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Woensdag 3 februari 2016

Paniek bij NASA vanwege komst van NIBIRU ( VIDEO )

Paniek bij NASA vanwege komst van NIBIRU ( VIDEO )

Alhoewel NASA beweert dat we de eerste honderden jaren niets te vrezen hebben van objecten uit de ruimte bewijzen hun acties precies het tegenovergestelde.

Ze hebben een nieuwe afdeling opgericht genaamd de Planetary Defense Coordination Office dat samen met FEMA op van alles voorbereid moet zijn.

Enkele dagen geleden was te lezen hoe een asteroïde die volgens een tijdreiziger in 2032 de aarde zal raken, door NASA wordt afgedaan als niets bijzonders en niemand hoeft zich ergens druk over te maken.

Datzelfde zeggen ze over andere asteroïden die onze kant opkomen, sterker nog, ze gaan zover dat ze ons nu al kunnen vertellen dat het onwaarschijnlijk is dat een groot object de aarde in de eerstvolgende paar honderd jaar zal raken.

Een aardige geruststelling zou je zeggen, maar wel één die volkomen in tegenspraak is met wat ze zelf aan het doen zijn.

Als er helemaal geen bedreigende objecten onze kant op komen waarom zou je je dan bezighouden met het opzetten van een Planetary Defense Coordination Office. Een afdeling die onder leiding zal komen te staan van een Planetary Defense Officer.

Volgens NASA zijn er op dit moment meer dan 13.500 zogenaamde Near Earth Objects (NEO) ontdekt. Objecten die relatief dichtbij de aarde komen en een mogelijk een gevaar zouden kunnen vormen. Ieder jaar opnieuw worden er nog eens zo’n 1.500 NEO’s ontdekt. Van die objecten is ongeveer tien procent groter dan een kilometer in doorsnee en als één van die dingen de aarde zou raken dan hebben we een aardige ELE (Extinction Level Event), een gebeurtenis waarbij het leven op aarde weinig of geen kans heeft om te overleven.

De nieuwe afdeling zal zich ook bezighouden met het uitwerken van wat men noemt redirect opties. Dat wil zeggen, asteroïden die op een ramkoers liggen met de aarde van koers laten veranderen zodat ze ons niet raken.

Tenslotte wordt erbij gezegd dat als toch zou blijken dat een botsing met de aarde onvermijdelijk is, zij kunnen samenwerken met de beruchte FEMA en de noodzakelijke noodoperaties starten. Die noodoperaties zijn formeel voor het redden van zoveel mogelijk burgers, maar in werkelijkheid is het om de elite en de door hen geselecteerde mensen zo snel mogelijk veilig in de ondergrondse schuilplaatsen te kunnen laten komen.

Wat eveneens opvalt, is dat dit nieuwe Planetary Defense Coordination Office heel weinig aandacht heeft gekregen in de mainstream-pers. Hier en daar een klein verhaaltje, maar niet echt een aankondiging zoals we die van NASA gewend zijn.

Waarom een dergelijk centrum opzetten als er de eerste honderden jaren geen enkel gevaar bestaat zoals ze zelf zeggen.

Waarom gebeurt dit dan nu allemaal?

Het antwoord is voor ons helder als glas. De komst van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru brengt ook een regen van asteroïden met zich mee die al dan niet op de aarde terecht zullen komen.

Daarnaast kan de nieuwe NASA afdeling ook hele nuttige zaken in de gaten houden zoals de komst van Nibiru en haar metgezellen. Ook het feit dat deze nieuwe afdeling van NASA in één adem wordt genoemd met FEMA betekent dat het wel iets meer is dan een theoretische mogelijkheid.

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Zelfs mensen die absoluut niet geloven in de komst van Nibiru beginnen zich af te vragen of ze bij NASA soms iets weten wat de rest van de mensheid niet weet.

Waar het vroeger nog iets bijzonders was als er een asteroïde in de vorm van een meteoriet de aardatmosfeer binnenkwam, tegenwoordig is het dagelijkse kost en valt er iedere dag wel ergens ter wereld een vuurbol aan de hemel waar te nemen.

Iets dergelijks gebeurde ook afgelopen zaterdagavond rond zes uur aan de oostkust van Amerika waar mensen van Canada tot New Jersey deze vuurbal in de lucht zagen.

Zo ook de piloot van een klein eenmotorig vliegtuig, een Piper Archer, die op een hoogte van zo’n 500 meter boven de Hudson rivier vloog. Aan de achterkant van het vliegtuig was een camera bevestigd en die legde de vuurbol in de lucht dan ook keurig vast.

In de navolgende video is het te zien en ook is de verbaasde piloot te horen die vraagt aan de verkeersleiding of ze iets hebben gezien. Na ongeveer 7 seconden zie je de meteoriet rechtsboven in beeld verschijnen. Later wordt dit nogmaals in slow motion herhaald.

{ www.NIBURU.nl }

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Woensdag 3 februari 2016

Long UFO Drops Off Two Orbs Over Los Angeles, CA On Feb 1, 2016, Video UFO Sighting News.

Long UFO Drops Off Two Orbs Over Los Angeles, CA On Feb 1, 2016, Video UFO Sighting News.

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Date of sighting: February 1, 2016
Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA

This UFO was reported by Youtube user jmhz71 and shows a long white object in the sky with orbs dropping off of it. This particular type of UFO has been seen a lot in South America, but less common in North America. Its also interesting that these objects were moving into the clouds.

Now because the camera focus is off a bit, I have some concerns about this being an accidental sighting of a bunch of wedding balloons that escaped. Its difficult to tell, but I will let you be the judge.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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Woensdag 3 februari 2016

Famous UFO cases: Phoenix lights, 1997 & 2007

Famous UFO cases: Phoenix lights, 1997 & 2007

The Phoenix Lights (sometimes referred to as the “lights over Phoenix”) were a series of widely sighted optical phenomena (generally unidentified flying objects) that occurred in the skies over the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, and the Mexican state of Sonora on March 13, 1997. A repeat of the lights occurred February 6, 2007, and was filmed by the local Fox News TV station.

A similar incident occurred April 21, 2008. This incident was later revealed to be prank–flares attached to helium balloons.

Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST, in a space of about 300 miles, from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. There were two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over the state, and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area. The United States Air Force (USAF) identified the second group of lights as flares dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft which were on training exercises at the Barry Goldwater Range in southwest Arizona. Witnesses claim to have observed a huge carpenter’s square-shaped UFO, containing lights or possibly light-emitting engines. Fife Symington, the governor at the time, was one witness to this incident.

History

Initial reports

At about 18:55 PST (6:55 PM PST), (19:55 MST [7:55 PM MST]), a man reported seeing a V-shaped object above Henderson, Nevada. He said it was about the “size of a (Boeing) 747”, sounded like “rushing wind”, and had six lights on its leading edge. The lights reportedly traversed northwest to the southeast.

An unidentified former police officer from Paulden, Arizona is claimed to have been the next person to report a sighting after leaving his house at about 20:15 MST (8:15 PM MST). As he was driving north, he reputedly saw a cluster of reddish or orange lights in the sky, comprising four lights together and a fifth light trailing them. Each of the individual lights in the formation appeared to the witness to consist of two separate point sources of orange light. He returned home and through binoculars watched the lights until they disappeared south over the horizon.

Prescott and Prescott Valley

Lights were also reportedly seen in the areas of Prescott and Prescott Valley. At approximately 20:17 MST, callers began reporting the object was definitely solid because it blocked out much of the starry sky as it passed over.

John Kaiser was standing outside with his wife and sons in Prescott Valley, when they noticed a cluster of lights to the west-northwest of their position. The lights formed a triangular pattern, but all of them appeared to be red, except the light at the nose of the object, which was distinctly white. The object, or objects, which had been observed for approximately 2–3 minutes with binoculars, then passed directly overhead the observers, they were seen to “bank to the right”, and they then disappeared in the night sky to the southeast of Prescott Valley. The altitude could not be determined, however it was fairly low and made no sound whatsoever.

The National UFO Reporting Center received the following report from the Prescott area:

“While doing astrophotography I observed five yellow-white lights in a “V” formation moving slowly from the northwest, across the sky to the northeast, then turn almost due south and continue until out of sight. The point of the “V” was in the direction of movement. The first three lights were in a fairly tight “V” while two of the lights were further back along the lines of the “V”‘s legs. During the NW-NE transit one of the trailing lights moved up and joined the three and then dropped back to the trailing position. I estimated the three light “V” to cover about 0.5 degrees of sky and the whole group of five lights to cover about 1 degree of sky.”

Dewey

At the town of Dewey, 10 miles south of Prescott, Arizona, six people saw a large cluster of lights while driving northbound on Highway 69. The five adults and a youth stopped their car to observe the lights which were directly overhead when they exited the car.

The lights appeared to hover for several minutes. The caller, who was an experienced flyer, said that the object was so large that he could clench his fist and hold it at arm’s length and still not completely cover the light. He estimated the object to be not over 1,000 feet above the ground and that it was moving at a considerably slower pace than an aircraft would fly. Calls to the UFO centre were also received from Chino Valley, Tempe, and Glendale.

First sighting from Phoenix

Tim Ley and his wife Bobbi, his son Hal and his grandson Damien Turnidge first saw the lights when they were above Prescott Valley about 65 miles away from them. At first they appeared to them as five separate and distinct lights in an arc shape like they were on top of a balloon, but they soon realized the lights appeared to be moving towards them. Over the next ten or so minutes they appeared to be coming closer and the distance between the lights increased and they took on the shape of an upside down V. Eventually when the lights appeared to be a couple of miles away the witnesses could make out a shape that looked like a carpenter’s square with the five lights set into it, with one at the front and two on each side. Soon the lights appeared to be coming right down the street where they lived about 100 to 150 feet above them, traveling so slowly it appeared to hover and was silent. The lights then seemed to pass over their heads and went through a V opening in the peaks of the mountain range towards Squaw Peak Mountain and toward the direction of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

Arriving in Phoenix

When the triangular formation entered the Phoenix area, Mitch Stanley, an amateur astronomer, observed the lights using a Dobsonian telescope outfitted with a TELEVUE 32mm Plössl eyepiece, which produces 43x magnification. After observing the lights, he told his mother, who was present at the time, that the lights were aircraft.

Even though former Phoenix Councilwomen and Vice Mayor, Frances Emma Barwood, received over 700 reports of mile wide V or boomerang shaped craft and orbs, Mitch Stanley’s report was the only one publicized in the Arizona print media.

In addition to the triangular formation, a separate phenomenon occurred in the Phoenix area. A series of lights appeared, one by one, and then were extinguished one by one. At this point many widely publicized videos and photographs were taken.

Bill Greiner, a cement driver hauling a load down a mountain north of Phoenix, described the second group of lights: “I’ll never be the same. Before this, if anybody had told me they saw a UFO, I would’ve said, ‘Yeah, and I believe in the tooth fairy’. Now I’ve got a whole new view. I may be just a dumb truck driver, but I’ve seen something that don’t belong here”. Greiner stated that the lights hovered over the area for in excess of 2 hours.

After Phoenix

A report came from a young man in the Kingman area who stopped his car at a payphone to report the incident. “[The] young man, en route to Los Angeles, called from a phone booth to report having seen a large and bizarre cluster of lights moving slowly in the northern sky”.

Reports

Governor

In March 2007, former Arizona Governor Fife Symington III (photo right) said that he had witnessed one of the “crafts of unknown origin” during the 1997 event, but noted that he did not go public with the information. Shortly after the lights, Symington held a press conference, stating that “they found who was responsible”. He proceeded to make light of the situation by bringing his aide on stage dressed in an alien costume. (Dateline, NBC). In an interview with The Daily Courier in Prescott, Arizona, Symington said, “I’m a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I’ve ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people. I don’t know why people would ridicule it”. Symington had earlier said, “It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn’t have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape.

Symington also noted that he requested information from the commander of Luke Air Force Base, the general of the National Guard, and the head of the Department of Public Safety. But none of the officials he contacted had an answer for what had happened, and were also “perplexed”. Later, he responded to an Air Force “explanation” that the lights were flares: “As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man made object I’d ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don’t fly in formation”.

Frances Barwood, the 1997 Phoenix city councilwoman who launched an investigation into the event, said that of the over 700 witnesses she interviewed, “The government never interviewed even one”.

Videotapes, still photos

Imagery of the Phoenix Lights falls into two categories: images of the triangular formation seen prior to 10 pm in Prescott and Dewey, and images of the 10 pm Phoenix event. All known images were produced using a variety of commercially available camcorders and cameras. There are no known images taken by equipment designed for scientific analysis, nor are there any known images taken using high powered optics or night vision equipment.

During the Phoenix event, numerous still photographs and videotapes were made, distinctly showing a series of lights appearing at a regular interval, remaining illuminated for several moments and then going out. These images have been repeatedly aired by documentary TV channels such as the Discovery Channel and the History Channel as part of their UFO documentary programming.

The most frequently seen sequence shows what appears to be an arc of lights appearing one by one, then going out one by one. UFO advocates claim that these images show that the lights were some form of “running light” or other aircraft illumination along the leading edge of a large craft (estimated to be as large as a mile in diameter) hovering over the city of Phoenix. Other similar sequences reportedly taken over a half hour period show differing numbers of lights in a V or arrowhead array. Thousands of witnesses throughout Arizona also reported a silent, mile wide V or boomerang shaped craft with varying numbers of huge orbs. A significant number of witnesses reported that the craft was silently gliding directly overhead at low altitude. The first-hand witnesses consistently reported that the lights appeared as “canisters of swimming light”, while the underbelly of the craft was undulating “like looking through water”. However, skeptics claim that the video is evidence that mountains not visible at night partially obstructed views from certain angles, thereby bolstering the claim that the lights were more distant than UFO advocates claim.

UFO advocate Jim Dilettoso claimed to have performed “spectral analysis” of photographs and video imagery that proved the lights could not have been produced by a man-made source. Dilettoso claimed to have used software called “Image Pro Plus” (exact version unknown) to determine the amount of red, green and blue in the various photographic and video images and construct histograms of the data,

which were then compared to several photographs known to be of flares. Several sources have pointed out, however, that it is impossible to determine the spectral signature of a light source based solely on photographic or video imagery, as film and electronics inherently alter the spectral signature of a light source by shifting hue in the visible spectrum, and experts in spectroscopy have dismissed his claims as being scientifically invalid. Normal photographic equipment also eliminates light outside the visible spectrum (e.g., infrared and ultraviolet) that would be necessary for a complete spectral analysis. The maker of “Image Pro Plus”, Media Cybernetic, has stated that its software is incapable of performing spectroscopic analysis.

Cognitech, an independent video laboratory, superimposed video imagery taken of the Phoenix Lights onto video imagery it shot during daytime from the same location. In the composite image, the lights are seen to extinguish at the moment they reach the Estrella mountain range, which is visible in the daytime, but invisible in the footage shot at night. A broadcast by local Fox Broadcasting affiliate KSAZ-TV claimed to have performed a similar test that showed the lights were in front of the mountain range and suggested that the Cognitech data might have been altered. Dr. Paul Scowen, visiting professor of Astronomy at Arizona State University, performed a third analysis using daytime imagery overlaid with video shot of the lights and his findings were consistent with Cognitech. The Phoenix New Times subsequently reported the television station had simply overlaid two video tracks on a video editing machine without using a computer to match the zoom and scale of the two images.

In comparison, there are few known images of the Prescott/Dewey lights. KSAZ reported that an individual named Richard Curtis took a detailed video that purportedly showed the outline of a space craft, but that the video had been lost. The only other known video is of poor quality and shows a group of lights with no craft visible.

Explanations and skepticism

There is some controversy as to how best classify the reports on the night in question. Some are of the opinion that the differing nature of the eyewitness reports indicates that several unidentified objects were in the area, each of which was its own separate ‘event.’ This is largely dismissed by skeptics as an over-extrapolation from standard deviation common in necessarily subjective eye-witness accounts. The media and most skeptical investigators have largely preferred to split the sightings into two distinct classes – a first and second event – for which two separate explanations are offered:

The first event—the “v,” which appeared over northern Arizona and gradually traveled south over nearly the entire length of the state, eventually passing south of Tucson—was the allegedly “wedge-shaped” object reported by then-Governor Symington and many others. This event started at about 8:15 over the Prescott area, and was seen south of Tucson by about 8:45.

The second event was the set of nine lights falling behind the Sierra Estrella, a mountain ridge to the southwest of Phoenix, at around 10pm. This was also observed by numerous people who may have thought they were seeing the same lights as those reported earlier.

Proponents of two separate events propose that the first event still has no provable explanation, but that some evidence exists that the lights were in fact airplanes. According to an article by reporter Janet Gonzales that appeared in the Phoenix New Times, videotape of the v shape shows the lights moving as separate entities, not as a single object; a phenomenon known as illusory contours can cause the human eye to see unconnected lines or dots as forming a single shape. Ortega also spoke with amateur astronomer Mitch Stanley, who was outside that night using a Dobsonian telescope, which yielded a view 60 times the magnification of the human eye.

According to Stanley, the lights were quite clearly individual airplanes; a companion who was with him recalled asking Stanley at the time what the lights were, and he said, “Planes”. However, no pilots have yet been found who admit to flying such a formation that night, and many witnesses continue to insist that they actually saw the entire object blocking the stars.

The second event has been more thoroughly covered by the media, due in part to the military’s backing of the explanation. The USAF explained the second event as slow falling, long burning flares dropped by an A-10 Warthog aircraft on a training exercise over Luke Air Force Base. An investigation by Luke AFB itself also came to this conclusion and declared the case solved.

Air National Guard pilot, Lt. Col. Ed Jones, responding to a March 2007 media query, confirmed that he had flown one of the aircraft n the formation that dropped flares on the night in question. The squadron to which he belonged was in fact in Arizona on a training exercise at the time, according to the Maryland Air National Guard. A history of the Maryland Air National Guard published in 2000 previously asserted that the squadron, the 104th Fighter Squadron, was responsible for the incident. The first reports that members of the Maryland Air National Guard were responsible for the incident were published in The Arizona Republic newspaper in July 1997.

Military flares such as these can be seen from hundreds of miles with correct environmental conditions. Later comparisons with known military flare drops were reported on local television stations, showing similarities between the known military flare drops and the Phoenix Lights. An analysis of the luminosity of LUU-2B/B illumination flares, the type which would have been in use by A-10 aircraft at the time, determined that the luminosity of such flares at a range of approximately 50–70 miles would fall well within the range of the lights viewed from Phoenix. However, this was not brought forward until July 1997, and the flares were reportedly dropped before the sightings took place.

The “Stealth Blimp” theory

The “giant V shaped object” (right picture: simulation) description also matches the description made by witnesses describing a similar object seen in Lebanon, Illinois, Guernsey, United Kingdom, and Stephenville, Texas. In the case of the Stephenville sighting, there is radar data from the FAA and National Weather Service that correlate to these eyewitness accounts. It is believed this object is a “Stealth Blimp”, which Lockheed Martin proposed building as far back as 1982.

Reappearance

On April 21, 2008, lights were again reported over Phoenix by local residents. These lights appeared to change from square to triangular formation over time.

A resident of Deer Valley in North Phoenix, Tony Toporek videotaped those lights. He was talking to neighbors around 8 p.m. when the lights appeared. Toporek stated, “Four brilliant red lights first formed a vertical or diagonal line, next a U-shape, then as I retrieved my camera and began to roll tape, the lights spread apart and made a diamond or cross shape, similar to the ‘Southern Cross'”.

Another resident reported that shortly after the lights appeared, three jets were seen heading west in the direction of the lights. An official from Luke Air Force Base denied any United States Air Force activity in the area.

Media coverage of the reappearance of the lights was significant, with photos and videos appearing on local and national newspapers, television news broadcasts, and web sites.

On April 22, 2008, a resident of Phoenix told a newspaper that the lights were nothing more than his neighbor releasing helium balloons with flares attached (photo left). This was confirmed by a police helicopter. The following day a Phoenix resident who declined to be identified in news reports stated he had attached flares to helium balloons and released them from his back yard.

source: en.wikipedia.org

Link: www.thephoenixlights.net

Phoenix lights 1997 – Original UFO footage

Phoenix lights 1997 – Original UFO footage part 2; different angle

Phoenix lights 2007 – Original UFO footage

Triangle UFO Phoenix Arizona March 1997

14th March 2010 update:
Phoenix Lights a UFO Sighting, 13 years ago (2010)

September 12, 2010 UPDATE:

‘UFOs’ excerpt: A look at the Phoenix Lights

(by Leslie Kean, the author of the New York Times best-seller “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record” – Amazon link / Kindle edition)

It was March 13, 1997, a pleasant spring evening in Arizona, clear and still. Countless families were outside in larger-than-usual numbers gazing at the sky because Comet Hale-Bopp was to be visible that night.

Instead, beginning about 8 p.m, they were provided with an even more astounding aerial spectacle: a series of massive, eerily silent craft gliding overhead.

One central object moved from the north, southeast across the state, traveling about 200 miles from Paulden to Tucson, passing near Phoenix and surrounding communities. It was on display from 8:15 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Many hundreds – more likely thousands – saw it that night.

Police phone lines were jammed, and Luke Air Force Base was overwhelmed with calls. Reports of sightings from around the state flooded the lines at the National UFO Reporting Center, a well-known Seattle-based repository for UFO reports cited in the Federal Aviation Administration manual.

Even so, air-traffic controllers apparently did not register the strange objects on radar. Although descriptions of the array of lights differed, one overriding characteristic prevailed: The craft was massive; it was a solid object, not merely lights; and it often appeared to be low in the sky, blocking out the stars behind it.

No government officials were dispatched to investigate or respond to questions from alarmed and awestruck citizens. To put it bluntly, the federal government failed to react to the presence of something huge and unknown invading restricted airspace over a capital city in the United States.

Phoenix Councilwoman Frances Emma Barwood, responding to pressure from journalists and her constituents, was the only elected official to launch a public investigation.

But she said that she, too, received no information from any level of government. Barwood says she spoke with more than 700 witnesses who called her office, including police officers, pilots and former military personnel, all providing similar descriptions of the objects.

Minimal coverage was provided at the time of the incident by the media, even in Phoenix, with a few local papers and news stations making note but few following up.

Three months later, on June 18, that all changed when USA Today brought the case into the national spotlight with a front-page story. It was further catapulted onto the network evening news when the sightings were covered, although minimally, by ABC and NBC, and became known as the Phoenix Lights.

The next day, on June 19, Gov. Fife Symington announced that he was ordering a full investigation and would make “all the necessary inquiries.”

“We’re going to get to the bottom of this,” he said. “We’re going to find out if it was a UFO.”

Unknown object slowly flying over Las Vegas

Unknown object slowly flying over Las Vegas

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Check out this interesting daytime UFO sighting 2016 that happened over Las Vegas, Nevada on January 9. This unknown craft was slowly flying at a low altitude above the city.

What do you think about this video?

