Mysteriously, our genetic code stopped evolving 3 billion years ago

According to researchers, our genetic code stopped evolving 3 billion years ago, but why? When Francis Crick described the Genetic code back in the 1960s, the mysterious halt in the evolution of the Genetic Code was referred to him as a frozen accident.

Interestingly, researchers say that our Genetic Code could have developed to use up to 63 Amino acids, but for some reason, it stopped at 20.

Scientists might have solved the question of the century. According to experts, the genetic code’s limit was reached 3 billion years ago when evolution came to a sudden halt.

Even though life on our planet continues to evolve, the genetic code, that mystery machine which drives life has remained static using the same ‘commands’ and components in the same way it did in the distant past, billions of years ago.

It is known that at a certain point in our planet’s long history, our genetic code’s evolution came to a halt when it reached its plateau, thus preventing further development of the code. For decades, Scientists had no clue why, but now, thanks to a new study, researchers believe that the evolution of our genetic code came to a halt because of limitations in the way our DNA is translated to make proteins.

In order to understand it, researchers from Spain focuses on a molecule called transfer RNA (tRNA).

Basically, tRNA has the job to move the building blocks of proteins to the assembly line in order for them to be linked together in an appropriate way.

Interestingly when Francis Crick described the Genetic code back in the 1960s, the mysterious halt in the evolution of the Genetic Code was referred to him as a frozen accident.

Scientists believe this is because the genetic code evolved only enough to account for 20 amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. The Genetic Code eventually reached a point where it was unable to alter, or expand so it could account for more than 20 amino acids, which caused it to remain static or frozen in time for billions of years.

The human body can link available amino acids together in order to make proteins, but it uses additional amino acids which are not included in the genetic code, relying on complicated chemical channels.

Interestingly, researchers say that our Genetic Code could have developed to use up to 63 Amino Acids, but for some reason, it stopped at 20. Experts believed that if the ‘machinery’ that reads the DNA and translates it to proteins were to include more than 20 amino acids, it is very likely that numerous mistakes would have been present, leading to an eventual meltdown of the biological system.

Professor Lluís Ribas de Pouplana, a geneticist from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and senior author of the study, said: „Protein synthesis based on the genetic code is the crucial feature of biological systems, and it is critical to ensure faithful translation of information.“

Every single transfer RNA has two central regions which link it to a specific amino acid at one end. The other recognises a three-letter stamp of the genetic code. Scientists say that multiple genetic stamps can code for the same amino acids, and the combination of these areas are what gives each tRNA an identity.

Speaking to MailOnline, Professor Ribas said: „Our work shows that the central pieces of the genetic code, the transfer RNAs, can not house enough specific identity elements for the system to be able to distinguish 63 of them. Since you need a new tRNA for each new amino acid, once the limit of tRNAs is reached that determines how many amino acids you can use. This limit happened to be at 20, and it hasn’t changed for 3 billion years.“

Scientists are now looking for ways to overcome the limitations set in place billions of years ago with the help of synthetic biology.

„It is thus unlikely that the limit will change naturally, and you could certainly call it a bottleneck for molecular diversity. Artificially, however, we are able to increase the number of amino acids used by cells under controlled laboratory conditions. I think that our work adds to the notion that adding new amino acids in a natural context would require very dramatic engineering of the system. Something that nature can’t do. How to go about this engineering is the main question that opens after our study.“ Said Professor Ribas in the interview.

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Is there another Sun, Inner World and lost civilization inside of Earth?

Is there a slight possibility that there is an inner Sun, Inner World and lost civilization inside of Earth? In recent decades, a number of findings have been made that drastically alter the views on the Inner Earth theory. 

According to many claims in the past decades, there is a world inside of our planet filled with supernatural beings, incredible technologies, and unexplained phenomenon. The ‘mythical’ land inside of our planet, its supernatural civilizations, and secrecy behind the entire subject stretches back over half a century. While the basis backing up such claims are nearly nonexistent, the legends must have originated from somewhere. What if Jules Verne’s classic “A Journey to the Center of the Earth” is true? And somewhere down there, an entirely new world is waiting to be explored, a place where somehow, living beings inhabit the depths of our planet, a place that ancient cultures and civilizations knew existed, or still exists today. What if it’s actually true?

Plato even spoke of the mythical inner world. He mentioned that extremely long and narrow tunnels connect the four corner of our planet. When these are finally connected, Agartha would stand with a magical ruler holding the throne.

But many similar accounts are present in history. If we go back to the year 50AD, we will discover that a Roman author by the name of Pliny the Elder stated that the ancient Atlantean civilization fled to the Himalayas after catastrophic events swiped over their capital city. Eventually, the Atlantean’s dug into our planet where they currently live, far away from ‘modern’ civilization.

However, if we look towards the 20th and 21st century, we will discover a number of authors who have made shocking claims in regards to the Hollow Earth theory. After proposing a new theory of the birth of our planet, Russian Physicist Fedor Nevolin became famous for suggesting that the Earth is hollow and most likely has a smaller Sun in the center. The Sun’s energy is said to penetrate through the holes in the Poles and accumulates in the center, making it possible for life to flourish inside our planet.

But perhaps the most famous accounts ‘offering’ conclusive evidence that there is a world inside our planet come from the famous Byrd expeditions.

Books like Worlds beyond the Poles by Amadeo Giannini claimed that Byrd had not flown over the Pole but inwardly through large holes leading into the Earth. Ray Palmer, mainly based on the book by Giannini, introduced his theory in the December 1959 issue of its magazine and obtained very positive results from the audience because of his theories and ideas regarding the Hollow Earth theory.

Don’t forget to read ‘The forgotten Diary of Vice Admiral Byrd.’

It is noteworthy to mention that according to Giannini and Palmer, during Vice Admiral Byrd’s alleged flight over the North Pole in 1947, Admiral Byrd radioed that he saw beneath him, not snow, but areas of land with mountains, forests, vegetation, lakes and rivers and in the undergrowth, a strange animal that looked like a mammoth.

It is said (citation needed) that in January of 1956, after leading an expedition to Antarctica, Admiral Byrd had stated that his expedition had explored 3,700 km beyond the South Pole and also just before his death, Byrd had said there existed a land beyond the Pole that was “an enchanted continent in the sky, a permanent mystery of Earth.” That land, according to other theories, was the legendary Rainbow City, home to a fabulous lost civilization.

But much before Byrd and others spoke of a world inside our planet, ancient civilizations had oral, and written legends that suggest such ’emptiness’ inside of our planet might actually exist.

The Macuxi Indians are indigenous people who live in the Amazon, in countries such as Brazil, Guyana, and Venezuela. According to their legends, they are the descendants of the Sun’s children, the creator of Fire and disease and the protectors of the “inner Earth.” Their oral legends speak of an entrance into Earth. Until the year 1907, the Macuxies would enter some sort of cavern, and travel from 13 to 15 days until they reached the interior. It is there, “at the other side of the world, in the inner Earth” is where the Giants live, creatures that have around 3-4 meters in height.

However, there are more ‘stories’ that speak of similar events. The Babylonian hero Gilgamesh visited his ancestor Utnapishtim in the bowels of the earth; in Greek mythology, Orpheus tries to rescue Eurydice from the underground hell; it was said that the Pharaohs of Egypt communicated with the underworld, which could be accessed via secret tunnels hidden in the pyramids; and Buddhists believed (and still believe) that millions of people live in Agharta, an underground paradise ruled by the king of the world. Where did all of these legends originate from?

Interestingly, in ‘modern’ times, several interesting authors have made similar claims. For example. Leonard Euler, a mathematical genius of the eighteenth century, concluded that the Earth was hollow, containing a central sun and was inhabited. Dr. Edmund Halley, discoverer of Comet Halley and Royal Astronomer of England also believed that the Earth was hollow on the inside with three “Floors”.

In an extremely interesting interview with Coast To Coast AM, author and researchers David Wilcock stated that an alliance of ancient civilizations is living inside the planet. These ancient civilizations have been calling the inner Earth their home for long periods of time, and they are about the reveal themselves to the world.

Wilcock states that based on his research, it seems as if these cavities are utilized so that advanced civilizations have a place they can live while looking out for everything that happens on the ‘outer Earth,’ the surface of the planet.

Recent studies have discovered interesting details about what’s located inside of our planet.

According to scientists, there is a large ocean of water located inside the mantle of our planet. They point out that this gigantic tank of water could fill the oceans on our planet up to three times.

Researchers also indicate that the water located on the surface of our planet came not from space, but from within the planet itself, as part of “complete water cycle on the planet”.

In addition to the water found inside of our planet,researchers have discovered an ‘unknown’ oxygen source deep below the surface of our planet. This discovery seems to point towards the existence of a hitherto unknown oxygen source believed to be located somewhere in the lower mantle of our planet.

