadians were the first to warn Earth about the danger that Grey aliens posed. The Pleiadians accused the Greys of having a lack of wisdom and empathy when using inferior humans to serve their evil, remorseless purposes.

 

For this reason, the two alien species have fought one another not only here, but in other star systems also.

 

Those who have been in contact with the Pleiadians claim that they have been trying to free ourselves from oppression for quite some time.

 

Extraterrestrials walk among us, we only have to open our eyes to see them. Signs and signals are everywhere, people only need to stop denying them. If they will further protect us from harm or decide to annihilate us remains only a matter of time. The hour of disclosure is coming.

 

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Eerie pictures show UFO being chased by 'military aircraft' in X-Files style dogfight

The snaps - shared online by alien enthusiasts - show a disc-shaped ship being followed military-looking planes above a field in Bulgaria

Crazy! Fighter Jets Chase UFO & Alien Abduction Pics Surface!

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These incredible pictures show a UFO being pursued by what seem to be government aircraft in an X-files style dogfight.

In the snaps - shared online by alien enthusiasts - a disc-shaped ship is followed by military-looking planes above a field in Bulgaria.

Portal 12, a website specialising in the paranormal, uploaded the pictures which they say were sent to them by a fan.

The site says: "Fighter jets were chasing a UFO over Nova Zagora.

"Military planes chased an unidentified flying object near Nova Zagora yesterday afternoon.

Read more: UFO spotters claim 'bona fide alien craft' spotted in this mobile phone footage - but can you see it?

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Mystery: This bizarre photo appears to show two military planes following a UFO

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Object: The images were taken above a field in Bulgaria

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Dogfight: The three aircraft circled each other over Nova Zagora

"A reader provided Portal12 with pictures with unique footage.

"The craft were flying at very low altitude in the area above the villages of Gaz, Zagortci, and Han Asparuhovo."

UFO expert Scott C Waring said: "A UFO was seen over farm land near some very tall power lines and it was being monitored by a military aircraft.

"The UFO seems to not be in any kind of hurry to move and the jet seems like it’s only there to identify the craft to those back at base.

"I don't think any military will risk deliberately shooting at an alien craft."

The video was uplaoded to Youtube by UFO-sighting curators Secure Team 10 , where is has already had more than 100,000 views.

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Is this video of UFO hurtling through sky proof of aliens or another hoax?

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The footage shows a mysterious grey disc hurtling through the sky, which on closer inspection has flashing blue lights

A mysterious flying object is filmed speeding through the sky - leading some to speculate it is an alien aircraft.

The 'footage' was apparently captured in Salta, Paraguay, by Roberto Aguirre.

It shows a grey 

disk shooting across the city at superhuman speed, before the clip is paused.

Zooming in on the UFO, strange blue lights can be seen beneath the vessel, which looks to be from another planet.

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Flying saucer: What is this object spotted in the sky over Paraguay?

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Closer encounter: Zooming reveals it to be some sort of spacecraft, suspiciously like the ones you'd see in films

Viewers were clearly sceptical about the aircraft, which looks suspiciously like the work of CGI .

Read more: Watch diamond-shaped UFO fading in and out of blue sky in eerie footage shot from kitchen window

"Obviously this is an animation," wrote Lopez Suarn, while Xhindara sarcastically said: "I just wanted to be famous, so I made a video of UFOs."

But Roberto has defended the footage, simply replying: "It's real."

Read more: There's one very sad reason why humans have never discovered aliens, scientists claim

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Bizarre UFO with 'trail' which 'blocked out the sun' leaves UFO investigators stumped

A PICTURE of a mysterious UFO that appeared to leave a trail across the sky has left alien investigators baffled.

The return of ‘The X-Files’ brings real-life UFO sleuths out of the shadows

BY ALAN BOYLE

Alien visitation is a big topic for “The X-Files.” (Credit: Fox)

UFOs are back in style, thanks in part to the return of “The X-Files” to television this weekend, almost 14 years after the last episode had its original airing. And while Mulder and Scully are delving into new anomalies in prime time, the folks who deal with UFO reports in real life are gearing up for renewed attention as well.

Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute

“X-Files, Y-Files, No-Files, I get calls from people who say they have evidence of alien visitation,” said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute. “Either they’ve seen something, they’ve photographed something or they’re in touch with something.”

The calls generally come in at a regular rate, but Shostak does recall that there was a noticeable uptick while the original “X-Files” show was on TV.