Witness report: While at a sales conference at the Red Rocks Resort I had just gotten ready for my walk to the conference center somewhere between 7:15-7:40am. Remembering I told my family I would take a photo from my hotel of the beautiful landscape and the Vegas city skyline. I opened my curtain on this sunny morning. I got my phone ready and began to scan the view for the best picture. After a quick glance I noticed a hot air balloon to the right it was a typical looking hot air balloon. I looked to the left side of my window and noticed a dark shape that seemed contrast in color and shape against the mountain chain. I looked a few moments longer and thought wow that large shape is actually moving. I starred for a few moments and came to the firm conclusion that the object was indeed moving slowly left to right from my viewpoint. After a few minutes of personal viewing I thought I might take a video cause no one will believe me. So I began to take video and a short time into it the video stopped and a message of lack of storage came up. I thought to myself- I should have bought the 32GB phone. Any way, I took a few moments to clear up some storage glancing up to make sure the craft was still there, and it was still moving almost hovering as it had been doing. I cleared the necessary memory and began to take a picture and video again. I wondered what it could be moving so slow it didn’t look like any blimps I have seen at sporting events. It was moving too slow for conventional aircraft, it seemed large for a drone. At one point I quickly pan to the right to see the hot air balloon I had seen earlier to give some perspective. In addition, you can see cars driving underneath. while the first video is a bit shaky I made sure to lean on the window support to try to steady the video. After about four minutes I stopped recording because I had get my rear downstairs to work my booth at our convention. Honestly I do not know what it is which is why I have submitted it to you. I would be interested to hear what the locals or experts have to say about its identity.
Summary, seemingly large craft dark in color, moving left to right somewhat steady buy very slow almost hovering. Traveling toward Las Vegas.

Author (source: MUFON)

Note: Watch in full screen!

{ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/ }

Geschreven door peter om 11:50 Stuur door

Woensdag 3 februari 2016

The Extraterrestrial Message – Hidden In Us ALL

The Extraterrestrial Message – Hidden In Us ALL

Art by Raphael Terra @http://ufoartist.blogspot.co.uk/

A recent study has revealed how the human DNA was encoded using an extraterrestrial signal which was used by ancient aliens who once visited Earth in the distant past – and who are perhaps back again!

Two top researchers from the from the Department of Mathematics, respectively Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, have been working on something called “The Wow! Signal” of the terrestrial genetic code”. This could quite possibly be one of the greatest ever discoveries ever!

The two leading authors of this extremely important study, Vladimir I. shCherbak and Maxim A. Makukov, trust in the existence of something called the “Biological SETI” – which is a mathematical code residing inside the human races DNA structure – it is something that can definitely NOT be explained via the course of evolution, as traditional theories claim. This appears to be a potential game changer for all we know about our past and origins on planet Earth.

The missing link to our past ~ ET creation?

This important study could actually prove that science is now a massive step closer to proving the Ancient Astronaut theory, as well as the hypothesis of our species being engineered by advanced aliens through DNA manipulation. The two leading researchers stated in the Icarus Journal:

“Once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales. In fact, it is the most durable construct known. Therefore it represents an exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature. Once the genome is appropriately rewritten, the new code with a signature will stay frozen in the cell and its progeny, which might then be delivered through space and time”.

“In other words, the human DNA is designed with such a precision that it reveals an “ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language”.

Perhaps the ET’s are our Creators?

As a result of this intriguing study, many more researchers from around the world are now discussing about the probability of us humans being engineered somewhere ‘outside’ of our solar system by our alien creators several billion years ago – a hypothesis which has for a long time been strongly supported by the many ancient texts found on here on Planet Earth, that speak of the creation of mankind and the creator gods or deities. Perhaps it is the Aliens who are our Gods?

Another part of the study goes on to explain that life on Earth could have emerged as a direct result of ‘microbiological particles’ being carried throughout the darkness and mass of the cosmos on the back of asteroids and comets, which in affect act like huge transportation devices that go around planting life on different planets capable of sustaining it. This thought provoking theory differs a lot from the classic evolution theory, as many supporters believe that we were definitely not a random product of evolution, but quite possibly a certain creation of our makers, prepared and designed and then sent to Earth on purpose!

This theory was actually covered in the Hollywood Blockbuster film called ‘Prometheus’, please see below the opening scene of this ‘drip feeding’ of Disclosure film ~ Just like the evidence that has recently been discovered:

The two researchers Cherbak and Makukov went on to present a very detailed analysis (please see link below) of the human genome that shows a previously ignored precision-type method in the mapping between the DNA’s nucleotides and amino acids. The pair said that:

“Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language. Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing”.

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I guess this important find asks many important questions! Like, is it possible that we were possibly designed by advanced alien species who had a rather extended knowledge of creating life through DNA manipulation? And if this is true, does this mean that we are all Aliens on planet earth!? Is the human race possibly a product originating from another planet out there in the infinite Universe? Or could it be that we are a product which has been designed on Earth by an advanced race who anchored on this planet in the ancient past, as many age-old texts have even suggested??

Whilst it is impossible to deny the ‘panspermia hypothesis’ which claims that life on the earth could have originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present somewhere out there in outer space, that were able to initiate life upon reaching a suitable environment, us guys at U.I.P find it FAR more likely that life on Earth is actually a product of a far more intelligent species who have the unique ability to create life on other planets.

No matter what, the up-coming years will reveal to us all far more information regarding of research, which that were until now either forbidden/ignored or just covered up by the Elite.

Perhaps this is why many of us feel that we are from ‘another place’.

MWV

Please see another of our previous posts on this on this matter – http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/latest-news/scientists-discover-some-dna-is-not-from-our-ancestors-alien-genes/

Source idea: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1303/1303.6739.pdf

The writings on the walls!

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[HD] UFO Filmed Over Colima Volcano in the Moment of Eruption

[HD] UFO Filmed Over Colima Volcano in the Moment of Eruption

A fascinating and at the same time rare sighting of a UFO flying over an active volcano has been recorded by the surveillance cameras tracking volcanic activity on January 3, 2016.

Accounts show that a large number of UFOs are attracted by high amounts of energy, whether it originates from a powerful lightning storm, an active volcano or even a large crowd of people. While some sightings appear to be accumulating energy from the storm clouds, possibly for recharging, others seem to be studying human behavior from above.

However, when it comes to active volcanos, UFOs tend to have a more peculiar behavior. UFO analysts have launched different theories about the unexplained pattern a UFO follows when found over an erupting mountain, but let’s first have a look at this recent case to better understand the situation.

A couple of weeks back, the cameras constantly recording the Colima Volcano surprised a UFO flying over the top just before the eruption. About five seconds into the video, a strange disc-shaped craft makes its presence noticed, and when the volcano erupts, it flies right over it. Is it likely that the passing UFO is responsible for the immediate eruption?

According to some UFO researchers, volcanos might act as a transition zone between the outer realm and the inner Earth, often referred to as Shamballa or Agartha. In the moment of the eruption, the flying craft appears to drop something inside the raging mountain.

Could this be interpreted as a propulsion system which sent the pilots of the UFO through the active volcano and further into the Inner Earth?

If this is the case, we can only guess, but there are other videos revealing UFO activity near the erupting volcanos. Could there be a link between them after all?

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Ruins Of Ancient City Found In Antarctica

Ruins Of Ancient City Found In Antarctica

A California TV crew missing since November 2002, a video they left behind and a mission by U.S. Navy SEALs are the key elements in a story that claims extensive ancient ruins have been found under the ice of Antarctica. That’s according to archaeologist and adventurer Jonathan Gray of World Education Research Ltd in his free newsletter Archaeology News Flash.

A spokesman for the company is reported to have said at the time that “The U.S. government said it will seek to block the airing of a video found by Navy rescuers in Antarctica that purportedly reveals that a massive archaeological dig is underway two miles (3,200 meters) beneath the ice.”

“The AtlantisTV production crew that shot the video is still missing.” reports Gray.

Attorneys for the Beverly Hills-based AtlantisTV stressed at the time that the company’s primary concern was for the safety and welfare of the crew.

But they stated they would vigorously oppose any attempts to censor material that is clearly in the public interest and public domain.

The icy continent of Antarctica, they pointed out, belongs to no nation. "The U.S. has no jurisdiction there.”

McMurdo Station Antarctica

“That video is the property of AtlantisTV, said a company spokesman, We shot it. It’s ours. And as soon as it is rightfully restored to us, were going to air it. End of story.”

WATCHED BY NAVY OFFICERS

“Two Navy officers who saw the tape described its contents to National Science Foundation (NSF) researchers upon their return to the Amundsen-Scott Station at the South Pole,” asserts Gray in his recent newsletter.

Amundsen-Scott Station

So reported sources at McMurdo Station, the main American base in Antarctica.”They said it showed spectacular ruins and other things they couldn’t go into", an NSF scientist reported.

“We chalked it up to some kind of subzero-induced delusion,” he said, “until a helicopter full ofNavy SEALs landed and picked them up and took off. Now, were scratching our heads.”

Officials of the U.S. Naval Support Task Force in Antarctica predictably denied the story or the possession of any video shot by the missing AtlantisTV crew.

Navy sources said they found the video in an abandoned supply dump 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Vokstok Station.

Are you keeping up with the astonishing secrets of our past?

At least four YouTube posters think there just may be a lost city on the continent of Antarctica.

A team of researchers are claiming that they have discovered three ancient pyramids on the ice covered continent of Antarctica. Exact details are sketchy, but the team have released three intriguing pictures of their discovery. according to Stephen Hannard ADGUK

The international team comprises researchers from the United States, and several other, are from various European countries. Two of the huge pyramid structures were found approximately 10 miles inland, the third one not far from the coastline, clearly visible from ocean.

The team are currently planning an expedition to reach one of the pyramids to find out if it is a natural or an artificial structure. No further Details have been reported from the team as of 29 August 2012. More news is pending. Im undecided on this one guys until further confirmation, so as always you decide.

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British people have spotted some strange multicoloured clouds in the sky

British people have spotted some strange multicoloured clouds in the sky

Luminous clouds were spotted across the UK on Tuesday.

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BY SAM HAYSOM2016-02-02 16:15:01 UTC

LONDON — If you happen to have looked up into the sky recently and spotted strange patterns of shifting colours, don't panic — the weird bodies of lights appearing above Britain aren't UFOs, they're nacreous clouds.

The Met Office took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to share an image taken by Lea Harris of the sky over Edinburgh, UK.

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Unusual #nacreousclouds spotted across the UK. How do they form? http://bit.ly/1RX8gxJ (pic:@BakersBunny)

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Harris wasn't the only one to spot the unusual clouds.

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Very beautiful #nacreousclouds from the herbarium this morning

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More of those crazy clouds this morning #nacreousclouds #northumberland #StormHenry

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So what exactly are nacreous clouds, anyway?

According to the Met Office, they're basically clouds that have been lit up with luminous light from below. The clouds are usually found in Northern countries during polar winter when the sun is hanging low in the sky, and their rainbow-like appearance has earned them the nickname "mother of pearl clouds".

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Cannot believe how beautiful the sky is this morning@STVEdinburgh @edinburgh @BBCRadioScot

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@AnitaNicholson @RTalibart Seen yesterday evening in Wigan too!! Amazing!! #nacreousclouds

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Spectacular #nacreous clouds over south #Edinburgh this morning @bbcweather @BBCScotWeather Hat tip to@anghyflawn

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The sky did it again this morning so incredibly beautiful. Been watching this for about an hour. #nacreousclouds

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Mashable has reached out to the Met Office for more information on the clouds' appearance over Britain, and we will update this article when we receive a response.

UPDATED 16:45 2 FEBRUARY: The Met Office have contacted Mashable with more information about the clouds.

"Currently, we are able to catch sight of them because cold air which usually circulates around polar regions in the stratosphere (the stratospheric polar vortex) has been displaced from its usual position over the north pole to be over the UK," a Met Office spokesperson said.

"Our weather forecast models indicate the cold polar vortex will remain nearby for the next few days, so we should be able to see Nacreous Clouds when the skies are clear.

"The position of the vortex shifts towards the end of the week taking the coldest air, and the Nacreous Clouds, away from above the UK."

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Folkestone's weird, bizarre and spooky X-Files opened

Folkestone's weird, bizarre and spooky X-Files opened

By AntonyThrower

Pictures from our spooky sighting

Tonight, on Channel 5, Mulder and Scully will reopen the X-Files - so we thought we would delve into our own tales our intrigue, terror and general weirdness.

Below are stories of UFOs, alien abduction fears and even paranormal activity. Read on – if you dare!

We start with a motorist who reported seeing lights in the sky above Hythewho said he had no idea what he saw– but was sure was not a plane or helicopter.

Matt Law, 29, had been driving towards Dymchurch in March 2014 to take his dog Jessie for a run when he saw triangular lights in front of him.

As he got closer, they did not move so he came to a halt directly below, opened his window and found there was no sound.

Perplexed, he watched as the lights disappeared.

He told the Herald: "I'm not saying it was a flying saucer – I'm a bit of a sceptic – but it was no plane or helicopter."

Motorcyclist Michael D was "terrified" when a UFO hovered over his car while he travelled at about 35 miles per hour.

The witness reported online he had been riding home from a friend's house when he spotted a "massive flying thing" in the sky. The unknown entity hovered above him as he drove from Hawkinge towards Canterbury at about 1.50am on December 27 2014.

He said: "I caught up with it and saw it had a green light on one side and red on the other, both flashing slowly with a dot of white underneath. It was as if it stopped over me but had no sound."

Footage we showed of strange lights seen flying over a home in Folkestone was described as "intriguing" by one of the UK's foremost experts on UFOs.

The video was uploaded to YouTube and was watched about 30 times by curious viewers

When shown the clip by the Herald, Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the Ministry of Defence, said: "Assuming it's genuine, it's an intriguing piece of footage."

A pensioner who spotted an unidentified flying object over his home in Cheriton claimed visitors from another world are watching us.

That was the opinion of former Ministry of Defence worker Derek Clarke, who said he saw a UFO over his home in Biggins Wood Road in 2010.

The skies over Lydd are the site of an unsolved UFO incident, according to official Government documents released in 2008.

The reports showed a passenger plane was involved in a near miss with an unidentified flying object over Kent.

The incident, reported in April 1991, involved a fast-moving object thought, at first, to be a missile.

A description made out to the Civil Aviation Authority said: "The pilots reported seeing a missile cross above their position whilst descending as they prepared to land in London."

The Alitalia flight, en route from Milan to Heathrow, was piloted by Captain Achille Zaghetti. In an official review he said: "During descent I saw for about 3 to 4 seconds a flying object flying about 1,000ft higher than us."

Government letters, reports from the Folkestone Herald and details of an RAF investigation into a UFO sighting near former MP Michael Howard's home featured in UFO files released by the Ministry of Defence.

Eyewitnesses in Burmarsh and New Romney saw the ''humming'' object, the size of two passenger planes, near Mr Howard's home on March 8 1997, when he was serving as home secretary for the Conservative government.

Sophie Wadleigh, 25, from Hythe, reported the sighting to the Folkestone Herald.

She told the newspaper: ''It was so peculiar, it all felt really odd and I heard this humming noise."

When landlord Stuart Whiffen feels a gentle push on his back he knows he has to ask a customer to leave the premises – or risk annoying a spirit which shares his Sandgate pub.

Since taking over the Ship Inn 29 years ago he says he has encountered at least two ghosts, who on one occasion even forced his staff to flee the building in terror.

The first, who he calls the fish woman owing to the stench which accompanies her, he has only seen on one memorable occasion a few years ago, when she was wearing a distinctive dress.

But the other is a different story.

Mr Whiffen told the Herald: "The second one is a bit of a madam.

"We've had music turn up and down on its own and doors crash shut – so much so that we've called police as we think we have intruders."

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DOCUMENT: CIA’s UFO Sighting Needs ‘Immediate Attention’

DOCUMENT: CIA’s UFO Sighting Needs ‘Immediate Attention’

An excerpt from the CIA document. (CIA)

Has the CIA ever seen UFOs? What type of information about UFOs has the CIA released to the public? Are the X-Files real? The CIA has released an online library of UFO documents and sightings called “UFOs: Fact or Fiction?” The entire library can be found at this link. The document below is one of the most intriguing from the library. In it, the CIA admits back in 1952 that it has confirmed reports of unidentified objects flying near military installations, and these objects cannot be attributed to natural occurrences or any known military aircraft. The sightings required immediate attention. See the document below:

The CIA has released photos of alleged UFOs -- its own real-life X-Files cases. These documents were actually already declassified back in 1978, but they're being released again with easier online access due to renewed interest after The X-Files relaunch. We've dug a little deeper into the CIA's FOIA releases to bring even more UFO photos to this gallery. Are UFOs real? Did the CIA really release photos of UFOs? Click through the gallery to see some of the best UFO reports and photos and judge for yourself.

This first and one of the most compelling photos is taken from a released CIA report published on July 29, 1952. The paper is titled "Recent Sightings of Unexplained Objects." In this document, the CIA admits that there are unidentified objects near U.S. military installations that they could not identify. Specifically, it reads:

Recent reports reaching CIA indicated that further action was desirable... At this time, the reports of incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention... Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and travelling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomenon or known types of aerial vehicles."

To read the entire document, please see this story. To see all the CIA UFO documents, please visit the CIA's website here. (CIA)

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Famous UFO cases: 2004 Mexican UFO incident

Famous UFO cases: 2004 Mexican UFO incident

On May 13, 2004 Jaime Maussan ( above ) released his interview of Mexican Air Force pilots showing an infrared video footage from a military air patrol on March 5, 2004 against drug smuggling, that shows at least 11 very hot “spheres” moving irregularly with apparent great speed. Location: Over Campeche state, Mexico. The objects could not be seen with the naked eye, neither the crew on board nor ground personnel confirmed any radar contact with the objects in question. The crew did however pick up an earlier radar contact of an object moving at 60 mph which was later described as a lonely truck on the highway below which has been located to the front of the two engine Merlin C26A aircraft whereas the infrared targets were picked up through a dome mounted IR-system a little later at abt. -130° azimuth relative to the aircraft’s flight direction in its 8 o’clock position.

Skeptics

Skeptics have suggested that the UFOs were actually oil platform burn-off flares of the Cantarell oil field located around19°22′04″N 92°00′25″W / 19.36778°N 92.00694°W / 19.36778; -92.00694, some 240 kilometres (149 mi) to the north west of the aircraft. This would have placed the objects near the horizon so as to appear on the same level as the aircraft. Captain Alejandro Franz analyzed the latter option and published his results from July 2004 to May 2008. (right: Location of Mexican Air Force sighting)

Frame from FLIR infrared video camera of objects flying near plane.

Associated Press / Jaime Maussan

Mexican Air Force pilots filmed 11 unidentified flying objects in the skies over southern Campeche state in Mexico, a Mexican Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday. A videotape was made widely available to the news media.

“Mexican Air Force Pilots Film 11 UFOs”

Associated Press 5/11/04

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican Air Force pilots filmed 11 unidentified flying objects in the skies over southern Campeche state, a Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday.

A videotape made widely available to the news media on Tuesday shows the bright objects, some sharp points of light and others like large headlights, moving rapidly in what appears to be a late-evening sky.

The lights were filmed on March 5 by pilots using infrared equipment. They appeared to be flying at an altitude of about 3,500 meters (11,480 feet), and allegedly surrounded the Air Force jet as it conducted routine anti-drug trafficking vigilance in Campeche. Only three of the objects showed up on the plane’s radar.

“Was I afraid? Yes. A little afraid because we were facing something that had never happened before,” said radar operator Lt. German Marin in a taped interview made public Tuesday.

“I couldn’t say what it was … but I think they’re completely real,” added Lt. Mario Adrian Vazquez, the infrared equipment operator. Vazquez insisted that there was no way to alter the recorded images.

The plane’s captain, Maj. Magdaleno Castanon, said the military jets chased the lights “and I believe they could feel we were pursuing them.”

When the jets stopped following the objects, they disappeared, he said.

A Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday that the videotape was filmed by members of the Mexican Air Force. The spokesman declined to comment further and spoke on customary condition of anonymity.

The video was first aired on national television Monday night then again at a news conference Tuesday by Jaime Maussan, a Mexican investigator who has dedicated the past 10 years to studying UFOs.

“This is historic news,” Maussan told reporters. “Hundreds of videos (of UFOs) exist, but none had the backing of the armed forces of any country. … The armed forces don’t perpetuate frauds.”

Maussan said Secretary of Defense Gen. Ricardo Vega Garcia gave him the video on April 22.

C26A crew members/eye witnesses

Mexican researcher and journalist Jaime Maussan’s press briefing, Mexico City, 5/12/2004:

Following yesterday’s news story about the sighting of eleven UFOs by a Mexican Military aircraft, the Mexican Department of Defense – under Secretary of Defense General Clemente Vega Garcia, commander of all armed forces in the country – have taken the unprecedented step of publically confirming the incident. The press conference took place at the Hotel Sevilla Palace in Mexico city and international media representatives were invited.

JAIME MAUSSAN’S PRESS BRIEFING DOCUMENT:

THE FACTS: On April 20, 2004 Jaime Maussan was contacted by a high officer of the Department of Defense to have a private meeting and discuss a subject of a high relevant matter. The next day Maussan met General Clemente Vega Garcia, Secretary of Defense and his major staff and was informed about an incident that took place on March 5, 2004 on the aerial space of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche where an Air Force Merlín C26A Bimotor airplane was doing a routine flight to detect a smuggling drug airplane during an ant-narcotics operation.

The Merlin C26A was equipped with a high tech advanced digital equipment to register and record all the activities during the operation. Powerful sensor detectors like a FLIR STAR ZAPPHIR II and a RADAR AN/PS 143 BRAVO VICTOR 3 were being used by qualified personal aboard the airplane and all the operation was being recorded both in normal and infrared mode. The airplane was under the command of Mayor Magdaleno Jasso Núñez.

The FLIR operator was Lt. Mario Adrián Vázquez and the RADAR operator Lt. German Ramirez, all of them members of the 501 Aerial Squadron. This airplane is programmed only for surveillance and detection procedures, not for interception or combat manouvres. Their duty is to detect and identify drug dealers flights and then immediately report them to the base where combat planes are scrambled to intercept those narcotics smugglers. At approximately 17:00 PM the Merlin C26A detected an unknown traffic at 10,500 feet over Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche airspace and according to the protocol and suspecting a drug dealer airplane Mayor Magdaleno Jasso made a maneuver to approach the unidentified traffic at certain range to get a close look and record the target with their equipment.

At the same time Mayor Jasso reported by radio to the base that a possible suspect was detected requesting the interceptor planes to be in alert condition. The RADAR AN/PS 143 BRAVO VICTOR 3 was detecting the unknown traffic and the FLIR STAR ZAPPHIR II was recording the object in infrared. As the Merlin C26A tried to approach the unknown traffic to make a visual identification it suddenly in a surprising maneuver escaped flying away at tremendous speed.

By this time Mayor Jasso tried to persecute the target but it was very fast. All this was being recorded by the FLAIR and also the radio conversations with the base describing the unexpected maneuver of the unknown. However the C26A still have not made visual contact with the unknown object. Just some moments passed when suddenly the unknown object returned and began following the Merlin C26A in a surprising situation.

This was detected by the RADAR and the FLIR while the personal aboard were trying to make visual contact of the unidentified traffic now following them. In seconds the equipment detected now not only one but two traffics following them. The images in both RADAR and the FLIR were clear and unmistakable. But both pilot and personal still couldn’t have visual contact with these two traffics following them adding a great suspense to this disconcerting situation. Mayor Magdaleno Jasso reported to the base the incident that was taking place giving detail of all the information registered by the equipment while keep trying to make visual contact of the unknowns. The FLIR kept recording in infrared every movement made by the two unknown objects that seemed to be keeping their distance from the C26A but still following it. The personal aboard the Merlin C26A were confused and disconcerted seeing the images on the FLIR and the RADAR asking themselves what was going on with this situation.