The mysterious source of oxygen is believed to be so enormous, that it can influence the climate on our planet. The team of researchers led by Dr. Elena Bykova from the University of Bayreuth reported the results in the scientific journal nature Communications.

Are legends just legends? Myths only fictional accounts? Or is there something to the countless claims that have been formulated throughout the years which suggest there is a gigantic world waiting to be explored beneath the surface of our planet.

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Astronomers have just found the LARGEST Structure in the Known Universe

Astronomers have recently announced the discovery of the largest structure ever seen in the known universe, and its 1 Billion Light Years long, making it the largest structure ever discovered. The size of this structure is beyond fascinating.

Astronomers have discovered the biggest structure in the known universe, and well, the have called it BOSS.

Scientists at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands in Spain have come across the most massive object in the universe and have called it BOSS, the BOSS Great Wall, which when you think, is the perfect name for such a humongous structure in the universe. BOSS stands for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey

BOSS is a superstructure composed of superclusters which are interconnected by gasses, located billions of light years away from our plant, and its mass is ten thousand times larger than that of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Thanks to Gravity, these superclusters are able to stay interlocked while they journey across space.

The universe is a web of giant clusters of matter surrounding empty voids
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According to Joshua Sokol at New Scientist, the megastructure discovered by a team from the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics is composed of 830 separate galaxies and has a mass 10,000 times greater than the Milky Way. To put the scale of this structure into perspective, we orbit one single star, the Sun. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has over 200 billion stars, just like our Sun, in it alone with an unknown amount of planets orbiting them.

However, even though BOSS is the largest ‘thing’ ever discovered in the known universe, not all researchers agree it should be categorized as a ‘structure.’ The arguments against BOSS being called a structure or superstructure are that these superclusters arent connected like a wall would be. Instead, they have ‘dips’ and empty spaces between them and are linked by clouds of dust and gas.

While the debate whether or not BOSS is a superstructure or not will continue, it still is the largest object ever spotted by scientists. In fact, there are numerous other ‘great wall’s or superstructures found floating in the emptiness of space, located thousands and even millions of light years away from our planet.

Other Structures similar to BOSS are the Sloan Great Wall, which was discovered by researchers in 2003, and Lanikea, the superclusters of galaxies where our galaxy, the milky way is located. Lanikea, which in Hawaiian means ‘immeasurable heaven’ contains 100,000 galaxies and has the mass of ONE HUNDRED QUADRILLION SUNS.

Our galaxy sits near the edge of one such supercluster.

Within Lanikea, galaxies are travelling towards a region in space called ‘The Great Attractor,’ which according to researchers is the equivalent of a large gravitational valley.

Located in the vicinity of Lanikea are four neighbouring superclusters called Shapley, Hercules, Coma, and Perseus-Pisces. Lanikea was the first supercluster to have its size mapped by scientists.

Discoveries like this allow researchers to understand better the universe and helps them rebuild the Big Bang, enabling them to understand how space has changed since it came into existence.

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Is There a UFO Cover-up? A Government Insider Speaks Out

Colorado’s San Luis Valley Is A UFO Hotspot With A Specially Built UFO Watchtower

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Octopus DNA is NOT From This World, Scientists Reveal

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Green UFO Caught During Sunset Over Water Dam, Pennsylvania, May 16, 2016, UFO Sightings News.

Date of sighting: May 16, 2016
Location of sighting: Quemahoning Dam, Pennsylvania, USA 

This photo was sent yesterday by a reader here at UFO Sightings Daily. The person was at a famous camping area at Quemahoning Dam, PA. The person took a photo during sunset and caught a UFO by accident hovering over the water. UFOs as I have said before are most often seen during sunset, due to the sun sitting at a 90 degree angle to the person so cloaked craft become visible for a few minutes. This one probably was caught exiting or entering the water. An awesome UFO photo. 
Scott C. Waring
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Eyewitness states:
Quemahoning Dam. I took a pic of the sun going down and two days later I noticed a green dot in the pic. When I zoomed in on it, this is what was there. I never saw it while taking the pic. 

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The search for extraterrestrials: How to tell the world you've discovered an alien civilisation

• By Duncan Forgan

How do you tell people you have found aliens?IStock

Duncan Forgan, University of St Andrews

After countless fictional scenarios of humans making contact with alien civilisations, you'd think we'd be prepared for actually discovering one. But finding intelligent life beyond the Earth is clearly likely to be one of the most shattering moments in the history of our species.

So if you've just discovered an alien civilisation, how should you go about breaking the news? This is a momentous task, and I have been involved in developing some guidelines for the scientists who are involved in searching for extraterrestrial life. The research is due to be published in the journal Acta Astronautica.

•  Alien intelligence: Life in universe may be abundant – but will it ever communicate with us?
•  Bruniquel cave: Mystery structures created from stalagmites point to complex Neanderthal society
•  HMP Wandsworth: The challenges of providing healthcare in the UK's biggest prison

With the millions of dollars currently being invested in initiatives such the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), some would argue it is only a matter of time before we do come across intelligent life. I'm personally not convinced, but pessimism isn't enough to abandon a search. The scientific method requires us to test our hypotheses with observation and experiment – regardless of our initial prejudices.

If we ever do find signs of intelligent life, I don't expect it to be a message from an alien civilisation or a landing party. It will probably be something a little more prosaic, such as signs of artificial pollution in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. It may even take the form of enormous structures built in space to collect energy and provide habitats.

Artist impression of an alien megstructureDanielle Futselaar/SETI International

I showed in some work a few years ago that we would be able to see such megastructures in exoplanet transit data, such as that gathered by the Kepler Space Telescope. True enough, Kepler did see weird objects such as Tabby's Star, KIC 8426582, with features similar to those predicted would come from artificial structures. But like most astronomers, I'm still a sceptic – a swarm of comets around Tabby's Star producing incredible changes in brightness is still the more sensible interpretation.

What's really encouraging about this, though, is that it shows SETI can be done "on the cheap", taking advantage of publicly available astronomical data to search for aliens. For a pessimist like me, this seems like a much more appropriate strategy.

The flurry of internet activity surrounding Tabby's star – blogs, tweets, news stories and theKickstarter campaign to encourage the public to support further observations – demonstrate how different the world has become since SETI began around 60 years ago.

Super-connected world

If evidence of extraterrestrial life ever came to us from the stars, what should the discoverers do next? This is something astrobiologists have pondered for decades. In 1989, a committee of SETI scientists even drew up a set of post-detection protocols to guide scientists through the steps after discovery. These steps include getting your colleagues to verify the discovery, and notifying "relevant national authorities" (precisely who this means is unclear to me), followed by the scientific community and then the public via a press release.

However, this set of guidelines was written before the age of the internet. Back then, we got our news via the paper or the TV screen. Even 24-hour news was in its infancy. Nowadays, the news world is a fragmented sphere of articles placed on our devices and in our feeds via a variety of social media tools, shared by our friends and family. Data flows extremely rapidly, and easily gets amplified and distorted.

That is why my colleague Alexander Scholz and I decided to take another look at the issue, asking how the SETI post-detection protocols should change to reflect our super-connected world. We quickly realised that scientists need guidance before starting the experiment, let alone after making a detection. It is now common practice for new scientific projects to set up a blog about their work, and this will be essential for SETI. The blog should include a clear description of what a certain project will do, and what the criteria are for a successful detection, a false positive and no detection. This would help journalists and the public alike to avoid misinterpreting the results.

The individuals involved need to be credible communicators of their work, so maintaining good digital presence in the early stages is very helpful. We also recommend they update their security settings to protect against nefarious individuals broadcasting their personal information – which is sadly a real risk these days.

If a team is lucky enough to make even an unconfirmed, tentative detection, they must be sure to have nothing to hide. Leaks are unavoidable, and alarmingly rapid. Nobody wants an "aliens found" story that turns out to be false. The best way to do this is to publish data immediately. If it's very clear that the detection is unconfirmed, and natural or man-made causes can't be ruled out, then there is no room for conspiracy theorists to wail about the scientists' collusion with the men in black(an accusation flung at me more than once). It also gives other scientists the chance to check the work, and verify the detection.

Of course, we've all seen some of the comments on YouTube or other media sites – there are numpties everywhere, and there is seemingly no stopping good scientific discussion being twisted into inexplicable diatribes and vile hate speech. Therefore, the most important piece of advice for scientists is to be involved in the conversation.

If a publicised detection turns out to be false, the team should immediately make a public statement making it clear that no aliens have been discovered and why. They should even publish a paper retracting it if they have to.

But whoever discovers intelligent life should also prepare for it to swallow up the rest of their life – there isn't going to be time for much else. Their new job will instead be to help humanity come to terms with its new identity, as just one of multiple intelligent civilisations in the universe.

