China Reveals That a Massive Alien Outpost and Mining Facility is Operating on the Moon

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UFOs Perform Astounding Aerial Spectacle Above a Secluded Forest in Poland

Numerous UFOs were recorded over a desolate forest in Poland just when the sun was setting. Their unusual behavior, brisk moves, dip in brightness and morphing techniques are clearly out of this world.

Numerous accounts speak of unusual beings that coexisted together with humans on this planet. Since the rise of modern society, it appears that such entities are nowhere to be found, vaguely indicating that these stories were only fables or myths transmitted by our ancestors from generation to generation. But how much truth does this hypothesis really bear?

Roughly one century had passed since the invention of proper photographic equipment. Since then, countless pictures and videos of UFOs have surfaced, revealing an entire world of sightings that defy most explanations. Although in the last decades the UFO phenomenon had caught much traction and many appearances were debunked as hoaxes, there’s still plenty of authentic material that never got to be explained through our current scientific means and logic.

But what if our ancestors had video cameras back then? Would humanity accept the existence of otherworldly beings on Earth, or would they still be debunked as fake appearances?

Although they lacked the technological means, our ancestors frequently answered to unusual sightings by depicting them using various tools, and on different materials. Fromcave paintings, to scrolls and books, the UFO phenomenon was known throughout thousands of years, but with this rapid technological shift, our attention was drawn by the fact that we can slowly turn our imagination into reality, thus leaving aside the UFO phenomenon until the beginning of the 1990s.

There is no denial that UFOs exist on this planet, and as video cameras become more complex and affordable at the same time, the quality of recorded sightings grows exponentially. Such is the case of this video showing a group of bright objects behaving unnatural over a secluded forest in Poland.

The objects are known as orb UFOs, and people have reported seeing them all across the world. Contrary to the artificial alien crafts, these playful spheres of light are believed to be organic in nature because of the brisk moves they perform that seem to defy our earthly standards of flying devices capabilities.

Dr. Ruehl has studied them a few decades ago and concluded they are plasmatic entities, possibly from another dimension. They don’t rely on a physical body because they’ve progressed to another level of universal knowledge, thus leaving their material bodies behind. They can now switch from one dimension to another, and when they do so, develop an energy shield around them like the one seen in the video above.

Their shape is not always perfectly round, as they are sometimes seen morphing above the ground. This shapeshifting process makes their aspect undefined and vibrant, similar to how a liquid acts in outer space. Bigger entities sometimes release smaller UFOs, a phenomenon explained through their plasmatic nature that allows them to divide into smaller bits that appear to be sentient as well.

Their purpose on this planet remains a speculative matter. One hypothesis proposed they had been residing on the Earth ever since life began, making them a kind of primordial lifeform that had evolved across countless years of evolution. It is also believed that they exist throughout the entire universe.

Other theories claim these UFOs are alien devices used to monitor humanity. They could be either remote controlled by a species of extraterrestrials, or could be sentient because they are a form of artificial intelligence. However, either cases are not sufficient for explaining their shapeshifting and liquid appearance.

The only proposal in this case would be that intelligent devices/entities possess technology that’s way ahead of our time, thus limiting the comparison field available to our species. In other words, it would be impossible (for now) to understand the technology behind a sentient and artificial-in-nature device that’s monitoring the planet.

Whatever the case, we expect that time will eventually reveal the exact origins and purpose of these UFOS. Until then, keep your eyes on the sky and help us spread the word about this ongoing UFO phenomenon.

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From Trash to Treasure: Scientists Turn Plastic Bottles and Bags Into Liquid Fuel

By: Nidhi Goyal 

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UFO Hovering Over Mt. Shasta, Could Be From Alien Base Below Mountain, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

 

Date of sighting: June 25, 2016
Location of sighting: Mt. Shasta, California, USA

I remember living in CA as a child and my mother hiking around MT. Shasta then coming home and showing me two small (1 inch) clear crystals she found on it. I asked her about it and she went on to tell me a story about holy beings living below Shasta, and that the crystals came from them. I never thought anything about it till now, but looking it up I found a site talking about the holy city. Click here to read about it. Its kinda amazing. My mom never said aliens...but it makes sense and their physical descriptions from eyewitness match others descriptions. Heres a painting below of what they look like, and a similar crystal he is holding that my mom found on Mt Shasta long ago. I still remember playing with those crystals. 
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Eyewitness states:
So, we saw several UFO's today above Mt. Shasta. Here is a video with one of the main UFO's, waving around the sky, & flashing, with a darker object under it at times. If you go frame-by-frame, then you can see several other white objects shooting around the sky with extras speed. Separately, there are black objects, some of which may be bugs? We were less than a mile from Bunny Flat, which is at 7,000 feet. Mt. Shasta is over 14,000 feet.

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The Ohio UFO Pursuit

Police officers had experienced one of the fascinating encounters with an alleged structured, low- level UFO in the early morning of April 17, 1966. Portage County, Ohio officers at Sheriff’s Department first noticed the strange object rising from near ground level with bright light.

The sergeant ordered a chase of the object and the personnel did it for 85 miles across the border into Pennsylvania. Police officers from other jurisdictions also joined the aerial pursuit operation.

Mounted Deputy Wilbur ‘Barney’ Neff and Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur investigated an alleged abandoned automobile on Route 224. Spaur said that he usually look behind him, so no one can come up behind. When he looked in a wooded area behind them, he saw something strange. The mysterious thing came up to approximately tree top level – about a hundred feet. Then it started moving towards them.

Spaur looked at Barney and noticed that he still watching the thing as it came over the trees. Barney was stunned, and the object kept getting brighter and started to light the area. Spaur told Barney to look over his shoulder, and he did.

The bizarre object stopped right over on top of them. They looked down to check their hands and clothes, but they weren’t burning or anything. The only sound in the area was a hum.

They were petrified, and both went inside their car. They observed the UFO moved toward the east and hovered again. Spaur reported their experience to the dispatcher as the object was around 250 feet away, lighting up the area brilliantly.

Sergeant Schoenfelt told them to follow and observe it while they got a photo unit to the scene. Spaur and Neff went south on Route 183, then returned east on Route 224, which put the unknown thing to their right.

They continued the chase while Spaur is in conversation with other police cars that were trying to catch up with them. Police Officer Wayne Huston at East Palestine, Ohio monitored the radio broadcasts, and he saw the UFO pass by with the sheriff’s cruiser in hot pursuit. He eventually joined the chase.

According to Spaur, when the UFO stopped and hovered, there was traffic on the radio about jets being sent to chase the UFO. However, the UFO seemed to hear every word about fighter planes that it went straight up at a very fast speed and gone. Until today, the case is unsolved and continues to be a mystery.

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Canadian Survey Reveals An Increased Number Of UFO Sighting Reports

Quebec is on top of the list with the most sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to the 2015 Canadian UFO Survey.

Winnipeg-based Ufology Research conducted the survey and released the result on Monday. It says that the year 2015 had the second-largest number of sightings in the last 30 years with 1,267. Second only to a whopping 1,981 sightings in 2012, which was also the alleged year of the end of the world based on the Mayan calendar.

Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta reported more sightings in 2015 than the year before, but Quebec comprises for around 35 per cent of all reports last year.
The number of reported sightings in Quebec was way up from previous years when it was only responsible for between five and fifteen percent.

Montreal has 97 reports; Toronto, 78; Vancouver, 69 and Edmonton with just 36 sightings.

The survey reveals that most sightings last about 16 minutes and over 50 percent of the reports were of simple lights in the sky.

The research noted that UFO sighting reports remain high because of several reasons, including better access to reporting sightings, more secret military flights, or the downturn of the economy that causes people to look upward for assistance.

The study also admitted that no concrete evidence of the involvement of extraterrestrial contact of some UFO cases. The continued increase of reported UFO sightings from the public suggests that further examination of the phenomenon by physical, medical and social scientists is needed.

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The “Great Flood” caused by an enormous space cloud?

I am pretty sure the Great Flood did happen. While it is popularized as a Christian story in English speaking countries, the Great Flood transcends almost every single culture around the world. So I don’t doubt it happened. But the main issue is where did the water come from? Most of theories I have seen require bending the rules of the observable reality that we live in.

Back in 2011 scientists had discovered a massive cloud of water deep in space.

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Large cloaked UFO spotted over the Pacific Ocean( VIDEO )

The Canada-France-Hawaii 3.6 meter optical/infrared telescope a top the summit of Mauna Kea, a 4200 meter, dormant volcano located on the island of Hawaii spotted a large unknown comet-like object over the Pacific Ocean on June 25, 2016.

MrMBB333 who monitors the recorded CFH data frequently says that he has never seen anything quite like this object. It resembles a comet but it looks like something else, like some kind of cloaked UFO of some sort.

There is strong evidence that UFOs, while flying low enough to be seen from the ground, do cloak themselves with clouds which they apparently generate and mists as camouflage to keep themselves hidden from the people.

It is also said that UFOs which travel dimensional produce a cloud of vapor or moisture in traversing from there to here.

About the strange object above the Pacific Ocean, it certainly doesn’t fit any natural classification of a comet, meteor or cloud. It’s more likely an artificially generated object.

  

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Airplane passenger captures strange blue light in the clouds (Video)

A new footage posted to YouTube on June 24, 2016 by user ModernGalaxy purporting to show a UFO being filmed from a plane window.

A powerful blue light from the window caught the attention of a passenger on board the jet airliner when he decided to film the strange phenomenon in the clouds.

As we know, anything that's filmed though a window can pick up any light or lights behind camera, but after a closer look at the object, this does not seem to be the case.

Although the sighting was filmed from an unknown location, it doesn’t seem to be fake or CGI. A reasonable explanation for this phenomenon could be a beacon located at the top of a mountain that emits a blinking shining light skyward unless the blue triangular light belongs to a flying object from unknown origin.

  

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Gaat Marsrover Curiosity met eigen ogen stromend water op Mars zien?

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Er is mogelijk vloeibaar water te vinden op het oppervlak van Mars. En NASA speelt met de gedachte om Curiosity erop af te sturen.

Zo af en toe verschijnen op het oppervlak van Mars donkere strepen. Ze worden ook wel Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) genoemd en zijn alleen in de warmere seizoenen op de rode planeet te vinden. De ‘streepjes’ zijn vaak minder dan vijf meter breed en worden korter als de temperatuur op Mars daalt. Gaandeweg verdwijnen ze om – als de temperaturen stijgen – weer terug te keren. Aangenomen wordtdat de donkere strepen gevormd worden door zout, stromend water.

Recurring Slope Lineae in een krater op Mars.

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona.

Curiosity
Natuurlijk staan onderzoekers te springen om het water nader te bestuderen. En Marsrover Curiosity kan daar wel eens een sleutelrol in gaan spelen. De rover is op het moment bezig om Mount Sharp te beklimmen. En tijdens die beklimming zou de rover ook dichter in de buurt komen van twee hellingen waar deze donkere strepen wel eens gespot zijn. Curiosity zou de hellingen langdurig kunnen bestuderen om te zien of ze door de tijd heen veranderen en te achterhalen of de donkere strepen daadwerkelijk ontstaan door toedoen van water en niet door een ander (droog) verschijnsel.

Voorzichtig
Klinkt als een prima plan. Maar NASA is bijzonder voorzichtig. “Het zijn niet alleen steile hellingen,” vertelt onderzoeker Jim Green. Er moet ook rekening gehouden worden met wat hij ‘planetaire bescherming’ noemt. “In andere woorden: hoe kunnen we zoeken naar sporen van leven zonder deze plekken te besmetten met bacteriën van de aarde?”

Gedijen op Mars
Voor ruimtevaartuigen de aarde verlaten, worden ze gesteriliseerd: alle micro-organismen die op de ruimtevaartuigen huizen, worden gedood. Maar uitsluiten dat de ruimtevaartuigen op het moment van vertrek nog micro-organismen bevatten, is onmogelijk. Er is dus altijd een kans dat ook op Curiosity nog micro-organismen huizen. Natuurlijk is het leven op Mars – met onder meer extreme schommelingen in temperatuur – hard. Maar sommige micro-organismen kunnen zich – zeker als ze in kieren en gaten van Curiosity huizen – wellicht prima op de rode planeet redden. Het is natuurlijk niet de bedoeling dat deze micro-organismen ook op de rode planeet gaan gedijen, iets wat kan gebeuren als ze in een gebied terechtkomen met eigenschappen die gunstig zijn voor leven, zoals de aanwezigheid van water. De aardse bacteriën kunnen op Mars belangrijk bewijsmateriaal (voor de aanwezigheid van Martiaans leven) vernietigen of wetenschappers op het verkeerde been zetten doordat ze aangezien worden voor Martiaanse bacteriën.

WIST JE DAT…

…onderzoekers al eens pleitten voor ‘nationale parken’ op Mars? Juist om deze planeet te beschermen tegen aards leven.

Afweging
Natuurlijk moeten dergelijke situaties voorkomen worden. En dus moet NASA goed nadenken alvorens deze Curiosity naar de donkere strepen stuurt. Hoe groot moet de afstand tussen Curiosity en de donkere strepen minimaal zijn om elk risico uit te sluiten? “Dat is de vraag die we al vroeg in het proces moeten beantwoorden,” stelt onderzoeker Catharine Conley. Ze stelt dat een kilometers grote afstand waarschijnlijk geen probleem is. “Maar als we veel dichterbij willen komen, moeten we op voorhand goed weten hoe groot de kans is dat aardse organismen van de rover komen zetten en dat vertelt ons dan hoe ver de rover (van de strepen, red.) weg moet blijven.”

Curiosity werd in 2011 gelanceerd en arriveerde in 2012 op Mars. Het belangrijkste doel van de rover? Vaststellen of Mars leefbaar is of dat ooit was. Ergens in de komende maanden zal moeten blijken of ook het bestuderen van de donkere strepen op Mars tot het takenpakket van de rover gaat behoren.