THE INCIDENT TURNS MORE DRAMATIC

But the stressing moment that the C26A crew were passing through was just the beginning of something more dramatic that will turn their undesirable experience into a real nightmare. Some minutes passed while the Mexican Air Force Merlin C26A crew continued making maneuvers to have a visual contact of the unknowns because despite both RADAR and FLIR were showing perfectly clear both unidentified objects for unexplained reasons there was not a visual contact even that the objects by this time were at close range. It was during this round and round maneuvers to identify these two objects that something amazing happened. In a matter of seconds more unknown objects arrived to the scene and the disconcert of the C26A crew was total.

The RADAR and the FLIR detected immediately the presence of nine new objects of the same size and characteristics, unknown objects that arrived to the scene surprisingly like coming from nowhere.

Now the situation has entered into a high level of danger so Mayor Magdaleno Jasso reported by radio to the base this new situation requesting instructions. But the most bizarre thing was that even though there were eleven unknown objects close to them, still the crew couldn’t see them, no visual contact with the unknowns was possible for some reason never experienced before by these high trained men. However the high tech sophisticated equipment and sensors were not lying, there were eleven targets outside them with unpredictable intentions.

At the middle of a complete confusion and disconcert among the C26A crew the unknown objects suddenly made a maneuver surrounding the Mexican Air Force airplane in a circle at close range. The RADAR and FLIR presented an image of an eleven objects near by in a circle formation around the Merlin C26A. The situation turned out of control. Mayor Magdaleno Jasso reported to the base that the C26A situation was now in red alert, surrounded by eleven mysterious round shaped objects camouflaged with a certain unknown advanced technology that avoid any visual contact of them.

However Mayor Jasso kept the calm as well as the crew who were working fast measuring and recording every detail of this unique incident conscientious of their duty as military and trained men. Confronting this situation surrounded by unidentified objects in an unpredictable ending Mayor Magdaleno Jasso took the decision of turning out all the airplane lights and wait to see what happened. Moments of high suspense lived by the crew while the FLIR was recording the images of those bright objects even that visual contact was not possible, moments of silence and uncertainty.

The C26A crew kept calmed doing their duty, documenting every moment of the strange incident while Mayor Jasso continued in contact with the base. After some stressing minutes the eleven objects disappeared giving an end to the strange experience that these members of the 501 Aerial Squadron just lived. The Merlin C26A returned safe to the Air Force Base and Mayor Magdaleno Jasso prepared a complete report of the incident along with the C26A crew. The Secretary of the Defense took notice of Mayor Jasso’s report and began a full investigation studying and evaluating every element of the case.

Statements of the crew, images, lectures, measurements of all the equipment as well as a complete evaluation of the meteorological data . The incident was taken very seriously by the Department of Defense Staff and after several weeks of investigation they decided under the command of General Clemente Vega Garcia to contact researcher and TV journalist Jaime Maussan for a special collaboration in this investigation as an experienced researcher in these matters. On April 22, 2004 General Clemente Vega, Secretary of Defense gave Jaime Maussan a copy of all the tapes and data collected by the Merlin C26A during the incident for study, evaluation and analysis by Maussan’s research team as complement of this investigation and as an external collaborating source trying to establish a definition of the possible motives and consequences of the March 5, 2004 incident.

General Vega as well as his staff were very open to discuss the subject and showed their legitimate interest in conducting this investigation in order to establish the truth of what happened. General Vega authorized the Merlin C26A crew to give Jaime Maussan the interviews needed without any censorship, giving all the facilities to present this case to the Mexican people, an historic and unprecedented decision that will open a new era of mutual collaboration among the Mexican ufologists and the military forces, a collaboration based in respect and interest to find the truth of the intense UFO activity we have been experiencing here in Mexico since the beginning of the Amazing Mexican UFO Wave back in July 11, 1991.

This new era of relationship among the Mexican UFO witnesses, skywatchers, ufologists and our military forces will try to establish and give form to a new legislation in our law system focused to be prepared for any incident involving these unidentified flying objects, our people, our commercial and military airplanes etc. for learning and understanding what are we going to do and how are we going to confront this reality.

Summary:

On April 20, 2004, Mexican UFO investigator and television personality Jaime Maussan was summoned by Mexico’s Department of Defense to a private meeting to discuss a matter of national importance. Maussan met with General Clemente Vega Garcia, Secretary of Defense, and other members of his staff. Maussan was informed that on March 5, an extraordinary incident took place in the skies over Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche.

Anti-Narcotics Operation:

A Mexican Air Force Merlin C26A bi-motor airplance was performing routine duties to detect drug smuggling airplanes, in a anti-narcotics operation. The plane had a high-tech FLIR STAR ZAPPHIR II and a RADAR AN/PS 143 BRAVO VICTOR 3, which implements infrared video. Mayor Magdaleno Jasso Núñez was the commander of the plane, Lt. Mario Adrian Vasquez was FLIR operator, and Lt. German Ramirez was radar operator-all three were members of the 501 Aerial Squadron.

Unknown Target Detected:

The plane was not a combat plane-its mission was to detect planes without flight plans, and report their find to base headquarters, where combat planes would be scrambled to encounter the smugglers. At 17:00 hours, the Merlin detected unknown traffic at 10,500 feet over Ciudad del Carmen. The plane then flew closer to the unknown target to record it with their equipment. They reported their unknown target to base. (right picture: Frame from FLIR infrared video camera of objects flying near plane. Click for enlarge.)

UFO Follows Plane:

The Merlin’s radar was painting the object, and the infrared cameras were filming it. The Merlin attempted to move closer yet for a visual confirmation, but as it did, the unknown target made a surprise maneuver, and flew away at great speed. The entire event was being recorded, and the details were being reported as they occurred to base. Without warning, the unknown object suddenly reappeared, and began following the Merlin.

No Visual Contact:

In a moment, the Merlin’s radar was now seeing two objects, but there had still been no visual contact. The crew became alarmed because they could not make a maneuver that would enable a visual confirmation of the unknown objects. In a minute or two, there would be nine more objects , which seemed to come from out of nowhere. In another unexpected move, the eleven unknown objects were now circling the Merlin.

Full Investigation Ordered:

Though close enough to see the unknowns, the crew aboard the Merlin stated the objects must have been invisible. After some stressful moments, suddenly the eleven UFOs were gone-nowhere to be seen or recorded on camera. The Merlin returned to the Air Force base, and Jasso prepared a full report on the incident. After the Secretary of the Defense read Jasso’s report, he ordered a full investigation into the incident.

Air Force Freely Releases Information:

On April 22, 2004, General Clemente Vega, Secretary of Defense contacted Maussan and his research team, and turned over all of the tapes and information collected by the Merlin. In a rare move, the Mexican military declared that they were open to discuss and evaluate the sighting of the UFOs without suppressing any information from the public. This collaboration between the military and the general public had its beginnings during the Mexico UFO Wave of 1991.

Infrared Video of UFOs:

The extraordinary FLIR video of the eleven unknown objects flying over Campeche became news all over the world. UFO investigators were thrilled to finally have solid, undeniable evidence of the existence of UFOs flying over our skies. The UFO video was freely shared over the Internet, and discussed on many UFO web sites, and forums.

Solid Proof:

The debunkers would get in their two-cents worth, claiming that the glowing objects recorded by the camera of the Merlin plane were nothing more than oil field fires bouncing off of the clouds. This explanation has been accepted by some, but many hold to the film as solid proof of UFOs.

sources:

Mexico Ufo Encounter 11 UFO’s The most famous sighting ever! Original footage.

This footage was filmed in 2004 over mexico by military personnel who were looking for drug smugglers flying private planes they thought they had something when this happened, they managed to capture on film this amazing encounter with upto 11 ufo’s whilst flying in there aircraft, this footage has since become very famous and mexico even came out to the public and admitted the story was very true and are now taking the ufo issue very seriously. The footage speaks for itself!

https://youtu.be/O7KeipF-WJU

https://youtu.be/JAjMNkO_OYo

https://youtu.be/-ClnC1yfrsQ

https://youtu.be/x72RHN_e4dY

https://youtu.be/XSzdSvLfmNw

https://youtu.be/sONQ3KCNDO4

https://youtu.be/8SXb64S59kM

https://youtu.be/DyatTcXbxmY

https://youtu.be/HNSIVM1bdHw

https://youtu.be/B8ME51RONEU

Jaime Maussan – UFO Conference 2005

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

Famous UFO cases: TR-3B

Famous UFO cases: TR-3B

You can watch many TR-3B sightings -here- .

“A friend said, he would never forget the sight of the alien looking TR-3B based at Papoose. The pitch black, triangular shaped TR-3B was rarely mentioned–and then, only in hushed whispers–at the Groom Lake facility where he worked. The craft had flown over the Groom Lake runway in complete silence and magically stopped above Area S-4. It hovered silently in the same position, for some 10 minutes, before gently settling vertically to the tarmac. At times a corona of silver blue light glowed around the circumference of the massive TR-3B. The operational model is 600 feet across.”
The TR-3B is Code named Astra. The tactical reconnaissance TR-3B first operational flight was in the early 90s. The triangular shaped nuclear powered aerospace platform was developed under the Top Secret, Aurora Program with SDI and black budget monies. At least 3 of the billion dollar plus TR-3Bs were flying by 1994. The Aurora is the most classified aerospace development program in existence. The TR-3B is the most exotic vehicle created by the Aurora Program. It is funded and operationally tasked by the National Reconnaissance Office, the NSA, and the CIA. The TR-3B flying triangle is not fiction and was built with technology available in the mid 80s. Not every UFO spotted is one of theirs.

The TR-3B vehicles outer coating is reactive to electrical Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder–or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations. A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology.
Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The government will go to any lengths to protect this technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption. The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent. Do not misunderstand. This is not antigravity. Anti-gravity provides a repulsive force that can be used for propulsion. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth’s gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. This causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed–except, of course, those UFOs we did not build.

The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesnt take much propulsion to maintain altitude. At Groom Lake their have been whispered rumours of a new element that acts as a catalyst to the plasma. With the vehicle mass reduced by 89%, the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%.

The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet–then God knows how fast it can go! The 3 multimode rocket engines mounted under each corner of the craft use hydrogen or methane and oxygen as a propellent. In a liquid oxygen/hydrogen rocket system, 85% of the propellent mass is oxygen. The nuclear thermal rocket engine uses a hydrogen propellent, augmented with oxygen for additional thrust. The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can; operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen oxygen propulsion.
What you have to remember is, that the 3 rocket engines only have to propel 11 percent of the mass of the Top Secret TR-3B. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell. Many sightings of triangular UFOs are not alien vehicles but the top secret TR-3B. The NSA, NRO, CIA, and USAF have been playing a shell game with aircraft nomenclature – creating the TR-3, modified to the TR-3A, the TR-3B, and the Teir 2, 3, and 4, with suffixes like Plus or Minus added on to confuse further the fact that each of these designators is a different aircraft and not the same aerospace vehicle. A TR-3B is as different from a TR-3A as a banana is from a grape. Some of these vehicles are manned and others are unmanned.

USAF Top secret nuclear powered flying triangle – The TR-3b.

Click on the picture to enlarge.

Their has been a lot of interest in this Military aircraft known as the TR3B. The TR3B is a triangular shaped Nuclear powered aerospace craft. Many, like myself wounder what the propulsion is, that makes it possible. Here how Mr. Edgar Fouche (on the right photo) a physics expert. A circular,plasma filled accelerator ring, called the Magnetic Field Disruptor surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres, at a temperature of 150 degrees kelvin and accelerated to 50,000 RPM to create a super conducted plasma, resulting in gravity disruption. The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which neutralizes the effects of gravity by up to 89%.
He goes on to say some of his soures said the performance is only limited only to the stresses to the human pilots can endure. With 89% reduction in G’s what would have been 4.2g limit is now a 40G limit. The TR3B’s main propulsion is by three multi-mode thrusters mounted at each corner of the triangle. The craft is a sub mach 9 craft, at 120,000 feet,and below.Its never been tested any higher, so who know its limits. The first pictures ever taken of the TR3B were in Belgium March 31 1990 (LINK), it was again sighted in Idaho in 2000 when it flew within 200 feet of some people camping. The one thing that makes it stick out is the three lights,one on each corner, and one main light in the center

The campers said it was noiseless except for a small huming,when it moved. Rumors that the pending official disclosure of the existence of the TB3R a been around for a while now. Most want to know how it works, but I’m sure its going to be a while before it becomes public.

links:
Famous UFO cases: Belgian UFO wave

sources:

www.darkgovernment.com

hubpages.com
www.youtube.com

Edgar Fouche - TR-3B Full 1998 presentation

https://youtu.be/Cc1IrnEkH0g

TR-3B Plasma Torus Anti-Gravity Centrifuge Engine

https://youtu.be/CluKAHg2lUw

Triangle UFO Top Secret TR-3B Astra Video 1

https://youtu.be/KmQb5HfnINY

How Anti-Gravity Work? Nuclear Powered UFO TR-3B

Alien Technology – The TR-3B, How it Work?

Black projects: Does the Aurora exist?

UFO Researchers Discuss Project Aurora

https://youtu.be/uItTA_q94zU

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Orange Fireballs and Little People in England—the Incredible 1994 UFO-Humanoid Case at Silbury Hill

Orange Fireballs and Little People in England—the Incredible 1994 UFO-Humanoid Case at Silbury Hill

By Gregory Little

This is one of the most bizarre multiple-witness UFO cases ever recorded in the UK and it rivals the famous 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville (Green Men Case) for strangeness. The entire 1994 Silbury Hill event is detailed in 11 pages by Andrew Collins in his 2012 book Lightquest. This article is only a brief synopsis of the events and subsequent experiences reported by the witnesses. The case is little known outside the UK but is clearly one of the most important cases in UFO history. The book Lightquest includes several full-page illustrations of the objects and the beings encountered by the witnesses.

In July 1994 three people climbed England’s Silbury Hill and planned to spend the night atop the 131-foot high mound to watch for possible crop circle activity. The three people (two men and a woman) were soon met by two other friends, but the two friends left shortly before dark. A group of 5-6 teenagers was also on the summit of the mound at the same time. The teenagers fell asleep around midnight as fog began to encircle the mound and they appeared to be “frozen” or deeply asleep when the strangeness began to unfold.

Around 1:00 am the three witnesses heard what they thought were the sounds of someone ascending the hill by coming straight up the side—not by using the spiral path that leads up and around the hill. Looking over the side of the steep mound they thought they could see small dark forms moving around, forms resembling children, but their attention was immediately grabbed by the sight of an orange fireball appearing about a mile away—slowly floating above the ground. When all three people looked at the orange, fiery orb another fireball immediately appeared beside the first. At that distance the witnesses described them as looking like flaming, orange torches. Immediately they smelled sulfur and something like burning rubber and they could hear dogs in the distance now barking wildly. The fireballs floated quickly toward the three witnesses and when the orbs were about 170 yards away from the mound, one of the witnesses turned on a flashlight. Immediately the orange orbs stopped moving. The witnesses then could clearly see a “structured form” hanging below each of the orange orbs. The balls of orange fire appeared to be about 2-feet in diameter, but the objects below each were larger. The objects under the orbs were tetrahedron shaped—a three-sided pyramid—and floating above the ground. When the flashlight was turned off, the floating lights continued moving toward them. They watched as what looked like electrical discharges occasionally flashed to the ground from the orbs. When the forms got closer, the witnesses were stunned by what they saw.

Inside both of the now translucent pyramid-shaped objects they could see a small being sitting with crossed legs and hands clasped on their laps. The beings were glowing orange and were estimated to have been 4-5 feet tall. The female witness — for reasons she could not explain — blurted out, “They’re little people.” The fireballs floated higher and eventually elevated to about 10 feet above the hill and about 15-20 feet away from the witnesses. At that point, everything seemed to mentally move in slow motion. They heard a cracking sound and what seemed to be whispering. One of the witnesses believed that the creatures were somehow communicating with them. As the orange glow from the objects was reflected onto the surrounding trees and the hill, both fireballs silently expanded in a massive and blinding flash of light.

The orbs and dangling pyramid shaped objects reappeared after the light flash subsided and then floated down the hill, they then joined together into a single fireball, and moved over a nearby road to an adjacent field. It was at this point the most bizarre event occurred.

One of the humanoid beings slowly emerged from the fireball, but as it emerged it was holding the hand of the other humanoid, also pulling it out of the orb. Both of the orange, glowing beings floated next to the orb, hand-in-hand, and then they re-entered the fireball. At that moment from behind the object several more orange orbs suddenly appeared, numbering from 3-4. Below each of these the witnesses could see a translucent tetrahedron with a small humanoid being sitting inside. The group of orange objects then moved away from Silbury following a road toward the town of Marlborough, illuminating the road as they moved.

Unexpectedly, a car then appeared on the road moving toward the lights. In response, the orange orbs merged into a single light and shrank to the size of a tennis ball and rapidly jumped off the road into a hedgerow. As the three witnesses saw the car then hit its brakes, a man suddenly came up to the top of the hill and startled them. He said he had been sleeping on a portion of the other side of the hill and was awakened. Then, all 4 witnesses saw the tennis-ball size light reappear and rapidly move toward Silbury Hill and spin around it. Shortly thereafter the witnesses saw what they described as a string of multi-colored lights moving up a nearby hill and over it out of sight.

The three main witnesses decided to tell no one about their experience, but for years thereafter they were haunted by the experience. Nightmares, fear, changes in career, and various other emotional issues emerged. Andrew Collins, who is well-known and respected in that area of the UK, extensively interviewed all of the witnesses while researching the book Lightquest and was convinced of their honesty. The first time that the story was publicly revealed was in his book.

The area around Silbury and nearby Avebury is a hotbed of strange reports: UFOs, crop circles, humanoids, strange lights, and apparitional phenomena are frequently reported. Around 2006 my wife and I stayed with the Collins’s for a week at Avebury exploring Silbury, the Avebury circle, and nearby sites. We spent several nights walking the standing stone grassy avenues leading for miles in various directions to different sites. Oddly, each night we observed small orbs of blue/green/white lights emanating from the hills running alongside the avenues.

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DIAMOND SHAPED ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTER IN FLORIDA

DIAMOND SHAPED ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTER IN FLORIDA

ARTICLE EDIT DIAMOND V KEN PFEIFER 1-31-16

DIAMOND SHAPED ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTER IN FLORIDA

OCTOBER 4, 2012 ………… SAINT PETERSBURG FLORIDA

I was laying on the roof of a building with a friend while we were waiting on a buddy to get out of class. My friend was walking around on the roof while I was lying down. I was staring up at the stars when I saw a bright white elongated diamond shape appear out of nowhere. The object looked as though it was coming through the atmosphere because it had a contrail but the color was nothing like a comet’s trail; It was more of a pink color. The ‘front’ of it was the elongated, more acute angle (i.e. the pointier end of the diamond). It traveled a short distance in a straight line before it disappeared. (approx. 2 inches if I held my arm straight up). The contrail seemed to be coming off of the object and disappeared just as the object did. At this point I yelled “Holy ****! Dude did you see that?” Just as I was saying this I saw another white diamond appear in the same area of sky. This time the contrail was red/purple. The object flew perpendicular to the first object’s path. It seemed a little bit bigger than the first one, but I am not sure if it was the same object a little closer or if it was a second object. This object was visible for the same amount of time (1-2 seconds) before it vanished just like the first one. I wanted to make sure my friend saw it, so I yelled “Look up!” and pointed towards the area as the second one was going by. By the time he looked up it had vanished. Then a third diamond appeared in the same area of sky! This time its path was parallel to the previous one; the flight path of all three basically made the shape of a capital ‘H’. It was bright white like the others but there was no trail coming off of the object on this pass. It moved slower this time and it was much closer; I could actually see the diamond shape spin on its long axis! Again, it vanished after a couple of seconds had passed.

I asked my friend if he saw it too, he said “Yea, what the hell was that?!” (More like he yelled in a panicked tone). Of course, I had no answer for him. At this point I felt a wave of anxiety come over me and I wanted to get off of the roof as quickly as possible and go somewhere inside. So we both hurried down to the ground and went indoors. I asked him what he saw and he basically said it looked like a bright spinning arrowhead that appeared and disappeared. The images of them have been burned into my memory and I have reflected upon that moment quite often. I am not sure if it was the same object slowly making its way through the atmosphere or three separate objects. I am also not sure if the brightness of the object was from the heat produced by an object entering the atmosphere, but that is the only explanation I can think of; it still bugs me that the third sighting had no trail but was still bright white. I simply do not know how to rationalize it.

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This Day in Spaceflight History: 3 Launches, 2 to the Moon

This Day in Spaceflight History: 3 Launches, 2 to the Moon

By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer

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Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, after flight.

Credit: NASA

In the five-plus decades that humans have managed to escape from Earth's gravity well, Jan. 31 has been a busier day than usual.

Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Mercury Redstone-2 launch, which carried Ham the chimpanzee into space; the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Soviet moon lander Luna 9; and the 45th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 14, the third crewed lunar landing.

These anniversaries mark significant milestones in humanity's journey toward the stars. One was a precursor to NASA's first human spaceflight, one was a critical step in getting human technology all the way to the moon and one was the first lunar mission following a nearly disastrous attempt to put humans on the moon. [Giant Leaps: Biggest Milestones of Human Spaceflight]

First chimp in space

The Mercury Redstone-2 (MR-2) mission, which launched on Jan. 31, 1961, was one of a series of flights that laid the groundwork for eventually putting humans into space. Among the animals that NASA sent to space as part of that preparation was Ham the chimpanzee, the first chimp in space. Ham returned safely to Earth, but other primates perished during American test flights in the 1940s and 1950s.

Only a few months later, on April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person ever to fly in space. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard took off aboard another Mercury Redstone rocket, becoming the first American in space.

Lost Luna 9

The former Soviet Union's Luna 9 spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/GSFC/NSSDC

The Luna 9 probe was the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on an extraterrestrial body. It took off on Jan. 31, 1966, and made it to the moon on Feb. 3 of that year. It sent back close-range images of the surface of the moon, and represented an incredible feat of spaceflight engineering.

But to this day, no one knows exactly where Luna 9 came to rest. There was no way to precisely track its location. As recently as last November, researchers announced they'd be searching for Luna 9 using NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

First golfer on the moon

Apollo 14 lifts off on Jan. 31, 1971.

Credit: NASA

The three crewmembers of Apollo 14 left Earth on Jan. 31, 1971. It would become the third crewed mission to successfully reach the surface of the moon. (The nearly disastrous Apollo 13 mission was the third attempt at a crewed moon landing.)

The crew consisted of Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa. Shepard surprised the world when, just before the crew returned home, he pulled out a six iron and teed off on the lunar surface. The crew returned to Earth on Feb. 9.

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Star Trek: History & Effect on Space Technology

Star Trek: History & Effect on Space Technology

By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor

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This model of the USS Enterprise starship was used in the original "Star Trek" TV series, which aired from 1966 to 1969.

Credit: National Air and Space Museum

Since viewers first heard the famous tagline, "… to boldly go where no man has gone before," "Star Trek" has represented the hope of what space — “the final frontier” — can mean for humanity in a few centuries.

Over several television series and films, the franchise mostly follows the adventures of crews on the USS Enterprise. Humanity is just one of a vast number of alien species participating in a quasi-military organization called Starfleet, whose main goal is to explore the universe for scientific reasons. Starfleet has strict rules about interacting with more primitive species and protecting uncolonized planets, but from time to time the crews in the show run afoul of these rules — sometimes with tragic results.