Duncan Forgan, Research Fellow, University of St Andrews

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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The search for extraterrestrials: How to tell the world you've discovered an alien civilisation

• By Duncan Forgan

How do you tell people you have found aliens?IStock

Duncan Forgan, University of St Andrews

After countless fictional scenarios of humans making contact with alien civilisations, you'd think we'd be prepared for actually discovering one. But finding intelligent life beyond the Earth is clearly likely to be one of the most shattering moments in the history of our species.

So if you've just discovered an alien civilisation, how should you go about breaking the news? This is a momentous task, and I have been involved in developing some guidelines for the scientists who are involved in searching for extraterrestrial life. The research is due to be published in the journal Acta Astronautica.

•  Alien intelligence: Life in universe may be abundant – but will it ever communicate with us?
•  Bruniquel cave: Mystery structures created from stalagmites point to complex Neanderthal society
•  HMP Wandsworth: The challenges of providing healthcare in the UK's biggest prison

With the millions of dollars currently being invested in initiatives such the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), some would argue it is only a matter of time before we do come across intelligent life. I'm personally not convinced, but pessimism isn't enough to abandon a search. The scientific method requires us to test our hypotheses with observation and experiment – regardless of our initial prejudices.

If we ever do find signs of intelligent life, I don't expect it to be a message from an alien civilisation or a landing party. It will probably be something a little more prosaic, such as signs of artificial pollution in the atmosphere of an exoplanet. It may even take the form of enormous structures built in space to collect energy and provide habitats.

Artist impression of an alien megstructureDanielle Futselaar/SETI International

I showed in some work a few years ago that we would be able to see such megastructures in exoplanet transit data, such as that gathered by the Kepler Space Telescope. True enough, Kepler did see weird objects such as Tabby's Star, KIC 8426582, with features similar to those predicted would come from artificial structures. But like most astronomers, I'm still a sceptic – a swarm of comets around Tabby's Star producing incredible changes in brightness is still the more sensible interpretation.

What's really encouraging about this, though, is that it shows SETI can be done "on the cheap", taking advantage of publicly available astronomical data to search for aliens. For a pessimist like me, this seems like a much more appropriate strategy.

The flurry of internet activity surrounding Tabby's star – blogs, tweets, news stories and theKickstarter campaign to encourage the public to support further observations – demonstrate how different the world has become since SETI began around 60 years ago.

Super-connected world

If evidence of extraterrestrial life ever came to us from the stars, what should the discoverers do next? This is something astrobiologists have pondered for decades. In 1989, a committee of SETI scientists even drew up a set of post-detection protocols to guide scientists through the steps after discovery. These steps include getting your colleagues to verify the discovery, and notifying "relevant national authorities" (precisely who this means is unclear to me), followed by the scientific community and then the public via a press release.

However, this set of guidelines was written before the age of the internet. Back then, we got our news via the paper or the TV screen. Even 24-hour news was in its infancy. Nowadays, the news world is a fragmented sphere of articles placed on our devices and in our feeds via a variety of social media tools, shared by our friends and family. Data flows extremely rapidly, and easily gets amplified and distorted.

That is why my colleague Alexander Scholz and I decided to take another look at the issue, asking how the SETI post-detection protocols should change to reflect our super-connected world. We quickly realised that scientists need guidance before starting the experiment, let alone after making a detection. It is now common practice for new scientific projects to set up a blog about their work, and this will be essential for SETI. The blog should include a clear description of what a certain project will do, and what the criteria are for a successful detection, a false positive and no detection. This would help journalists and the public alike to avoid misinterpreting the results.

The individuals involved need to be credible communicators of their work, so maintaining good digital presence in the early stages is very helpful. We also recommend they update their security settings to protect against nefarious individuals broadcasting their personal information – which is sadly a real risk these days.

If a team is lucky enough to make even an unconfirmed, tentative detection, they must be sure to have nothing to hide. Leaks are unavoidable, and alarmingly rapid. Nobody wants an "aliens found" story that turns out to be false. The best way to do this is to publish data immediately. If it's very clear that the detection is unconfirmed, and natural or man-made causes can't be ruled out, then there is no room for conspiracy theorists to wail about the scientists' collusion with the men in black(an accusation flung at me more than once). It also gives other scientists the chance to check the work, and verify the detection.

Of course, we've all seen some of the comments on YouTube or other media sites – there are numpties everywhere, and there is seemingly no stopping good scientific discussion being twisted into inexplicable diatribes and vile hate speech. Therefore, the most important piece of advice for scientists is to be involved in the conversation.

If a publicised detection turns out to be false, the team should immediately make a public statement making it clear that no aliens have been discovered and why. They should even publish a paper retracting it if they have to.

But whoever discovers intelligent life should also prepare for it to swallow up the rest of their life – there isn't going to be time for much else. Their new job will instead be to help humanity come to terms with its new identity, as just one of multiple intelligent civilisations in the universe.

Duncan Forgan, Research Fellow, University of St Andrews

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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Barack Obama To Reveal UFO, Alien Information Kept Secret For 20 Years?

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician serving as the 44th President of the United States. Wikimedia Commons/Steve Jurvetson

The US President is affected by the same revelation promises made by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during her campaign. In relation to this, executive director Stephen Bassett of the US-based Paradigm Research Group believes that there might be a huge announcement in the days to come, adding that David Cameron will also follow suit. Bassett has been trying to persuade the White House to give the details that have been kept for 20 years. The 69-year-old Bassett believes that this is the greatest news story ever been broken, and that he thinks that Obama's revelation will be a Nobel Prize worthy.

Obama's possible revelation would happen just months following Clinton's statement in a US talk show saying that  she was eager on the transparency of information about UFOs and ET, Express reported.

Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidate Clinton spoke in Jimmy Kimmer Live as is reportedly leading the race against Berni Sanders for party nomination for the upcoming election in November. Just like her husband Bill, who also guested on the show in 2014 and was also asked if he has ever been into UFOs or in Area 51, which is a top secret air base rumored to back engineer an alien craft. Bill answered "sort of" and said he did not see dead aliens.

Hilary Clinton said that there is already a new name for UFO, which is unexplained aerial phenomena. She stated that she would want everyone to see the  files and make every information public, saying that if there is nothing in the file, then people should be made aware. But she added that if there is something found there, it should be shared with the public unless it is going to be a national security risk, according to 12 News.

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NASA Claim “Dozens” Of Advanced Civilisations Existed Before Us

A new NASA study reveals that dozens of ancient advanced civilisations much like ours once existed on Earth, but they all came to an abrupt end. 

The study suggests that humanity as we know it could come to an end in the next few decades based on the patterns observed with these previous civilisations.

Fabweb.org reports:

If we look back in history, 3000 – 5000 years, we will find a historical record that clearly shows us how advanced and complex civilizations were just as susceptible to collapse as we are today. This ongoing pattern has led researchers to question the future existence of society and civilization as we know.

If we were to look back further back in time, over 10,000 years, we would encounter evidence of advanced civilizations that possibly predate the Pre-Inca, Olmec, and Ancient Egyptian civilization, not to mention other advanced ancient civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia.

It is difficult to overlook the repeating patterns identified by scholars in most of these civilizations and the NASA funded study is clear evidence of the path ancient civilizations on EArth have taken for thousands of years. This is considered by many people as a sign that clearly states that ancient civilizations have reset a number of times.

These factors have kept on repeating themselves and have been the culprit for ancient civilizations before us.  In the report, applied mathematician Safa Motesharri and his “Human and Nature Dynamical” model claims that “the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history.”

“The fall of the Roman Empire, and the equally (if not more) advanced Han, Mauryan, and Gupta Empires, as well as so many advanced Mesopotamian Empires, are all testimony to the fact that advanced, sophisticated, complex, and creative civilizations can be both fragile and impermanent.”

The study came to the conclusion that there are two key social features that contributed to the collapse of every single advanced civilization from the past: “the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity”; and “the economic stratification of society into Elites [rich] and Masses (or “Commoners”) [poor]” These social phenomena have played “a central role in the character or in the process of the collapse,” in all such cases over “the last five thousand years.”

Even though our civilizations is at a very advanced technological stage, this does not necessarily mean that we are saved from imminent chaos. In the study we find that “Technological change can raise the efficiency of resource use, but it also tends to raise both per capita resource consumption and the scale of resource extraction, so that, absent policy effects, the increases in consumption often compensate for the increased efficiency of resource use.”

One of the best examples of advanced ancient civilizations disappearing can be found in Mesoamerica.

If we take a look at the ancient Maya who were an extremely advanced ancient civilization we find that several factors played a crucial role for this once great empire to crumble eventually. While most researchers would agree that Deforestation, Famine and Drought where some of the key components in the failure of the ancient Maya, we find a similar pattern in other civilizations, not only I the Americas, but around the globe.