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"NASA Weighs Use of Rover to Image Potential Mars Water Sites" - NASA

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Juno kiekt Jupiter en zijn kroonjuwelen

Tim Kraaijvanger

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DIT HEBBEN WE NOG NOOIT MEEGEMAAKT ( VIDEO )

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DANSENDE UFO'S ROND POPOCATEPETL  VULKAAN IN MEXICO ( VIDEO )

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De planetoïde: 7 dingen die je moet weten

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Komende week – 30 juni – is het de dag van de planetoïde. Een goede reden om ons eens even in deze ruimtestenen te verdiepen!

Planetoïde Mathilde: één van de weinige planetoïden waar we close-up foto’s van bezitten. Deze planetoïde heeft een diameter van ongeveer 50 kilometer.

Afbeelding: NASA.

1. Ze zijn niet moeders mooiste
Planetoïden zijn ruimtestenen die – net als bijvoorbeeld de aarde – om de zon heen draaien. Ze onderscheiden zich van (dwerg)planeten doordat ze kleiner zijn en onvoldoende zwaartekracht bezitten om een mooie ronde vorm aan te nemen. Echt mooi zijn planetoïden dan ook niet: ze hebben vaak grillige vormen en zijn bovendien vaak bedekt met kraters. Mooi of niet: onderzoekers vinden planetoïden machtig interessant. De ruimtestenen zijn namelijk restanten uit de jonge jaren van het zonnestelsel en kunnen ons naar verwachting veel meer vertellen over hoe het er in die tijd in ons stelsel aan toeging. De meeste planetoïden bevinden zich tussen de baan van Mars en Jupiter, in de zogenoemde planetoïdengordel. Hier zijn miljoenen planetoïden te vinden.

De planetoïden die samen de planetoïdengordel vormen, hebben op deze afbeelding een grijze kleur gekregen. Ze bevinden zich tussen de baan van Mars en Jupiter.

Afbeelding: Mdf (via Wikimedia Commons).

2. Sommige planetoïden hebben een maantje
En de planetoïde Ida is er daar één van. In 1993 scheerde ruimtesonde Galileo langs de ongeveer 30 kilometer grote ruimtesteen. En op de beelden die Galileo maakte, ontdekten onderzoekers iets bijzonders. Ida is niet alleen. De planetoïde bleek een eigen maantje te hebben dat de naam Dactylo kreeg. Vandaag de dag is van ongeveer 150 planetoïden bekend dat ze een maan bezitten.

Planetoïde Ida met rechts het maantje Dactylo.

Afbeelding: NASA.

3. Sommige planetoïden hebben ringen
Nog niet zo heel lang geleden – in 2014 – ontdekten onderzoekers dat planetoïden niet alleen maantjes, maar ook ringen kunnen bezitten. Hoewel we ringen associëren met gasreuzen zoals Saturnus, blijken ook kleine planetoïden er soms over te beschikken. In 2014 werden ze ontdekt rond planetoïde Chariklo(deze planetoïde is 230 kilometer groot). Inmiddels denken onderzoekers te weten hoe die ringen ontstaan en achten ze het heel aannemelijk dat er nog veel meer planetoïden met ringen zijn.

Een artistieke impressie van Chariklo en zijn ringen.

Afbeelding: ESO / L. Calçada / M. Kornmesser / Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org).

4. Soms zet een planetoïde zijn zinnen op een bezoek aan aarde
Het kan zomaar gebeuren dat de baan van een planetoïde deze richting de aarde voert. Dat is niet direct reden voor paniek. Alle ruimtestenen kleiner dan 25 meter verbranden in principe in de atmosfeer en vormen dus geen of nauwelijks een bedreiging voor het leven op aarde. Ernstiger wordt het als we met een grotere planetoïde te maken hebben. Als een planetoïde die tussen de 25 en 1000 meter groot is de aarde raakt, resulteert dat lokaal in schade. Is de planetoïde groter dan 1 à 2 kilometer dan kunnen de effecten van deze inslag wel eens wereldwijd gevoeld worden. Volgens NASA wordt de atmosfeer van de aarde ongeveer elk jaar geraakt door een planetoïde ter grootte van een auto. Zo’n planetoïde verbrandt in de atmosfeer (vanaf de aarde zien we dan een vuurbal langs de hemel scheren). Ongeveer elke 2000 jaar slaat een planetoïde groter dan 100 meter op aarde in, waarbij er lokaal heel wat schade ontstaat. Slechts één keer in de paar miljoen jaar krijgen we te maken met een planetoïde die een bedreiging vormt voor de mensheid.

Hier zie je alle banen van de potentieel gevaarlijke planetoïden die groter zijn dan 140 meter en relatief dicht bij de aarde in de buurt komen. Hoewel het plaatje al wat ouder is (2013) laat het duidelijk zien dat het een drukke bedoening is in ons zonnestelsel. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

5. NASA heeft een lijstje 
Juist omdat planetoïden een bedreiging kunnen vormen voor de aarde, is het zaak dat we ze – voor zover mogelijk – allemaal opsporen en de banen van deze planetoïden in kaart brengen. Alleen zo kunnen we voorspellen welke planetoïden nu of in de toekomst gevaarlijk kunnen worden. En dat is exact wat onderzoekers wereldwijd doen. Het resulteert in een lijstje met daarop ‘potentieel gevaarlijke planetoïden’. Het is niet bewezen dat de planetoïden op dit lijstje op aarde in gaan slaan, maar het zou wel kunnen. Op dit moment staan op het lijstjemeer dan 1700 planetoïden. Dat zijn er heel wat, maar geen reden om vannacht wakker te liggen. De kans dat deze planetoïden de komende 100 jaar de aarde raken, ligt voor alle exemplaren lager dan 0,01 procent.

6. Bruce Willis kan ons niet redden
Mocht één van de potentieel gevaarlijke planetoïden toch op de aarde afstevenen, dan is het zeker niet aan te bevelen om Bruce Willis een belletje te geven. Willis redde in de beroemde film ‘Armageddon‘ de wereld door een op aarde afstevenende planetoïde op te blazen. Het leek heel effectief, maar onderzoek heeft al aangetoond dat die aanpak in het echt niet zou werken. Je zou er een bom voor nodig hebben die ongeveer een miljard keer krachtiger is dan de krachtigste bom die ooit is gebouwd (een kernwapen, bijgenaamd Big Ivan). Opblazen is dus geen optie. Maar dat wil niet zeggen dat we maar toe moeten kijken hoe een planetoïde de aarde vernietigt. Er zijn wellicht verschillende manieren om een planetoïde die op de aarde afkomt van richting te doen veranderen. Zo zouden laserstralen wellicht iets uit kunnen richten. Voorwaarde is wel dat we zo’n planetoïde tijdig ontdekken. Het van richting veranderen vereist namelijk tijd.

Ruimtesonde OSIRIS-REx in actie nabij het oppervlak van planetoïde Bennu.

Afbeelding: NASA.

7. We gaan op korte termijn weer naar een planetoïde toe!
Een ontmoeting met een planetoïde is niet iets om naar uit te zien. Tenzij niet de planetoïde bij ons, maar wij bij de planetoïde op bezoek gaan. En dat laatste gaat op korte termijn weer gebeuren. Binnenkort wordt OSIRIS-REx gelanceerd. Deze ruimtesonde gaat een bezoekje brengen aan planetoïde Bennu. Bovendien is het de bedoeling dat de sonde materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu verzameld en terug naar de aarde brengt voor analyse. Daarnaast wil NASA in de toekomst een robot naar een planetoïde sturen, een grote steen van het oppervlak van de planetoïde ‘jatten’ en deze steen vervolgens in een baan rondom de maan plaatsen. Eenmaal in een baan rond de maan is het de bedoeling dat astronauten de steen gaan bezoeken en bestuderen. Het is een ambitieuze missie bedoeld om meer te weten te komen over planetoïden en de mensheid klaar te stomen voor ruimtemissies naar verre oorden, zoals planetoïden of Mars.

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NASA
De afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door NASA / JPL / JHUAPL.

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Mass UFO Sighting In The Steelers-Cowboys Game

Steelers and Cowboys offered a lot of memorable plays on the field during their matchups in the 1970s, but something took place in the sky that occupied all the headlines in 1979.

The Steelers had won the game against the visiting Cowboys in Week 9 of the regular season in the score of 14-3 on October 28, 1979. Franco Harris sizzles for 102 yards and two touchdowns, including a 48-yard that sealed the win, in a rematch of Super Bowl XIII.

However, strange objects appeared late in the game, and they took the attention away from the match. Many witnesses left baffled of their identity, but Duquesne University archivist Thomas White believed they were kites designed to look like UFOs.

White explained that those were two kites that might have been connected. He claimed to have seen footage of kites and observed that they moved in very similar fashion to the ones that appeared in the football match.

However, most witnesses did not see those as kites. The debates still continue and perhaps would never end, but one thing is for sure, the sighting was definitely one of the strangest moments in NFL history, particularly in the Steelers-Cowboys rivalry.

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Filer’s Files #26 – 2016 UFOs Are Real - PART II

UFO Sightings in the United States

Arizona Triangle

Glendale — I was driving south and looked up and saw two massive objects in the sky on June 17, 2016. So I pulled over grabbed my camera and watched these two objects approach. The first one a massive building is what it looked like, all black with a black tower on the top. No sound or fire just defying gravity. Then along side of it was another ship that seemed to be an escort for the large building ship. It to was all black with a strange black sphere that was underneath it not attached it flew on its own but stayed under the escort ship. They moved slowly and didn’t seem to care if anyone saw. They came straight at me then turned together as if they were headed to Flagstaff. I have seen many strange thingsbut this was out of this world. I could see details on these craft, but my camera didn’t see them as I did but still captured it ok. Five people at my work also witnessed them. A military helicopter showed up not long after. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 California Lights

Winton — When we were all coming home and I looked up at the moon and noticed a red star or planet that was in the atmosphere on June 17, 2016. I have a set of binoculars to looked at the red light. Looking at it changed shapes with lights and expanded like a balloon. I then grabbed my camera ad recorded the event.

I was able to obtain the footage which I have included in the pictures. It was amazing to see it glowing and change shapes. The object is still in the sky within the horizon of the moon. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Connecticut Lights

 Coventry — I went outside to smoke a cigarette around 10:30 PM, on June 19, 2016. It was brighter out than normal for that time of night, so I was looking up at the moon trying to see if there was a full moon. To the right of the moon I noticed a star that looked bigger and way brighter than every other star in the sky. Then I saw the red light moving and initially rubbed my eyes thinking I was just seeing things. But the lights kept changing. I kept seeing the red light go by rotating from right to left. So I focused on several other stars thinking it’s just got to be my eyes, but no other star in the sky did anything like that. So I started to take pictures, it was hovering so high up in the sky. I watched it for half an hour while it changed lights the entire time. When I came back outside around a half hour later it was gone. I was excited when I first saw it, but the longer I watched it change and hover above I got nervous. I’m still not positive what exactly happened last night. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Illinois Light

Rochester — Pamela Stark My husband and I came out of the restaurant in Taylorville, Illinois this evening. My friends were in the sky. Sure did not look like this when I took the picture. Thursday June 16, 2016. The one was closer to the Earth then ever before and alot brighter. Thanks to Pamela Stark

 Missouri Light

Wentzville — I was walking out of my garage to smoke a cigarette on June 18, 2016. As I exited my garage, I noticed a green glowing object the size of a large car hovering above my neighbor’s house.

It took off quickly going west towards the sunset. It Stopped and began flying erratically.

So I pulled out my cell phone and captured it on my camera for a few seconds before I lost sight of it.

Thanks to MUFON CMS

Curryville — Heading west on Highway 54 as I was passing through Curryville my 6 year old daughter and I noticed a gray disc in the sky emitting two bright beams on June 17, 2016.

It seemed to hover for 10 seconds max then disappeared. A person who passed me on the hwy earlier was stopped taking pictures of this object as well. I have never seen anything like this but feel it was not normal. Attached are three pics, one of the objects when the beams were off and a couple with the beams on before disappearing. I took these from my cell phone so quality is not the greatest.

New Jersey Tripple Flash

Ringoes — I was sitting on the porch when in June 16, 2016, and I saw a bright red light through the trees. I thought it was a drone from the prom party a street over.until I noticed it was moving in my direction and had no sound. As it come more from behind the trees. I got up and went to the clearing and noticed it had a smaller white light attached to it. Which when the red did the tripple flash you could see structure between the 2 lights. It looked like it was going about 10mph. And while passing me almost looked like it stopped and rotated. Like it was looking at me. But then just kept on going in a east direction.I texted my sister to come out and see it. Even with the big bright flashing stobe. Which you could end up seeing from 30 miles away. This is a similar shot of a red orb.Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mantua — Triangular UFO hovered over route 45 in NJ and turned on its side over the road and then flew sideways towards Philadelphia PA. at approximately 10 mph. I have never encountered any aircraft like this in my life. It made no noise and it seemed to have multicolored lights rotating inside one light. If anyone else witness this at approximately 9:40 pm on June 10th 2016.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

New York Orbs in Video Footage

 Brooklyn – Here is one of my most recent captures. I’m shooting at full 600 mm and 1/3000th second shutter speed on June 12, 2016. You will have to watch very carefully. There are various white orbs streaking by and one large craft of some kind. The best way to view is to manually use the slide bar and slowly move it across the bottom. See if you can count the white objects. Some are disk shaped.

Note: The witness has sent several other videos of orbs and disk shaped objects taken during the past year. Only 1 of the videos is posted. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website

North Carolina Green Ball

Wrightsville Beach — I took pictures at sunset Thursday, June 16 around 7:45 pm at the southern point of the island where the ocean meets the sound. The next day when I was posting them on Facebook, I noticed a glowing green spot on the image, and enlarged it to see what it was. It appeared to be a translucent, glowing, green orb with dots, lights, or spines on the surface. I then discovered another photo in a different location down the beach with a similar orb on the sand, and 3 more photos with similar, but more perfectly round objects in the sky. In the glare of the sunset, I did not actually see these objects when I took the photos. The photos are from my Galaxy 6S Edge phone, and are untouched outside of cropping to view the objects more closely. Other photos taken at the same time do not have this green spot.  I only discovered the orbs in photos after I had left the area. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Oklahoma Disc

Lawton — My family and I were driving through the Wichita Mountains on May 29, 2016. So I took my husband’s cell phone and started to take pictures. One week later I was going through the photos that I took and noticed something in the sky! So I showed my husband and he said it’s a bug but the funny thing is its too big and it has distance to it. So can you please HELP with this photo and let me know what it really is thank you. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Oregon Lights

 Eugene – I was at a BBQ party around 9:50 pm on June 18, 2016 when people observed a red light flashing bluish white hovering to our east. I observed it for five minutes before taking out my cell phone and recording it.