General franchise history and overview

"Star Trek" was created in the 1960s by Gene Roddenberry, a WWII veteran who began his screenwriting career writing freelance scripts while with the Los Angeles Police Department. Famously, NBC executives did not like the first pilot. They reportedly said the show had too little action and was “too cerebral” for viewers; however, they offered the chance for a second pilot. Except for an alien called Spock (Leonard Nimoy), the cast was switched out for a different crew led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner).

"Star Trek" first aired in 1966. The series followed the adventures of the USS Enterprise on a five-year mission to “explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” The show was cancelled in 1968 due to ratings concerns, but did well enough in syndication to justify several Hollywood films.

The original series (often referred to as "TOS") spawned six motion pictures between 1979 and 1991 (plus a partial appearance by some members of the original crew in a 1994 "Star Trek" film). Along with an animated series (1973-74), this helped keep the series alive in the minds of fans.

Syndication success eventually led to the creation of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987-1994), which was set many years after the original series, with a new USS Enterprise helmed by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). This generation of "Star Trek" tackled issues such as racism, gender and torture, and remains one of the most popularly cited series to this day. "TNG" eventually moved into theaters, with four films between 1994 and 2002.

Roddenberry died in 1991. While "TNG" was still on the air, a different series, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993-1999), premiered. The show followed the exploits of a crew on a space station, rather than the traditional starship.

"Star Trek" also saw two more commercial TV series. "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995-2001) followed the exploits of a crew that was stranded in space, led by the series' first main female captain, Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). Finally, "Enterprise" (2001-2005) took to the air as a prequel to the events of The Original Series, where Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) helmed the first warp-drive capable Enterprise.

"Enterprise" was cancelled in 2005, but four years later The Original Series came back to Hollywood with a reboot of the original characters of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy — plus the rest of the main crew. The 2009 film was a hit and has so far spawned three other films – "Star Trek: Into Darkness" (2013), "Star Trek Beyond" (2016) and an untitled film in the works for 2019.

Meanwhile, Star Trek is expected to return to television – at least through CBS streaming – in 2017, when an untitled series makes its debut.

Franchise impact on real-life space exploration

Perhaps the most famous example of Star Trek inspiring real-life took place in the 1970s. The United States was preparing to run test flights of the space shuttle program using a prototype vehicle called Constitution. In response, thousands of "Star Trek" fans staged a write-in campaign to the White House and NASA asking for the prototype shuttle to be named Enterprise. When Enterprise was indeed unveiled in 1976, most of the main cast of TOS was on hand. Enterprise was not designed to fly in space, however.

Decades later, space tourism company Virgin Galactic named one of its planned spacecraft VSS Enterprise, after the television show. The spacecraft, built in 2004, did several in-atmosphere tests in preparation for eventually bringing it and other prototypes into space. VSS Enterprise, however, was destroyed in 2014 during a crash that killed one pilot and severely injured another. The National Transport Safety Board later determined a unique “feathering” system — intended to slow down the spacecraft as it was in the upper atmosphere — deployed early and was the leading cause of the crash.

A few astronauts have appeared on "Star Trek" over the years, according to fan site Memory Alpha. Mae Jamieson is the first one the site records as appearing on a show; she was on the 1993 sixth season episode of TNG's “Second Chances,” where she was visited by TOS' Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). While in space during STS-47, Jamieson reportedly began shifts with Mission Control by quoting Uhura's famous line: “Hailing frequencies are open.” The next recorded astronauts were Mike Fincke and Terry Virts, who appeared on the series finale of "Enterprise" in 2005.

While no "Star Trek" regular actor has flown in space (yet), several of them have recorded supportive messages for NASA, such as Nichols and Wil Wheaton. Nichols not only did a video message, but also flew on NASA's SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) aircraft in 2015.

"Star Trek" actors have also bantered with real astronauts on Twitter, most notably early in Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's International Space Station mission in 2012-13 when he spoke with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Wil Wheaton and George Takei. (Shatner asked: “Are you tweeting from space?” to which Hadfield replied, “Yes, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we're detecting signs of life from the surface.") After Nimoy died in February 2015, NASA sent out a tweet honoring the actor: "RIP Leonard Nimoy. So many of us at NASA were inspired by Star Trek. Boldly go…"

Star Trek tech

Several early "Star Trek" technologies have also made their way into our everyday lives. "Communicators" are now cell phones, which connect to each other via satellite. Tricorders, which were used to gather medical information, are now available as MRIs — some of which are being developed for space. Enterprise crewmembers can also be seen using tablet computers, and global positioning satellites, which can zero in on your position on the planet, are similar to how teleportation devices worked on the show.

However, human teleportation still eludes us, as does faster-than-light warp drive. In 2015, NASA downplayed several media reports that a “faster-than-light” EM Drive they were developing was on the verge of a breakthrough. “NASA is not working on 'warp drive' technology,” officials said, adding that the EM Drive was “a small effort that has not yet shown any tangible results.” Teleportation, meanwhile, hasonly been achieved on the quantum scale across a few miles.

List of film and TV appearances

Numerous fan-made productions and series spinoffs (such as books and comic books) have been produced; however, this list represents the "official" films and television series that have been released. There are plans to release a fourth in the “rebooted” series of "Star Trek" films in 2019, and to start a new television series via streaming in 2017.

Television series

Star Trek (The Original Series - 1966–1969)
Star Trek (The Animated Series - 1973–1974)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Enterprise (2001–2005)
Untitled Star Trek series (2017–)

Films

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek: The Search for Spock (1984)
Star Trek: The Voyage Home (1986)
Star Trek: The Final Frontier (1989)
Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Beyond (2016)
Untitled Star Trek film (2019)

Additional resources

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Space Debris Could Trap Humans on Earth, Prevent Space Exploration

Space Debris Could Trap Humans on Earth, Prevent Space Exploration

By: David Russell Schilling

Space Debris (Image Courtesy www.space.com)

Cleaning Up the Ultimate Frontier

This time of year most people are thinking about how they can tidy up around the house and de-clutter their New Year. Cleaning up is a great emotional challenge that often ends in procrastination. But for NASA and other space agencies around the world, decluttering is a 24x7x365 day obsession.

Launching rockets and satellites into space is so expensive, $10,000 a pound, that fixing the space debris problem is essential to saving money and lives as well as keeping dreams of multi-planet exploration alive. Should spaceships and satellites be damaged or destroyed by space junk, these dreams and aspirations will be sabotaged. If humans are to become spacefarers, we must clean up after ourselves!

Annoying Traffic Jams

Only people in Los Angeles, Bangkok, Beijing and other chronically congested cities can understand how annoying traffic jams can be. Imagine getting stuck in a space traffic jam hundreds of miles from Earth and floating aimlessly amongst debris that could puncture holes in your spacecraft at any moment. For all intents and purposes, space junk is a dangerous human-created asteroid belt.

Traffic Jams in Space (Image Courtesy www.investeur.com)

Developing Technology to Clean Up Space

Unfortunately, according to NASA, 65% of debris includes cataloged objects produced by more than 250 explosions and collisions. All told, the number of space debris objects exceeds 30,000. According to reports, the Chinese missile that exploded in 2007 generated 2,000 pieces of debris in just one mishap.

IndustryTap has reported on cleaning up space debris that is traveling around the earth at 35,000 mph (52,327 kph). New clean up technology includes NASA’s space debris tracking system for determining which satellites/junk need to be destroyed first. Innovations including space debris capturing “tugs”, robots that fling space debris into space, nets, and lasers are just a few of the many technologies being devised.

Earth (Image Courtesy www.nasa.gov)

Space Junk Has Built Up Over Six Decades

Space junk has built up over six decades and may not just hinder space exploration but the billions of dollars of communication and research satellites circling the globe and providing critical data to researchers on the ground.

The following video explains how space debris could negatively affect the future of space use and exploration.

David Russell Schilling

David enjoys research and writing about cutting edge technologies that hold the promise of improving conditions for all life on planet earth.

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

MIT Team Wins SpaceX Hyperloop Design Contest

MIT Team Wins SpaceX Hyperloop Design Contest

By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor

MIT's Hyperloop pod design.

Credit: MIT Hyperloop Team

Elon Musk's dream of creating a superfast new transportation system got a step closer to reality over the weekend.

On Saturday (Jan. 30), a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) won the first stage of the SpaceX Hyperloop design competition, which was held at Texas A&M University in College Station.

The MIT grad students beat out more than 100 other teams with their design for a passenger-carrying Hyperloop "pod," and will now start building a small-scale prototype to test this summer next to SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. [Images: Elon Musk's Hyperloop Transit System of the Future]

"MIT has been involved in so many technological breakthroughs in the past century," team captain Philippe Kirschen, a master's student in aeronautics and astronautics, said in a statement. "It just makes sense we would help advance what might be the future of transportation."

Some members of the MIT team, which submitted the winning pod design for the SpaceX Hyperloop design contest in January 2016.

Credit: Courtesy Nargis Sakhibov

Musk — the CEO of private spaceflight company SpaceX and electric-car company Tesla Motors — announced his vision for the Hyperloop in a 2013 white paper. The system would use pods, traveling in tubes in a near-vacuum, to move people between big cities that are no more than 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) apart, such as San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The pods would levitate above the ground. They would therefore encounter very little friction, and could zoom along at nearly the speed of sound (about 767 mph, or 1,234 km/h, at sea level), according to Musk.

Musk envisioned using a cushion of air to achieve levitation, but the MIT team decided to go with magnets above a conducting plate. The aluminum test track that SpaceX is already building near its headquarters will serve as this conducting plate, MIT team members said.

"The beauty of the system we designed is that it's completely passive, an elegant property that will make our pod very scalable," Kirschen added.

The MIT team's prototype Hyperloop pod will be about 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) long by 3.3 feet (1 m) wide and weigh 550 lbs. (250 kilograms), with the aerodynamic feel of a bobsled, Kirschen said. The vehicle will be built to accommodate a mechanical pusher (which will provide propulsion) as well as a variety of sensors, university officials said.

The MIT team will need to finish final assembly of its pod by mid-May. The students will aim to achieve a speed of at least 225 mph (362 km/h) during the vehicle's 20-second inaugural run, which will not include carrying any passengers.

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

Five of my favourite from the

Five of my favourite from the "best" UFO sightings/encounters

So, I've been thinking, as there is a current slump (it appears) in UFO activity (I believe such things are cyclic, and possibly next year will be a big year), and there are so many hoaxes out there on the net these days, I thought I'd revisit some old cases and list five that really stand the test of time for me. They probably aren't what you expect, but here goes....

Vickie Landrum (left) and Betty Cash fell victim to radiation sickness after a December 1980 close encounter.

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Cash Landrum
Possibly not extraterrestrial, but certainly unknown, what Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum experienced definitely had an effect on them physically and mentally - there is no doubt they experienced exposure to some kind of radiation/chemical agent. This incident happened the day after the Rendlesham Incident in the UK. I've always wondered if what they encountered was actually one of ours - possibly a test article of some kind of new nuclear propulsion system (although there apparently was no trace of abnormal radioactivity in the area) or, possibly a live test of some form of chemical warfare/hallucinagen spraying where they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Certainly a UFO in the true sense of being unidentified and irrefutable that something happened to them.

Capt. Terauchi (from People Magazine).

JAL 1628
When an experienced ex-fighter pilot turned Heavy Cargo jet Captain goes public and tells you his aircraft was followed by an object the size of two aircraft carriers over Northern Alaska, its time to sit up and take notice. When the whole incident is recorded on audio, and on radar, and corroborated by ground controllers and the rest of the aeroplane crew, and is unwavering to this day, its time to wonder what the hell these people encountered. What started as two lights ahead of the plane and a question of whether there was military traffic in the area certainly escalated, and pretty quickly. There are drawings out there made by the captain of what he saw, and it must have been terrifying and exquisitely tantalising at the same time.

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Drawings by pupils at Ariel School in Zimbabwe of the aliens’ visit to their school in September 1994.

Zimbabwe School Landing
Kids make things up, right? Everyone knows kids are prone to flights of fancy. However, when 62 of them all claim that a UFO landed right next to their school, the day after a mass UFO sighting in Zimbabwe, and that some form of alien entity approached them, scaring them half to death you have to start to wonder what they saw. This case has baffled psychiatrists who have investigated it and walked away believing that the children are definitely scarred from some kind of incident. The story has also stood the test of time, with the witnesses never changing any details as they have grown up. It makes for interesting and (potentially) chilling reading.

Depiction

Lonnie Zamora

Lonnie Zamora Incident
In recent years, people have tried to explain this case away, suggesting that Lonnie Zamora was the victim of a prank. I say that those explanations are crap, bought about by someone trying to make a name for themselves in UFOlogy. Zamora was a well respected cop with no reason whatsoever to lie about what he saw and this case has all the hallmarks of something unusual. Police officer sighting, corroborating witnesses to something unusual in the area, ground evidence and traces of activity - so much so that J.Allen Hynek described it as a genuine unknown.

The Cosford Incident
This is one of EX-MOD investigator turned UFO researcher Nick Pope's favourite UFO incidents. That should be enough to pique anyone's curiosity and it seems that something really rather huge and triangular shaped traversed a large chunk of British airspace in 1993. It was sighted by multiple independent witnesses, including RAF personnel at two separate bases. Made even more unusual by the fact that there was satellite debris re-re-entering the atmosphere at one point during the evening (the times of sightings differ from that of the re-entry) AND even more extraordinary by the responses to Nicks investigation and answers/questions from the US government, this is one my standout cases, and one that keeps me looking up hoping it'll come back one day.

There are other compelling cases, but I won't run through them all because I'm interested in what you guys might want to add to the list of "the best" with one caveat - no Roswel (its been done to death) - throw some more of your faves at me, or give me your thoughts on what I've listed above?

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

Large illuminating UFO filmed over Mudgee, Australia 2-Feb-2016

Large illuminating UFO filmed over Mudgee, Australia 2-Feb-2016

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Here’s one new video of a possible flying saucer filmed with an InfraRed camera. This was taken today (2nd February 2016) over Mudgee in Australia .

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

Deze foto’s bewijzen volgens wetenschappers dat er onzichtbare entiteiten zijn op aarde

Deze foto’s bewijzen volgens wetenschappers dat er onzichtbare entiteiten zijn op aarde

Wetenschappers die zoeken naar antimaterie in de ruimte beweren op onbekende ‘onzichtbare levensvormen’ te zijn gestuit op aarde. Het bedrijf Thunder Energies zou deze onzichtbare entiteiten in de aardatmosfeer hebben gedetecteerd, schrijft de Britse Daily Express.

Het bedrijf wordt gerund door de Italiaans-Amerikaanse kerngeleerde Ruggero Santilli, die zegt dat er sprake is van een samenzwering tegen de ‘nieuwe wetenschap’. Veel mainstream wetenschappers nemen hem niet serieus.

Het onderzoeksteam van Santilli denkt dat de onbekende levensvormen ons mogelijk bespioneren. De organismen zijn ontdekt met behulp van een telescoop met een holle lens. Normaal gesproken zijn telescopen uitgerust met een bolle lens.

Twee soorten

“Wij mensen hebben altijd geloofd dat we alles wat bestaat met onze ogen en optische instrumenten kunnen waarnemen,” zei hij. “Daar komt nu verandering in omdat we entiteiten op aarde hebben gevonden die we niet met het blote oog of optische instrumenten kunnen zien, maar wel met nieuwe instrumenten.”

Santilli claimt ‘tenminste twee verschillende soorten’ onzichtbare entiteiten te hebben gedetecteerd. Hij voegde toe dat zijn resultaten zijn bevestigd door een aantal Amerikaanse astronomen.

Een entiteit vastgelegd op camera (Thunder Energies)

“Onze overheid moet antwoord geven op de vraag wat deze entiteiten zijn omdat ze met name industriële en militaire installaties lijken te bespioneren,” zei de kerngeleerde.

Santilli’s collega dr. George Gaines steunt het onderzoek. “We hebben ontdekt dat de realiteit een stuk groter is dan we in eerste instantie dachten,” zei hij. “Met onze telescoop kunnen we dingen zien die we nog nooit eerder hebben gezien.”

[Express]

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

Declassified FBI Memo: Flying Saucers Found With 9 Aliens Inside?

Declassified FBI Memo: Flying Saucers Found With 9 Aliens Inside?

One of the most famous 'X-files'

By Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times

The so-called "Hottel Memo." (Public Domain)

In Beyond Science, Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below.

The FBI opened “The Vault“—a library of documents released to the public through the Freedom of Information Act—in 2011. In the following two years, a particular document now known as the “Hottel Memo” received nearly a million views.

It was written on March 22, 1950, by Guy Hottel, then head of the FBI field office in Washington, D.C. It states:

“An investigator for the Air Forces stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots.”

MORE:

NASA Reports on Credible UFO Sightings in Ancient Times

Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall.

In 2013, the FBI made a public statement on the memo, since it had received widespread attention.

Some people had connected the memo to the alleged conspiracy to cover up a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. The FBI stated, “The Hottel memo is dated nearly three years after the infamous events in Roswell in July 1947. There is no reason to believe the two are connected.”

After initial reports that a UFO crashed in Roswell, the military said it was a weather balloon that had crashed.

MORE:

CIA Compiles Its Real-Life ‘X-Files,’ Including UFO Sighting by German Mayor

The FBI said it did not further investigate the saucers reported by Hottel: “The Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs; it is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated.”

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

Vrijgegeven FBI-memo: Vliegende schotels met 9 aliens gevonden?

Vrijgegeven FBI-memo: Vliegende schotels met 9 aliens gevonden?

In 2011 opende de FBI ‘The Vault’, een digitale bibliotheek waarin allerlei vrijgegeven documenten zijn opgeslagen. In de jaren erna werd één specifiek document bijna een miljoen keer bekeken.

De memo is op 22 maart 1950 geschreven door FBI-agent Guy Hottel. De memo leest als volgt:

“Drie zogenoemde vliegende schotels zijn aangetroffen in New Mexico. Ze worden omschreven als cirkelvormig en bol in het midden, met een diameter van ongeveer 15 meter. Elke schotel was bemand door drie lichamen met menselijke vormen. Ze waren echter slechts een meter groot, gekleed in een verfijnde metaalachtige stof. Elk lichaam droeg een pak dat testpiloten dragen.”

Roswell

In het document is de naam van de inspecteur die deze onthullingen tegenover Hottel deed geschrapt. Bovendien is er geen melding gemaakt van de datum van de ontdekking.

In 2013 kwam de FBI met een verklaring naar buiten over de memo, omdat er zoveel aandacht voor was. Sommige mensen brachten de memo in verband met de vermeende cover-up rond het Roswellincident in juli 1947 in New Mexico. De FBI benadrukte dat de memo drie jaar na het incident bij Roswell is geschreven.

Niet verder onderzocht

De publicatie van het document is volgens de FBI geen bevestiging voor de vondst van aliens. Met het document wordt alleen duidelijk dat de geruchten bij de FBI zijn gedocumenteerd, aldus de inlichtingendienst. Uit de memo blijkt ook dat de FBI-agent de zaak niet verder heeft onderzocht.

[Epoch Times]

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

he Magic Kingdom ' a Secret Underground Base in Hampshire, UK, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

he Magic Kingdom ' a Secret Underground Base in Hampshire, UK, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

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Date of video: Feb 2016
Location of base: Hampshire, UK

The fact that this secret base has this alien figure depicted on its surface above shows us that there is a sign to the alien who may work here that they are a welcome part of the base. As we all know from research, faces and figures of alien species are very important to their cultures and found all over every planet and moon in our solar system.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

BeamsInvestigations of Youtube states:
The British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society (BEAMS) have released a comprehensive final report, (now 127-pages!), following a "special investigation" into the former MoD Defence Evaluation and Research Agency site now run by the world's leading defence, security and aerospace developer Qinetiq... part of which is referred to by insiders as 'The Magic Kingdom'. BEAMS reveals that Farnborough has had high UFO sighting and alien abduction activity for years and is certain that this is connected to this facilty. ~Concealed~ "One source (who holds a sensitive government post) says that he knows several people currently employed at British subterranean facilities where acquired alien technology and genetics programs are being carried out." and how "there is as least as much hidden below ground at Qinetiq's Farnborough site as there is above", and what goes on down there in this deep facility includes Classified medical programs involving experiments on abducted human subjects (all part of a MKUltra-type project), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project... and futuristic flight development. Possible alien involvement is also suggested. Illuminati/Masonic-type geometric symbols have been "discovered" in aerial photographs taken of the site, and these are presented together with both intelligence service whistleblower testimonies, responses from remote viewers/researchers (who have psychically travelled some 3 miles down into 'The Magic Kingdom' to spy on what is happening there), and gathered archival research material.

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

Mass UFO activity over Los Angeles 1-Feb-2016

Mass UFO activity over Los Angeles 1-Feb-2016

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Here’s one strange UFO sighting that was seen and filmed in the sky above Los Angeles in California. This was taken on 1st February 2016.

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

Soldiers Close Encounter With An Alien Triangle

Soldiers Close Encounter With An Alien Triangle

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SOLDIERS CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH AN ALIEN TRIANGLE

1-10-16 ………. HOFFMAN NORTH CAROLINA

Enormous black triangle observed by soldiers training near Camp Mackall, NC. Black Triangle Sighting Monday, 13 Sept., 2010, 2330 hrs (11:30 PM) Camp Mackall Military Reservation, Ft. Bragg, NC.
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Richmond County NC. Sandhills State Game lands (MGRS): 17SPU357718 / (UTM): 17S 635768 3871862 / (Lat-Long) 34.9802,-79.5126 I am a retired US Army Special Forces operator and instructor. I have spent a career honorably serving my country with the highest level of integrity and I swear that the following statements regarding my observation of the events I describe here are true and factual. While assigned as cadre to the JFK Special Warfare Center, I spent the majority of my time teaching tactical combat patrolling to Special Forces candidates in the pine fore sts and swamps of both the Federal Mackall Military Reservation and NC State Sandhills Game lands, surrounding a small military training facility called Camp Mackall located about 30 miles southwest of Ft. Bragg, NC. At approximately 2330 hrs (11:30 pm) on the night of 13 September 2010, our student squad of 15 men was in ambush posture on the west side of a small trail located at vicinity grid (MGRS) 17SPU357718 facing east. It was a clear night and my assistant instructor and I were located in position together roughly 20 meters behind their assault line waiting for the enemy role-players to approach. It was at this time in my peripheral, I heard something moving in the sky behind us to the west. Looking up in that direction over the tree line, I first observed 2 fast moving F-15 fighter jets traveling in formation. They were about 10,000 ft above ground level and heading north. I knew these were fast movers because both had multiple blinking lights and I could hear the distant but distinct roar of their jet prop engines. Other than my own vast military experience directly using numerous types of these air platforms to include the B-52 and B-1 Stealth Bombers for close air support during combat Operations during the invasion in Northern Iraq in 2003, it was not at all uncommon to routinely observe numerous types of military aircraft in the skies around Camp Mackall. There are active runways at Mackall Army Airfield and Luzon Drop zone both of which are within the immediate training area, frequently used in support of military training and airborne operations.