Don Lincoln, a physicist at Fermilab who’s the author of “Alien Universe,” notes that attitudes toward UFOs tend to reflect depictions in popular culture, ranging from flying saucers and little green men to mysterious “Men in Black” and alien conspiracies. The original “X-Files” told tales of gray extraterrestrials and government coverups, and he’s curious to see whether the new series will follow the same path.

“It could well be that what the new X-Files will ultimately accomplish is to introduce a new generation to the mysteries of Area 51 and the unsettling idea of the Men in Black,” Lincoln wrote in an email. “I have said enough. They’re watching…”

One expert who won’t be watching is Peter Davenport, who’s the director of the National UFO Reporting Center, or NUFORC. He doesn’t even own a television.

“I try to avoid addressing works of fiction, because I am a scientist,” he told GeekWire from his home base in Harrington, Wash. “I collect data that is appropriate and accurate. … I find [fictional UFO tales] to be unsatisfying, seeing that I deal with the real thing, all day, every day.”

Since he took over NUFORC in 1994, Davenport has compiled more than 100,000 reports of UFO sightings. Some of the records are stored in a decommissioned missile silo that he bought years ago. Almost all of them are available online. (The exceptions tend to be obvious hoaxes or pranks.)

“From my vantage point, after 22 years of doing this work, it appears to me that this planet has been visited routinely by these objects that we call UFOs,” Davenport said. “This is very good evidence that we are being visited, apparently by creatures from other parts of our galaxy. We are just beginning to awaken to phenomena beyond what our five senses seem to tell us is the case.”

What Davenport can’t figure out is why it takes something like “The X-Files” to get the broader public interested in UFOs. Here are five of the cases that he puts at the top of his list for Washington state:

• April 22, 1998: Ten reports come in from observers as far north as Whistler and as far south as Portland, about a bright flash, oval, fireball or disk that was seen in the skies. (It’s worth noting these reports came during the annual Lyrid meteor shower, and that meteor-watchers were interested in this fireball.)
• April 8, 2000: A formation of glowing objects is sighted over downtown Seattle.
• March 13, 2001: A fast-moving orange object is seen over locales ranging fromSkyway to Bellevue to Ladysmith, B.C.
• Jan. 15, 2015: Orange lights sighted in the skies over Friday Harbor.
• June 6, 2015: More orange lights, this time over Arlington.

Some folks regard Mount Rainier as a mecca for flying saucers, in part because it was where one of the seminal sightings took place in 1947. But Davenport says he sees no evidence of UFO hot spots — with the possible exception of Myrtle Beach and its environs in South Carolina, for unknown reasons.

“Many people contact me and ask where they can take the spouse and the kiddies to see UFOs,” Davenport said. “My response traditionally is, just go out on your back porch and look up at the sky, and be alert.”

So what happens when someone sees something, and then gives Shostak a call or sends him an email at the SETI Institute? He tries to keep an open mind about the sighting and reply with possible explanations if he can. “I’ve never seen something where I say, ‘This is absolutely it,'” he said.

Shostak notes that it’s a lot harder to investigate the circumstances of a UFO report than it is to report it. Because he has a day job that focuses on scientific studies using radio astronomy, he doesn’t have the time to go into X-Files mode: “You’re seldom in a situation where you can say, ‘Yeah, I know what that was. That was Flight So-and-So.'”

Investigators generally acknowledge that 95 percent of the reports that come in are easily dismissed. Even the remaining 5 percent are hard to follow up on, because the physical evidence is typically scant or non-existent.

Last fall, a project called UFODATA started trying to close that evidence gap. The UFODATA team brings together well-known names from the UFO field — such as Mark Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies and investigative journalist Leslie Kean — plus astronomers, engineers and even a former Pentagon official.

The project’s main objective is to develop automated stations that can record data from anomalous events — a Mulder-Bot, if you will. The instruments on the Mulder-Bot could include an all-sky camera, high-resolution imagers with spectrographic capability, a magnetometer, a weather station, a gravimeter or accelerometer, radiation sensors and perhaps a gamma-ray sensor.

“Technically, the big challenge is going to be the software, not the hardware,” Rodeghier told GeekWire.

The monitoring stations would be placed in areas remote enough to be off the beaten track, accessible enough to be serviced, and interesting enough to provide a likelihood of something happening. Someday, they could show up in Washington state, or Montana, or northern New England.