It hovered for about 45 seconds after I started filming then it abruptly began to take off in a straight trajectory to the east from our location. I lost it when it passed the trees on the horizon. It was very strange and 100% silent. Still pondering what I saw. ‘Thanks to MUFON CMS

Washington Lights

 Valleyford  I visit your site about once a week. During my visit today I noticed, for the first time, the middle photo of the three that you have posted at the top of your web page. It reminds me of the photo which I have attached. My photo was taken in 2002, during an active, several month long flap starting in February, 2002. his photo was taken with a 35mm film camera mounted to a small telescope. It is not an exact match to your photo, but it does have some interesting similarity. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website

 Wyoming Object

Casper — My boyfriend and I were walking back to our apartment after taking our dog on a walk on May 26, 2016. I looked up and saw something in the sky… Maybe balloons.. My boyfriend works at the dispatch center which is always notified when special events like that take place. There was not anything going on that day that could explain these objects in the sky so I recorded them. The objects were pretty stationary, hovered and moved slowly. I was feeling extremely curious so I posted the video on a facebook page that is for the town, we got many comments about the video, but none that could explain what we saw.

We were the only people who saw these object, there were so other witnesses. We didn’t loose sight we simply stopped recording and went home.. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Argentina Lights

Rosario River –This is an interesting sighting of some glowing lights over the Rosario River on June 12, 2916. It looks like we are seeing a UFO hovering over the water, hence the two long lights. However the top light is actually the UFO, the bottom light may be the reflection or the illumination from the doorway below the surface which the UFO probably came from. Hiding a doorway underwater that takes you to an underground base is a smart move.Scott C. Waring Website

Silvia Pérez Simondini, director of Visión OVNI and CEFORA, writes, “I was truly amazed on Sunday night. For 26 years, night after night, I have observed and have come to know each spot on the island from the summit of Cerro de la Matanza. On Sunday, with my friend Checo Jaroslav, we visited the summit once more, and I was astonished to see a vast source of light in the middle of the river. The lights of the city of Rosario could be seen in the distance, which gave me the certainty that these lights we were seeing were much closer to Victoria. The bridges are not lit and along the route there is nothing that has such illumination. It was interesting to observe it from hilltop as the upper part of the illumination vanished as if by magic. Since Checo was returning to Buenos Aires along that route, we agreed that he would make sure to see what it was from both sides. The fact is he saw absolutely nothing, or any area illuminated in such a way. We have no idea what it was. These are the photos. News Source: Website

Australia Orb

 Gold Coast – I’m not sure what I’m seeing in the photos. They were not visible with the  naked eye. The image was taken outside on June 8, 2016. The balcony (no glass window) of the 43rd floor of the Hilton Australia. I noticed the strange object on my first shot so I cleaned the lens and kept taking shots
And the object kept moving. Any ideas.Note: There is a possible sun’s reflection on lens. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Canada Sphere

 Miquelon Lake — On June 4th at almost midnight our family was camping in Strathcon, Alberta with neighbors when our children asked what the lights were? We were all sitting around a campfire and got up and noticed an orb light followed by three more lights in formation. And then they just kept coming, around 8 more. There was no sound and they look nothing like what my picture looks like, they were high up but bigger, they were like glowing orbs.

My  neighbor took a video but there was no sound and it was distorted. We were excited by what we were seeing but I know I was scared, and my daughter was scared. They kept flying and then one by one would disappear.. Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Ireland Orb

Cork — I took a number of photo’s of the moon with a cheap camera phone. I saw nothing but the moon with the naked eye, until I uploaded the photo’s to my PC! Have a look, remember its not the moon that’s strange in the photo, but the strange objects to the left and down. Zoom in. I also have more photo’s and video footage on a close encounter (60ft) which had a physical affect on me. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Israel Disc

Jerusalem – In late September 22, 2015, we took lots of Photos with one having unknown/seen object in picture. Picture taken seconds before has No object!  At first I thought it could be a bird. However, other than an occasional Pigeon seen at and around Human food sources we saw few birds flying anywhere around the country. We have several hundred pictures and only the ones near humans have birds.

We also seen other things of the same nature while there but this is the only picture with an object we didn’t notice or possibly see with the Naked eye? Thanks to MUFON CMS

 Kenya Disc

 Muranga County — It was a flying saucer. It’s a foggy morning in Kenya, and a friend and I are driving down a Murram Road video tapping the heavy fog on June 22, 2016. The fog is falling making it hard to drive. It’s terrible weather for us but not for this UFO that took the chance to fly by unnoticed. The video shows the craft flying low and trees bending as it passes over. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Mexico Disk Over Volcano

Popocatepetl Volcano — CriterioHidalgo has reprinted a photograph of an alleged UFO captured in June 2016 by Webcams de Mexico (which has acquired a worldwide reputation for its captures of unusual phenomena over the Popocatepetl Volcano).   The text reads as follows: “A new UFO photo has gone viral on social media, shown near the Volcan de Fuego in the state of Colima. Through its Facebook account, Webcams de Mexico displayed the photograph last Friday, showing an object crossing the sky near the fiery colossus. The photo asks the question “what could it be?” in order that users may leave their comments about what appears to be a flying saucers.”

UFOs continue to be seen regularly at volcanoes around the world, especially the volcanoes Mt. Popocatépetl, Mt. Colima and Mt. De Fuego in Mexico are UFO hotspots. These volcanoes are the most active places in the world if we talking about the numbers of sightings and evidence of UFOs near volcanoes. For many years, UFOs buzzing around, zipping into the craters, mysterious bright lights shooting over these volcanoes and all these UFOs are captured by webcams trained on these volcanoes. Objects were captured by a team of Maurice Mousseau equipped with special cameras owned by CENAPRED, Nobody knows why are these UFOs especially near these areas. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website

Portugal Moving Light

Castelo Branco — On June 20, 2016, around 21:30 hours I went to my balcony and saw this bright light in the sky moving fast horizontaly, then making a curve. After a short moment it descended and disapeared behind the buildings in front of my house. I did not hear any sound. The light kept on appearing for several times during around 15 minutes and descended. Could it be a drone with a light for night flight? Possibly! But drones make some noise and as I said it was a silent night in my town and I did not hear any noise. Or it could be far away for me not to hear it. The second time it took-off I rush into my house to grab may camera and made a few recordings of that light. The intensity of the light, kept on changing randomly from time to time. Sometimes it almost disappeared to be bright the next second. Thanks to MUFON CMS

Spain Bell

Toledo — Photographing the city of Toledo on June 18, 2016, and after download photos to your PC could observe a strange ± object in the right tower of the Alcazar. It is shaped like a cone or bell, it seems metallic and duration could be just seconds since in the next photography and earlier no longer appears.

Actually I did not see the object until the picture down the computer.
Visible if zoom is done. Thanks to MUFON CMS

UK England Orb and Cigar

Taking photos of insects in my garden when I captured an orb or something moving in towards middle of picture and stopping on June 17, 2016.

The picture was at 1/500th of a second so it must of been incredibly fast then there was two more hovering by a dandelion and others in different places.  Thanks to MUFON CMS

New Marske – At 9.30 pm on June 21st 2016 saw an object in the sky that was moving. It was cigar shaped but looked like it was on fire but left no trail. It moved at the speed you would expect to see an aeroplane move when you look up to the sky.

I thought it may be a comet or a shooting star or possibly some sort of reflection but I have done some research on all of the above and none move in the way this did. It’s speed was constant and it flew out over the North Sea. I videoed it then checked my phone to see it had recorded and when I looked back up, it had gone. I do not know whether it disappeared or simply went out of sight. Whilst it was visible, I rang my neighbor and she also saw it. Thanks to MUFON CMS

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Bizarre, Long-Headed Woman from Ancient Kingdom Revealed

Editor's Note: This article was updated at 3:50 p.m. E.T. on Thursday June 23

The grave of a woman with a bizarre, long-headed skull has been unearthed in Korea.

The woman was part of the ancient Silla culture, which ruled much of the Korean peninsula for nearly a millennium.

Unlike some of the deformed, pointy skulls that have been found throughout the world in other ancient graves, however, it is unlikely that this woman had her head deliberately flattened, the researchers said. [See Images of the Long-Headed Woman's Facial Reconstruction]

Ancient culture

The ancient Silla Kingdom reigned over part of the Korean Peninsula from 57 B.C. to A.D. 935, making it one of the longest-ruling royal dynasties. Many of Korea's modern-day cultural practices stem from this historic culture. Yet despite its long reign and wide-ranging influence on culture, the number of Silla burials with intact skeletons remained few and far between, said study co-author Dong Hoon Shin, a bioanthropologist at Seoul National University College of Medicine in the Republic of Korea.

"The skeletons are not preserved well in the soil of Korea," Shin told Live Science in an email. [7 Strange Facts About North Korea]

However, in 2013, researchers had a lucky break while excavating a grave near Gyeongju, the historic capital of the Silla Kingdom. Inside a traditional burial coffin, called a "mokgwakmyo," lay the nearly perfectly intact bones of a woman who died in her late 30s.

Long head

The team managed to extract the woman's mitochondrial DNA, or DNA that is passed from mother to daughter. The analysis revealed that she belonged to a genetic lineage that is present, though not common, in East Asia today. Analysis of the carbon isotopes (versions of carbon with different weights) in the skeleton also revealed that the woman was likely a strict vegetarian, in keeping with the interpretation of Buddhism that was prevalent at the time in the country. She also ate a greater percentage of her calories from foods with a type of carbon found in foods such as rice, wheat and potatoes, versus millet or maize, the researchers reported June 1 in the journal PLOS ONE. (The carbon isotope testing cannot determine whether the diet was composed primarily of rice, potatoes or wheat.)

The team was also able to reconstruct her facial features and head shape based on skull fragments. It turned out that the woman was dolichocephalic, meaning her head width was less than about 75 percent of its length.

That differs somewhat from the trends in the region today, where people are more commonly brachycephalic, meaning their head width is at least 80 percent of the head length. 

One possibility is that the head was deliberately deformed to have this elongated shape. Skull deformation has occurred throughout the world, and in fact, archaeologists have unearthed evidence of skull deformation from the neighboring Gaya Kingdom, said study co-author Eun Jin Woo, a physical anthropologist at Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea.    

However, the team ultimately ruled out this explanation because heads that are deliberately deformed usually have flatter bones in the front of the skull. To compensate for all of the pressure that head deformation causes, the bones in the side of the skull tend to grow more, Woo said.

"The skull in this study did not show the shape changes in deformed crania," Woo told Live Science in an email. "In this regard, we think her head should be considered as normal variation in the group."

Editor's Note: This article was updated to clarify that foods such as rice, potatoes and wheat produce the same carbon signature, so researchers cannot distinguish which of those specific foods made up the bulk of the Silla woman's diet.

Original article on Live Science.

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What's Causing Mysterious 'Worldwide Hum?'

In 2012, Glen MacPherson, of the University of British Columbia, began hearing the sound at night, between 10 and 11 p.m.

Credit: Benoit Daoust / Shutterstock.com

In the spring of 2012, when I was living near the coastal village of Sechelt, on British Columbia’s picturesque Sunshine Coast, I began hearing a humming sound, which I thought were float planes.

The noise usually started later at night, between 10 and 11 p.m. My first clue that something unusual was happening came with the realization that the sound didn’t fade away, like plane noises typically do. And the slightest ambient noise – exhaling audibly, even turning my head quickly – caused it to momentarily stop. One night after the sound started I stepped outside the house. Nothing.

I was the only person in the house who could hear it; my family said they didn’t know what I was talking about.

Naturally, I assumed something in the house was the culprit, and I searched for the source in vain. I even ended up cutting the power to the entire house. The sound got louder.

While I couldn’t hear the sound outdoors, I could still hear it in my car at night with the windows closed and the ignition off. I drove for miles in every direction, and it was still there in the background when I stopped the car. I was able to rule out obvious sources: industrial activity, marine traffic, electric substations and highway noise.

When I searched on the internet for “unusual low-frequency humming noise,” I soon realized that others had conducted the same search. I was part of the small fraction of people who can hear what is called the “Worldwide Hum” or, simply, the “Hum.”

The questions motivating me and thousands of others were the same: “What’s causing this? Can it be stopped?”

One geoscientist’s theory

The classic description of the Hum is that it sounds like a truck engine idling. For some, it’s a distant rumbling or droning noise. It can start and stop suddenly or wax and wane over time. For others, the Hum is loud, relentless and life-altering.

I eventually came across one of the few serious papers on the topic. It was written in 2004 by geoscientist David Deming (who’s also a Hum hearer).

Deming began by describing the standard history: The Hum was first documented in the late 1960s, around Bristol, England. It first appeared in the United States in the late 1980s, in Taos, New Mexico.

He then examined the competing hypotheses for the source of the Hum. Many have pointed to the electric grid or cellphone towers. But this theory is dismissed on two grounds: cellphones didn’t exist in the 1960s, and the frequency emitted by both cell towers and the electric grid can be easily blocked by metal enclosures.

He wondered whether mass hysteria was to blame, a psychological phenomenon in which rumor and “collective delusions” lead to the appearance of physical ailments for which there’s no medical explanation. The fact that so many people have researched the Hum on their own, using a search engine – rather than hearing about it from some other person – moves the conversation away from delusion and hysteria spread by word of mouth.

Deming looked at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), an isolated military compound in Alaska that uses radio waves to study outer space and for testing advanced communication techniques – and a favorite focus of conspiracy theorists, who have accused the facilityof acts ranging from mind control to weather control. He studied the possibility of otoacoustic emissions, which are naturally occurring sounds caused by the vibration of hair cells in the ear.

Deming eventually fingered Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio waves(between 3 kHz and 30 kHz) as the most likely culprit. The world’s military powers use massive land-based and airborne transmitters on these frequencies in order to communicate with submerged submarines. Radio waves at these frequencies can penetrate up to a solid inch of aluminum.