I lifted my PVS 14 night vision goggles (NVG’s) to my eye so I could get a better look at them in the night sky and it was at that time to my complete surprise I noticed something startling. Approximately a mile in front of the two planes at a significantly lower altitude of approximately 2000 to 3000 ft above ground level, was something unimaginable that I immediately knew I had never seen before. Immensely larger than the fighter jets behind it or for that matter any other aircraft I have ever seen it was what I estimated to be about the size of an NFL Football Stadium. The vessel was triangular in shape, gunmetal or carbon black in color, making absolutely no sound as it flew ominously straight line and precisely steady undoubtedly under some form of highly advanced intelligent navigational control. I immediately brought the sight to the attention of my assistant instructor who then also observed it as well. Though my (NVG’s) I could see that the unknown craft had at least one light located at each corner of the triangle under its massive dark outline blackening out the night sky behind it, however upon lowering my optics the lights appeared to be pale blue in color and barely visible with the naked eye. Awestruck, we stood and watched this amazing spectacle pass directly over us and for the span of about 2 minutes until it disappeared over the low tree line with the two jets in trail towards the small town of Hoffman, NC, on the horizon to our north. About a minute later while we were attempting to rationalize what we had just witnessed, it reappeared having had changed direction, returning from over the same northern tree line now heading south and bit further to our west. There were now three fighters in formation behind it and the craft seemed to have pulled further in front traveling at a higher rate of speed. By this time the majority of our 15 student squad had sensed our excitement, overheard our conversation and was now also watching the event curiously as the triangle and following jets disappeared again this time over the tree line to the southwest. In an immediate after action review and analysis with my assistant who is also a senior Special Forces operator, we both agreed that the fighters behind the craft seemed to be in pursuit rather than in escort. There must be record of the sortie as I imagine they flew out of Pope AFB co-located with Fort Bragg 30 miles east. There is also a possibility the event was observed by radar by the air control tower at Mackall Army Airfield which is in constant operation positioned approximately 3 miles northeast from the location of the sighting.

Again, although having served in special operations for many years with vast experience working with helicopters, fighters and bombers in support during training as well as combat operations, I am absolutely positive that I have never seen or encountered anything even close to the advanced level of technology we observed that night. Its massive size and capacity of flight in absolute silence and complete absence of any force propulsion disturbance such as wind defies all reason and known laws of physics. In my opinion it was definitely not something made by human hands and moved as though it could have possibly been using some type of electromagnetic anti gravitational method of propulsion. Immediately following this incident my assistant and I debated if we should even share this story in concern of our professional credibility and or sanity but the very next morning a news story appeared in the Richmond County Daily Journal that there had been numerous other sightings reported in the area that night including one from a law enforcement officer, a Sheriff’s Deputy in Wadesboro, NC, which was also reported to MUFON. Although I have since searched the papers online digital archives for the article to no avail, I still maintain an original copy of that report in my personal possession. It is a night I will never forget.

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

Earthquakes Can Cause Mysterious Lights In The Sky

Earthquakes Can Cause Mysterious Lights In The Sky

Earthquake Lights (EQLs) seem to be old phenomena. Irish engineer and amateur seismologist Robert Mallet published a catalogue in 1851-1855, where he dated back EQLs to Biblical times, interpreting descriptions of fire-columns in the Bible as early observations of EQLs. The Italian priest and naturalist Ignazio Galli published in 1910 a first classification scheme of EQLs. In his book Raccolta e classificazione dei fenomeni luminosi osservati nei terremoti (Collection and Classification of luminous phenomena observed during earthquakes) he recognized four types: short-lasting (just a few seconds) and long-lasting (for minutes or hours) diffuse lights, flares and luminescent clouds and finally moving orbs of light.

He also noted that the different EQL types show different temporal patterns. For example, short-lasting lights like flashes occur mostly before a quake, clouds and orbs during a quake and flames after. However, nobody could explain the origin of these apparitions. One of the most plausible explanations at the time, proposed by Italian seismologist Giovanni Ciuseppe Bianconi in 1840, explained the lights as burning gas (“Swamp gas?” as agent Mulder would state), coming from fissures opening during a quake. However, burning gas could explain only small flames, not large-scale glowing clouds.

For a long time, only anecdotal accounts and tales existed and most seismologist didn´t take accounts of EQLs very serious. It wasn’t until 1973 that Japanese geologist Yutaka Yasui provided some photographic evidence, showing glowing reddish and blue clouds in the sky above the city of Matsushiro during a series of earthquakes occurring between 1965 and 1967.

So EQLs seem to be a real thing, however, we still don´t know exactly why they occur. Today’s best explanation considers electromagnetic effects behind the atmospheric glow; this could also explain reports of malfunctioning electronic devices (especially telephones) during such events. Electric charges can accumulate over time during the tectonic deformation of rocks, during an earthquake this energy is suddenly released in form of a visible spark. EQLs could also be a sort of glowing gas, formed by the ionizing properties of this energy.

Some researchers made even a connection of EQLs to another, supposedly unexplained phenomenon – Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs. In 1977, psychologists Michael A. Persinger and Ghislaine Lafreniere published the book Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events, arguing that UFOs are misidentified electric sparks from underground caused by accumulated electric charges.

Going even further, some UFOlogists speculated that the generated electric fields are strong enough to influence a bystander´s mind and cause hallucinations. To support their hypothesis the authors tried to correlate UFOs sightings with seismic zones in the U.S. However, there also seems to be a high correlation with booze consumption…

UFOs, UFOs everywhere …. simplified map with seismic activity in the United States and supposed areas of increased UFOs sightings in 1870-1960, modified after PERSINGER and other authors.

Interested in reading more? Try:

DERR, J.S. & PERSINGER, M.A. (1990): Luminous Phenomena and Seismic Energy in the Central United States. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 4 (1): 55-69

FIDANI, C. (2010): The earthquake lights (EQL) of the 6 April 2009 Aquila earthquake, in Central Italy. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. 10: 967-978

THERIAULT, R.; ST-LAURENT, F.; FREUND, F.T. & DERR, J.S.(2014): Prevalence of Earthquake Lights Associated with Rift Environments. Seismological Research Letters Volume 85 (1): 159-178

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

.N.J.'s own 'X-Files': 1 town's mysterious and complicated UFO sighting

N.J.'s own 'X-Files': 1 town's mysterious and complicated UFO sighting

Do you believe in aliens and UFOs? From unexplained phenomena, to known hoaxes, and popular culture depictions N.J. has had its share of alien experiences. More than 1,800 UFO sightings have been reported to the National UFO reported center as of Aug. 2015.

But whether you believe in UFOs or are just a fan of the show, many people in New Jersey have claimed sightings through the years, and one state township's little-known UFO history, beginning with a mysterious 1970s sighting, serves as a reminder that the "truth (could be) out there."

North Bergen: A little-known UFO history

It was after 2 a.m. on Jan. 12, 1975.

72-year-old George O'Barski was on his way home, after finishing up his work as a liquor store owner in New York City.

Suddenly, as he was driving through a short-cut in North Hudson Park, O'Barski later would say, his car radio suddenly filled with static.

A brightly lit 30-foot-long domed aircraft descended, he claimed.

O'Barski said about 11 3.5-feet-tall helmeted, "uniformed figures" had walked out of the craft and quickly taken soil samples, before the spacecraft flew away within four minutes.

The sighting was later covered covered in The Village Voice, in March 1976.

"Sane Citizen Sees UFO" was the title, and the story was written by the now-late UFO investigator Budd Hopkins, who personally knew O'Barski.

Is North Bergen a UFO capital?A UFO tracker, professor, & local spokespeople sound off

1. North Bergen police spokesman Captain Patrick Irwin... had not gotten any UFO calls in 25 years.

"None."

2. North Bergen spokesman Phil Swibinski... had not heard about the sightings.

"North Bergen is known as a progressive community where people really care about each other and residents love to live here because of its cultural diversity, stable property taxes and great public schools, among many other reasons. A few UFO sightings several years ago are not especially relevant to the township's image."

3. Saint Peter's University's Communication Professor Barna Donovan (who studies conspiracy theories)... found the 1975 incident intriguing.

"By (1975) UFO movies were kind of passé... Something like the O'Barski case, if I personally was sitting in the basement of a real-life X-Files office, and I had to stamp this, I would probably say 'This is unexplained.' With all that detail, either it's true or he's making it up."

But he was highly skeptical.

"We're so close to three major airports and so many smaller regional airports. Basically the skies are so full of flying objects, it's so easy to misidentify things... Why would aliens want to go take soil samples in a place as busy, as crowded, as Hudson County?"

4. Washington-based National UFO Reporting Center Director Peter Davenport (who has recorded 1,910 alleged UFO sightings in N.J.)... had not heard of North Bergen's mid-1970s sighting or its UFO reputation.

"I have yet to find a settlement or a city or a village that doesn't claim it has a hot spot with UFO activity... (but I hold) Budd Hopkins's work in very high regard."

Evidence existed that O'Barski was telling the truth, Hopkins claimed: marks in the ground, and a mysteriously shattered glass window in the lobby of the iconic Stonehenge apartment building across the street, where the doorman told Hopkins he had seen unusual bright lights about 10 feet off the ground.

The end... or is it?

After that, some people in North Bergen were scared, and others were claiming sightings.

Bose Bozicevic, a retired North Bergen police officer, remembers the commotion.

When he was a high school student in North Bergen, Bozicevic and his 17- and 18-year-old friends thought the UFO stories were hilarious: "UFOs? Yeah, right," he said.

To test people's gullibility, his friends once even dressed Bozicevic in tinfoil, gave him a WWII gas mask from one of their grandfather's closets — and then unleashed him in North Hudson park.

"They start screaming 'oh there, he is!' People were freaked out by seeing me. I thought it was pretty obvious this is somebody just (messing) around. The police, they see me in the distance. My buddies take off, but I got tinfoil all over me, as you can imagine," Bozicevic recalled.

"I start jogging away. I hear one of the bystanders screaming 'Shoot him! Shoot him! He ate my grandmother!' As I'm running, I'm ripping the tin foil off. It looked like Forest Gump."

The irony is that about 10 years later, Bozicevic became a police officer, and he was on duty on Park Avenue near the Guttenberg-North Bergen border when he would have his own seeming UFO sighting.

His story has gotten him more than enough grief from his smirking officer buddies, he says, but he shares it anyway.

At about 4 a.m. one Sunday morning in the 1980s, as he was in the midst of writing a parking citation, Bozicevic heard a whirring in a desolate street, he said, and then saw a "ship, a something," with bright lights, float over his head, "inches" above the buildings.

"I remember reaching for the radio on the car to call something in. I was holding it and I was looking at this thing and I put it down. I said 'nah,'" he said. "As I reached 79th Street, the thing made a right and went sideways and just went 'zsst' and disappeared right down past the Hudson River... I was like, 'Wow, nobody can corroborate this.'"

A Stonehenge maintenance worker, who did not give his name because he wasn't authorized to speak, told NJ Advance Media this past fall that he believed the Stonehenge never learned why that window smashed.

"No rhyme or reason, supposedly," he said. "It was just a very strange set of circumstances that took place that day."

North Bergen has an interesting story but it's not special when it comes to UFO sightings: Based on the New Jersey database from the National UFO Reporting Center, there have been numerous UFO sightings reported all around the state for the past several decades, and counting. (Check to see if your town is a UFO hotspot here.)

However, in some ways, the North Bergen 1970s sighting was relatively unique among New Jersey sightings: the month of January, and a sighting time of around 2 a.m., are relatively rare, based on a National UFO Reporting Center data analysis, through Fall 2015.

Below, a map of all the UFO sighting locations in New Jersey, dated from 1930 through Fall 2015, as reported to the National UFO Center database:

Laura Herzog may be reached at lherzog@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @LauraHerzogL. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

15 years of UFO Shapes over NY

15 years of UFO Shapes over NY

Columnist Cheryl Costa explores the magnitude of UFO shapes seen in New York skies for the past 15 years.

I frequently have people tell me about their personal UFO sightings and every one of them does their best to describe the shape of the object in question. When words fail to describe the object, they often resort to drawing on a pizza box or a cocktail napkin. One lady I remember fondly was so passionate about showing me her UFO, she dug out an eyeliner tube from her purse and drew the UFO shape on the table top at a diner.

If you want to see a chart of the various types of UFO configurations, there are plenty of sighting charts on the Internet; simply Google: “UFO shapes.” In the spirit of the UFO shapes discussion, I’ve decided to share a summary of the 3,163 UFO shapes reported in the past 15 years from 2001 through 2015.

It’s not all that uncommon for people to see some bright light in the sky that behaves in a unusual way, so 643 reports of witnessing “light” doesn’t surprise me. The next most common sighting is a “circle.” Most usually it’s reported as a ring of lights, like a string of bright, glowing balls. The other way I’ve heard circle UFOs described is being glowing rings, sort of like a glowing “hula hoop.”

Next up are fireballs, which are frequently described as red-orange. I have seen one and it’s an amazing thing to see. First off, it has a flicker, which my author friend Thomas Conwell, crisply described as a pulsed digital flicker. These things aren’t Chinese lanterns, as some write me to suggest, because when they not hovering or darting around like a bumble bee they’re flying at the speed of an airliner. Fireballs are increasing in the reporting numbers and we see a lot of them in NY.

Following fireballs on the list are black triangles. Now before some of the arm chair skeptics try to casually write these craft off as something developed by our industrial military complex, please know there have been reports of these triangles in the late 19th century.

Flying spheres are the next, and happen to be some of the first UFOs I witnessed when I was around the age of 12. A huge silver ball hung in the western sky for roughly 20 minutes before whizzing off at tremendous speed. It took my breath away to see it. We only see about a dozen reports of them a year here in the Empire State.

The last UFO shape I will discuss is the disc. When the UFO fever hit this country in the 1940’s, 50s and 60s, the moniker given to the flying disc was “flying saucer.” The number of disc-shaped UFO reports average about a dozen per year. Some Ufologists suggest that the classic disc is being slowly phased out by the black triangle. I suppose one can’t argue with a popular new model!

{ http://www.syracusenewtimes.com/ }

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

REMEMBERING THE SANTA ROSA ENCOUNTER

REMEMBERING THE SANTA ROSA ENCOUNTER

By Rainbow Radaelli

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Sometimes memories are locked away in places that aren’t necessarily secret but for some strange reason they are placed in obscure places, undisclosed even to us. A run of the mill day can pass by without any forethought or care beyond the expected and then all of a sudden with no warning, we recall an experience that we swore to ourselves we would never forget. It’s moments like this that reminds us, we are not alone and that sometimes there are unique encounters, that change our world just by a chance meeting. It’s these fleeting moments in time when we are taken from our comfortable existence, and thrust outside the box of accepted reality into a world of unlimited possibilities.

To put it simply, memories changed my world. Not just any memories but parts of my life that were remarkable beyond any definition of the word. Unfortunately for me, up to a certain point, these memories were purposely blocked, gathering cobwebs of forgotten moments in time … but by whom?

These hidden memories, came rushing at me like a broken dam, crashing into my subconscious, one summer day when I was driving on the Westside of town in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2003. It was a day just like any other with the exception of being invited to participate at a children’s festival at a community center.

Strangely, as that particular morning progressed, I found it hard to prepare for my performance because a headache came out of the blue, increasing in strength as the moments ticked by. It was a peculiar kind of headache because it felt as if my head was going to explode, almost like my subconscious was trying to break free from something. I could feel intense pressure from behind my eyes and at the top of my head. It was very painful but I forged ahead anyways as best I could and started the drive to the community center, excited to see the kids.

Time seemed to slow down a bit and it felt as if I was held back by multiple lights turning red, one right after the other. I decided to turn on my dance music so I could pass the time better. While I was waiting at one of the red-lights, a golden, yellowish dash of light, literally rushed towards me and through my front windshield, blinding me for a second. I felt tingly feelings in my head and I felt an unusual pulsating rhythm of something foreign, touching my body, taking it over one pulse at a time. A film strip started to flash before my eyes showing me past experiences of being in spacecrafts, and interactions I had with various ET races from childhood on up to adulthood. As I sat completely paralyzed, something literally took over the car and drove me to the community center. The flashes of memories slowly faded away once I was in the parking lot. I almost thought I must have passed out, but then that didn’t make any sense because how did I get there in one piece? It was all I could do not to lose my sanity, right then and there. I was too shocked to cry and barely made it out of the car. Once I regained my composure, I walked inside totally frazzled but I knew I had to act as if nothing had happened. Who would believe me anyways?

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Later that day after I returned home from the center; tears filled my eyes along with the feelings of relief mixed with utter bewilderment. It was as if the illusion of normalcy melted away, along with my sense of who I thought I was. For a few months, as you can imagine, my mind was literally a confused mess.

Recounting each memory was like looking into a scrapbook of a forgotten life. They were surreal, comforting and frightening all at the same time. I felt like a mixed bag of emotions, conflicted, numb and exasperated but after awhile, each memory seemed to find its place within my transformed existence and I was almost human again. Subsequently, I was able to place certain memories into a various categories that together started to make sense.

There were memories that were extraordinary and then there were some that played a greater role in shaping my life, even though I didn’t know it. One such memory that I would like to share with you, stands out in particular because it happened in a lackluster sort of place, near Santa Rosa, New Mexico. The memory was unusual for the mere fact that it took place while I was working cattle with my ex-husband, Kelly. Does the movie, “Cowboys and Aliens” come to mind? My encounter wasn’t action packed like the movie, but it was interesting in its own way.

It was around 1984 when my ex-husband, Kelly and I decided to go and help out a friend who was hired to manage a small cow and calf operation on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, New Mexico. It was summer and I remember the heat was really intense more so because it felt like we were in the armpit of New Mexico. We pulled our caravan of horses, chickens and dogs towards a corral that was on a dirt road, forty five minutes away from the main highway. The welcomed sunset wasn’t much of a reprieve from the heat and the wind most of the time, seemed to be nonexistent. The only bright spot about our campsite was riding out before sunrise and seeing the sun cast its first rays of light upon the vast open spaces.

One morning, we set out to locate some cows and calves we hadn’t seen for a few days. It was already hot by about nine o’clock in the morning and I was really uncomfortable and sweaty. We rode our horses around a bend in the road that opened up into a large ravine. As we got around the bend, we saw a saucer shaped craft on a tripod that was about 30 to 40 feet in diameter about 20 yards away from us. As we rode towards this amazing sight, we saw a tall blonde woman standing next to it. I couldn’t believe my eyes but contrary to me, my ex-husband acted like it was a sight he had seen many times before.

As we rode up to the spacecraft, the tall blonde woman waved at us, smiling and we waved back. We got off our horses and walked towards her and the silvery-grey colored craft. The blonde woman was beautiful and tall, about 6 foot or more and she was wearing a grayish, silver body suit that hugged her body. Kelly walked over and started to talk to her but I decided check out her amazing mode of transportation. I felt compelled to touch the craft and ran my hand along its smooth surface. It felt like stainless steel yet softer but what I found most interesting was that it wasn’t hot to the touch. Being that the sun was beating down on it, I found this kind of weird.

The tall blonde woman spoke English and she told us that she was doing some repairs on her spacecraft. She indicated that the sun was a source of power for her craft. How … I don’t know. I initially got an invitation to follow her into the craft but Kelly declined. Once we got in, we had to crawl towards the center because it was very compact. I noticed that the windows were small. I had assumed since I was a Star Trek fan that all flying spacecraft had to have big windows. She laughed and thought it was funny that I had issues with the size of the windows. There was a silver colored pillar positioned close to what looked like her cockpit, with one of its panels off. I could see the inside gadgets and different colored lights but when she told me how it worked, it went over my head because her technology was beyond anything I could understand.

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I asked her if I could go for a ride, (who wouldn’t) and she told me no, that it would be very uncomfortable for my body, almost like an out of body experience that would become very Remembering, the Santa Rosa Encounter

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I asked her if I could go for a ride, (who wouldn’t) and she told me no, that it would be very uncomfortable for my body, almost like an out of body experience that would become very painful. She said the inside of the space craft wasn’t suited for humans in flight. I looked for another seat and she sensed my curiosity. She said that it was designed for just one person. Her seat looked like a metal lawn chair that was positioned in a way that had her lying down, slightly bent at the knees, an arms length away from the control panel above. I didn’t think it looked very comfortable but she assured me it was and I believed her.

When we got out of the spacecraft, Kelly was smiling and asked me how I liked it. I blurted out, “I’ll never forget this day, ever!”

The tall blonde woman smiled at me and told me that she had no choice but to make me forget. I didn’t understand what she meant by that and told her, becoming a little hot under the collar, that there was no way I would forget meeting her and being inside her spacecraft. In my mind, I knew it wasn’t even possible. Yet again, she told me very apologetically that I would forget and just before I could get another word out, time stood still for a split second and the tall blonde woman became a blur. Within an instant, I found myself back on my horse riding up on a ridge looking for the cows and calves. Kelly was smiling and I was wondering what he was smiling about. When I asked him, he said, “Oh, nothing.”

Our time together lasted six years beyond that encounter before we split up. I ended up moving on to another state. As time passed, I eventually lost contact with Kelly. By the time my memories came back, I hadn’t seen him for about 15 years. I wasn’t even sure I could find him, so I could get some kind of validation that this encounter actually happened. In the later part of 2008, I was lucky enough to meet up with a mutual friend of ours, who was planning on visiting Kelly in his home state of Texas within the coming week. He said he would be more than happy to convey my unusual question to Kelly for me.

A few weeks later, I got the phone call I had been anxiously waiting for. Kelly told him to tell me, “I’ve been waiting all this time for you to remember and was starting to wonder if you ever would.”

That one phone call, in many ways, changed my life just as drastically as that fateful day when my memories came back. I had so many questions for Kelly like first and foremost, why was my memory blocked and his wasn’t? Kelly invited me to come visit him so we could talk face to face about that encounter and any others that I remembered. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, I wasn’t able to get to Kelly fast enough because he died a short time later in the first part of 2009. Just imagine what those conversations would have revealed…

I realized something important from the one validation I did get from Kelly, that in the scope of things, what matters is that the memories came back to me and I’m aware of them now. But I must say, there is apart of me that would love to meet up with that tall blonde woman again just so I can say, “I remember.”

{ http://ufodigest.com/ }

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Dinsdag 2 februari 2016

FROM EARTH TO THE MOON: ROCKETS, SATELLITES & OTHER SPACECRAFT

By Robert D Morningstar -

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Abstract

Major satellite launches have often been followed by UFO sightings soon afterwards, for example, after Sputnik I and II in 1957. In Ottawa, Canada, UFOs were seen on March 3, 1969 after the Apollo 9 launch, on June, 5, 1969 after a suborbital (failed launch) to the moon by the Soviet Union, and in July, 1969, as Apollo 11 orbited the Moon. These correlations, among others, suggest that major rocket launches, especially those extending out of near-Earth orbits, tend to stimulate UFO activity.

Introduction

Major rocket launches have often been followed by UFO activity, possibly coordinated from outposts on the Moon (Lorenzen, 1966, pp. 266, 267).

By 1969, however, there were so many rocket launches and UFO sightings that any attempt to establish correlations between them would be difficult. A decade earlier, there were fewer objects in orbit, though many suborbital flights were still taking place in the late 1940s. To establish the proper sequence of events in this article, Universal Time (designated Z for Zulu) will be given, as well as some local (24 hour time) equivalents (in parentheses).

Following the launch of Sputnik 1 from Baikonur, which the Encyclopedia Astronomica (1957) recorded as onOctober 4, 1957 at 19:28 Z (Oct. 5, 0:28 local time), Lorenzen (1966, p. 65) reported that a 23 year-old farmer inBrazil, Antonio Villas-Boas, observed a nearby area “...lighted as if by a giant searchlight” at about 11 p.m. local time (Oct. 6, 02:00 Z).