“We will be lucky to get a couple of honest-to-goodness UFOs,” Rodeghier said.

The way Rodeghier sees it, the first step is to build a community of supporters for the project. The second step is to raise the money, perhaps through a crowdfunding effort.

“If things go well, it’s possible we might do the crowdfunding by the end of 2016,” he said. “Around $40,000 should be enough.”

So stay tuned, UFO fans: The truth — along with the Kickstarter campaign — is out there.

Saturday: Meet the woman who specializes in “X-Files” science. And coming up later today: TV columnist Melanie McFarland’s review of the “X-Files” reboot.

GeekWire aerospace and science editor Alan Boyle is an award-winning science writer and veteran space reporter. Formerly of NBCNews.com, he is the author of "The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference." Follow him via CosmicLog.com, on Twitter @b0yle, and on Facebook and Google+.

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The only case of air combat against a UFO: the Peruvian secret (VIDEO+)

In all these decades of UFO sightings, only one man tried to shoot against them: the Peruvian fighter pilot Colonel Oscar Santa Maria Huerta that over 35 years ago, on 11 April 1980 was the star of the only documented case of fighting between a military jet (a Sukohi-22) and a UFO in the shape of light bulb.

Santa Maria Huerta, Peruvian Air Force pilot Lieutenant at the time, with eight years of experience in combat missions, was preparing for the daily exercises along with about 1,800 military and civilians at the air base of La Joya, 1,000 kilometers south of the Peruvian capital. Suddenly he was ordered to take off with his Sukohi-22 to intercept a strange UFO silver that had been reported in flight over the end of the runway. The object was located about 5 kilometers in the air at about 600 meters above the ground, and had not responded to any attempt at communication. Huerta said that the object “was in an airspace without authorization and posed a severe challenge to national sovereignty” Peruvian also Huerta continues to say that “La Joya was one of the few bases in South America that had equipment of Soviet origin , and we were worried about possible espionage activities “.
After taking off, Huerta reached 2,500 meters above sea level by starting a running attack. “I have reached the necessary distance and I fired a volley of bullets sixty 30 mm, they have created a” wall of fire “in the form of cone that normally would erase everything in its path,” he writes, adding that the former military pilot “one of these bullets would destroy a car, but they had no effect against  ‘UFO’. 

“I thought that the” ball “was torn and gas jets would emerge out of it. But nothing happened, seemed that the enormous projectiles had been absorbed by the balloon, and was not at all damaged.” The object then moved away quickly from the base toward the sky, forcing Huerta to activate the afterburner aircraft to hunt him remaining 500 meters behind. When they reached the city of Camana, 84 kilometers from the base, the subject underwent a sudden stop, forcing Huerta to divert to side. Turning upward and to the right Huerta tried to hire again a fighter plane but just when the UFO was at the center of the viewfinder and Huerta was ready to hurl a new burst, the object suddenly stood up, “breaking” the attack . Twice more the maneuver was repeated twice more and the object escaped the attack, jumping up a few moments before Huerta could fire. Meanwhile the UFO had risen to 14,000 meters above sea level, so the pilot tried to attack from above, but the object was able to take up to 19,200 meters above sea level, beyond the limits of Sukohi-22. Huerta, afraid of running out of fuel, trying to get closer to what until then had been considered to be a balloon aircraft. But 100 meters away he realized that was not what he thought it “an object that measured about 10 meters in diameter with a dome on top glossy cream, similar to a light bulb cut in half. 

The fund was a large circular base, in silver, and it seemed a kind of metal.It lacked all the typical components of aircraft; he had wings, jet propulsion, drains, windows, antennas. He had no visible propulsion system”. Huerta was face to face with a UFO and at that point began to be run out of fuel and to have suspected that it can be an easy target, so he decided to return to base with evasive zigzag, hoping not to be chased the UFO. After the 22-Sukohi of Huerta was landed, the UFO remained in place for another two hours visible to anyone base, reflecting the sunlight. Another similar incident had already happened in 1976 to a pilot Iranian Air Force, General Parviz Jafari, but due to a malfunction of the machine guns had failed to open fire on a UFO.

The Peruvian case was made by the Department of Defense in 1980 in a dossier entitled “UFO sighting in Peru” in which you came to the conclusion that the origin of the mysterious object was unknown. Since then, over 35 years later, there have been no recorded “close encounters” between UFOs and military aircraft.