In the paper, Deming proposes a simple and elegant experiment for testing this hypothesis. Hum hearers randomly enter three identical-looking boxes. The first box blocks VLF radio signals, the second box is an anechoic (soundproof) chamber and the third box is the control.

He left the experiment for others to pursue, and while there are some practical difficulties with the design, Deming’s overall concept has motivated the experiments I am currently conducting.

A disciplined inquiry begins

A plethora of pseudoscience and wild conspiracy theories has the potential to drown out the serious work in this area. I’ve encountered seemingly serious people who have argued that the Hum is caused bytunneling under the earth, the electronic targeting of specific individuals,aliens and mating fish.

Given the need for disciplined inquiry into the phenomenon, in late 2012 I started The World Hum Map and Database Project. The database gathers, documents and maps detailed and anonymous information from people who can hear the Hum. It provides raw data for research in a strictly moderated and serious forum for research and commentary, while providing a sense of community for people whose lives have been negatively affected by the Hum.

Most people have some experience with how disruptive some types of noises can be, which is why there are often noise ordinances in many cities and towns, especially at night. There are many sufferers who dread the nighttime because of how loud and relentless the Hum can be. The Hum database is replete with descriptions of desperate people who have been tormented by the noise for years. The phrase “driving me crazy” is all too common. (I feel fortunate that, in my case, the Hum is more of a curiosity than it is an irritant.)

The project also aims to validate and normalize the phenomenon by discussing it alongside other widely reported auditory phenomena, such as tinnitus, a relatively common medical condition that causes people to hear high-pitched squealing tones. Those who experience tinnitus and also the Hum report the two as being completely different in character.

The latest update of the Hum Map, from June 6, presents roughly 10,000 map and data points, and we’ve already made some notable findings.

For example, we’ve found that the mean and median age of Hum hearers is 40.5 years, and 55 percent of hearers are men. This goes against thewidely repeated theory that the Hum mainly affects middle-aged and older women.

Interestingly, there are eight times as many ambidextrous people among hearers as there are in the general population. As more data are collected from Hum hearers, I hope that specialists in demographics and inferential statistics will be able to generate more detailed results.

The goals of the research

The historical record of the Hum is crucial, because if the current version as narrated by Deming is correct, many theories can immediately be ruled out. After all, cellphones and HAARP didn’t exist until decades after the Worldwide Hum was first documented in England in the late 1960s. I currently have a researcher digging into the Times of London digital archive to search for mentions of the Hum going back to the 18th and 19th centuries. If convincing examples are found, then the direction of my research will shift dramatically because all modern technologies could be ruled out.

In my view, there are currently four hypotheses for the source of the world Hum that survive the most superficial scrutiny.

The first hypothesis – argued by Deming and the one I’m currently pursuing – is that the Hum is rooted in Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio transmissions. It’s increasingly accepted now that the human body will sometimes experience electromagnetic (EM) energy and interpret it in a way that creates sounds. This was established for high-frequency EM energy by the American neuroscientist Alan Frey in his infamous“microwave hearing” experiments, which showed that certain radio frequencies can actually be heard as sounds.

Today, there are biophysical models that predict and explain the impact VLF EM energy has on living tissue. I have designed and built a VLF radio blocking box that should be able to test whether VLF radio frequencies are a prerequisite for generating the Hum.

The second hypothesis is that the Hum is the grand accumulation of low-frequency sound and human-generated infrasound (sounds with audio frequencies below roughly 20 Hz and which can be felt more than they can be heard). This includes everything from highway noise to all manner of industrial activity.

The third is that the Hum is a terrestrial or geological phenomenon that generates low-frequency sounds or perceptions of those sounds. For example, there is a well-documented history of animals predicting earthquakes and taking action to save themselves. From an evolutionary perspective, there may be survival value in having members of a population highly sensitive to some types of vibrations. When it comes to the Hum, some humans may have a similar physiological mechanism in place.

The fourth is that the Hum is an internally generated phenomenon, perhaps rooted in a particular anatomical variation, genetic predisposition or the result of toxicity and medication.

The Hum is now the subject of serious media coverage and, increasingly, scientific scrutiny. The overall goal of my project and the people who contribute to it is to find the source of the Hum and, if possible, stop it.

If the Hum is man-made, then my task is to raise public awareness and advocate turning away from the technologies that are causing it. If the source is exogenous and natural, there’s the possibility that there may be no escape from it, apart from masking it with background sounds.

Of course there is the remote possibility that one of the more exotic explanations will prove to be correct. But, as in all science, it seems best to start with what we know and is plausible, as opposed to what we don’t know and is implausible.

Glen MacPherson, Lecturer, University of British Columbia

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read theoriginal article.

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Would Aliens Really Kill Us, 'Independence Day'-Style?

A hostile alien race returns to Earth in the new movie "Independence Day: Resurgence."

Credit: Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox. TM & © 2016 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

In the new movie "Independence Day: Resurgence," opening in theaters today (June 24), Earth will once again gear up for an epic fight with a hostile alien race. The premise will set up some awesome action sequences, but how realistic is the idea that if aliens were to visit Earth, their one goal would be to destroy us? What do the experts think?

Twenty years ago, the new movie's predecessor, "Independence Day," featured Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum cracking wise while using a computer virus (presumably written in an Earth-based computer language) to disable an alien ship and save humanity. In the new movie's timeline, Earth's nations have since created a huge, planetary-wide defense program to shield our planet, but it may not be enough to defend humanity when the aliens return. 

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has said repeatedly that he's afraid of aliens wiping out the human race the way a human would wipe out a colony of ants. ['Independence Day: Resurgence' Trailer]

In 2015, Hawking co-launched an initiative called Breakthrough Listen, which will search for alien communication signals out in the cosmos, and eventually broadcast signals from the human race, with the goal of enabling communication across the universe.

"We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans," Hawking said at the Breakthrough announcement. "If you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria."

Are the aliens benign?

Alien invasions of Earth are nothing new in sci-fi. One of the most famous examples is "War of the Worlds," an H.G. Wells 19th-century classic that was adapted into a Tom Cruise movie in 2005. In that film, aliens inexplicably begin bursting from underneath city pavement to incinerate humans.  

But some films portray aliens as benign, such as 1997's "Contact," based on a 1980s book written by Carl Sagan. A signal begins spouting prime numbers, which Jodie Foster's SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) team tries to decode. Their efforts at talking with the aliens turn a little strange, but there definitely is no invasion. 

This hopeful view is something that science communicator Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow, shared at the Breakthrough event in 2015. (It's also the belief held by astronomer Jill Tarter, former director of the Center for SETI Research, whom Foster's character in "Contact" was based on.) Druyan is also involved in the Breakthrough initiative.

"We may get to a period in our future where we outgrow our evolutionary baggage and evolve to become less violent and shortsighted," Druyan said. "My hope is that extraterrestrial civilizations are not only more technologically proficient than we are but more aware of the rarity and preciousness of life in the cosmos."

Active SETI debate

Three spacecraft currently heading out of the solar system — the Pioneer probe and the two Voyager probes — contain maps that point the way back to Earth. And there continue to be initiatives to put messages for aliens on spacecraft. When the NASA New Horizons probe finishes its Pluto and possible Kuiper Belt work, some people are hoping to create a crowdsourced message for aliens to upload to its hard drive.

Some researchers, however, aren't sure it's such a good idea to shift SETI efforts from just listening to actually sending out signals — a method some call "active SETI."

"Active SETI advocates broke with the conventional wisdom of the SETI pioneers, which was to listen but not transmit. This change may have been driven by the impatience of younger SETI people after 40 years of unsuccessful searches," Michael Michaud, author of the book "Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears About Encountering Extraterrestrials" (2007, Copernicus), said in a 2014 interview with Space.com. 

"But active SETI is not science," added Michaud, a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State. "It is an attempt to provoke a response from an alien society whose capabilities and intentions are not known to us." 

But Earth's sheer distance from other civilizations might serve as a shield against aliens that don't exactly want us around. 

Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar-message composition at the SETI Institute, said in 2010, "Even if they tend to be hateful, awful folks, can they do us any harm at interstellar distances?" 

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Enormous Stars Forming in the 'Little Fox' Captured in Stunning Photo

An image of Vulpecula OB1, a birthplace of massive stars, captured by the Herschel Space Observatory. The image was obtained during the Hi-GAL survey, which mapped the Milky Way by using five different infrared wavelengths.

Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project

The raw material to create stars for millions of years is captured in this stunning, newly retrieved photo from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory.

The space-based telescope was built to detect radiation that had been invisible to other telescopes at the time. That ability not only allowed it to fulfill its major objective of discovering how the first galaxies formed and evolved, but also made it an excellent choice for detecting dust and gas clouds that lead to the formation of new stars. Although its mission ended in 2013, scientists are still analyzing the wealth of data that Herschel collected over its four years of operation, uncovering stunning photographs such as this one.

Located in the constellation Vulpecula, or Little Fox, the region (pictured here in infrared wavelengths) births some of the biggest stars in the galaxy. Thesecolossal O- and B-type stars have much more mass than the sun — up to 16 times more for B stars and up to a staggering 100 times more for O stars — and their lives are significantly shorter for it. They last only a few million years before exhausting their fuel, collapsing and exploding as supernovas, triggering the next batch of stellar births in the region. Because they are so short-lived, the presence of a large number of them in one place signals ongoing star formation.

But what is truly surprising about this image is that the filaments of glowing interstellar gas seen here as red and orange threads are part of a vast, structured web that stretches across all of the galaxy's star-forming regions, NASA officials said in a statement. It was obtained via the Herschel Infrared Galactic Plane Survey, which mapped the inner Milky Way in five different infrared wavelengths.

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Graphite Found at Pluto Moon Charon and Dwarf Planet Ceres

The dull, gray surface of the dwarf planet Ceres may come from graphite as organic material is bombarded by radiation from the sun.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

The gray surfaces of the dwarf planet Ceres (the asteroid belt's largest resident) and Pluto's biggest moon, Charon, both show signs of containing forms of graphite, the material in pencil lead.

When NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres last year to embark on an orbital survey, it found a gray, icy world covered with debris left behind by impacts. Spectral observations of the object, which is both a dwarf planet and an asteroid, revealed evidence of a form of graphite called graphitized carbon on its surface, according to Amanda Hendrix, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona.

The dark carbon suggests that similar processes could change the colors of both worlds, though they're significantly different environments. [Photos: Dwarf Planet Ceres, the Solar System's Largest Asteroid]

Graphitized carbon forms when carbon is heated to high temperatures in the absence of oxygen. 

Hendrix studies how carbon forms in the inner solar system. She presented the results of her ultraviolet examination of Ceres at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, in March.

Throughout Ceres' history, carbon-filled meteorites and asteroids have crashed into the dwarf planet. The solar wind's charged particles have collided with the deposited carbon, repeatedly reprocessing it to release hydrogen and leaving behind a dull, gray graphitized carbon. The dark material has a low albedo, meaning it doesn't reflect a lot of light.

"It hasn't evolved to proper graphite," Hendrix told Space.com. But it's close.

Similar carbon processing may occur on other objects in the asteroid belt, she said. 

And earlier this year, scientists found that Mercury's surface has high levels of carbon, suggesting that it once boasted a graphite-rich crust.

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has a dull, gray surface marred by a bright-red spot at the poles. As the red material is deposited, radiation may slowly dull its color, changing it to gray like the rest of the moon.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

A dull moon

The inner solar system isn't the only place to find a gray world. Only a few months after Dawn reached Ceres, NASA's New Horizons spacecraftflew by Pluto and revealed that the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon, has a grayish appearance. That color could have been caused by graphite on the moon's surface, according to lab results presented at the conference by Dale Cruikshank, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center.

The presence of graphite at Charon presents a puzzle because New Horizons didn't spot carbon on Charon, but it did so at Pluto.

Before New Horizons arrived at Pluto, scientists hypothesized that the dwarf planet shared its atmosphere with its largest moon, and observations made by the spacecraft seem to confirm it. So carbon may travel from Pluto over to Charon, New Horizons scientists have said..

But although it is mostly gray, Charon also boasts a bright-red spot at its pole. 

Cruikshank performed several experiments to learn more about this unusual color combination. In dousing ices similar to those found on the dwarf planet with radiation, Cruikshank was able to produce a residual organic gunk known as tholin. The color of this substance — named in 1979 by Carl Sagan and his colleague Bishun Khare, who performed similar space-themed experiments that left behind tholin as a sticky residue — resembles the color of Charon's red spot, as well as the color of some features seen at Pluto. 

In fact, tholin may be involved in both the gray and reddish hues at Charon.

"The neutral color of Charon is consistent with taking tholin material and irradiating it," Cruikshank said during his presentation. "You end up with graphite."

The reddish region at Charon's pole is likely a newer deposit, whereas the rest of the moon is covered with an older layer, Cruikshank said.

Hendrix called these results surprising. Radiation from the solar wind should be significantly weaker at Charon than it is at Ceres, because Charon lies, on average, about 10 times farther from the sun than Ceres does. If the moon's surface is covered with graphite, she said, "it likely formed a different way." 

[Editor's Note: This article previously stated that Charon lies about three times farther from the sun than Ceres does. Charon is actually, on average, about ten times farther from the sun than Ceres is.]

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Graphite Found at Pluto Moon Charon and Dwarf Planet Ceres

The dull, gray surface of the dwarf planet Ceres may come from graphite as organic material is bombarded by radiation from the sun.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

The gray surfaces of the dwarf planet Ceres (the asteroid belt's largest resident) and Pluto's biggest moon, Charon, both show signs of containing forms of graphite, the material in pencil lead.

When NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres last year to embark on an orbital survey, it found a gray, icy world covered with debris left behind by impacts. Spectral observations of the object, which is both a dwarf planet and an asteroid, revealed evidence of a form of graphite called graphitized carbon on its surface, according to Amanda Hendrix, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona.

The dark carbon suggests that similar processes could change the colors of both worlds, though they're significantly different environments. [Photos: Dwarf Planet Ceres, the Solar System's Largest Asteroid]

Graphitized carbon forms when carbon is heated to high temperatures in the absence of oxygen. 