This observation was therefore made 30 hours, 32 minutes after the Sputnik I launch. Subsequently, while plowing a field on October 14, the same farmer saw a cartwheel-shaped UFO about 122 meters (400 feet) off the ground, an observation suggesting a UFO for the earlier Oct. 5 source of light.

UFO activity spiked after the launches of Sputnik I and II, as numerous reports in the NICAP 1957 Sighting Wave Chronology (2014) reveal. Only 1.5 to 4 hours after the Sputnik II launch on Nov. 3, 1957 at 2:30 Z, for instance, a glowing egg-shaped object landed on roads and stalled car engines near Levelland, Texas; on Nov. 4, a UFO was tracked for 20 minutes on radar and was seen by two people at Kirtland Airforce Base (Hynek, 1972; Encyclopedia Astronomica, 1957).

Also on Nov. 4, 1957 at 05:03 Z a large disc-shaped UFO with an orange glow descended at an army garrison atItaipu, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and produced a wave of heat that struck two soldiers, causing first- and second degree burns to 10 percent of their bodies (Lorenzen, 1966).

In some UFO cases, the time lag between a rocket launch and a UFO sighting has been relatively short.

For example, a UFO tracked a Polaris missile during test firing on January 10, 1961; similarly in 1964 soon after another launch, a UFO intercepted an Atlas rocket (Dolan, 2000; Fox & Coleman, 2007). Most surprisingly, perhaps, only four minutes after launch of a rocket carrying China’s first female astronaut on June 16, 2012, an infrared video camera recorded two glowing UFOs nearby (Good, 2013). If it is assumed that UFO responses are coordinated from a Moon base, then launches made from the side of the Earth hidden from UFOs on the Moon would not be as rapid (and the launch site would be obscured), as if they were made from the side of the Earth facing the Moon. These relationships could explain different time lags between rocket launches and UFO sightings, though this would assume that the UFOs were all stationed on the Moon at launch times.

Apollo 9 Test of Lunar Module Docking Maneuvers in Earth Orbit

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March 4, 1969, Ottawa, Canada

Less than 34 hours after launch of Apollo 9 on March 3, 1969 at 15:00 Z , a round UFO was observed onParliament Hill by seven (7) RCMP officers between 0:45 and 2:34 Z. Twenty-six minutes later another RCMPofficer reported two red flashing lights in the sky above Sussex Drive without any associated engine noise(Bondarchuck, 1979).

http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/apollo/apollo-9/apollo-9.htm

June 4 to 6, 1969 Rocket Launches

In addition to the three rocket launches on June 5 described by Nentwich (2008), there was a fourth launch, namely aSoviet Luna mission to the Moon, which failed to achieve orbit

.http://www.ispyspace.com/1967_to_1974.html

Although this launch was excluded from Clark’s (1977) list of Luna launch failures, Greg Kennedy, compiler of the online “Chronology of Human Space Exploration Part 5: 1967-1974” informed me in an email on Oct. 17, 2008that the ‘Mission Planner’s Manual Proton Commercial Launch Vehicle’ document, printed in 1989 by the Space Commerce Corporation in Houston listed the launch on June 5th, with the note that the second stage failed, while the 1996 TRW Space Log listed the same launch as June 4th, also pointing out that it failed to orbit.

http://www.ispyspace.com/1967_to_1974.html

The ideal time for this launch, as given in a “1969 June 1 – Soviet lunar plans”, would have been June 3, 1969 at 23:18 Z, and because Soviet lunar launches were usually within an hour of the ideal time, as noted by Clark (1977), an early June 4th launch seems to be the most likely. In fact, Sokolov (2001) confirmed the Luna launch on June 4 or earlier, stating that because of an electrical problem (p. 461) “...the upper stage could not fire. The complex fell into the Pacific Ocean.”

In addition, he pointed out that another rocket was launched after Luna on June 4, 1969 which reached a height of only 100 metres, at which point it exploded with a power of about ten (10) kilotons!

Editor's note: The Hiroshima A-Bomb blast equaled approximately 20 kilotons

The 1960s Nedelin Proton Rocket Explosion

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7a1_1220200651

Could this explosion have caused a UFO response as well?

http://www.astronautix.com/project/lunar13.htm

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June 5, 1969 UFOs in South and North America

A resident of Uba, Brazil was driving in a car with six passengers when at 09:00 Z their car was “...pursued by a bright orange-colored object which flew around in circles above them, producing interference with the car radio and stopping the engine for a few moments” (Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, 1971, p. 16; UFOCAT, 2005). In addition, several witnesses also observed a UFO after 20:00 Z at a lake 60 km west of Quebec City, Canada,

http://thecid.com/ufo/uf09/uf9/099250.htm

Between 22:50 and 23:00 Z, more than 50 witnesses reported UFOs in Iowa (Southern Illinoisan, June 6, 1969; Muscatine Journal, June 6, 1969).

Dr. J. Allen Hynek “stated he understood the phenomenon was flashing silver, orange and copper colored, with chunks flying off of it”, while other reports told of two or three objects with bluish-green wakes (Southern Illinoisan, June 6, 1969, p. 14).

Dr. Hynek suggested that the objects could have been parts of a re-entering Russian satellite, although an official with the Space Defence Center stated that “…it was highly unlikely that the objects were from a satellite because one is rarely placed in an east-west orbit.” (Daily Capital News, June 7, 1969, p. 1)

The IOWA Fireball of June 76th, 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pohLTTR2mv

Iowa Fireball seen in above link- June 2014

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An FAA official stated that sightings at Riverside and Iowa City, were “...variously described as a bright ball of fire, flash[ing] and cigar-shaped objects” with “Colors…from silver to blue and blue-green” (Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 6, 1969, p. 4). The azimuth of the ground path of the “Iowa Fireball” on the map of plate 4 in Klass (1975) was about 272º, equivalent to an inclination of 178º, and therefore larger than the maximum reported inclination of any satellite launched up to that time.

Here it should be noted that the ground path of a satellite is determined by the inclination of its orbit, which is the angle between the Earth’s equatorial plane and a spacecraft’s orbital plane (major axis). Of the thousands of launch-related items in the NORAD Catalog (2012) prior to June 7, 1969, with the exception of 13 which did not re-enter the atmosphere in the June 4 to 6 time interval, the maximum inclinations were all less than 121º, corresponding to azimuths larger than 329º but less than 90º.

Three (3) satellites were expected to re-enter June 5 or 6 but would not cross the sky from east to west (Southern Illinoisan, Friday, June 6, 1969, p. 14).

A Soviet rocket body (NORAD ID 3223) with an inclination of 64.8º (25.2º azimuth) re-entered the atmosphere onJune 5, as listed in the NORAD Catalog (2012), but obviously did not have the east to west ground path of the “Iowa fireball”.

Cosmos 284 had an inclination of 62.3º (azimuth 27.7º), re-entering the atmosphere on June 6 at 5:46 Z, making a soft landing in the Soviet Union (Fairbanks Daily News, June 6, 1969, p. 1; NORAD Catalog, 2012)

www.zarya.info/Diaries/1969.php

For all of these reasons, Cosmos 284 was not responsible for the “Iowa fireball” and, in o summary, neither a rocket launch nor a re-entering satellite explains the “Iowa fireball”.

This leaves us with the only other possibilities:

Meteors or UFOs

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Green ball of light seen in the sky

Phottos courtesy:-> http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/meteorite-ufo-mystery-surrounds-strange-6828603

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The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory concluded that the “Iowa fireball” had been a meteor, and members of its Meteorite Recovery Project proposed a landing site in southern Iowa (Blue Book files, 1969; Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 7, 1969). However, the following descriptions from several witnesses should be considered before drawing such a conclusion. For instance, a pilot, a teenager and a woman described the object “…as blue and circular, with no wings or indication of a propulsion system…flying east to west above the runway at an altitude of less than 1,000 feet” and with a speed between 483 and 644 km/hr (300 and 400 mph) (Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 6, 1969, p. 3).

A witness north in St. Louis, Missouri reported three objects in a line heading WNW for 60 to 80 seconds, with shapes resembling elongate badminton shuttlecocks (Blue Book files, 1969, p. 14 - 21). A student in East St. Louis, Illinois saw three bright self-luminous, lime-green oval objects beside each other about 805 meters (half a mile) away, decreasing in altitude from 518 to 457 meters (1,700 to 1,500 feet), whereas another witness saw four objects in a line heading west, one of which was oval-shaped with a blue-silver tail (Blue Book Files, 1969, p. 24 – 42).

Several other witnesses saw one of the objects speeding up relative to the other two, while a civilian 53 km (33 miles) northwest of downtown Chicago saw a single tear-drop shaped object (silvery-aqua color), with a tail 10 times as long as the diameter of the head, and with a piece falling upwards from the object as it traveled silently straight and level (Blue Book Files, 1969).

The most easterly sighting was made by a pilot and two other persons in an airplane near Greenfield, Indiana, who, for about 30 seconds saw a single object with an almost metallic “face” south of Greenfield heading west (Blue Book files, 1969, pp. 47-50). Its trajectory was south of the one shown in plate 4 of Klass (1975), such that different objects were travelling along separate parallel paths.

To summarize, the object(s) had the following characteristics, some of which were not meteor-like: a silvery metallic appearance; flying without being heard; one “piece” moving upwards; one object speeding up relative to the other two; a change in relative positions of the objects from one after another to one beside the other; visibility in flight for over a minute; apparent shapes resembling either a tear-drop, oval, cone, bullet or badminton shuttlecock.

The most compelling evidence for a UFO interpretation, however, was described in a UFO Investigator (1972) article, based on a sighting by an FAA controller and several pilots, who were flying east near St. Louis, Missouri on June 5. Interestingly, a drawing of a side view of the object in that article resembles the side view of the Roswell UFOillustrated in Randle and Schmitt (1994). The UFO was described in this 1972 article as hydroplane-shaped, 18 to 20 feet long, 7 to 8 feet thick and 12 to 14 feet across at the back end. Viewed from the side, such an object could have had an elongate teardrop shape, but seen at different angles from a distance, it would have had different shapes.

June 6, 1969 in the West End of Ottawa, Canada

On June 6, 1969 between 2:00 and 2:45 Z, and most likely at about 2:30 Z (June 5, 22:30), a UFO about 60 m long (Fig. 1) was observed in the west end of Ottawa (Nentwich, 2008). Its surface was not uniformly reflecting light, but was partly covered with a black film.

Nentwich UFO

Figure 1: Side and cross-sectional end views of the Ottawa UFO described in Nentwich (2008).

At about the same time in Ottawa, UFOs appeared over Parliament Hill, after which they travelled to Uplands Airport (Bondarchuk 1979).

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July 18, 1969 about 321,861 km into the flight of Apollo 11

Buzz Aldrin wrote that with the help of an on-board telescope, a UFO was seen pacing their spacecraft; the UFO resembled “a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L-shaped”

http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case592.htm

July 20, 1969, in Ottawa, Canada

An employee of the National Research Council, as well as some of her neighbors and a police officer, reported a UFOin Hull (now Gatineau just north of Ottawa) between 11:00 and 1:00 Z. The NRC employee stated that it was “A single object, shaped like a watermelon, glowing brightly with an orange hue”... that “Passed slowly overhead and then travelled at great speed across the Ottawa River to the Parliament Bldgs”, over which it hovered (NRC File N69-128, 1969). This sighting was on the same day as the Apollo 11 Moon landing.

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Apollo Flights and UFO Sightings

Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA communications systems, quoted in Good (1988, p. 385), stated that “...all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin....Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who ordered absolute silence.” Further evidence supporting this claim includes an analysis of Apollo 16 film by Nakamura (2003, p. 409),who described an enormous domed disc travelling 20 to 40 km/second and wobbling like a leaf falling from a tree.

In addition, indirect evidence presented by Good (2013) suggests that after landing the lunar module on the Moon, theApollo 11 astronauts observed large UFOs nearby. A summary of tentative evidence concerning life on the Moon, including UFO activity there, has been considered by Proud (2013, pp. 279-356), based on many sources in the literature.

Conclusions

UFOs appearing after major rocket launches at or near the launch site or even following the rockets leaves little doubt that such launches stimulate UFO activity. In some cases, however, UFOs have appeared large distances from the launch sites, as in the Texas UFO sightings after the Sputnik 2 launch. These cases are less convincing though the appearance of a UFO shortly after a launch when there were only a few objects in orbit is still significant. The reports of UFOs in Ottawa after the Apollo 9 and Luna launches, and on the day of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, considered together, do not seem entirely coincidental, especially if one includes the Apollo 11 sightings on the way to the Moon.

It may be that UFO reports correlate more strongly with artificial satellites sent by humans beyond near Earth orbits than they do with orbital or suborbital flights. On the other hand, UFOs were also reported on dates when there were no Apollo flights. For instance, a UFO on April 22, 1969 about 25 miles east of Ottawa was seen flying along a power line while another was seen on May 11, 1969 on Allumette Island west of Ottawa (Bray, 1979; Rutkowski, 2006).

Acknowledgements

I thank the staff of the Archives, University of Ottawa for making available the article from Flying Saucer Review Case Histories. Also, I am grateful to Greg Kennedy for the Luna launch data sources. All newpaper articles were retrieved from:

www.newspaperarchive.com

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References

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Cedar Rapids Gazette (June 6, 1969, p. 3). Three persons report seeing UFO at airport. Cedar Rapids Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Cedar Rapids Gazette (June 7, 1969, p. 2). Meteor possible answer to C.R. Report of UFO. Cedar Rapids Gazette. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Clark, P. S. (1977). Launch failures in the Soviet Union’s space probe programme. Spaceflight, 19 (July-Aug.), 275-278.

Daily Capital News (June 7, 1969, p. 1). St. Louisans See Flaming Objects. Daily Capital News. Jefferson City, Missouri.

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Sokolov, O. A. (2001). The Race to the Moon: A look back from Baikonour. In D. C. Elder & C. Rothmund (Eds.), History of Rocketry and Astronautics (pp. 459-466). San Diego, California: Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univelt, Inc. Retrieved from http://epizodsspace.no-ip.org/bibl/inostr-yazyki/iaa/2001/Sokolov_The_Race_to_the_Moon.pdf

Southern Illinoisan (June 6, 1969, p. 14). Illinois UFO’s ‘probably meteors’. Southern Illinoisan. Carbondale-Herrin-Murphysboro, Illinois.

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VIDEO Aan de Amerikaanse oostkust schoot het voorbije weekend een meteoor door de nachtelijke hemel. Enkele bestuurders konden het lichtspoor vastleggen met hun dashcam.

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Famous UFO cases: Hessdalen Lights

Famous UFO cases: Hessdalen Lights

Hessdalen Lights are unexplained lights (a type of Will-o’-the-wisp ) usually seen in the valley of Hessdalen, Norway. These lights are well known and have been recorded and studied by physicists. One explanation attributes the phenomenon to an incompletely understood combustion process in the air involving clouds of dust from the valley floor containing scandium. Some sightings, though, have been identified as misperceptions of astronomical bodies, aircraft, car headlights, and mirages.

Hessdalen is a small valley in the central part of Norway. At the end of 1981 through 1984, residents of the Valley became concerned and alarmed about strange, unexplained lights that appeared at many locations throughout the Valley. Hundreds of lights were observed. At the peak of activity there were about 20 reports a week.

Project Hessdalen was established in the summer of 1983. A field investigation was carried out between 21.January and 26.February 1984. Fifty-three light observations were made during the field investigation. You may read the details in the technical report. There was an additional field investigation in the winter of 1985. However, no phenomena were seen during the period when the instruments were present.

Lights are still being observed in the Hessdalen Valley, but their frequency has decreased to about 20 observations a year. An automatic measurement station was put up in Hessdalen in August 1998.

Link: www.hessdalen.org

Click on the picture to enlarge.

National geographic, aired 1st March 2010
For centuries, people around the world have witnessed a strange phenomenon – orbs of light hovering in the night sky. Some say the lights chased after them as they drove away in their cars, and military pilots have reported spotting the lights on secret missions. Many wonder if the lights could be ghosts, or visitors from outer space. Now, (National geographic) joins the investigation and meets a team of researchers with a new theory on the origin of these strange lights.

Documentary about the UFO hotspot in Hessdalen, Norway (2009)

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Famous UFO cases: Belgian UFO wave

Famous UFO cases: Belgian UFO wave

Belgian UFO wave

The Belgian UFO wave refers to a series of sightings of triangular UFOs in Belgium, which lasted from November 29, 1989 to April 1990.

The sightings

The Belgian UFO wave peaked with the events of the night of 30/31 March 1990. On that night unknown objects were tracked on radar, photographed, and were sighted by an estimated 13,500 people on the ground – 2,600 of whom filed written statements describing in detail what they had seen. Following the incident the Belgian air force released a report detailing the events of that night.

At around 23:00 on 30 March the supervisor for the Control Reporting Center (CRC) at Glons received reports that three unusual lights were seen moving towards Thorembais-Gembloux which lies to the South-East of Brussels. The lights were reported to be brighter than stars, changing color between red, green and yellow, and appeared to be fixed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. At this point Glons CRC requested the Wavre gendarmerie send a patrol to confirm the sighting.

Approximately 10 minutes later a second set of lights was sighted moving towards the first triangle. By around 23:30 the Wavre gendarmerie had confirmed the initial sightings and Glons CRC had been able to observe the phenomenon on radar. During this time the second set of lights, after some erratic manoeuvres, had also formed themselves into a smaller triangle. After tracking the targets and after receiving a second radar confirmation from the Traffic Center Control at Semmerzake, Glons CRC gave the order to scramble two F-16 fighters from Beauvechain Air Base shortly before midnight. Throughout this time the phenomenon was still clearly visible from the ground, with witnesses describing the whole formation as maintaining their relative positions while moving slowly across the sky. Witnesses also reported two dimmer lights towards the municipality of Eghezee displaying similar erratic movements to the second set of lights.

Over the next hour the two scrambled F-16s attempted nine separate interceptions of the targets. On three occasions they managed to obtain a radar lock for a few seconds but each time the targets changed position and speed so rapidly that the lock was broken. During the first radar lock, the target accelerated from 240 km/h to over 1,770 km/h while changing altitude from 2,700 m to 1,500 m, then up to 3,350 m before descending to almost ground level – the first descent of more than 900 m taking less than two seconds. Similar manoeuvres were observed during both subsequent radar locks. On no occasion were the F-16 pilots able to make visual contact with the targets and at no point, despite the speeds involved, was there any indication of a sonic boom. Moreover, narrator Robert Stack added in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, the sudden changes in acceleration and deceleration would have been fatal to one or more human pilots.

During this time, ground witnesses broadly corroborate the information obtained by radar. They described seeing the smaller triangle completely disappear from sight at one point, while the larger triangle moved upwards very rapidly as the F-16s flew past. After 00:30 radar contact became much more sporadic and the final confirmed lock took place at 00:40. This final lock was once again broken by an acceleration from around 160 km/h to 1,120 km/h after which the radar of the F-16s and those at Glons and Semmerzake all lost contact. Following several further unconfirmed contacts the F-16s eventually returned to base shortly after 01:00.

The final details of the sighting were provided by the members of the Wavre gendarmerie who had been sent to confirm the original report. They describe four lights now being arranged in a square formation, all making short jerky movements, before gradually losing their luminosity and disappearing in four separate directions at around 01:30.

A supposed black triangle, 15 June 1990, Wallonia, Belgium. Claimed to have been taken during the UFO wave, though released thirteen years later.

Photograph

On April 1990, a photo was taken of the aircraft, and it remains as one of the most famous UFO pictures to date.

After appraising the evidence, the Belgian Air Force found it could offer no explanation for the sighting, but did reject the following possibilities:

* Balloons
* Ultralight aircraft (ULM)
* Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
* Aircraft (including Stealth)
* Laser projections or holograms
* Mirages or other meteorological phenomena

Skeptical explanations

In The Belgian UFO Wave of 1989-1992 – A Neglected Hypothesis, Renaud Leclet & co. discuss the fact that some sightings can be explained by helicopters. Most witnesses reported that the objects were silent. This report argues that the lack of noise could be due to the engine noise in the witnesses’ automobiles, or strong natural wind blowing in the direction of a witness, combined with the wind due to driving a vehicle.

Petit Rechain, Belgium, 1990. One of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken. The photographer, to my knowledge, still remains unnamed. Taken on an April night during a well known “wave,” the photo very clearly shows a triangle-shaped object with lights. One of the best proofs of UFOs we have, especially of a triangle. Original photo was too dark to show object outline, and had to be lightened. Occurred during the wave beginning in 1989.

Summary Report on Observations 30-31 March 1990

Summary: Summary of the offical report by the Belgian Air Force regarding the UFO events of March, 1990.

Background:
1. Starting early Dec 89 the BAF has been contacted on several occasions by eyewitnesses who observed strange phenomena in the Belgian airspace. On some occasions they described the phenomena as a triangle-shaped platform up to 200 feet wide with 3 downward beaming projectors, hovering at +- 100 m above the ground and making only a very light humming noise. Some witnesses saw the object departing at very high speed after a very fast acceleration. All observations were made in the evening or during the night.
2. The radar stations which had been alerted by eyewitnesses could not definitely determine a correlation between the visual observations and their detection on radar. On two occasions the BAF scrambled 2 F16 during the evening hours.
a. On the first occasion the F16 arrived +- 1 hour after the visual detection. Nothing was observed.
b. On the second occasion, pilots could identify a laser-beam projector on the ground. After investigation it appeared however that the description of the observations totally differed from previously described phenomena.
3. Consequently the Belgian Airforce, anxious to identify the origin of the phenomena, authorised F16 scrambles if following conditions were met:
a. Visual observations on the ground confirmed by the local police.
b. Detection on radar.

Events:
4. On 30 Mar 1990 at 23.00 Hr the Master Controller (MC) of the Air Defense radar station of Glons received a phone call from a person who declared to observe three independent blinking lights in the sky, changing colours, with a much higher intensity than the lights of the stars and forming a triangle. Meteo conditions were clear sky, no clouds, light wind and a minor temperature inversion at 3000 Ft.
5. The MC in turn notified the police of WAVRE which confirmed the sighting at +- 23 30 Hr. Meanwhile the MC had identified a radar contact at about 8 NM North of the ground observation. The contact moved slowely to the West at a speed of =- 25kts and an altitude of 10.000 Ft.
6. The ground observers reported 3 additional light spots which moved gradually, with irregular speeds, towards the first set of lights and forming a second triangle.
7. At 23.50 a second radar station, situated at +- 100 NM from the first, confirmed an identical contact at the same place of the radar contact of Glons.
8. At 00.05 2 F16 were scrambled from BEAUVECHAIN airbase and guided towards the radar contacts. A total of 9 interception attempts have been made. At 6 occasions the pilots could establish a lock-on with their air interception radar. Lock-on distances varied between 5 and 8 NM. On all occasions targets varied speed and altitude very quickly and break-locks occurred after 10 to 60 seconds. Speeds varied between 150 and 1010 kts. At 3 occasions both F16 registered simultaneous lock-ons with the same parameters. The 2 F16 were flying +- 2 NM apart. No visual contact could be established by either of the F16 pilots.
9. The F16 flew 3 times through the observation field of the ground observers. At the third passage the ground observers notified a change in the behavior of the light spots. The most luminous started to blink very intensively while the other disappeared. Consequently, the most luminous spot started to dim gradually.
10. Meanwhile the head of the police of WAVRE had alerted 4 other police stations in the area. All four, separated +- 10 NM from each other, confirmed the visual observations.
11. The aircraft landed at 01.10 Hrs. The last visual observation was recorded at +- 01.30 Hrs.