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Speed of light 'broken': life changing scientific discoveries

The science world has been left in shock after it was announced that CERN scientists had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light in a finding that could overturn fundamental law of physics. Here are a selection of other major scientific discoveries.

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Gravity

Galileo Galilei overturns nearly 2,000 years of Aristotelian belief that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones by proving that all bodies fall at the same rate with his Law of Falling Bodies in 1604. More than 60 years later Sir Issac Newton concludes in his "Universal Gravitation" theory that all objects in the universe, from apples to planets, exert gravitational attraction on each other. Then in 1687 he changes our understanding of the universe by formulating three laws to describe the movement of objects. 1) An object in motion remains in motion unless an external force is applied to it. 2) The relationship between an object's mass (m), its acceleration (a) and the applied force (F) is F = ma. 3) For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 Photo: AP

Relativity

Relativity has revealed the bizarre world of black holes and told us that the universe had a beginning. With his Special Relativity theory in 1905 Albert Einstein that explained the relationship between speed, time and distance. Einstein’s theory stated that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light.It overthrew basic assumptions about time and space by describing how clocks tick slower and distances appear to stretch as objects approach the speed of light. That same year E = mc^2 or energy is equal to mass times the speed of light squared. His famous formula proves that mass and energy are different manifestations of the same thing, and that a very small amount of mass can be converted into a very large amount of energy. One profound implication of his discovery is that no object with mass can ever go faster than the speed of light. It is Special Relativity that scientists had CERN appear to have disproved.

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Best known for his treatise "On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres", The Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus asserted that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun - contrary to the medieval belief that the earth was the centre of the universe. He presented his theory in 1532 to a select audience in the Vatican Gardens. The theory was viewed with suspicion by the Church, and his treatise was not published until 1543, the year of his death. Eventually the theory became the cornerstone for a future generation of scientists including Kepler and Galileo, but one of its ardent advocates, Italian cleric Giordano Bruno, was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600. Galileo discoveries proved the Copernican System.

Quantum theory

The theory has made the modern world possible, giving us lasers and computers and iPod nanos, not to mention explaining how the sun shines and why the ground is solid. Danish physicist Niels Bohr, considered one of the most important figures in modern physics and the "father" of quantum mechanics, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 for his research on the structure of an atom. Although he help develop the atomic bomb, he deplored its use for war and instead promoted atomic power for peaceful purposes.

Evolution

Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, in which he challenges contemporary beliefs about the creation of life on Earth. His seminal work, which popularised the theory, was published in 1859 and drew fierce criticism from the Church of England for the way it challenged the notion of divine creation. Darwin had served as an unpaid naturalist on the HMS Beagle, which set out on a five-year scientific expedition to the Pacific coast of South America in early 1832. The data he collected on the expedition, especially specimens from the Galapagos Islands, was the inspiration for his theories on evolution by the mechanism of natural selection. His work has been at the centre of controversy ever since it was published. Darwin's The Descent of Man, published in 1871, aroused even greater debate as it suggested that humans descended from apes. Although Darwin is the most familiar name associated with evolution, he was only persuaded to publish his work when another young scientist, Alfred Russel Wallace, came forward having independently come up with a similar explanation for how evolution occur.

Disease and bacteria

Before Louis Pasteur, the French chemist and and biologist, began experimenting with bacteria in the 1860s, its cause was unknown. He not only discovered that disease came from microorganisms, but he also realized that bacteria could be killed by heat and disinfectant. This idea caused doctors to wash their hands and sterilize their instruments, which has saved millions of lives. He was able to demonstrate that organisms such as bacteria were responsible for souring wine and beer (he later extended his studies to prove that milk was the same), and that the bacteria could be removed by boiling and then cooling the liquid. This process is now called pasteurisation. Pasteur then undertook experiments to find where these bacteria came from, and was able to prove that they were introduced from the environment. This was disputed by scientists who believed they could spontaneously generate.