Motesharrei and his colleagues conclude that under conditions “closely reflecting the reality of the world today… we find that collapse is difficult to avoid.” In the first of these scenarios, civilization:

“…. appears to be on a sustainable path for quite a long time, but even using an optimal depletion rate and starting with a very small number of Elites, the Elites eventually consume too much, resulting in a famine among Commoners that eventually causes the collapse of society. It is important to note that this Type-L collapse is due to an inequality-induced famine that causes a loss of workers, rather than a collapse of Nature.”

This article was originally published in 2016 and is frequently updated

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Rosetta vindt bouwstenen voor leven op komeet - HLN.be

Bron: Reuters

Een impressie van ruimtesonde Rosetta. © epa.

WETENSCHAP Wetenschappers zijn er voor het eerst in geslaagd rechtstreeks belangrijke organische verbindingen te detecteren in een komeet. De ontdekking versterkt het idee dat het leven op aarde lang geleden ontstond nadat een komeetinslag de nodige chemische bouwstenen naar hier bracht.

De ontdekking gebeurde met behulp van het ESA-ruimtetuig Rosetta, dat nog tot september de atmosfeer van de komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko onderzoekt. De apparatuur aan boord van Rosetta deed meerdere vaststellingen van het aminozuur glycine in de wolk van gas en stof die de komeet omhult. Dat aminozuur wordt door levende organismen gebruikt om eiwitten aan te maken.

In het verleden werd glycine al indirect gedetecteerd. In 2006 keerden stalen terug naar de aarde van een andere komeet, Wild 2. Maar besmettingsproblemen nadat de stalen in de woestijn in Utah geland waren, bemoeilijkten de wetenschappelijke analyse. 

"Nu we glycine hebben gevonden op meer dan één komeet, weten we zeker dat dit geen uitzondering is", zegt Kathrin Altwegg van de universiteit van Bern die het onderzoek, gepubliceerd in Science Advances, leidde.

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De ontdekking impliceert dat glycine veel voorkomt op plekken in het heelal waar sterren en planeten zich hebben gevormd, zegt Altwegg. "Aminozuren zijn overal, en op vele plaatsen in het heelal kan dus mogelijk leven ontstaan."

Naast glycine vonden de onderzoekers rond 67P ook fosfor, een sleutelelement in alle levende organismen, en andere organische moleculen. Het was de eerste keer dat fosfor gevonden werd in een komeet.

"Meer nodig dan aminozuren"

Wetenschappers buigen zich al lang over de vraag hoe het leven op aarde miljarden jaren geleden ontstaan is. Een van de meest populaire hypothesen is dat kometen en planetoïden met hun organische moleculen in de oceanen van de aarde gestort zijn.

De nieuwe studie voedt die hypothese. Toch is er nog meer onderzoek nodig, zeggen de wetenschappers. "Je hebt meer nodig dan aminozuren om een levende cel te vormen", aldus Altwegg. "Het is de veelheid aan moleculen die de ingrediënten voor leven uitmaken."

Rosetta beëindigt haar twee jaar durende missie op 67P in september, wanneer ze rakelings langs de komeet vliegt om daarna neer te storten op zijn oppervlak.

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Sporen van ijstijd op planeet Mars gevonden - HLN.be

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Ook op onze buurplaneet Mars is er een klimaatswijziging geweest. Op de noordelijke pool van het hemellichaam zijn aanwijzingen gevonden van een ijstijd die tot zowat 370.000 jaar heeft geduurd, zo staat in het jongste nummer van het wetenschappelijke vakblad Science.

Op de noordelijke pool van Mars zou er zich in het verleden ongeveer 87.000 kubieke kilometer ijs hebben gevormd, voldoende om de hele planeet met een zestig cm dikke ijskorst te bedekken, berichtte een onderzoeksteam rond Isaac Smith van het Southwest Research Institute in Boulder in de Amerikaanse staat Colorado.

De vondst, dankzij data van de Amerikaanse sonde Mars Reconaissance Orbiter, is ook van belang voor een mogelijke bemande missie naar Mars en de inplanting van een habitat. Water zal immers een beslissende factor zijn, zeggen de wetenschappers.

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UFO LANDT IN BOLIVIA EN ALIEN STAPT UIT ( VIDEO )

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Globular UFO Over Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Caught On Live Cam, May 23, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: May 23, 2016
Time: 21:22 or 9:22pm
Location of sighting: Mexico
Source Live Cam: http://www.webcamsdemexico.com

This video is from a live cam which takes still shots every few seconds. I believe the area and cam used is the Puerto Vallarta Sur area. I have uses a lot of these cams before in search for UFOs and I am amazed at this globular UFO thats has glowing orbs around it surface.

I believe it was seen only because it was nighttime and it passed by a camera that switches on some infrared LEDs (flashlight beams out) and was caught as it flew past the camera.This is new...I've never seen this type of UFO before, wow, just wow!

This is a great video by SecureTeam10 with some interesting insight into the UFO. 

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Mexican Musician Records "UFO fleet" On April 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: April 18, 2016
Location of sighting: Tijuana, Mexico
News source: http://inexplicata.blogspot.tw

This group of UFOs probably felt they wanted to send the people on the ground a message...to show that they were friendly. The UFOs actually formed a happy face for about 5-8 seconds, then broke formation. What is more universal than a smile? That is communication. Awesome catch, with a more awesome message.
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Inexplicata News states: 
What this video uploaded to YouTube clearly depicts are unidentified flying objects. Therefore, the term "UFO fleet" fits perfectly. It was recorded in the skies over Tijuana, Mexico - an area that has drawn the attention of many experts of the UFO phenomenon, since in recent years, sighting reports have become incessant. The recording was made on the night of April 18, 2016 in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, by corrido music artist Charly STPX, who after rehearsing with his band near the pier, became aware of some lights hanging in the air only meters over the sea. These images were shared on YouTube and over a dozen luminous objects can be seen, immediately leading them to believe it was a UFO fleet. The musician states this is the first time he's seen anything like it, as he has no knowledge of the UFO phenomenon. What caught the attention of hundreds of YouTube users (and of other social media outlets) is that the lights maintain a formation that resembles a "smiley face", causing many to say it was the "happiest UFO fleet in the galaxy." As can be heard on the video, Charly STPX hastens to explain that these are not "globos de Cantoya" (hot air balloons) which are popular in that region of Mexico. The YouTube video, which runs nearly 5 minutes, shows how the light formation descends and becomes lost in the horizon, which was still visible to eyewitnesses. Unfortunately, the cellphone camera was unable to capture some details described in teh video. The musicians knocked back a few beers to celebrate this close encounter of the first time.

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UFO Over Volcano In El Salvador Recorded By Government On 2013, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: 2013
Location of sighting: Volcano Chaparrastique, San Migual, El Salvador
News source: 

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This UFO video was released 3 years late, but it was recorded by the MARN, an area of the El Salvador government that that was held back at the time it took place, but for some unknown reason, given to the public yesterday. It looks like world governments know that disclosure is coming, so they better mentally prepare their people. 
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News states: 
A UFO in the Chaparrastique volcano? It would have happened during the eruption of the colossus, says expert. The video apparently captures the moment an unidentified flying object (UFO) flies over the top of the volcano Chaparrastique, while it is erupting, is circulating the web. You may be interested: 5 pictures of the eruption of San Miguel the video was taken by the monitoring station of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), it shows how this UFO prowls the sector and even stops for seconds and reappears above the crater. The sighting happened during the eruption the volcano in 2013 and the video was released today in the morning at Hola El Salvador.

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British UFO Encounter: Aliens Interested in Nuclear Weapons

Gary Heseltine is a recently retired police detective having served almost 24 years with the British Transport police in England. He came forward with astounding information which sheds new light on the most famous case in the Britain. The 56-year old claims that the extraterrestrials were interested in the nuclear weapons, which is why they visited the RAF Bentwaters.  Throughout the incident, Staff Sergeant Jim Penniston says he was able to touch the small triangular vessel. He described the vessel as smooth to touch, but has strangled symbols that bear resemblance to The incident, which dubbed the Roswell, has made the front page of the currently defunct News and has sparked various documentaries. Gary worked for almost 24 years in the British Transport Police. He claims that Colonel Charles Halt, the deputy base commander, revealed the existence of the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in Suffolk airbase. In December 1980, aliens reportedly buzzed the Rendlesham Forest and USAF base for over three nights. Two nights later, the mysterious object returned, and Col Halt led a group of experts. Based on his recordings, he called the object as a red winking eye.

A few years later, he filed a detailed memo about the encounter to the British Ministry of Defence. The memo was under the auspices of the Freedom of Information Act. Among the controversial stories, the most controversial are the reports about the extraterrestrial creatures firing beams in the weapons storage area. This retired officer claims that Col Halt told him that the high-ranking official of the USAF has made the shocking revelation as they toured the base. Unfortunately, when Colt Halt was asked, he denied the Gary’s claim stating that he never revealed anything to Gary. The US and UK governments created a policy of neither denying nor confirming that tool of the mass destruction was at the base.