Conclusions:
12. The Belgian Air Force was unable to identify neither the nature nor the origin of the phenomena. However, it had sufficient elements to exclude following assumptions:
a. Balloons. Impossible due to the highly variable speeds (confirmed visually and by radar).
b. ULM. Same as for balloons.
c. RPV. Impossible due to the hovering characteristics.
d. Aircraft (including Stealth). Same as for RPV. No noise.
e. Laser projections or Mirages. Unlikely due to lack of projection surface (no clouds). Light spots have been observed from different locations. Light spots moved over distance of more than 15 NM. Form of inlighted part of spots has been observed with spectacles. Laser projections or mirages can not be detected by radar.

{signed}
W. DE BROUWER Kol Vl SBH
VS3

source:
Belgium Air Force

Eyewitness drawings and reconstructions of triangular craft seen in Belgium between 1989 and 1993. Courtesy of SOBEPS (click on the picture to enlarge)

Belgium UFO

UFO Sightings in Belgium, 1990

The Belgian Air Force discusses sightings there in 1990 and the use of F-16 jets to locate them along with radar. Recorded in 1993. Interview with General Wilfried de Brouwer.

Belgium UFO Wave Part 1

https://youtu.be/d9PVBL2MkKk

Belgium UFO Wave Part 2

https://youtu.be/VX0S7Mt_jBA

Belgium UFO Triangle Sightings Pt 1

Short documentary on the significant ufo sightings in Belgium in 1989/90 backed with the refreshing openness of the Belgium airforce and excellent witness testimony and of course very good radar evidence that proves something very unusual took place involving highly advanced technology.The G forces were later calculated at 30G for the mystery craft,this would obviously kill a human pilot.

https://youtu.be/6r-wdH3qdLs

Belgium UFO Triangle Sightings Pt 2

https://youtu.be/V3qA-TY6rFg

Belgium Triangle – Top 10 UFO Encounters #7

In the late 1980s, the UFO phenomenon found its way to Belgium, where hundreds of people reported seeing a strange formation of lights in the sky. A very interesting picture emerged from the sightings.

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2016 Del Rio UFO Festival: Robert Salas

2016 Del Rio UFO Festival: Robert Salas

robert-salas

Robert Salas is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, class of 1964. He served seven years on active duty before separating from the Air Force in 1971. While on active duty he worked as a Weapons Controller, flew target drones, commanded inter-continental ballistic missiles as a launch officer, and a worked as an Air Force missile propulsion engineer on the Titan III program.

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Columbia Disaster: What Happened, What NASA Learned

Columbia Disaster: What Happened, What NASA Learned

By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor

On Feb. 1, 2003, space shuttle Columbia broke up as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board. NASA suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the disaster.

An investigation board determined that a large piece of foam fell from the shuttle's external tank and fatally breached the spacecraft wing. This problem with foam had been known for years, and NASA came under intense scrutiny in Congress and in the media for allowing the situation to continue.

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A close-up view of the Space Shuttle Columbia as it orbits Earth in National Geographic Channel's "Seconds from Disaster: Columbia's Last Flight."

Credit: National Geographic Channel.

A fatal strike

Columbia, on mission STS-107, left Earth for the last time on Jan. 16, 2003. At the time, the shuttle program was focused on building the International Space Station. However, STS-107 stood apart as it emphasized pure research.

The seven-member crew — Rick Husband, commander; Michael Anderson, payload commander; David Brown, mission specialist; Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist; Laurel Clark, mission specialist; William McCool, pilot; Ilan Ramon, payload specialist from the Israeli Space Agency — spent 24 hours a day doing science experiments in two shifts. They performed around 80 experiments in life sciences, material sciences, fluid physics and other matters.

This image of the STS-107 shuttle Columbia crew in orbit was recovered from wreckage inside an undeveloped film canister. The shirt colors indicate their mission shifts. From left (bottom row): Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist; Rick Husband, commander; Laurel Clark, mission specialist; and Ilan Ramon, payload specialist. From left (top row) are astronauts David Brown, mission specialist; William McCool, pilot; and Michael Anderson, payload commander. Ramon represents the Israeli Space Agency.

Credit: NASA/JSC

During the crew's 16 days in space, NASA was investigating a foam strike during launch. About 82 seconds after Columbia left the ground, a piece of foam fell from a "bipod ramp" that was part of a structure that attached the external tank to the shuttle. Video from the launch appeared to show the foam striking Columbia's left wing.

Several people within NASA pushed to get pictures of the breached wing in orbit. The Department of Defense was reportedly prepared to use its orbital spy cameras to get a closer look. However, NASA officials in charge declined the offer, according to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) and "Comm Check," a book about the disaster.

This image is a view of the underside of Columbia during its entry from mission STS-107 on Feb. 1, 2003, as it passed by the Starfire Optical Range, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The image was taken at approximately 7:57 a.m. CST. This image was received by NASA as part of the Columbia accident investigation and is being analyzed.

Credit: NASA

On Feb. 1, 2003, the shuttle made its usual landing approach to the Kennedy Space Center. Just before 9 a.m. EST, however, abnormal readings showed up at Mission Control. They lost temperature readings from sensors located on the left wing. Then, tire pressure readings from the left side also vanished.

The Capcom, or spacecraft communicator, called up to Columbia to discuss the tire pressure readings. At 8:59:32 a.m., Husband called back from Columbia: "Roger," followed by a word that was cut off in mid-sentence.

At that point, Columbia was near Dallas, travelling 18 times the speed of sound and still 200,700 feet (61,170 meters) above the ground. Mission Control made several attempts to get in touch with the astronauts, with no success.

It was later found that a hole on the left wing allowed atmospheric gases to bleed into the shuttle as it went through its fiery re-entry, leading to the loss of the sensors and eventually, Columbia itself.

Searching for debris

Twelve minutes later, when Columbia should have been making its final approach to the runway, a mission controller received a phone call. The caller said a television network was showing video of the shuttle breaking up in the sky.

Shortly afterward, NASA declared a space shuttle "contingency" and sent search and rescue teams to the suspected debris sites in Texas and later, Louisiana. Later that day, NASA declared the astronauts lost.

“This is indeed a tragic day for the NASA family, for the families of the astronauts who flew on STS-107, and likewise is tragic for the nation,” stated NASA's administrator at the time, Sean O’Keefe.

An overall view of the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houston’s Mission Control Center (MCC) at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). At the time this photo was taken, flight controllers had just lost contact with the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Credit: NASA

The search for debris took weeks, as it was shed over a field of some 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers) in east Texas alone. NASA eventually recovered 84,000 pieces, representing nearly 40 percent of Columbia. Among them were the crew remains, which were identified with DNA.

Much later, in 2008, NASA released a crew survival report detailing the Columbia crew's last few minutes. The astronauts probably survived the initial breakup of Columbia, but lost consciousness in seconds after the cabin lost pressure and then died as it disintegrated.

Report calls for more funding, emphasis on safety

In the weeks after the disaster, a dozen officials began sifting through the Columbia disaster, led by Harold W. Gehman Jr., former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Joint Forces Command. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, or CAIB, as it was later known, later released a multi-volume report on how the shuttle was destroyed, and what led to it.

Besides the physical cause – the foam – CAIB had a damning assessment about the culture at NASA that led to the foam problem and other safety issues being minimized over the years.

"Cultural traits and organizational practices detrimental to safety were allowed to develop," the board wrote, citing "reliance on past success as a substitute for sound engineering practices" and "organizational barriers that prevented effective communication of critical safety information" among the problems found.

CAIB recommended NASA ruthlessly seek and eliminate safety problems, such as the foam, to help astronaut safety in future missions. It also called for more predictable funding and political support for the agency, and added that the shuttle must be replaced with a new transportation system.

"The shuttle is now an aging system but still developmental in character. It is in the nation's interest to replace the shuttle as soon as possible," the report stated.

Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster LIVE NASA TV

Returning to flight

The shuttle's external tank was redesigned, and other safety measures implemented. In July 2005, STS-114 lifted off and tested a suite of new procedures, including one where astronauts used cameras and a robotic arm to scan the shuttle's belly for broken tiles. NASA also put more camera views on the shuttle during liftoff to better monitor foam shedding.

Due to more foam loss than expected, the next shuttle flight did not take place until July 2006. After STS-121's safe conclusion, NASA deemed the program ready to move forward and shuttles resumed flying several times a year.

"We're still going to watch and we're still going to pay attention," STS-121 commander Steve Lindsey said at the time. "We're never ever going to let our guard down."

Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster Nova documentary

Columbia's loss – as well as the loss of several other space-bound crews – receives a public tribute every year at NASA's Day of Remembrance. That date is marked in late January or early February because, coincidentally, the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia crews were all lost in that calendar week.

The crew has received several tributes to their memory over the years. On Mars, the rover Spirit's landing site was ceremonially named Columbia Memorial Station. Also, seven asteroids orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter now bear the crew's names.

— Elizabeth Howell, SPACE.com Contributor

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Dwarf Planet Eris, Pluto’s Twin living Far Far Away

Dwarf Planet Eris, Pluto’s Twin living Far Far Away

At a distance bigger than 5 thousand million kilometers from our Sun, there is a dwarf planet which resembles the former planet Pluto: Eris.

Eris is a dwarf planet with the same size of Pluto, it lies too in the Kuiper Belt but circles our star from about three times farther away than the former planet. The image on top is an artist’s impression of this peculiar dwarf planet and its moon, Dysnomia.

Eris’ perihelion is 5.8 thousand million kilometers, but the aphelion is almost three times the perihelion, 14.6 thousand million kilometers. This is a huge difference of distances, which means that its orbit is extremely excentric, having also a period of 561.37 Earth years.

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The researchers concluded that Eris is a spherical body. And, by studying the motion of Eris’ moon Dysnomia, they peg the dwarf planet to be about 27% heavier than Pluto, which means it’s considerably denser than Pluto as well.

“This density means that Eris is probably a large rocky body covered in a relatively thin mantle of ice,” said co-author Emmanuel Jehin, of the Institut d’Astrophysique de I’Université de Liège in Belgium.

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What’s most fascinating about Eris is how almost every single information about it was found just by seeing Eris passing in front of a dim star in 2010.

“It is extraordinary how much we can find out about a small and distant object such as Eris by watching it pass in front of a faint star, using relatively small telescopes,” said study lead author Bruno Sicardy, of the Pierre et Marie Curie University and Observatory of Paris.

And finally, Eris is one of the reasons for Pluto’s demotion. It was first observed in 2005 and it was thought to be 10th planet of our Solar System.

Since Pluto shares the Kuiper Belt with lots of other big objects such as Eris, it failed to meet the IAU (International Astronomy Union) third criterion for a body to be a planet: it has “cleared its neighborhood” of most other orbiting bodies. And because of this, Pluto (and Eris) were named dwarf planets.

And those are the main informations about dwarf planet Eris. I’ll end with the best image of Eris, credits for ESO.

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NASA's Next Great Space Telescope: The Quest Begins

NASA's Next Great Space Telescope: The Quest Begins

By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer

An artist's impression of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which took the infrared image in the background. What will NASA choose for its next major space mission?

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The hunt is on! NASA has begun a quest to select its next big instrument to study the cosmos.

Observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope have revolutionized humanity's view of the cosmos. And upcoming projects, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the WFIRST-AFTA mission — which the agency aims to launch in 2018 and the mid-2020s, respectively — promise to make big discoveries of their own.

But what will happen after that? What kind of space telescope does NASA aim to build a few decades from now? The picture is getting a little clearer: Earlier this month, the space agency announced that it is forming four working groups to investigate possible concepts for a large-scale space mission that would likely launch in the 2030s. [The Most Amazing Views of the Cosmos from Hubble]

One of the four mission concepts is focused on direct imaging of the surfaces of exoplanets, to potentially search for signs of life. The other three concepts are for space telescopes built to detect specific wavelengths of light: the ultraviolet/optical/near-infrared range, similar to what Hubble sees; X-ray light; and far-infrared light. The space agency is now accepting applications from scientists to join one of the four groups. Paul Hertz, director of NASA's astrophysics division, delivered a town hall talk at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Florida earlier this month, in which he announced the formation of the groups and put out a call for applications.

The groups will put together a report that will show what kind of science each concept could accomplish, what capabilities it would have, what limitations exist for building it, and how each space telescope would benefit the entire astronomy community. Much of the potential science that each mission could accomplish was written about at length in NASA's 2013 Astrophysics Roadmap: "Enduring Quests, Daring Visions: NASAAstrophysics in the Next Three Decades."

Here is a brief description of each of the four mission concepts and what they hope to accomplish.

This artist's illustration shows some of the planets identified in the Habitable Planets Catalog. A telescope designed to directly image the surface of exoplanets could potentially identify more signs of habitability, or even life, on other planets.

Credit: PHL @ UPR Arecibo, ESA/Hubble, NASA

The habitable exoplanet imager mission

The evolution of space telescopes is sparking innovation in space observatory design. <a href=/peter2011/"http://www.space.com/74-space-telescopes-in-development.html">See some far-out space telescope concepts of the future in this Space.com infographic</a>.

The evolution of space telescopes is sparking innovation in space observatory design. See some far-out space telescope concepts of the future in this Space.com infographic.

Credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com

Scientists have indirectly identified about 2,000 planets outside Earth's solar system using the Kepler Space Telescope and other instruments. Now, scientists want a way to look directly at exoplanets that aren't too far from Earth. A direct-imaging planetary telescope could potentially reveal the atmospheres and surface conditions of alien worlds, and would search for signs of habitability or even bio-activity (yes, alien life), according to Bertrand Mennesson, an exoplanet scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who is helping to lead this mission concept group.

The so-called "HabEx" mission would "help assess the prevalence of habitable planets and [the] possibly of primitive life in our galaxy," Mennesson told Space.com in an email. HabEx would also allow scientists to look at the atmospheres and surface conditions on all kinds of planets, including ice giants, gas giants and rocky planets, around various types of stars and in various solar system arrangements.

Such a telescope would also capture images of young planetary systems in the early stages of formation, providing a look at solar system evolution across the galaxy. Direct imaging of exoplanet atmospheres has already been demonstrated from the ground, Mennesson said.

Large ultraviolet, optical and infrared (LUVOIR) telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope, with its 7.9-foot-wide (2.4 meters) primary mirror, has revolutionized how humans see the cosmos. Imagine what a space telescope with a 39-foot (12 m) mirror could do.

There have been many proposals in the astronomy community for a 26- to 39-foot (8 to 12 m) telescope that collects light in the ultraviolet, optical and infrared wavelengths, as Hubble does. One of the most recent such proposals has been named the "High Definition Space Telescope," (HDST), but the general concept is called LUVOIR (Large Ultraviolet Visible Infrared). (The $8.8 billion JWST has a 21.3-foot-wide (6.5 m) mirror and will collect light mostly in the infrared, with some capability in the optical range.)

The star cluster Westerlund 2 and gas cloud Gum 29, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. A much larger telescope similar to Hubble has been proposed for NASA's next large-scale mission.

Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team

"LUVOIR could study the formation of stars and planets in our galaxy, map the evolution of galaxies, illuminate the birth of the first stars in the universe and probe into black hole environments," said Aki Roberge, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who is helping to lead the group for this mission.

A LUVOIR telescope could also have some overlap with an exoplanet direct-imaging instrument such as HabEx, and would be able to characterize the atmospheres and surfaces of a wide range of planets, potentially identifying signatures of life. These capabilities are discussed extensively in an HDST report that was published in 2015.

"There will likely be a greater emphasis on astrophysics capabilities in the LUVOIR study than in the HabEx study, though both will be looking hard at exoplanet capabilities," Roberge told Space.com in an email. "LUVOIR may enable a broader range of exoplanet observations. The two teams aim to collaborate on the overlapping science and technical aspects as much as we can." [The Strangest Alien Planets]

The galaxy Messier 51, imaged by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Wesleyan Univ./R.Kilgard, et al; Optical: NASA/STScI

X-ray surveyor mission

The X-ray universe has already revealed itself to be a strange and beautiful place, through observations (and jaw-dropping images) taken with various space telescopes, including NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton observatory and NASA's NuSTAR mission.

All of these telescopes have helped scientists study a wide variety of fascinating cosmic objects, including supernovas (exploding stars), black holes (and the disks of matter that swirl around them), galaxies and mysterious dark matter. [Photos: The X-Ray Universe Revealed by Chandra]

A new X-ray surveyor could provide insight into how matter behaves in some of the cosmos' most extreme environments, such as the region around a black hole, proponents say. It could provide a look at the birth and growth of the first supermassive black holes in the universe, and would allow scientists to look at how galaxies have formed and evolved over the lifetime of the universe (13.8 billion years). This backward glance would also reveal a look at the evolution of the larger structure of the universe according to the NASA Astrophysics Roadmap, and NASA scientists working with the concept group.

The X-ray surveyor would look out to the edge of the visible universe, allowing scientists to observe how galaxies have formed and evolved over the lifetime of the universe (about 13.8 billion years). This backward glance would also reveal a look at the evolution of the larger structure of the universe.

If NASA does end up building the X-ray Surveyor, the mission would provide orders of magnitude more sensitive than any other X-ray mission, the scientists said.

Far-IR surveyor mission

An infrared image of the Orion Nebula, a site of massive amounts of star formation, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S.T. Megeaty (Univ. of Toledo,OH).

All the stars in the universe collectively radiate an incredible amount of visible light, but scientists now know that as much as half of that starlight is blocked by dust clouds, and then reradiated as infrared light.

"If you don't do things in the infrared, you're missing half the picture, effectively," Kartik Sheth, a program scientist in the astrophysics division at NASA Headquarters, told Space.com.

With a next-generation far-infrared space telescope, scientists could study how stars and planets form by studying in detail the nurseries where these cosmic babies come to life. Infrared observations are also especially good for identifying the chemicals present in distant cosmic objects. This could mean looking for water in newly forming solar systems.

The vast majority of elements in the universe are made by stars (which means that "we are made of starstuff," as the late astronomer Carl Sagan famously said). A next-generation far-infrared telescope could study stars at various stages of their life cycles to reveal when and where different elements are being made. Effectively, such an instrument would provide scientists a list of ingredients in many cosmic objects, advocates say.

The far-infrared mission concept would look at a range of wavelengths that fall between what will be observed by JWST and the ground-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which is coming online in Chile. This particular range of light gets distorted by Earth's atmosphere, which means scientists must put an infrared telescope into space to capture them properly. The instruments on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope that captured light in the far-infrared range have all shut down (although a few shorter wavelength instruments are still operational). Following Spitzer's retirement, there will be no space observatories studying the far-infrared wavelength range. The only other observatory operating in this wavelength range is NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), which is a modified Being 747 aircraft that can fly to altitudes where the Earth's atmosphere is significantly thinner. It is currently the largest airborne observatory in the world.

"The far-infrared community has not had a space-mission like Hubble or Chandra that has continuously operated for a long time," Sheth said.

Which mission will be selected?

NASA invests in missions of various sizes, such as the Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope, or the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). But the four mission concepts being reviewed by the newly announced working groups will be large-scale missions that follow in the footsteps of Hubble, JWST and WFIRST-AFTA (whose name is short for Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets). Missions of this size take decades to complete, which is why NASA is starting the process now, even though any of these missions might not begin operating until the mid-2030s or 2040, Hertz said.

The decision about which, if any, of these concepts becomes a reality will likely be strongly influenced by a group outside of NASA. Every 10 years, the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council puts together a committee to talk about what priorities the astronomy and astrophysics communities should set for the coming decade. The committee then releases a report, known as the "decadal survey," that makes specific recommendations for the next 10 years. Past surveys have recommended current NASA projects including JWST and WFIRST-AFTA. NASA typically follows the recommendations set by this survey.

The four concept groups will work to provide the decadal committee with all the information they need to make a decision about which mission concept should become a reality. One of these mission concepts may inform NASA's next big mission to explore the cosmos.

Follow Calla Cofield @callacofield. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

références - MAGONIE (Fr)

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7 of the most surreal UFO documents from the CIA archives.

7 of the most surreal UFO documents from the CIA archives.

flying saucers

aka Tman/Flickr

Nearly 40 years ago, the CIA declassified a mountain of documents related to UFO sightings.

Now that "The X-Files" has been revived as a miniseries, the CIA decided to resurface those files. Many of them trace back to the early 1950s, at a time when political tensions were still frozen over and flying objects were seen as national security threats.

Here are some of the most interesting.

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A memo on national security and the 'vulnerability to air attack' from flying saucers

CIA

On October 2, 1952, the Assistant Director in the Office of Scientific Intelligence sent a memoto the Director of the entire CIA with the subject "Flying Saucers."

As the AD wrote, "'Flying saucers' pose two elements of danger which have national security implications. The first involves mass psychological considerations and the second concerns the vulnerability of the United States to air attack."

The AD recommended more research be conducted to explore the "implications of the 'flying saucer' problem."

(If you listen closely enough, you can almost hear them typing the word "drones" decades ahead of time.)

Uzbekistan's mysterious light show

CIA

The late 1940s in the Uzbekistan capital city of Tashkent saw more unidentified light shows than it could count.

"From May to September 1947," a CIA information report reads, "three light phenomena happening at intervals of about 15 minutes were seen almost every night between 9 and 10 p.m. local time." At its highest point, the light seemed to be roughly a fifth the diameter of a full moon.

As the report details, the light always began as a bright red ball. Within seconds it would grow a fiery tail and then morph into a green, then white, mass.

"Smoke trails, noises, or detonations were not noticed."

Fiery disks looming over Belgian uranium mines

CIA

A daily newspaper in Vienna, of all publications, reported on a peculiar sighting of "two fiery disks" hovering over uranium mines in mid-August, 1952.

As the report explains, the two objects supposedly tore through the airspace in a highly erratic fashion. At one point they would be soaring vertically away from the onlookers, and the next they'd be diving down "to within 20 meters of the tree tops."

Commander Pierre of the local airfield took off in his own fighter plane to wrangle the unknown aircraft. However, "Pierre had to give up pursuit after 15 minutes since both disks, with a loud whistling sound which he heard despite the noise of his own plane, disappeared in a straight line toward Lake Tanganyika."

Pierre later estimated the disks were traveling more than 900 miles per hour.

The East German flying saucers of 1952

CIA

The CIA published this internal document reporting on one German man's fantastic account of a 45-foot-wide disk he spotted in a forest when his motorcycle broke down.

Accompanied by his 11-year-old daughter, the man approached the strange-looking object to find two men in "shiny metallic clothing" kneeling over the disk, which had a cone-shaped capsule on top.

Once the two men realized they were being watched, the man says, they hopped into the capsule and the disk began to leave the ground. Eventually, it rose high above the trees and took off.

"I had never heard of the term 'flying saucer' before I escaped from the Soviet Union into West Berlin," the man later said. "When I saw this object, I immediately thought it was a new Soviet military machine."

Flying objects passing over Casablanca

CIA

In early September 1952, multiple sightings were reported of various UFOs over Casablanca, Morocco. The town made famous in the 1942 film of the same name saw two flying saucers that were "elongated in shape" and "followed by a trail of white light."

On a separate occasion in July, two other people reported seeing a "blue-green, ball-shaped object" just before midnight "moving at a high rate of speed." The mysterious object disappeared after only three or four seconds, however, "as though it had literally melted into the sky."

The very next morning, another couple observed a mysterious object around 9 a.m. for roughly 30 seconds. Several more accounts, all with differing details, emerged that summer.

Three Norwegian guys walk into a forest...