Penicillian

The era of antibiotics began in 1928 when Alexander Fleming spotted how penicillin produced by green mold killed bacteria. The improbable chain of events that led him to the discovery in 1928 is the stuff of which scientific myths are made. The young Scottish research scientist, who had a profitable side practice treating the syphilis infections of prominent London artists, was pursuing his pet theory that his own nasal mucus had antibacterial effects. He left a culture plate smeared with Staphylococcus bacteria on his lab bench while he went on a two-week holiday. Upon his return he spotted a clear halo surrounding the yellow-green growth of a mold that had accidentally contaminated the plate. Unknown to him, a spore of a rare variant called Penicillium notatum had drifted in from a mycology lab one floor below. He decided not to store his culture in a warm incubator and during a cold patch of weather, gave the mold a chance to grow. Later, as the temperature rose, the Staphylococcus bacteria started growing in a similar fashion to a piece of lawn that eventually covered the entire plate except for the area surrounding the moldy contaminant. Seeing that halo is considered to be Fleming's "Eureka" moment and he later correctly deduced that the mold must have released a substance that inhibited the growth of the bacteria. It was a discovery that would change the course of history. The active ingredient in that mold, which Fleming named penicillin, turned out to be an infection-fighting agent of enormous potency.

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CERN scientists 'break the speed of light'

Scientists said on Thursday they recorded particles travelling faster than light - a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's fundamental laws of the universe.

Has the Kepler Space Telescope Discovered an Alien Megastructure?

NASA's Kepler Space Telescope is tasked with finding small, rocky worlds orbiting distant stars. However, exoplanets aren’t the only thing Kepler can detect — stellar flares, star spots and dusty planetary rings can also pop up in the mission's observations.

But there's also been speculation that Kepler may have the ability to detect more than natural phenomena; if they're out there, Kepler may also detect the signature of artificial structures orbiting other stars. Imagine an advanced civilization that's well up on the Kardashev scale and has the ability to harness energy directly from its star. This hypothetical alien civilization may want to construct vast megastructures, like supersized solar arrays in orbit around their host star, that could be so big that they blot out a sizable fraction of starlight as they pass in front.

13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens

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When Kepler detects an exoplanet, it does so by sensing the very slight dip in starlight from a given star. The premise is simple: an exoplanet orbits in front of star (known as a "transit"), Kepler detects a slight dimming of starlight and creates a "lightcurve" — basically a graph charting the dip in starlight over time. Much information can be gleaned from the lightcurve, such as the physical size of the transiting exoplanet. But it can also deduce the exoplanet’s shape.

Normally the shape of an exoplanet isn't particularly surprising because it's, well, planet-shaped. It's round. The physics of planetary formation dictate that a planetary body above a certain mass will be governed by hydrostatic equilibrium. But say if Kepler detects something that isn’t round. Well, that's when things can get a bit weird.

For the most part, any dip in star brightness can be attributed to some kind of natural phenomenon. But what if all possibilities are accounted for and only one scenario is left? What if that scenario is this object appears to be artificial? In other words, what if it’s alien?

In a chilling article written by Ross Andersen of The Atlantic, at first glance, it seems we may be at this incredible juncture.

GALLERY: How Aliens Can Find Us (and Vice Versa)

A star, named KIC 8462852, has been found with a highly curious transit signal. In a paper submitted to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers, including citizen scientists from the Planet Hunters crowdsourcing program, report: "Over the duration of the Kepler mission, KIC 8462852 was observed to undergo irregularly shaped, aperiodic dips in flux down to below the 20 percent level."

The research paper is thorough, describing the phenomenon, pointing out that this star is unique - we've seen nothing like it. Kepler has collected data on this star steadily for four years. It's not instrumental error. Kepler isn't seeing things; the signal is real.

"We'd never seen anything like this star," Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoctorate researcher at Yale University and lead author, told The Atlantic. "It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out."

The Planet Hunters volunteers are depended on to seek out transits in Kepler's stars in the direction of the constellation Cygnus. This is a huge quantity of data, from over 150,000 stars in Kepler’s original field of view, and you can’t beat the human eye when identifying a true dip in starlight brightness. The Planet Hunters described KIC 8462852 as "bizarre," "interesting" and a "giant transit." They're not wrong.

ANALYSIS: Could Kepler Detect Alien Artifacts?

Follow-up studies focus on two interesting transit events at KIC 8462852, one that was detected between days 788 and 795 of the Kepler mission and between days 1510 to 1570. The researchers have tagged these events as D800 and D1500 respectively.

The D800 event appears to have been a single transit causing a star brightness drop-off of 15 percent, whereas D1500 was a burst of several transits, possibly indicating a clump of different objects, forcing a brightness dip of up to 22 percent. To cause such dips in brightness, these transiting objects must be huge.

The transit data for KIC

8462852, featuring the obvious transit features D800 and D1500.

Credit: Boyajian et al.