Despite his denial, explanations were made to support Gary’s statement. First is the incident that took place in December 1980 wherein the base was on high alert because Soviet troops were on the border of Poland. This rationale is the motive as to why extraterrestrial beings turned to the base. The most recent information was from the two retired operators claiming that an unidentified object traveled 8 seconds at 120 miles.

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Students and Residents Claim Seeing An Alien Climb A Tree Before Fleeing

A mysterious humanoid was observed coming out from a UFO, climbed a tree, and then jumped back on board the strange object. Three students claimed to have seen the entire bizarre activity in Santa Cruz – a city in Argentina.

According to the report, they saw the UFO circling the area before making a landing. The witnesses had claimed that the humanoid seemed to notice them before it decided to get back quickly on board.

The students were on their way home from school when the event took place.

One female witness said that it started with a bright light in the sky when the impossible happened. The UFO came down and eventually landed.

Another woman said she heard a deafening sound and saw the UFO went down and disappeared.

Residents also claimed to have seen the UFO, which crashed on Calle 2 of the district. They said a weird being climbed a tree.

Another shocked woman described the being as small and gooey, which extended its arms and climbed a tree. The woman added that it had long fingers.

The very unusual activity reportedly happened at 10 pm on Friday in the El Dorado District of the El Bastion Santa Cruz, Argentina.

Some suspected that the students just started a hoax, but one resident even provided a drawing of the so-called alien being.

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Spotted Mysterious ‘Black Squid Object’ Sparks Alien Vessel Theories

When you have seen a black mysterious flying orb, what will you do? For a typical person, his or her instinct is to run for cover. However, others would love to grab their cameras. UFO’s could be anything from aliens and extraterrestrials to a man-made vessel. With the reported sightings almost every day, even the skeptics scratch their heads regarding its origin. However, is this new sighting an exception?

This is the moment when a strange ‘black ring’ extraterrestrial resembling sliced squid hovering in the sky over Argentina was recorded on camera. When footage of the mysterious flying orb emerged on YouTube, it went viral with the speculations over the origin of the phenomenon. It was concluded among conspiracy theorists that the object could be the outline of the alien’s warplane. Despite having a clear photo, still, many people were left baffled. In the image, the object was seen pulsating over the Argentinian town of Tigre, about 28 km north of Buenos Aires. It is not a hidden fact that few viewers negated most mysterious sightings due to the different beliefs. While some claimed it to be an alien warplane flying at “supersonic speed,” there are others that believe that it could have been some form of “chemtrails” of high-flying planes. These high-flying planes are man-made, and hence, the sighting turns out to be identified flying object.

One of the viewers named María Laura Gal believes that the black ring was merely a plume of smoke out of a cannon. The said Cannon was launched at a place near an amusement park in Parque de la Costa. In a post, she wrote that the black squid object appeared in a place that is believed to be an attractive location that launches a cannon. She does not consider that it is something unusual or uncommon. The existence of aliens is still the subject of debates. Whether it is flying warplane or a simple outline, it cannot be denied that there are thousands of unexplained sightings over the years.

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Filer’s Files #22 – 2016 Nasa and the Moon - PART II

Mogelijk minder leefbare exoplaneten bij rode dwergen door oververhitte atmosferen

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Thanks to Time Dilation, Earth’s Core is 2.5 Years Younger Than its Surface

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Did the Red Baron really shoot down a flying saucer over the battlefields of World War I - and did an ‘Angel’ really save the lives of British troops?

Bizarrely, a team of British intelligence officers were assigned to investigate weird sightings in the skies in World War I - becoming the precursor of UFO investigators both real and fictional.

Most of us think of UFOs and mysterious sightings in the sky as a modern phenomenon - but ‘phantom airships’ became a huge panic in the early years of the Twentieth century, and regularly featured in newspapers.

By the time of World War I, a more scientific approach was needed.

A predecessor to MI5 - Military Observation Department Five (MO5), under the control of Lieutenant Colonel Kell - was assigned the task of classifying sightings in the air.

Amid panic about enemy airships, it was a military necessity to weed out ‘phantom airships’ from real aircraft sightings.

Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of the First World War says, ‘It can be regarded as the first ever official guide to studying UFO reports long before the CIA or any other organisation got with the subject when ‘flying saucer’ sightings were all the rage after WWII.

‘During WW! there were numerous reports of mysterious lights and objects moving about in the skies. These were studied by the Assistant Director of Military Aeronautics, a post held by Lieutenant Colonel W.S. Brancker; the department of Military Training; and by the Brancker and Kell can be regarded as the first Mulder and Scully who studied the flow of UFO-type reports that flowed into their offices.’

Lights in the sky

The reports sent to Brancker and Kell sound eerily like today’s UFO sightings - and came amid widespread panic not only about enemy airships but also more mysterious sightings.

A 1914 telegram from the Chief Constable of Lancashire said, ‘Large red light seen at 8.45pm today passing over Runcorn Bridge Arches. Immediately afterwards, an explosion was heard in Widnes and Runcorn.

The guidelines set out by the war office helped officers of MO5 categorise sightings as of natural origin - or as something more mysterious.

Flying saucers

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Various legends about extraterrestrials have circulated about World War I - of which the most astonishing (and implausible) is that German fighter ace the Red Baron shot down a UFO.

Fellow pilots claimed, after the war, that Baron Manfred von Richtofen shot down a flying saucer type craft - from which two inhabitants fled.

Fellow German pilot Peter Waitzrick said that the fighters saw an aircraft like an upside down saucer, ‘We were terrified because we’d never seen anything like it before. The Baron immediately opened fire and the thing went down like a rock, shearing off tree limbs as it crashed into the woods.

‘There’s no doubt in my mind that the Baron shot down some kind of spacecraft from another planet and those little guys who ran off into the woods were space aliens of some kind.

The story is highly dubious, however - given that Waitzrick didn’t share his story until 80 years after the event, and chose to do so in the U.S. tabloid Weekly World News.

The disappearing soldiers

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UFO fans claim that aliens may have ‘abducted’ people from the battlefields of World War I - with a claim of hundreds of men ‘vanishing’ into a cloud during the Gallipoli campaign.

Witnesses claimed to have seen British soldiers marching towards Hill 60 at Sulva Bay in Turkey on August 21, 1915 - before being snatched up by a ‘solid-looking’ cloud.

A statement from a supposed eye-witness published in 1965, said, ‘When they arrived at this cloud they marched straight into it with no hesitation, but no one ever came out to fight. About an hour later this cloud very unobtrusively lifted off the ground until it joined other similar clouds, then they all moved away northwards.’

But it seems likely that this is a hoax. Documents released after the Armistice suggest that 180 bodies found behind enemy lines are those of the ‘missing soldiers’ - and the story of the cloud is a myth.

The ‘Angel’ of Mons

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An ‘Angel’ which many British soldiers credited with saving their lives in one of the first, brutal battles of World War I has been seized on by UFO fans as evidence of extraterrestrials…

Many soldiers credited the strange apparitions with saving their lives - and the story became a staple of parish magazines.

The battle had been one of the first in which the British faced the Germans - and despite retreating, only 1,600 lives were lost.

Decades later, debate rages still - some attributing the ‘Angel’ to a short story from the Evening Standard, others to British intelligence.

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The popular author, Arthur Machen claimed that this legend was created by his fictional ‘The Bowmen’ story published in The Evening News, 29 September 1914.

In it, British soldiers call on St George for aid, and are helped by ghostly bowmen from the Battle of Agincourt. One fact that lends weight to this theory is that few reports of the incident exist before Machen’s story.

Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of World War 1 says, ‘Even today the legend is swathed in controversy. Theories about it range from it being a myth based on Machen’s story, the product of hallucinations due to stress and exhaustion, real angelic visitations, ghosts, swamp gas, airships or alien UFOs projecting or shaping themselves to the expectations of the witnesses.’ 

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Are Superintelligent Robots Secretly Ruling the Universe?

The uncertainty of us being alone in the Universe grows thiner as more and more candidates for sustaining life are continuously being discovered by NASA’s Kepler Telescope.

Many scientists and phylosophers believe that the life form we would encounter first or most, would probably be artificial intelligence with a level of complexity beyond our comprehension, unlike the traditional AI we profetise to live with.

To extend our point of view and to be more susceptible to knowledge, we should take into consideration through which means an advanced alien intelligence would communicate to us. Would it involve cognition, language or even telepathy?

Taking into consideration the multitude of possibilities regarding an encounter with an alien life form, astrobiologists need to start thinking about various modes of cognition.