CIA

In mid-November 1952, three men working in a forest in Kirkenes, Norway spotted a flat, round object just hovering roughly 1,500 feet in the air.

"The object appeared to have a diameter of 15-20 meters (50-65 feet)," the CIA report stated. "After the workers had observed the object for a while, it suddenly flew away at great speed in a northwesternly direction."

They were the only people who reported seeing the object, unfortunately for them. "They swear, however, that their report is true."

The CIA begins to have its doubts

CIA

With all these reports coming in, it didn't take long for the CIA to get suspicious. In August 1952 (keep in mind, still two months ahead of its memo on those two national security concerns), the Deputy Assistant Director of the Scientific Intelligence office released a memodiscounting the threat posed by UFOs.

"Of 1000 to 2000 such reports received by ATIC (Air Technical Intelligence Center), a large percentage are clearly 'phoney,'" the report reads. In fact, many of the reported flights were easily explained as known missions using US equipment, the report went on.

Owing to the agency's uncertainty, however, the Deputy AD recommended CIA surveillance continue on the mysterious "flying saucers" under the cover of darkness.

"It is strongly urged ... that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public," the report read, "in view of their probable alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as 'confirmatory' of the soundness of 'unpublished facts' in the hands of the U.S. government."

Où sont tous les extraterrestres ?

Où sont tous les extraterrestres ?

La scène se passe en 1950 aux Etats-Unis, dans la cafétéria du Laboratoire national de Los Alamos où la bombe atomique américaine a été développée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le Prix Nobel de physique 1938, l'Italo-Américain Enrico Fermi, entouré de quelques collègues, se demande si notre civilisation est la seule à avoir atteint un stade technologique dans la galaxie. Le raisonnement est schématiquement le suivant : si ce stade a été atteint par des peuples extraterrestres, il y a de bonnes chances que certains l'aient fait depuis des milliers voire des millions d'années. Par conséquent, ils ont eu le temps de résoudre les problèmes des voyages interstellaires et de mener à bien la colonisation de la Voie lactée. D'où la question, logique, que Fermi pose : "Si les extraterrestres existent, où sont-ils donc tous ?"

Devenue célèbre sous le nom de paradoxe de Fermi, cette question posée à une époque où, primo, l'aventure spatiale humaine n'avait pas encore véritablement commencé et où, secundo, on était fort loin de découvrir la première planète extrasolaire – il faut bien que les extraterrestres vivent quelque part – a fait cogiter nombre de chercheurs, qu'ils soient astronomes ou biologistes. Les décennies ont passé et bien des inconnues que mettait en lumière le paradoxe de Fermi se sont estompées. On sait que les exoplanètes rocheuses semblables à la Terre sont sans doute pléthore dans la Voie lactée et on a mieux précisé les conditions favorables à l'apparition de la vie. Dans son livre A l'écoute du vivant, le chercheur belge Christian de Duve, Prix Nobel de médecine, expliquait ainsi que "la vie fait partie de l'Univers. C'est une manifestation normale de la matière qui obéit à ses lois." Une affirmation qui renforçait encore le caractère "poil à gratter" du paradoxe de Fermi car si le passage de l'inerte au vivant est réellement un processus physico-chimique simple, à condition qu'on ait beaucoup de temps devant soi, qu'est-ce qui empêche qu'E.T. soit partout ou qu'il ait du moins laissé des traces visibles par tous ?

A la fin des années 1990, alors que le programme SETI d'écoute du ciel à la recherche de signaux radio artificiels ne faisait état que d'un assourdissant silence, a émergé, sous la plume de l'économiste Robin Hanson, le concept de Grand Filtre : ainsi que le résume le site Astronomes.com d'Olivier Esslinger, le Grand Filtre est"un obstacle insurmontable qui empêche le passage de la matière inerte à une civilisation galactique". A un moment donné, quelque chose bloque. Ce "quelque chose", ce goulot d'étranglement, a souvent été placé très tôt dans le long processus censé mener à l'avènement de cette "civilisation galactique".

Dans une étude australienne publiée le 20 janvier par la revue Astrobiology, les chercheurs Aditya Chopra et Charles Lineweaver pensent que le point de blocage ne se trouve pas au tout début de la chaîne mais plus loin : si l'on suit leur raisonnement, si les extraterrestres ne sont pas partout, c'est parce qu'ils sont morts avant d'en avoir eu le temps et non pas parce que la vie naît difficilement. Pour arriver à cette conclusion, les deux auteurs de cette étude ont, un peu comme la check-list d'un pilote et d'un copilote, méthodiquement repris les grandes étapes de l'apparition et de l'évolution du vivant pour voir où le Grand Filtre avait le plus de chances de se placer. Y a-t-il un problème astrophysique ? Non, car les étoiles autour desquelles des planètes rocheuses sont susceptibles de se former à une distance où l'eau serait présente sous forme liquide se comptent probablement en milliards dans la Voie lactée, voire davantage. Y a-t-il un problème chimique ? Non, car les éléments essentiels à la vie telle que nous la connaissons, à savoir les CHNOPS (carbone, hydrogène, azote, oxygène, phosphore et soufre), sont aussi parmi les éléments les plus courants dans l'Univers. Y a-t-il un problème d'énergie ? Non plus, car l'étoile en fournit suffisamment.

Pour Aditya Chopra et Charles Lineweaver, le problème est ailleurs. On peut, selon eux, trouver facilement des environnements propices dans lesquels la vie éclora. En revanche, rien ne garantit que ces environnements garderont durablement des conditions favorables, parce qu'une planète, à sa manière, est "vivante", qu'elle évolue, qu'elle est soumise à des règles physiques et à des cycles. Ces deux chercheurs reprennent ainsi les exemples de Vénus et de Mars, nées dans la "zone d'habitabilité" du Soleil. L'eau y a coulé sous forme liquide. Peut-être la vie y est-elle même apparue. Mais si c'est le cas, elle n'a pas pu s'y maintenir : soumise à un effet de serre galopant, Vénus s'est transformée en enfer surchauffé, à plus de 400°C, tandis que Mars a perdu son atmosphère et s'est gelée. Il faut bien admettre que l'eau n'est pas facile à maintenir sur une planète sous sa forme liquide. D'ailleurs, elle aura disparu de la Terre d'ici un à deux milliards d'années...

L'étude d'Astrobiology pose la question de savoir si le fait que la vie ait perduré sur notre planète est uniquement dû à des conjonctions physiques favorables. Et la réponse est surprenante. Pour ses auteurs, si la Terre n'a pas perdu son habitabilité, c'est probablement grâce... au vivant lui-même. Celui-ci n'est en effet pas un simple"passager passif", pour reprendre la jolie expression présente dans cet article, mais il "modifie et régule activement son environnement". Comment ? Par exemple en agissant sur la composition de l'atmosphère, sur les gaz à effet de serre, sur l'albédo de la planète, c'est-à-dire sur sa capacité à renvoyer ou à absorber les rayons solaires. Par ces mécanismes dits de rétroaction, la vie crée les conditions de sa propre perpétuation... ou, si tout tourne mal, de son extinction.

J'en prends pour exemple, même s'il n'est pas cité dans l'étude, l'épisode dit de la Grande Oxydation. Les premiers organismes terrestres étaient anaérobies : ils n'avaient pas besoin d'oxygène pour fonctionner et celui-ci était même une sorte de déchet relargué dans l'océan où il était capturé par le fer. Mais lorsque tout le fer a été utilisé, l'oxygène s'est accumulé dans les mers et dans l'atmosphère. Non seulement cet élément était toxique pour les organismes de l'époque mais il s'est aussi associé avec le méthane présent dans l'air, retirant de l'atmosphère ce puissant gaz à effet de serre. Cela aurait provoqué une chute brutale des températures et, entre 2,4 et 2,1 milliards d'années, l'épisode dit de la glaciation huronienne, où la Terre aurait été recouverte de glaces. Catastrophe ? Au terme de cette très longue glaciation, de nouvelles formes de vie compatibles avec une atmosphère riche en oxygène ont pris le relais et nous sommes leurs lointains descendants. Cette histoire illustre bien la capacité de la vie à influencer les cycles géochimiques et à les transformer en cycles biogéochimiques. On pourrait aussi citer l'action de l'homme sur le cycle du carbone et toutes les conséquences qui en découlent...

Au bout du compte, si les extraterrestres ne sont pas partout, c'est, estiment les auteurs de cette étude, parce que, sur la plupart des planètes, le changement des conditions physiques "conspire à éliminer la vie naissante avant qu'elle ait une chance d'évoluer suffisamment pour réguler les cycles globaux". Selon leurs modèles, la grande majorité des planètes vivables seraient incapables de maintenir leur habitabilité plus de 1 ou 1,5 milliard d'années. Les planètes telles que la Terre, celles où le vivant a pris la barre avant d'être balayé, seraient donc une minorité chanceuse.

Pierre Barthélémy (suivez-moi ici sur Twitter ou bien là sur Facebook)

Lire aussi :

{ http://www.lemonde.fr/ }

ps remarque d'un mebre de Magonie = L'auteur est un sceptique dur et plus stupide que la moyenne de sa tribu !!! Qu'est-ce que pensez vous?

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Maandag 1 februari 2016

Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for January 2016:

CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In January 2016 there were 687 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;

Country	Number of Reports
UNITED STATES	502
CANADA	66
UNITED KINGDOM	28
AUSTRALIA	13
GERMANY	9
SPAIN	6
BRAZIL	5
NEW ZEALAND	4
ITALY	3
NETHERLANDS	3
MALAYSIA	2
COLOMBIA	2
VENEZUELA	2
SOUTH AFRICA	2
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF	2
PUERTO RICO	2
JAPAN	2
PORTUGAL	2
INDIA	2
FRANCE	1
ISRAEL	1
QATAR	1
PHILIPPINES	1
VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S.	1
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	1
KENYA	1
GREENLAND	1
CHILE	1
ZAMBIA	1
MALTA	1
BOLIVIA	1
NORWAY	1
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO	1
GREECE	1
GUAM	1
TAIWAN	1
VIET NAM	1
BULGARIA	1
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES	1
TOGO	1
LITHUANIA	1
MEXICO	1
NICARAGUA	1
BELIZE	1
SWEDEN	1
IRELAND	1
BELGIUM	1
ICELAND	1
POLAND	1
TOTAL:	687

Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;

State	Number of Reports
California	65
Florida	43
Texas	41
Pennsylvania	24
Washington	22
New York	21
Michigan	18
Ohio	17
Oregon	17
North Carolina	17
Georgia	14
Nevada	12
New Mexico	12
Oklahoma	10
Illinois	10
Kentucky	10
Missouri	10
Maryland	9
Indiana	9
Colorado	8
Tennessee	8
Arizona	7
Minnesota	7
Mississippi	7
Montana	6
New Hampshire	6
New Jersey	6
West Virginia	6
Iowa	6
Alabama	5
Maine	5
Virginia	5
Arkansas	5
Massachusetts	5
North Dakota	4
Utah	4
South Carolina	4
Wisconsin	4
Louisiana	2
Hawaii	2
Idaho	2
Kansas	2
Alaska	1
Nebraska	1
Connecticut	1
South Dakota	1
Wyoming	1

If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form onwww.mufon.com and direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their own report directly into CMS.

ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness, saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone to follow-up and complete the report.

If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to enter it yourself, simply go to CMS athttp://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone. Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.

Other interesting data points in CMS during January 2016 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;

Shape of Object	Number of Reports
Sphere	129
Circle	66
Other	64
Triangle	58
Disc	57
Unknown	48
Star-like	47
Fireball	38
Oval	34
Square/Rectangular	27
N/A	17
Boomerang	17
Cylinder	16
Cigar	14
Diamond	11
Cone	10
Flash	9
Chevron	6
Blimp	4
Saturn-like	4
Bullet/Missile	4
Teardrop	3
Egg	2
Cross	2

as well as the distance from the observer;

Distance from Witness	Number of Reports
< 100 ft	129
101-500 ft	105
501 ft - 1 Mile	144
Over 1 Mile	169
Unknown	194
NO VALUE	28

Most impressively there were 28 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 1 Entities observed.

To review the CMS data yourself go to www.mufon.com and click on "UFO Case Files" to 1.) Easily look at the Last 20 Sightings, or 2.) Do a customized search of the CMS database by date and/or location, or 3.) Logon to CMS for even more detailed UFO sighting information about your State and the World.

I hope you are enjoying our new internet based Sighting and Reporting System. For questions regarding its use please refer to the User Guide available on your CMS main menu screen. Please send your questions and/or suggestions to Jan Harzan at janharzan@hotmail.com.

Thank you!

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Bob Lazar 25 Years Later - "Wish I Hadn't Told The Truth"

Published on Jan 10, 2016

It has been 25 years to the day since a live interview with a shadowy guy named "Dennis" changed everything for America's most secret military base. "Dennis" turned out later to be a man named Bob Lazar, who claimed he worked at a secret facility built into a mountainside just south of Area 51's main facilities.

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Maandag 1 februari 2016

According to Ufologists, a cigar-shaped UFO caused the eruption of one of Mexico’s volcanoes

According to Ufologists, a cigar-shaped UFO caused the eruption of one of Mexico’s volcanoes

According to Ufologists, a cigar-shaped UFO caused one of Mexico’s volcanos to erupt. But was the explosion caused by an otherworldly craft? And just what is the mysterious object seen flying above the volcano if not an Alien ship? These are some of the questions being asked on social networks after a mysterious footage showing what appears to be a cigar shaped UFO popped up online, causing the UFO community to enter into a debate with skeptics.

It seems that 2016 has started off with some incredible UFO footage around the world and some of that footage come from the Volcano in Colima, Mexico, one of the 18 most active volcanoes found in Mexico. The objects seen in the vicinity of The Volcán de Colima, also known as Volcán de Fuego, are bright flying objects that have an elongated shape most of the time while people have recorded other spherical objects sometimes emerging from with the belly of the volcano. Whether the presence of the mysterious objects is directly connected to the activity of the volcano remains a profound mystery.

About five seconds into the footage captured by WebCams Mexico, a mysterious object approaches the volcano about to erupt, at the moment of the explosion, the UFO makes its way across the sky while the Volcano continues to go up in lava. After the explosion, the mysterious object disappears from view.

The anomalous footage seen near to Volcano was recorded by the cameras from WebCams Mexico located at the Carrizalillo Lagoon in Colima. The even recorded on video demonstrates that the volcano has attracted – for an unknown reason– these objects for quite some time. According to video footage, the most impressive of the sightings occurred on the night of January 3 at 20:35 hours Mexican time, when an elongated UFO ( just like the one seen entering Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano a couple of years ago) flies near the volcano. According to users on social networks, this mysterious object ist most definitely not from Earth, and cannot be a man-made vehicle, something that skeptics firmly reject.

The object in question moved at a constant speed and low altitude, and when the UFO approached the crater of the volcano, there was a tremendous explosion that caused incandescent material to be thrown from the volcano. As expected, the video which was posted on different social networks quickly raised uproar and all kinds of speculations in the UFO community, from those who report that there is an alien base inside the volcano, as well as those who claim that the energies that are released are able to open doors to other dimensions which are used by these UFO’s to move through space.

Scott Waring from UFO sightings daily commented on the mysterious event.

‘This long UFO was caught over Colima Volcano on Jan 3. The UFO passes over and through the lava shot up from the mouth of the volcano,’ Warring wrote.

‘As it gets above the mouth, there is a burst of light and all goes black. The UFO then flies away.

‘I believe that as the UFO went over the mouth, it transported someone or something too or from the underground base below the volcano.’

Other Alien hunters have come up with several other theories trying to explain what caused the volcanic eruption and what the mysterious object is.

‘Wow. As if it had a preconceived notion of the arruption [sic]. I think it leans towards refuelling as opposed to the underground base theory,’ one user commented on the UFO Sightings Daily post.

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Maandag 1 februari 2016

Strange Lights Captured Hovering Over King of Prussia

Strange Lights Captured Hovering Over King of Prussia

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Witness Statement: I was driving south bound on route 202 when I saw 2 VERY bright lights to my right (northwest). At first I thought they were planets Bc around the lights were the normal helicopters and airplanes far away. But as I got closer the lights got bigger...they are horizontal, about three of them. The object was stationary. The second object either headed north or disappeared. There were NO flashing lights on what I was recording. Just three white lights that stayed on. I was driving and watching the road while filming so my apologies for the lack of focus.

After about a minute it's gone. Then later on as I approached 30bypass west I see another object with two flashing whites that appeared to be hovering in front of a helicopter.

Could these be drones? The only drones I've seen have blue and red lights. Nothing nearly this bright, nor this big. Or was it something else? (Read more…)

https://youtu.be/PfVs9yn3mcc

Published on Feb 1, 2016

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Witness Statement: I was driving south bound on route 202 when I saw 2 VERY bright lights to my right (northwest). At first I thought they were planets Bc around the lights were the normal helicopters and airplanes far away. But as I got closer the lights got bigger...they are horizontal, about three of them. The object was stationary. The second object either headed north or disappeared. There were NO flashing lights on what I was recording. Just three white lights that stayed on. I was driving and watching the road while filming so my apologies for the lack of focus.

After about a minute it's gone. Then later on as I approached 30bypass west I see another object with two flashing whites that appeared to be hovering in front of a helicopter.

Could these be drones? The only drones I've seen have blue and red lights. Nothing nearly this bright, nor this big. Or was it something else?

Let me hear what you think in the comments below!

Original Video:
Strange lights hovering over King of Prussia PA/UFO?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uz_R...

Analysis: This appears to be a large object or objects in formation hovering in one area. Due to the distance and the size of the object as road signs go in front of it seems to point to a large size like an aircraft possibly and not a small drone. Aircraft of this size usually do not hover and by law must emit flashing safety lights which this craft does not. Leave your thoughts in the comments below and don’t forget to visit the original video as well.

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Maandag 1 februari 2016

Ingang gevonden naar buitenaardse basis Himalaya gebergte ( VIDEO )

Ingang gevonden naar buitenaardse basis Himalaya gebergte ( VIDEO )

Van oudsher is het Himalayagebergte een groot onherbergzaam en moeilijk toegankelijk gebied geweest.

Wanneer je als buitenaards volk een geheime basis op deze aarde wilt vestigen dan is het Himalayagebergte daar bij uitstek geschikt voor.

Historisch gezien wemelt het in dat gebied dan ook van ufo meldingen en vreemde voorvallen.

Zo zijn er geregeld waarnemingen vanuit het grensgebied tussen India en China, maar ook in het land dat tussen beiden ligt ingeklemd, Nepal.

Daar werd enkele dagen geleden de volgende video opgenomen. Het betreft klaarblijkelijk een groep Amerikaanse onderzoekers die opeens worden omringd door vreemde orbs of UFO’s.

Je ziet de mensen lopen en iets verder boven de bergen zie je een aantal witte bollen rondvliegen alsof ze boel aan het verkennen zijn. Voor zover ons bekend heeft niemand nog kunnen aantonen dat deze video niet echt zou zijn en in dat geval praten we hier over bijzondere beelden.

Naast deze bijzondere witte bollen worden er ook regelmatig opnames gemaakt zoals de volgende in het Himalayagebergte.

Dit keer heeft het meer weg van wat wij een klassieke of retro UFO zouden noemen.

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Ook deze week werd er door een Youtube gebruiker uit Mexico een bijzondere ontdekking gedaan op Google Earth.

Het lijkt alsof hij een geheime ingang heeft gevonden naar wellicht een buitenaardse basis in het Himalayagebergte in Nepal.

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Deze ingang, als het dat is tenminste, bevindt zich in een onherbergzaam gebied. Ook is het een plek op een helling die niet snel door klimmers zal worden gevonden. Het kan ook zijn dat Google, zoals ze wel vaker doen, iets weggepoetst heeft door dit zwarte vlak er overheen te zetten. Dat betekent dat er zich inderdaad iets bevindt wat wij niet geacht worden te zien.

Daarnaast bevindt het zich klaarblijkelijk ook nog eens op grote hoogte. In ieder geval op een plek waar je niet of nauwelijks mensen zult verwachten.

Dit is ook niet de eerste keer dat iets dergelijks wordt ontdekt. Ook vorig jaar verscheen er een video waarin iets wordt getoond dat lijkt op een ingang naar iets onbekends in de bergen.

Wanneer je dit jaar eens een hele speciale vakantie wilt dan is het misschien een idee om af te reizen naar Nepal. Grote kans dat je daar merkwaardige dingen zult tegenkomen.

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Geschreven door peter om 15:23 Stuur door

Maandag 1 februari 2016

Author Timothy Good Talks About The W56 Alien Group Below Rocca Pia, Italy, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Author Timothy Good Talks About The W56 Alien Group Below Rocca Pia, Italy, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of alien contact: 1956
Location of contact: Rocca Pia, Italy

I love to hear about the W56 in Rocca Pia. The alien base is located below the old castle there. They recruited many humans in that area to interact with them, but interactions are limited, as are the reasons why they asked for certain deliveries to be made. For the full W56 story click here.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

News states:
In this exciting episode Dark Journalist interviews the legendary UFO investigator and best-selling author Timothy Good. His deep research on ET contact has led him to the startling conclusion that there are both benevolent and sinister alien beings battling for influence and control of planet earth! In his newly revealed investigation Timothy has discovered an ongoing worldwide contactee group known as "Amicizia" or "Friendship" that spans over five decades of alien contact. These helpful ET visitors, who are known simply as the "W56," closely resemble human beings and want to help humanity grow spiritually. However, Timothy also reveals that contacts deep inside military intelligence have informed him of a technologically super-advanced negative ET group. These malevolent aliens are attempting to genetically engineer a hybrid race comprised of human DNA spliced with alien genes from the species traditionally known as the "Greys." Highly scientifically advanced, these aliens have also constructed massive, sophisticated underground bases around the world and are attempting to complete their evil takeover plan in a one hundred year period ending in 2046!

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Geschreven door peter om 14:51 Stuur door

Maandag 1 februari 2016

UFO Returns To Earths Sun, Do Aliens Have The Right To Use It? Jan 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

UFO Returns To Earths Sun, Do Aliens Have The Right To Use It? Jan 28, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

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Date of sighting: January 28, 2016

Location of sighting: Earths Sun

Source photo:

This ship was caught heading directly at our sun last week by Streetcap1 of Youtube. This really puts humanity in an awkward position. Honestly, who has the rights to use the sun as they see fit? I mean, what if they mess with it to much and cause a solar explosion so big it destroys the first three planets? What can they say, "oops, my bad!" That just doesn't work with me. WTF are they doing with our sun and why is NASA trusting the existence of all life on Earth to these aliens messing with it? Sure we are the little guys, but we are not all blind to the workings beyond our atmosphere. NASA and SOHO are responsible for taking video and photos of our sun, so they are 100% aware of it. Why are they not talking about this to the public? Perhaps they are scared of the public panicking? NASA never owns up to it and seems they never will.

Oh, and a message to the aliens out there. Stop messing with our #@$%ing sun! We know the consequences of you making a mistake...we have to pay for it.

Scott C. Waring

www.ufosightingsdaily.com

Geschreven door peter om 14:46 Stuur door

Maandag 1 februari 2016

Most remarkable UFO sightings in January 2016

Most remarkable UFO sightings in January 2016 by www.Latest-UFO-Sightings.net.

3rd January 2016; bright Orbs – Calgary, Canad

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13th January 2016; intelligent UFO – Melbourne, Australia

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14th January 2016; daytime UFO – El Cajon, California

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15th January 2016; fast UFOs – Mudgee, Australia