Hendrix studies how carbon forms in the inner solar system. She presented the results of her ultraviolet examination of Ceres at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, in March.

Throughout Ceres' history, carbon-filled meteorites and asteroids have crashed into the dwarf planet. The solar wind's charged particles have collided with the deposited carbon, repeatedly reprocessing it to release hydrogen and leaving behind a dull, gray graphitized carbon. The dark material has a low albedo, meaning it doesn't reflect a lot of light.

"It hasn't evolved to proper graphite," Hendrix told Space.com. But it's close.

Similar carbon processing may occur on other objects in the asteroid belt, she said. 

And earlier this year, scientists found that Mercury's surface has high levels of carbon, suggesting that it once boasted a graphite-rich crust.

Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has a dull, gray surface marred by a bright-red spot at the poles. As the red material is deposited, radiation may slowly dull its color, changing it to gray like the rest of the moon.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

A dull moon

The inner solar system isn't the only place to find a gray world. Only a few months after Dawn reached Ceres, NASA's New Horizons spacecraftflew by Pluto and revealed that the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon, has a grayish appearance. That color could have been caused by graphite on the moon's surface, according to lab results presented at the conference by Dale Cruikshank, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center.

The presence of graphite at Charon presents a puzzle because New Horizons didn't spot carbon on Charon, but it did so at Pluto.

Before New Horizons arrived at Pluto, scientists hypothesized that the dwarf planet shared its atmosphere with its largest moon, and observations made by the spacecraft seem to confirm it. So carbon may travel from Pluto over to Charon, New Horizons scientists have said..

But although it is mostly gray, Charon also boasts a bright-red spot at its pole. 

Cruikshank performed several experiments to learn more about this unusual color combination. In dousing ices similar to those found on the dwarf planet with radiation, Cruikshank was able to produce a residual organic gunk known as tholin. The color of this substance — named in 1979 by Carl Sagan and his colleague Bishun Khare, who performed similar space-themed experiments that left behind tholin as a sticky residue — resembles the color of Charon's red spot, as well as the color of some features seen at Pluto. 

In fact, tholin may be involved in both the gray and reddish hues at Charon.

"The neutral color of Charon is consistent with taking tholin material and irradiating it," Cruikshank said during his presentation. "You end up with graphite."

The reddish region at Charon's pole is likely a newer deposit, whereas the rest of the moon is covered with an older layer, Cruikshank said.

Hendrix called these results surprising. Radiation from the solar wind should be significantly weaker at Charon than it is at Ceres, because Charon lies, on average, about 10 times farther from the sun than Ceres does. If the moon's surface is covered with graphite, she said, "it likely formed a different way." 

[Editor's Note: This article previously stated that Charon lies about three times farther from the sun than Ceres does. Charon is actually, on average, about ten times farther from the sun than Ceres is.]

Follow Nola Taylor Redd on Twitter @NolaTRedd Google+. Follow us at@Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.

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'Something's coming': Mass UFO sightings in US spark conspiracy theories of alien landings

BY KARA O'NEILL

Several different pieces of footage claim to show possible alien spacecraft hovering in the sky in American states

UFO mainstream media coverage MASS SIGHTINGS taking place

https://youtu.be/87PRVP4EQAo

They're Here! Mass UFO Sightings & The Covert Campaign Against Ufology! 6/19/16

https://youtu.be/AaPs2Y1gly0

A video showing several purported UFO sightings across the US have sparked conspiracy theories that aliens landing on earth could be imminent.

The footage was uploaded to YouTube by Tyler Glockner, founder of Secure Team 10 , a UFO hunting website.

And Tyler now believes that the increased frequency of the sightings of 'alien crafts' could mean that they are about to make themselves known to humans.

First up, is a glowing orange orb that was spotted in the sky above Long Beach in California.

Youtube/Secureteam

The glowing orb hovering above Long Beach

Tyler says: "You will see a disc-shaped object. This object appears in the middle of this glowing orb [about halfway through the video].

"It looks to materialise, you can see it plain as day, sitting dead centre to where this orange radiation is coming from."

Youtube/Secureteam

Chinese lanterns?

The object then disappears again, although the orange orb remains in place.

The second video shows a cluster of lights hovering in the night sky in Omaha, Nebraska.

A man's voice in the background of the footage suggests that lights could be Chinese lanterns, but a woman quickly dismisses the idea.

Youtube/Secureteam

A cluster of lights were seen hovering over Detroit

A third piece of footage captured in Detroit, Michigan, again shows a dark night sky with several lights glimmering.

Read more: Proof of life on Mars? Alien hunters spot 'giant space worm'

Tyler adds: "It leads me to believe something's coming. Now I don't know what, but it seems like this activity is increasing."

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What were the 'mysterious lights' in the sky above Greater Manchester this weekend?

BY ADAM JOHN

People living in Tameside and in Gorton claim to have seen a strange phenomenon in the night sky over the past few days

The strange lights above Gorton

Residents in parts of Greater Manchester say the truth is out there... after snapping what they say were ‘mysterious lights’ in the sky.

People living in Tameside and in Gorton claim to have seen a strange phenomenon in the night sky.

Mitesh Tailor, 31, said he was amazed to spot ‘glowing lights’ above Ashton-under-Lyne’sHartshead Estate on Friday evening.

HR officer Mitesh first spotted the lights from his bedroom window on Friday, which he says have resumed even more brightly on Saturday and Sunday nights.

Read: What are these mysterious lights in the night sky above Gorton?

Read: Police investigate reports 'lights in the sky' - is it a case for Mulder and Scully?

Intrigued by the phenomenon, Mitesh took photographs of what he saw shortly after midnight on Sunday.

He said: “At first I didn’t think much of it, on Friday I thought it was just normal but last night it was a lot brighter.

“It’s not the moon, that is on the other side of my house. They weren’t artificial lights either, the area is really dark.”

Mitesh Tailor

Shop worker Mitesh Tailor also took pictures of the 'mysterious light' above Ashton

And in a separate spotting, Gorton resident Zac Weaver also snapped images which show a strong milky light coming through the clouds.

Zac explained: “The light abve Gorton is back and as you can see in three of the photos there’s actually a little bright light above the tree that seems to move.

“This can’t be the stone roses events as that ended about an hour ago. And I know it wasn’t because of the event becasue the light hasn’t been there the past couple of days.”

Read: Manchester's UFO sightings: Exploding sheep, almighty bangs and bright orbs all spotted last year

Read: UFOs spotted in Greater Manchester: Videos and pictures show some of the reports made in recent years

Previously the MEN has reported a number of strange lights above Manchester, with some claiming that the lights were extraterrestrial visitors.

But Tameside resident Mitesh added: “I don’t believe in anything like that! I read the article a few weeks ago and they look very similar.

“I think it maybe Saturn coming closer to Earth, there is probably an astronomical reason.”

Saturn is the furthest planet that can be seen with the naked eye. Earth passed between Saturn and the sun on 3 June this year and for the next few months, the ringed planet will be at its brightest.

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Crops Grown in “Martian Soil” Are Healthy And Edible

 

NASA

IN BRIEF

Dutch scientists have successfully grown crops in soil developed by NASA to simulate the composition of Martian terrain. Tests done on four of the ten crops prove they are safe for humans to eat, and do not contain dangerous levels of metals.

FARMING MARS A POSSIBILITY

A team of scientists from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands used soil developed by NASA that simulated the composition of Martian soil, and they grew crops on it. The verdict: Crops grown in Martian soil would be safe for humans to eat.

This research, which has been ongoing since 2013, adds to the ever-growing support for the idea of colonizing Mars, an ambition SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is serious in pursuing. And given this new study, he is definitely not alone. NASA plans to bring humans to Mars in the next 10 to 15 years, so does Dutch company Mars One (though the Mars One mission is a little suspect).

The team was able to grow radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes and have found them safe to eat, since they did not contain dangerous levels of heavy metals, which Mars is known to contain.

Researcher Wieger Wamelink inspects crops from the “Martian” soil. Wageningen Ur.

Abundant harvests of radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes all grown on the soil were found to contain “no dangerous levels” of heavy metals, said the team from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. “These remarkable results are very promising,” said senior ecologist Wieger Wamelink.

“We can actually eat the radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes, and I am very curious what they will taste like.”

VERIFYING MARTIAN AGRICULTURE

A total of ten crops were grown in the soil and the remaining six of the crops will also be tested to see if they would absorb the high levels of metals in Martian soil, such as cadmium, copper, and lead.

These tests will ultimately reveal whether Martian settlers can be self-sustaining—will they be able to easily bring crops and plant them there?

Definitely not far out. Matt Damon farms his crops in a scene from “The Martian,” 2015.

“It’s important to test as many crops as possible, to make sure that settlers on Mars have access to a broad variety of different food sources,” said Wamelink.

The succeeding tests are now being crowdfunded in a campaign targeting €25,000.

Source: Phys

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Chinese Scientist May Have an Explanation for Ball Lightning

 Paul Seaburn

Ball lightning has been blamed for more UFO sightings than weather balloons and for more ghost sightings than reflections. Part of the problem is that, like UFOs and ghosts, no one can really explain ball lightning either. That may change with a new theory from a Chinese scientist that could explain how these sometimes tiny luminous balls form and how they can seemingly pass through walls to float inside houses and even airplanes.

While called “lightning” because it generally appears during thunderstorms, ball lightning doesn’t act like conventional lightning. It’s spherical, often small and is visible longer than a lightning bolt. Photographs of it are rare, attempts to recreate it in a lab are futile and stories about sightings can border on the unbelievable.

An ‘amazing’ recreation of ball lightning appearing in a room

Enter H.C. Wu, a researcher at the Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation (IFTS) and Department of Physics at China’s Zhejiang University. In his paper published recently inScientific Reports, he claims to successfully explain many of the reported but unsubstantiated characteristics of ball lightning.

Wu’s theorizes that ball lightning begins when a bolt of conventional lightning hits the ground or an object and accelerates electrons, causing them to release microwave radiation. This radiation then charges the air around it, forming a “spherical plasma bubble” that envelops and traps the radiation. That spherical plasma bubble is ball lightning.

Ball lightning or UFO?

This may explain outdoor ball lighting, but what about the luminescent floating orbs reportedly seen indoors and in airplane cabins? Wu claims that the electrons are moving at nearly the speed of light, which allows them to pass through walls and the metal skin of planes. Really?

He also postulates that the microwave radiation produces chemicals that cause ball lightning’s reportedly foul smell (plausible) and they give it the explosive powers often reported just prior to the smell (like an egg in a microwave?).

Ball lightning, orb or something else?

Wu’s study proposes a number of ways ball lightning might be created in a lab but – in case any kids with access to electricity and microwaves read Scientific Reports – warns that ball lightning is “an alarm signal of the existence of ultrastrong microwaves and abundantly hazardous electrons near the ground or aircraft.”

Is this a sufficient explanation for ball lightning? Does it clear up any UFO, glowing orb or ghost sightings for you?

That’s what I thought.

 TAGS: ball lightning, glowing orb, Lightning, natural world, orb, orbs, Science, storm, ufo

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UFO Caught Over Forest Landing Near Eyewitness In California On June 22, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

 Unaltered photos here. Original.

Date of sighting: June 22, 2016
Location of sighting: Yuba River, Dobbins, California, USA
Source: MUFON #77296

UFOs often move fast, so fast that the human eye would not be able to notice it. The digital eye is more perfect and can capture most UFOs, but some are just too fast. This is a great capture of a classic style disk with a raised center dome on top. From the photo I can see a cloud like smear of color above it. That is the direction from which it came. It was heading down. It was probably landing in the trees not far from this person. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 
Below is altered color to see its detail better. 

Eyewitness states:
On Wednesday, June 22, I was on a boat fishing trip with my father. We were on the North Fork of the Yuba River. On this day at about 5pm I took several pictures of the surrounding canyon and forrest. We returned home on Thursday June 23. While reviewing all the camping photos, I observed an object in the sky above the treeline in one of the pictures. I had taken three pictures within a few seconds of each other. The second picture has the object. The first and third picture of the same location have no object in them. The object looks rectangular, and shiny silver or white on one side. In the location where the photo was taken there were no aircraft in the sky and the only birds we had had seen were hawks or vultures. The area we were in is very secluded. There were no other people around, and no noise other than the river going over a rock bed. 

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Alien Base Found In The Crab Nebula, Hubble Telescope Photo June 2016, UFO Sighting News

Date of discovery: I found in 2012, but want to go over it again.
Location of discovery: Crab Nebula
Source photo: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2005037a/


I was looking over Hubble Telescope photographs, when I ran across this round, snail shaped structure that sits on a rectangle shaped base. I had seen it before, and thought it would be fun to go over it again. The structure appears to be a space station that is sitting within the Crab Nebula, however there is by all accounts more. I looked over the Nebula deliberately and it appears that it is not left overs of a supernova, but may actually be a solid material...like a giant sponge-like structure. The idea of a solid nebula may be a new one, but it makes sense. The root like appendages reach out and can be continually expanded upon over the ages as the population grows. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com

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Explaining the Great Flood, Atlantis, and humans in North America Using Science, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.

Date of video: June 17, 2016

I really like his ideas in this video. It does make a great hypothesis about what could have caused such floods and changes with the Earth long ago. The Earth is continually moving and so are other things in space, like clouds. Particularly interesting is his thoughts about Plato. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com  

Video states:
I’ll set the ground work for each scenario. I am pretty sure the Great Flood did happen. While it is popularized as a Christian story in English speaking countries, the Great Flood transcends almost every single culture around the world. So I don’t doubt it happened. But the main issue is where did the water come from? Most of theories I have seen require bending the rules of the observable reality that we live in. Next is the Firmament. The firmament is something in the book of Genesis that talks about a body of water surrounding the Earth. There is also some interpretation that while the firmament was in place it did not rain much if at all on Earth. After the flood the firmament is gone and today we get lots of rain.

Atlantis is a fabled city written about by Plato in the 300BC time frame. It’s really a tale about an advanced civilization that existed at one time, but vanished at some point. The idea I like about this, is is it possible that humans were more advanced that we thought and something reset us…akin to the saying “send us back to the stone age”. I do not think this is baseless idea, because even today in our current world we have humans that have gone to Moon and sent probes into space, yet there are humans on this planet that still are in the foraging phase.