In the evolutionary process of a supposed extraterrestrial intelligence is involved a “short window observation”, a notion that by the time any civilization learns to transmit radio signal, they are at the verge of another radical upgrade, concerning their own biology, having the human species as an example with the dual concept of singularity that can bring salvation but in the same time can lead to self-destruction.

As a more practical example, we quote Seth Shostak “As soon as a civilization invents radio, they’re within fifty years of computers, then probably, only another fifty to a hundred years from inventing AI. At that point, soft, squishy brains become an outdated model.”

When asked “How do you see the alien life forms throughout the cosmos?”, one would immediately think of the scenarios the Hollywood has given to the public: little, ugly green humanoids or vicious predators built like an invincible war machine, prepared to withstand the most extreme atmosphere on any planet they wish to conquer.

Consider the way we began to explore our galaxy: with programmed robots that can endure any conditions but do not resemble and do not reflect our essence in any way, whatsoever: no free will, no conscience, no biological structure and so on. Hypothetically, if the entire human race would wipe out and somehow would evolve identically to this point, we would find an extraterrestrial intelligence on the Moon, on Mars and wherever we left a mark.

So, whatever alien races there may be in our galaxy or in the others, they would start exploring the Universe in a similar manner, for reasons starting from the safety of the kin, to the point of morality if there is such a concept for those extraterrestrial civilisations.

It seems like most of us are programmed to attribute humanoid features to any extraterrestrial life form, from the psychological to the biological point of view. Our level of reality comprehension limits the concept of absolute evolution to the point of singularity, where the flaws of our organic structure are improved to perfection by uploading our conscience into an artificial intelligence with synthetic body, thus eliminating our mortality.

But to be able to travel through galaxies, distances we cannot even conceive, that extraterrestrial life form would have reached a type of singularity different from our concept, each according to its physical flaws.

The perfect example of “short observation window” phenomenon is the computer interface technology like DARPA’s ElectRX neural implant program that can heal the soldiers’ bodies and mind, which gives us a clue on how close we are to our singularity. Eventually, those Sci Fi movies where the humanity switches from organic to hardware, aren’t really that far from happening in this rhytm.

In this scenario, by the time an encounter with alien life form will happen, we might be intelligent enough to communicate with one another.

Considering we are just born on this planet, having lived only 0.003% of Earth’s entire history, there definitely has to be alien life forms from thousands to millions of years older than our species.

Taking that into account, an average civilization will use radio for approximately 10.000 years, which makes inevitable the extreme evolution of an extraterrestrial civilization that would come in contact with us. And in that case, a mutually beneficial interaction would be unlikely since we would be irrelevant to their level of existence, like comparing us with the monkeys we identify as biological ancestors.

In the same case of encountering an alien life form evolved to the stage of artificial superintelligence, we do not know how they might perceive our existence if futile or not, over a brief analysis on the Kardashev scale, which means other scenarios where we most likely would meet our demise or enslavery. 

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Was There a Worldwide Deluge Five Thousand Years Ago? [Part 1]

There’s an abundance of myths regarding great floods that had washed humanity and countless terrestrial species from the face of the Earth. Various cultures across the world speak of great deluges that had put an end to a life cycle to make way for anew. But is there truth behind all these allegations?

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Probably the most widespread myth of this sort comes from the Christian account of Noah’s Flood which depicts the moment when our ‘wicked’ ancestors were cleansed through heavy rains that lasted for forty days and forty nights. It’s true that the ancients always linked these great catastrophes to their Gods displeasure, but looking beyond this hard to believe connection (though not impossible), we’ll find relevant evidence to support these stories.

 

The ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ describes how the Gods committee decided to flood the entire planet to get rid of mankind. However, EA – the god who made man, sent warning to Utnapishtim of the upcoming events, advising him to construct a gigantic boat to surpass this cruel test. The protagonist sees the sign of the beginning of the end as a spiral of smoke in the horizon. At this point, the sky darkens for a week straight and the tremendous storm descends upon the unaware humans.

 

The grand proportions of the water that washed the land is highlighted at the end of the story, when the ark remains stranded on a mountain peak, after the great flow of water had halted.

 

 

When the Sumerians settled  in what today is known as Sothern Iraq about 5,000 years ago, their scribes wrote about how they managed to reach this place after a great deluge caused by their angry creators known as ‘The Anunnaki,’ or ‘The Shining Ones.’

 

The Chinese and Indian myths also recall a grand deluge that partook five millennia ago. The current Hindu Age, entitled Kali Yuga, began in 3102 BC when climate change occurred alongside flooding.

 

Numerous Native American tribes also remember the times when ravaging floods swept through their lands, forcing them to retreat on the highest of hilltops. South American and Pacific cultures share similar accounts.

 

So, how likely is it for all these stories to be authentic? There must be at least a grain of truth residing in all these ancient myths, otherwise we’d just call it the biggest coincidence of all times, and that doesn’t add up, does it?

 

 

As a matter of fact, the scientific community doesn’t dismiss the possibility of a great flood occurring in forgotten times, but there are more questions rather than answers. Two main theories have proposed a relevant timeline of the events, both of them based on a thorough research performed on two different areas – the flooding of the Black Sea in Eastern Europe, and the other involves a major global flood.

 

Approximately 7,000 years ago, a rapid melting of the icy regions has overwhelmed the Mediterranean Sea which got overflowed with the equivalent force of over 200 Niagara Falls. The vast amount of water spilled over the area where the Black Sea is now located. At that point in time, that region consisted only of freshwater lakes encircled by farmlands. Modern day science acknowledges this hypothesis, as a timeworn river valley and shoreline were discovered on the bottom of the Black Sea.

 

Of course, there was also the crew led by National Geographic’s Society explorer Robert Ballard who uncovered distinct fossils belonging to extinct species living exclusively in freshwater areas that date back from 7,000 to 15,500 years ago. All of them were found embedded on the floor of the salty Black Sea.

 

So is it possible that ‘The Great Flood’ was only a local event, or did it sweep over most of the world, as many legends suggest? Find out more about the second main theory involving a global flood in the second part of the article.

 

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Bizarre UFO With Burning Tail Lights Up Over a Populated Area in India

Various UFOs Were Photograped During the Gemini Project, Astronauts Reveal

After the space race began, numerous reports involving UFOs were sent by the crew of the Gemini Project, and some of them even speak of the notorious Black Knight Satellite.

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• “The speed of our evolution knows no limits and the man is a species to whom boundaries are and always will be a thing of the past.
• Who knew that soon after developing the most rudimental concepts of today’s technology, humanity’s ambition to explore the great beyond may lead us to the watchers?”

Short History of the Space Race:

 

The first steps in breaking this new and final frontier took shape in the form of the Space Race fueled by the Cold War between the USA and the USSR, in order to prove superiority over each other, a sort of global scale intimidation game.

 

The first move belonged to the Russians in 1957 with the unmanned launch of Sputnik, which triggered the ego of the US Air Force leading in the creation of the NASA organization and starting a series of space mission projects: Project Mercury, Project Gemini and the famous Project Apollo, marked in the history as the first Moon landing.

 

The first project took place between 1958 through 1963 and it consisted of test launches with no human passengers aboard. The last two years of the Mercury Project converged with the first two years of the next phase of the Space Race: Project Gemini.

 

 

Project Gemini was a preamble of the main objective, to land astronauts on the Moon and in order to get to that point, other secondary but nonetheless major objectives had to be achieved, such as the first docking of two space ships and the Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) also known as “space walks” outside the spacecraft, in zero-gravity conditions.

 

The Black Knight Satellite Conundrum

 

18 – 21 July 1966, Gemini X

 

During the events of Gemini X program, the astronauts took a few photographs that revealed after almost 50 years, some details that created controversies around them.  This photographic evidence consolidates some beliefs around a bizarre cosmic relic known as “The Black Knight Satellite”.

 

Its origin is most unclear; however, it has been determined that this mysterious object is orbiting our planet for over 13000 years, and its strange behavior and characteristics caused more confusion on whether it is a part of an older space craft that kept drifting on a random course, at a distance of 600 miles from the surface.

 

 

It was excluded the possibility of a spy satellite on behalf both USA and USSR, getting into the attention of rogue scientists and even the military and the media, despite an attempt of press coverage by the NASA.

 

It seems that Earth is no stranger to UFO apparitions beyond its atmosphere and the Black Knight Satellite might not be the only heavenly body to survey our planet.

 

In the same year, an even more intriguing photograph was taken, this time from a different angle, catching what seemed to be pretty clear, the image of a grey space craft with multicolored lights.

 

 

Though no report stated that the dark satellite to leave the unnatural and irregular orbiting trajectory, it is not excluded that the multicolored UFO to be same Black Knight, but in a clearly active state.