The researchers worked through every known possibility, but each solution presented a new problem. For example, they investigated the possibility of some kind of circumstellar disk of dust. However, after looking for the infrared signal associated with these disks, no such signal could be seen.

Also, the star is a mature F-type star, approximately 1.5 times the size of our sun. Circumstellar disks are usually found around young stars.

ANALYSIS: Alien 'Star Engine' Detectable in Exoplanet Data?

The researchers also investigated the possibility of a huge planetary collision: could the debris from this smashup be creating this strange signal? The likelihood of us seeing a planetary collision is extremely low. There is no evidence in data taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) that a collision happened, creating a very tiny window of opportunity between WISE's mission end and the beginning of Kepler's mission (of a few years) for an astronomically unlikely cosmic event like this to occur.

The only natural explanation favored by the researchers seems to focus on an intervening clump of exocomets.

"One way we imagine such a barrage of comets could be triggered is by the passage of a field star through the system," write the researchers.

Indeed, they argue, there's a nearby star that might have tidally disturbed otherwise dormant comets in the outermost regions of the KIC 8462852 star system. This small star is located around 1,000 AU from KIC 8462852 and whether it's a binary partner or an interstellar visitor, its presence may have caused some cometary turmoil. Like the other scenarios, however, the exocomet explanation still falls short of being fully satisfactory.

This research paper focuses only on natural and known possible causes of the mystery transit events around KIC 8462852. A second paper is currently being drafted to investigate a completely different transit scenario that focuses around the possibility of a mega-engineering project created by an advanced alien civilization.

ANALYSIS: Our Super-Advanced Alien Neighbors are Missing

This may sound like science fiction, but our galaxy has existed for over 13 billion years, it's not such a stretch of the imagination to think that an alien civilization may be out there and evolved to the point where they can build megastructures around stars.

"Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build," Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, told The Atlantic.

Indeed, hunting down huge structures that obscure the light from stars is no new thing. The Search for Extraterrestrial Technology (SETT) is one such project that does just this. Only recently, a survey of the local universe focused on the hope of detecting the waste heat generated by a technologically advanced civilization, specifically a Type II Kardashev civilization.

On the Kardashev scale, a Type II civilization has the ability to utilize all the available energy radiating from a star. Using a vast shell or series of rings surrounding a star, a Dyson sphere-like structure may be constructed. This has the effect of blotting out the star from view in visible wavelengths, but once the solar energy has been used by the alien civilization, the energy is shifted to longer wavelengths and likely lost as infrared radiation.

ANALYSIS: Could We Detect an Alien Civilization’s Waste Heat?

This recent search for aliens' waste heat drew a blank, reaching the conclusion that as there appears to be no alien intelligence cocooning stars to harvest their heat, there’s likely no Type II civilization nearby.

But as KIC 8462852 is showing us, there may be something else out there — possibly an alien intelligence that is well on its way to becoming a Type II civilization, which is setting up some kind of artificial structure around its star.

Of course, these mystery transit events are nowhere near "proof" of an alien civilization. In fact, it's barely evidence and a lot more work needs to be done.

The next step is to point a radio antenna at KIC 8462852, just to see whether the system is generating any artificial radio signals that could indicate the presence of something we'd define as "intelligent." Boyajian and Wright have now teamed up with Andrew Siemion, the Director of the SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, to get a radio telescope to listen into the star and if they detect an artificial signal, they will request time on the Very Large Array (VLA) to deduce whether any radio signals from that star are the chatter of an alien civilization.

It might be a long shot, and the phenomenon is more likely a clump of comets or some other natural phenomenon that we haven't accounted for blocking star light from view, but it’s worth investigating, especially if there really is some kind of alien intelligence building structures, or perhaps, ancient structures of a civilization long-gone, around a star only 1,500 light-years away from Earth.

This article was provided by Discovery News.

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UFO Passes Between Earth And Moon, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: May 2, 2015
Location of sighting: Earths moon

This UFO is moving very slowly, which is proof that its very far away at the time it was recorded. The UFO may be in Earths orbit or passing by Earth on its travels. Fantastic catch and I hope to see more from this up and coming UFO researcher Richard205Maria of Youtube. 
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www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Eyewitness states:
I recorded this flying object last year, but never put that much attention to this flying strange object... you decided what it is, I just recorded this flying object and it is very strange.

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'X-Files' Creator: 'I Thought The FBI Was Going To Shut Me Down'

A mysterious man told Chris Carter that his conspiracy-themed TV classic was too close to the truth.

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