And finally my last topic is that of humans getting to the Americas. It is believed that humans started in the middle east somewhere around Mesopotamia which is in modern day Iraq. The narrative I was taught as a child was the humans crossed from Russia to North America over a land bridge made of ice during an Ice Age. But there is some disagreement about the earliest humans in the America’s versus when Ice Ages happened. I think this land bridge route is still valid, but I do not require an ice age to cross it. So lets start with the idea that the world we observe today is the same as the way the world was in pre-historic times. The physics and all the other rules are still the same. The water cycle still holds true. So we can assume that amount of the water on the planet today is the amount of water that was on the planet after the Great Flood.

And we can assume that if we do not see a sphere of water surrounding the Earth now, there probably wasn’t one in the past. So that would mean the only way that all this water could be here now, is if it wasn’t here to begin with. With less water that would mean that there could have easily been a real land bridge between Alaska and Russia. They did not have to cross during an ice age. The bridge would have accessible at all times. The Bering Strait is only about 160 feet deep. If we lowered the Earths oceans by 160 feet, that means that much more land would be available throughout the world.

For as long as history has been written, water passages have always been the most important places for humans to live. Even today we see that on the coasts there are metropolitan areas, while deep in the inland the people are much less advanced in terms of quality of life. That has changed in the last 100 years due to motor travel. But up until that point living on the coast or a river was the only way to have successful trade or strategic military advantage. So here is the idea. Back in 2011 I saw this article about how scientists had discovered a massive cloud of water deep in space. What if as one point one of these clouds passed through our solar system? It would probably take while to get here maybe a couple hundred years. But during that time a couple hundred years 6-7 generations word of mouth was the only real way to pass history. So for them 2 or 3 generations is all it would take to be “forever”.

During that time the Suns reflection and heat in the atmosphere would make it appear to be sparkling water in the sky, which could explain the firmament. Once the cloud got near Earth and we started passing through it, the frozen water would melt in the atmosphere and completely saturate the air, it would then start raining. And it would not be localized like what we see now, it would be entire Earth being rained on for an extended period of time. All that water would rush out to the ocean and anything near rivers or oceans, like a human population for example, would be washed out to sea and buried by all the sediments picked up from higher elevation.

Think of the world as one big mud slide. The people living in the higher elevations would not be as threatened by the flooding. And so the more advanced civilization would be destroyed and only the more simple societies in the highlands would be left, hence a reset. Once this space cloud passed, things would settle down and Earth would have a lot more water content.

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Argentina UFO: Is It a ‘Pleiadian’ or Nordic Alien Base?

Humans live believing that they are the only ones that exist on earth, which is why the alleged existence of aliens has long been a debatable topic. Nordic or Pleiadians aliens refer to the alien race, which are extraterrestrial humanoid creatures from the cluster of stars. Recently, paranormal researchers have made a strange claim that these humanoid creatures have been discovered in a secluded area within the rural Argentina about 70 miles from Salta. Human history is saturated with alien invasions, hundreds of them, and that such attacks have occurred on every continent and in every epoch of world history. The alien invasions continue this day much more in Argentina, where a larger invasion would possible takes place according to the alien hunters.

They even added that their existence was concluded after a careful and thorough research as it is tough for the strangers who are unfamiliar with the unexploited and undeveloped land in Northern Argentina. To make their presence known, the guests who make it to their gates should ring the bell. An investigator recently entered the private community. Members of the community allegedly confessed that they were alien beings from a distant star. According to local paranormal investigators, two Pleiadian communities are the only two identified cultures in Salta, but it is believed that more than thirty are in private communities. In a place nearby Cafayate, there is a community descended from Pleiadian settlers that have been uncovered. In a naked eye, there are only seven stars in the cluster that are visible, but it has been contended that there are hundreds of stars in the system. Nordic aliens or Pleiadians appears totally like humans. In fact, it is very challenging for the untrained eye to tell the difference between them. Hence, they were able to live with the humans undetected for years. Nordic alien or Pleiadian has exaggerated Nordic and Scandinavian features, such as skin, fair hair, and blue eyes.

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Resources from Space is a series of videos that explains how we may obtain energy and raw materials from beyond our first planet. Please click a thumbnail below to watch a video, or read on for more information in text and images.

Beyond Sustainability

Space-Based Solar Power

Asteroid Mining

Mining the Moon

Beyond Sustainability

The resource requirements of the human race continue to escalate, with the United Nations anticipating a three-fold increase in resource usage between 2010 and 2050. In response, over the past few decades there has been an increasing focus on 'sustainability' initiatives like recycling and transitioning to alternative energy sources. However, all such measures to consume less can at best only constitute a short-term solution to the resource requirements of future generations. In the long-term, we will therefore need to move Beyond Sustainability to both consume less and find more.

As the resource supplies of the Earth continue to dwindle, the only place we can find fresh supplies of both energy and raw materials is out in space. This could involve the mining of the asteroids and the Moon. But, before that occurs, our most likely option for obtaining exterrestrial resources is space-based solar power.

Solar Energy from Space

Space-based solar power, also known just as space solar power, would generate off-world energy by placing solar power satellites in orbit. These would receive sunlight before it hit the Earth, and would wirelessly transmit their collected energy to a receiving station on the ground. For safe operation, wireless power transmission frequencies would need to be chosen that would not damage animals, plants or machines caught in the beam.

Solar power satellites would be immune to cloud cover, the changing seasons, and atmospheric haze. In a geostationary orbit some 22,000 miles above the Earth, they would also be largely unaffected by night time shadow. Solar power satellites therefore have the potential to be around ten times more efficient than ground-based solar power installations.

Designs for a space-based solar power system were first developed by an American engineer called Peter Glaser, who in 1973 obtained a patent for his 'method and apparatus for converting solar radiation to electrical power'. This envisaged solar power satellites with microwave antennas that would transmit power to large Earth-based receivers called 'rectennas'.

Since Glaser's pioneering endeavours, significant development work has taken place in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, China and India. For example, in the 1970s, NASA and the US Department of Energy spent about $20 million on feasibility studies. Between 1995 and 1997, NASA again looked at space-based solar power under an initiative called Fresh Looks. In 2007, the US National Security Space Office also presented a detailed analysis, while in 2009 Pacific Gas and Electric, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), both put forward ambitious plans. By 2010, in Europe EADS Astrium had also begun to seek partners for a demonstration mission. In 2011, the International Academy of Astronautics, or the IAA, then produced its highly detailed First International Assessment Of Space Solar Power. In April 2014 , JAXA even revealed plans for a space-based solar power system to provide energy to Tokyo by 2030.

According to the 2011 IAA report, 'there are no fundamental technical barriers that would prevent the realization of large-scale SPS platforms during the coming decades.' Having considered many possible approaches, the IAA also highlighted three as the most viable.

The IAA's Type I architecture is based on the now 'classic' Solar Power Satellite Reference System developed in 1979 by NASA and the US Department of Energy. Here, one or more very large arrays of photovoltaic solar panels are coupled to a microwave power transmission system. The architecture requires a large, stabilized platform that rotates on three axis to keep its solar panels pointed at the Sun, and its power transmission dish targeted at a receiving station on the Earth.

The IAA's Type II system transmits solar energy to the Earth using multiple lasers that target a photovoltaic rectenna. While solar-pumped lasers could be used to directly channel focused sunlight to the Earth, electric lasers are likely to prove more effective. Here, sunlight would be turned into electricity using large photovoltaic arrays as in a Type I system. But the power would then transmitted to the Earth by many laser beams operating at the near-visible part of the spectrum. A Type II architecture could comprise an integrated platform with multiple laser installations, or a constellation of single laser platforms.

Finally, the IAA's Type III system is a based on a symmetrical optical concentrator or 'sandwich' design that does not require very large photovoltaic panels. Rather, vast arrays of mirrors collect and redirect sunlight onto much smaller photovoltaic solar cells. The electricity so created is then transmitted to the Earth via a single microwave link. Such an approach requires a less complex power management and distribution arrangement than in than a Type I or Type II system, as captured solar energy would largely be moved around via light redirection, rather than through a physical electrical infrastructure. Type III systems may therefore prove the most viable to construct.

Given that all life as we know it depends on energy from the Sun, it is perhaps hardly surprising that interest in space-based solar power has been growing for over 40 years. Many tentative ventures have even been announced, although no major industrial player or government has yet committed significant resources. This said, several smaller firms -- including SpaceEnergy and Powersat -- continue to pioneer. The recent JAXA announcement also sounds rather hopeful. It is also worth noting that all of the technologies required to build solar power satellites already exist, with advancements in the necessary solar technologies continuing to be made. The transmission of energy over long distances using either microwaves or lasers is also long since proven. A few decades from now, Peter Glaser's vision of obtaining energy from space may therefore become a reality.

You can read more about space-based solar power on the Citizens for Space Based Solar Power website.

Asteroid Mining

While space-based solar power may help to meet some of our future energy needs, it will not assist with the supply of physical resources. To fulfil our future requirement for new raw materials, space pioneers will subsequently have to travel far beyond the Earth to destinations including the Moon and the asteroids.

Asteroids -- also known as minor planets or planetoids -- are chunks of space debris in orbit around the Sun. They are the material left over from the formation of the planets, and range from a few metres, to hundreds of kilometres in diameter.

Most asteroids are located in the Main Asteroid Belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This contains millions of asteroids, of which 750,000 are more than 1 km across, with over 200 exceeding 100 km in diameter. Asteroids in the Main Belt are so spread out that most are hundreds of thousands of kilometres apart.

Located outside the Main Belt are three groups of 'near-Earth' asteroids called the Atens, the Amors and the Apollos. These contain about 9,000 asteroids, with nearly 1,000 more than a kilometer in size. Due to their relative proximity to our planet, some 1,500 near-Earth asteroids are prime candidates for mining operations.

Asteroids are made of many different materials, with the majority classified as C-type, S-type or M-type. C-type or carbonaceous asteroids are the most common, are greyish in colour, and are thought to consist of carbon compounds, rock, up to 20 per cent water, and some metals. S-type or silicaceous asteroids are then greenish to reddish in colour, and are mostly made of iron and magnesium silicates, with smaller quantities of pure nickel and iron, as well as some platinum group metals. Finally, M-type or metallic asteroids are reddish in colour, and mainly composed of pure nickel and iron, with smaller platinum group deposits. A single, platinum-rich, 500 metre wide asteroid has been estimated to contain up to 174 times the yearly world output of this highly precious material, and 1.5 times the known world-reserves of platinum group metals.

Out in space, the water to be found on C-type asteroids will be just as valuable as metal deposits, as water is a critical commodity both for sustaining humans in space, and as a source of oxygen for rocket fuel. Even basic asteroid rock may prove a valuable building material, as it could shield humans from deadly radiation. As all of these examples illustrate, there are significant possibilities to exploit asteroids as a valuable source of extraterrestrial resources. It has indeed already been calculated that some individual asteroids contain raw materials worth more than one hundred billion dollars.

Asteroids are likely to be easier to mine than the Moon. This is because even the largest asteroids have very low gravitational fields. This means that it would be relatively straight-forward for spacecraft to both travel to asteroids, and to launch back into space. Extracted metals, water and other valuable raw materials could therefore be readily transported to the Earth or other locations, perhaps in vast rocket trains.

Once suitable asteroids have been identified, they could be mined in various ways. For a start, on larger asteroids, bases may be established. Here any human quarters may be cut deep into the rock to provide shielding from deadly cosmic rays. Industrial facilities attached to the surface of the asteroid would then process and store extracted materials.

As an alternative to establishing long-term bases, limpet ships may temporarily attach themselves to asteroids large or small. These potentially robotic mining craft would then eat into the surface, and accumulate extracted raw materials in their cargo bays. Limpet ships are likely to be the preferred option to mine smaller asteroids, or to extract concentrated deposits of critical materials from large asteroids that are largely comprised of less valuable rock.

And as yet another option, processing stations may be positioned near a large asteroid or any densely populated part of a field. Small asteroids or laser-cut asteroid sections would then be fed to the processing station, refined into useful materials, and once again sent back to the Earth. Alternatively, rocket trains may transport small captured asteroids or asteroid sections to processing stations in Earth orbit.

While asteroid mining may sound like science fiction, two companies already have pioneering ambitions. The first is Planetary Resources, which intends to bring the natural resources of space within humanity's economic sphere of influence. Also on an asteroid mining crusade is Deep Space Industries, who note that 'the resource potential of space outstrips that of any previous frontier - [and] without the environmental impacts'. Both Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries plan to commence their off-world activities by prospecting with small satellites.

Asteroid mining will not be easy, and is currently not an economic proposition. But, with the natural resources demanded by humanity set to triple by 2050, and with finite materials here on Earth, we could be excavating space rock not that many decades from now. Further, by the middle of this century, there could also be mining operations on the Moon.

Mining the Moon

Since the dawn of recorded history, human beings have looked up to the Moon. To date, only twelve of us have stood on its surface and looked back to Mother Earth, with the last Apollo astronaut having departed in 1972. But, over forty years on, there is now an increasing appetite for a return trip.

In the last decade Russia, China and the United States have all signalled some level of intention to build a future lunar base. In December 2013, the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program even landed a robotic rover, while in April 2014 Russia reiterated its plans to inhabit the Moon 'forever'. In January 2014, NASA also announced a programme calledLunar CATALYST -- or 'Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown' -- that will help commercial companies to develop lunar transportation capabilities.

Several private companies, including Moon Express and SpaceIL, now also have lunar ambitions. In part, such pioneers are being spurred on by the Google Lunar X Prize. This was launched in September 2007, and offers $30 million to the first private company to land a robot on the Moon, travel 500 meters, and send two high-definition "Mooncasts" back to the Earth. Thirty-three teams initially registered for this grand challenge to create another 'Apollo moment', with eighteen still in the game to reach the Moon by the competition deadline of 31st December 2015.