 

12 – 15 September, Gemini XI

 

A sharp eye revealed on a photo taken during the Gemini XI program, that a so called spot on a cloud had a strikingly resembling shape of the Black Knight Satellite, as you can see in the video. Some skeptical minds would blame the cosmic radiations for the picture flaw to be mistaken with the presence of the dark object, which with every zoom looks more alike a static flying saucer.

 

This case alone is as obvious as it gets, since this shape is high above the clouds and slow enough to be caught on film.

 

 

11 – 15 November, Gemini XII

 

Courtesy to NASA’s Hi-Res capture, this time we have undoubtedly not one, but two space crafts that may or may not be connected with the Black Knight Satellite, considering the same multicolored lights photographed during the Gemini X program.

 

 

Either that or we may have fallen victim to our burning desire to find or to be found by extraterrestrial intelligence, and those two bright lights are nothing but simple light trick.

 

Of course, science could offer us many explanations but in our present stage of development, we have an inner certainty that since the dawn of mankind on this planet, we were never alone and our evolution has been if not somehow influenced, at least overwatched just like an infant learns to make his first steps into a universe as big as his imagination.

 

 

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President Obama geeft voor vertrek mogelijk schat aan UFO-geheimen vrij

Oudste menselijke bouwwerk: 176.000 jaar oude Franse ‘Stonehenge’ ontdekt

Bewijs voor tijdreizen? Apple-topman ontdekt ‘iPhone’ in 350 jaar oud Nederlands schilderij

PROCESSING 95% UFO Over New Taipei City, Taiwan On May 26, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting:  May 26, 2016
Location of sighting: New Taipei City, Taiwan

I was just closing the window, leaving work at 7:30pm when I saw the red flashing light in the sky having in one place. I have never seen it before and when I recorded it, the light looks white. It was a big cloudy and there were no stars that could be seen through the pollution in the sky.  I recorded it only for a minute, because all I had was an iphone 6 and I knew the video would not be so great due to the distance. I checked it again 7 minutes later when I got home and the object was gone. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

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TV News Asks Is this a UFO? Nighttime lights raise questions in Dinwiddie, May 26, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: May 26, 2016
Location of sighting: Dinwiddie county, Virginia, USA
News Source: 

http://wtvr.com/2016/05/26/is-this-a-ufo-nighttime-lights-raise-questions-in-dinwiddie/

Guys, this is very strange, a red light in the sky was seen for over Virginia...and guess what? I recorded a similar UFO (white recorded, but red to the eye) last night over Taiwan last night. Apparently these things were worldwide, but we have to wait and see. I will try to post my video today, its from my iphone but you can see it. This could be the beginning of something very big, to see this kind of coverage by similar UFOs on the same night. Taiwan is half way around the world from the US.
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

News states:
DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. -- Lights overhead in the McKinney night sky had residents scratching their heads and asking for answers. Some resident even claimed it could be a flying saucer with life from another world. CBS 6 went out to McKinney to try and shed a light on what could be flying overhead. The lights don't move, and there were no audible sounds that would indicate an engine running. While this flying object may stay unidentified for now, CBS 6 Chief Meteorologist Zach Daniel has a couple of guesses of what it could be. He says the lights most likely are coming from satellites or perhaps from another planet visible in the sky.

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UFO Cloud Over Harrison, Arkansas On May 8, 2016 Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting:  May 8, 2016, 11:20 am
Location of sighting:  Harrison, Arkansas, USA
Source:  Reader sent to UFO Sightings Daily

This is a mail in report that came in last week. The eyewitness caught this awesome disk cloud moving over Arkansas. When I altered the contrast, I noticed that the front of the disk (right side) had a large space between it and the normal clouds around it. Its actually pushing through the clouds, but not touching the other cloud. Also in the far back there is a small UFO coming out of the big one. Really cool catch and thank you for sending this into us here. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

Eyewitness states: 
I was out riding my motorcycle and was heading back to my house and I looked up and seen this cloud. I hurried up and went to my house grabbed my Nikon D3300 digital camera and shot this picture. What do you think ?

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White Triangle UFO Shoots Off With Two Rockets/Missiles Following Over Las Vegas, Nevada On April 22, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting:  April 22, 2016
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

This UFO appears to be escorting two other UFOs or Two rockets into space. I believe its called slight of hand...meaning make people look to the rockets, so they don't notice the UFO. The UFO is not a disk, but appears to be triangular in shape. Maybe the newest version of the TR3B...going by a different name of course. This is pure alien tech there in the middle of your screen, but may be controlled by USAF, but we need to also consider that there is a base inside of Nellis AFB (behind the shooting range) which is inhabited by Tall White aliens who also have white ships. This ship is white. Las Vegas in only a ten minute drive from Nellis AFB. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

Eyewitness states: 
UFO being chased or something.

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Mystery Plumes: Did the Sun Bruise Mars?

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

In recent years, the Red Planet has been doing something quite weird and scientist are stumped.

On a handful of occasions bizarre "plumes" have been observed protruding from Mars' upper atmosphere. A 2012 event was spotted by amateur astronomers and the phenomenon persisted for several days. Even the Hubble Space Telescope has been witness to a plume.

PHOTO: 'Peeping Tom' Hubble Spies Mars' Full Frontal

At first it was assumed some form of high-altitude cloud may be to blame, or maybe a storm kicked up dust into the upper atmosphere. But each hypothesis had its flaws and planetary scientists were left confused.

Now, European Space Agency scientists heading the Mars Express mission have studied this Martian oddity and found pretty strong evidence that the plumes aren't produced by the planet's weather; they're likely sparked by space weather.

Interactions between the sun and planetary environments are well known. As highly energized particles from the solar wind hit Earth's global magnetic field, for example, they can get trapped in the magnetosphere and funneled to high latitude regions. This influx of solar wind ions will collide with high-altitude atmospheric gases, causing them to glow, creating auroras. Where ever there's a magnetic field and an atmosphere, the sun can kick off a dazzling lightshow and we’ve seen auroras throughout the solar system, including Jupiter, Saturn and even Venus.

PHOTOS: The Mysteries Behind the Dunes of Mars

But solar interactions are not limited to auroras. When Earth is hit by coronal mass ejections — basically bubbles of magnetized plasma ejected from the sun's lower atmosphere — the entire planet's magnetic configuration can feel its effects, setting up powerful electrical currents through the atmosphere and energizing our ionosphere.

Mars, however, does not possess a global magnetic field to deflect the worst the sun can throw at it. When a CME hits Earth, the magnetosphere protects the atmosphere, but on Mars, lacking this magnetic shield, it suffers atmospheric erosion. Though it is thought Mars once had a thicker atmosphere, over billions of years, the constant flow of solar wind particles have stripped it away. Mars' atmosphere is, literally, leaking into space.

If space weather has such a powerful influence on Mars' atmospher loss, could it also be to blame for these odd plumes? Mars Express scientists have turned to their veteran Mars orbiter for answers.

The 2012 Mars plume made world headlines and Mars Express was there collecting data of the local space environment. Did a space weather event occur around the time the plume was observed?

"Our plasma observations tell us that there was a space weather event large enough to impact Mars and increase the escape of plasma from the planet's atmosphere," said David Andrews of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in an ESA news release. "But we were not able to see any signatures in the ionosphere that we can categorically say were due to the presence of this plume."

There is circumstantial evidence that Mars' ionosphere — an upper layer of the atmosphere filled with charged particles, or ions — was in some way influenced by a space weather event, such as the impact of a CME. But because of the plume's location, it is a challenge acquire additional observations of the event, so just because there is some evidence a CME-triggered event is at play, it's circumstantial at best.

Now scientists are looking over archival data in the hope of finding occasions when a plume occurred during a CME hit. In 1997, for example, a Mars plume was spotted by Hubble and at around the same time, a fast CME was recorded as hitting Earth. Unfortunately there was no information from any Mars mission as to how that CME impacted the Red Planet's atmosphere, if it affected it at all.

ANALYSIS: Mysterious Mars Plumes Defy Explanation

"The jury is still out as to what physics is at play here, but given the altitude of the plume, we think that plasma interactions must be important," said Andrews. "One idea is that a fast-travelling CME causes a significant perturbation in the ionosphere resulting in dust and ice grains residing at high altitudes in the upper atmosphere being pushed around by the ionospheric plasma and magnetic fields, and then lofted to even higher altitudes by electrical charging."

This, argues Andrews, could produce an obvious plume in the upper atmosphere that can be seen from Earth. It's basically an atmospheric bruise cased by CME impact. But like all good mysteries, more data is needed, but it looks like we may finally be closing in on a possible explanation for these bizarre Martian plumes.

Originally published on Discovery News.

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Juno Spacecraft: NASA's New Mission To Jupiter

Artist's illustration of NASA's Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. The probe will enter orbit around the solar system's largest planet on July 4, 2016.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Juno spacecraft will study Jupiter in detail to give scientists a better idea of the gas giant's weather, magnetic environment and formation history. It is expected to arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. 