Commercial organizations are interested in the Moon as a potential source of raw materials. In particular, our lonely satellite is thought to harbour substantial deposits of cobalt, iron, gold, palladium, platinum, titanium, tungsten and uranium. Since 2009, NASA experiments have also confirmed the presence of water on the Moon, which could prove critical in supporting long-term human occupation. However, the most valuable deposit may be a gas called helium-3 that could fuel future nuclear reactors.

At present, all nuclear power stations use a process called nuclear fission to generate heat and subsequently electricity. Specifically, inside current fission reactors, atoms of uranium or plutonium are struck by neutrons that break them apart. This releases atomic energy, but also results in highly toxic nuclear waste.

In contrast, in future nuclear fission power plants, two fuels could be atomically fused together in a reaction that would not create any nuclear waste. This is where helium-3 comes in, as it could be used in combination with deuterium to power fusion reactors whose only by-product is normal helium and stray protons -- although admittedly the latter will prove difficult to contain. Even so, helium-3/deuterium power stations do have the potential to safely fuel the world in the future.

The problem is, helium-3 does not occur naturally on the Earth. It is, however, emitted by the Sun, and has been accumulating on the surface of the Moon for billions of years. Estimates suggest that there are now over 1.1 million tonnes of helium-3 captured in the first few metres of lunar top soil, and that around one hundred tonnes of helium-3 could fuel our entire planet for a year. Helium-3 is therefore worth billions of dollars a tonne -- so making it potentially economic to mine from the Moon, even with current space technology.

To be commercially viable, any future helium-3 mining operation would have to excavate Moon rock and extract the gas from it on the lunar surface. Mining helium-3 -- or anything else -- on the Moon would therefore require the construction and operation of a significant industrial infrastructure. Such a facility could be powered by the Sun, and may in part be constructed from lunar materials. In fact, the European Space Agency has already funded experiments with a massive 3D printer that may build future lunar dwellings by spaying a binder onto successive layers of powdered Moon rock. This would rapidly produce a very strong and thick structure that would shield its occupants from cosmic rays.

Over the years, The United States, Russia and China have announced various intents to prospect for helium-3 on the Moon, and to set up potential mining operations. But at the time of writing, only China has remotely significant plans with its Chang’e lunar exploration program that has the goal of sending astronauts to the Moon by the early 2020s. This is discussed in more depth by Fabrizio Bozzato in this June 2014 article forThe Diplomat, which in turn is based on his far more extensive and excellent paper here. I also had a chat about the subject with the BBC a few weeks later, as you can hear here.

To avoid the problems inherent in transporting physical materials across 250,000 miles of space, future lunar colonies may beam pure energy directly to the Earth using either microwaves or lasers. Such energy could be generated either by nuclear power stations constructed on the Moon, or else by vast solar arrays manufactured from lunar materials and spread across great swathes of the lunar surface. If this ever happens, the Moon may become the next, great super-power -- dependent on the Earth for some supplies, but dominating its economy.

Our Inevitable Future

All of our endeavours to harvest off-world resources are going to be complex, risky and expensive. And yet, if we don't at least try to obtain resources from space, we face an inevitable future of increasing scarcity, mass depopulation, and relentless decline.

As we pursue the new industrial frontiers of space-based solar power, asteroid mining, and mining the moon, we may perhaps additionally bolster the human spirit by creating a thriving space tourism industry, and just possibly by landing the first human being on Mars. Unless we become extinct first, the destiny of human civilization has to be to evolve into space. The ideas outlined on this page, and in my accompanying "Resources from Space" videos, may therefore be just the beginning . . .

Further Reading

Asteroid Mining Could Be Space’s New Frontier: The Problem Is Doing It Legally
Centre for Space Resources
Meet the Billionaire who Wants to Mine the Moon
Moon Mining Rush Ahead?
Extraterrestrial Materials and Humans: Can Space Resources Save Our Civilization?
The Red Side of the Moon: China's Pursuit of Lunar Helium 3
Space.com
Space Frontier Foundation
National Space Society

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Watch: Swarm of 'UFOs' Filmed over Volcano

An infrared web cam observing a volcano in Mexico captured remarkable footage of a veritable fleet of glowing objects that have left viewers guessing as to their nature.

The incident, culled from a livestream video of the Popocatepetl volcano, begins at around 25 seconds into the footage when a handful of glowing orbs come into view.

This initial cadre seemingly gives way to dozens more of the anomalous objects which fill the screen as they fly in all directions.

And then, just as quickly as the swarm formed, it dissipates down to one lone glowing orb that eventually flies away.

Observers have offered a variety of explanations for the enigmatic footage, with skeptics suggesting that the 'UFOs' are only insects or dust from the volcano.

And, to their credit, it certainly does appear that whatever was filmed over the volcano seemed less like an organized group of UFOs and more like some form of mother nature.

However, ET enthusiasts argue that the infrared aspect of the video is key, since they believe that people otherwise would not have been able to see the 'craft.'

Perhaps the two camps can split the difference and decide that the orbs were actually just fairies observing the majesty of Mt. Popocatepetl, like the ones allegedly spotted in Wales last week.

The infrared webcam may be akin to a similar tactic for UFO observation that has become increasingly popular over the last few years: night vision goggles.

Coast Insiders can learn about that burgeoning field of research by checking out previous appearances on the program by the late Ed Grimsley, who many credit with pioneering the technique.

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For most people, spotting a UFO would be considered extremely unusual, but for two Ohio women, seeing a UFO was the least surprising part of their experience.

In June 2001, two sisters, Angie Whitmeyer and Deborah Simmons, were returning from a day of shopping in Dayton, Ohio, when a strange light in the sky caught their attention.

“We were heading home to Kingman, Ohio, on State Road 73,” Deborah recalled. “It was a beautiful evening around 8:30 p.m., the air was warm and the sky crystal clear. Angie was driving and I was watching the scenery go by when I noticed a bright light in the western sky.”

Deborah watched in amazement as the light grew in intensity and flew towards the car at an incredible speed.

“Deborah asked me what that weird light was,” said Angie. “But we were close to Caesar Creek Lake and the road was pretty dark so I wasn’t paying a lot of attention to it. But then it flew right in front of us so I couldn’t miss it.”

The bright light soared past the car and hovered over the nearby treetops, casting an eerie glow over the entire area. Whitmeyer pulled the car over onto the side of the road so they could get a better look at the unusual object.

Deborah was shocked by how large and close the UFO was to them: “The light was so bright and white that you couldn’t see any shape behind it. But we could tell it was pretty big, at least as big as a house. The funny thing was that I couldn’t hear any sort of engine like you would normally hear with an airplane or helicopter. It was completely silent.”

Suddenly, another, identical bright light swooped down from the sky and hovered a short distance away. The two sisters decided the situation was becoming too strange and tried to drive away.

“That’s when I discovered that the car had stopped and I couldn’t restart it,” Angie said. “Nothing worked, the lights, the radio, it was completely dead.”

The two women also noticed an odd silence had descended over the area, accompanied by a strange feeling of isolation. Angie remembered that it seemed as if they were the only people in the world.

“I don’t remember seeing another car come by during the entire time we were there, which is really weird because at that time of an evening there’s always traffic on that road. And it was just dead silent outside, no birds, nothing. It was as if we were in another world.”

Uncertain what to do next, Angie and her sister continued to watch the strange pair of lights, when, unexpectedly, both objects shot straight up and disappeared into the night sky. The area was plunged into darkness, and oddly enough, the normal sounds of the night came back almost as if switched on.

“As soon as the lights flew away,” Deborah said, “the car started running again all by itself. The lights and radio were on just as they were before everything happened.”

According to their watches, the strange encounter had lasted more than 20 minutes. However, when they arrived home, Deborah’s husband seemed unconcerned about what they thought was a late arrival. That’s when they discovered that instead of being after 9:00 p.m., as their wristwatches indicated, it was only 8:35 p.m.

“It was as if the entire time we spent looking at those lights had never happened,” Angie said. “But it did happen, our watches both showed we had been stuck out there for over 20 minutes, but somehow we gained that time back with a few minutes to spare. Normally we should have been home at around ten to nine, but somehow, despite what had happened, we got there early.”

Another notable feature of many cases is the sudden unusual silence and an overwhelming feeling of isolation in the proximity of a UFO. Many people have noted that normal sounds—birds, insects, traffic—suddenly stop just before and during a close UFO sighting.

A man from Wisconsin reported that he had observed a UFO hovering over the treetops directly over his head once while deer hunting. He stated that the day had been windy and the trees were swaying and creaking pretty loudly in the breeze. What made him look up was the fact that all of a sudden the forest went “completely dead.”

He noted that the trees had stopped moving as if “frozen in place.” That is when he noticed a strange, dark, triangle-shaped object floating over the trees.

“It was a little bigger than a pickup truck and was solid black. I didn’t see any lights or hear any kind of sound from it.”

The hunter reported feeling like he was “looking up through a tunnel with me at the bottom and the UFO at the top. I knew that I was completely alone and that no one could help me.”

As soon as the UFO passed overhead the forest returned to normal.

The experience of such unusual sensations around a UFO has been dubbed “the Oz Effect” by UFO researcher and author Jenny Randles, and may indicate that there could be a field of influence that is being emitted around a UFO. Anyone close enough to a UFO would find himself completely contained within this field. The odd effects noticed by eyewitnesses could give us some kind of indication of the true nature of these energy fields. Unfortunately, anecdotal accounts of UFO experiences have rarely been followed up with rigorous studies of their content.

In 1981, Linda Taylor and her mother were traveling by car to Chorlton, a district of Manchester, England. The normally busy road became strangely empty and the two women noticed a huge light in the sky that seemed to pace their car.

Linda told investigators that her car “jerked about” and slowed down despite her attempts to accelerate. Suddenly, an “old-fashioned” car appeared in the road ahead and drove straight towards the two women. At the same time the light in the sky turned into a metal disc that hovered over the main road.

As the UFO moved away from Taylor and her mother, the old car vanished instantly. When the women returned home they found that two hours were missing from their trip. As with some others who have had close UFO encounters, Linda later had several odd psychic experiences and further time lapses.

Time distortions may not always occur with a visible UFO nearby. In 1980, Peter Rojcewicz, now a professor of humanities and folklore at New York’s Juilliard School, was in the University of Pennsylvania library reading a UFO book suggested by another professor.

As he read, Rojcewicz noticed that someone was standing in front of him. Looking up, Rojcewicz saw a very gaunt, pale man, about six feet tall and weighing around 140 pounds. The strange man wore a black suit, black shoes, a black string tie, and a bright white shirt. His suit was loose and it looked as though he had slept in it for days.

“He sat down like he had dropped from the ceiling—all in one movement—and folded his hands on top of a stack of books in front of him,” Rojcewicz said. The man asked Rojcewicz what he was doing. Rojcewicz said he was reading about flying saucers.

“Have you seen a flying saucer?” the man asked. Rojcewicz said he hadn’t.

“Do you believe in the reality of flying saucers?” Rojcewicz said he didn’t know much about them and wasn’t sure he was very interested in the phenomena.

The man screamed: “Flying saucers are the most important fact of the century and you are not interested?”

The man then stood up, again, all in a single awkward movement, put his hand on Rojcewicz’s shoulder, and said: “Go well on your purpose.” With that, he left.

Rojcewicz was suddenly overwhelmed by fear: “I had a sense that this man was out of the ordinary and that idea frightened me. I got up and walked around the stacks toward where the reference librarians usually are. The librarians weren’t there. There were no guards there—there was nobody else in the library…I was utterly alone and terrified.”

The professor went back to the table where he had been reading “to get myself together. It took me about an hour. Then I got up and everything was back to normal; the people were all there.”

It would seem that Rojcewicz could have been placed into a separate time-space field in order for his contact to occur. The entire episode may have occurred in the blink of an eye in normal time-space. But for Rojcewicz, an entire hour passed.

One gentleman, who reported his alleged UFO abduction on an Internet forum, said that when he was being returned from an abduction to the motel room where he was staying, he “noticed that there was a person in the parking lot below us (myself and several ‘Grays,’ were ‘floating’ in mid-air so I had a bird’s eye view of the surroundings,) [who] seemed to be frozen in mid-step. Everything was dead quiet and nothing was moving. It was as if time had stopped or frozen for the few moments it took for them to transport me from a UFO back to my room that was located on the second floor of the motel.”

These interesting cases show that there is still a lot we have to learn from UFO reports. Investigators need to be willing to look beyond the traditional “by-the-book” questions and allow the witnesses to relate their entire experience—no matter how unusual it may be. Many researchers and databases fail to mention some of the stranger aspects of UFO encounters because they don’t fit a particular belief system or bias. We can learn much more if researchers put aside their own personal feelings and allow the full information to come forward.

Currently, any theories and conclusions are really little more than speculation. Nevertheless, scientists who are not afraid to look beyond the norm are every day developing new concepts in physics and the true nature of reality.


Tim Swartz is an Emmy-Award winning television producer 
and videographer. As a photojournalist, Swartz has traveled 
the world investigating paranormal phenomena and other 
mysteries. Swartz is also the author of a number of popular
books including The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla, and is 
the writer and editor of the popular Internet news­letter
Conspiracy Journal.

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10 Creepy Stories Of Encounters With Men In Black

GREGORY MYERS

Men in black have been popping up for awhile, usually whenever someone claims to have recently sighted a UFO. Shortly after each sighting, the person in question is visited by strange men who usually wear black suits, black ties, and white shirts.

The details and motives sometimes vary, but even stranger are the variations in the descriptions of the men in question. While some tales simply describe them as cold, aloof gentlemen wearing black suits, others say that they get an uncanny vibe from those who visit them. The stories tell of men who are unnaturally bald, men who talk in an almost robotic voice and wear lipstick over lipless mouths. Some suggest that they are from another world, disguising themselves as humans to learn our ways. Others believe that they are experimental cyborgs in the employ of the government. The truth behind the men in black is still shrouded in mystery, and we may never know the identity of these strange stalkers.

10. The Telepathic Encounter

A man known only as Larry claims that one night he was drifting off to sleep when he was contacted by a strange presence who communicated with him telepathically. This weird presence explained that he was not from Earth, but beyond that he gave no reason for contacting Larry. Somewhat skeptical, Larry asked the presence to provide some proof of its existence beyond simply sending thoughts into his head—he wanted a face-to-face meeting. The presence agreed to provide him with further proof—he would show up during the day when Larry was with his best friend.

Larry wasn’t sure what to make of the entire thing the next day, and while he continued on with life as usual, he obsessed about the dream for months afterward. Eventually, he caught up with his buddy at an Independence Day celebration at a nearby park. As Larry was talking with his friend, a black van pulled up nearby and two black-clad men got out. Two more similarly dressed men exited the van after them, but they did not appear to be entirely human in shape. The strange men sat down at a nearby picnic table, looked over at Larry, and then reentered their van and left just as mysteriously as they had arrived. Larry never found out why they had contacted him.

9. The Teleporting MIBs

Albert Bender was the director of an amateur organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau and he believed that he had finally blown the lid off the whole flying saucer thing. He had his own publication calledSpace Review in which he planned to spread his discovery. After compiling all of his collected wisdom on the matter, he mailed it to a friend to look it over before he unveiled it to the world. Unfortunately, this attracted the attention of the men in black, who decided that it was time to pay him a visit and prevent him from leaking all their secrets to the world.

A couple days later, Bender was on his bed when he suddenly had a dizzy spell. He noticed several dark shapes in the room with him that slowly materialized into men in black suits with black hats obscuring their eyes and faces. He noticed in particular that the men’s eyes lit up with an incredible glow and they seemed capable of speaking directly to his mind. They made him promise to destroy his findings and cease all of his research into the subject—Bender was so scared that he was only too happy to comply.

8. Alleged Men In Black Caught On Video

A video was captured of two men in black who allegedly entered a hotel in Canada and started asking questions about one of the hotel employees. The stories say that the employee in question had recently seen a UFO and had told others about his experience. Not long after, these two men showed up at his place of employment. Luckily for him, he was not working during their visit.

According to witness accounts, the men were asking people not only about the employee in question, but also about conspiracies in general. They had no eyebrows or eyelashes, strange, hypnotic eyes, bald heads possibly disguised by wigs, and clothes that seemed to be meant for fitting in, but somehow were just enough out of place to raise alarm bells. These two men were definitely caught on camera—the question is whether they were clandestine government agents, beings from another world in disguise, or simply the product of a clever hoax. Regardless of the answer, there is something hair-raising about two men in suits walking into a hotel in the middle of the day and asking strange questions about one of the employees, then leaving as mysteriously as they came.

7. A Postal Worker’s Terrifying Experience

An anonymous postal worker from Washington, DC was out delivering mail one day when he decided to stop and eat an apple. When he was finished, he looked around for a trash can and, finding none, decided to just toss it onto the ground. Before he could leave the area, a security guard approached and lectured him for his negligence, explaining that the entire building and surrounding grounds were under constant surveillance. The postal worker thought about this, along with the fact that he already had to be buzzed in to deliver the mail, and began thinking that there was more to this place than met the eye.

Awhile later, he was out on his usual delivery run when he came by the foreboding building again. This time, he saw three men walking toward the building, except they didn’t appear to be like men. They waddled when they walked instead of putting one foot in front of the other, and they wereabnormally thin—it was this thinness more than anything that frightened him.

Though shaken, he decided to soldier on and march his way up to the door to deliver the mail. When he entered, he found a group of men who began questioning him about what he had seen moments earlier. He was flabbergasted and unable to respond until one of the strange beings who he had seen earlier sidled up near him, at which point he felt even more terrified. After more grilling by the men in the room, and after repeating that he had seen nothing at all, he was allowed to leave. His mail route was changed shortly afterward.

6. The Man In Black Who Liked To Hang Out

In most stories, the men in black are malevolent, intimidating entities who only appear briefly after someone sees something they weren’t supposed to. But that’s not always the case. In one account, a woman claims that when she was a child her engineer father was regularly visited by a man in black who went simply by the name Lev. This man was completely bald, which she noted was very odd during her time. When she went to shake his hand, the skin was impossibly smooth, as if he had no hair whatsoever on his body.

The man constantly wore his trademark dark suit, glasses, and hat, even on scorching summer days. He was known for hanging around several engineers in the area, and her father always visited him in a little house near the local supermarket. The woman who tells the story says that she is sure her father knew Lev was an alien, although she never figured out what they talked about during their meetings.

5. A Visit To The State Department

An anonymous man related a tale of a strange experience he had while sightseeing in Washington, DC. Without realizing that there really wasn’t anything of interest for a civilian to see, he wandered into the State Department building. He meandered through the lobby for awhile until security became suspicious of him and headed over to usher him out of the building. However, before they could do so, he saw something that he would never forget.

The elevator opened and five men got out. Two of them were very businesslike and wore gray suits that were formal, but hardly remarkable beyond that. What drew his attention were the other three men in their escort. These men wore black hats pulled low over their eyes and long, black trench coats, even though it was the middle of the summer. The appearance seemed so strange that our observer could only describe it as “cartoonish.”

As they were walking by, one of the strange men lost his footing on the marble floor and fell to the ground, dropping his portfolio in the process. Upon helping him up, he noticed that the man’s legs seemed extraordinarily weak and it felt like there was a thick layer of wool underneath his suit. Even stranger, the man’s expression never appeared to change at all, despite falling onto the hard marble floor. Near the dropped portfolio, he found a small coin with words written in no language he could identify—one side depicted a man with features like a wolf and the other had navigational lines and two crescent moons.

4. The Men In Gray

Normally, the sneaky men who appear after UFO sightings are dressed all in black, but in one tale from Essex, England, they chose gray suits. William Shearer claimed to have seen a UFO, and a few days later two men showed up at his house. One of the men stayed by the car and maintained an intimidating presence while the other grilled Shearer about his experience. On this first visit, however, the man seemed more concerned with gaining permission to enter Shearer’s home than the answers Shearer was giving him.

The men spoke in a strange voice that seemed flat and expressionless and had extremely pale skin. This, along with the oddly intimidating behavior, was enough to scare Shearer and he chose not to let them into his house. Unfortunately for him, his experience was not yet at an end. The men ominously proclaimed that they would visit him again and, not long after, they turned up at his work. They made it clear that they wanted to talk about UFOs and once again asked permission to enter. When Shearer turned them down again, the men vanished and never returned—although Shearer believes that since then his phone has been tapped.

3. The Mystery Of The Loch

Loch Ness has always been a place of mystery and intrigue. Many people believe that the depths of the lake contain a primordial creature from the early days of the Earth and some have dedicated their lives to proving its existence. One man named Frederick Holiday was well known for being passionate about the study of cryptozoology and had spent years looking for evidence of creatures in the lake. Perhaps paranormal phenomena are more connected then we might have thought, because while out investigating the lake for the Loch Ness monster, Holiday had an experience that he would never forget.

Holiday looked up on a hill near the lake and spotted a strange man dressed in a black suit. While it wasn’t remarkable for people to sightsee along the lake, Holiday was struck by the fact that the man seemed to be looking directly at him. He was profoundly disturbed and reported feeling malevolence from the being that was staring him down. Before he could do anything, there was a bizarre noise and the man was gone as mysteriously as he had appeared. Just one year later, Holiday was back at the Loch for further studies when he had a heart attack—as he was being carried to the ambulance, he passed over the exact place where the strange man had been standing.

2. The Angry MIB

A professor of folklore named Peter Rojcewicz told of an experience that occurred one night in the college library while he was reading a book on UFOs that had been recommended to him by a colleague. He was just relaxing in a chair and reading his book when he noticed what appeared to be a leg and a shoe out of the corner of his eye. Before he knew it, there was a man sitting in a chair in front of him. The man immediately asked Rojcewicz about the book he was reading and questioned him on whether he had seen UFOs or was at all interested in the phenomenon.

When the professor stated that he wasn’t really that interested in the subject to begin with and was only reading the book to satisfy the suggestion of a colleague, the man became enraged and angrily asked him how he could not be interested in “the most important facts of the century.” Seemingly satisfied that the professor was not going to dig into the world of UFOs, the man left, but not before telling the professor to “go well on his purpose.” However, while it seems like this would be the end of it, it’s here that the story takes a turn for the extra creepy.

After the encounter, Rojcewicz got up to walk around the library. However, none of the librarians were anywhere to be seen. The same went for the guards and all the patrons. In fact, as far as he could tell, the library was completely deserted except for him. The professor returned to his chair in an attempt to gather his wits. In about an hour, according to the professor, he decided to get up and look around again—and this time he found that everything was as it should be.

1. The Stranded Photographer

Back in the 1960s, Jim Templeton took a photo of his daughter near Burgh Marsh, and before long it made big news. You might have heard of this photo as the Solway Firth Spaceman, which captures what looks like an unexplained figure in an astronaut outfit in the background. Stranger then the photo is the experience that Templeton had shortly after taking it. He was at work when a car arrived with two men who claimed to be working for the government. When asked, they refused to identify themselves beyondthe codes #9 and #10. Even though their badges pointed to no specific government agency, Templeton agreed to get in the car with them and drive back to the Marsh to answer their questions.

The questions were pretty strange. Apart from the expected ones, like where it had happened and whether there were any other witnesses, they also wanted to know about the weather conditions and the behavior of the animals in the area. Templeton told the men that the domestic animals in the area had seemed scared on the day in question and had huddled together for protection.

It was after stating this that the men became much more hostile toward Templeton and started questioning the validity of his story. Of course, Templeton would not go to all this trouble simply to admit defeat, even if his story wasn’t entirely honest, and claimed that he was indeed telling the truth as far as he knew it. The men seemed to be unconvinced and headed back to their car. They drove off and simply left the baffled photographer in the dust to find his own way home.

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Adviseur Pentagon: “Aarde wordt als basis gebruikt door aliens”

The 1964’s Bizarre UFO Landing Story

If the Roswell incident had become so widespread, flying saucer might be so common in our language, experiences and novels, television programming, and films. How common is it for people to see a UFO? On April 24, 1964, at about ten a.m., Gary Wilcox was out on his 300-acre farm in New York, when he noticed an unusual object over the woods. Curious, the 27-year-old farmer drove his tractor for a closer look. As he drew closer, he was not sure how the oblong shaped object was suspended in the place. According to him, it bears a resemblance to an egg of 4 feet high, 20 feet long, and 16 feet wide.

It has a metallic body with an aluminum color. It has a smooth surface, without seams or rivets visible. There were no vibrations, sounds, nor was there heat or anything extraordinary. The groundbreaking encounter was when two 4 foot tall men came out; they were dressed in metallic and white suits. Frightened and anxious, Wilcox said that he did not mention anything. Wilcox claimed that beings told him not to be alarmed as they have spoken to humans before.

After two hours of talking, Wilcox learned that these beings were living in an atmosphere with thin air. They claimed to avoid congested areas, which is why they preferred operating green and clean areas. The men went back to their craft and then disappeared at an estimated distance of about 150 feet. Wilcox took a bag of fertilizer later in the afternoon and left it in a place where the UFOs landed. By the next morning, the fertilizer was gone. During their conversation, the beings told Wilcox their predictions of astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Glenn and the two Russian astronauts would die within a year due to exposure of elements in space. Three years after, it happened. Psychiatrist Dr. Berthold E. Schwarz was impressed with Wilcox’s evidence and background of stability, honesty, integrity, and intelligence.

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Pyramid Made By a Mexican Farmer Was an Order from Alien

Whether you believe in them or not, there have been too many sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, Flying Saucers, or whatever you wish them to be like, that have been ignored. Among the most common stories were the spotted strange shaped object hovering in the sky, with or without bright lights. Around 1984, a 33-year old farmer claims that the alien visited him, and requested him to build a pyramid. The man asked the alien why it had to be a pyramid; the latter relate it to faith. Although the rationale is vague, he connects it to the winds and storms that were always pointing upwards.

He told me to build the temple in the form of a pyramid.

Recalling the moment, Herulayka warned him of the possible consequences that would take place when he will begin building the pyramid. First, it would appear an embarrassment on his part for building something without a clear explanation. Second, people will laugh at him because it seems an act of insanity. His alien visitor came from a place called Nefilin, the constellation of Orion which is about 20 times bigger than Earth. It was contended that people living in Nefilin look similar to human beings. His visitor has white hair with honey-colored eyes with tunic tied rope and barefoot. Before they met in person, Mr. Corona had seen aliens in his dreams. According to his visitor, humans were destroying the alien’s planet. As a result, humans should look after it like a child running for their survival. Monclova is more or less 600 miles from the most popular Roswell located in New Mexico, where the balloon of US Air Force surveillance crashed in 1947, hitting rumors of an alien spacecraft existence. Mexico is not only a good destination for travelers but has also become the most active country for alien sightings in the world.

You are not bound to believe that there could be bigger and better planet than earth because the statements were still a speculation as it has not been concluded at the point of human beings.

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UFO Emerges From Cloud Over Port Angeles, Washington On June 4, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.

Date of sighting: June 4, 2016
Location of sighting: Port Angeles, Washington, USA
News source: MUFON #76808

UFOs that want to observe humanity need a place to hide, especially if the alien species doesn't look anything like us, because they can't just walk among us and blend it. So, some species observer from afar and use natures clouds to hide within. When no cloud cover exists, often they will make their own cloud. Incredible close and HD photo of a UFO in a cloud. This is also why if you are recording the sky, focus on the clouds and the edges of the clouds...thats where you will see them. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

Eyewitness states: 
While beachcombing w my gf in Poet Angeles, we observed a dark UFO emerge from a cloud over the harbor. We had been commenting on the oddness of the ling, thin, spirally dense cloud on a clear day, and were already photographing the cloud when the object emerged, as if on cue, "posed" as it were, for one shot then retreated back within the cloud.

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Floating orb caught on IR Cam in basement In Colorado, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News

Date of sighting: June 25, 2016
Location of sighting: Colorado

This is an infrared camera which can catch entity orbs or cloaked UFOs because it can see IR light, something the human eye cannot. This is a great orb and its in Colorado, a place were giant glowing orbs are often seen over the Rocky mountains. 
Scott C. Waring
www.ufosightingsdaily.com 

Eyewitness states: "I've caught this about five times floating in my basement. It only happens early in the mornings, between 3am - 6am. Does anyone know what this is?" 

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