If successful, Juno will be only the second long-term mission at Jupiter after the Galileo spacecraft of the 1990s and 2000s. However, Juno's mission is planned to last for a much shorter period, as it is currently being targeted to impact Jupiter in February 2018.

[Complete coverage of the Juno Mission to Jupiter]

Development history

Juno is one of three New Frontiers probes that NASA is currently operating or building. The others are New Horizons, which flew by Pluto in 2015, and OSIRIS-REx, which is expected to fly to asteroid 101955 Bennu in 2020 to collect a sample and return it to Earth.

New Frontiers was a program NASA created in 2003 for medium-sized missions that are capped at $1 billion in development and launch costs each. (The Curiosity rover, by contrast, cost about $2.5 billion.) A fourth mission is expected to begin selection in November 2017, with a launch for 2024.

The National Research Council identified a Jupiter orbiter as a scientific priority in 2003 in its decadal survey, "New Frontiers in the Solar System: An Integrated Exploration Strategy." Among the questions raised at the time were:

• Does Jupiter have a central core, which will help narrow down how the planet was formed?
• How much water is in its atmosphere, which helps researchers understand how big planets were created?
• How it is possible that giant weather systems remain so stable?
• What is the nature of the magnetic field and plasma surrounding Jupiter?

Juno was selected in 2005 and was originally expected to launch in June 2009, but was delayed until August 2011 due to NASA budgetary restrictions.

"The schedule change posed challenges for the Juno team," wrote Rick Grammier, the project manager for Juno, in a 2008 blog post. "Inflation would add cost, as would the personnel and management expenses of a longer project, even with the team size frozen at a low level during the early years." 

"Another challenge, he added, "was figuring out how to maintain our heritage designs and retain skilled personnel, making the best use of their expertise during the suddenly extended early stages of the project."

The team decided to take advantage of the "unusually long Phase B" (a planning phase) to find and reduce the risks to the spacecraft's development. With three years to work with instead of the usual one, they hoped to avoid design changes late in the game, communication gaps and other matters.

Launch and in-flight maneuvers

Juno launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Aug. 5, 2011. While eight other spacecraft have flown in Jupiter's neighborhood in decades past, part of what makes Juno stand apart is its ability to generate solar power from Jupiter's neighborhood. The other spacecraft relied on nuclear power, but the reserves for plutonium generation have dwindled for NASA in recent decades.

"Solar power is possible on Juno due to improved solar-cell performance, energy-efficient instruments and spacecraft, a mission design that can avoid Jupiter's shadow, and a polar orbit that minimizes the total radiation," wrote NASA in 2016, when Juno broke a solar distance record for all spacecraft. (The previous record-holder was the Rosetta mission, which arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko – beyond the orbit of Mars – in 2014.)

Before setting out for Jupiter for good, Juno earned a speed boost of more than 8,800 mph (3.9 kilometers per second) when it flew by Earth on Oct. 9, 2013. The spacecraft took images of our planet (it reminded principal investigator Scott Bolton of Star Trek imagery) and also listened in on amateur radio signals as part of an outreach effort with ham radio operators.

In February 2016, the Juno spacecraft did a maneuver to put in on course for the gas giant for a July 4, 2016, arrival. Independence Day has been an auspicious date for NASA spacecraft arrival in the past. Examples include the Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner mission arrival at the Red Planet (1997) and Deep Impact's planned collision with Comet Tempel 1 (2005). 

Viking 1, NASA's first lander on Mars, was also supposed to touch down on July 4, 1976, but when the spacecraft got closer, pictures revealed the landing site was too rough for a landing. Viking 1 successfully landed at an alternate site on July 20, 1976, seven years to the day after the first human moon landing.

[Infographic: How NASA's Juno Missions to Jupiter Works]

Long-term stay at Jupiter

Several spacecraft have flown by Jupiter en route to other locations in the solar system (such as Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, and New Horizons). Even during the brief flybys, they have been able to glimpse interesting information about Jupiter and its moons. For example, New Horizons caught a large outburst on the volcanic moon Io. 

To date, however, only one mission stayed for the long term: Galileo. After being launched from space shuttle Atlantis in October 1989, Galileo arrived at Jupiter in 1995 and spent eight years studying the planet and its moons. 

Galileo's discoveries include finding potential salt-water oceans under the crusts of Europa, Callisto and Ganymede. It also sent a descent probe into Jupiter's atmosphere. Much of the mission's value also came from spending nearly a decade in Jupiter's system, allowing scientists the rare chance to do up-close, lengthy observations of the largest planet in the solar system.

Juno aims to go further. It will focus solely on Jupiter and try to answer at least some of the following questions, according to NASA:

• How much water does Jupiter have in its atmosphere? This is important to figure out if our formation theories of the solar system are correct, or if they need some work.
• What is Jupiter's atmosphere like? Specifically, what are the properties at every layer such as gas composition, temperature and cloud motions? Figuring out the weather on Jupiter will help us learn more about gas giant weather generally. (It's important for planets in our solar system, as well as exoplanets.)
• What are the magnetic and gravity fields of Jupiter? This will give scientists some hints of what the interior structure of Jupiter looks like.
• How does the magnetic environment of Jupiter affect its atmosphere? Part of that study will come through looking at auroras.

Additional resources

• NASA Missions: Juno: Peering Beneath Jupiter's Clouds
• NASA's New Frontiers Program

Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect which Pioneer missions flew by Jupiter.

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White House evades UFO question as Barack Obama 'moves close to X-Files revelation'

• BY JON DILLON

The heat is on an official spokesperson in this video as UFO revelations are reported to be on the President's agenda before he leaves offices

This is the moment a White House spokesperson dodges a question about the Roswell incident - only to be warned: "You're not going to get off easy like that."

White House press correspondent April Ryan quizzed press secretary Josh Earnest about the famous incident during a media briefing.

It is the second time the spokesman has come under fire from reporters about UFOsin a week.

Another correspondent had earlier asked Earnest about Area 51 and whether Barack Obama would "beat Hillary Clinton to the punch" by revealing America's secrets about extra-terrestrials.

Read more: Barack Obama 'will reveal alien and UFO details before he leaves office'

The questions follow weeks of publicity of the Democratic presidential candidate's pledge to release Government-held UFO files, if she wins the election in November.

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Press secretary Josh Earnest laughed off the question concerning Roswell

Earlier this month, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell also asked Hillary Clinton's spokesmanBrian Fallon about her being declared the "first ET candidate."

Ryan, who is also Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, asked Earnest: "There’s this increased interest in Roswell. You’re doing your dance at the podium about it. Is there a such a thing?

"Are you keeping quiet because of security concerns? Are we to think that there might be life beyond here? You need to answer this."

WH.GOV

Correspondent April Ryan posed the alien question to the White House spokesperson

Earnest, appearing nervous and drinking water after being put on the spot, replied: "I’ll just say, April, there are some questions that even the White House Press Secretary doesn’t have answers to, and this is one of them."

Read more: Mysterious video shows 200 ft high towers in Moon crater

Unhappy with his response, she hits back: "You’re not going to get off easy like that."

The Roswell incident happened in July 1947 when a 'flying saucer' allegedly crashed in the New Mexico desert.

Witnesses claim the military recovered the wreckage and alien bodies but the US Airforce said it was a weather balloon with crash test dummies on board.

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UFOs are part of the conversation for presidents and presidential candidates

Stephen Bassett, America's only lobbyist on the ET/UFO issue, believes President Obama is on the brink of telling the world the truth.

He told Mirror online: "When Andrea Mitchell and April Ryan pressed the White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest for comments on the breaking story about the Clinton/ET/Disclosure/Rockefeller Initiative connection, a milestone was reached.

This campaign issue is now publicly seen as inside the White House. Almost certainly more questions will be raised in the West Wing in the coming weeks."

Read more: Hillary Clinton confirms she WILL release secret UFO files if she's elected

Grant Cameron, an expert on US presidents and UFOs, said: "For the third time in a week the White House is asked if the ET story is for real.

Is the International Space Station under attack?

ISS Space Station Attacked or Attacks Missile or UFO Interesting Capture

https://youtu.be/pLWZSfdWnmk

ISS under attack? Bizarre 'UFO or Missile Filmed by International Space Station'

https://youtu.be/Y_a2YzM_XG0

"The last time this happened was in 1997 when Bill Clinton's aide Webb Hubbell put out his book 'Friends in High Places' and then you have to go back to 1954 with President Eisenhower.

"The blood is in the water and the reporters have started to circle. These questions go to confirm that the president is the Wizard of Oz behind the cover-up."

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NASA Openly Admits Alien Life Exists: Get Ready for Disclosure!

Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.

Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:

“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”

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